Abstract: A retractable seat for a vehicle includes: a first leg with a proximal end that is rotatably attached to a seat cushion and a distal end that is rotatably attached to a floor; a second leg that is rotatably attached to the seat cushion; and an interlocking member that couples the first leg to the second leg so that the second leg is move in accordance with movement of the first leg. Rotating the first leg with respect to the floor moves the seat cushion from a use position to a retracted position. The rotation of the second leg through the interlocking member, from a position at which a second leg stands upright with respect to the seat cushion to a position which the second leg extends along the seat cushion.

Abstract: In performing stereoscopic view, a shift information memory stores, as a number of pixel lengths, an offset indicating how far in a right direction or a left direction to move coordinates of pixels to realize stereoscopic view. When realizing stereoscopic view, a plane shift engine moves the coordinates of image data in a graphics plane in the right direction or the left direction by the number of pixel lengths indicated by the offset. When a scale of video data targeted for stereoscopic view is changed by a basic graphics plane, a shift distance of pixel coordinates by the plane shift engine is based on a number of pixel lengths obtained by multiplying the offset by a changed scaling factor in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: A grommet includes a smaller diameter tubular section, an increasing diameter tubular section, and a larger diameter tubular section. The smaller diameter tubular section is connected through the increasing diameter tubular section to the larger diameter tubular section in an axial direction. A U-shape folded portion is provided on a connecting portion (a middle diameter tubular section) between the smaller diameter tubular section and the increasing diameter tubular section. A flap section that spreads conically toward the increasing diameter tubular section is provided on an outer periphery of the smaller diameter tubular section or an outer periphery of the folded portion. The folded portion is stretched straightly when the grommet is inserted into a through-hole.

Abstract: An electric shaver in which a blade frame part is attached to an upper portion of a body part, the blade frame part including an outer blade, an outer blade frame to fix the outer blade thereto, a holding frame to hold the outer blade frame vertically movable, and an outer peripheral frame connected to the holding frame, the upper portion including an inner blade. The holding frame is detachably attached to the outer peripheral frame from an under side thereof, and the outer peripheral frame entirely covers an outer periphery of the holding frame.

Abstract: A zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, and a positive third lens group. The second lens group includes a positive lens element, and two negative lens elements. The following conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied: 2.0<|VD1t?VD1w|/(ft/fw)<3.4??(1), and 0.89<|m2w/m3w|??(2), wherein VD1t and VD1w designate the distances, at the long and short focal length extremities, from the image-side surface of the lens element provided closest to the image side within the first lens group to the object-side surface of the positive lens element provided closest to the object side within the second lens group; ft and fw designate the entire focal length of the zoom lens system at the long and short focal length extremities; and m2w and m3w designate the lateral magnification of the second and third lens groups at the short focal length extremity when focused on an object at infinity.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided that may include an insulating substrate having a ceramic substrate and metal coating layers on opposite surfaces of the ceramic substrate, a semiconductor chip mounted on one surface of the insulating substrate, and a heat sink directly or indirectly fixed to the other surface of the insulating substrate and thermally connected to the semiconductor chip through the insulating substrate. The heat sink may include a housing that is made of a metal sheet and radiating fins that are fixed in the housing and made of aluminum. The metal sheet may have a coefficient of thermal expansion between those of the insulating substrate and the radiating fin.

Abstract: A resin composition including 30 to 90% by mass of polyamide (A), 70 to 10% by mass of glass fibers (B), a copper compound (C) and a halogenated compound (D), wherein polyamide (A) has a sum of a terminal carboxyl group concentration and a terminal amino group concentration of 100 milliequivalents/kg or more and 200 milliequivalents/kg or less, the terminal carboxyl group concentration being higher than the terminal amino group concentration; glass fibers (B) have a fiber diameter of 10 to 20 ?m and a weight average fiber length of 5 to 30 mm; the content of copper based on polyamide (A) is 30 ppm or more and 200 ppm or less; and the molar ratio of halogen to copper (halogen/copper) is more than 5 and not more than 25.

Abstract: A mounting structure of a grip with integrated handle to a door panel includes the grip, a door trim to which the grip is mounted, a bracket, an overlapping portion and a handle fastening portion. The grip includes a grip portion and a handle portion that are integrally formed. The bracket is arranged so as to extend from an end of the grip portion to the handle portion. The overlapping portion includes a part of the grip, a part of the door trim and a part of the bracket held together so as to overlap with one another. The handle fastening portion is provided for fastening the handle portion to the door panel and with which the bracket is to be fixed to the door panel.

Abstract: Fixtures according to the present invention include fixing surfaces in the same shape as end surfaces of a device under test which is to be measured while an electromagnetic wave to be measured at a frequency equal to more than 0.01 [THz] and equal to or less than 100 [THz] is irradiated on the device under test. The end surfaces are fixed to the fixing surfaces. When a refractive index of the fixtures is n0, and a refractive index of the device under test is n1, a relationship n1?0.1?n0?n1+0.1 holds. The fixtures do not cover a side surface of the device under test. The fixtures are rotated about a straight line orthogonal to the fixing surfaces as a rotational axis.

Abstract: A tangible computer-readable medium encoded with an executable computer program for retrieving information from an internet protocol network is provided. The internet protocol network includes a plurality of tangible session initiation protocol entities that exchange session initiation protocol events via the internet protocol network, wherein each of the plurality of tangible session initiation protocol entities store exchanged session initiation protocol events. The tangible computer-readable medium includes an accessing code segment that, when executed, accesses the exchanged session initiation protocol events that are stored in one of the tangible session initiation protocol entities. A parsing code segment, when executed, parses the exchanged session initiation protocol events that are stored in the one of the tangible session initiation protocol entities based on a parsing parameter. Thereafter, a reporting code segment, when executed, displays results of the parsing code segment on a display.

