Abstract: A lens driving unit includes a lens holder accommodating a lens or a group of lenses. A coil is disposed on a surface of the lens holder. The lens driving unit is provided with a magnet disposed at a position spaced from the coil by a predetermined distance to move the lens holder along an optical axis according to current flowing in the coil. The lens driving unit is further provided with a guide member guiding movement of the lens holder along the optical axis. Further, a magnetic member is disposed at the lens holder to fix a position of the lens holder by magnetic attraction force exerted by the magnet when no current flows in the coil. The lens driving unit can achieve downsizing, improved resistance to impact, stabilized lens attitude, and reduced power consumption when an auto-focus function is performed.

Abstract: A user photographs an area including a desired portion of a television program schedule (with G-code numbers) in a newspaper, and the like, with a digital camera functional portion (219) of a mobile telephone device (2). A CPU (209) performs, for example, a data transmission/reception by a mobile telephone functional portion (231) (a communication process, an Internet connection process, electronic mail transmission and reception processes), and control of each of functional portions based on received data. Moreover, the CPU (209) performs a character recognition process on an image photographed with the digital camera functional portion (219) and on an image received by electronic mail by the mobile telephone functional portion (231), and executes a video recording reservation process based on the G-code number obtained by the recognition process.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device is provided which has a pair of substrates provided with a plurality of sub-pixels and disposed opposite to each other and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates. The liquid crystal device further includes; a colorant layer formed in some of the sub-pixels in one substrate of the pair of the substrates; a control film that controls a step difference between the colored region in which the colorant layer exists and the non-colored region in which the colorant layer does not exist so that the surface on the liquid crystal layer of the one substrate is planarized in the sub-pixel, and that is provided in the non-colored region of the one substrate; and a reflective film formed on the control film and in the colored region. Here, the colorant layer is provided on the reflective film in the colored region.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor of the present invention includes a capacitor element having an anode member, a dielectric member, and a cathode member; an anode terminal attached to the anode member; a cathode terminal attached to the cathode member; and a housing for covering an outer periphery of the capacitor element, the anode terminal and the cathode terminal being each at least partly exposed from an undersurface of the solid electrolytic capacitor, the anode terminal having a projection formed by rolling using a roll having a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion, and being connected to the anode member at the projection.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a diffraction grating including a first grating for diffracting a first laser light beam, and a second grating for diffracting a second laser light beam which is shorter in wavelength than the first laser light beam, the diffraction grating being disposed in a common optical path for guiding the first laser light beam and the second laser light beam to an optical disc; and a photo detector including in a first light receiving area, a main light receiving unit, a front sub-light receiving unit, and a rear sub-light receiving unit that receive reflected light beams, which are reflected by the optical disc, of a main beam, of a front sub-beam, and of a rear sub-beam, respectively, the first laser light beam being diffracted by the diffraction grating into the main beam, the front sub-beam formed in front of the main beam, and the rear sub-beam formed at the back of the main beam, wherein the first grating is set such that the front sub-light receiving unit and the rear sub

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device, including the steps of: forming a passivation film that covers a surface of a semiconductor substrate on which electrodes have been formed, in which an opening is formed so as to expose a predetermined electrode from among the electrodes; forming a diffusion prevention plug of a first metal in the vicinity of the opening in the passivation film; supplying a second metal material to the surface of the semiconductor substrate on which the diffusion prevention plug has been formed, so as to form a seed layer of the second metal; forming a resist film that covers the seed layer and in which an opening is formed so as to expose a predetermined region of the seed layer on the diffusion prevention plug; supplying a third metal material into the opening in the resist film so as to form a protrusion electrode of the third metal; removing the resist film after the step of forming a protrusion electrode; and removing the seed layer after the step of forming a protrusion

Abstract: There is provided a fan motor in which an increase in the temperature of windings thereof is surpressed, thereby achieving a long life and high performance. Vent holes 33 for introducing air into a cup-like member 9 are formed in a bottom wall section 9b of a rotor 6. Air flowing direction adjusting ribs 37, which are arranged at intervals in a peripheral direction and each of which extends in a radial direction, are integrally provided on the inner surface of the bottom wall section 9 so that air flown out of exits 33b of the vent holes 33 is directed toward windings 3. In addition to the air flowing direction adjusting ribs 37, a plurality of air stirring ribs 39 for stirring the air inside the cup-like member 9 is arranged on the inner surface of the bottom wall section 9.

