Abstract: A rechargeable battery and a method of fabricating which includes stacking a plurality of electrode pages having an uncoated portion between portions coated with an active electrode material. The electrode pages are arranged in a stack and an overall current collector is connected at the uncoated portion in order to form an electrode booklet. The overall current collector maintains the arrangement of the electrode pages and electrically connects all of the uncoated portions of the electrode pages. A tilted stack of electrode pages is utilized when a large number of electrodes are desired to result in a battery cell having a vertical orientation.

Abstract: A degree of polarization control device includes: a calcium fluoride crystal substrate for transmitting a laser beam; a polarization monitor for measuring the degree of polarization of a laser beam transmitted through the calcium fluoride crystal substrate; and a controller for controlling the rotation angle of the calcium fluoride crystal substrate according to the degree of polarization measured by the polarization monitor; the calcium fluoride crystal substrate being formed by a flat plate having a laser beam entering surface and a laser beam exiting surface running in parallel with the (111) crystal face, the Brewster angle being selected for the incident angle, the rotation angle around the [111] axis operating as a central axis being controlled by the controller.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a novel trehalose compound having a high affinity for an adenosine A3 receptor. The trehalose compound of the present invention is represented by General Formula (1): wherein X and X? represent a hydrogen atom, and the like; Y and Y? independently represent an oxygen atom, and the like; R1 and R2 independently represent a C1-C6 alkyl group; and R3 and R4 independently represent a C3-C6 alkyl group. The trehalose compound of the present invention has a remarkably high affinity for an adenosine A3 receptor.

Abstract: A producing method of ball for ball game including a ball cover and a bladder is disclosed. The method includes steps of (a) inflating a bladder and providing a web layer by coating at least a thread on an outer surface of the bladder thereafter, (b) fabricating a plurality of panels in a predetermined shape, (c) sewing the plurality of panels edge to edge together excluding a portion thereof by a sewing machine to form a ball cover including an inlet opening, (d) inserting the bladder obtained at step (a) into the ball cover obtained at step (c) through the inlet opening, (e) sewing the inlet opening of the ball cover, and (j) inflating the ball for ball game to a predetermined pressure within a shaping mold.

Abstract: An angle-adjustable hinge provided with a first member provided with a case portion holding an approximately disc-shaped gear member having a non-circular through hole as to freely rotate, a second member having a fitting shaft portion detachably inserted to the through hole of the gear member, a wedge-shaped window portion formed on the case portion, and a floating wedge member, movably disposed within the wedge-shaped window portion, in which one side face is a toothed face to engage with the gear member and another side is a contact face to contact a wedge face of the wedge-shaped window portion, to restrict the gear member from oscillation in one direction against the case portion by the engagement of the toothed face with the gear member and the contact of the contact face and the wedge face.

Abstract: A multilayer interconnection substrate is disclosed that includes a multilayer interconnection layer having at least a first interconnection layer and a second interconnection layer stacked with an insulating layer provided therebetween, and a connection via configured to electrically connect the first interconnection layer and the second interconnection layer. The connection via includes an internal conductor and a metal film covering the internal conductor. The internal conductor is an aggregate of metal particles.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor laser including a first conductive type of a lower clad layer 12, an active layer 14 provided on the lower clad layer 12, the active layer 14 including a plurality of quantum dots, and a second conductive type of an upper clad layer 18, the upper clad layer 18 being provided on the active layer 14 so as to have an isolated ridge portion 30 such that W1?Wtop+0.4 ?m where Wtop is the width of a top of the ridge portion 30 and W1 is the width of the ridge portion 30 at a height of 50 nm from a bottom of the ridge portion 30. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing such a semiconductor laser.

Abstract: A unit for use within a furnace which is absent a controlled atmosphere, for carrying out a synthesizing process for synthesizing precursors to form a synthesized product at elevated temperatures. The unit consists of a vessel, having at least one opening, for containing materials of the synthesizing process, and a solid reductive material. The materials of the synthesizing process are separated from the atmosphere of the furnace by either the vessel or the reductive material. The unit is especially suited for synthesizing LiFePO4 from Fe2O3, Li2CO3, carbon black, and phosphoric acid precursors.

Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal compound shown by the following formula (I), a polymerizable liquid crystal composition that includes the polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a chiral compound polymerizable with the polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a liquid crystalline polymer obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable liquid crystal compound or the polymerizable liquid crystal composition, and an optical anisotropic article that includes the liquid crystalline polymer. The polymerizable liquid crystal compound shows a liquid crystal phase over a wider temperature range, is chemically stable, can be inexpensively produced, and has a wide selective reflection wavelength band ?? (i.e., a large value ?n).

Abstract: An artwork-trading computer system includes a primary auction for trading an artwork put up by an artist for the first time and a secondary auction for the following reselling. A server judges whether a bidding is for the primary auction or the secondary auction. When the server judges it as the primary auction, the server sends the artist a signal for requesting to select a winning bidder among the bidding collectors. Meanwhile, when the server judges it as the secondary auction, the server decides the winning bidder who offers the best bid price.

