Abstract: An image pickup apparatus comprises one holding component which holds two or more prisms and an image pickup element. As for the holding component, a prism holding portion and an image pickup element holding portion are formed in one component. At the prism holding portion, an opening is formed. At the image pickup element, the image pickup element holding portion is fixed. Each prism is fixed to the holding component from the both sides of the holding component by fitting a projected portion into a penetration hole, respectively.

Abstract: A package has a package body formed by mating film materials and sealing peripheral edge portions of the mated film materials so as to form a content accommodation compartment inside the sealed peripheral edge portions, the sealed peripheral edge portions being subjected to an easily peel-off treatment so that the sealed peripheral edge portions are separated and peeled off from each other when the package is opened. A seal opening starting portion is formed outside of one of the sealed peripheral edge portions so that the film materials are separated from each other at the seal opening starting portion, and at least one projection is provided on at least one of inner and outer side surfaces of the film materials forming the seal opening starting portion.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium capable of achieving optimum error rate characteristics in the high-density region. The magnetic recording medium is employed for magnetically recording signals and reproducing the signals with a reproduction head with a track width equal to or less than 6 ?m. The magnetic recording medium comprises a magnetic layer on a nonmagnetic support, and the thickness variation of the magnetic layer satisfies the following equation (1): (1)m/Tw?10 [wherein m denotes magnetic layer thickness variation (%) and Tw denotes reproduction head track width (?m)].

Abstract: A reproducing/recording apparatus includes a first reproducing/recording mechanism (21) for reproducing data from and/or recording data onto a cartridge/disk combination (first disk) (1) or a bare disk (second disk) (2), the disk main body (1A) being contained in the cartridge (1B). The first reproducing/recording mechanism (21) has a traversing mechanism (50) disposed oppositely relative to the recording area of the first disk (1) or the second disk (2), a clamping mechanism (60) disposed oppositely relative to the traversing mechanism (50) with the first disk (1) or the second disk (2) interposed between them in order to clamp the first disk (1) and a keep member (64) adapted to bias the first disk (1) toward the side of the first disk tray at the time of clamping the first disk (1) by the clamping mechanism (60).

Abstract: A recording medium of an image recording apparatus such as a digital camera is divided into multiple partitions, for each of which an access key such as a password is set to provide access security on a per-partition basis. Therefore, when multiple people share one recording medium, each person can prohibit other persons from accessing his or her files on the recording medium.

Abstract: In a full text search retrieval device connected to a plurality of user terminals, a received retrieval condition and terminal device information are stored in a trailing character buffer. If it is determined that a preceding retrieving process is not being performed, then a retrieval pattern variable table and a retrieval request expression variable table are generated. According to the retrieval request expression variable table, a database of the data to be searched is searched to extract a retrieval result matching the retrieval condition transmitted from each of the terminal devices, and the extracted retrieval result is transmitted to each of the plurality of terminal devices. Thus, although retrieval requests are continuously transmitted from respective users, a retrieval result can be returned to each user terminal in the same response time as in the case where a user terminal corresponds to a retrieval device.

Abstract: A mounting apparatus includes: a heater head for bonding a liquid crystal display and a flexible printed circuit board by thermocompression; a cylinder as a heater head driving means for driving heater head to compress the liquid crystal display and flexible printed circuit board by a prescribed load; and a control mechanism as a stretch amount controlling means for adjusting a load change per unit of time after the heater head starts compressing the flexible printed circuit board by the cylinder as well as a time at which a required load is attained to control the stretch amount of the flexible printed circuit board by thermocompression. Preferably, the mounting apparatus is provided with a mechanism which performs measurement after preliminary bonding and which performs regular bonding while controlling based on the obtained information.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes: a base plate; pixel electrodes formed on the base plate; pixel switching elements, each being connected to associated one of the pixel electrodes; gate lines for controlling operations of the pixel switching elements; data lines, each being connected to associated ones of the pixel electrodes by way of associated ones of the pixel switching elements so as to supply a data signal therethrough; data line switching elements, each having one of its terminals connected to associated one of the data lines; signal input terminals, each being electrically connected to another terminal at associated ones of the data line switching elements; a data line branching section provided between the signal input terminals and the data line switching elements; and a control line connected to the data line switching elements to selectively turn ON or OFF the data line switching elements.

Abstract: In a conventional control apparatus, the control apparatus cannot be correctly set into a fail safe mode upon failure of a temperature sensor itself mounted in the control apparatus. Also, when the control apparatus has a plurality of elements having a concern of heat generation, a plurality of temperature sensors are required corresponding to the elements having a concern of heat generation. The requirement of the plurality of temperature sensors causes an increase in the cost and mounting area. The present invention measures an instructed current value from a CPU to an element mounted in a control apparatus and having a concern of heat generation (typically, a current control element), calculates power consumption from the measured current value and a monitored source voltage, and predicts a temperature rise of the control apparatus by multiplying the power consumption by a thermal resistance parameter of the control apparatus.

Abstract: In retransmission processing due to a failure of transmission of data packets, a plurality of data packets are simultaneously transmitted between two STAs by utilizing multiple wireless channels and MIMO, and the number of idle channels and the number of retransmission packets are compared. Then, when both of the numbers are different or only when the number of idle channels is larger than the number of retransmission packets, the retransmission packets are reconstructed according to the number of idle channels, and the reconstructed retransmission packets are simultaneously transmitted by using the idle channels.

