Abstract: A transistor (2) is provided on a surface of a semiconductor substrate (1). First and second wirings (10,11) are provided on the surface of the semiconductor substrate (1) and sandwich the transistor (2). Plural wires (20) pass over the transistor (2) and are connected to the first and second wirings (10,11). A sealing material (21) sealing the transistor (2), the first and second wirings (10,11), and the plural wires (20). The sealing material (21) contains a filler (21a). An interval distance between the plural wires (20) is smaller than a particle diameter of the filler (21a). The sealing material (21) does not intrude into a space between the plural wires (20) and the transistor (2) so that a cavity (22) is formed.

Abstract: A transistor (2) is provided on a surface of a semiconductor substrate (1). First and second wirings (10,11) are provided on the surface of the semiconductor substrate (1) and sandwich the transistor (2). Plural wires (20) pass over the transistor (2) and are connected to the first and second wirings (10,11). A sealing material (21) sealing the transistor (2), the first and second wirings (10,11), and the plural wires (20). The sealing material (21) contains a filler (21a). An interval distance between the plural wires (20) is smaller than a particle diameter of the filler (21a). The sealing material (21) does not intrude into a space between the plural wires (20) and the transistor (2) so that a cavity (22) is formed.

Abstract: In an in-vehicle handsfree telephone system, an in-vehicle handsfree device is capable of transferring a voice signal to a portable terminal in a passenger compartment of a vehicle. An operating state detection unit detects an operating state of the vehicle. The handsfree device is responsive to a user operation and selectively operable in one of a handsfree mode in which talking on the portable terminal through the handsfree device is allowed by the transfer of the voice signal and a portable terminal stand-alone mode in which talking on the portable terminal in isolation is allowed. The handsfree device is configured to have a switching restriction function in which the handsfree device restricts switching between the handsfree mode and the portable terminal stand-alone mode in accordance with a detected operating state of the vehicle.

Abstract: A digital camera imaging lens includes first, second and third lenses arranged in sequence from an object side toward an imaging surface side. The first lens is a meniscus lens having a positive power, whose convex surface faces the object side. The second lens is a meniscus lens having a negative power, whose concave surface faces the object side. The third lens is an aspherical lens having an inflection point on its object-side surface. An aperture stop is disposed between the first and second lenses. The imaging surface is defined by an element surface of a photosensor.

Abstract: An imaging lens (100) comprising, arranged sequentially from the object side, a positive-meniscus first lens (1) with its convex plane facing the object side, a negative-power-meniscus second lens (2), and a positive-power third lens (3), the second and third lenses (2, 3) functioning as correction lenses. The first lens (1) has a strong power, and both the second and third lenses (2, 3) are aspherical on opposite planes. When the synthetic focal distance of the imaging lens is f, the focal distance of the first lens f1, the distance from the incident surface on the object side to the imaging surface of the first lens (1) ?d, and the Abbe number of the second lens ?d2, the following conditional expressions are satisfied. 0.50<f1/f<1.5 (1) 0.50<?d/f<1.5 (2) 50>?d2 (3). Accordingly, a small, low-cost imaging lens capable of high-quality imaging can be realized.

Abstract: In an in-vehicle handsfree telephone system, an in-vehicle handsfree device is capable of transferring a voice signal to a portable terminal in a passenger compartment of a vehicle. An operating state detection unit detects an operating state of the vehicle. The handsfree device is responsive to a user operation and selectively operable in one of a handsfree mode in which talking on the portable terminal through the handsfree device is allowed by the transfer of the voice signal and a portable terminal stand-alone mode in which talking on the portable terminal in isolation is allowed. The handsfree device is configured to have a switching restriction function in which the handsfree device restricts switching between the handsfree mode and the portable terminal stand-alone mode in accordance with a detected operating state of the vehicle.

