Abstract: An embodiment of a method for a determination, section after section, of a parameter-dependent correction value approximation course includes determining a first measurement signal value with a first parameter value associated with a sensor arrangement when the first parameter value fullfils a predetermined condition or a trigger condition is fulfilled, changing the first parameter value to obtain a second parameter value, determining a second signal value with the second parameter value and determining a second partial section of the correction value approximation course for a second parameter range based on a functional connection describing the second partial section, the first parameter value, the second parameter value, the first measurement signal value, the second measurement signal value and an initial correction value.

Abstract: An image scanning apparatus arranged to press an original document placed on a glass plate by a platen cover and to scan the original document by a line sensor includes a light source used when scanning image information, a first detection sensor arranged to detect as a first timing a state in which the cover is opened at, for example, an angle of 20 degrees, a second detection sensor arranged to detect as a second timing a state, for example, that is immediately before the cover closes the glass plate, and an original document size determining unit arranged to determine the size of the original document based on the differential data, which is calculated from first image information scanned at the first timing and second image information scanned at the second timing.

Abstract: A snow vehicle includes a vehicle body, an arm member supported with respect to the vehicle body, a knuckle supported with respect to the arm member at a predetermined support point, a coupling unit arranged to couple the knuckle to the arm member, a ski member, and a ski coupling unit. The ski coupling unit couples the ski member to the knuckle such that the ski member pivots about a pitching axis with respect to the knuckle, the pitching axis extends in a width direction of the ski member. The pitching axis is disposed such that, when the vehicle is in a reference attitude of being placed on a horizontal surface, a horizontal distance from the pitching axis to a reference normal directed to the horizontal surface from the support point is shorter than a horizontal distance from the pitching axis to a steering axis.

Abstract: An elastic wave device includes an unbalanced terminal and first and second balanced terminals. A longitudinally-coupled-resonator-type first elastic wave filter is provided between the unbalanced terminal and the first balanced terminal. An elastic wave filter, which is connected in parallel with the first elastic wave filter, is connected between the unbalanced terminal and the second balanced terminal. The current paths through which IDT electrodes of the elastic wave filters of the elastic wave device are connected to ground terminals, are not symmetrical.

Abstract: A tunable filter includes a surface acoustic wave resonator, in which an IDT electrode is defined by an electrode material provided in a recess in an upper surface of a piezoelectric substrate made of LiNbO3 or LiTaO3, and a ZnO film is arranged to cover the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, and variable capacitors connected with the surface acoustic wave resonator.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate including an R-plane, a-plane, or m-plane sapphire substrate and a LiNbO3 film of (90°, 90°, ?15° to 15°) or (0°, 90°, ?15° to 15°) in terms of Euler angles (?, ?, ?) disposed on the sapphire substrate, and electrodes disposed on the piezoelectric substrate and made of metal.

Abstract: An LED backlight in which deterioration in in-plane uniformity of brightness is prevented, whose thickness, frame width, and wire length are reduced, and in which wiring can be carried out easily, includes an LED provided on one surface of an LED substrate; the LED substrate is mounted on a chassis panel so that a surface of the LED substrate opposite to the one surface contacts the chassis panel; and the chassis panel has a connection hole provided in a portion of a region of the chassis panel in which region the LED substrate is mounted, which passes through the chassis panel.

Abstract: A laminated ceramic electronic component includes first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes that overlap each other through ceramic layers, each of the first and second internal electrodes having first and second effective portions, first and second connecting portions, and first and second extended portions whose film thickness is greater than that of the first and second connecting portions and which are exposed at the outer surface of a ceramic element assembly. When distances from side surfaces of the ceramic assembly on which first and second external electrodes are provided to the inner edges of the first and second extended portions are defined as L1 and L2, respectively, and a distance between side surfaces and the end of the second internal electrode or the end of the first internal electrode is defined as G2 or G1, G2>L1 and G1>L2 are satisfied.

Abstract: An autonomous moving apparatus arranged to travel autonomously in a surrounding environment preferably includes: a distance measuring sensor arranged to output detection waves, detect a distance between the apparatus and an object which has reflected the detection wave based on a reflection state of the detection wave, and acquire information about the distance between the apparatus and the object which exists in the surroundings of the apparatus; an inclination sensor arranged to detect an inclination of the distance measuring sensor; and a control unit arranged to estimate the self-position in the surrounding environment and generate the global map of the surrounding environment based on the distance information. When the distance measuring sensor is determined to be inclined based on a detection result of the inclination sensor, the control unit stops estimating the self-position based on the distance information and stops generating the global map based on the distance information.

Abstract: A relay server is capable of communicating with other relay servers through an external server arranged on a Wide Area Network. The relay server stores information about a registered terminal, information about the relay servers forming a relay group by permitting connection among each other, and information about a resource and a client terminal sharing the resource. When an operation instruction regarding the resource in another terminal is received, the relay server relays the operation instruction from the registered terminal to another relay server. However, when key information is stored in association with the resource, the relay server relays the operation instruction to the other relay server only when a correct key has been entered.