Abstract: An ion implantation apparatus includes an ion irradiation unit. The ion irradiation unit irradiates a plurality of areas of a target substrate with ion beams each of which reaches the substrate at corresponding one incident angle. An incident angle measuring instrument measures the incident angle of each of the ion beams. A controller is provided with information from the incident angle measuring instrument and controls the ion irradiation unit in accordance with the information so that a difference among incident angles is set to within ±0.1°.

Abstract: A first field effect transistor receives an unbalanced signal from an input terminal at the gate thereof, and outputs a balanced signal from the drain thereof. A second field effect transistor has the gate thereof connected to the drain of the first field effect transistor and outputs a balanced signal from the drain thereof. The sources of the first field effect transistor and the second field effect transistor are connected to the drain of a third field effect transistor serving as a current source. The drain of the second field effect transistor is connected to the gate of the first field effect transistor via a first resistor. A first output terminal is connected between the drain of the first field effect transistor and the first resistor, and a second output terminal is connected between the drain of the second field effect transistor and a second resistor.

Abstract: For a purpose of preventing a compressor from being damaged by liquid compression without disposing any accumulator on a low-pressure side, there is disclosed a transition critical refrigerant cycle apparatus having a supercritical pressure on a high-pressure side. The transition critical refrigerant cycle apparatus constituted by connecting a compressor, a gas cooler, a pressure reducing device, an evaporator and the like in an annular shape, using carbon dioxide as a refrigerant, and capable of having the supercritical pressure on the high-pressure side comprises: an internal heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a refrigerant which has flown out of the gas cooler and a refrigerant which has flown out of the evaporator.

Abstract: A method for producing a cadmium negative electrode for alkaline batteries according to the present invention comprises a step of obtaining a cadmium active-substance impregnated electrode plate by impregnating said electrode substrate with a cadmium active substance; and a step of adding polyethylene glycol for forming a polyethylene glycol coating on the surface of said cadmium negative electrode or on the surface of said active substance by coating or impregnating said active-substance impregnated electrode with polyethylene glycol.

Abstract: A battery comprising a storage section for storing battery management information transmitted/received to/from outside through a communicator; wherein, the battery management information is at least either available device information on a device which can use the battery or chargeable charger information on a charger which can charge the battery.

Abstract: Provided is a binder for an electrostatic image developing toner using a polyester resin in which at least a part of a carboxylic acid component (a) and/or an alcohol component (b) comprises a carboxy-modified polyolefin or a hydroxyl-terminated polyalkadiene that may be hydrogenated containing an aliphatic hydrocarbon group (x) having a carbon number of 100 to 1,000. The binder is excellent in environmental stability and does not generate a peculiar odor around a copier or a printer when the binder is used in a toner, and a toner using the binder.

Abstract: A phase rotation unit rotates the phase of a digital received signal in accordance with a correction signal from a correction determination unit. An FWT computation unit subjects a CCK modulated signal to FWT computation and outputs Walsh transform values FWT. A maximum value searching unit receives Walsh transform values FWT and selects one of them by referring to the magnitude thereof. In accordance with the selected Walsh transform value FWT, the maximum value searching unit outputs a ?1 signal and a ? component signal, the ?1 signal corresponding to the signal prior to ?1 differential detection and the ? component signal being a combination of ?2 through ?4. A ?1 demodulation unit subjects the ?1 signal to differential detection so as to generate ?1. A second phase error detection unit 56 detects a phase error in accordance with an output signal from the ?1 demodulation unit.

Abstract: The control circuit 11 causes display of messages received through the communication unit 1 in the display unit 14 in list form. A cursor for making selections from the messages displayed in list form has different patterns. The control circuit 11 associates the cursor patterns with message types. In another embodiment, the control circuit 11 groups received messages into new messages not yet reproduced by a user and old messages already reproduced, causes display of the number of the new messages in a predetermined area of the display unit when the new messages are stored in RAM 13, and display of the number of the old messages in said predetermined area when the new messages are not stored in RAM 13.

Abstract: The present invention provides a component cooling apparatus in which it is possible to suppress resonation of a fan housing due to the rotation of the fan. Four extended portions 33A, 33B extending into an air suction opening 25a are integrally formed with the duct 5. Projected portions 35A, 35B projecting toward the fan 3are integrally formed with the extended portions 33A, 33B respectively. The end portions of the projected portions 35A, 35B are arranged in contact with end portions of corner portions which are located around the housing-side mount holes 21a of the flange portion 21. The fan 3 is fixed inside the duct 5 by inserting a mounting member such as a screw and a bolt into each pair of a housing-side mount hole 21a and a duct-side mount hole 33a with four housing-side mount hole 21a and four duct-side mount hole 33a being aligned with each other. Accordingly, the fan housing 11 and the duct 5 are not in contact with each other except at mounting portions around the housing-side mount holes 21a.

Abstract: The present invention provides an axial-flow fan capable of entirely cooling an object to be cooled even when the distance between the object to be cooled and an air discharge opening of the axial-flow fan is short. A plurality of stationary blades 11A to 11E are disposed at intervals in a rotating direction of a rotor and located inside an air discharge opening 16 of an air channel 19. Each of the plurality of stationary blades 11A to 11E has an external end portion 11a connected to an inner wall portion of a fan housing 3, an internal end portion 11b connected to a peripheral wall portion 11B of a motor case 10, a discharge-side edge portion 11c formed between the external end portion 11a and the internal end portion 11b and located at a side of the air discharge opening 16, and a suction-side edge portion 11d formed between the external end portion 11a and the internal end portion 11b and located at a side of the air suction opening 14.

Abstract: Screen noise caused by variations of dark current between light sensitive pixels of a solid-state imaging device are suppressed. In an exposure period E after an electronic shutter operation completion time t2, information charges are accumulated while shifting a potential well. With a frame-transfer CCD image sensor in which transfer electrodes G1-G3 to which transfer clocks ?i1-?i3 are applied are provided for each light sensitive pixel, at the start of the exposure period E, a potential well is formed for a period ? under the electrode G2. Then, the potential wells are formed sequentially under the electrode G1 for a period 2?, under the electrode G2 for a period ?, and under the electrode G3 for a period 2?. That is, regarding dark current contained in the information charges accumulated in each pixel, dark currents under the electrodes G1-G3 correspond to the same period.

Abstract: In a photodetector where a circuit section, in which an interconnection is formed, is formed adjacent to a light receiving section, photo sensitivity within a light receiving surface is prevented from being nonuniform due to an interlayer insulating film at a periphery of the light receiving section being increased in thickness. In a circuit region 74, a buffer region (region 140, 138) is disposed adjacent to a light receiving section 72. In the buffer region, in order to reduce irregularity of an interlayer insulating film 136, a density of planarizing pads 134 disposed between the interconnections 132 is gradually reduced from a standard value in a region 142 as it approaches the light receiving section 72. Since a height of a surface of the interlayer insulating film 136 is lowered by reducing the density of the planarizing pads, a step between the light receiving section 72 and the region 138 adjacent thereto is decreased.

Abstract: An object is to solve a problem that the smaller the number of rotations of a rotary compressor is, the more an efficiency decrease of the compressor is generated owing to an increase of a rotary vibration and an efficiency decrease of a motor. In the rotary compressor including, in a sealed vessel, a electromotive element and a rotary compression element driven by this electromotive element, on one of an upper end face of a rotor constituting the electromotive element (on a side opposite to a compression mechanism) and a lower end face of the rotor (on a compression mechanism side), a rotation inertia article capable of obtaining a rotation inertia moment is disposed. In consequence, it is possible to obtain the compressor having a high efficiency in which an increase of the rotary vibration of the compressor is suppressed even during an operation having the small number of the rotations of the compressor.