Abstract: A battery pack includes rectangular battery cells and a separator unit. The rectangular battery cells have a rectangular box exterior shape, the thickness of which is smaller than the width. The separator unit prevents the main surfaces of the battery cells from contacting each other, and electrically insulates the battery cells from each other. The battery cells are arranged side by side in the thickness direction as a battery assembly with the main surfaces facing each other. The separator unit includes a first subseparator. The first subseparator includes spacer plates and a support portion. The spacer plates have a size substantially equal to the main surface. The support portion supports the spacer plates with gaps being formed between the spacer plates in the width direction. The gap between the spacer plates is dimensioned so that the battery cell can be inserted into the gap.

Abstract: A light source device includes: a reference light source that emits reference color component light of a plurality of colors; an excitation light source that emits excitation light for supplemental color component light; a luminous body member including a luminous body that emits the supplemental color component light in response to the excitation light; and a combining unit that combines the reference color component light of the plurality colors and the supplemental color component light in such a way as to superimpose the supplemental color component light on light paths of the reference color component light of the plurality of colors.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a solid electrolytic capacitor having reduced leakage current and a manufacturing method thereof.

Abstract: In a solar cell module, a photovoltaic layer and a bonding layer 15 are arranged in sequence on a transparent substrate 10. The photovoltaic layer is formed by multiple photovoltaic elements connected in series. Each photovoltaic element is formed by stacking in sequence a transparent conductive film 11, photoelectric conversion layers 12 and 13, and a back surface electrode 14. Furthermore, the solar cell module is provided with a first groove 22 configured to separate the photoelectric conversion layers 12 and 13 and the back surface electrode 14 on the transparent conductive film 11 at an end portion of the photovoltaic layer parallel to a series connection direction of the photovoltaic layer 1.

Abstract: A beam irradiation device includes: a first light source for emitting laser light; an actuator for moving a scanning section for receiving the laser light to scan a target area with the laser light; a second light source movable with the scanning section and adapted for emitting diffused light; a light receiving position detecting device for receiving the diffused light to output a signal depending on a position of receiving the diffused light; and a light projecting element, disposed at a position closer to the light receiving position detecting device with respect to an intermediate position between the second light source and the light receiving position detecting device, for projecting an emission position to be defined by the second light source on the light receiving position detecting device via a predetermined projection area.

Abstract: A frequency conversion apparatus includes an SSB mixer and a signal input unit. The signal input unit includes a first input unit and a second input unit. The first input unit inputs a square wave signal to one of the input terminals of the SSB mixer. The second input unit inputs, to the other input terminal of the SSB mixer, a square wave signal that has a clock frequency an even number times that of the square wave signal input from the first input unit. According to these aspects, it is possible to reduce spurious signals with a small-scale circuit configuration.

Abstract: A thin film transistor which can be used in an LCD display panel includes an insulator substrate, a gate electrode located on the insulator substrate, an insulator film provided on the insulator substrate and the gate electrode, and a polycrystalline silicon film located on the insulator film. A channel is defined in a first portion of the polycrystalline silicon film over the gate electrode, and a drain and a source are defined in second and third portions of the polycrystalline silicon film over the insulator substrate. Grain sizes of the drain and source are equal to or greater than a grain size of the channel.

Abstract: A switching transistor to connect a pair of bit lines in a sub array to a pair of common bit lines in a sense amplifier band is arranged between a P channel sense amplifier and an N channel sense amplifier. Accordingly, the switching transistor can be used of a threshold value identical to that of the NMOSFET used in a logic circuit region, not a low threshold value. Therefore, the switching transistor can be reliably turned on/off in a narrow operating range. Accordingly, the complexity or capability of the drive circuit can be suppressed to a low level. As a result, the area for the semiconductor memory device can be reduced.

Abstract: There is provided a soft ice cream in which even materials such as a strawberry easily changed in properties and containing an acid component can be used, and the unique flavor of the material other than a soft ice cream mix, such as strawberry jam and chocolate, can sufficiently be enjoyed. In the soft ice cream obtained by charging the cream flow of a cooled and semi-hardened soft ice cream mix discharged from a discharge nozzle into a cup so that the discharge shape is maintained as much as possible, the part formed of the strawberry jam is continuously disposed in the part formed of the soft ice cream mix along the cream flow charged into the cup.

Abstract: An apparatus for recognizing characters read by a reading unit. A circumscribing rectangle of a read character is formed, and the degree of narrowness of that circumscribing rectangle is acquired. Characters having a degree of narrowness that is equal to or greater than a predetermined value are selected and blank areas are added to the circumscribing rectangle to yield a character area with a corrected degree of narrowness. The character is normalized by converting the character area to a specified size, and is recognized based on the normalized character. It is therefore possible to normalize even characters significantly elongated vertically or horizontally for easier recognition and to group their character patterns.

Abstract: In magneto-optical recording medium, on a transparent substrate of polycarbonate resin, an SiN film having the thickness of 600 to 800 .ANG. and surface roughness Rmax of at most 10 nm is formed. On the SiN film, a GdFeCo reading layer having the thickness of 800 to 1200 .ANG. with Gd content of 30 to 36 at. % and Co content of 12 to 50 at. % is formed. On the reading layer, a TbFeCo recording layer of which Co content is 10 to 16 at. % is formed. The recording layer is a perpendicular magnetization film, and the reading layer is an in-plane magnetization film. At the time of reading, the reading and recording layers are heated, and the direction of magnetization of the recording layer is transferred to the reading layer only in the prescribed heated area. Information can be read only from the transferred portion, and thus a super resolution effect is obtained. When Kerr rotation angle .theta..sub.

Abstract: A complex recording apparatus includes a housing. A platen glass is provided at an upper portion of the housing, and an exposure lamp which reads a first original put on the platen glass is provided within the housing. Furthermore, above the housing, a platen cover which holds the first original put on the platen glass and a reading head which reads a second original supplied from an outside are independently provided.

Abstract: The display address contained in the caption signal sent from the sending side is converted into a desired display address by a closed caption decoder at the receiving side. The display position of the caption information is moved at the receiving side in order to prevent the superimposed information incorporated in the video signal from being overlapped with the caption information.

Abstract: The thermal transfer printer of the present invention is provided with a cam follower mounted on a thermal transfer head in one body and an eccentric cam, which is controlled within a semicircle so as to be positioned at either a first position for releasing it from the cam follower to press the thermal transfer head to a platen or a second position for pressing it to release the thermal transfer head from the platen, as a construction for pressing the thermal transfer head to the platen and releasing the thermal transfer head from the platen, whereby the mechanism for pressing the thermal transfer head to the platen and releasing the thermal transfer head from the platen itself can be remarkably small-sized and is simple in action due to its remarkably small working quantity, the printer can be small-sized as a whole and improved in reliability of operation as well as durability.

Abstract: The thermal transfer printer of the present invention rotates a take-up roll and supply roll for an ink sheet by means of a first friction ring, which transmits the forward directed rotation of a driving motor for carrying the ink sheet to a take-up roll for the ink sheet by the friction force thereof when the ink sheet is carried in the forward direction and applies the brake power to the take-up roll for the ink sheet by frictional force thereof when the ink sheet is carried in the backward direction, and a second friction ring, which transmits the backwardly directed rotation of the driving motor to a supply roll for the ink sheet by the frictional force thereof when the ink sheet is carried in the backward direction and applies the brake power to the supply roll by the frictional force thereof when the ink sheet is carried in the forward direction.