Abstract: There is provided a method including, acquiring brain function data and diffusion tensor data, calculating a connection degree between voxels adjacent to each other based on the diffusion tensor data, constituting a data evaluation value based on the brain function data and the connection degree between the adjacent voxels, subjecting the data evaluation value to nonparametric regression analysis, and forming and displaying images based on results of the analysis.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a seismic isolation device which, regardless of a load to be supported, is capable of reducing acceleration through lengthening a natural period of an upper structure, with excellent vibration energy absorbing capacity by obtaining a properly preferable frictional force as well as a returning characteristic, and others.

Abstract: The invention provides a game ball, useful for children's safety, which can be detected far enough away a distance by a vehicle-onboard radar. The invention provides a game ball wherein a reflector member 12 is disposed within a spherical shell 13, the diagonal distance of the reflector member coincides with the inner diameter of the spherical shell, the reflector member has a shape constructed by combining three regular polygon plates 11A, 11B, 11C, the center angle of one side thereof being an integral submultiple of 90°, in such a manner that the centers of the three regular polygon plates are coincident and that the three regular polygon plates are perpendicular to each other, and a surface of said reflector member 12 is imparted with electromagnetic wave reflectivity.

Abstract: A photovoltaic power generation controller, in which minute power change is detected even with a low-resolution AD converter, thereby being capable of performing maximum power point tracking control with high accuracy, is provided.

Abstract: A semiconductor examination apparatus includes an energy source device that supplies a semiconductor substrate having a pn junction with excitation energy that causes luminescence in the semiconductor substrate, an image capturing device that captures a first luminescence image of the semiconductor substrate supplied with first excitation energy and a second luminescence image of the semiconductor substrate supplied with second excitation energy that is different in magnitude from the first excitation energy, a luminescence image processing device that calculates the difference in luminescence intensity between the first luminescence image and the second luminescence image at positions on the semiconductor substrate and generates intensity difference image data, and a detecting device that detects a crack position of a crack occurring in the semiconductor substrate on the basis of determination values based on the magnitude of the difference on the intensity difference image data.

Abstract: The present invention reduces the delay time to extremely short by monitoring the output/distribution unit of the exchange node to specify the unused time slot as write destination of the data and performing priority control by the priority control signal contained in the data. The traffic congestion is resolved by performing write output to the specified time slot regardless of the communication speed of the transmission path of the data. Furthermore, the present invention aims to provide the exchange node and the exchange node control method that ensures communication quality by using the connection type as the communication method since the delay time in communication can be reduced. The exchange node 100 according to the present invention includes an input buffer unit 2, an identification unit 7, a distribution unit 5, a multiplexing circuit 9, a time slot allocation circuit 12, and an output/distribution unit 10.

Abstract: The present invention provides a three-phase voltage source inverter system capable of obtaining a nearly sinusoidal output waveform while minimizing apparatus size increase and cost increases. The three-phase voltage source inverter system of the present invention is provided with: a three-phase inverter unit INV-M; and an auxiliary circuit 1 inserted between a direct-current power source and the three-phase inverter unit, including: dividing capacitors Cd1, Cd2 dividing a direct-current voltage of the direct-current power source; a single-phase inverter unit INV-A in which 60° ON-periods are set for upper switching elements S7, S8 in each phase of single-phase with an 80° delay, and 60° ON-periods are set for lower switching elements S9, S10 in each phase of single-phase with a 60° delay from the upper side switching elements and with an 80° delay between each phase; and an auxiliary transformer Ta.

Abstract: The stress of a sample semiconductor wafer is detected with high accuracy in the form of an absolute value without rotating the sample or the entire optical system. A laser light R is subjected to photoelastic modulation in a PEM 6 to generate a birefringence phase difference and then it is passed through first and second quarter wavelength plates and passes through a semiconductor wafer D having residual stress. When it is passed through a test piece, the direction of the stress of the test piece is detected when the angle between the laser light R and a linear polarization light is 0 and 90 degrees. The transmitted electric signal is delivered to an analog/digital converter 16, and the signal is inputted to a signal processor thus generating transmission signal data. The signal processor reads out the stored reference signal data and the transmission signal data and calculates a reference birefringence phase difference and the absolute values of the birefringence phase difference.

