Abstract: A lens frame, made from metal, retaining a light-emitting lens and a light-receiving lens is retained between a second mold and a third mold both of which are made from light-shielding resins. Anchors are formed by filling light-shielding resin for forming the third mold into fixing slots formed in an upper surface of the second mold and through holes formed in the lens frame. Since the lens frame is made from metal, thermal expansion of the lens frame is hardly caused by ambient temperature changes and self-heating. This causes little difference in the amount of change in difference between the lenses. Further, the lens frame is fixed with anchors between the second mold and the third mold. This suppresses the occurrence of sliding caused by difference in thermal expansion coefficient between the lens frame and the second and third molds.

Abstract: A decoder receives a bitstream containing quantized coefficients representative of blocks of video representative of a plurality of pixels and decodes the bitstream using context adaptive binary arithmetic coding that includes at least two decoding modes, the first mode decoding the bitstream based upon a probability estimate which is based upon at least one of spatially and temporally adjacent syntax element values to a current syntax element being decoded, the second mode decoding the bitstream not based upon a probability estimate based upon other syntax elements to the current syntax element being decoded. The coding decodes the current syntax element using the first mode if the current syntax element is intra-coded and selecting between sets probable modes with different probabilities. The coding decodes the current syntax element using the second mode if the current syntax element is intra-coded and if selecting among one of the second set of probable modes.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus (10) capable of releasing pressure of toner accumulated between photoreceptor drums and cleaning blades without affecting the life of the photoreceptor drums includes photoreceptor drums (21A to 21D), an intermediate transfer belt (31), cleaning blades (250A to 250D), a cam mechanism (36), and a drive motor (26). The photoreceptor drums (21B to 21D) bear a toner image. The toner image is transferred from the photoreceptor drums (21A to 21D) to the intermediate transfer belt. The cleaning blades (250A to 250D) remove toner remaining on the photoreceptor drums (21A to 21D) after the toner image transfer. The cam mechanism (36) switches, after an image forming process, a contact state of the photoreceptor drums (21A to 21D) and the intermediate transfer belt (31) to a separation state. The drive motor (26) rotates the photoreceptor drums (21B to 21D) backward after switching the contact state to the separation state.

Abstract: Provided are: an information providing system, an information providing method and a computer program, which are able to detect a position on a screen of a display specified by each of multiple users who view the screen, and to provide each user with information according to the position.

Abstract: A mobile station apparatus that transmits a physical uplink control channel and computes a transmit power for a physical uplink control channel transmission in a subframe based on a physical uplink control channel format for the physical uplink control channel transmission in the subframe. The mobile station apparatus assumes that the transmit power for the physical uplink control channel transmission in the subframe is computed based on a predefined physical uplink control channel format in a case that the mobile station apparatus does not transmit the physical uplink control channel in the subframe.

Abstract: A UE for performing carrier aggregation is described. The UE determines a duplex method of each serving cell for carrier aggregation. A primary cell is a FDD cell. When transmitting PDSCH HARQ-ACK information on a PUSCH or using a PUCCH format 3 in a later subframe, the UE generates two NACKs for a PDSCH transmission in an earlier subframe for a serving cell when a configured downlink transmission mode supports up to two transport blocks, the serving cell is a TDD cell and an earlier subframe is an uplink subframe for the serving cell. The UE further generates a single NACK for a PDSCH transmission in an earlier subframe for a serving cell when a configured downlink transmission mode supports a single transport block, the serving cell is a TDD cell and an earlier subframe is an uplink subframe for the serving cell.

Abstract: This invention is to provide a developing device uniformly developing an image along an axis line of a developing roller and stably obtaining the image with a uniform concentration. The developing device comprises: a developer tank, the developing roller, and a cylindrical layer thickness-regulating member. The layer thickness-regulating member comprises a body part regulating a layer thickness of a developer retained on an outer periphery of the developing roller; a first supporting part having a diameter smaller than that of the body part and supporting the body part at one end of the body part; and a second supporting part having a diameter smaller than or the same as that of the body part and supporting the body part at the other end of the body part.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polymorphic forms of a compound of formula A: This compound is useful as a glucagon receptor antagonist and serves as a pharmaceutically active ingredient for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and related conditions, such as hyperglycemia, obesity, dyslipidemia, and the metabolic syndrome. Hydrates, hemihydrates, anhydrates and similar polymorphic forms are included.

Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) for performing carrier aggregation is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. Multiple serving cells are configured. The UE determines a first parameter that defines a maximum number of elements with downlink (DL) assignments for a subframe in the DL association set for a serving cell. The UE determines physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information for the serving cell according to the first parameter. The UE sends the PDSCH HARQ-ACK information.

Abstract: A color sensor (1) includes a specific color detection region and an infrared detection region (D(IR)). The specific color detection region includes a first specific color filter (CF(R), CF(G), CF(B)), an infrared light cutoff filter (IRCutF) which cuts off an infrared component of light, and a light receiving element section (PDS). The infrared detection region (D(IR)) includes a blue filter (CF(B)), the infrared light cutoff filter (IRCutF), and a light receiving element section (PDS).

