Abstract: The optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, a primary resin layer in contact with the glass fiber and covering the glass fiber, and a secondary resin layer covering the primary resin layer, wherein the primary resin layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer, a photopolymerization initiator and an aromatic acid compound, a content of the aromatic acid compound is 20 ppm or more and 12000 ppm or less based on a total amount of the resin composition, and Young's modulus of the primary resin layer is 0.6 MPa or less at 23° C.±2° C.

Abstract: A connected substrate of the present invention includes a plurality of element substrate regions partitioned by dividing grooves, wherein the connected substrate is a glass ceramic sintered body having precipitated therein an anorthite crystal.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical fiber includes: a coating step of forming a first layer by applying a first ultraviolet ray curable resin composition onto a glass fiber, and then, of forming a second layer by applying a second ultraviolet ray curable resin composition onto the first layer; a first irradiation step of curing the first layer and the second layer by irradiating the first layer and the second layer with an ultraviolet ray, and of obtaining the optical fiber including a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer; and a second irradiation step of irradiating the optical fiber with an ultraviolet ray at an illuminance of less than or equal to one tenth of an illuminance in the first irradiation step for an irradiation time of longer than or equal to 10 times an irradiation time in the first irradiation step.

Abstract: The optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, a primary resin layer in contact with the glass fiber and covering the glass fiber, and a secondary resin layer covering the primary resin layer, wherein the primary resin layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer, a photopolymerization initiator and an aromatic acid compound, a content of the aromatic acid compound is 20 ppm or more and 12000 ppm or less based on a total amount of the resin composition, and Young's modulus of the primary resin layer is 0.6 MPa or less at 23° C.±2° C.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical fiber includes: a coating step of forming a first layer by applying a first ultraviolet ray curable resin composition onto a glass fiber, and then, of forming a second layer by applying a second ultraviolet ray curable resin composition onto the first layer; a first irradiation step of curing the first layer and the second layer by irradiating the first layer and the second layer with an ultraviolet ray, and of obtaining the optical fiber including a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer; and a second irradiation step of irradiating the optical fiber with an ultraviolet ray at an illuminance of less than or equal to one tenth of an illuminance in the first irradiation step for an irradiation time of longer than or equal to 10 times an irradiation time in the first irradiation step.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided for scanning a medium including a scan region where target information is provided. The image processing apparatus implements processes of running an application for generating an electronic document; controlling the application to instruct a scanning device to scan the medium at a specified scan size, which is smaller than the size of the medium and includes at least the scan region, upon accepting a scan instruction from a user; controlling the scanning device to scan the medium and capture image data of the medium at the specified scan size based on the instruction from the application; executing a character recognition process on the image data captured by the scanning device to acquire the target information; and controlling the application to generate the electronic document including the target information acquired by the character recognition process input to a corresponding input field.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an apparatus body and a battery pack removable from the apparatus body. Each of the apparatus body and the battery pack includes a memory unit configured to store a use permission flag written after authentications for a pair of the apparatus body and the battery pack through near field communication with a portable terminal, and a control unit configured to permit energization when the use permission flag of the memory unit is ON.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided for scanning a medium including a scan region where target information is provided. The image processing apparatus implements processes of running an application for generating an electronic document; controlling the application to instruct a scanning device to scan the medium at a specified scan size, which is smaller than the size of the medium and includes at least the scan region, upon accepting a scan instruction from a user; controlling the scanning device to scan the medium and capture image data of the medium at the specified scan size based on the instruction from the application; executing a character recognition process on the image data captured by the scanning device to acquire the target information; and controlling the application to generate the electronic document including the target information acquired by the character recognition process input to a corresponding input field.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an apparatus body and a battery pack removable from the apparatus body. Each of the apparatus body and the battery pack includes a memory unit configured to store a use permission flag written after authentications for a pair of the apparatus body and the battery pack through near field communication with a portable terminal, and a control unit configured to permit energization when the use permission flag of the memory unit is ON.

Abstract: A locking mechanism, that is attached to a device acquiring power from a power generator mounted on the device, includes a radio tag acquiring key information, which is for releasing locking, by radio communications; a short-circuit unit short-circuiting the power generator; and a control unit acquiring specific information of the device, making comparison between the specific information and the key information acquired by the radio tag, and causing the short-circuit unit to short-circuit the power generator based on a result of the comparison, so as to control locking of the device.

Abstract: A plurality of patterned areas is arranged vertically and horizontally with fixed pitches on a surface of a semiconductor product wafer. The patterned areas include a plurality of first patterned areas and at least one second patterned area. The first patterned area includes a device region, and the second patterned area includes a portion of the device region and a Test Element Group (TEG) region.

Abstract: An optical connector comprising a ferrule including an optical fiber, wherein a hollow portion for optical fiber protrusion is formed on a front end face of the ferrule, the optical fiber is inserted into an optical fiber positioning hole extended from an optical fiber protrusion port provided on a bottom face of the hollow portion toward an inside of the ferrule, and a tip face of the optical fiber is drawn in the hollow portion. This makes it possible to provide an optical connector which can shorten a time for assembly and can be assembled easily and inexpensively.

Abstract: A method includes first step of forming a first exposed area including only a device region on a semiconductor wafer that is repeated as needed. Next, a second step of forming a second exposed area including a portion of the device region and a TEG region on the semiconductor wafer is performed at least once. A plurality of first exposed areas and at least one second exposed area can be arranged on the semiconductor wafer at fixed pitches in the horizontal and vertical directions, even when the number of TEG regions is limited.

Abstract: A method includes a first step of forming a first exposed area including only a device region on a semiconductor wafer that is repeated as needed. Next, a second step of forming a second exposed area including a portion of the device region and a Test Element Group (TEG) region on the semiconductor wafer is performed at least once. A plurality of first exposed areas and at least one second exposed area can be arranged on the semiconductor wafer at fixed pitches in the horizontal and vertical directions, even when the number of TEG regions is limited.

Abstract: An optical connector comprising a ferrule including an optical fiber, wherein a hollow portion for optical fiber protrusion is formed on a front end face of the ferrule, the optical fiber is inserted into an optical fiber positioning hole extended from an optical fiber protrusion port provided on a bottom face of the hollow portion toward an inside of the ferrule, and a tip face of the optical fiber is drawn in the hollow portion. This makes it possible to provide an optical connector which can shorten a time for assembly and can be assembled easily and inexpensively.

Abstract: A rice cooker includes an interlock that prevents the user from sliding the cooking pot out of the cooker without first disengaging internal assemblies that would otherwise be damaged. The rice cooker operates in any of three user selectable modes: a fully automatic mode in which the rice cooker measures out a user selected quantity of internally stored raw, unwashed rice, washes the rice, cooks the rice and then keeps the rice warm; a cook and keep-warm in which the cooking pot of the rice cooker is loaded with premeasured and washed rice from an external source and the rice cooker cooks the rice and keeps it rice warm; and a rice warming mode in which the cooking pot is loaded with already cooked rice and maintains it at a serving temperature. A startup routine checks that a pot is installed, that a lid is on the pot, that an upper pot cover assembly is at a required height, that a platform is in its latched position, and that a washer container is in its stowed position.