Abstract: To provide a portable equipment allowing, not only for a normal opening-closing operation in a vertical direction, and also for a slide operation from a fully opened position, the above-indicated portable equipment includes opening-closing mechanisms incorporating both a function for a normal opening-closing and that for a slide operation; via these opening-closing mechanisms, the above-indicated portable equipment enables a closed, half-opened, and fully-opened positions of the above-indicated case bodies, and further a slide position, in which both the case bodies are superimposed on each other.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve of an internal combustion engine for a vehicle is comprised of a nozzle plate which has a plurality of nozzle holes. Fuel injection jets are injected from the nozzle holes and collided with each other. The thickness of the nozzle plate is equal to or greater than the diameter of the nozzle holes.

Abstract: A fuel injector including a tubular casing having an axial fuel passage. Disposed within the fuel passage are a valve seat element, a core cylinder, and a valve element axially moveably disposed therebetween and opposed to the core cylinder with an axial air gap. An electromagnetic actuator cooperates with the casing, the valve element and the core cylinder to form a magnetic field forcing the valve element to the open position against a spring between the valve element and the core cylinder upon being energized. The casing includes a reluctance portion producing an increased magnetic reluctance and allowing the magnetic field to extend to the valve element and the core cylinder through the air gap. The reluctance portion has a reduced radial thickness and an axial length extending over the air gap.

Abstract: A portable terminal device includes: a first member having a keyboard operation portion; and a second member having a display portion and attached to the first member via a coupling member movable in a horizontal direction relative to the first member, the second member being movable together with the coupling member in the horizontal direction relative to the first member. The second member is rotatably attached to the coupling member so that a side face or a rear face of the second member is allowed to face forward after the coupling member is moved in the horizontal direction relative to the first member. It is also possible to attach the coupling member to the first member so as to be slidable in one direction or rotatable in the horizontal direction, and to attach the second member to the coupling member to be rotatable in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: In order to provide a slide mechanism of portable devices which is possible size reductions, the slide mechanism which can form a closed state by slidably engaging both sides of a first box and both sides of a second box forming a portable device, and covering an upper surface of either the first box or the second box by the other box, and an open state exposing an upper surface of the box, includes: a guide groove provided on both sides of either the first box or the second box, and extending in the longitudinal direction thereof; a slide unit provided near an end portion of both sides of the other box, slidably pressure contacting into the guide groove under given elasticity; and a slide member attached to the slide unit and slidably engaging with the guide groove without rotation.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve is comprised of a nozzle plate which has at least four nozzle-hole sets. Each of the nozzle-hole sets has at least two nozzle holes through which fuel injection flows are injected and are collided with each other. The nozzle-hole sets are arranged into two aggregations so that the collided fuel injection flows are joined and are directed to two different directions.

Abstract: The time required for the program verify and erase verify operations can be shortened. The change of threshold values of memory cells can be suppressed even if the write and erase operations are executed repetitively. After the program and erase operations, whether the operations were properly executed can be judged simultaneously for all bit lines basing upon a change, after the pre-charge, of the potential at each bit line, without changing the column address. In the data rewrite operation, the rewrite operation is not effected for a memory cell with the data once properly written, by changing the data in the data register.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a stack body formed by stacking a plurality of power generation cells in a stacking direction. At one end of the stack body, first and second dummy cells are provided. At the other of the stack body, third and fourth dummy cells are provided. Each of the first to fourth dummy cells includes a first metal separator and a second metal separator. The first metal separator and a first metal separator of the power generation cell have substantially the same shape. The second metal separator and a second metal separator of the power generation cell have substantially the same shape.

Abstract: A hinge connects two members and has a rotation arrester in one of the members. A shaft connected to the body has a slide key at its opposite end. The key constrains rotation but is axially slidable and has an arrester. An outer cam with an arrester is in the other member. An inner cam in the outer cam, passes the key and has an arresting projection that disengages from the arrester of the key at a selected angle. A slider cam confronting the inner and outer cams, is slidably mounted in the body to constrain rotation. Two springs with differing elastic force are between the slider cam and the body, and between the slide key and outer cam. A push-button on the key is engaged to the arresting projection to block rotation. Pressing the push-button disengages the arrester to allow rotation.

Abstract: In a data erasing method of a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, cells are subjected to the processings of executing programming by applying a voltage to the cells to set their threshold values at a given level or more, erasing the cells to set their threshold values at a lower level or less, executing weak programming once on a cell whose threshold value is lower than a further lower level, by applying a lower voltage to the cell, repeating the weak programming on the cell when its threshold value is still lower than the further lower level, until the value reaches the further lower level or more, verifying whether a cell is present whose threshold value is higher than the lower level, and returning the processing to the processing of setting the threshold values of the cells at the lower level or less, when verifying that the above cell is present.

