Abstract: A guidewire includes a core shaft and a coil body that covers the core shaft. The guidewire also includes a tip portion, an intermediate fixing portion, and a proximal-end fixing portion that fix the core shaft to the coil body. The coil body includes a single core wire formed of a tungsten wire and a single side wire formed of a stainless steel wire. The side wire is wound around the core wire so as to cover the outer periphery of the core wire.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a chip resistor includes the following steps. A resistor layer is formed on an obverse surface of a material substrate. A plurality of substrate sections are defined in the material substrate by forming, in the obverse surface of the material substrate, a plurality of first grooves each of which is elongated in a first direction. A conductor layer is formed in each of the first grooves. The substrate sections are cut along lines extending in a second direction different from the first direction.

Abstract: A lens substrate includes a base substrate, a first lens electrode and a first signal line. The base substrate includes a lens area and a peripheral area surrounding the lens area. The first signal line in the peripheral area and includes a layered structure in which a first transparent conductive layer and a metal layer directly contact each other. The first lens electrode is in the lens area and includes the first transparent conductive layer excluding the metal layer. The first signal line is in the peripheral area. The first signal line is connected to the first lens electrode and includes a layered structure in which the first transparent conductive layer and the metal layer directly contact each other.

Abstract: A spherical ? type crystal silicon carbide powder having an average particle diameter is of 5 ?m-60 ?m, specific pore volume of the inside pores in it having a diameter of 1 ?m or smaller is 0.02 cc/g or smaller, specific surface area of it is 1 m2/g or smaller, and average aspect ratio (short diameter/long diameter) of it is 0.65 or higher is proposed; a method for manufacturing the same including the steps of (1) spray-drying a slurry of a raw material silicon carbide powder which has an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or smaller and has an ? type crystal, to obtain porous and spherical particles, and (2) sintering the thus obtained porous and spherical particles, is also proposed.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a junction-field-effect-transistor (JFET) device, the method includes the steps of providing a substrate of a first-type impurity; forming a first well region of a second-type impurity in the substrate; forming a second well region and a third well region of the first-type impurity separated from each other in the first well region; forming a fourth well region of the first-type impurity between the second well region and the third well region; forming a first diffused region of the second-type impurity between the second well region and the fourth well region; forming a second diffused region of the second-type impurity between the third well region and the fourth well region; forming a pair of first doped regions of the second-type impurity in the first well region, and a pair of second doped regions of the first-type impurity in the second well region and the third well region respectively; forming a third doped region of the second-type impurity in the first well region between t

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of transmitting an input audio signal is disclosed. A first coding error of the input audio signal with a scalable codec having a first enhancement layer is encoded, and a second coding error is encoded using a second enhancement layer after the first enhancement layer. Encoding the second coding error includes coding fine spectrum coefficients of the second coding error to produce coded fine spectrum coefficients, and coding a spectral envelope of the second coding error to produce a coded spectral envelope. The coded fine spectrum coefficients and the coded spectral envelope are transmitted.

Abstract: An unconventional bolt includes a main body having two heads, and two threaded rods respectively formed at the external surface of each head coaxially with the main body, wherein the cross section of each head has a noncircular shape, and the axial projection of the cross section of the middle of the main body is located in the noncircular axial projection of each head of the main body. The unconventional bolt has a simple structure and a convenient assembly, and can improve the strength and rigidity of the nested profiled components after the connection; and the fastening device using the unconventional bolt can not only support the component but also reinforce it, thus effectively preventing the nested profiled components from transforming.

Abstract: There are provided a shock absorber control apparatus and a shock absorber control method, capable of controlling a shock absorber in advance by including a distance sensing module sensing a distance between a bottom surface of a vehicle and a road surface. The shock absorber control apparatus includes: a vehicle movement information sensing module sensing vehicle movement information; a distance sensing module sensing a distance between a bottom surface of a vehicle and a road surface; and an electronic control unit receiving the vehicle movement information and the distance to generate a signal for controlling the shock absorber and transmit the signal to the shock absorber.

Abstract: A wafer processing laminate is provided comprising a support, a temporary adhesive layer on the support, and a wafer laid on the temporary adhesive layer. The temporary adhesive layer has a trilayer structure consisting of a first bond layer (A) of thermoplastic organosiloxane polymer which is releasably bonded to the circuit-forming front surface of the wafer, a second bond layer (B) of thermosetting modified siloxane polymer which is laid on the first bond layer, and a third bond layer (A?) of thermoplastic organosiloxane polymer which is laid on the second bond layer and releasably bonded to the support.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery module which comprises a cell unit that comprises cells, and a case that contains the cell unit. The case comprises: a first member which has a first guide portion, and a second member which has a second guide portion that is fitted into the first guide portion by being slid on the first guide portion.

