Abstract: The present invention relates to a nail-care composition. It is an object of the present invention to provide a solvent-based nail-care composition which can be easily applied to nails, provides a film (coating film) on the nail with excellent strength and gloss, and generates a coating film that is difficult to peel off over time and free from loss of gloss. The means used to meet the objective is a nail-care composition comprising (a) nitrocellulose, (b) neopentyl glycol trimellitate adipate polyester resin, (c) one, two, or more members selected from the group consisting of alkyl methacrylate-alkyl acrylate copolymers, sucrose benzoate, and a polymer compound having a glass transition temperature of 50-80° C., and (d) a solvent. The present invention provides a solvent-based nail-care composition which is easy to apply, excellent in the strength of film(coating film) on the nail and gloss, difficult to peel off over a period of time, and free from the loss of gloss.

Abstract: In a MgZnO layer composing an active layer or a p-type cladding layer 32, a p-type oxide layer 32b which is different from MgaZn1-aO-type oxide and has a p-type conductivity is disposed. Because a function of absorbing and compensating electrons in this configuration is owned by the p-type oxide layer localized in the MgZnO layer, it is no more necessary to add a large amount of dopant, and this is successful in obtaining a p-type or i-type MgaZn1-aO-type oxide having a desirable quality, and in realizing a high-emission-efficiency, light-emitting device capable of emitting ultraviolet or blue light.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a method for producing cosmetic products capable of improving a touch of cosmetic products containing powder and exerting the function of the powder sufficiently. In order to accomplish the objective described above, a method for producing cosmetic products according to the invention comprises a use of a media-agitating mill to disperse powder components and oil components or aqueous components. A method for producing cosmetic products according to the invention is applied to powdery cosmetic products, oily cosmetic products, emulsified cosmetic products and lipsticks. A method for producing cosmetic products involving a step for imparting a particle with hydrophobicity using a media-agitating mill is also provided. Furthermore, a method for producing cosmetic products using hydrophobicity-imparted powdery dispersion containing organically-denatured clay mineral is provided.

Abstract: A diffraction type lens in an optical pickup apparatus for recording and reproducing two or more kinds of optical recording media is constituted by a substrate having one surface formed with a zone plate exhibiting a smaller converging action with respect to a wavelength ?1 of light and a greater converging action with respect to a wavelength ?2 of light, and the other surface formed with a zone plate exhibiting a smaller converging action with respect to the wavelength ?2 of light and a greater converging action with respect to the wavelength ?1 of light. The substrate is transparent to the wavelengths ?1 and ?2 of light.

Abstract: A solar cell module 60 has a plurality of solar cells 14 having a plurality of parallel grooves 8 on the individual light-receiving surfaces thereof, each of the grooves having an electrode 5 for extracting output on the inner side face (electrode-forming inner side face) on one side in the width-wise direction thereof; and a support 10, 50 for supporting the solar cells 14 in an integrated manner so as to direct the light-receiving surfaces upward. The annual power output can be increased by adjusting the direction of arrangement of the electrode-forming inner side faces of the grooves 8 while taking the angle of inclination ? of the light-receiving surface of the individual as-installed solar cells 14 relative to the horizontal plane and the latitude ? of the installation site of the solar cell module into consideration.

Abstract: The apparatus according to the present invention includes a level adjusting circuit that increases a gain of a G (or B) signal output from a color conversion circuit, a binarization circuit that forms a binarized image from this G signal and an edge detection circuit that extracts blood vessel position signals through edge detection based on this binarized signal. Then, the apparatus extracts RGB color signals making up a blood vessel image by using the above-described blood vessel position signals, increases the gains of these blood vessel color signals and then adds the blood vessel color signals to the color signals of an original image. This allows blood vessels to be displayed in high contrast to mucous membranes, etc. Furthermore, the apparatus can also amplify the R signal and B signal by using a signal obtained by differentiating the above-described G signal as a gain signal to highlight blood vessels.

