Abstract: The invention relates to a conductive sintered body capable of being effectively prevented from reduction-induced expansion, as well as to a conductive member for fuel cell, a fuel cell, and a fuel cell apparatus. The conductive sintered body contains a first composite oxide phase (59) based on lanthanum chromite and a second composite oxide phase (55) containing Mg and Ni, and around the second composite oxide phase (55), Ni (57) is deposited. Such a conductive sintered body is used for fuel cell. Further, a conductive member for such a fuel cell is composed of a fuel electrode layer (32) and an oxide electrode layer (34) with a solid electrolyte layer (33) held therebetween; and is used as an interconnector (35) of a fuel cell (30) which is provided with the interconnector (35) connected to the fuel electrode layer (32).

Abstract: A real estate management system and method are provided. The system and method provide an integrated system that handles all of the aspects of a piece of property including identification, acquisition, development (design and construction), management, maintenance and disposal. The system may include a five year plan, a sign package, a lease wizard and a work orders module.

Abstract: A safety door automatic opening/closing device is capable of freely (arbitrarily) setting and controlling the opening/closing speed and the open position to shorten a waiting time required to open/close a safety door and capable of eliminating a touch switch; and a method of controlling the same.

Abstract: A line filter includes at least one X capacitor located between two supply lines and at least one discharge resistor that discharges the X capacitor, wherein the discharge resistor is arranged in series with at least one switching element, and at least one detector circuit that detects a network disconnection and closes the switching element to discharge the X capacitor via the discharge resistor when a network disconnection is recognized.

Abstract: A method for producing a diamine includes purifying a diamine from an aqueous solution containing a diamine salt by adding an alkaline substance to the aqueous solution and then filtering the resulting solution by allowing the solution to pass through a nanofiltration membrane to remove the salt, thereby obtaining an aqueous diamine solution.

Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus 100 includes a sensor unit 120 detecting an operation with movement, and a control unit 110 controlling a selection operation of selecting one choice from a plurality of choices based on a moving operation detected by a sensor element. The sensor unit 120 is configured by being divided into sensor element groups G1 and G2, and the control unit 110 causes the selection operations to differ from each other in the sensor element groups G1 and G2 when directions of the operations with movement are the same.

Abstract: The present invention aims at solving the financial revenue loss due to the presence of digital video recorders that allow skipping the commercial breaks.

Abstract: A sample holding device, adapted for holding a sample, like a rodent or an MR phantom sample in a magnet bore of a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) device, comprises a sample carrier being adapted for an arrangement in the bore of the MRT device, wherein the sample carrier comprises a carrier platform for accommodating the sample and at least one clamping part with radial locking pieces being adapted for fixing the sample carrier in a hollow enclosure structure, wherein the at least one clamping part is connected with the carrier platform. Furthermore, an MRT device and a method of MRT imaging of a sample are described.

Abstract: A wearing condition parameter measurement device for a spectacle lens adapted to measure a wearing condition parameter necessary for manufacturing spectacles includes a mirror having a mirror surface adapted to reflect the wearing condition of a wearer of the spectacle lens, an imaging camera adapted to simultaneously shoot the wearer and the mirror surface reflecting the wearer to obtain a shot image, and a calculation device adapted to calculate the wearing condition parameter based on the shot image obtained by the imaging camera.

Abstract: A material for brake discs has temper softening resistance sufficient to maintain a hardness of HRC 31 or more after tempering at 700° C. for one hour. The low-carbon martensitic chromium-containing steel contains 0.02% to 0.10% of carbon and 0.02% to 0.10% of nitrogen, the total content of carbon and nitrogen being 0.08% to 0.16%; 0.5% or less of silicon; 0.1% or less of aluminum; 0.3% to 3.0% of manganese; 10.5% to 13.5% of chromium; 0.05% to 0.60% of niobium and 0.15% to 0.80% of vanadium, the total content of niobium and vanadium being 0.25% to 0.95%; 0.02% to 2.0% of nickel; and 1.5% or less of copper, and has an Fp value (=?230C+5Si?5Mn?6Cu+10Cr?12Ni+32Nb+22V+l2Mo+8W+10Ta+40A1?220N) of 80.0 to 96.0, a hardness after quenching of HRC 31 to 40, and a hardness after tempering at 700° C. for one hour of HRC 31 or more.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to frames useful for affixing a garment to figurines such as dolls. In particular, the disclosure relates to play sets comprising a frame of the disclosure and a figurine such as a doll.

