Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite member including an aluminum member and a resin member that are bonded to each other, the method including: performing blasting on a surface of the aluminum member; modifying the surface of the aluminum member into aluminum hydroxide, the modifying including causing the surface of the aluminum member having undergone blasting to react with water vapor by applying a pressure exceeding an atmospheric pressure; and directly bonding the resin member to the surface of the aluminum member modified to aluminum hydroxide.

Abstract: Provided is a method for selecting arsenic-containing minerals. A peptide comprising an amino acids sequence according to the following formula: (T,S,N,Q)-(L,I,V,F,A)-(E,D)-(R,K,N,M,D,C,P,Q,S,E,T,G,W,H,Y)-(L,I,V,F,A)-(R,K,N,M,D,C,P,Q,S,E,T,G,W,H,Y)-(L,I,V,F,A)-(L,I,V,F,A)-(L,I,V,F,A)-(R,H,K)-(T,S,N,Q)-(T,S,N,Q) wherein one amino acid is respectively selected from each group defined by paired parentheses.

Abstract: A driving load estimation apparatus can estimate the driving load of individual drivers in accordance with the driving environment. The driving load estimation apparatus can include a first VACP calculator configured to calculate a first VACP value based on information related to a driving environment of a vehicle and a correction value calculator configured to calculate a VACP correction value of each driver based on a steering operation in the driving environment. The driving load estimation apparatus estimates a driving load of the driver by correcting the first VACP value based on the VACP correction value.

Abstract: Provided is a control device for a rotating electric machine, the control device being configured to control an inverter configured to apply a voltage to each phase winding of a rotating electric machine, to thereby control, for the each phase winding, a current to be supplied to the each phase winding, the control device including a control unit configured to: calculate a voltage command value to be applied to the each phase winding so that a phase difference between harmonic components of the same order in a radial magnetic flux density and a circumferential magnetic flux density of an air gap portion between a stator core and a rotor core of the rotating electric machine becomes a phase difference target value determined in advance, and to control the inverter in accordance with the calculated voltage command value.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite member including an aluminum member and a resin member that are bonded to each other, the method including: performing blasting on a surface of the aluminum member; modifying the surface of the aluminum member into aluminum hydroxide, the modifying including causing the surface of the aluminum member having undergone blasting to react with water vapor by applying a pressure exceeding an atmospheric pressure; and directly bonding the resin member to the surface of the aluminum member modified to aluminum hydroxide.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a means for forming a thin-film in a desired part of an object to be treated. [Solution] The thin-film formation means according to the present invention is part of a thin-film formation method which supplies electricity to a raw-material gas in a reduced pressure container, converting the raw-material gas to plasma, and irradiates the plasma, thus forming a thin-film on the surface of an object to be treated. Therein, the effect of a magnetic field generated by a magnetic field generating means is used to form the thin-film in a desired part. The effect of the magnetic field focuses the flux of the plasma in a desired part of the surface of the object to be treated, thus enabling the thin-film to be formed in the desired part.

Abstract: A technology for creating an arbitrary viewpoint image with high quality based on pixel value information as seen from a single viewpoint and real spatial positional information has not been known. A hidden point is extracted based on a relative positional relationship between a single viewpoint closed surface projection point for arbitrary measurement point and neighboring projection point, a relative positional relationship between other viewpoint closed surface projection point for arbitrary measurement point and neighboring projection point, distance from arbitrary measurement point to another viewpoint, and distance from measurement point projected onto neighboring projection point on the other viewpoint closed surface to another viewpoint.

Abstract: The present invention provides a qualitatively-stable functionally gradient material precursor having gradient material composition, as well as a production method of the functionally gradient material precursor, at low cost. Further, the present invention provides a functionally gradient material having gradient material composition, or having both gradient material composition and gradient porosity, so as to achieve high-functionality; as well as a production method of the functionally gradient material. A functionally gradient material precursor is formed by the steps of: forming plural kinds of metal foam precursors, each obtained by performing heat treatment on a metal member so that a plurality of pores are generated within the metal member, by making the material composition of the metal member different; and friction stir welding the plural kinds of metal foam precursors. Further, a functionally gradient material is formed by performing heat treatment on the functionally gradient material.

Abstract: Provided is a method of calculating a temperature distribution with higher accuracy than a conventional method, which calculates a temperature distribution of an inner surface of a silica powder molded body during manufacturing based on boundary conditions corrected in accordance with the actually measured temperature in consideration of plasma radiation by arc discharge and heat radiation of arc discharge.

Abstract: An oxide phosphor that is highly durable and produces visible light when excited by exposure to near-ultraviolet excitation light, comprising an oxide having the composition represented by the formula (Al2O3)x.(SiO2)1-x, where 0<x<1, and an activating element M.

Abstract: A novel technique is provided, which can secure sufficient adhesion of an Si layer and a magneto-optical material layer while avoiding occurrence of cracks when fabricating an optical nonreciprocal element by bonding the Si layer on which a rib waveguide is formed, and the magneto-optical material layer. The method includes forming a waveguide on the Si layer of an SOI substrate which is a first substrate, forming a first thin-film buffer layer on the aforesaid waveguide, forming a second thin-film buffer layer on an magneto-optical material layer deposited on a second substrate by using a same material as that of the aforesaid first thin-film buffer layer, and bonding the aforesaid first thin-film buffer layer and the aforesaid second thin-film buffer layer in placement where a light propagating in the aforesaid waveguide can be caused to generate nonreciprocal phase change by the aforesaid magneto-optical material layer.

