Abstract: In a radiation image detection apparatus having a radiation image detector that includes the following stacked in the order listed below: a bias electrode, a photoconductive layer, a substrate side charge transport layer, and an active matrix substrate, the radiation image detector does not include an area adjacent to the interface between the substrate side charge transport layer and photoconductive layer having an oxygen or chlorine element density not less than two times the average density of oxygen or chlorine element in the substrate side charge transport layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a combustion state detection apparatus for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of detecting abnormal combustion with high accuracy. The combustion state detection apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a variety of sensors; an ignition coil; an ignition plug; a transistor; a switching control unit; an ion current detection unit; and abnormal combustion detection units for determining that abnormal combustion has occurred in a case where a crank angle at a point of time when the ion current exceeds a predetermined current value or when the ion current that exceeds the predetermined current value reaches a peak value thereof is on a spark-advance side compared with a crank angle for determining abnormal combustion. The switching control unit ends the spark discharge at a predetermined timing while the spark discharge is in progress after the primary current is shut off and the spark discharge is generated.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a laminated porous polyolefin film, the method comprising steps of: providing a pair of tools for thermocompression bonding two resin films therebetween, laminating two films each comprising at least one layer made of a polyolefin resin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a polyolefin resin having a melt index of 0.1 g/10 min or less and 80 to 300 parts by weight of a filler to form a laminated film by piling and thermocompression bonding the films between the thermocompressing portions of the tools, wherein the surface temperature of each thermocompressing portion is adjusted to a temperature higher than the melting point of the polyolefin resin by from 5 to 25° C. during the lamination, and drawing the laminated film to form micropores therein, thereby yielding a porous film.

Abstract: An optical information-recording medium which contains a dye having at least two chromophores bonded to each other without any conjugated bond intervening between those chromophores.

Abstract: A powder composition for a capacitor comprising a tantalum or niobium and a compound having a silicon-oxygen bond, at least a part of which may be nitrided and which has an average particle size of from 0.1 to 5 ?m; a sintered body using the composition; and a capacitor constituted by the sintered body as one part electrode, and another part electrode. A capacitor favored with high reliability, lower dissipation level of power and smaller deterioration of capacitance than conventional tantalum capacitors using tantalum can be produced by using a sintered body of the powder composition for a capacitor.

Abstract: A magnetoelectric converting element is constructed by four or more magnetic resistance segments symmetrically arranged at a predetermined pitch with respect to the central line of a magnet perpendicular to the rotating direction of a magnetic moving body. The magnetizing direction of the magnet is set to the direction perpendicular to the direction opposed to the magnetic moving body. Further, 0.7P?X?P and P?Y?1.6P are set when the size of the magnet in the moving direction of the magnetic moving body is set to X and the size of the magnet in the direction opposed to the magnetic moving body is set to Y and the pitch of the magnetic resistance segments at both ends constituting the magnetoelectric converting element is set to P.

Abstract: An adsorbent for an oral administration, comprising a porous spherical carbonaceous substance wherein a diameter is 0.01 to 1 mm, a specific surface area determined by a BET method is 700 m2/g or more, a volume of pores having a pore diameter of 20 to 15000 nm is from not less than 0.04 mL/g to less than 0.10 mL/g, a total amount of acidic groups is 0.30 to 1.20 meq/g, and a total amount of basic groups is 0.20 to 1.00 meq/g, is disclosed.

Abstract: A core integrated circuit device has a microprocessor. A first ancillary integrated circuit device has an indirect parallel input circuit that receives low-speed digital signals parallel, and the first ancillary integrated circuit device outputs the received digital signals serially to the core integrated circuit device. A second ancillary integrated circuit device has a multi-channel A/D converter that receives analog signals parallel and converts those into digital signals, and the second ancillary integrated circuit device outputs the digital signals serially to the core integrated circuit device. The core integrated circuit device generates control signals based on the received signals and outputs the control signals to control object devices.

Abstract: A UV-curable coating composition including an acrylate oligomer and a vinyl acrylate compound, the latter of which can act as both a reactive diluent and an adhesion promoter. The vinyl acrylate compounds have good miscibility and low viscosity, and impart to the cured primary coating a high adhesion to glass. With the use of a free radical photoinitiator, the vinyl acrylate compound increases the speed of cure of the uncured primary coating.

Abstract: The atomizer wheel includes a plurality of ejection apertures distributed over the circumference of an external wall, in which a plurality of inserts are arranged. The inserts each includes a bushing and a wear-resistant lining arranged in the bushing such that a contact surface of the lining abuts against an internal side of the bushing. Each insert is provided with a transition surface extending between an inner end face of the lining and the contact surface, and the transition surface includes at least one portion forming an angle with the contact surface, by which it is possible to direct the flow of the material to be atomized along the transition surface of the lining and farther down to the inner side of the external wall and thus avoid wear on the bushing.

Abstract: A color thermosensitive recording sheet extends two-dimensionally in main and sub scan directions perpendicular to each other. In a thermal printer for use with the recording sheet, two cutters remove front and rear margins from the recording sheet by cutting the recording sheet along lines extending in the main scan direction. Two slitters remove first and second side margins from the recording sheet by slitting the recording sheet along lines extending in the sub scan direction. A slitter shifter shifts the slitters in the main scan direction between a slitting position and home position. The slitters are set at the side margins when in the slitting position, and away from the recording sheet when in the home position. An externally operable mode selector selectively sets a marginless mode and margin mode. A controller causes the slitter shifter to shift the slitters to the slitting position when the marginless mode is set, and actuates the cutters and slitters.