Abstract: A transfer sheet which uses a toner image, obtained by an electrophoto copying machine. Designs, patterns, photos and letters are fixed on a base sheet through a hair-like transplant sheet having a parting agent and a short fiber layer is provisionally bonded on the hair-like transplant sheet is clearly transferred with the short fiber layer over a subject receiver of a cloth or a wooden panel. The hair-like transplant sheet having the parting agent furnished with an acrylic solvent cohesive layer is provisionally bonded on a base sheet, and the fixed toner image is obtained by the electrophoto copying machine image on the short fiber layer. Finally, an acrylic ester resin binder layer is placed on the short fiber having the fixed toner image, while a hot-melt adhesive layer is placed on the binder layer.

Abstract: A circular region extracting method captures onto a coordinate system a fringe image of a sample having a circular region to be analyzed within an area to be observed, binary-codes the fringe image of the area by a fringe analysis method on the coordinate system, places a plurality of linear gratings in parallel with each other with a predetermined interval on thus binary-coded coordinate system, and uses the linear gratings so as to extract a circular image region representing the region to be analyzed on the coordinate system.

Abstract: While a ferrule held by a clamping apparatus is rotated by a predetermined angle, respective interference fringe images of a spherical leading end part of the ferrule are obtained at three or more rotational positions. Respective interference fringe center positions are obtained in thus obtained three or more interference fringe images. The center position of a circle passing near each of the interference fringe center positions is calculated and defined as a measured center position. Relative distance information between the measured center position and a position corresponding to the rotational center position of the spherical leading end part of the ferrule or the relative distance information and relative directional information thereof are outputted as an inclination error adjustment value for the axis of the ferrule.

Abstract: An imaging device assembly for an electronic stereoscopic endoscope system comprises right and left solid state image pick-up modules set out side by side and right and left circuit boards with circuits formed thereon, respectively, that are connected to the right and left image pick-up modules, respectively. Each circuit board comprises a front section having a width approximately equal to a width of the solid state image pick-up module and a rear section broader than the front board section which is shaped to project laterally so as to overhang a rear section of the other circuit board and on which electronic parts incorporated in the circuit are mounted.

Abstract: An asymmetric aperture diaphragm placing structure for a projection lens is provided for securing an asymmetric aperture diaphragm to a lens holder. The asymmetric aperture diaphragm includes a positioning part formed asymmetrical about the optical axis. The lens holder has a mating part adapted to engage the positioning part only in a state where the asymmetric aperture diaphragm is in a predetermined direction with respect to the optical axis. The asymmetric aperture diaphragm is secured to the lens holder in a state where the positioning part and the mating part engage each other.

Abstract: With a device that connects a processor device to electronic endoscopes having CCDs with different numbers of pixels, for example, 410, 270, or 190 thousand pixels mounted thereon, all the CCDs are driven at a frequency corresponding to 410 thousand pixels. Further, an information amount converting circuit enlarges an image obtained by the CCD with 270 or 190 thousand pixels in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction by using pixel interpolation. That is, data on a pixel to be interpolated is calculated by averaging pixels around this pixel, and enlarged binary data on this target pixel is obtained. A weighting factor is applied to this binary data, and the resultant data is added to the target pixel data. This process forms an image with an aspect ratio of 4:3.

Abstract: A deformation measuring method using electronic speckle pattern interferometry comprises the steps of subtracting an average intensity from the intensity in a time domain at each point of a speckle pattern image so as to compute the cosine component of intensity; subjecting the cosine component to Hilbert transform in a temporal domain so as to compute the sine component of intensity; determining the arctangent of the ratio between thus computed sine and cosine components so as to determine an object phase; carrying out an unwrapping operation; and outputting three-dimensional deformation distribution data in a displayable mode.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus has an endoscope that is arranged to be connectable to a processor unit, and has a first, second and third operation switches provided on an operation section of the endoscope for operating various functions. The endoscope is provided with a rotary switch that is used to select one of combinations of predetermined functions allocated to the first, second and third operation switches. This allows any switch functions to be altered and defined only by the endoscope without cumbersome operations.

