Abstract: An electronic device includes a display unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays a character string or an image. The detection unit detects contact with the display unit. In a state where a character string or a image is displayed on the display unit, in a case in which the detection unit detects contact with the character string or the image, the control unit causes at least a part of the character string or the image to be selected in accordance with such detection. The control unit activates a different function in accordance with a condition of contact with the character string or the image when the character string or the image is selected. Furthermore, the control unit causes the character string or the image thus selected to be utilized in the function thus activated.

Abstract: A text information display apparatus equipped with a speech synthesis function able to clearly display a linked portion by speech and enabling easy recognition of a change from a link, provided with a controller for referring to the display rules of text to be converted to speech when converting text included in text information being displayed on a display unit to speech, controlling a speech synthesizing processing unit so as to convert the text to speech with a first voice in a case of predetermined display rules (presence of link destination, cursor position display, etc.) and convert the text to speech with a second voice having a speech quality different from that of the first voice in the case of not the predetermined display rules, and controlling the speech synthesizing processing unit so as to convert the text included in a display object to speech with a third voice when the display object linked with the link destination is selected or determined by a key operation unit.

Abstract: For automating the operation of an electrophoresis apparatus and improving the throughput, the present electrophoresis apparatus has two platens capable of controlling temperature of electrophoresis plates placed thereon, a loading medium charging unit for sending a loading medium under pressure, a loading medium charging nozzle mechanism having a pair of nozzles connected to the loading medium charging unit, a pipetter mechanism for dispensing samples to sample dispensing openings of the electrophoresis plates placed on the platens, a stacker mechanism for storing sample plates, a loading buffer solution supplying mechanism, a loading buffer solution dispensing mechanism connected to the loading buffer solution supplying mechanism, a power unit for allowing electrophoresis separation for each electrophoresis plate placed on the platens, and a detector for optically detecting components migrating through each electrophoresis flow channel of the electrophoresis plates.

Abstract: For automating the operation of an electrophoresis apparatus and improving the throughput, the present electrophoresis apparatus has two platens capable of controlling temperature of electrophoresis plates placed thereon, a loading medium charging unit for sending a loading medium under pressure, a loading medium charging nozzle mechanism having a pair of nozzles connected to the loading medium charging unit, a pipetter mechanism for dispensing samples to sample dispensing openings of the electrophoresis plates placed on the platens, a stacker mechanism for storing sample plates, a loading buffer solution supplying mechanism, a loading buffer solution dispensing mechanism connected to the loading buffer solution supplying mechanism, a power unit for allowing electrophoresis separation for each electrophoresis plate placed on the platens, and a detector for optically detecting components migrating through each electrophoresis flow channel of the electrophoresis plates.

Abstract: A text information display apparatus equipped with a speech synthesis function able to clearly display a linked portion by speech and enabling easy recognition of a change from a link, provided with a controller for referring to the display rules of text to be converted to speech when converting text included in text information being displayed on a display unit to speech, controlling a speech synthesizing processing unit so as to convert the text to speech with a first voice in a case of predetermined display rules (presence of link destination, cursor position display, etc.) and convert the text to speech with a second voice having a speech quality different from that of the first voice in the case of not the predetermined display rules, and controlling the speech synthesizing processing unit so as to convert the text included in a display object to speech with a third voice when the display object linked with the link destination is selected or determined by a key operation unit.

Abstract: A mobile terminal able to achieve smooth text-to-speech conversion, that is, a mobile terminal able to display on a display unit information acquired from a server connected to a network by a communication unit, comprising a storage unit; a speech synthesizer for converting text to speech; and a controller for extracting from the acquired information display objects and display rules defined by the server providing the display objects, storing the display objects and the display rules in the storage unit linked with each other, and displaying the same on the display unit according to the display rules, wherein when start-up of the speech synthesizer is requested in the state displaying the acquired information, the controller controls so that the speech synthesizer converts the text extracted from the display objects to speech with reference to the display rules stored in the storage unit; and a text-to-speech method of the same.

Abstract: A motor has a stator core having a plurality of salient poles and stator coils wound on the salient poles, respectively, each of the stator coils having a common side coil end part and a coil winding part. The common side coil end part of each of the stator coils extends radially outward from corresponding one of the coil winding parts into a region radially outside of the corresponding coil winding part of the corresponding stator coil. Then, the common side coil end part is bent to extend in the circumferential direction towards adjacent one of the salient poles in the circumferential direction, and connects electrically to a common side coil end part of adjacent one of the stator coils, wherein the common side coil end parts are joined to surround in a circular ring-shaped manner an entire outer circumference of the stator core.

Abstract: A powder for forming a R—Fe—B bonded magnet, wherein an R compound, such as an R oxide, an R carbide, an R nitride or an R hydride, which is contained in a raw material powder such as a super rapidly cooled powder or a hydrogen treated powder (HDDR powder) and reacts with water vapor to change into R(OH)3, has been converted to a R hydroxide R(OH)3 being stable in the air by subjecting the raw material powder to a heat treatment in an atmosphere of a pressured water vapor. The powder for forming an R—Fe—B bonded magnet is free from the generation of a white powder in the surface of or inside a bonded magnet formed from the powder and accordingly, is free from the occurrence or cracking, chipping, swelling or the like in the bonded magnet caused by volume expansion of a white powder.

