Abstract: A lens barrel includes a fourth lens, a prism, and a sixth lens. The fourth lens receives a light flux incident along a first optical axis. The prism includes a reflecting surface reflecting the light flux passing through the fourth lens to a direction along a second optical axis intersecting with the first optical axis. The sixth lens receives the light flux reflected by the prism. A second group frame includes an opening portion, a prism retaining frame that is arranged in a more inner position than the opening portion and in which the prism is contained, and a plurality of adhesive pockets arranged on an area around the prism retaining frame and being open to the side of the opening portion. Adhesive agent is filled in the adhesive pockets.

Abstract: A screen printing apparatus and a screen printing method facilitating to adjust a state of filling a paste. By adjusting a pneumatic pressure of pressing a squeezee 9a formed with a flexible region at at least a portion thereof to a surface of a mask 2, the squeezee 9a is moved up and down to follow recesses and projections of a surface of the mask 2 substantially in real time and an attack angle ? in sliding is maintained substantially constant. Thereby, a state of filling a paste can be stabilized without being influenced by recesses and projections of the surface of the mask 2 and promotion of a print quality can be expected. Further, bending is produced at the squeezee 9a by only adjusting the pneumatic pressure, and therefore, an attack angle ? in correspondence with a change in a print condition of a kind or a property of the paste, a thickness of the mask and the like can easily be changed.

Abstract: Provided is a communication device, which is enabled to improve the throughput of a communication system by reducing the difference of a transmission power between an SCCH and an SDCH thereby to satisfy the required quality of a PAPR. In this device, an MCS selection unit (111) of a transmission unit (110) decides, with reference to a CQI lookup table, an MCS pattern (MCS1) of the SDCH, an MCS pattern (MCS2) of the SCCH and information (multiplex information) on multiplex positions on the time axes of those two channels, on the basis of the CQI information. On the basis of the MCS2 and the MCS1, encoding modulation units (112 and 113) perform encoding and modulating operations. According to the multiplex information, a channel multiplexing unit (114) time-division multiplexes the SCCH and the SDCH thereby to generate a transmission signal.

Abstract: Disclosed here is a flat display having a pair of glass substrates and a sealing member applied on the periphery of the glass substrates. The glass substrates are oppositely disposed to each other at intervals therebetween. The glass substrates contain silicon as a component, while the sealing member contains bismuth. A protection layer and an insulating layer as an intermediate layer, which has a silicon-content lower than the glass substrates, are formed on the interface between the glass substrates and the sealing member. The structure above reinforces bonding strength of the sealing section, providing a highly reliable flat display.

Abstract: In an inductance component, a stress is not locally applied even in the condition where heat is applied to entire component, such as when implementing soldering, so that high reliability is realized. For realizing this, the component includes element (5), coil (6) formed in element (5), terminals (7, 8) electrically connected to coil (6), and magnetic layers (9A, 9B) arranged so as to be substantially parallel to a winding surface of coil (6) are formed in element (5) and entire magnetic layers (9A, 9B) is covered with a material of which thermal expansion and contraction rates are constant.

Abstract: A drive device includes a recording/reproducing unit and a drive control unit. The drive control unit compares the physical address corresponding to the logical address contained in the recording instruction to the next recording-enabled address. When the physical address corresponding to the logical address contained in the recording instruction is smaller than the next recording-enabled address, the drive control unit controls the recording/reproducing unit to record data at a particular position in the user data area which is other than the position indicated by the physical address corresponding to the logical address contained in the recording instruction.

Abstract: A superimposed voltage waveform with a predetermined cycle and amplitude is superimposed on a commanded voltage waveform for a second predetermined time after a first predetermined time elapses within an arcing period in which an arc is produced. The predetermined cycle of the superimposed voltage waveform is shorter than a short-circuit cycle and longer than a control cycle of a welding power supply unit. This suppresses a growth of a weld droplet by being pushed up toward a consumable electrode and suppresses an excessive growth of the droplet over an entire range from a low current range, characterized by frequent short-circuits, to a medium to high current range where short-circuits are less frequent. The droplet is also smoothly transferred to the weld pool in addition to preventing excessive droplet growth. This reduces the generation of spatter, giving a flatter bead appearance.

Abstract: In a loudspeaker, three magnets are disposed to provide magnetic gaps therebetween and a voice coil is fit therein. The magnets disposed at both sides are magnetized so that their opposing poles exhibit the same magnetic polarity. The magnet in the middle has its magnetic poles in the direction perpendicular to the line connecting the poles of the side magnets. The side magnets are fixed to a plate made of non-magnetic material. Those magnetic poles of the side magnets and the middle magnet not facing the magnetic gaps are magnetically coupled by a magnetic member.

Abstract: The buffer control device of this invention includes: a pointer holding unit which holds a virtual pointer different from a read pointer and a write pointer; an access control unit that controls an access to a ring buffer; a judging unit that judges whether or not one of the read pointer and the write pointer has reached an address substantially identical to an address indicated by the virtual pointer; and disabling unit that disables a normal access using the one of the read pointer and the write pointer, when the judging unit judges that the one of the read pointer and the write pointer has reached the address substantially identical to the address indicated by the virtual pointer, the normal access being controlled by the access control unit, wherein the access control unit further controls a reaccess to the ring buffer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiving apparatus which enables simple programming for receiving a digital television broadcast and/or a radio broadcast. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to the present invention is a digital broadcast receiving apparatus which receives a digital broadcast, and includes: a broadcast receiving unit that receives a digital broadcast; an extraction unit that extracts a service description table from the received digital broadcast; an identification unit that identifies, from the extracted service description table, transport stream identification information, network identification information, and service identification information, as stream identification information; and a transmission unit that transmits, to a recording apparatus, the identified stream identification information and a recording command.

