Abstract: In operation of a conventional vertical integration system a primary user cannot provide services to a secondary user belonging to other service group. An identification managing server is proposed to carry out the retrieval of a master-slave relation information by using common identification information as a key and outputs an assurance including its result when the identification managing server receives an assurance request output from a first judgment server at a request of a second judgment server from a first electronic device used by a primary user. Further, the first judgment server outputs an assured service based on such assurance to the second judgment server in order for the primary user to have services from the other vertical integration system to which the secondary user belongs.

Abstract: An induction heating device includes a top plate arranged to have an object placed thereon, a heating coil provided under below the top plate for heating the object, a sensor provided under the top plate for detecting a temperature of the object, a judging unit for judging whether or not the object is positioned directly above the sensor, a controller operable to allow the heating coil to heat the object in response to the temperature detected by the sensor detecting, and a position indicator provided at the top plate for indicating a position of the sensor. The position indicator includes a detectable area of the sensor, and is larger than the detectable area. This induction heating device securely positions the object directly above the sensor and detects a temperature of the object accurately, hence heating the object accurately at a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A digital broadcast reception device mounted on a mobile body includes a position information detection unit for detecting the position of the digital broadcast reception device, a database holding unit for storing reception quality of the digital broadcast in advance, a switching point calculation unit for obtaining a hierarchy switching point, and output switching unit for performing a hierarchy switching. The digital broadcast reception device acquires the hierarchy switching frequency generated during movement in advance based on reception quality information previously stored in the database holding unit, and controls the hierarchy switching so as to reduce the switching frequency, thereby reducing disconnections of video and audio.

Abstract: Disclosed are a base station device and a call connection method for reducing a call connection delay. According to the device and the method; in ST301, a terminal acquires an identifier managed in a base station (100); in ST302, radio resource information required for a service desired by the terminal is decided; in ST303, by using the identifier acquired in ST301, the terminal transmits a request for establishing RRC connection to the base station (100). In ST304, according to the radio resource information received from the terminal, the base station (100) decides the radio resource to be set for the terminal before authentication by an upper layer node, and the base station (100) extracts information destined to the upper layer node. In ST305, the information destined to the upper layer node is transmitted to the upper layer node. In ST306, the setting contents of the radio resource decided in ST304 are transmitted to the terminal.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot-in type disk apparatus in which a moving position of a disk is precisely guided when the disk is inserted or discharged, thereby preventing the disk from coming into contact with an objective lens and further reducing the thickness of the disk apparatus.

Abstract: The structure of an electronic apparatus (1) is simplified to facilitate its production, where the apparatus has a seesaw type operation button tiltable in multiple directions. The electronic apparatus (1) has the operation button (3), an operation panel (5) where a holding section (15) for holding the operation button (3) is provided, and switches (35a, 35b) pressed down by the operation button (3). The operation button (3) has operation sections (31a, 31b), pressing sections (33a, 33b) individually provided at the operation sections (31a, 31b), toward the switches (35a, 35b), and a flexible flat plate section (41) projected between the pressing sections (33a, 33b). The plate section (41) is held by the holding section (15).

Abstract: The orientation of fluorescent lamps is detected in a manufacturing method for a direct backlight unit that alternates orientations of adjacent fluorescent lamps. In a preparation step of the manufacturing method for the backlight unit of the present invention, a plurality of fluorescent lamps are prepared. In each of the fluorescent lamps, a length (a1) from a first sealed portion of a glass bulb (26) to a non-phosphor layer (32) area is shorter than a length (a2) from a second sealed portion to a non-phosphor layer (32) area (a1<a2). In a detection step, the difference between the lengths is detected with use of a sensor. In an installation step, the fluorescent lamps are arranged with use of the detection results so that the first and second ends alternate on a same side of a housing.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot-in type disk apparatus which can be reduced in thickness without deteriorating strength of a lever and a rear base. In a slot-in type disk apparatus, a base body 10 and a lid 20 constitute a chassis sheath, a disk-insertion opening 11 into which a disk is directly inserted is formed in a front surface of the chassis sheath, a traverse base 30 is disposed on the side of a front surface of the base body 10, a rear base 13 is disposed on the side of a rear surface of the base body 10, a printed board 14 is provided between the rear base 13 and the base body 10, and a link arm 105 is disposed between the rear base 13 and the printed board 14.

