Abstract: The present invention provides a fiber-reinforced glass having excellent heat resistance and toughness, or a composite comprising a heat-resistant fiber and a siloxane polymer, which has a modified surface structure and is useful as a heat-resistant fiber.

Abstract: A compact imaging module comprising a case having a lens holding barrel portion, an optical system member housed in the lens holding barrel portion, a circuit substrate having a wiring pattern and disposed in an image side of the optical system member, a plurality of electrodes disposed on the circuit substrate, an imaging sensor mounted on a surface of the circuit substrate, an opposite side of the contained optical system member, and a frame member provided on a periphery of the circuit substrate, the case including a substrate mounting surface having a sensor window, the circuit substrate being attached to the substrate mounting surface of the case, the frame member including conductive electrodes to guide out a signal of the imaging sensor mounted on the circuit substrate.

Abstract: A compact imaging module comprising a case having a lens holding barrel portion, an optical system member housed in the lens holding barrel portion, a circuit substrate having a wiring pattern and disposed in an image side of the optical system member, a plurality of electrodes disposed on the circuit substrate, an imaging sensor mounted on a surface of the circuit substrate, an opposite side of the contained optical system member, and a frame member provided on a periphery of the circuit substrate, the case including a substrate mounting surface having a sensor window, the circuit substrate being attached to the substrate mounting surface of the case, the frame member including conductive electrodes to guide out a signal of the imaging sensor mounted on the circuit substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a 3-dimensional wave-guiding structure for horn or tube-type waveguides. The wave-guiding structure comprises a fiber-reinforced composite material and a conductive nonwoven fabric shaped together with the composite material. The present invention also provides a 3-dimensional wave-guiding structure comprising a conductive nonwoven fabric 30 and a fiber-reinforced triaxial woven fabric 20 which are laminated alternately or in an arbitrary order. The conductive nonwoven fabric having flexibility can be readily shaped together with the composite material composed of a triaxial woven fabric or the like in conformity with the 3-dimensional shape of various horn or tube-like waveguides such as a waveguide diplexer, waveguide circulator, hybrid waveguide and waveguide directional coupler to provide a lightweight wave-guiding structure capable of achieving both excellent mechanical and electrical characteristics.

Abstract: Congenic rats are disclosed which express a truncated form of GPR10, wherein the truncation is the first 64 amino acids present in the NH2-terminus of wild-type GPR10. Also disclosed are in vitro screening methods for identifying compounds that bind to or modulate the function or expression of the truncated GPR10, and thus are useful in treating psychiatric diseases, such as depression and anxiety.

Abstract: The present invention provides a 3-dimensional wave-guiding structure for horn or tube-type waveguides. The wave-guiding structure comprises a fiber-reinforced composite material and a conductive nonwoven fabric shaped together with the composite material. The present invention also provides a 3-dimensional wave-guiding structure comprising a conductive nonwoven fabric 30 and a fiber-reinforced triaxial woven fabric 20 which are laminated alternately or in an arbitrary order. The conductive nonwoven fabric having flexibility can be readily shaped together with the composite material composed of a triaxial woven fabric or the like in conformity with the 3-dimensional shape of various horn or tube-type waveguides such as a waveguide diplexer, waveguide circulator, hybrid waveguide and waveguide directional coupler to provide a lightweight wave-guiding structure capable of achieving both excellent mechanical and electrical characteristics.

Abstract: In an inflatable structure provided with an array antenna or the like, a membrane of a multi-layer inflatable structure is provided with an airtight layer for forming an airtight space inside and a rigidizing layer provided outside the airtight layer, and the rigidizing layer is composed of a triaxial woven fabrics of reinforcing fibers, to thereby achieve a light mass and a high level of precision, and enable adaptation to a demand for increased size.

Abstract: A prepreg, including a laminated body impregnated with resin having two triaxial woven fabrics prepregs(101) and an electrically conductive non-woven fabric(102) are laminated each other, wherein an antenna reflector is formed by laying up the prepreg, and the non-woven fabric may be a heat conducting non-woven fabric, heat insulating non-woven fabric, electrical conducting non-woven fabric, electrical insulating non-woven fabric, heat conducting and electrical conducting non-woven fabric, heat conducting and electrical insulating non-woven fabric, heat insulating and electrical conducting non-woven fabric, heat insulating and electrical insulating non-woven fabric.

Abstract: In an inflatable structure provided with an array antenna or the like, a membrane of a multi-layer inflatable structure is provided with an airtight layer for forming an airtight space inside and a rigidizing layer provided outside the airtight layer, and the rigidizing layer is composed of a triaxial woven fabrics of reinforcing fibers, to thereby achieve a light mass and a high level of precision, and enable adaptation to a demand for increased size.

Abstract: This invention provides holding and supporting appliances used in the fields of orthopedics, rehabilitation and sports and support members thereof that are light in weight, thin, rigid and durable and breathe well, and, furthermore, support members made of reinforced plastic triaxial woven fabrics impregnated with resin. The support members according to this invention include a piece formed of reinforced plastic triaxial woven fabrics. Preferably, the formed piece should have openings representing 5 to 33 percent of the overall area thereof, and a flexural rigidity of 10 to 1×104 kg·mm2 per unit width and a basis weight (weight per unit area) of 50 to 1000 g/m2. Holding and supporting appliances are formed by using the support members described above.

Abstract: A non-reciprocal circuit element includes a plurality of inner conductors intersecting with keeping insulation with each other, a shield conductor connected in common to one end of the inner conductors, and a capacitor connected between the shield conductor and a ground of the non-reciprocal circuit element, for adjusting only eigen values of in-phase excitation. Thus, smaller size, lighter weight and lower height can be attained and also temperature characteristics can be optionally adjusted without changing material used and without inviting increased insertion loss.

Abstract: An antenna-oriented reflecting material using triaxial woven fabric is usable for frequency bands as high as 20-60 GHz. A reflecting material 1 usable for the high frequency bands is manufactured without spoiling advantages of triaxial woven fabric 2 by controlling mainly a construction n, a volume resistivity .rho. and a mass per unit length .eta. of the triaxial woven fabric. Particularly the setting of each parameter is determined by a composite model reflection ratio .GAMMA. obtained from a sum of a first reflection ratio .GAMMA.'s based on a surface resistance of the triaxial woven fabric and a second reflection ratio .GAMMA.p based on opening, holes of the triaxial woven fabric. It is preferable that a construction be 5-28 yards/in a mass per unit length .eta. be 10-460 tex g/1000 m, and a volume resistivity .rho. be 0.7 to 2.0.times.10.sup.-3 .OMEGA..multidot.cm.

Abstract: An engine rotation speed detecting apparatus comprises circuitry for sensing the state of operation of an engine, circuitry for setting a plurality of respectively different masking periods of time, circuitry for detecting an ignition signal lasting for a period of time longer than any one of the plural masking periods of time thereby detecting an ignition period defined between adjacent ignition signals, and circuitry for computing the rotation speed of the engine on the basis of the detected ignition period, one of the plural masking periods of time being selected according to the result of sensing by the operation state sensing circuitry.