Abstract: A method of controlling an electric power source apparatus, which comprises supplying electric power to an electronic device on which a secondary battery is mounted from a power source apparatus having a fuel cell and an auxiliary power source. Electric power is supplied intermittently to a charging terminal of the electronic device by means of a switch for controlling conduction and interruption of an output terminal of the power source apparatus.

Abstract: A cover which covers outer peripheries of fastening screws are disposed on an outer periphery of a hammer case. A stopper which detachably positions and fixes the cover to the outer periphery of the hammer case is disposed.

Abstract: In a receiving apparatus equipped with a plurality of tuners, if a reception antenna is controlled in such a manner that a reception condition of a channel tuned by one tuner may become suitable, then a reception condition of the channel tuned by another tuner does not always become suitable. The receiving apparatus is provided with an antenna control unit which controls a reception antenna whose reception condition can be set, a first receiving unit, a second receiving unit, and a storage unit which stores thereinto tuning information such as a tuning channel, signal quality information, and a reception antenna setting condition. The receiving apparatus calculates a setting condition of the reception antenna capable of obtaining suitable receiving conditions in both the first and second receiving units by employing tuning information in a first channel and tuning information in a second channel.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a mixed-mode amplifier for amplifying signals in data storage devices such as disk drives. In one embodiments, a circuit for amplifying data signals comprises a magnetoresistive sensor having a bias voltage applied thereto; a signal amplifier which amplifies a signal detected by the magnetoresistive sensor having the bias voltage applied thereto; a feedback control block which is coupled to an output of the signal amplifier and outputs a feedback current used to vary a loop gain of the circuit; a bias setting circuit which outputs a bias setting current; and a transimpedance amplifier which receives the bias setting current from the bias setting block and the feedback current from the feedback control block and generates the bias voltage applied to the magnetoresistive sensor.

Abstract: A method for producing a catalyst of the present invention is characterized by sequentially performing the steps of: (i) dipping an end face portion of a carrier structure having a catalytic component carried thereon in an aqueous metal salt solution at a concentration of 2.7 to 3.88 mol/L in terms of mole of the metal; (ii) drying the dipped end face portion; (iii) dipping the dried end face portion again in an aqueous metal salt solution whose metal species is the same as that in the aqueous metal salt solution at a concentration of 2.7 to 3.88 mol/L in terms of mole of the metal; and (iv) performing a calcination treatment to harden the catalytic end face.

Abstract: A soft magnetic alloy that in an FeCo nanocrystal soft magnetic material, exhibits a high saturation magnetic flux density of 1.85 T or more, and that ensures prolonged nozzle life and easy ribbon production; an amorphous alloy ribbon for use in production thereof; and magnetic parts utilizing the soft magnetic alloy. The soft magnetic alloy has the composition of the formula Fe100-x-y-aCoaCuxBy (in the formula, x, y and a each represent atomic % and satisfy the relationships 1<x?3, 10?y?20 and 10<a<25). At least part of the structure thereof consists of a crystal phase of 60 nm or less (not including 0) crystal grain diameter. The soft magnetic alloy has a saturation magnetic flux density of 1.85 T or more and a coercive force of 200 A/m or less.

Abstract: An electrical power tool includes a housing, an electrical motor, an end-bit holding section, a transmitting mechanism, a cap, and a lighting section. The housing has one end. The electrical motor is accommodated in the housing and is configured to generate a rotational driving force. The end-bit holding section is provided at the one end and is rotatable about a rotational axis. The transmitting mechanism transmits the rotational driving force to the end-bit holding section. The cap is attached to the one end. The lighting section allows an entirety of the cap to be luminous.

