Abstract: A form measuring instrument includes an instrument body and a controller that controls the instrument body. The instrument body includes a probe. The probe includes: a rod-like stylus having a distal end attached with a stylus tip for contacting with an object; and a support mechanism that supports the base end of the stylus. The support mechanism includes a probe sensor that detects the position of the stylus and supports the stylus in a manner movable within a predetermined range. The controller calculates a measurement value based on a transfer function whose input is the position of the stylus detected by the probe sensor and output is the contact position of the stylus tip against the object.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes a supporting substrate, a main body having a first piezoelectric laminate, a second piezoelectric laminate, and a displacement portion, and a first elastic layer. The first elastic layer is fixed to the main body so as to connect a lower surface of the first piezoelectric laminate, a lower surface of the second piezoelectric laminate, a side surface of the first piezoelectric laminate, and a side surface of the second piezoelectric laminate. A first region to fourth region of the first elastic layer is fixed to the principal surface of the supporting substrate by a first to fourth bonding portions. A non-bonding surface is not fixed to the principal surface of the supporting substrate.

Abstract: A honeycomb filter including a catalyst-carrying article, and an outer peripheral coat layer disposed on an outer peripheral face of the catalyst carrying article, wherein an amount of the catalyst loaded in the outer peripheral coat layer at a position 50 ?m or more apart from a boundary face between the catalyst-carrying article and the outer peripheral coat layer is 5 mass % or less when a measurement piece having a cross section where a boundary portion between the catalyst-carrying article and the outer peripheral coat layer can be observed and being obtained by embedding a resin in the boundary portion in the cross section is measured by an energy dispersive fluorescent X-ray analysis using a scanning electron microscope.

Abstract: Devices, methods, and programs correct an estimated path found by dead reckoning navigation. A point correlation value s is calculated based on a distance to a reliability circle whose radius is a speculative maximum error e that indicates a distance of an error range with respect to a GPS position. A correlation value Sp of an estimated path and a correlation value Sq of a candidate path are calculated from cumulative values of the point correlation values s. A correction that moves the estimated path is not performed if the correlation value Sq of the candidate path becomes worse than the correlation value Sp of the estimated path, and the correction of the estimated path is performed if the correlation value Sq of the candidate path does not become worse than the correlation value Sp of the estimated path. Thus, false matching can be further reduced, and the travel path can be suitably corrected.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes: an amorphous polyester resin; a crystalline polyester resin; and a releasing agent, an amount of the releasing agent in the toner being from 5 to 15% by weight; an amount of the releasing agent present at a surface of the toner being from 10 to 35% by weight; and the toner showing at least one endothermic peak in each of a temperature range from 45 to 60° C., a temperature range from 65 to 80° C., and a temperature range from 85 to 100° C. in a temperature-rise process of differential scanning calorimetry of the toner.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are ink compositions including an ink vehicle and a colorant, wherein the ink vehicle includes a compound having a formula of R1—CONH—R2 or R2—CONH—R1, wherein R2 is an alkyl group having from 1 to about 18 carbon atoms and R1 is an alkyl group having from about 3 carbon atoms to about 200 carbon atoms, wherein R2 and R1 have the same number of carbon atoms or R2 has less carbon atoms than R1, and wherein at least one of the alkyl groups for R2 and R1 includes at least one hydroxyl group substituent.

Abstract: An angular velocity detection circuit is connected to a resonator for making excited vibration on the basis of a drive signal and detects an angular velocity. The angular velocity detection circuit includes: a self-vibration component extraction unit that receives, from the resonator, a detection signal including an angular velocity component based on a Coriolis force and a self-vibration component based on the excited vibration and extracts the self-vibration component from the detection signal; a direct-current conversion unit including an integration unit that integrates an output signal of the self-vibration component extraction unit; and a temperature characteristic compensation unit that compensates for a variation due to a temperature in an output signal of the direct-current conversion unit.

Abstract: An inverter is capable of converting a direct current from a direct current power supply into an alternating current and supplying it to an armature winding. A rectifier circuit is capable of rectifying the current, that has been converted to an alternating current by the inverter, into a direct current and supplying it to the field winding. The amount of the alternating current supplied to the armature winding and the amount of the direct current supplied to the field winding are in a proportional relationship, and implementation of switching control of the inverter controls both the amount of the alternating current supplied to the armature winding and the amount of the direct current supplied to the field winding while this proportional relationship therebetween is maintained.

Abstract: An antibacterial composition includes a combination of fatty acid ester of fatty acid and hydroxy carboxylic acid with an antibacterial agent selected from polylysine, chitosan, protamine, their salts and mixtures hereof. The hydroxy carboxylic acid may be present as acid in its free form, in its salt form and/or in its ester form. The composition may be used as an antibacterial agent against gram-negative bacteria in various products, applications and methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides an exposure apparatus can suppress the occurrence of residual liquid. An exposure apparatus comprises: a first stage that holds the substrate and is movable; a second stage that is movable independently of the first stage; and a liquid immersion mechanism that forms a liquid immersion region of a liquid on an upper surface of at least one stage of the first stage and the second stage; wherein, a recovery port that is capable of recovering the liquid is provided to the upper surface of the second stage.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus for emitting exposure light onto a substrate via a projection optical system and a liquid to expose the substrate includes a supply pipe which supplies the liquid; a recovery pipe which recovers the liquid; a connection pipe which connects the supply pipe and the recovery pipe; and a switching device which switches a flow path of the liquid so that when liquid supply is stopped, the liquid that has flowed into the supply pipe flows to the recovery pipe via the connection pipe. The apparatus may further include a temperature regulation apparatus connected to the supply pipe, which performs temperature regulation of the liquid supplied to the supply pipe, and has a rough temperature regulator which roughly regulates the temperature of the liquid, and a fine temperature regulator which is arranged between the rough temperature regulator and the supply pipe and performs fine regulation of this temperature.

