Abstract: A phase-shift circuit being smaller in size than a conventional phase-shift circuit and being capable of causing a phase difference equivalent to or larger than that in the conventional phase-shift circuit between an input signal and an output signal is achieved. A phase-shift circuit includes: a signal line; and a dielectric member overlapping the signal line and being capable of reciprocating in a direction intersecting the signal line, and changes a phase of a signal propagating through the signal line. The dielectric member is configured of a frame body and a dielectric plate provided inside the frame body and having an overlapping area with the signal line increased or decreased by the reciprocation, and the frame body has a permittivity lower than a permittivity of the dielectric plate.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a plurality of phase shift circuits to which distributed signals are respectively input and a plurality of antenna elements to which signals output from the respective phase shift circuits are input. At least one of the plurality of phase shift circuits has a signal line in which a first region in which paired dielectric members are disposed, a second region in which no paired dielectric members is disposed and a third region in which paired dielectric members are disposed are provided in this order along a propagation direction of a signal. Moreover, a characteristic impedance of the first region in a state where the paired dielectric members are not disposed and a characteristic impedance of the third region in a state where the paired dielectric members are not disposed are higher than a characteristic impedance of the second region.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a center substrate including a dielectric substrate and a center conductor on the dielectric substrate, and two ground plates sandwiching via an air layer the center substrate therebetween to form a feeder line. A hole is formed in the dielectric substrate on at least one side of the center conductor along a longitudinal direction of the center conductor.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles each having a toner core, organic particles adhering to a surface of the toner core, and a shell layer covering the toner core and the organic particles. The shell layers contain a thermosetting resin.

Abstract: A toner includes a plurality of toner particles that each include a toner mother particle and an external additive adhering to a surface of the toner mother particle. The toner mother particle includes a core and a shell layer disposed over a surface of the core. The external additive contains silica particles. The toner mother particle has a hydrophobicity of at least 0% and less than 20%. The external additive has a hydrophobicity of at least 5% and no greater than 20%. The hydrophobicity of the toner mother particle is less than the hydrophobicity of the external additive.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a first triplate line and one or more second triplate lines that are connected to the first triplate line so as to cross the first triplate line. Two ground plates of each second triplate line include respective flange portions that are in contact with and fixed to a surface of one of two ground plates of the first triplate line. At least one of a surface of each flange portion that contacts the one of the ground plates of the first triplate line and the surface of the one of the ground plates of the first triplate line that contacts each flange portion is provided with an irregular portion for reducing a contact area between each flange portion and the one of the ground plates.

Abstract: An antenna device has a feed line including a triplate line. Each triplate line has a central conductor and two ground plates sandwiching the central conductor via an air layer. At least a part of the triplate line is configured such that the two ground plates sandwich a center substrate including a wiring pattern as the central conductor provided on a dielectric substrate via the air layer.

Abstract: An antenna device includes an antenna element including a dielectric substrate including a first surface and a second surface surfaces, a built-in feed line formed on the first surface, and a radiating element formed on the second surface and along the built-in feed line, a triplate line including a first outer conductor and a second outer conductor parallel to each other, and a central conductor arranged therebetween, a connecting portion at one end of the dielectric substrate to electrically connect the built-in feed line to the central conductor, a first hole and a second hole formed in the first outer conductor and in communication with each other. The first hole includes an opposite surface to the built-in feed line on the connecting portion with a specified space therebetween. The connecting portion is inserted in the second hole. The second hole includes an opposite regulating surface to the first surface of the connecting portion of the dielectric substrate.

Abstract: An antenna device includes an antenna element including a dielectric substrate including a first principal surface and a second principal surface, a built-in feed line provided on the first principal surface of the dielectric substrate, and a radiating element provided on the second principal surface of the dielectric substrate and along the built-in feed line so that the radiating element is fed from the built-in feed line, a triplate line including a first outer conductor and a second outer conductor parallel to each other, and a central conductor arranged therebetween to feed excitation power to the antenna element, a connecting member which electrically connects the central conductor and the built-in feed line, a projecting piece from one end of the dielectric substrate toward the second outer conductor, and a first hole and a second hole provided in the first outer conductor and in communication with each other.

Abstract: Disclosed is a compound useful as a type I 11?hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase inhibitor. A compound represented by the formula: a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein R1 is optionally substituted cycloalkyl, optionally substituted cycloalkenyl or the like, One of R2 and R3 is a group of the formula: —C(?O)—Y—R4, wherein Y is —NR9— or the like, R4 is optionally substituted cycloalkyl or the like, R9 is hydrogen or optionally substituted alkyl, W is optionally substituted alkylene, The other is a group of the formula: —V—R5, wherein V is a bond, —O— or the like, R6 is hydrogen or optionally substituted alkyl, R5 is hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl or the like, X is a bond, —S—, —SO— or the like, U is a bond or optionally substituted alkylene, R7 is hydrogen or optionally substituted alkyl, Z is —S—, —O— or —NR8—, R8 is hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl or the like.

Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a toner core and a shell layer. The shell layer contains a resin including a unit derived from a monomer of a thermosetting resin and a unit derived from a thermoplastic resin. The thermosetting resin is one or more resins selected from the group of amino resins consisting of a melamine resin, a urea resin, and a glyoxal resin. When heat and pressure are applied to a toner layer formed on a polyester film under conditions of a temperature of 140° C. and a pressure of 7 MPa so that the toner particles are not superimposed, the toner particles of the toner layer are broken in a manner that a melt of a component of the toner core flows out from a plurality of points in an outer surface of the shell layer.

Abstract: An antenna device (1) includes a plurality of triplate lines (31, 32) each of which includes a central conductor (401/122A) arranged between one pair of outer conductors (30, 50/121A, 123A) parallel to each other, and a plurality of antenna elements (14a) to transmit high frequency signals distributed by the plurality of triplate lines (31, 32). The plurality of triplate lines (31, 32) include a first triplate line (31) and a second triplate line (32) arranged non-parallel to each other and at a predetermined angle therebetween so that respective central conductors (401/122A) of the first triplate line (31) and the second triplate line (32) are intersected and connected together.

Abstract: An antenna device includes an input/output portion for a high frequency signal to be input or output, a distributing portion for distributing the high frequency signal input to the input/output portion into a plurality of high frequency signals, a phase shifting portion for imparting the plurality of high frequency signals with a predetermined amount of phase shift, and a feeding portion for feeding a plurality of antenna elements with the plurality of high frequency signals imparted with the predetermined amount of phase shift to cause the plurality of antenna elements to radiate the plurality of high frequency signals. The feeding portion is configured as a triplate line with a center conductor placed between one pair of parallel plate shaped outer conductors.

Abstract: The present invention provides ferromagnetic iron nitride particles, in particular, in the form of fine particles, and a process for producing the ferromagnetic iron nitride particles. The present invention relates to a process for producing ferromagnetic iron nitride particles, comprising the steps of mixing metallic iron obtained by mixing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a metal hydride, a metal halide and a metal borohydride with an iron compound, and then subjecting the obtained mixture to heat treatment, with a nitrogen-containing compound; and then subjecting the resulting mixture to heat treatment, in which a reduction step and a nitridation step of the iron compound are conducted in the same step, and the at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a metal hydride, a metal halide and a metal borohydride is used as a reducing agent in the reduction step, whereas the nitrogen-containing compound is used as a nitrogen source in the nitridation step.

Abstract: Techniques capable of reducing the width-direction size of a phase shift circuit as much as possible are provided. A phase shift circuit has a signal line, a first dielectric plate, and a second dielectric plate. The signal line has first to third intersecting parts extending in a direction intersecting with a longitudinal direction of the phase shift circuit. On the other hand, the first dielectric plate and the second dielectric plate have first to third overlapping parts overlapping the intersecting parts of the signal line. When the first dielectric plate and the second dielectric plate are moved in the longitudinal direction of the phase shift circuit, the overlapped areas between the intersecting parts of the signal line and the overlapping parts of the first dielectric plate and the second dielectric plate are changed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adamantanamine derivative which is useful as a significant intermediate of an 11?HSD-1 inhibitor. Disclosed is a compound represented by the formula (II): wherein R10 is a group represented by the formula: —(CR13R14)m-NR12—R11 or the like.

Abstract: A mobile communication base station antenna has a plurality of array antenna blocks. Each of the array antenna blocks has a plurality of antenna element pairs. Each of the antenna element pairs has a plurality of antenna elements that are disposed to be orthogonal to each other. Tilt angles in the vertical plane of the respective array antenna blocks are different from each other.

Abstract: The present invention relates to ferromagnetic particles capable of exhibiting a high purity and excellent magnetic properties from the industrial viewpoints and a process for producing the ferromagnetic particles, and also provides an anisotropic magnet, a bonded magnet and a compacted magnet which are obtained by using the ferromagnetic particles. The ferromagnetic particles comprising an Fe16N2 compound phase in an amount of not less than 80% as measured by Mössbauer spectrum and each having an outer shell in which FeO is present in the form of a layer having a thickness of not more than 5 nm according to the present invention can be produced by subjecting aggregated particles of an iron compound as a starting material whose primary particles have a ratio of [(average deviation of major axis lengths of particles)/(average major axis length of particles)] of not more than 50%, Uc of not more than 1.55, Cg of not less than 0.95, Cg2 of not less than 0.

Abstract: A mobile communication base station antenna has a first array antenna and a second array antenna. Antenna elements of the first and second array antennas are classified into the first, second and third groups G1, G2 and G3. A first feeding port is connected to the antenna elements in the odd number groups (the first group G1 and the third group G3) of the first array antenna and the antenna elements in the even number group of the second array antenna. On the other hand, a second feeding port is connected to the antenna elements in the even number group (the second group G2) of the first array antenna and the antenna elements in the odd number groups (the first group G1 and the third group G3) of the second array antenna.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a pyrazole carboxylic acid derivative which is useful as a significant intermediate of an 11?HSD-1 inhibitor. A compound represented by the Formula (XI): is useful as a significant intermediate of an 11?HSD-1 inhibitor, wherein R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, R3 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkynyl, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl or substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclyl and R4 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkynyl, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl or substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclyl.