Abstract: The present invention relates to an acceleration measuring device capable of acquiring the offset for correcting the output of a triaxial acceleration sensor. The invention is provided with an acceleration sensor for detecting the acceleration in a triaxial direction, a data acquisition portion for acquiring the triaxial output data, a data selecting portion for judging whether repeatedly acquired triaxial output data are appropriate to make a selection, a data accumulating portion for accumulating the thus selected triaxial output data, a reference point estimating portion estimating coordinate values of the reference point determined in the three-dimensional cartesian space by referring to the distribution of a predetermined number of accumulated triaxial output data in a three-dimensional cartesian space when each axial component is given as a coordinate value, and an offset correction/calculation portion for correcting the offset of the triaxial output data of the acceleration sensor.

Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition comprising parts by mass of polycondensate (A) having a structure resulting from dehydration condensation between one or two or more tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and one or two or more armatic diamines having mutually ortho-positioned amino and phenolic hydroxyl groups and 1 to 100 parts by mass of photosensitive diazonaphthoquinone compound (B), wherein the polycondensate (A) has a weight average molecular weight of 3000 to 70,000.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positive photosensitive resin composition, characterized by comprising 1 to 50 parts by mass of a photo-acid generator and 0.01 to 70 parts by mass of a terpene compound in combination with 100 parts by mass of a hydroxypolyamide having repeating units. A terpene compound can be combined with a hydroxypolyamide having a particular structure to provide a positive photosensitive resin composition excellent in positive lithography performance such as sensitivity and resolution.

Abstract: A simple circuit configuration without increasing the number of magnetic poles of a magnet can be performed and angular resolution can be improved. The polarities is determined and the absolute values are compared in accordance with the rotation angle of a magnet (1) based on sensor output signals a and b outputted from the magnetic sensors (2) and (3) to produce polarity determination signals c and d and absolute-value-comparison signals e, f, and g. The rotation angle of the magnet (1) is determined based on the polarity determination signals c and d and the absolute-value-comparison signals e, f, and g to output a determination result signal h.

Abstract: A polyamide having a structure represented by the chemical formula (1): wherein m and n represent an integer satisfying m?1, n?1, 2?(m+n)?150, 0.3?m/(m+n)?0.9, R1 and R2 represent at least one monovalent organic group containing a photopolymerizable unsaturated bond, X1 represents at least one tetravalent aromatic group, X2 represents at least one trivalent aromatic group, Y1 and Y2 represent at least one divalent organic group, and Z represents at least one monovalent organic group selected from mono-substituted amino and imido groups.

Abstract: An AGC control section (110) has a first operation mode for controlling the gain of a variable gain amplifier (103) to maintain the amplitude of the sync signal measured by a sync signal amplitude measuring circuit (108) at a constant value, and a second operation mode for preventing the gain from being increased even when the amplitude of the sync signal measured by the video signal processing circuit (109) is smaller than the predetermined first reference value and reducing the gain of the variable gain amplifier (103) only when the amplitude of the video signal exceeds a predetermined second reference value. During operation in the first operation mode, when the amplitude of the sync signal is smaller than the predetermined first reference value and the amplitude of the video signal is greater than the predetermined second reference value, the mode is switched to the second operation mode.

Abstract: A digital Class-D amplifier distortion suppression circuit design is disclosed. A distortion suppression feedback loop is described to improve audio performance by suppressing output stage non-linearity and improving power supply noise rejection achieving reduced THD+N. The feedback loop is placed around the power stage. It forces tracking between the audio band signals at the input and output of the power stage by automatically adjusting the gating signal timing based on sensed effective duty ratio error. Error sensing and compensation are performed using techniques that lend to simple circuit implementation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a traveling direction measuring apparatus usable as a pedestrian navigation system in locations where it is difficult to obtain high positioning accuracy such as inside buildings or around multistory buildings where a GPS cannot be used. An acceleration detecting section (1) detects 3-axes acceleration of the traveling direction measuring apparatus, which varies with the walking of the pedestrian. An acceleration data acquiring section (2) obtains 3-axes acceleration data repeatedly by the number of prescribed times or more, said 3-axes acceleration data varies with the walking of the pedestrian. A first gravity acceleration calculating section (3) calculates, when the pedestrian is walking with holding the traveling direction measuring apparatus in a generally fixed attitude, gravity acceleration by averaging acceleration data sets during several steps obtained by the acceleration data acquiring section (2).

Abstract: There is provided a conductive filler with high heat resistance which can be melt-bonded under reflow heat treatment conditions for a lead-free solder and, after the bonding, does not melt under the same heat treatment conditions. The conductive filler is characterized in that, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry, it has at least one metastable metal alloy phase observed as an exothermic peak and has at least one melting point observed as an endothermic peak in each of the 210 to 240° C. range and the 300 to 450° C. range, and that the filler, upon heat treatment at 246° C., gives a bonded object which has, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry, no melting point observed as an endothermic peak in the 210 to 240° C. range or has a melting endotherm calculated from an endothermic peak area in the 210 to 240° C. range, the melting endotherm being 90% or less of the melting endotherm of the filler before bonding calculated from an endothermic peak area in the 210 to 240° C. range.