Abstract: A method of recycling useful metals is provided. The method enables useful metals including indium, zinc, yttrium, europium, lanthanum, terbium, gadolinium, antimony, lead, copper, tin, and silver to be recovered from wastes, such as wasted flat panel displays, and recycled economically with small energy consumption. The method of recycling useful metals includes: a step in which wastes comprising various flat panel displays, e.g., liquid-crystal display panels, are crushed/powdered; a step in which the resultant particles are dissolved in an aqueous hydrofluoric acid solution; and a step in which various metal oxides and various metal fluorides which remain undissolved are filtered off and the aqueous hydrofluoric acid solution containing various metal ions is electrolyzed to deposit and recover metals for transparent-electrode oxides, such as indium and zinc, and other useful metals.

Abstract: A novel technique is provided, which can manufacture an optical nonreciprocal element constituted of an Si waveguide layer and a magneto-optical material layer without using wafer bonding. A magneto-optical material layer is deposited on a substrate, an Si layer is deposited on the aforesaid magneto-optical material layer, a waveguide is formed on the aforesaid Si layer, and the aforesaid magneto-optical material layer is magnetized so as to be able to cause a light propagating in the aforesaid waveguide to generate a nonreciprocal phase change.

Abstract: A password authentication apparatus and a password authentication method for preventing the leakage of password information from user's password input operations includes a memory device for storing a correct answer symbol and selection information for selecting at least one input symbol for each digit of a password; a display for displaying combinations of input symbol candidates based on user operation; a processor for selecting, for each digit of the password, one or more input symbols from the combinations of input symbol candidates displayed by the display based on the selection information corresponding to the digit to determine whether the correct answer symbol corresponding to the digit is included in the selected one or more input symbols; and an authentication board for authenticating that the password is entered correctly when the processor determines that correct answer symbols for all the digits of the password are included.

Abstract: An optical transmission system using Raman optical amplification, which is configured in a WDM-PON topology where a signal light between an optical line terminal and each of optical network units is multi/demultiplexed at a WDM. The optical line terminal supplies continuous lights having wavelengths to the optical network units through an optical fiber from the optical line terminal. The continuous lights are used for an uplink signal. In addition, the optical line terminal outputs a pumping light having a wavelength which is used to excite lights of the continuous lights, to the optical fiber from the optical line terminal.

Abstract: The present invention provides a qualitatively-stable functionally gradient material precursor having gradient material composition, as well as a production method of the functionally gradient material precursor, at low cost. Further, the present invention provides a functionally gradient material having gradient material composition, or having both gradient material composition and gradient porosity, so as to achieve high-functionality; as well as a production method of the functionally gradient material. A functionally gradient material precursor is formed by the steps of: forming plural kinds of metal foam precursors, each obtained by performing heat treatment on a metal member so that a plurality of pores are generated within the metal member, by making the material composition of the metal member different; and friction stir welding the plural kinds of metal foam precursors. Further, a functionally gradient material is formed by performing heat treatment on the functionally gradient material.

Abstract: An optical transmission system based on four-wave mixing and configured in a WDM-PON topology where a signal light between an optical line terminal and each of optical network units is multiplexed and demultiplexed at a WDM. The optical line terminal transmits downlink signal light having wavelengths ?d1, . . . , ?dN and pumping lights having wavelengths ?p1, . . . , ?pN which are different by a predetermined wavelength difference ?? from the wavelengths of the downlink signal lights. Each of the optical network units demultiplexes the downlink signal lights to receive a portion of the downlink signal lights, generates an uplink signal light to be transmitted from each of the optical network unit to the optical line terminal by using a portion of the downlink signal lights and the four-wave mixing from the pumping lights, and outputs a modulated uplink signal light.

Abstract: An oxide phosphor that is highly durable and produces visible light when excited by exposure to near-ultraviolet excitation light, comprising an oxide having the composition represented by the formula (Al2O3)x.(SiO2)1-x, where 0<x<1, and an activating element M.

Abstract: A power-off controlling circuit and a power-off controlling method that control power-off of an integrated circuit based on the size of leakage currents. The power-off controlling circuit includes a model circuit section that includes a model circuit made by modeling a basic circuit of an integrated circuit, a voltage comparing circuit section that compares an output voltage charged by a leakage current occurred at the model circuit and a preset reference voltage, a decision circuit section that measures an arrival time until the output voltage reaches the reference voltage from the compared result and decides a size of the leakage current from the measured result, and a power-off controlling circuit section that controls power-off of the integrated circuit on the basis of the decided size of the leakage current.

Abstract: An electronic watermark embedding apparatus includes means for storing a pixel matrix G with n rows and n columns of an input image, means for acquiring eigenvalues s1 to sn and eigenvectors p1 to pn of the pixel matrix G, means for selecting at least one pair of eigenvalues (si,sj) having different values from the eigenvalues s1 to sn and correcting the eigenvalues s1 to sn such that the values of the selected pair can be equal, means for creating a Jordan-normal-form matrix Sw having the corrected eigenvalues as diagonal elements and 1 as one of the nondiagonal elements corresponding to the selected pair, means for outputting the eigenvectors p1 to pn as electronic watermark key information, means for performing the inverse transform of diagonalization computing on the created matrix Sw by using the eigenvectors p1 to pn to create a pixel matrix Gw with n rows and n columns thereby and outputting it as an electronic-watermark-embedded image of the input image.