Abstract: A substrate for mounting a device includes: an insulating resin layer made of an insulating resin; a wiring layer provided on one major surface of the insulating resin layer; and a projected portion that projects toward the direction opposite to the insulating resin layer from the wiring layer, and that is used for supporting a low-melting metal ball, while being connected to the wiring layer electrically. The wiring layer and the projected portion are formed into one body.

Abstract: An optical element used in a bidirectional optical communication module used for bidirectional optical fiber communication by a wavelength multiplex system, comprising a diffraction grating of binary structure prepared by molding, wherein a taper is formed at a portion of the diffraction grating where light entering the diffraction grating is intercepted by a convex part of the binary structure of the diffraction grating.

Abstract: There is provided a voice recognition device and a voice recognition method that enhance the function of noise adaptation processing in voice recognition processing and reduce the capacity of a memory being used. Acoustic models are subjected to clustering processing to calculate the centroid of each cluster and the differential vector between the centroid and each model, model composition between each kind of assumed noise model and the calculated centroid is carried out, and the centroid of each composition model and the differential vector are stored in a memory. In the actual recognition processing, the centroid optimal to the environment estimated by the utterance environmental estimation is extracted from the memory, model restoration is carried out on the extracted centroid by using the differential vector stored in the memory, and noise adaptation processing is executed on the basis of the restored model.

Abstract: An interactive information providing apparatus is provided with: an output component that provides an information requesting output for requesting a user for information; an input component that receives from the user input information to the information requesting output; and an interaction controller component that controls the output component and the input component according to a scenario, to carry on a dialogue with the user. In the apparatus, the interaction controller component changes a level at which the output component requests a user for information, according to an importance parameter associated with the scenario.

Abstract: Several sheets of sheet-shaped photosensitive material 1 are stacked on a paper tray container 2 prepared by press-forming stencil paper sheet, the photosensitive material 1 stacked on said paper tray container is inserted into a moisture-proof and light-shielding bag 3 made of a photosensitive material packaging material having moisture-proof and light-shielding properties and having an aluminum thin foil layer, and the moisture-proof and light-shielding bag 3 is sealed tight under a reduced pressure vacuum.

Abstract: A method for measuring a concentration of a propylene polymer slurry contained in a polymerization reactor, in which liquid phase-filled polymerization of propylene or a combination of propylene with a comonomer is carried out, according to the defined formula, slurry concentration=0.1(Q0?QI)/(QpPI); and a process for producing a propylene polymer comprising the step of homopolymerizing propylene or copolymerizing propylene with a comonomer in a liquid phase-filled polymerization reactor while measuring a concentration of a propylene polymer slurry contained in said polymerization reactor according to the above formula.

Abstract: An optical element used in a bidirectional optical communication module used for bidirectional optical fiber communication by a wavelength multiplex system, comprising a diffraction grating of binary structure prepared by molding, wherein a taper is formed at a portion of the diffraction grating where light entering the diffraction grating is intercepted by a convex part of the binary structure of the diffraction grating.

Abstract: A circuit device is provided in which the bonding reliability of a brazing material such as soft solder is improved. A circuit device of the present invention includes conductive patterns, a bonding material which fixes circuit elements to the conductive patterns, and sealing resin which covers the circuit elements. The circuit device has a structure in which Pb-free solder containing Bi is used as the bonding material. Since the melting temperature of Bi is high in comparison with that of a general solder, the melting of the bonding material is suppressed when the circuit device is mounted. Further, Ag or the like may be mixed into the bonding material in order to enhance the wettability of the bonding material.

Abstract: In order to prevent short-circuiting when a chip component is brazed to pads of a conductive wiring layer, a hybrid semiconductor circuit includes the chip component with terminal electrodes formed at both ends, a first conductive wiring layer on which the pads are provided such that they correspond to the terminal electrodes, and an overcoat resin that covers the first conductive wiring layer excluding the pads. The terminal electrodes of the chip component are adhered to the pads by a conductive adhesive and an insulating adhesive is provided between the pads.

Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate for a magnetic information recording medium and a producing method of the substrate for a magnetic information recording medium. The substrate for a magnetic information recording medium includes: a base plate in a disk shape comprising a resin material; and a covering layer formed on a surface of the base plate.

Abstract: A trained vector generation section 16 generates beforehand a trained vector v of unvoiced sounds. An LPC Cepstrum analysis section 18 generates a feature vector A of a voice within the non-voice period, an inner product operation section 19 calculates an inner product value VTA between the feature vector A and the trained vector V, and a threshold generation section 20 generates a threshold ?v on the basis of the inner product value VTA. Also, the LFC Cepstrum analysis section 18 generates a prediction residual power ? of the signal within the non-voice period, and the threshold generation section 22 generates a threshold THD on the basis of the prediction residual power ?.

