Abstract: A drive device includes: a rotor and a stator; a case housing the rotor and the stator; a brake rotor that is arranged on the outside of the case and rotates in conjunction with the rotation of the rotor; a brake caliper that stops the rotation of the brake rotor by coming in contact with the brake rotor; and a ventilation membrane that is attached to the case, stops fluid or solids from penetrating inside the case from outside the case and also has formed therein multiple pores that permit gas to flow between inside and outside. The case has an output part that supports the rotor and a stator holding part that supports the stator. The ventilation membrane is attached to the stator holding part.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp 1 is provided with: a ventilating unit 10 that is provided with a first opening 2a of a closed case 2, prevents entry of liquids and solids to an inside space S within the case 2, and allows circulation of air between the inside space S and an outside space of the vehicle lamp 1; and a dehumidifying unit 20 that is provided in a second opening 2b of the case 2 different in position from the first opening 2a and has an electrolysis dehumidifying element for discharging water vapor in the inside space S to the outside of the vehicle lamp 1 by electrolysis. Thus, a dehumidifying device and a lamp that can rapidly discharge water vapor that has entered the inside of a housing to the outside of the housing can be provided.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp 1 is provided with: a ventilating unit 10 that is provided with a first opening 2a of a closed case 2, prevents entry of liquids and solids to an inside space S within the case 2, and allows circulation of air between the inside space S and an outside space of the vehicle lamp 1; and a dehumidifying unit 20 that is provided in a second opening 2b of the case 2 different in position from the first opening 2a and has an electrolysis dehumidifying element for discharging water vapor in the inside space S to the outside of the vehicle lamp 1 by electrolysis. Thus, a dehumidifying device and a lamp that can rapidly discharge water vapor that has entered the inside of a housing to the outside of the housing can be provided.

Abstract: A drive device includes: a rotor and a stator; a case housing the rotor and the stator; a brake rotor that is arranged on the outside of the case and rotates in conjunction with the rotation of the rotor; a brake caliper that stops the rotation of the brake rotor by coming in contact with the brake rotor; and a ventilation membrane that is attached to the case, stops fluid or solids from penetrating inside the case from outside the case and also has formed therein multiple pores that permit gas to flow between inside and outside. The case has an output part that supports the rotor and a stator holding part that supports the stator. The ventilation membrane is attached to the stator holding part.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a substrate, an organic electroluminescent element, and a photocatalyst layer, wherein the organic electroluminescent element includes: a first conductive layer provided on the substrate; an organic electroluminescent layer provided on the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer provided on the organic electroluminescent layer, wherein the photocatalyst layer covers all or part of a light-emitting region of the organic electroluminescent element, and contains a photocatalyst and a co-catalyst, and wherein an absolute value of the difference (|R1?R2|) between the refractive index (R1) of the photocatalyst and the refractive index (R2) of the co-catalyst at a wavelength of 589 nm is 0 to 0.35.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a substrate, an organic electroluminescent element, and a photocatalyst layer, wherein the organic electroluminescent element includes: a first conductive layer provided on the substrate; an organic electroluminescent layer provided on the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer provided on the organic electroluminescent layer, wherein the photocatalyst layer covers all or part of a light-emitting region of the organic electroluminescent element, and contains a photocatalyst and a co-catalyst, and wherein an absolute value of the difference (|R1-R2|) between the refractive index (R1) of the photocatalyst and the refractive index (R2) of the co-catalyst at a wavelength of 589 nm is 0 to 0.35.

Abstract: The device of the present invention contains a recording unit on which a plurality of words having possibilities of being misheard are recorded in a state of being classified on the basis of highness and lowness of the possibilities, a question output unit that outputs, by voice sound, a question sentence containing at least one of the words having possibilities of being misheard, an input unit that receives input of a response to the question sentence, a determining unit that determines at least whether the hearing ability of a respondent is decreased or not on the basis of the content of the response input into the input unit, and a result output unit that outputs a determination result determined by the determining unit.

