Abstract: A piezoelectric transformer driving device including: an oscillator; a frequency-divider outputting a pulse by dividing a clock signal from the oscillator by a frequency-divide ratio received thereto; a switching element driven by the pulse and intermittently applying a voltage to a primary side of a piezoelectric transformer; a frequency-divide ratio instructing unit holding a frequency-divide ratio instruction value of a real number having an integer part and an fractional part; a binarization unit binarizing the frequency-divide ratio instruction value into two different integer frequency-divide ratios and selectively outputting the frequency-divide ratios. The binarization unit adjusts an appearance ratio of the frequency-divide ratios such that an average of the frequency-divide ratios output from the binarization unit is equal to an average of the frequency-divide ratio instruction value.

Abstract: A polyolefin wax-containing aqueous resin composition that can provide excellent properties without the use of a surfactant is provided. The aqueous resin composition is obtained by heating and dissolving 100 parts by mass of a carboxyl group-containing polyolefin wax in the presence of 15 to 67 parts by mass of a compound that satisfies formula (1) shown below, and 90 to 380 parts by mass of water, and then dispersing this with a basic compound that has been added at a ratio of 1 to 4 chemical equivalents per carboxyl group of the carboxyl group-containing polyolefin wax. CmH2m+1—(OCH2CH2)n—OH Formula (1) m: an integer from 4 to 6, n: an integer from 1 to 4.

Abstract: A mobile communication method includes: causing a cell under control of a radio base station to determine an initial granted value when an uplink user data transmission channel is set up between a mobile station and the cell under the control of the radio base station; causing a radio network controller to notify the mobile station of the initial granted value determined by the cell under the control of the radio base station; and causing the mobile station to transmit uplink user data via the uplink user data transmission channel at a transmission rate corresponding to the initial granted value after the uplink user data transmission channel is set up, and the cell under the control of the radio base station sets the initial granted value to be equal to the granted value used in transmitting only a single data unit on the uplink user data transmission channel.

Abstract: A first solid electrolytic capacitor according to the present invention includes a capacitor element, an exterior resin covering the capacitor element, an anode terminal, a cathode terminal, and a metal wire. The capacitor element includes an anode body from which an anode lead is extracted, a dielectric layer formed on a surface of the anode body, and a cathode layer formed on the dielectric layer. The anode terminal and the cathode terminal are electrically connected to the anode lead and the cathode layer, respectively, and extracted to an outer surface of the exterior resin, the anode terminal including an opposing part opposed to the anode lead in the exterior resin. The metal wire includes both ends connected to the opposing part and a curving part, and is provided to the anode lead, and at least a part of the curving part is electrically connected to the anode lead.

Abstract: A transmission rate control method for controlling, at a mobile station, a transmission rate of uplink user data, in a radio communication system capable of controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data based on an absolute transmission rate transmitted via an E-AGCH and a relative transmission rate transmitted via a E-RGCH, includes: notifying, from a radio network controller to the mobile station, information for identifying the E-AGCH to be transmitted from a serving cell, and not notifying, from the radio network controller to the mobile station, information for identifying the E-RGCH, when the mobile station establishes an E-DPDCH; and controlling, at the mobile station, the transmission rate of uplink user data, based on the absolute transmission rate which is received from the serving cell via the E-AGCH, without considering the relative transmission rate.

Abstract: A transmission rate control method includes: measuring, at a radio base station, a reception power of a DPCH transmitted from the mobile station; extracting, at the radio base station, a transmission data block size of the uplink user data from an E-DPCCH; acquiring, at the radio base station, a transmission power ratio of an E-DPDCH to the DPCCH which corresponds to the extracted transmission data block size; calculating, at the radio base station, a reception power of the E-DPDCH based on the measured reception power and the acquired transmission power ratio; calculating, at the radio base station, a relative transmission rate of the uplink user data based on the calculated reception power; notifying, at the radio base station, the relative transmission rate to the mobile station via a E-RGCH; and controlling, at the mobile station, the transmission rate based on the notified relative transmission rate.

Abstract: A representative-value calculator calculates a representative value of signal values of pixels included in each of divided regions of a neighboring region of a pixel of interest. The divided regions are obtained by dividing the neighboring region into the predetermined number of divisions. The number of divisions is determined based on a frequency band in an input image signal. A difference-absolute-value calculator calculates a difference absolute value between a signal value of the pixel of interest and each of the representative values of the respective divided regions. A weight calculator calculates a weight for each of the representative values of the respective divided regions according to the difference absolute value. A normalization processor normalizes the sum of products of the representative values of the respective divided regions and the weights for the representative values of the respective divided region.

Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator includes a pair of driving electrodes and a pair of lead electrodes that are formed facing each other on the frontside and backside of a piezoelectric plate that operates in a thickness-shear vibration mode. The front and back driving electrodes are formed such that they each have one or more pairs of parallel sides and have the same shape, and their centers face each other. The parallel sides of one of the front and back driving electrodes are formed parallel with either the X-axis or the Z?-axis of the piezoelectric plate, but the parallel sides of the other driving electrodes are formed without being parallel with the X-axis and Z?-axis thereof.

Abstract: A solar cell module is provided that comprises: a solar cell; a connection electrode provided on each of a light-receiving surface and back surface of the solar cell; a conductive resin adhesive arranged on an upper surface of the connection electrode; and a wiring material electrically connected to the solar cell and connected with the connection electrode and the conductive resin adhesive, wherein the conductive resin adhesive changes color upon curing, and the conductive resin adhesive on the upper surface of the connection electrode provided on the light-receiving surface of the solar cell is arranged within a region corresponding to at least one of the connection electrode and the wiring material, on a projection plane parallel with the light-receiving surface and exposed on a light-receiving surface side.