Abstract: An IC tag system is provided which can perform transfer of a method of accessing an IC tag and assure data validity of the IC tag only between authorized users. The IC tag system comprises a data write-in device including a password encryption unit (130), a signature generation unit (140) and a data write-in unit (150) operative to communicate with the IC tag (30) to write in data and an encrypted password in the IC tag (30) and set the limitation on access to the data written in the IC tag (30) by the aid of the password, and a data read-in device including a password decryption unit (230), a signature authentication unit (240) and a data read-in unit (250) operative to communicate with the IC tag (30) to read in the data and the encrypted password from the IC tag (30) and release the limitation on access to the data by the aid of the decrypted password.

Abstract: When electric wires (joint conductors) are disposed adjacent each other in a peeled state of coatings, a gap corresponding to the total thickness of both conductors' insulating films as skin layers is formed between end joined face portions of the conductors. The gap becomes larger because the conductors are tapered. Therefore, the adhesion between both conductors is impaired, with a consequent fear of occurrence of joining imperfection. In opposed joined face portions of electric wires (joint conductors), the conductors are deformed from the tips of their axes to the joined face side in such a manner that exposed portions at the tips of the conductors and insulating film faces located in the vicinity thereof are flush with each other or the exposed portions are projected.

Abstract: A range of a coordinate of drawing data supplied to a digital micromirror device (DMD) driving circuit 27 of a light beam irradiation device 20 is determined to configure a bandwidth of a light beam irradiated from an irradiation optical system of the light beam irradiation device 20. The drawing data having the determined range of the coordinate is supplied to the DMD driving circuit 27 of the light beam irradiation device 20. Movement of a stage 7 is controlled to move a chuck 10 for only a distance less than the bandwidth of the light beam irradiated from the irradiation optical system of the light beam irradiation device 20 towards a direction perpendicular to a scanning direction of the substrate by the light beam of the light beam irradiation device 20, at each scanning, and a same region of the substrate is scanned multiple times.

Abstract: Radio resources are utilized efficiently and the communication quality is improved by flexibly adapting to the state of radio waves at a base station varying every moment or the topology of the distribution area of contents in multicast communication. The base station (100) stores information including the flow distribution starting time, the error rate measuring period, the threshold in an intra-base station flow management table. When detecting that it becomes the time before the error rate measuring period from the flow distribution starting time, the reception quality of radio terminals in the communication area of the base station (100) is measured. A base station (100-b) where the reception quality exceeds the threshold redundantly transmits multicast data assigned to a plurality of radio resources (800-b1, 800-b3, 800-b5). A base station (100-a) where the reception quality does not exceed the threshold transmits multicast data assigned to a single radio resource (800-a1).

Abstract: A road sign recognition apparatus generates a mosaic image formed by connecting accumulated images from a camera in time-series order, determines multiple road signs contained in the mosaic image by template matching, and generates positional information for the use of knowing a relative position of a vehicle to the road sign.

Abstract: Provided is a data processing system which includes: a first computer for receiving a processing request for a task processing, executing the processing, and holding data used therein; and a second computer for holding a duplicate of the data held in the first computer, halting the first computer if the first computer is determined to be halted, and receiving and processing the processing request. The first computer receives at least an update request as the processing request including request identification information to which unique numbers assigned to the individual processing requests in an ascending order are allocated, updates the held data, and transmits the update request including the request identification information to the second computer. The second computer stores a transmitted reference request and the update request as the processing requests, and processes the processing requests in an ascending order of the unique numbers included in the individual processing requests.

Abstract: The invention provides a two cycle engine which can improve an output by effective scavenging. In a two cycle engine having an exhaust port provided in a side portion of a cylinder, and a scavenge air port provided in the side portion of the cylinder so as to be symmetrical with a plane passing through a center in a cylinder circumference direction of the exhaust port an axis extending to inside of the cylinder, the scavenge air port is structured such that an axis extending to inside of the cylinder from an opening of the scavenge air port in such a direction as to be away from the exhaust port of the cylinder, and is divided in an cylinder axis direction by a dividing portion.