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a hearing test provision system capable of causing a person who has decreased hearing ability to be aware of the state in a natural way and, in consequence, capable of promoting the sale of hearing aids. The present invention contains a product presenting unit that presents products, an operating unit with which a product is selected from products presented on the product presenting unit, a database that records hearing aid affinity information which indicates affinity between a product selected by the operating unit and a hearing aid, a determining unit that determines whether to perform a hearing test on the basis of at least the hearing aid affinity information, and a hearing test conducting unit that conducts a hearing test on the basis of a determination result from the determining unit.

Abstract: There is adopted an enclosure dipole antenna structure including antenna elements respectively provided in a lower enclosure and an upper enclosure. There is also adopted a structure in which the lower structure and the upper structure are rotatably joined together along two axes of hinges. The enclosures thereby become openable and closable in two directions including a vertical direction and a horizontal direction. There can be implemented high antenna performance without use of an external antenna even regardless of whether the enclosures are opened in the vertical direction or the horizontal direction. A feeding section and a connection section are separated from each other by a distance of 1/20 or more of a wavelength corresponding to an operating frequency. Power can well be fed to the antenna elements.

Abstract: Disclosed is a portable wireless apparatus that can be miniaturised and reduced in thickness without increasing in manufacturing costs and that can prevent degradation of reception sensitivity when placed on a metal plate, without impairing design characteristics. In this apparatus, a conductive hinge (103) links a first case (101) and second case (102) in a mutually movable fashion. A first antenna element (108) has a base end (150) that is supplied with power from a power supply section (106) and provided in a position facing the hinge (103), and is arranged on the second case (102) in such a way that the distance r1 from the bottom face (160) of the second case (102) on the side of the tip (151) extending from the base end (150) is larger than the distance r2 from the bottom face (160) of the second case (102) on the side of the base end (150).

Abstract: When three or more antennas and a plurality of wireless circuits using wireless frequency bands near to each other are installed on a cabinet whose size is limited, degradation of characteristic caused by electromagnetic coupling between antennas is suppressed. When a first antenna 21 and a second antenna 22 are connected to a first wireless circuit 31, a third antenna 23 is connected to a second wireless circuit 32, and an operation frequency band of the second wireless circuit 32 is near in a higher band than an operation frequency band of the first wireless circuit 31, a feeding point 23a of the third antenna is placed at a position nearer to a feeding point 21a of the first antenna than the feeding point 22a of the second antenna.

Abstract: There is provided a portable radio that enables simultaneous input of high frequency signals from a plurality of built-in antennas and performance of optimum receiving operation. A portable radio 1 include a first built-in antenna 10A; a first low noise amplifier 122A that amplifies a signal from the first built-in antenna 10A; a first receiving section 124A that carries out a predetermined receiving operation to a signal from the first low noise amplifier 122A; a second built-in antenna 10B that is lower than the first built-in antenna 10A in terms of a gain; a second low noise amplifier 122B that amplifies a signal from the second built-in antenna 10B; a second receiving section 124B that carries out a predetermined receiving operation to a signal from the second low noise amplifier 122Bo; and a receiving circuit section 123 that carries out a predetermined diversity processing to the signals undergone receiving operation when both of the receiving sections 124 perform receiving operation.

Abstract: There is provided a portable radio that makes it possible to assure high receiving performance by improving deterioration of antenna gain attributable to electromagnetic field coupling between the plurality of antennas. A portable radio has a first antenna 11; a second antenna 13; a first low noise amplifier 12 connected to the first antenna 11; a second low noise amplifier 14 connected to the second antenna 13; and a DTV tuner module 15 that can perform diversity combination and that is connected to the first low noise amplifier 12 and the second low noise amplifier 14, wherein an input impedance of the first low noise amplifier 12 and an input impedance of the second low noise amplifier 14 entirely differ from each other at an operating frequency band of the DTV tuner module 15 capable of performing diversity combination.