Abstract: A graphics processing method and devices using the same is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of texels arranged in a tiled format and rearranging, by a graphics processing unit (GPU), texels into a sequential format. In a tiled format, texels may be arranged in tiles, at least one tile including M×N texels. In the sequential format, the texels may be arranged in a scan line order of a display.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing lubricating base oils by using vacuum distilled deasphalted oil, and more specifically, to a method for preparing various kinds of lubricating base oils by distilling a distillate obtained from a solvent deasphalting (SDA) process under reduced pressure to obtain heavy deasphalted oil (H-DAO) and light deasphalted (Lt-DAO) and then treating the H-DAO and the Lt-DAO by catalytic reactions, respectively. According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain heavy lubricating base oil (150BS) of a high viscosity grade which can not be obtained by a known catalytic reaction and a lubricating base oil of group III by hydrogenation, in a high yield, and thus economical efficiency is excellent.

Abstract: Provided is a motor including a rotor, a stator having a stator core and a coil, a stator frame, an end cover, first and second bearings, and a heat radiating resin in the stator frame. The coil includes first and second end portions projecting oppositely and axially. The stator frame includes a peripheral wall and an end wall, whose respective central parts form first and second boss portions holding the first and second bearings respectively. The heat radiating resin includes a first resin part covering the first end portion and closely contacting an inner surface of the stator frame, and a second resin part covering the second end portion and separating from an outer peripheral surface of the second boss portion. The first resin part has a portion between the first end portion and the first boss portion, the portion having a greater thickness than that of the other.

Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring engine coolant temperature sensors are described. In one embodiment, an expected engine coolant temperature may be determined based on the accumulated engine mass air flow. If the current engine coolant temperature is substantially different from the expected temperature, then an error signal may be generated. In one embodiment, the expected engine coolant temperature is compared to the actual engine coolant temperature if the engine coolant temperature has changed by a predetermined amount. In one embodiment, the expected engine coolant temperature is compared to the actual engine coolant temperature if the accumulated engine mass air flow is equal to or is greater than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device is provided with a sound source IC, an amplifier for amplifying a sound source from the sound source IC, a piezoelectric speaker for generating sound based on a drive signal from amplifier, an MPU for performing a predetermined control process on the drive signal, a memory for storing temperature dependency information about the piezoelectric constant (d14) and Young's modulus E of the piezoelectric speaker, and a temperature sensor for detecting an ambient temperature. MPU has correcting unit, compares a detected result of the temperature sensor with the temperature dependency information, and performs temperature correction on the drive signal serving as an acoustic signal based on a compared result. The piezoelectric speaker outputs the acoustic signal temperature-corrected by correcting unit.

Abstract: A vehicle presence notification apparatus notifying a presence of a vehicle includes an alarm device and a dynamic speaker. The alarm device includes an alarm generator generating an alarm sound and an acoustic tube through which the alarm sound is emitted outside of the vehicle. The dynamic speaker generates a notification sound with audible frequency. The dynamic speaker is fixed to the acoustic tube and emits the notification sound inside of the acoustic tube, such that the notification sound is generated outside of the vehicle through the acoustic tube.

Abstract: In a bearing apparatus provided herein a hard steel shaft is an opposite shaft of an Al—Sn—Si based alloy plain bearing. Its wear resistance is enhanced. The bearing apparatus comprises a steel shaft having hardness of Hv 500 or more at least on a surface thereof, and a plain bearing. The plain bearing is formed of an aluminum alloy containing 2 to 10 mass % of Si, 8 to 18 mass % Sn, and the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein the volume of Sn phase is 50% or more of the volume of the Si particles(the average particle diameter of Si of the aluminum alloy is 4 to 10 ?m). The aluminum alloy has a hardness of Hv 45 or more.

Abstract: A display protection window and a display device having the same. The display protection window includes a first plastic film, a second plastic film arranged opposite to the first plastic film, and an adhesive layer disposed between the first plastic film and the second plastic film to bond the first plastic film and the second plastic film to each other.

Abstract: An image forming system receives a user request for a change in network settings between a plurality of network interfaces defined in a routing table and networks, edits the defined network settings based on the received user request, and stores the routing table.

Abstract: A blowing device includes a blower that blows air and an air duct including an inlet and an outlet. The air duct takes in the air through the inlet and guiding the air so that the air flows out through the outlet toward a corona discharge unit including a target component toward which the air is to be blown. The outlet of the air duct includes a through-portion in a non-overlapping region thereof, the non-overlapping region being a region of the outlet excluding an overlapping region of the outlet. The overlapping region corresponds to an interposed component of the corona discharge unit, the interposed component being located between the outlet and the target component at a position at which the interposed component overlaps the overlapping region.