Abstract: A medicament for preventive and/or therapeutic treatment of constipation and/or a symptom resulting from constipation which comprises magnesium polycarbophil as an active ingredient. The medicament of the present invention can exhibit high efficacy by promoting a normal defecation without causing a side effect such as a watery stool, an overloose stool, or hypercalcemia.

Abstract: A driving support apparatus includes an imaging member taking an image corresponding to a vehicle peripheral area; a steering angle detecting member detecting a steering-wheel steering angle; a display member disposed in a vehicle interior to display the image; and a control member predicting a driving course of the vehicle according to the detected steering-wheel angle. The control member synthesizes a predicted driving course image relating to the predicted driving course. The control member superposes the predicted driving course image at a corresponding position of the image. The control member displays on the display member the image where at least one image, on which an index is marked at least at one height position, is superposed at least on the predicted driving course image and onto a side of the predicted driving course image while the control member displays the superposed image on the display member.

Abstract: The time required for the program verify and erase verify operations can be shortened. The change of threshold values of memory cells can be suppressed even if the write and erase operations are executed repetitively. After the program and erase operations, whether the operations were properly executed can be judged simultaneously for all bit lines basing upon a change, after the pre-charge, of the potential at each bit line, without changing the column address. In the data rewrite oepration, the rewrite operation is not effected for a memory cell with the data once properly written, by changing the data in the data register.

Abstract: A plurality of fuel cells are stacked together. Current collectors are stacked on the fuel cells at opposite ends in a stacking direction of said fuel cells, and heating members are stacked on the outside of said current collectors. In a normal operating condition, electricity is delivered through the current collectors. When the temperature of end cells is lowered, a switching operation is performed to stop delivering electricity through the current collectors and start delivering electricity through the heating members.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing an elliptic core optical fiber, in which a original preform having a circular core disposed at the center of a circular clad is processed to flatten on its periphery to form a processed preform that is then drawn with heating into an elliptic core optical fiber. According to the invention, the form of the processed preform used for producing an elliptic core optical fiber with desired specific dimensions can be designed using pre-obtained correlations based on the dimensions of the elliptic core optical fiber. If the processed preform designed like this is drawn with heating, an elliptic core optical fiber with desired specific dimensions can be reliably and easily produced.

Abstract: There is provided a plasma processing apparatus includes a lower electrode in a processing chamber on which a object to be processed is mounted; an upper electrode confronting the lower electrode; a first and a second high-frequency power supply for applying high-frequency powers respectively to the upper and the lower electrode; and an output controller for raising each of outputs from the high-frequency power supplies at least three times in a stepwise manner up to each of set levels for processing the object to be processed. The output controller adjusts each of rising times of the outputs from the high-frequency power supplies so that an output of the second high-frequency power supply is raised earlier than an output of the first high-frequency power supply while the outputs from the high-frequency power supplies are raised up to the set levels in a stepwise manner.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has a memory cell array having the arrangement of a plurality of cores, each of which comprises one block or a set of a plurality of blocks, each block defining a range of memory cells serving as a unit of data erase. The semiconductor device has a bank setting memory circuit configured to select an optional number of cores of the cores as a first bank and to set the remaining cores as a second bank, so as to allow a data read operation to be carried out in one of the first and second banks while a data write or erase operation is carried out in the other of the first and second banks.

Abstract: A monolayer or multilayer film has a single layer or multiple layers of silica containing fluorine. An optical element has the forgoing film laid on a surface of a substrate. A concentration of the fluorine in the layer or layers of silica is not less than 0.1 mol % (referably, not less than 1 mol %) nor more than 10 mol %.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, an oxidant gas passage, a cathode off-gas passage, a fuel gas passage, a circulation passage, an anode off-gas passage, a fuel shutoff valve, a supply device, a humidifier and a control device. The supply device supplies a scavenging gas, which is for scavenging the fuel cell, to the anode and the cathode. The humidifier humidifies the scavenging gas. The control device controls the supply device when the fuel cell is turned off so that supply of the fuel gas to the anode is shut off and the scavenging gas is supplied to the anode and the cathode, wherein supply of the scavenging gas to the cathode is conducted through the humidifier.

Abstract: A system and method for draining remaining water in a gas passage of a fuel cell, which has a simple structure and the remaining can be efficiently and reliably drained outside. Water which remains in a gas passage of the fuel cell is first drained by increasing the flow rate of the reaction gas while the operation of the fuel cell is stopped. The remaining water which has not been drained is then drained by increasing the pressure of the reaction gas and then decreasing the increased pressure. The increase and decrease operation of the pressure of the reaction gas is started after the increase of the flow rate of the reaction gas is started. Typically, the increase of the pressure of the reaction gas is started when a predetermined time has elapsed after the increase of the flow rate of the reaction gas is started.