Abstract: The invention provides a two cycle engine which effectively suppresses an intrusion of a combustion gas into a crank chamber. Further, the invention provides a two cycle engine tool provided with the two cycle engine mentioned above. An engine is provided with a cylinder having two scavenge air ports at different positions in a cylinder circumference direction, and scavenge air inflow ports communicating individually with these two scavenge air ports via a scavenge air passage, and a piston in which two scavenge air communication ports are formed at positions corresponding to the scavenge air inflow ports, and is structured to swirl the gas flowing into the piston from the cylinder through the scavenge air passage, in an upper portion of the internal space of the piston, and retains the gas in the upper portion of the internal space of the piston.

Abstract: Insertion of a watermark corresponding to the content of a file at the time of the printing of the file is made possible. Importance and/or confidentiality is defined per keyword in advance, and the watermark to be inserted is defined based thereon. At the time of the printing of the file, a keyword search within the file is performed, and the watermark to be inserted is automatically selected based on the search result (see FIG. 5).

Abstract: Provided is a request processing method of processing a request requesting task processing in a computer system including the steps of: transmitting, by a proxy server, a first requests which is one of duplicate and original requests to application servers; transmitting, by the application servers, a result of processing of the first requests to the proxy server; notifying, by the application servers, a session management server of session information including identifiers of the application servers and identifiers of the first requests; determining, by the proxy server, a result of the processing used for responding to a client computer upon receiving the result of the processing of the first requests; and notifying, by the proxy server, the session management server of the identifiers of the application servers which have transmitted the determined processing result and an identifier of the request transmitted from the client computer.

Abstract: The entrapping immobilization pellets satisfy conditions: (A) the deformation rate expressed by (H0?H1)/H0×100 is 70% or more, where the thickness of the pellets before compression is H0 and the thickness of the pellets at the time the pellets are broken by compression is H1; and (B) the particle diameter falls within the range of 0.1 to 1.5 mm. The entrapping immobilization pellets are added to a biological treatment tank having no screen and the entrapping immobilization pellets discharged together with treated water to a solid-liquid separation tank are returned to the biological treatment tank by pumping. With this constitution, the entrapping immobilization pellets are less broken even if they are returned to the biological treatment tank by pumping, a conventional biological treatment tank in which wastewater is treated with activated sludge can be used without modification, and in addition, the particle diameter thereof can be reduced. Therefore, treatment efficiency can be markedly improved.

Abstract: The method of manufacturing shoes of the present invention comprises a pre-step of heating a following reactive hot-melt adhesive to melt it and providing the melted adhesive on a joining surface of at least one adherend, an ultraviolet treating step of irradiating the adhesive with ultraviolet light having irradiation energy more than 100 mJ/cm2 and less than 1200 mJ/cm2 to polymerize a polyurethane prepolymer, and a joining step of overlaying a joining surface of another adherend on the adhesive to bond both adherends together. The reactive hot-melt adhesive contains a polyurethane prepolymer having an (meth)acryloyl group and an isocyanate group at the end of a molecule, and a photopolymerization initiator. The polyurethane prepolymer includes a non-crystalline polyol and a crystalline polyol, wherein the non-crystalline polyol is contained from 20% by mass to 90% by mass with respect to the whole polyols. The viscosity of the reactive hot-melt adhesive at 80° C. is 300 Pa·s or less.

Abstract: A ureal water tank (28), a storage of an aqueous urea solution, is located within a utility room (6G) in a right front section of a revolving frame (6), which is readily accessible from outside. In this instance, among a plurality of operating oil conduits (18), a working mechanism operating conduit (21) which supplies operating oil to a boom cylinder (5D) of a working mechanism (5) is arranged to run along exterior surfaces of the ureal water tank (28). Therefore, even if the ureal water tank (28) is located in a place with no heat source, the aqueous urea solution in the ureal water tank (28) can be stably kept in a heated state by utilization of heat of operating oil in circulation through the working mechanism operating conduit (21).