Abstract: In a device authentication control method and device, when a connection device is connected to a network mounted on a boat, it is determined whether or not the connection device corresponds to an authentication-free device. If the connection device does not correspond to an authentication-free device, an authenticating action is performed on the connection device. If the connection device does correspond to an authentication-free device, the connection device is exempted from the authenticating action. In this way, when a connection device does not correspond to an authentication-free device, an authenticating action is performed, but when the connection device corresponds to an authentication-free device, the connection device is exempted from an authenticating action. As a result, it is possible to handle specific connection devices as authentication-free.

Abstract: A spindle motor includes a stator unit and a rotor unit. The stator unit includes a stator, a base portion, and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board has a connection portion and an extending portion extending from the connection portion. The base portion is provided on its lower surface with a recess portion arranged to accommodate the connection portion of the printed circuit board and a groove portion in which the extending portion is arranged, the groove portion communicating with the recess portion. The groove portion has a bottom surface on which the extending portion is arranged and a slant surface gradually sloping downwards as it extends away from the bottom surface in a circumferential direction. The region in the recess portion extending from the connection portion to a boundary between the recess portion and the groove portion is covered with a cured flowable resin material.

Abstract: A high-reliability ceramic composite multilayer substrate that has excellent flatness and few remaining pores, can be produced at a low cost while simplifying the manufacturing process, and can eliminate layer separation or separation from a mother board. The ceramic composite multilayer substrate includes a laminate containing a first ceramic layer and a second ceramic layer that is disposed so as to contact the first ceramic layer and suppresses firing shrinkage in the plane direction of the first ceramic layer. The laminate includes a resin/ceramic composite layer in which porous ceramic is impregnated with a resin formed on at least one principal surface of the laminate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device includes a first step of preparing a first substrate which has a first area to be etched and a second area located at a periphery of the first area and which has a display element on its surface, a second step of etching and removing the first area of the first substrate, a third step of forming a second substrate on a surface of the first substrate that is opposite to the surface on which the display element is located, and a fourth step of removing the second area of the first substrate.

Abstract: A driving circuit of a display device includes digital/current converting (DCC) circuits, one for each data line. The DCC circuit operates to charge a capacitor with a reference current according to a supplied signal from a shift register. The DCC circuit stores a current value of the reference current and outputs it to a data line via a switching element that has been turned on by a digital image data signal of a single line supplied from a line latch. The output value of each DCC circuit is reset, one after another, in every select scan period in which an OFF signal is sent to all the data lines. In this way, the reset of the output value and the output of the image data signal can be successively carried out within one frame period, enabling the data to be applied to the pixel circuit.

Abstract: An electronic component and a method of manufacturing an electronic component including a first surface mount device and a second surface mount device are provided. The first surface mount device and the second surface mount device are joined to a substrate via joint materials such that either or both of the first and second surface mount devices are shifted from the locations corresponding to land electrodes located on the substrate so as to be aligned with each other and are subjected to a reflow process. The outer land electrodes are formed at locations shifted inwardly from the locations corresponding to a virtual arrangement state in which the first surface mount device and the second surface mount device are arranged in series such that an end surface of the first surface mount device is in contact with an end surface of the second surface mount device.

Abstract: An inductively coupled module includes a wireless IC chip and a feeder circuit substrate which is connected to the wireless IC chip and which includes a feeder circuit including an inductance element and a capacitance element. The feeder circuit substrate is made of a biodegradable plastic so as to prevent a negative impact of the module on the environment and the human body. The inductively coupled module is adhered on a radiation plate and is used as a wireless IC device of an RFID system.

Abstract: A method for forming a thick film pattern forms a thick film pattern having a large thickness, a high hardness, and a high aspect ratio and exhibiting high dimension precision and high shape precision. In the method, a photosensitive paste including an inorganic powder, a photosensitive monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator and containing substantially no polymer is applied to a support so as to form a photosensitive paste film. The resulting photosensitive paste film is subjected to an exposure treatment and, thereafter, development is conducted so as to form a predetermined thick film pattern. Alternatively, a photolithography photosensitive paste including an inorganic powder, a photosensitive monomer, a photopolymerization initiator, and a polymer is used, wherein a ratio (weight ratio) of the photosensitive monomer to a total amount of the photosensitive monomer and the polymer is about 0.86 or more.

Abstract: An optical member 15 of the present invention includes a lens sheet 28, a light diffusing sheet 27 and light reflecting members 24. The lens sheet 28 has a plurality of convex lenses 29 on an inner surface thereof. The light diffusing sheet 27 is disposed so as to face the lens sheet 28 and diffuses light. The light reflecting members 24 are selectively arranged in boundary areas of the plurality of convex lenses 29 between the lens sheet 28 and the light diffusing sheet 27. The lens sheet 28 has a surface having a light guiding direction and a non-light-guiding direction that crosses the light guiding direction because the convex lenses 29 have anisotropy for collecting light. The light diffusing sheet 27 has diffuseness larger in the light guiding direction of the lens sheet 28 than in the non-light-guiding direction of the lens sheet 28.