Abstract: To make it possible to suppress degradation in characteristics by electromagnetic coupling between plurality of antennas and to cope with miniaturization of a housing even if a plurality of radio circuits operate simultaneously. In a mobile radio apparatus in which a circuit board 102, a first antenna 111 and a second antenna 112 are mounted in a housing 101, a first radio section 121 and a second radio section 122 are mounted in the circuit board 102 and the first radio section 121 and the second radio section 122 can operate simultaneously, a reactance element 131 for influencing an operating frequency of the first radio section 121 or the second radio section 122 is disposed in at least one of the first antenna 111 and the second antenna 112 when an electric length of the circuit board 102 is configured to be shorter than one-fourth a wavelength of at least one of the operating frequencies of the first radio section 121 and the second radio section 122.

Abstract: There is adopted an enclosure dipole antenna structure including antenna elements respectively provided in a lower enclosure and an upper enclosure. There is also adopted a structure in which the lower structure and the upper structure are rotatably joined together along two axes of hinges. The enclosures thereby become openable and closable in two directions including a vertical direction and a horizontal direction. There can be implemented high antenna performance without use of an external antenna even regardless of whether the enclosures are opened in the vertical direction or the horizontal direction. A feeding section and a connection section are separated from each other by a distance of 1/20 or more of a wavelength corresponding to an operating frequency. Power can well be fed to the antenna elements.

Abstract: A battery pack has a flat battery cell, which includes a flat electric power generating element, at least one armor material for sealing the electric power generating element, and positive and negative tabs (1a, 2a) extending from the electric power generating element to the outside of the armor material through a sealing of the armor material; a circuit board (6) connected to the positive and negative tabs; and a container (16) having two main walls extending along two main surfaces of the flat battery cell. At least a portion of the circuit board is positioned in a space (8) defined by a sealing of the armor material beside the circuit board and the inner surface of the container. At least one of the two main walls of the container is at least partially formed of a metal plate (12a, 14a).

Abstract: A spiral wound type membrane element is formed by superposing gas-liquid contact membranes on both surfaces of a first fluid passage forming member, superposing a second fluid passage forming member on the surface of one of the gas-liquid contact membranes and spirally winding the gas-liquid contact membranes around a second fluid supply pipe along with the first fluid passage forming member and the second fluid passage forming member. A side portion on the inner peripheral side and a side portion on the outer peripheral side of a first fluid passage formed by the first fluid passage forming member between the gas-liquid contact membranes are sealed. Both end portions of a second fluid passage formed by the second fluid passage forming member between the gas-liquid contact membranes are sealed. The spiral wound type membrane element is stored inside a cylindrical container. The gas-liquid contact membranes are formed by PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) porous membranes having hydrophobicity.

Abstract: An antenna duplexer has a transmission input terminal, a receiving output terminal, an antenna terminal in which a transmission output terminal and a receiving input terminal are used in common, a transmission filter having at least one resonance element set between the transmission input terminal and the transmission output terminal and coupled by a coupling element, a receiving filter having at least one resonance element set between the receiving output terminal and said receiving input terminal and coupled by a coupling element, and an impedance variable element connected to the resonance element of the transmission filter and the resonance element of said receiving filter respectively in parallel, wherein the frequency transfer characteristic of the transmission filter and the frequency transfer characteristic of the receiving filter are controlled by applying control signals and thereby changing the impedances of the impedance variable element.

Abstract: The alkaline storage battery employs a metallic hat shaped terminal closure which has a piercing needle as well as a puncturable metallic diaphragm positioned below the piercing needle. The needle is fixed by caulking at its peripheral edge portion to a edge of the closure. A comparatively thick and hard metal plate is placed on the inner surface of the diaphragm and is applied to an open portion of a tubular metallic container which has a battery element. A peripheral edge portion of the closure, the diaphragm and the metallic plate are clamped in airtight relationship through a packing between the caulked end portion and an inner annular step portion of the metallic container of the battery. A lead wire extends from one polarity electrode of the battery element and is connected to a central portion of the metallic plate.