Abstract: In oxygen ion implantation equipment, a chamber has a bottom wall on one end face thereof and is open in the other end face thereof. A wafer holder rotatably holding a plurality of wafers on the same circumference of a circle is housed in the chamber. Inside a cap closing an opening of the chamber while making the chamber airtight with a sealing member, a coolant passage is formed near the sealing member. A plurality of lamp heaters are disposed so as to extend in the direction of the tangent to the circumference of the cap and align parallel to the direction of the radius of the cap, in such a way as to face one wafer held by the wafer holder.

Abstract: A display panel device includes: a luminescence element; a capacitor including first and second capacitor electrodes; a driver having a gate connected to the first capacitor electrode for allowing a drain current to flow through the luminescence element; a first switch switchably interconnecting a data line and the first capacitor electrode for supplying a signal voltage to the capacitor; a second switch switchably interconnecting a source of the driver and the second capacitor electrode; and a controller. The controller is configured to: turn ON the first switch while the second switch is ON to supply the signal voltage to the first capacitor electrode and flow a current between the source of the driver and the second capacitor electrode; and, after predetermined time period, turn OFF the second switch to cause non-conduction between the source of the driver and the second capacitor electrode.

Abstract: A composition containing fine silver particles which have a uniform particle size, can form a fine drawing pattern, and have a small environmental impact, a method for producing that composition, a method for producing fine silver particles, and a paste having fine silver particles are provided. The fine silver particles are produced by carrying out a fluid preparation step of preparing a reduction fluid, a silver reaction step, and a filtration/washing step. The reaction step is carried out by adding an aqueous silver nitrate fluid to a reduction fluid whose temperature has been increased to a range between 40 and 800° C. The aqueous silver nitrate fluid is added at a stretch. The composition containing fine silver particles is produced by dispersing the composition containing the fine silver particles in a polar fluid.

Abstract: The switching power supply apparatus includes a transformer including a primary winding, a secondary winding, an auxiliary winding, a switching device connected to the primary winding, an output voltage generation circuit which is connected to the secondary winding and generates an output voltage, and an auxiliary power voltage generation circuit which is connected to the auxiliary winding and generates an auxiliary power voltage. The switching power supply apparatus also includes a control circuit, which operates using the auxiliary power voltage and controls a driver circuit so that an intermittent oscillation is performed when the output voltage is higher than a first output voltage, and which controls a peak of a current flowing through a switching device is lower than a peak in a normal mode, when the auxiliary power voltage is lower than a first auxiliary power voltage in the intermittent oscillation.

Abstract: An imager is provided having an imaging sensor and a focusing detector. The imaging sensor reads stored charges in a positive or negative direction and outputs image data created from the read charges. The comparator calculates a differential between first image data output by said imaging sensor and second image data output by the imaging sensor immediately after the first image data is output, and determines whether the differential is larger than a first threshold value. The composer creates composite image data from the data of two images output by the imaging sensor. When the comparator determines that the differential is larger than the first threshold value, the composer creates composite image data from the second image data and negatively scanned image data that is obtained by scanning the second image in a direction that is opposite to the scanning direction of the second image data.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an oil tank structure capable of cooling oil flowing into the oil tank to properly adjust the oil temperature, and also capable of preventing overcooling. The oil tank structure includes a tank portion; an oil introducing portion that is provided in a sidewall of the tank portion and introduces oil in a direction tangential to the sidewall; at least one groove-like passage portion that is formed along a circumference of the sidewall so to allow the introduced oil to flow in and out; an oil cooling portion that is provided on the sidewall and cools the groove-like passage portion; and an outlet formed in a bottom of the tank portion. By such an oil tank structure, oil having a high temperature easily flows into the groove-like passage portion due to its low viscosity, and is cooled by the oil cooling portion.

Abstract: A clutch mechanism for selectively transmitting a force applied thereto may include an operation bracket that is rotatably connected to the vehicle seat via a first pivot shaft and is connected to a force output cable, a rotatable arm that is rotatably connected to the operation bracket via the first pivot shaft and is connected to a force input cable, and a swing arm that is rotatably connected to the operation bracket via a second pivot shaft. The operation bracket includes a curved slot formed therein. The rotatable arm includes an elongated slot that has a toothed portion. The swing arm includes an engagement portion that movably engages both of the curved slot of the operation bracket and the elongated slot of the rotatable arm.

Abstract: A composition containing fine silver particles which have a uniform particle size, can form a fine drawing pattern, and have a small environmental impact, a method for producing that composition, a method for producing fine silver particles, and a paste having fine silver particles are provided. The fine silver particles are produced by carrying out a fluid preparation step of preparing a reduction fluid, a silver reaction step, and a filtration/washing step. The reaction step is carried out by adding an aqueous silver nitrate fluid to a reduction fluid whose temperature has been increased to a range between 40 and 80° C. The aqueous silver nitrate fluid is added at a stretch. The composition containing fine silver particles is produced by dispersing the composition containing the fine silver particles in a polar fluid.

Abstract: A stabilizer bushing is provided which effectively reduces a torsional friction between a bushing body and a stabilizer bar. The stabilizer bushing includes a bushing body 16 made of a tubular elastic body, a sliding member 42 fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the tubular elastic body, and two partition members 26, 26 embedded in and bonded to a radially middle area of the bushing body 16. The partition members 26, 26 divide the bushing body 16 into an inner rubber portion 38 that is thin enough not to be elastically-deformed by a load applied thereto and an outer rubber portion 40 that is thicker than the inner rubber portion 38. Further, each of the partition members 26, 26 includes through holes 36a, 36b, 36c that are located so as to divide the partition member into a plurality of sections both in the axial and circumferential directions.