Abstract: A magnetic flux detection unit and a rectangular solid magnet are provided. The magnetic flux detection unit includes one or more pairs of Hall sensors, each pair having two Hall sensors arranged on a substrate. The solid magnet is arranged movably in a direction in a plane parallel to the substrate. Each pair of two Hall sensors is arranged on the substrate so that a line connecting the centers of magnetism sensing sections of each pair of two Hall sensors is orthogonal to a movement direction of the magnet. A tetragon has a long side and a short side and the long side has a inclination angle to the line connecting the centers of magnetism sensing sections of the each pair of two Hall sensors. The magnet has one N-pole and one S-pole separately magnetized in orthogonal to the substrate on which the Hall sensors are arranged.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive resin composition and a resin film obtained from the photosensitive resin particularly useful for a buffer coating material for LSI chips. For this purpose, there are used a photosensitive resin composition, comprising: 100 parts by weight of a polycondensate obtained by condensation-polymerizing compounds represented by specific chemical formulas in a specific mixing ratio, 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of a photopolymerization initiator and 1 to 30 parts by weight of a specific organosilane, and a resin film obtained by coating the photosensitive resin composition on a silicon wafer surface, exposing the coated film, developing the exposed film, and curing the developed film.

Abstract: A conductive paste that includes a binder containing a thermosetting resin and conductive particles, in which the lowest exothermic peak temperature T1 (degrees C.) among at least one exothermic peak obtained by differential scanning calorimetry of the binder and the lowest endothermic peak temperature t1 (degrees C.) among at least one endothermic peak obtained by differential scanning calorimetry of the conductive particles satisfy the relation t1?20<T1 . . . (1), thereby achieving good conductivity and excellent conductive connection reliability.

Abstract: Output signal waveform having high input signal reproducibility is outputted from inductive load or the like. Output signals V1a and V1b obtained by feeding back an output signal Vp-n1 at output terminals 50 and 51 across load L1 to input terminals 9a and 9b are compared with an input signal Vin to detect an error between signals; a first error suppression signal Vout1 is produced such that the detected error between the signals is suppressed; inclination of first error suppression signal Vout1 is detected, and a second error suppression signal Vout2 is produced such that inclination error to input signal Vin is suppressed based on the detected inclination signal; and the ratio between the period that electric power is supplied to the load L1 and the period that electric power is not supplied to the load L1 is modified according to the error of the error suppression signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hydroxy polyamide represented by the following general formula (1) and having a 5-amino isophthalic acid derivative structure in the main chain structure. (1) (In the formula, m and n represent integers, X represents at least one tetravalent organic group, Y represents at least one divalent organic group having a 5-amino isophthalic acid derivative structure, and Z represents at least one divalent organic group).

Abstract: A modulation-demodulation apparatus of a relatively simple arrangement is able to prevent a bad influence caused due to interference between two local oscillators and a portable wireless communication apparatus uses this modulation-demodulation apparatus. In a modulation-demodulation apparatus using a local oscillator (105) for use in direct conversion type of a receiving system and a local oscillator (104) for use with a transmitting system, a ratio (C/D) between a reception frequency and an oscillation frequency of the reception local oscillator (105) and a ratio (A/B) between a transmission frequency and an oscillation frequency of the transmission local oscillator are made different from each other.

Abstract: A pointing device is provided which facilitates the assembly, achieves downsizing and has a long life. Magnetic sensors 21 are placed symmetrically two by two along an X axis and Y axis on a printed circuit board 24. A switch 28 is placed on a silicone resin 23 side surface of the printed circuit board 24 to provide a switch function achieved by depressing a magnet cover 25 toward the magnet 22. The pointing device, a device for outputting coordinate values of an input point, can not only output the coordinate values, but also make a decision by the switch function. A silicone resin 23 is easy to deform caused by an external force, and returns its initial state without the applied external force as soon as the external force is removed.

Abstract: An azimuth measuring device is provided that can obtain offset information when the direction of the azimuth measuring device is arbitrarily changed. The offset information is calculated based on coordinates of a reference point obtained by a reference point estimating system. The azimuth measuring device can obtain the offset information without obtaining erroneous offset information when changing direction.

Abstract: The oscillation type inertial force sensor includes an oscillator arranged to detect an inertial force, an oscillation circuit unit arranged to drive the oscillator, and a signal processing circuit unit arranged to generate a signal according to the magnitude of the inertial force on the basis of a detection output of the oscillator, and further includes a holding arranged to hold a processed signal in the signal processing circuit unit at a predetermined potential during a period immediately after power-on until operation of the oscillation circuit unit becomes stable in response to power-on.

Abstract: There are provided an azimuth measurement device and its method for realizing an update of an offset calculated from the data acquired by azimuth measurement. A geomagnetism output measured by a 3-axis magnetic sensor is amplified and input to an A/D conversion section. A chopper section is arranged for switching the terminals for driving an X-axis, Y-axis and a Z-axis magnetic sensor and applies drive voltage output from a drive power source section to the X-axis, the Y-axis and the Z-axis magnetic sensor. The output amplified value amplified by the amplification section is converted from an analog signal to a digital signal by the ND conversion section and then is input to a sensitivity/offset correction calculation section. Output data from this sensitivity/offset correction calculation section is input to an azimuth calculation section and the corresponding azimuth information is output. A reliability information calculation section outputs reliability information.