Abstract: The film sticking apparatus includes: a gripping member; a pressing member pressing the adhesive face of the film being held in a planar state against one end face of a cylindrical honeycomb structure having a plurality of cells, and thus sticking the film to the one end face; and a folding member having an opening portion formed that allows an end of the honeycomb structure on the side to which the film is stuck to be inserted, wherein the folding member folds a protruding portion of the film protruding from the one end face of the honeycomb structure by inserting the honeycomb structure into the opening portion, toward a side face of the honeycomb structure, and simultaneously presses at least a part of the folded protruding portion against a part of the side face of the honeycomb structure to stick the film to the side face.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a nitride semiconductor light-emitting device in which contact resistance generated between an n-contact layer and an n-side electrode is effectively reduced while maintaining satisfactory external quantum efficiency, and a method of efficiently producing the nitride semiconductor light-emitting device. Specifically, the present invention characteristically provides a nitride semiconductor light-emitting device having a semiconductor laminated body including an n-type laminate, a light-emitting layer and a p-type laminate, and an n-side electrode and a p-side electrode, characterized in that: the n-type laminate includes an n-contact layer made of an AlxGa1-xN material (0.7?x?1.0) and an n-clad layer provided on the n-contact layer; and an interlayer made of an AlyGa1-yN material (0?y?0.5) is provided on a partially exposed portion, on the light-emitting layer side, of the n-contact layer.

Abstract: A glass run channel, wherein at least one of interior and exterior side wall portions are made of a foamable polymer material that is foamed, wherein at least one of an interior covering layer that covers at least a portion of a first surface, which includes a surface of an interior decoration portion and a surface of an interior connecting portion, and an exterior covering layer that covers at least a portion of a second surface, which includes a surface of an exterior decoration portion and a surface of an exterior connecting portion, is formed, so as to cover the at least one decoration portion that is made of the foamable polymer material, and wherein the at least one covering layer is made of a second polymer material which has a foaming ratio smaller than that of the foamable polymer material or which is not foamed.

Abstract: A system and method for registering stereoscopic images comprising: obtaining at least two sets of stereoscopic images, each one of the at least two sets including at least two images that are taken from different angles, determining at least two groups of images, each one of the groups including at least two images that are respective images of at least two of the sets or are derived therefrom. For each one of the groups, calculating a respective optimal entities list and stereo-matching at least two images, each one being or derived from different one of the at least two groups and same or different sets, using at least four optimal entities from each one of the optimal entities list, thereby giving rise to at least one pair of registered stereoscopic images.

Abstract: An electrophoretic display includes a substrate, first electrodes arranged on the substrate, an electrophoretic layer arranged on the substrate so as to cover the first electrodes, a partition wall that divides the electrophoretic layer into a plurality of cells, and a second electrode arranged on the electrophoretic layer. The electrophoretic layer has electrophoretic particles and a dispersion medium that disperses the electrophoretic particles. The second electrode protrudes towards the first electrodes at the cell.

Abstract: A nanostructure, being either an Inorganic Fullerene-like (IF) nanostructure or an Inorganic Nanotube (INT), having the formula A1?x-Bx-chalcogenide are described. A being a metal or transition metal or an alloy of metals and/or transition metals, B being a metal or transition metal B different from that of A and x being ?0.3. A process for their manufacture and their use for modifying the electronic character of A-chalcogenide are described.

Abstract: A vehicle power transmission device mounted on a vehicle for transmitting power from a power generating source to an axle through a gear train accommodated in a case, including: a lubricating pump that is accommodated in the case and which is driven by the power generating source and is capable of supplying a lubricating medium to an element to be lubricated; a lubricating medium storage portion that stores the lubricating medium; a lowermost gear that is located at a lowest position in the case, and which scoops up the lubricating medium in an inner bottom of the case toward a center of the case during normal rotation of the axle without guiding the lubricating medium along an inner wall surface of the case; a partition wall; and a lubrication flow path that guides the lubricating medium scooped up by the lowermost gear to a predetermined element to be lubricated.

Abstract: A bogie for a low floor type railway vehicle, in which the accuracy of the distance between left and right wheels is enhanced and which enables a vehicle body to be low-floored. The bogie has a bogie frame for supporting the body of the railway vehicle, a main axle and an auxiliary axle arranged so as to laterally extend at the front and rear in the traveling direction of the bogie frame, wheels attached to both the left and right sides of each of the axles, shaft boxes attached to both the left and right sides of each of the axles and supporting the axle, and shaft box support devices respectively supporting each of the shaft boxes by elastically joining the shaft boxes and the bogie frame together. The wheels attached to the main axle are large-diameter wheels, and the wheels attached to the auxiliary axle are small-diameter wheels having a smaller diameter than the large-diameter wheels.