Abstract: A transmitter apparatus capable of reducing the distortions of vector modulated waves. This apparatus includes variable coefficient filters (110,112) in a stage preceding an amplitude signal voltage generating part (104) and also includes variable coefficient filters (111,113) in a stage preceding a phase modulated wave generating part (105). These variable coefficient filters (110-113) are used to perform a pulse shaping, thereby adjusting the delay between an amplitude component modulated signal (r(t)) and a phase component modulated signal (SC(t)) whereby a resolution, which is finer than the sampling period of a signal processing, can be used to adjust the delay time difference between the amplitude component modulated signal (r(t)) and the phase component modulated signal (SC(t)). As a result, the distortions of vector modulated waves (Srf(t)) can be reduced to a sufficiently small level.

Abstract: In the invention, a silica sol prepared by hydrolyzing and condensing a silane compound represented by the following formula: Si(OR1)4 or R2nSi(OR3)4-n wherein R1s, R2(s) and R3(s) may be the same or different when a plurality of them are contained in the molecule and each independently represents a linear or branched C1-4 alkyl group in the presence of a hydrophilic basic catalyst and a hydrophobic basic catalyst is used for a conventional porous-film forming composition.

Abstract: The drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section determines a physical address indicating a location at which data can be recorded next in the determined track of a write-once recording medium as a next writable address, based on the last recorded address in the track; compares the physical address corresponding to the logical address included in the recording instruction with the next writable address; when the physical address corresponding to the logical address is smaller than the next writable address, controls the recording/reproduction section to record the data at a specific location in the user data area other than the location indicated by the physical address corresponding to the logical address in the recording instruction; generates new disc management information; and controls the recording/reproduction section to record the new disc management information in the disc management information area.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device comprising an organic semiconductor element A and an organic semiconductor element B, wherein the organic semiconductor element A has a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on a surface of a substrate; a channel gap disconnecting the source electrode and the drain electrode; an organic semiconductor layer disposed on the source electrode, the drain electrode and the channel gap; an insulating film disposed on the organic semiconductor layer; a gate electrode disposed on the insulating film; a bank defining the organic semiconductor layer; a and groove through the bank, a distance between the apex of the bank and the surface of a substrate is greater than a distance between the apex of the channel gap and the surface of the substrate, and the organic semiconductor element B has a source electrode or a drain electrode connected with the gate electrode of the organic semiconductor element A via the groove through the bank of the organic semiconductor element A.

Abstract: A disk carrying device and an optical disk recording/reproducing device. The disk carrying device comprises a first idle gear rotatably supported on a lower chassis and a second idle gear rotatingly operated by coming into contact with or separating from the first idle gear. The second idle gear and a roller gear meshed with the second idle gear are rotatably supported on a feed plate, and the second idle gear is brought into contact with or separated from the first idle gear, from the underside, which is rotatably supported on the lower chassis. By this, when a disk is inserted, a downward force F1 acts on the second idle gear, and the pressing force of a feed roller on the disk (D) is decreased and, therefore, the rotating load of a disk carrying motor can be reduced when the carrying of the disk is completed.

Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a plurality of antennas for receiving modulation signals of channels in the same frequency band, an received signal strength intensity estimation unit for estimating the reception received signal strength intensity of each reception signal, transmission path fluctuation estimation units for estimating a transmission path fluctuation of each channel of the reception signal, phase difference estimation units for calculating a phase difference of the transmission path fluctuation estimation signal of a predetermined channel of each antenna and outputting it as a phase difference signal, and a signal selection unit for selecting and outputting a reception quadrate baseband signal for isolating a signal of each channel from the reception signals and a transmission path fluctuation estimation signal of each channel. Thus, by isolating and demodulating a plurality of multiplexed modulated signals received, it is possible to improve the data transmission rate.

