Abstract: There is provided a power-supply platform IC for realizing a parameter-deciding power-supply circuit, which, in order to decide a parameter of a power-supply circuit that supplies power to an electronic circuit IC (load), is connected to the electronic circuit IC (load) in place of the power-supply circuit. The power-supply platform IC includes: one or more transistor arrays that include a plurality of transistors operable as switching transistors; and a selecting circuit for selecting a transistor to be operated as a switching transistor from among the plurality of transistors, so as to control a size of the transistor that operates as a switching transistor, wherein the selecting circuit varies the size of the transistor as a parameter of the power-supply circuit, according to an external command.

Abstract: Data processing can be performed even if a trouble occurs in a hard disk device. If a trouble occurs in a first hard disk device, it is recognized that a spare hard disk device is on standby, and operation of the spare device is checked. The first hard disk device is switched with the spare hard disk device, the data is processed and output. During this process, the first hard disk device is initialized. When the first hard disk device becomes available, the spare hard disk device is switched with the first hard disk device. If the first hard disk device is unavailable, an error is notified to an administrator to request repair or replacement.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a novel dendritic polymer serving as an organic semiconductor material which is isotropic and which exhibits remarkably high carrier conductivity. Another object of the invention is to provide an electronic device employing the dendritic polymer. These objects are attained by a dendritic polymer having a branching structure including repeating units each having a branch portion, each of said repeating units having a structure represented by formula (1), and containing a linear portion X formed of an optionally substituted divalent organic group and a branch portion Y formed of an optionally substituted trivalent organic group: characterized in that the linear portion X contains at least one thienylene moiety and is at least partially conjugated with the branch portion Y, and in that the polymer reversibly assumes an insulative state and a metallic state, depending on the presence of an external factor.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to make a light source and a power supply line detachable easily so as to enable the light source to be replaced easily for maintenance. The invention provides a lighting device for a display, which includes a light source having electrode terminals provided at both ends thereof, connectors attached to the ends of a power supply line for supplying power to the light source, light source-holding chassis placed at the ends of the light source, and insertion portions opened in the chassis. The electrode terminals of the light source are placed inside the insertion portions, and the connectors are fitted detachably in the insertion portions from the outside, whereby the terminals in the connectors are connected to the electrode terminals.

Abstract: An optical read/write apparatus causes a read/write light beam from illuminating means to strike only one side of an optical storage medium including stacked data storage layers each of which is readable/writeable separately from the other layers. In this case, the optical read/write apparatus operates so that data is read/written from/into a second data storage layer after fully recording a recordable area of a first data storage layer. Thus, light can be shone with uniform intensity across the substantially entire recordable area of the second data storage layer without using a complex read/write system even under such conditions that the transmittance to light of the first data storage layer in the recordable area may vary depending on whether any data is recorded in the recordable area.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus carries out an image processing with respect to a sheet size and image information based on a print request to obtain a write image on a photoreceptor. On the basis of a printing ratio of the write image, the apparatus predicts occurrence of an image elongation. If the apparatus predicts that the image elongation occurs, the apparatus calculates a bending amount of a bended portion based on the difference between peripheral velocities of a photoreceptor and the idle roller, and the apparatus variably controls the peripheral velocity of an idle roller so that the bending amount is adjusted so as not to cause a slip phenomenon. It is possible to avoid the occurrence of a phenomenon of slipping of a sheet with respect to the photoreceptor without lowering image quality, and to surely secure a blank space formed at a rear edge portion of the sheet.

Abstract: A camera module 100 of the present invention is arranged such that a lens barrel 32 is provided with an internal screw thread 32a on its internal side, and that a holding section 41, which is a portion of a lens holder 4, the portion holding a lens unit 3, is provided with an external screw thread 41a on its external side, the external screw thread 41a being engaged with the internal screw thread 32a. As a result, it is possible to provide the camera module 100 capable of preventing contamination by dirt into a light path and thereby reducing imaging defects.

Abstract: A solid-state image capturing apparatus includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, where each of the pixels includes: a photodiode for obtaining a signal charge by a photoelectric conversion of an incident light; and an amplifying transistor for the signal charge obtained at the photodiode, and where the amplifying transistor is configured in such a manner that a gate area of the amplifying transistor is defined to be larger than a gate area of other transistors that configure the pixel.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an illumination device that can make it easy to detect a disorder of a light emitting element, and a liquid crystal display apparatus including the illumination device. Each light emitting element array (S) is constituted by light emitting elements (T) which are connected in series. To the light emitting elements (T) are individually connected in parallel current bypass elements (U) that are changed from a disconnected state where no current flows to a connected state where current flows when a predetermined voltage higher than that applied to the light emitting elements in an lighting state is applied thereto. Each power source unit (P) is connected to each light emitting element array (S) in series, and supplies constant current to each light emitting element (T). Terminal units for voltage detection (11) are connected to an anode (A) of each light emitting element (T).

Abstract: A method for generating a codebook to encode embedded information is described. A distribution pattern of symbols is determined. A first number of codewords associated with the distribution pattern of symbols is determined. A subset of codewords from the first number of codewords is selected. The subset of codewords is included in the codebook if the subset of codewords satisfies predetermined performance criteria.

Abstract: A toner cartridge includes: a toner holding container having an outlet formed thereon; a partition wall separating the inside of toner holding container to a toner discharging portion in which the outlet is formed and a toner stirring portion other than the toner discharging portion; a toner discharging member axially and rotatably supported in the toner discharging portion for carrying the toner contained in the toner discharging portion to the outlet; a toner stirring member axially and rotatably supported in the toner stirring portion for stirring and carrying to the toner discharging portion the toner in the toner stirring portion; and an upper lid with a recess formed to surround, like a tunnel, the toner discharging member at a portion above the outlet, together with the partition wall and the toner holding container.