Abstract: A processor (101) in which a plurality of arithmetic elements executing instructions are embedded includes: fixed function arithmetic elements (121 to 123) each having a circuit configuration that is not dynamically reconfigurable; a reconfigurable arithmetic element (125) having a circuit configuration that is dynamically reconfigurable; and an arithmetic operation control unit (113) which allocates instructions to the fixed function arithmetic elements (121 to 123) and the reconfigurable arithmetic element (125) and issues the allocated instructions to the respective arithmetic elements.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a diversity receiver and a reception system switching method capable of controlling diversity reception start and stop according to the switch condition responsive to person's liking and the use environment. An input section (109) allows the user to select and specify any of a diversity reception mode using two reception channels at all times, a single reception mode using a single reception channel at all times, or an automatic control reception mode for switching between the diversity reception and the single reception in response to the reception state of each mode, and a control section (107) determines a switching determination condition used in the automatic control reception mode according to mode selection information of other two modes.

Abstract: In a method in which a semiconductor wafer 1 having integrated circuits 3 formed in a plurality of chip regions and test patterns 4 formed in scribe lines 2a is divided by a plasma etching process so as to manufacture individual semiconductor chips, in the semiconductor wafer 1, a protection seat 5 which constitutes a mask in the plasma etching process is adhered onto a front plane 1a thereof where the integrated circuits 3 have been formed; since laser light 9a is irradiated along the scribe lines 2a, only a predetermined width of the protection seat 5 is removed so as to form a mask having a plasma dicing-purpose opening portion 5b; and also, the test patterns 4 are removed by the laser light 9a in combination with a front plane layer of the semiconductor wafer 1. As a result, the test patterns 4 can be removed in a higher efficiency and in simple steps, while the general purpose characteristic can be secured.

Abstract: An MIMO receiver and MIMO communication system which can have a small hardware scale even if the number of antennas used for MIMO communication. In a radio communication device (200), a receiving section (220) receives a spatially multiplexed signal generated by mutually-different and spatially multiplexing transmission signals, a first signal demultiplexing section (230) subjects a linear operation to the received spatial multiplexed signal to demultiplex the spatial multiplexed signal, and a second signal demultiplexing section (240) demultiplexer the demultiplexed spatially multiplexed signal into the transmission signals. When the received signal is demultiplexed by a single demultiplexing, as the number of multiplexed spatial multiplexed signal increases, the demultiplexer becomes complicated, and the hardware scale increases. When the received signal is demultiplexed by a plurality of demultiplexings, the hardware scale is relatively small.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to solve the problem of a conventional thermosetting conductive paste with respect to bonding-property between an internal electrode(s) and an external electrode(s) so as to provide a multilayer ceramic electronic part suitable for its mounting on a substrate and for its plating-treatment. The present invention relates to a multilayer ceramic electronic part, characterized in that it has an external electrode(s) formed from a thermosetting conductive paste comprising conductive particles having a high melting point, metal powder having a melting point of 300° C. or less and a resin(s).

Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes a light source (1), a first integrator (11) into which light from the light source (1) enters, and a second integrator (33) into which light exiting from the first integrator (11) enters. Accordingly, the aperture shape of the first integrator (11) can be optimally designed, so that the light utilization efficiency can be increased. Furthermore, even when the length of the first integrator (11) is reduced, a deficiency in the light uniformity due to the first integrator (11) is compensated for by the second integrator (33), so that high uniformity can be secured at the surface to be illuminated.

Abstract: A peaking current generating section (2) generates a spire-shaped peaking current that is in synchronism with the transitions of the digital signal (S), at the rising edge and the falling edge. A light emitting element driving section (5) produces a driving current obtained by combining together a signal amplitude current according to the amplitude of the digital signal (S) and the peaking current. Then, the light emitting element driving section (5) drives a light emitting element (1) by using the driving current. A signal analysis section (9) analyzes the digital signal (S) so as to set a control signal based on the pulse width of the digital signal (S). A clipping section (8) clips the peaking current of the driving current according to the control signal set by the signal analysis section (9).

Abstract: In an optical beam transmissive adjusting mechanism (110) included in an optical pickup device, arrangement positions of a first transmissive element (111) having a first transmittance and a second transmissive element (112) having a second transmittance higher than the first transmittance are switched by a rotational drive unit (105), and an optical beam having a first optical power and an optical beam having a second optical power are output selectively. Furthermore, since a transmissive element of a non-transmissive side for an optical beam is arranged at an angle inclined to an optical axis of the optical beam, the transmissive element does not obstruct a path of the optical beam to be diffused.

Abstract: A toner includes aggregated particles produced by preparing in an aqueous medium a mixed dispersion including at least a first resin particle dispersion in which first resin particles are dispersed, a colorant particle dispersion in which colorant particles are dispersed, and a wax particle dispersion in which wax particles are dispersed, heating the mixed dispersion so that at least part of the wax particles is melted, and aggregating the first resin particles, the colorant particles, and the wax particles at least part of which is melted by the addition of an aqueous solution containing an aggregating agent. Thus, the toner can have a smaller particle size and a sharp particle size distribution without requiring a classification process. Moreover, the toner can achieve a longer life and suppress transfer voids or scattering during transfer.

Abstract: The processor according to the present invention is a processor having a forwarding function and includes an attribute information holding unit that holds attribute information regarding inhibition of writing to a register and a register write inhibition circuit that holds, when forwarding is performed, the writing of the data forwarded according to attribute information. The attribute information holding unit holds the attribute information by relating the attribute information to at least one register. Alternatively, the attribute information holding unit is a part of plural pipeline buffers and passes the attribute information along with the data to be forwarded, to a pipeline buffer in a subsequent stage.