Abstract: Several sheets of sheet-shaped photosensitive material 1 are stacked on a paper tray container 2 prepared by press-forming stencil paper sheet, the photosensitive material 1 stacked on said paper tray container is inserted into a moisture-proof and light-shielding bag 3 made of a photosensitive material packaging material having moisture-proof and light-shielding properties and having an aluminum thin foil layer, and the moisture-proof and light-shielding bag 3 is sealed tight under a reduced pressure vacuum.

Abstract: An vehicle-mounted internal combustion engine (1) provided with an EGR line (11) for recirculating exhaust gas, an EGR valve (12) which is arranged in said EGR line (11) and controls an EGR amount, and an EGR controller (41), is constituted so that said EGR controller (41) opens said EGR valve and performs control for scavenging said EGR line (11) at the time of reducing vehicle speed and during idling. With this vehicle-mounted internal combustion engine (1), the sulfuric acid corrosion can be avoided by preventing condensation of moisture in the exhaust gas in the EGR line (11), the EGR valve (12), etc. developed when the internal combustion engine (1) stops running.

Abstract: Paired light shielding flange members, each having: a hollow cylindrical boss section to be inserted into a core around which a photosensitive material has been wound, wherein a plurality of rip sections are formed on the exterior surface of the cylindrical boss section parallel with an axis of the boss section, and an interior surface portion of rib is grooved in parallel with the axis of the hollow cylindrically boss section, and a flange section, integrated concentrically with the hollow cylindrical boss section, to prevent the edge of photosensitive material from being exposed to light.

Abstract: A trained vector creating part 15 creates a characteristic of an unvoiced sound in advance as a trained vector V. Meanwhile, a threshold value THD for distinguishing a voice from a background sound is created based on a predictive residual power ? of a sound which is created during a non-voice period. As a voice is actually uttered, an inner product computation part 18 calculates an inner product of a feature vector A of an input signal Sa and a trained vector V, and a first threshold value judging part 19 judges that it is a voice section when the inner product has a value which is equal to or larger than a predetermined value ? while a second threshold value judging part 21 judges that it is a voice section when the predictive residual power ? of the input signal Sa is larger than a threshold value THD.

Abstract: An axial direction sliding-contact type brush apparatus is provided which can not only maintain performance of suppressing vibration of a brush of a flat vibrator motor but also allow the brush to form a stable electrical contact with a commutator. The base portion of the brush is installed at the exposed portion of the pattern of the brush base above the bracket at an elevation angle of 45° or less with respect to the brush base. The ultraviolet-cured acryl-based resin is coated on the base portion of the brush to cover a position located at about ? of the side projection length L of the brush arm portion from the base portion of the brush.

Abstract: A circuit device is provided in which the bonding reliability of a brazing material such as soft solder is improved. A circuit device of the present invention includes conductive patterns, a bonding material which fixes circuit elements to the conductive patterns, and sealing resin which covers the circuit elements. The circuit device has a structure in which Pb-free solder containing Bi is used as the bonding material. Since the melting temperature of Bi is high in comparison with that of a general solder, the melting of the bonding material is suppressed when the circuit device is mounted. Further, Ag or the like may be mixed into the bonding material in order to enhance the wettability of the bonding material.

Abstract: In order to prevent, when a chip component is brazed to pads of a conductive wiring layer, short-circuiting by a fused brazing material from short-circuiting between the pads, a hybrid semiconductor circuit comprises a chip component 43 with terminal electrodes 46 formed at both ends thereof, a first conductive wiring layer 37 on which a plurality of the pads 38 are provided to correspond to the terminal electrodes 46, and an overcoat resin 39 for covering the first conductive wiring layer 37 excluding the pads 38, and the terminal electrodes 46 of the chip component 43 is adhered to the pads 38 by a conductive adhesive 57, and an insulating adhesive 58 is provided between the pads 38.

Abstract: A voice recognition/response system comprising an utterance recognition unit, a dialog control processing unit, an utterance feature analyzing unit and a response voice generating unit. The utterance recognition unit recognizes utterance content of a user through a voice input therefrom and outputs recognition results. The dialog control processing unit controls progress of dialog with the user based on the recognition results so as to determine response content to the user. The utterance feature analyzing unit analyzes utterance features of the user to generate utterance feature information. The response voice generating unit generates response voice to the user based on the response content and the utterance feature information.

Abstract: An apparatus for recognizing a word based on voice information, includes, a keyword model storing device, a non-keyword model storing device, a model updating device and a recognition device. The keyword model storing device stores words to be potentially spoken, as keyword models. The non-keyword model storing device stores words to be potentially spoken, as non-keyword models. The model updating device updates the recognition and non-keyword models, based on a previously recognized word. The recognition device matches the recognition and non-keyword models updated with the voice information. The model updating device updates the non-keyword models utilizing a non-keyword variation vector, which is indicative of variation of the non-keyword models, from the non-updated to the updated, and has been set to be smaller than a non-keyword variation vector applied in the updating of the non-keyword models.