Abstract: The present invention is aimed to pursue both an inhibition of a noise when operating by maintaining stiffness of a blade, and a more effective cooling for responding to an increase of heat generation of internally mounted components, with needs for a smaller and high-performance device. A hub for connecting the blades is composed of an outer circular hub partially covering an outer peripheral edge of the blade and an inner circular hub partially covering an inner peripheral edge of the blade, the hubs concentrically formed, and an opening is provided between the two inner and outer circular hubs.

Abstract: A fixture is disclosed which can reliably attach an attachment member, such as a cylinder, to an attachment site, such as a frame. The fixture includes a fixing portion, which faces the attachment site at the side of the attachment site and is fixed to the attachment site, and a contact portion, which is disposed at the side opposite from the attachment site, with the attachment member therebetween. The contact portion is integrally coupled to the fixing portion, point-contacts or line-contacts the attachment member, and is configured to push the attachment member to the attachment site in a state where the fixing portion is fixed to the attachment site. A webbing take-up device including this fixture is also disclosed.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including: an electrode group in which a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are spirally wound with a separator interposed therebetween; and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode plate has at least one exposed portion of the positive electrode current collector, the negative electrode plate has at least one exposed portion of the negative electrode current collector, and a metal that dissolves into the non-aqueous electrolyte when the battery voltage exceeds a predetermined level is provided on a surface of the exposed portion of positive electrode current collector facing the exposed portion of negative electrode current collector. This battery is extremely safe because it prevents overcharge and internal short-circuit at an area where the positive and negative electrode active materials and the non-aqueous electrolyte exist together.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: pixel electrodes arranged in columns and rows, each including a reflective electrode region; scanning lines; and signal lines. The device sequentially supplies a scanning signal voltage to one of the scanning lines after another to select one group of pixel electrodes, connected to the same one of the scanning lines, after another, and then supplies display signal voltages to the selected group of pixel electrodes by way of the signal lines, thereby displaying an image thereon. The pixel electrodes are arranged such that the polarity of a voltage to be applied to a liquid crystal layer is inverted for every predetermined number of pixel electrodes in each of the rows and in each of the columns. The display signal voltage to be supplied to each pixel electrode is updated at a frequency of 45 Hz or less.

Abstract: There is provided a practical magnetoresistance effect element which has an appropriate value of resistance, which can be sensitized and which has a small number of magnetic layers to be controlled, and a magnetic head and magnetic recording and/or reproducing system using the same. In a magnetoresistance effect element wherein a sense current is caused to flow in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the film, a resistance regulating layer is provided in at least one of a pinned layer, a free layer and an non-magnetic intermediate layer. The resistance regulating layer contains, as a principal component, an oxide, a nitride, a fluoride, a carbide or a boride. The resistance regulating layer may be a continuous film or may have pin holes. Thus, it is possible to provide a practical magnetoresistance effect element which has an appropriate value of resistance, which can be sensitized and which has a small number of magnetic layers, while effectively utilizing the scattering effect depending on spin.

Abstract: A webbing take-up device is disclosed which includes a take-up shaft onto which a webbing is mound, and a mounting member nondetachably mounted to the take-up shaft by screw tightening. The take-up shaft and the mounting member are engaged with each other at a portion other than a portion where the screw tightening is carried out, thereby preventing relative rotation of the take-up shaft and the mounting member.

Abstract: A telescopic system with a display in a visual field is provided. In the telescopic system, a microcomputer is mounted on the circuit board of a display device and is configured so that the short-time pressing of an ENT key is detected. When the short-time pressing of the ENT key is detected, the orientation data on a liquid crystal display unit is set into a fixed display state in which the orientation data is fixed to the orientation data obtained at the time. At the same time, the display state of the liquid crystal display unit is switched to a blinking state or a state in which the color of the backlight unit is switched to a lighting color different from the lighting color in a real-time display state in which the orientation data being changed is displayed directly, by the microcomputer via a lighting drive circuit, whereby the distinction between the fixed display and the real-time display can be performed easily.

Abstract: Among cellular radio communication systems, there are those in which a plurality of businesses, e.g. businesses A, B and C share a designated frequency band, and each business provides radio communication services using respectively allotted frequency bands. In this type of radio communication system, there are cases in which mobile stations belonging to different businesses use channels which have adjacent frequencies, in which case adjacent channel interference of a large interference level is produced. Therefore, in this radio communication system, of the frequency bands allotted to each business, the adjacent frequency bands which are adjacent to frequency bands allotted to other businesses are allotted to low power communications, while non-adjacent frequency bands which are not adjacent to frequency bands allotted to other businesses are allotted to high power communications.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit for acquiring information stored in a memory of a printing device connected through a bidirectional interface, and a selecting unit for selecting a printer driver corresponding to the information acquired by the acquiring unit from a plurality of printer drivers on the basis of the information.

Abstract: A series-regulator type of power supply circuit is provided. In the circuit, the emitter and collector of a transistor are connected to power input/output terminals. A control circuit controls a base current of the transistor based on the output voltage detected at the power output terminal and a given target voltage. A resistor circuit connects the base and the collector of the transistor. A bypass circuit connects the emitter and the base of the transistor and passes a bypass current. The accepting circuit connected to the power output terminal accepts (absorbs) current from an output current. An amount of the acceptance current is equal to or larger than an amount of the bypass current and a product of the bypass current and a resistance value of the resistance circuit is equal to or more than a difference between a voltage at the power input terminal and the target voltage.