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a plurality of pixel electrodes respectively connected to a plurality of source bus lines are arranged along an extension direction of the source bus line, the pixel electrodes being alternately displaced to one side and then the other in an arrangement direction of the plurality of source bus lines. Thin film transistors each include a semiconductor layer containing a source portion, a channel portion and a drain portion, and a gate electrode formed using a portion of the gate bus line. The source portion, the channel portion and the drain portion are arranged so as to be adjacent to one another in a direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction of the plurality of source bus lines. The gate electrode extends in a direction parallel to the arrangement direction of the plurality of source bus lines and is arranged to oppose the channel portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to Sulfonamide Derivatives of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein A, W, X, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising at least one Sulfonamide Derivative, and methods of using the Sulfonamide Derivatives for improving the pharmacokinetics of a drug.

Abstract: A noise event suppression technique for a monitoring system detects a noise event in a signal waveform when a focal sample in the waveform has an amplitude greater than an amplitude of algorithmically determined earlier and later samples in the waveform that are noncontiguous with the focal sample. When the monitoring system detects the noise event, the monitoring system reduces the amplitude of the focal sample to an amplitude between those of the earlier and later samples. The monitoring system outputs data determined using the waveform once noise events have been adequately suppressed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the construction and utilization of a new mammalian expression vector that contains a unique multiple cloning site (MCS), designated pUHAB. The pUHAB vector comprises a high copy replication origin (ColE1), a drug resistance gene (TK-Hygromycin), and a human cytomegalovirus promoter operably associated with a unique intron (hCMV/intron). Further, pUHAB comprises a selectable marker conferring resistance to kanamycin in bacterial cells, and a phage f1(+) region. pUHAB can be used to transiently or stably express cloned genes when transfected into mammalian cells. The invention also encompasses kits and host cells and cell lines comprising pUHAB, and methods of producing a recombinant protein using pUHAB.

Abstract: A recording material conveying device includes a stripping claw being in contact with one rotary body of a first pair of rotary bodies, and a supporting member supporting a recording material curved when a jam occurs. The supporting member includes a supporting section located more away from the stripping claw than an imaginary straight line (C) passing a nip portion of the first pair of rotary bodies and a surface on a conveying path's side of the stripping claw, and the supporting section supports the recording material curved when the jam occurs. The recording material conveying device further includes a conveyance guide that is disposed on the downstream side from the supporting member and is displaced toward a pressed direction by a pressing force acting when the curved recording material comes into contact with the conveyance guide.

Abstract: A light-emitting device production method includes a positioning step of positioning, in a light-emitting element, a sealing member at least containing a silicone resin semi-cured at a room temperature (T0) by primary cross-linking and a fluorescent material, the silicone resin decreasing in viscosity reversibly in a temperature region between the room temperature (T0) and a temperature lower than a secondary cross-linking temperature (T1), and being totally cured non-reversibly in a temperature region equal to or higher than the secondary cross-linking temperature (T1).

Abstract: A lighting device includes LEDs, a reflecting sheet that reflects light emitted from the LEDs, and connectors electrically connected to the LEDs. The reflecting sheet has integrated superposed portions on which the connectors are superposed, and the connector surface on the reflecting sheet side thereof serves as a sheet pressing surface for pressing down the superposed portions of the reflecting sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a paper feeding device (71) including: a paper stacking tray (74) that carries thereon stacked sheets of printing paper and moves up/down along a stacking direction of the sheets of printing paper; a paper transport member (e.g., paper transport belts (81)) that sucks and transports a sheet of printing paper from the paper stacking tray (74); a separation fan (88) that generates an air flow separating the printing paper stacked on the paper stacking tray (74); an air sucking fan (84) that generates an air flow sucking a sheet of printing paper stacked on the paper stacking tray (74); and a relay duct (87) that guides air coming out of the air sucking fan (84) to the separation fan (88). The relay duct (87) extends along a straight line from an air outlet (84b) of the air sucking fan (84) to an air inlet (88a) of the separation fan (88).

Abstract: This application provides, in part, pAVEC plasmids and methods of use of such plasmids for the production of polypeptides such as immunoglobulins as well as the generation of recombined versions of such plasmids which contain polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for calculating power using a voltage waveform shape measurement from a contactless sensor. An electrically conductive medium carries alternating current (AC) electrical current, associated with an AC voltage, from a source node to a destination node. AC current is measured through the electrically conductive medium. Using a contactless sensor, an AC voltage waveform shape is measured. The power usage at the destination node is calculated in response to the AC current measurement, the measurement of the AC voltage waveform shape, and an AC voltage potential. For simplicity, the AC current and AC voltage waveform shape may both be measured at a first node located between the source node and the destination node. The AC voltage potential used in the power usage calculation may be an estimate, an actual measurement, or a value supplied by an external source (e.g., the power utility).