Abstract: The gas sensor includes: a cylindrical member which includes a gas detection chamber therein and extends along an axial thereof; a base member which closes an opening of a first axial end of the cylindrical member; a status sensor which is disposed at a substantially central portion of the base member, and detects at least the temperature or the humidity in the gas detection chamber; a gas detection element disposed around the status sensor on the base member; a lid member which closes an opening of a second axial end of the cylindrical member; and a gas inlet port which penetrates the lid member at a location not coinciding with the status sensor and the gas detection element when seen from the axial direction, and enables the introduction of an inspection target gas from an outside into the gas detection chamber.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a low-cost electrophotographic elastic roller having a good dimensional precision is provided. In that method, in which both end parts of a shaft core body are gripped and fixed in a vertical direction, an inclination of a central axis is corrected, a circular coating head including a circular slit is used so that the shaft core body is moved in the direction, and a elastic layer material is ejected from the slit to be coated on the shaft core body, the method includes: a maximum deflection coordinate in a longitudinal direction of the shaft core body is detected with a central axis of the shaft core body as a base point coordinate before coating; a central position of the head is moved at constant from the base point to the maximum during coating, and the position is moved to the base point after the head has reached the maximum.

Abstract: Provided are a molding appearance modifier for resins capable of controlling appearance of large-sized molded parts only by small addition, and a polypropylene resin composition capable of providing good appearance to, for example, automobile exterior parts, and has excellent molding processability. The invention relates to a propylene block copolymer having a crystalline propylene polymer portion and a propylene•ethylene random copolymer portion, wherein the crystalline propylene polymer portion has an intrinsic viscosity [?]homo of 1.2 dl/g or less; the propylene•ethylene random copolymer portion has an ethylene content of 30 to 70 wt. %, has an intrinsic viscosity [?]copoly of 2.5 to 7.0 dl/g, and is added in an amount of 40 to 80 wt. % based on the whole propylene block copolymer; and the propylene block copolymer, in its entirety, has a melt flow rate of 0.1 to 10 g/10 min; and a [?]copoly/[?]homo ratio falls within a range of 2.

Abstract: A capillary array includes a light detection portion, a sample supply portion, a buffer solution supply portion and a voltage application portion which are necessary functions for electrophoresis, thereby, when assembling the capillary array into an electrophoresis apparatus, the same can be immediately used. Accordingly, a capillary array is provided which can be easily incorporated into an electrophoresis apparatus.

Abstract: This gas sensor is provided with: a detection element that measures a gas concentration of a detection target gas contained in an examination gas; a substrate having a heating element; and a supporting member that is fixed to the substrate, protrudes from the heating element, and supports the detection element.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a gas sensor with a built-in heater is provided which can prevent damage to, deterioration of, and reduction in accuracy of detection of, a gas sensor. When an ignition switch is turned ON, supply of electricity to a heater 27 starts, and when the temperature in the vicinity of a gas sensor 15 (gas temperature of gas detection chamber 24) Ts becomes greater than a predetermined temperature #Ti at start, or when a predetermined electricity supply time after start of supply of electricity to the heater 27 has elapsed, the gas sensor 15 is started. The flow of off-gas is started simultaneously with starting of the gas sensor 15, or after starting. When the ignition switch is turned OFF, the flow of off gas is stopped, and the supply of electric power to the gas sensor 15 is stopped.

Abstract: The object of this invention is to make possible the manufacturing of sheath-core type super microfilaments from sheath-core type filaments such as hollow filaments, optical filaments and conjugate filaments continuously and stably by a simple and convenient means without requiring any apparatus of high-accuracy and high-level, characterized in that original filaments delivered from sheath-core type filament supply means are heated by infrared beams and the heated sheath-core type filaments are drawn at 100 times or more by a tension provided by the own weight or under a tension of 1 MPa or less.

Abstract: A capillary array includes a light detection portion, a sample supply portion, a buffer solution supply portion and a voltage application portion which are necessary functions for electrophoresis, thereby, when assembling the capillary array into an electrophoresis apparatus, the same can be immediately used. Accordingly, a capillary array is provided which can be easily incorporated into an electrophoresis apparatus.

Abstract: An adhesive agent is uniformly applied to a back surface of a window pane, the application made to an area where a covering member is planned to be adhered and to an area where a positioning fixture and a holding portion are planned to be adhered, the application is also made continuously such that adhesive agent layers of both planned adhesion areas being continuous with an adhesive agent continuous area in between. After that, the window pane and the positioning fixture are set in an injection mold and a polymer material is injected in the mold. This results that the covering member and the holding portion are formed into a shape where they are connected by a connection portion for material flow, which connection portion is formed at a position other than the adhesive agent continuous area. The forming results that the covering member and the holding portion are adhered and fixed to the back surface of the window pane with the adhesive agent layers in between.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to enable a microfilament that is a nanofilament to be manufactured continuously and consistently from all thermoplastic polymers without requiring a specialized high precision.high performance apparatus and also to present the nanofilament manufactured as described. The present invention comprises a microfilament in a nanofilament region and the manufacturing means thereof wherein a original filament transferred using a filament transfer means is supplied to an orifice under pressure P1 and is heated and drawn using an infrared light beam directly under the orifice under pressure P2 (P1>P2).