Abstract: A multiblade air blower has a multiblade impeller, a casing, an orifice, an axially overlaid portion, and an airflow collision prevention device. The multiblade impeller includes a main plate and a blade. The blade has a blade end face, and is provided at the main plate to form a blade inner periphery. The casing houses the multiblade impeller. The orifice has an open end and an orifice inner periphery. The open end is positioned toward the main plate from the blade end face. The orifice inner periphery has an inner diameter larger than that of the blade inner periphery, and guides air to the multiblade impeller. The axially overlaid portion is a part where the orifice and the blades are overlaid. The airflow collision prevention device is provided at the blade and at an inner side of the orifice inner periphery. With this structure, backflow of air and airflow disturbance at high air volume can be suppressed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a technique which reduces the packet loss and the band consumption for data transfer when a mobile terminal conducts the handover between a fixed base station and a mobile base station for group movement. According to this technique, when an MH (mobile terminal) 320 conducts the handover from a fixed base station (E-LSR 230) positioned at an edge of an access network 200 to a mobile base station (MEB 310) located in a train or the like, a predetermined flag is appended to a frame addressed to the MH in a label switching router (P-LSR 210) positioned at a core network 100 side edge of the access network. The frame having the appended flag is copied in the E-LSR 230. One frame after copied is transmitted directly from the E-LSR to the MH while the other frame after copied is transferred from the E-LSR to the MEB and then transmitted from the MEB to the MH, thus realizing the soft handover.

Abstract: The inclination of the suction reed at the time of sucking the refrigerant can be increased when L/S is not more than 0.25 where S (mm2) represents the area within the periphery of the suction valve seat of the suction reed, and L (mm) represents the length between the support end and the tip on the opening/closing part side of the suction reed. The increased inclination of the suction reed smoothes the flow of the refrigerant into the cylinder bore from the inside of the suction valve seat so as to reduce the suction resistance and the clearance volume, thereby reducing the re-expansion loss. As a result, the refrigerant flow is increased to increase the volumetric efficiency, thereby improving the freezing performance of the hermetic compressor.

Abstract: A communication data processing apparatus which distributes streaming data and other general data other than the streaming data obtained via a network to a decoder and a CPU respectively, and which is configured to be independent from the CPU, includes: a communication data obtaining unit (31) which obtains communication data from a PHY (20) that transmits and receives a physical signal to and from the network; a frame sorting unit (33) which partitions the obtained communication data into frames and sorts specific frames which include streaming data, out of the respective partitioned frames; a streaming data output unit (35) which outputs the streaming data that is included in the sorted specific frames to a decoder (40); and a general frame output unit (36) which outputs general frames other than the sorted specific frames to a MAC (51) that performs data link processing.

Abstract: A mobile terminal device for performing multi-carrier communication with a base station device can improve communication quality while reducing the data amount without lowering accuracy of feedback information.

Abstract: In a refrigeration cycle apparatus having an expansion mechanism, a method to swiftly generate a pressure difference upstream and downstream of the expansion mechanism of, thereby enhancing the starting performance of the refrigeration cycle apparatus The apparatus has a compression mechanism, a utilizing-side heat exchange, an expansion mechanism for recovering power, and a heat source-side heat exchanger. The revolution number of the heat source fluid transfer means is made smaller than a target revolution number or the heat source fluid transfer means is stopped during a predetermined time after the compression mechanism is started. When the compression mechanism is started, the pressure difference can be generated upstream and downstream of the expansion mechanism for a short time, the operation of the expansion mechanism does not become unstable, vibration and noise can be prevented, and the refrigeration cycle apparatus can swiftly be started.