Abstract: There is provided a method including, acquiring brain function data and diffusion tensor data (S10), calculating a connection degree between voxels adjacent to each other based on the diffusion tensor data (S30), constituting a data evaluation value based on the brain function data and the connection degree between the adjacent voxels (S40), subjecting the data evaluation value to nonparametric regression analysis (S50), and forming and displaying images based on results of the analysis (S60, S70).

Abstract: A gas insulated switchgear is provided which uses an SF6 substitute gas as an insulating gas and thus causes reduced environmental load while achieving high dielectric strength and excellent interrupting performance. The gas insulated switchgear includes a switchgear housed in a container filled with an insulating gas.

Abstract: This portable electromagnetic induction heating device is used to carry an induction current in a conductor, make the conductor generate heat by Joule's heat, and heat adhesive by the heat generating conductor. A heating induction coil (13a) is formed by a plurality of coil bodies (21-24 and 51-54), the respective coil bodies can change mutually center-to-center distances. Simultaneously, by changing any one of polarities thereof, a polarity and a position of a magnetic force line generated by the conductor are changed, whereby a heating state of the adhesive can be changed depending on a region of the adhesive.

Abstract: The present invention reduces the delay time to extremely short by monitoring the output/distribution unit of the exchange node to specify the unused time slot as write destination of the data and performing priority control by the priority control signal contained in the data. The traffic congestion is resolved by performing write output to the specified time slot regardless of the communication speed of the transmission path of the data. Furthermore, the present invention aims to provide the exchange node and the exchange node control method that ensures communication quality by using the connection type as the communication method since the delay time in communication can be reduced. The exchange node 100 according to the present invention includes an input buffer unit 2, an identification unit 7, a distribution unit 5, a multiplexing circuit 9, a time slot allocation circuit 12, and an output/distribution unit 10.

Abstract: A mono-conical antenna serving as a dielectric-loaded antenna includes: (i) a electricity supply electrode, which has a conical surface; (ii) an earth electrode, which has a flat surface that is so positioned as to face an apex of the conical surface; and (iii) a dielectric member, which is provided between the conical surface and the flat surface. The dielectric member has an outer circumferential surface which has such a slope that extends from a side of the conical surface to a side of the flat surface. This allows the dielectric-loaded antenna to have a small size, and to handle a wider frequency band in which the maximum value of the VSWR is restrained to be small.

Abstract: A light- and heat-response adsorbent, having an optically responding ability reversibly showing transition to adsorption and release of a soluble substance in a soluble-substance solution in response to whether light is irradiated or not and a thermally responding ability reversibly showing transition to solubilization and precipitation, or swelling and contraction, in response to temperature, preferably containing a copolymer of monomers including 1?,3?,3?-trimethyl-6-(acryloyloxy)spiro(2H-1-benzopyran-2,2?-indole] and N-isopropylacrylamide. Thus, the invention provides an adsorbent functioning both to adsorb and release a soluble substance from and into solution and having higher soluble-substance recovery efficiency.

Abstract: A photovoltaic power generator which outputs power generated by a solar battery panel through a DC-DC converter detects a time point at which a time differentiation value of output voltage of the solar battery panel substantially becomes zero, obtains power variation from the output power of the solar battery panel at each time point, controls the DC-DC converter based on the power variation, thereby swiftly and precisely tracking the maximum power point of the solar battery panel even when hysteresis loop (dynamic characteristic) is generated.

Abstract: A groove having a depth greater than 1 ?m is efficiently cut out on glass as a work by use of a super-hard ball end mill. A groove having a depth equal to or above 1 ?m is formed on a work made of a glassy inorganic material or a hard, brittle material by one session of cutting operation without generating damage while rotating a ball end mill at a high speed. A rotating shaft of the ball end mill has a relative tilt angle in a feeding direction of the ball end mill with respect to a cutting surface of the work when subjecting the work to cutting while rotating the ball end mill at a high speed. In this way, a cutting groove having a width of 200 ?m and a depth of 20 ?m is formed on a glass substrate as the work by one session of cutting operation.

Abstract: This portable electromagnetic induction heating device is used to carry an induction current in a conductor, make the conductor generate heat by Joule's heat, and heat adhesive by the heat generating conductor. A heating induction coil (13a) is formed by a plurality of coil bodies (21-24 and 51-54), the respective coil bodies can change mutually center-to-center distances. Simultaneously, by changing any one of polarities thereof, a polarity and a position of a magnetic force line generated by the conductor are changed, whereby a heating state of the adhesive can be changed depending on a region of the adhesive.