Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of sets of base station devices and terminal station devices configured to perform communications in an equal frame length using a time division duplex scheme, the communications of the plurality of sets being simultaneously operated in adjacent areas, in which each of the base station devices includes a control unit configured to control a transmission timing of a downlink signal transmitted from the base station device itself based on a communication distance between the base station device and the terminal station device of each of the sets or a reception timing of a downlink signal in the terminal station device such that reception timings of downlink signals transmitted from the base station device itself and other base station devices in the terminal station devices of the sets fall within a predetermined range determined in advance.

Abstract: In a signal transmission system for transmitting an analog signal, in which a billing signal is superposed on an audio signal, from a transmitting device to a receiving device, the transmitting device includes a separation unit configured to separate the audio signal from the analog signal, an AD conversion unit configured to perform AD conversion on the audio signal separated by the separation unit, a detection unit configured to detect the billing signal from the analog signal, a coding unit configured to encode the billing signal detected by the detection unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the audio signal subjected to the AD conversion by the AD conversion unit and the billing signal encoded by the coding unit to the receiving device, and the receiving device includes a reception unit configured to receive the audio signal and the billing signal transmitted by the transmission unit, a DA conversion unit configured to perform DA conversion on the audio signal received by the reception uni

Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquisition unit that acquires excretion information, based on imaging data captured by an image capture apparatus installed in such a way as to include, in an image capture range, an excretion range of excrement in a toilet bowl of a toilet, a generation unit that generates presentation information to be output, based on the excretion information, and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires information that indicates whether a foreign body being an object other than feces and urine is included in the imaging data as a subject excluding the toilet bowl and washing liquid for the toilet bowl. When information including the foreign body is acquired, the control unit outputs a stop command for stopping a washing function of the toilet bowl to the toilet bowl side, and the generation unit generates alert information as at least a part of the presentation information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a washing method and the like suitable for a long and porous battery separator and a separator producing method including the washing method. The washing method of the present invention includes the steps of (i) transferring a separator in its longitudinal direction and (ii) washing the separator by causing the separator, which is being transferred, to sequentially pass through washing waters in washing tanks.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antiglare film having the reflectance at an angle of reflection of 30° for incident light 13 at an incident angle of 30° of not more than 2%, and the reflectance of not more than 0.003% at an angle of reflection of 40° in an antiglare film which also satisfies any of the following (1) to (5): (1) 50 to 150 protrusions are provided within a region of 200 ?m×200 ?m; (2) when the height of each point on the uneven surface is shown in a histogram, the peak exists in a range between +20% and ?20% with the middle point between the highest point and the lowest point at the center; (3) the arithmetic average height Pa on the surface is 0.08 ?m to 0.15 ?m; (4) the maximum height in a cross section Pt on the surface is 0.4 ?m to 0.9 ?m; and (5) the average area of the polygons is 300 ?m2 to 1000 ?m2 when Voronoi division is carried out on the surface of the film with the peaks of these protrusions as generating points.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided, which includes, in this order, a light source, an optical diffusion layer, and a liquid crystal panel having polarizing plates disposed on both surfaces of a liquid crystal cell, wherein a surface of the optical diffusion layer on a liquid crystal panel side has a periodic fine shape, and an uppermost surface of the polarizing plate disposed on a visible side of the liquid crystal panel has an antiglaring layer having a random fine uneven shape and having a transmittance clearness degree of not more than 150%. While having a high brightness with less electric power as compared with the prior art, the liquid crystal display device does not generate a Moire fringe.

Abstract: It is an object to provide an antiglare film which is excellent in an antiglare function and a visual confirmation, a method of manufacturing the antiglare film, and a method of manufacturing a metal mold for obtaining the antiglare film, and the antiglare film is applied to an image display apparatus. In the antiglare film, a fine concavo-convex portion is formed on a transparent base material, an average length PSm in a sectional curve of the concavo-convex surface is not greater than 12 ?m, a ratio Pa/PSm of an arithmetic average height Pa in the sectional curve to the average length PSm is from 0.005 to 0.012, a rate of a plane having the concavo-convex surface in an inclination angle of 2 degrees or less is not higher than 50%, and a rate of a plane having the concavo-convex surface in an inclination angle of 6 degrees or less is not lower than 90%.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antiglare film having the reflectance at an angle of reflection of 30° for incident light 13 at an incident angle of 30° of not more than 2%, and the reflectance of not more than 0.003% at an angle of reflection of 40° in an antiglare film which also satisfies any of the following (1) to (5): (1) 50 to 150 protrusions are provided within a region of 200 ?m×200 ?m; (2) when the height of each point on the uneven surface is shown in a histogram, the peak exists in a range between +20% and ?20% with the middle point between the highest point and the lowest point at the center; (3) the arithmetic average height Pa on the surface is 0.08 ?m to 0.15 ?m; (4) the maximum height in a cross section Pt on the surface is 0.4 ?m to 0.9 ?m; and (5) the average area of the polygons is 300 ?m2 to 1000 ?m2 when Voronoi division is carried out on the surface of the film with the peaks of these protrusions as generating points.

Abstract: A stator winding apparatus includes devices for adjustment of the pivot of the needle and of the stroke of the needle. The apparatus includes a winding shaft assembly which includes a drive shaft, a second shaft which reciprocates linearly in response to rotation of the drive shaft, and a third shaft in which said second shaft is coaxially received. A crank shaft is coupled by an adjustable coupling to the drive shaft and the second shaft to adjust the stroke of the second shaft. Reciprocation of the second shaft causes the needle to pivot radially inwardly and outwardly.

Abstract: A new process for the production of tocopherols by tissue culture, which comprises (1) preparing a callus of a plant Carthamus tinctorius, (2) inoculating the callus into a synthetic nutrient medium and culturing the callus to produce tocopherols, and (3) recovering the tocopherols. The tocopherols thus produced are minaly .alpha.-tocopherol, which has the strongest vitamin E activity among tocopherol analogs.

Abstract: Echinatin glycosides are disclosed having the following formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.5 and/or R.sub.6 is a glycosyl residue. These substances have pharmacological effects such as the inhibiting action of the echinatin-4'-glucoside on the growth of human lymphoblastoids. These compounds may be chemically synthesized by subjecting a compound of the following formula ##STR2## to reaction with a compound represented by the following formula ##STR3## in which R.sub.1 and/or R.sub.2 is a glycosyl residue or an acyl glycosyl residue, with the optional successive step of subjecting the resultant to reaction with a glycosyl halide or an acyl glycosyl halide.

Abstract: A process for the biosynthesis of echinatin-4-glucoside comprises cultivating calli of Glycyrrhiza echinata L. (Leguminosae) in an appropriate nutrient medium. The echinatin-4-glucoside appears in both the calli and the culture broth and may be extracted and separated therefrom.

Abstract: A method for the recovery of refined .alpha.-galactosidase is disclosed. This method comprises the steps of bringing an .alpha.-galactosidase-containing liquid into contact with a weakly acidic cation-exchange resin in the presence of a buffer solution for thereby allowing .alpha.-galactosidase to be selectively adsorbed by said resin, desorbing the adsorbed .alpha.-galactosidase from said resin by use of a buffer solution of a type such that at least one of the two factors, concentration and pH, has a higher value than that of the buffer solution used in said adsorption and thereafter recovering the desorbed .alpha.-galactosidase.