Abstract: A digital camera imaging lens includes first, second and third lenses arranged in sequence from an object side toward an imaging surface side. The first lens is a meniscus lens having a positive power, whose convex surface faces the object side. The second lens is a meniscus lens having a negative power, whose concave surface faces the object side. The third lens is an aspherical lens having an inflection point on its object-side surface. An aperture stop is disposed between the first and second lenses. The imaging surface is defined by an element surface of a photosensor.

Abstract: An imaging lens (100) comprising, arranged sequentially from the object side, a positive-meniscus first lens (1) with its convex plane facing the object side, a negative-power-meniscus second lens (2), and a positive-power third lens (3), the second and third lenses (2, 3) functioning as correction lenses. The first lens (1) has a strong power, and both the second and third lenses (2, 3) are aspherical on opposite planes. When the synthetic focal distance of the imaging lens is f, the focal distance of the first lens f1, the distance from the incident surface on the object side to the imaging surface of the first lens (1) ?d, and the Abbe number of the second lens ?d2, the following conditional expressions are satisfied. 0.50<f1/f<1.5 (1) 0.50<?d/f<1.5 (2) 50>?d2 (3). Accordingly, a small, low-cost imaging lens capable of high-quality imaging can be realized.

Abstract: An imaging lens (100) comprising, arranged sequentially from the object side, a positive-meniscus first lens (1) with its convex plane facing the object side, a negative-power-meniscus second lens (2), and a positive-power third lens (3), the second and third lenses (2, 3) functioning as correction lenses. The first lens (1) has a strong power, and both the second and third lenses (2, 3) are aspherical on opposite planes. When the synthetic focal distance of the imaging lens is f, the focal distance of the first lens f1, the distance from the incident surface on the object side to the imaging surface of the first lens (1) ?d, and the Abbe number of the second lens ?d2, the following conditional expressions are satisfied. 0.50<f1/f<1.5 (1) 0.50<?d/f<1.5 (2) 50>?d2 (3). Accordingly, a small, low-cost imaging lens capable of high-quality imaging can be realized.

Abstract: A backlight unit of a liquid crystal display device includes a light source and a reflective means, the reflective means having a plurality of sloping reflective surfaces for reflecting light emitted from the light source to a light-irradiation surface of a liquid crystal panel at an angle of about 30° or less with respect to a line perpendicular with the light-irradiation surface of the liquid crystal panel thereby to improve light efficiency.

Abstract: An imaging lens (100) comprising, arranged sequentially from the object side, a positive-meniscus first lens (1) with its convex plane facing the object side, a negative-power-meniscus second lens (2), and a positive-power third lens (3), the second and third lenses (2, 3) functioning as correction lenses. The first lens (1) has a strong power, and both the second and third lenses (2, 3) are aspherical on opposite planes. When the synthetic focal distance of the imaging lens is f, the focal distance of the first lens f1, the distance from the incident surface on the object side to the imaging surface of the first lens (1) ?d, and the Abbe number of the second lens {square root}d2, the following conditional expressions are satisfied. 0.50<f1/f<1.5 (1) 0.50<?d/f<1.5 (2) 50>{square root}d2 (3). Accordingly, a small, low-cost imaging lens capable of high-quality imaging can be realized.

Abstract: An example information communication system is provided in which a user has access to a data communication network through a communication device. Titles of content and summary of information on the communication network, for example, are displayed on a display screen of the communication device so that the user can check for the presence of desired data. When the user has found desired data, the user inputs instructions for downloading the data through a control portion to start the downloading of the data to an information device. When no desired data is found, the user can continue to search for desired data or disconnect from the data communication network.

Abstract: A backlight unit of a liquid crystal display device includes a light source and a reflective means, the reflective means having a plurality of sloping reflective surfaces for reflecting light emitted from the light source to a light-irradiation surface of a liquid crystal panel at an angle of about 30° or less with respect to a line perpendicular with the light-irradiation surface of the liquid crystal panel thereby to improve light efficiency.

Abstract: The user has access to a data communication network through a communication device (101). Titles of content and summary of information on the communication network are displayed on a display screen (102) of communication device (101) so that the user can check the presence of the necessary data. When the user has found the necessary data, the user makes instructions of downloading the data through a control portion (103) to start the downloading of the data to an information device. When no necessary data is found, the user can continue to search the necessary data or cut off the data communication network.