Abstract: The present invention corrects the insufficient peripheral light amount due to the lens shading and correcting the non-uniformity of light amount at the periphery due to a distortion resulting from a precision of the lens or a poor mounting precision of the lens. A peripheral light amount correction circuit is structured by an image synchronization signal generation circuit, a coordinate conversion circuit and a luminance value correction computing circuit. An integrated value of luminance values is calculated at the coordinate conversion circuit to extract light amount information. Coordinate values to be input to the luminance value correction computing circuit are generated based on an integrated/averaged value of the light amount information. In the luminance value correction computing circuit, peripheral light amount correction functions are converted based on the input coordinate values from the coordinate conversion circuit to perform appropriate correction on the input image.

Abstract: There are provided a magnetic layer 2, a buffer layer 3 deposited on the magnetic layer 2, and a magnetic sensing section 7 constituted by a magneto-resistive device in which a fixed magnetization layer 4, a non-magnetic layer 5, and a magnetization-free layer 6 are deposited on the buffer layer 3 in this order. Further provided are a buffer layer 8 which sandwiches the magnetic sensing section 7 with the buffer layer 3 and a biasing layer 10 which covers the right and left sides of the part constituted by the buffer layer 3, the magnetic sensing section 7, and the buffer layer 8 and which is deposited on the magnetic layer 2 with a nonconductor layer 9 being interposed therebetween. On that surface, a near field light generation section 14 is formed which is constituted by a magnetic layer 11, a dielectric layer 12, and a metal layer 13.

Abstract: A droplet applying apparatus includes a base 11 having a mounting surface 11a on which a substrate 10 is to be mounted, beam members 41, 42 which are fitted to the base 11 so as to be movable relative to the base 11 in the arrow A direction, a plurality of droplet ejecting sections 6 which are fitted to the beam members 41, 42 so as to be movable in the arrow B direction and which eject droplets to the substrate 10 mounted on the mounting surface 11a, reference members each of which is provided at a site of the beam members 41, 42 proximate to the ejecting surface of each droplet ejecting section 6 and whose distance to the mounting surface 11a is known, a distance measuring section 14 for measuring a distance to the ejecting surface of each droplet ejecting section 6 and a distance to each reference member, and a calculation section 15 for, based on a distance between the ejecting surface of the one droplet ejecting section 6 and the distance measuring section 14 as well as a distance between the one referen

Abstract: An adhesive sheet for dicing and die bonding includes a base material and an adhesive layer releasably laminated on said base material, wherein said adhesive layer has a pressure sensitive adhering property at room temperature and a thermosetting property, the elastic modulus of the adhesive layer before thermosetting is 1.0×103 to 1.0×104 Pa, the melt viscosity at 120° C. of the adhesive layer before thermosetting is 100 to 200 Pa·s, and the time required for the melt viscosity to reach its minimum value is 60 sec or less when the adhesive layer before thermosetting is maintained at a constant temperature of 120° C.

Abstract: Discloses are liquid crystal medium based on a mixture of polar compounds, the use thereof for electro-optical purposes, and displays containing the medium.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device tape carrier formed of an insulative tape 1 of a thin film, which becomes a semiconductor device by conducting a plurality of wire patterns 11 on its surface to a bump 23 of a semiconductor element 21 and being sealed by an insulative resin 22, wherein: an outer dimension of the semiconductor device in a carriage direction of the insulative tape 1 is greater than an integral multiple X (X=1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . . ) of a pitch interval of sprocket holes 2, which are openings formed to carry the insulative tape 1, and not more than: the integral multiple X+a decimal Y (0<Y<1), and the tape pitch for a single semiconductor device is set to the integral multiple X+a decimal Y (0<Y<1).

Abstract: A D/A converter of switched capacitor type capable of shortening the time for D/A conversion process without increasing power consumption is provided. The D/A converter comprises capacitors Cx and Cy for receiving input voltage corresponding to the digital data and charging the amount of charge corresponding to the input voltage, and an operational amplifier A21 including a first amplified output terminal To1 and a second amplified output terminal To2 for individually outputting amplified signals generated based on a signal inputted to the input terminal. During the conversion process, the amplified signal is outputted from the first amplified output terminal To1, after the conversion process is completed, the amplified signal is outputted through an output switch Sw6 from the first amplified output terminal To2.

Abstract: A numerical model related to fluttering of an insect, when an equivalent model of actual structure of a wing of the insect is moved in the air in accordance with a model of fluttering motion of the wing of the insect is calculated by fluid-structure interactive analysis, in which behavior of the wing and behavior of the air are given as numerical values, including interaction therebetween. Thereafter, a method of controlling a fluttering robot, wing shape and the like are determined by modifying numerical models of fluttering of an insect prepared by fluid-structure interactive analysis, in accordance with sensitivity analysis. Accordingly, a method of preparing numerical models of wing and air considering the behavior of the wing of the insect in the air is provided and, in addition, a method of manufacturing a fluttering robot utilizing the numerical model prepared by this method of preparing numerical model can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor storage device having: a first conductivity type region formed in a semiconductor layer; a second conductivity type region formed in the semiconductor layer in contact with the first conductivity type region; a memory functional element disposed on the semiconductor layer across the boundary of the first and second conductivity type regions; and an electrode provided in contact with the memory functional element and on the first conductivity type region via an insulation film, and a portable electronic apparatus comprising the semiconductor storage device. The present invention can fully cope with scale-down and high-integration by constituting a selectable memory cell substantially of one device.