Abstract: There is provided a melt supply pipe for aluminum die casting which is strong to mechanical impact and is excellent in the melting loss resistance to a molten aluminum alloy and which has a significantly extended life. The melt supply pipe for connecting a melting furnace and a plunger sleeve of a die casting machine, includes an inner ceramic pipe and an outer steel pipe fitted to the inner pipe, wherein a Ni alloy layer is formed over the inner circumferential surface of the outer steel pipe, and TiC particles are bonded to the surface of the Ni alloy layer.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a noninvasive constituent concentration measuring apparatus and constituent concentration measuring apparatus controlling method, in which accurate measurement can be performed by superimposing two photoacoustic signals having the same frequency and reverse phases to nullify the effect from the other constituent occupying large part of the object to be measured. The constituent concentration measuring apparatus according to the invention includes light generating means for generating two light beams having different wavelengths, modulation means for electrically intensity-modulating each of the two light beams having different wavelengths using signals having the same frequency and reverse phases, light outgoing means for outputting the two intensity-modulated light beams having different wavelengths toward a test subject, and acoustic wave detection means for detecting an acoustic wave generated in the test subject by the outputted light.

Abstract: A print control apparatus includes a setting section and a print controlling section. The setting section enables or disables a first function of sorting paper by performing longitudinal printing in which printing is performed in longitudinal orientation for paper ejection in the longitudinal orientation and lateral printing in which printing is performed in lateral orientation for paper ejection in the lateral orientation alternately. The setting section further enables or disables a second function of barcode printing. The print controlling section controls printing in accordance with setting of each of the first function and the second function. When one of the first function and the second function is enabled, the setting section disables the other function.

Abstract: A microchip comprising a first internal hardware-based firewall configured to deny access to a first portion of the microchip from a network; a general purpose microprocessor including two general purpose cores or general purpose processing units; at least two dies having been made by a separate fabrication processes and assembled into a package with separate die sections connected directly; and a memory component located inside of a second internal hardware-based firewall that is located between the memory component and one of the cores or processing units with which the memory component is associated. Wherein a first core is located within the first microchip portion protected by the first firewall; a second core is located within a second microchip portion not protected by the first firewall; and the second core is separated from the first core by the first firewall and is located between the first firewall and the network.

Abstract: A semiconductor element that is excellent in both mechanical reliability and electrical reliability and a mounting structure for the semiconductor element are provided. The semiconductor element includes: a substrate; an electrically conductive layer on the substrate; a protective layer having an opening on the electrically conductive layer; a barrier metal layer in contact with the electrically conductive layer in the opening; and an electrically conductive bump on the barrier metal layer. The barrier metal layer contains phosphorus and has a phosphorus-rich portion that has a higher phosphorus content than the remaining portion has. The phosphorus-rich portion is located in the surface of the barrier metal layer facing the electrically conductive bump, and the thickness thereof in the periphery of the region where the electrically conductive bump is formed is larger than at the center of the region.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor which comprises a base material and a photoconductive layer. The photoconductive layer is formed on the base material, and comprises a non-single-crystal material mainly composed of silicon. In the photoconductive layer, with regard to a characteristic energy E (eV) which has the relationship with a light absorption coefficient ?(cm?1) represented by the following formula (1), the characteristic energy E1 (eV) for an exposure wavelength in larger than the characteristic energy E2 (eV) for a neutralization wavelength. [Formula (1) a=C exp(h?/E) C: a constant h?: a photon energy h: a rationalized Planck's ?: the number of frequency.

Abstract: A telemeter system in which information that has an effect on a state of communication between a terminal device and a central device can be readily and accurately reported from the terminal device to the central device. When a central device (12) transmits a request signal for prescribed measurement result information to a terminal device (10), a terminal control component (20) of the terminal device (10) extracts the measurement result information from a measurement component (16), and transmits the measurement result information to the central device (12) via a telecommunication component (18) by using a short message service or the like. When a communication component (22) of the central device (12) receives the measurement result information, a center control component (26) stores the received measurement result information in a storage component (24) The state of communication between the terminal device (10) and the central device (12) is reported to an administrator as necessary.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a retention element for retaining first and second components in assembled relationship. The first component comprises a body having first and second external surfaces and an inner wall defining an aperture extending through the body, and the second component comprises a longitudinal member having a size and configuration to permit insertion within said aperture to thereby assemble the components. The retention element comprises: an elastromeric protuberance extending into the aperture from a base adhering to the inner wall to a distal edge which spans a portion of the aperture. The protuberance also has an inside wall and an outside wall which meet at the distal edge and together define a flexible free end.

Abstract: An liquid developer includes insulating liquid and toner particles dispersed in the insulating liquid. An average particle diameter of the toner particles based on volume is in the range of 0.7 to 3 ?m, a width S of particle size distribution of the toner particles represented by the following formula (I) is 1.4 or less, and the insulating liquid include the unsaturated fatty acid glyceride: S=[D(90)?D(10)]/D(50)??(I), where D(X) represents the particle diameter at the point of X % in which X is the ratio of accumulated volume to the total volume when the volume is accumulated from the small particle diameter in the particle size distribution of the toner particles.