Abstract: A structure of mounting a cowl top cover which has a back end portion mounted to a lower end portion of a front windshield panel. The structure includes: a surface portion disposed at the back end portion of cowl top cover, the surface portion covering a surface of lower end portion of front windshield panel and extending in a vehicular widthwise direction; a plurality of clip portions disposed at back end portion of cowl top cover, the lower end portion of front windshield panel being clamped between the clip portions and the surface portion in a plurality of places along the direction in which the surface portion extends; and a thin plate portion disposed at back end portion of cowl top cover, wherein the thin plate portion connecting plurality of clip portions with each other is thinner than surface portion and is spaced apart from front windshield panel.

Abstract: A solar cell according to the present invention includes: a photoelectric conversion part having a photoelectric converting function; and a collector electrode provided at a side of a light-receiving surface of the photoelectric conversion part in a way that parts of the light-receiving surface are exposed. Interconnection tabs are connected at a side of a light-receiving surface of the collector electrode with an adhesive being interposed in between. The collector electrode contains a thermosetting first resin, an conductive material and a second resin for forming a sea-island structure between the second resin and the first resin. The collector electrode includes an internal region in the inside, a concentration ratio of the second resin to the first resin being higher in the internal region than in the surface region at the side of either the adhesive or the photoelectric conversion part.

Abstract: A transmission rate control method including: notifying, from the mobile station UE to the radio base station NodeB, a data amount in a transmission buffer of the mobile station UE; determining, at the radio base station NodeB, a maximum allowable value that can be notified to the mobile station UE, in accordance with the data amount in the transmission buffer; calculating, at the radio base station NodeB, as a granted value to be notified to the mobile station UE, a value that does not exceed the maximum allowable value, notifying, from the radio base station Node B to the mobile station UE, the granted value calculated at the radio base station UE, by using a transmission rate control channel; and transmitting, at the mobile station UE, the uplink user data, at a transmission rate corresponding to the granted value notified from the radio base station NodeB.

Abstract: A projection display device has an imager that modulates light from a light source in accordance with an image signal, a projection optical system that enlarges and projects the light modulated by the imager onto a projection plane, a focus adjustment part disposed in the projection optical system, and a displacement part that displaces the imager in a direction vertical to a light axis of the projection optical system, in conjunction with the focus adjustment part.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solid electrolytic capacitor that prevents leakage current from increasing. The method includes preparing a capacitor element including an anode body, which has an anode lead, and a cathode layer; preparing a lead terminal including an anode terminal, a cathode terminal, and a first insulative member which connects the anode terminal and cathode terminal; connecting the lead terminal and the capacitor element by bonding the anode terminal and the anode lead and bonding the cathode terminal and the cathode layer; and molding a package resin around the capacitor element.

Abstract: A mobile communication method includes: (A) assigning, at a radio network controller, a channelization code and a transmission timing for the mobile station on the basis of a status of use of a channelization code and a transmission timing in a sector other than a specific sector when the mobile station sets a radio link with the radio base station in the specific sector; and (B) notifying, from the radio base station, the mobile station of the transmission power control information via the transmission power control channel using the channelization code and the transmission timing assigned at the radio network controller.

Abstract: A state of charge optimizing device according to the present invention optimizes a state of charge of each of a plurality of cells which are connected in series to form an assembled battery, and conducts the optimization by discharging or charging a part or all of the plurality of cells so that the differences between the amount of charge after the optimization and the amount of charge in a predetermined state of charge become uniform.

Abstract: The radio base station includes: a step of making a comparison between transmission format identification information received from the mobile station and transmission format identification information based on a data amount calculated in a step of calculating the data amount of uplink user data; and a step of retransmitting a calculated scheduling grant if the radio base station determines, based on the comparison result in the step of the comparison, that a data amount indicated by the transmission format identification information received from the mobile station is larger than the data amount calculated in the aforementioned step.

Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: controlling, at the radio base station NodeB, the transmission power in the DPCCH by use of an inner loop transmission power control based on a target SIR; transmitting, at the mobile station UE, the uplink packet, at the transmission power in the E-DPDCH, the transmission power being determined based on the SG and the transmission power in the DPCCH; and determining, at the radio base station NodeB, the target SIR, by use of an outer loop transmission power control based on a HARQ transmission number and a reception result of an uplink packet transmission of the HARQ transmission number, the HARQ transmission number indicating what number transmission in the HARQ retransmission control is the uplink packet transmission.

Abstract: High quality images on liquid crystal panel can be obtained alleviating variations of the brightness and color among regions, in which backlight is divided when emission luminance of the backlight is controlled in each region based on image signal. A backlight device is divided into multiple regions, and has a configuration in which light emitted from a light source of each of the regions is allowed to leak to other regions. A maximum gradation detector detects a maximum gradation of a regional image signal displayed on each of the regions of the liquid crystal panel. An image gain calculator obtains a gain to be multiplied to each regional image signal by using luminance bitmap held by luminance bitmap memory. An emission luminance calculator obtains an emission luminance of light to be emitted by each light source.

Abstract: An image processor includes: a notification control unit configured, when apparatus condition information which requires an alert is received, to notify alert information corresponding to the alert using a notification unit; a storage unit configured to store first information related to alert information previously notified using the notification unit and second information related to current apparatus condition received which requires an alert; and a judgment unit configured to judge whether the first information and the second information match. The notification control unit is configured to not notify an alert information related to the current apparatus condition which requires an alert using the notification unit when an elapsed time from the notification of the previous alert information to the reception of the current apparatus condition information is equal to or less than a predetermined time period and the first information and the second information match.