Abstract: An immunoassay method of the HIV-1p24 antigen by sandwich method, using at least one polyclonal antibody recognizing the HIV-1p24 antigen and at least two monoclonal antibodies recognizing the HIV-1p24 antigen, is provided together with a reagent therefor, to establish more highly sensitive assay of the HIV-1p24 antigen than conventionally.

Abstract: A sorter-finisher wherein sheets discharged from an image forming apparatus are distributed among a plurality of bins in a sorter unit, and thereafter the sheets are taken out of each bin and transported to a finisher unit to be finished. The bins are put one upon another, and they are movable up and down. A take-out unit for taking sheets out of each bin in order to transport the sheets to the finisher unit is installed above the bins positioned for the distributing operation. Each bin is moved up to the position facing the take-out unit and further is laterally moved toward the take-out unit, and the sheets in the bin are taken out thereof nipped by a pair of rollers. Further, the sorter-finisher comprises a transporting unit which is a route from the discharge portion of the image forming apparatus to a receiving/take-out portion of the sorter unit, and sheets are transported to the bins and also transported to the finisher unit through the transporting unit.

Abstract: A sorter-finisher wherein sheets discharged from an image forming apparatus are distributed among a plurality of bins in a sorter unit, and thereafter the sheets are taken out of each bin and transported to a finisher unit to be finished. The bins are put one upon another, and they are movable up and down. A take-out unit for taking sheets out of each bin in order to transport the sheets to the finisher unit is installed above the bins positioned for the distributing operation. Each bin is moved up to the position facing the take-out unit and further is laterally moved toward the take-out unit, and the sheets in the bin are taken out thereof nipped by a pair of rollers. Further, the sorter-finisher comprises a transporting unit which is a route from the discharge portion of the image forming apparatus to a receiving/take-out portion of the sorter unit, and sheets are transported to the bins and also transported to the finisher unit through the transporting unit.

Abstract: A sheet storing apparatus wherein sheets ejected from a copying machine one after another are stacked in order, and the sheets are supplied to the copying machine again. The apparatus comprises a sheet storing unit wherein sheets are stored, a transporter for transporting sheets to the storing unit, a regulator for preventing sheets supported by a sheet support surface of the storing unit from moving back toward the entrance thereof, a pressure member for pressing each sheet transported to the unit against the support surface and a refeeder for feeding out the stored sheets one by one. Each time a sheet is transported to the unit, the pressure member presses the sheet, whereby the end of the sheet passes through the regulator to be put between the support surface and the regulator. Also, in feeding sheets out of the unit, the pressure member presses the sheet stack against the refeeder.

Abstract: A copying system including an image forming device for forming an image on each of the sheets, a sheet refeeding device for successively accommodating the first copied sheets, and successively refeeding same, after the first image forming is finished, to the image forming device, to form a second image thereon, the copying system inputting the number of sheets to be copied, detecting a sheet size, determining the maximum copiable number of sheets corresponding to the detected sheet size, wherein the sheet refeeding device includes a first winding device, a second winding device and a web extended on the first and second winding device, wherein the web is wound around the first winding device while supporting the sheets thereon so as to accommodate the sheets on the first winding device, and wherein the web is unwound from the first winding device and wound around the second winding device so as to feed the sheets for the image forming process.

Abstract: A solar cell power system includes a device which determines the occurrence of solar array bus lockup by detecting the voltage of the power bus, the discharge current of the storage battery, and the solar array current (or the load current) and performing a calculation using these items of data in addition to the regulated bus voltage to emit a lockup signal, by which the magnitude of the load is reduced, thereby cancelling the lockup state. Alternatively, a solar cell system may include a lockup cancelling drive device, which accumulates in a coil cancelling-drive, energy supplied from the storage battery and then discharges this energy to the power bus, thereby cancelling the lockup stage without reducing the magnitude of the load.