Abstract: There is disclosed a showcase in which a width of a transparent door can be extended to substantially the whole width of a main body even in a case where a locking device is incorporated in a handle of a transparent door. A low-temperature showcase comprises the transparent door which is rotatably supported on the main body on one side so as to openably close an opening of the main body including a showroom, the handle disposed at an outer surface of this transparent door on an unsupported side, and a locking device disposed in this handle. The locking device has a keyhole, a rotary shaft which rotates concentrically with a key by a rotating operation of the key inserted into this keyhole and a hook which is attached to this rotary shaft so as to disengageably engage with the main body, and the keyhole is disposed at a side surface of the handle on a supported side of the transparent door.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery system having a plurality of cells in series circuits for high voltage applications. Cells, cell sets and cell packs in series circuits are protected from over-charging with self-discharging devices. The rechargeable battery system is protected from over-charging and over-discharging and charging is controlled to be resumed by an over-charge/over-discharge printed circuit board or the charger.

Abstract: A workpiece measuring apparatus includes a programmable controller which acquires positional data of a measuring head. At the same time that the programmable controller acquires the positional data, a pulse output unit outputs timing pulses. The measuring head measures a workpiece on a machine tool according to a measurement command which is output positively earlier than the timing of predetermined time intervals by a time difference which is preset by a predictive system. As a result, a first time at which the programmable controller acquires the positional data of the measuring head and a second time at which the measuring head measures the workpiece in response to the measurement command synchronize. The workpiece measuring apparatus is capable of measuring the workpiece highly accurately in a three-dimensional space according to a minimum required amount of measured data without the need for modifying an existing NC apparatus combined with the machine tool.

Abstract: A command processing apparatus includes a CPU (28). The CPU (28) determines whether or not a router (16) is compliant with UPnP, and issues a port releasing request to the router (16) when the determination result is affirmative. Thus, a specific port is released. Next, destination information including an identifier of the specific port is requested to be sent to a server (14). The destination information is sent to the server (14) by the router (16), and the server (14) sends a command to the specific port on the basis of the identifier included in the destination information. When the determination result is negative, an information send request is repeatedly issued. Every issuance, destination information including an identifier of an arbitrary port (response wait port) is sent to the server (14) by the router (16), and the response wait port is temporarily released. The server (14) outputs a command to the response wait port on the basis of the identifier included in the destination information.

Abstract: When a character input is necessary during an execution of an engine application 39k in an engine section, a character input processing request section 65 of the engine section issues a character input processing request FRQ depending on a request from the engine application 39k. After receiving the character input processing request, a character input processing section 61 of a host section carries out a character input processing, and notifies a character input processing result to the engine section. In the engine section which has received the character input processing result, characters according to the character input processing result are displayed by using character font data in the engine section. As a result, it is possible to make an apparatus structure compact, as well as to improve a convenience for a user.

Abstract: A wiring board includes a wiring forming region in which a plurality of wiring layers are stacked while sandwiching insulating layers, an outer periphery region which is arranged around the wiring forming region and in which a reinforcing pattern is formed in the same layer as each of the wiring layers. An area ratio of the reinforcing pattern to the outer periphery region and an area ratio of the wiring layer to the wiring forming region are substantially the same in each of the layers, and the reinforcing patterns exist without a gap in the outer periphery region when the wiring board is viewed in planar perspective.

Abstract: A touch panel having high durability is provided. Either one or both of a display device and a flexible panel have island-shaped protective bodies formed on surfaces of electrode layers (upper electrode layer, lower electrode layer), and a transparent conductive film is exposed between the protective bodies. Since the protective bodies protrude highly from the surface of the transparent conductive film, when the flexible panel is pressed and the upper electrode and the lower electrode layer are brought into contact, a load to be applied to the transparent conductive film is reduced by the protective bodies, so that the transparent conductive film is not broken.

Abstract: A method for stripping a pellicle from an exposure master plate is provided, the pellicle being a lithographic pellicle that includes a pellicle frame, a pellicle film stretched over one end face of the pellicle frame via a pellicle film adhesive, and an exposure master plate pressure-sensitive adhesion layer provided on the other end face, the method including a step of irradiating the pressure-sensitive adhesion layer with UV light. There is also provided a stripping apparatus used in the stripping method, the apparatus including a light source for irradiating the exposure master plate pressure-sensitive adhesion layer with UV light and means for heating the exposure master plate and/or the pellicle frame with which the pressure-sensitive adhesion layer is in contact.

Abstract: An engine fuel supply system is provided at a reduced cost by using a HC dosing pump that supplies fuel into an exhaust pipe also as a pump for a cylinder fuel supply device. When a signal is generated to command air removal from a cylinder fuel supply passage, the dual-purpose pump is activated, a first on-off valve assumes an open state, and a second on-off valve assumes a close state, so that the fuel is supplied from the dual-purpose pump to the cylinder fuel supply passage via an air-removal fuel supply passage. When a signal is generated to command fuel supply into the exhaust pipe, the dual-purpose pump is activated, the second on-off valve assumes the open state, and the first on-off valve assumes the close state, so that the fuel is supplied from the dual-purpose pump to the exhaust pipe via the exhaust-pipe fuel supply passage.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to reduce the constraint that the density ratio is constant as small as possible, and to obtain high power recovering effect in a wide operation range. A refrigeration cycle apparatus uses carbon dioxide as refrigerant and has a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger evaporator, an expander and an indoor heat exchanger a radiator. An injection circuit for introducing high pressure refrigerant is provided in a halfway of an expansion process of said expander.