Abstract: A powder for forming a R—Fe—B bonded magnet, wherein an R compound, such as an R oxide, an R carbide, an R nitride or an R hydride, which is contained in a raw material powder such as a super rapidly cooled powder or a hydrogen treated powder (HDDR powder) and reacts with water vapor to change into R(OH)3, has been converted to a R hydroxide R(OH)3 being stable in the air by subjecting the raw material powder to a heat treatment in an atmosphere of a pressured water vapor. The powder for forming an R—Fe—B bonded magnet is free from the generation of a white powder in the surface of or inside a bonded magnet formed from the powder and accordingly, is free from the occurrence or cracking, chipping, swelling or the like in the bonded magnet caused by volume expansion of a white powder.

Abstract: A motor has a stator core having a plurality of salient poles and stator coils wound on the salient poles, respectively, each of the stator coils having a common side coil end part and a coil winding part. The common side coil end part of each of the stator coils extends radially outward from corresponding one of the coil winding parts into a region radially outside of the corresponding coil winding part of the corresponding stator coil. Then, the common side coil end part is bent to extend in the circumferential direction towards adjacent one of the salient poles in the circumferential direction, and connects electrically to a common side coil end part of adjacent one of the stator coils, wherein the common side coil end parts are joined to surround in a circular ring-shaped manner an entire outer circumference of the stator core.

Abstract: A hemolyzing tube (A) having its interior (10) evacuated and containing a standard amount of a blood dissolving liquid (3) has a tubular body (2) whose closed bottom faces a top mouth closed with a stopper (1) capable of being pierced. The tube is usable with a cylindrical casing (C) having a double-ended needle (8) and also with an evacuated blood collection tube (B) that is for temporary accommodation in the casing. In the method of preparing a hemolysis blood sample, a small amount of blood sucked through the needle will enter the collection tube (B), and a residual amount of blood remaining in the needle will then be drawn into the hemolyzing tube (A) to produce in it a test sample subject to clinical examination of the blood.

Abstract: In a broadening course, a yarn feeder of which front and back agree with the front and back of a fabric is used as a preceding yarn feeder, and a yarn feeder of which front and back are reverse is used as the succeeding yarn feeder,(a) the preceding first yarn feeder is used to knit the first fabric, and to newly feed yarn to needles of the opposing needle bed on the lower side of the knitting direction of the course, and to needles of the original needle bed, and(b) the succeeding yarn feeder is used to knit the first fabric, and to feed yarn again to either one of needles to which yarn was newly fed by the first yarn feeder in the above-mentioned step a.

Abstract: Empty-needle-knitting is made on an empty needle D, then a yarn feeder 2 is reversed to change the direction of the yarn, and the stitch is transferred to the opposing bed to form a loop. A knit stitch is formed on the formed loop, and the loop is knocked over to form a knot. The knot is made to overlap with a stitch of the knitted fabric, and in a subsequent course, the knot is held to the knitted fabric.

Abstract: A memory card of the present invention serves as a reusable prepaid card. In the memory card, prepaid-money data is stored in a user memory constituted of a flash erase type EEPROM, and decreased as the card is used. When the prepaid-money data becomes zero, the user memory is initialized for reuse. The memory card includes an EPROM to which data of a predetermined number of times of initialization is preset and which decreases in data of the number of times of initialization and an initialization control logic for executing initialization in response to an initialization command until data of the EPROM becomes zero, and inhibiting the initialization even though the initialization command is input when the data becomes zero.

Abstract: A densified high performance rare earth-iron-nitrogen permanent magnet obtained from a powder of a Th.sub.2 Zn.sub.17 compound containing nitrogen at interlattice sites, without using autogeneous sintering and yet preventing decomposition and/or denitrification from occurring. The process for producing the same need not necessarily use a binder, and it comprises compaction molding, or charging while applying a magnetic field, a powder of a nitrogen intrusion T--R--N compound having a specified composition and a Th.sub.2 Zn.sub.17 crystal structure, and applying thereto shock compression at a drive pressure of from 10 to 25 GPa as reduced to an equivalent drive pressure in an iron capsule.

Abstract: A charging dynamoelectric machine having a reduced electromagnetically induced noise component, particularly, at the mechanical resonant frequency of the rotor thereof. In accordance with the invention, a pair of magnetic poles, each having a plurality of magnetic pole members extending from a respective yoke, are press fitted onto a rotary shaft with a field winding frame positioned between the yokes. A preload is applied between the yokes and the field winding frame on an exterior and peripheral portion thereof. The preload may be applied by tapering the base walls of the yoke or field winding frame, or by providing projections on the interior surfaces of the base portions of the yokes or on the outer opposed surfaces of the field winding frame.

Abstract: A rotor for rotary machines of a type having a fan on a side surface of a magnetic field core in which there are provided recessed portions for holding lead wires at portions of the fan so that the fan can be fixed to the rotary shaft of the machine after making the connection between the lead wire of the magnetic field core and a slip ring.

Abstract: An AC/DC generator small in size and small in weight is obtained by forming into one unit an ordinary charging generator and an inductor type generator which are juxtaposed in the axial direction. The AC section has no commutator; it can supply power for lamps or heating elements in a vehicle.