Abstract: When a p-type MgxZn1-xO-type layer is grown based on a metal organic vapor-phase epitaxy process, the p-type MgxZn1-xO-type layer is annealed in an oxygen-containing atmosphere during and/or after completion of the growth of the p-type MgxZn1-xO-type layer. In addition, a vapor-phase epitaxy process of a semiconductor layer is proceed while irradiating ultraviolet light to the surface of a substrate to be grown and source gasses. In addition, when a MgxZn1-xO-type buffer layer that is oriented so as to align the c-axis thereof to a thickness-wise direction is formed by an atomic layer epitaxy process, a metal monoatomic layer is grown at first. In addition, a ZnO-base semiconductor active layer is formed by using a semiconductor material mainly composed of ZnO containing Se or Te. A light emitting device is formed by using these techniques.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a hydrocarbon gas flow rate adjusting method and apparatus, which suppress deterioration of an elastic foamed body with the passage of time and enables a stabilized adjustment of the flow rate for a long period by combining a fine porous film with a porous elastic foamed body. More specifically, fuel gas taken out of a tank which stores hydrocarbon fuel gas in liquid phase is controlled in its flow rate such that the upper limit of the flow rate is the maximum flow rate obtained by depressurizing the fuel gas with a flow rate restricting member as a first stage and then adjusting to an arbitrary flow rate within a range of the restricted maximum flow rate with an adjustable flow rate adjusting member.

Abstract: The design of a compact, handheld, solid-state and high-sensitivity imaging probe and a micro imager system is reported. These instruments can be used as a dedicated tool for detecting and locating sentinel lymph nodes and also for detecting and imaging radioactive material. The reported device will use solid state pixel detectors and custom low-noise frontend/readout integrated circuits. The detector will be designed to have excellent image quality and high spatial resolution. The imaging probes have two different embodiments, which are comprised of a pixelated detector array and a highly integrated readout system, which uses a custom multi-channel mixed signal integrated circuit. The instrument usually includes a collimator in front of the detector array so that the incident photons can be imaged. The data is transferred to an intelligent display system. A hyperspectral image can also be produced and displayed. These devices are designed to be portable for easy use.

Abstract: An aperture mechanism of this apparatus is provided with an aperture blade which has, for example, an outline converging toward the front end with a shielding width of the front-end blade section smaller than the diameter of a ray bundle transmitted into a light guide to achieve desired dimming by shielding the light in proximity of the central region in the ray bundle earlier than that in the outer regions. Thus, a relatively narrow distribution of light will be radiated onto an observed object for a long-distance examination of smaller aperture quantities and a wide distribution of illumination light will be radiated for a short-distance examination of larger aperture quantities. In addition, the aperture mechanism may be configured to move a small-circle aperture blade which is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the ray bundle disposed on the optical axis in the direction of optical axis to shield the light in proximity of the central region in the ray bundle earlier than that in the outer regions.

Abstract: An endoscope includes a red component cut optical filter having a characteristic that a spectral transmittance becomes half at 630 nm and zero at 670 nm, for example between a light source and an infrared cut filter, to remove a long wavelength component mainly in a red band of illumination light. This restrains scattering of light on a long wavelength side of red light, and allows taking images of mucosa, blood vessels, and other tissue in good contrast in an object to be observed and satisfactorily observing them on a monitor. Further, reduction in light amount resulting from cutting a red component with the filter is eliminated by light amount control with an aperture and gain control of a signal.

Abstract: A rod integrator holder 6 has concave clearance grooves 67A to 67D elongated in the direction of the optical axis L, at the corners within a case 61 thereof. The clearance grooves 67A to 67D are configured such that the edges 84A to 84D of the rod integrator 8 can be prevented from coming into contact with the inner faces 66A to 66D of the case 61. The edges 84A to 84D of the rod integrator can be prevented from being broken by coming into contact with the inner faces 66A to 66D of the case 61, and the edges 84A to 84D of the rod integrator 8 and the inner faces 66A to 66D of the case 61 can be prevented from rubbing against each other to generate dust due to abrasion.