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite molded member, which includes the steps of: setting the main body inside an injection mold; closing the injection mold to fix the main body inside the injection mold; and forming the cushion members on the edges of the main body through heat and pressure of the injected elastic polymer material. The elastic polymer material is injected from an injection gate into one of the first and second edges at the back surface side of the main body of the molding cavities to flow the elastic polymer material into one of the molding cavities. The elastic polymer material flows into the other of the molding cavities through the connecting flow path, and fills the molding cavities with the elastic polymer material.

Abstract: Plural LDs 6 are series-connected and pump a solid-state pumping medium 7. Each of bypass circuits 15 is connected in parallel to an associated one of the LDs 6. An operation of driving each of the bypass circuits 15 is controlled by a control circuit 14. A detection circuit 13 is provided corresponding to each of the LDs 6 and detects a short circuit failure and an open failure of each of the LDs 6 according to a voltage developed thereacross or the like. The detection circuit 13 and the control circuit 14 are connected to and are controlled by an LD shortcircuit control circuit 11. In a case where a failure of the LD is detected by the detection circuit 13, the LD shortcircuit control unit 11 determines the position of the failed LD to bypass electric current having flowed through the failed LD. Then, the control circuit 11 sends a signal to a predetermined control circuit 14 to thereby operate a predetermined bypass circuit 15.

Abstract: In a state in which a first divisional core and a second divisional core are arranged in a state spaced from each other and adjacent to each other, a first coil and a second coil are each wound around a tooth. The first coil and the second coil are in the same phase. In a state in which a plurality of divisional cores are arranged annularly so that their teeth are oriented in a radially inward direction, the first divisional core and the second divisional core are not adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A plurality of connection wires are shaped to converge at an end surface of a stator core. This facilitates the winding of the coils around the divisional cores. Further, the connection wires can be shortened.

Abstract: A communication apparatus (400) capable of supporting two bidirectional communication protocols is connected to a single bidirectional signal line and a controller (414). Software processes of the controller (414) include only processes of requesting transmission, setting transmission data, and decoding reception data. All communication processes, such as generation of a waveform during transmission, sampling of data during reception, decoding of a reception address, and the like, are hardware processes of the communication apparatus (400). In accordance with a control of a state determining circuit (405), the generation of a waveform during transmission is controlled by a transmission control circuit (409) and a data output circuit (111), while the sampling of data during reception and the decoding of a reception address are controlled by a waveform timing check circuit (407) and a reception control circuit (410).

Abstract: A synchronous clock generation apparatus including a multiplier for multiplying a horizontal synchronizing signal by a horizontal synchronizing pulse signal to generate multiplication data, a gain variable digital LPF for extracting only DC components from the multiplication data and capable of performing gain adjustment, and a controller for calculating gain adjustment data, lock center frequency setting data, and LPF gain adjustment data based on the correction data. The controller detects an amount of deviation from the lock center frequency and an amount of variation, displaces the lock center frequency and shifts the lock range along the frequency axis to enlarge the apparent lock range when the amount of deviation is large, and reduces the gain to improve lock precision when the amount of variation is small, without expanding bits in the circuit configuration.

Abstract: A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries out the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.

Abstract: Provided are a molding appearance modifier for resins capable of controlling appearance of large-sized molded parts only by small addition, and a polypropylene resin composition capable of providing good appearance to, for example, automobile exterior parts, and has excellent molding processability. The invention relates to a propylene block copolymer having a crystalline propylene polymer portion and a propylene•ethylene random copolymer portion, wherein the crystalline propylene polymer portion has an intrinsic viscosity [?]homo of 1.2 dl/g or less; the propylene•ethylene random copolymer portion has an ethylene content of 30 to 70 wt. %, has an intrinsic viscosity [?]copoly of 2.5 to 7.0 dl/g, and is added in an amount of 40 to 80 wt. % based on the whole propylene block copolymer; and the propylene block copolymer, in its entirety, has a melt flow rate of 0.1 to 10 g/10 min; and a [?]copoly/[?]homo ratio falls within a range of 2.

Abstract: A display control device equipped with a controller (101) is provided with a state determination unit (214) for judging the power supply management state of a display on the basis of a combination of presence/absence of a horizontal sync signal (204) and a vertical sync signal (208), whereby the four states of “on”, “Stand-By”, “Suspend”, and “Off” are judged in accordance with presence/absence of the horizontal sync signal (204) and the vertical sync signal (208) without using the controller (101). When there is a state change, an interruption signal is generated to control the controller (101), thereby to perform display power supply management without reducing the performance of the controller. Further, since the controller is also controlled, a further reduction in power consumption is achieved as the whole display set.

Abstract: A data slicer 300 includes a slice level calculation unit 310 that determines whether a detected digital video signal is a CRI signal on the basis of the amplitude of the signal, and sets a reference slice level and upper and lower slice levels which are obtained by providing offset in the reference slice level, by using only the CRI signal; a data slicing unit 160 that binarizes a digital video signal S140 using the slice levels; a decoding circuit 170 that converts binarized serial data into parallel data; and a data selection unit 320 that selects data including no error from the decoded data, and outputs the selected data through a video signal output terminal 190. Therefore, even when the video signal is distorted, this data slicer can set appropriate slice level data to binarize the video signal, thereby suppressing the occurrence rate of decoding errors.

Abstract: A gas sensor disposed on a wall of a gas passage, the gas sensor including: a gas detector detecting a target gas contained in the gas flowing in the gas passage; a detector which houses therein the gas detector and has a gas chamber into which the gas is introduced; and a cutoff valve controlling the introducing of the gas into the gas chamber from the gas passage.