Abstract: An electrode pattern for wire-bonding includes: a wire-bonding reference pattern indicating a reference position for determination of a wire-bonding position; and a wire-bonding recognition pattern. The distance between the reference position and a wire-bonding metal portion bonded to the electrode pattern and the distance between the wire-bonding recognition pattern and the wire-bonding metal portion satisfy predetermined relationships.

Abstract: A vehicular steering apparatus can accurately detect occurrence of a disturbance even where steering torque is limited, and can achieve a low cost and simple construction. The apparatus includes a road surface reaction torque detector that detects an actual road surface reaction torque received by tires of a vehicle from a road surface, a vehicle speed detector that detects a vehicle speed, a steering wheel angle detector that detects a steering angle of a steering wheel, a target road surface reaction torque calculation section that calculates a target road surface reaction torque based on the vehicle speed and the steering wheel angle, and a disturbance occurrence detection section that detects occurrence of a disturbance to the vehicle and outputs a disturbance state signal. The disturbance occurrence detection section includes a sign comparison section that compares signs of the actual and target road surface reaction torques.

Abstract: System for detecting stability/instability of behavior of a motor vehicle upon occurrence of tire slip or lock. State of the motor vehicle is determined on the basis of an alignment torque (Ta) applied from a road and a side slip angle (?). By taking advantage of such torque/slip-angle characteristic that although the alignment torque is proportional to a side slip angle when the latter is small, the alignment torque becomes smaller as the side slip angle increases, a normal value is determined from a straight line slope and the side slip angle in a region where the latter is small. Unstable behavior of the motor vehicle is determined when deviation of actual measured value from the normal value increases. Further, unstable state is determined when the slope of the alignment torque for the slip angle departs significantly from that of approximate straight line slope.

Abstract: System for detecting stability/instability of behavior of a motor vehicle upon occurrence of tire slip or lock. State of the motor vehicle is determined on the basis of an alignment torque (Ta) applied from a road and a side slip angle (?). By taking advantage of such torque/slip-angle characteristic that although the alignment torque is proportional to a side slip angle when the latter is small, the alignment torque becomes smaller as the side slip angle increases, a normal value is determined from a straight line slope and the side slip angle in a region where the latter is small. Unstable behavior of the motor vehicle is determined when deviation of actual measured value from the normal value increases. Further, unstable state is determined when the slope of the alignment torque for the slip angle departs significantly from that of approximate straight line slope.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicular steering apparatus capable of improving a steering feeling and achieving a reduction in cost. The vehicular steering apparatus according to the present invention is equipped with an assist motor for generating an assist torque, a state quantity detector for detecting a steering shaft reaction torque and a road surface reaction torque, and a control unit for calculating a target current value of the assist motor. The control unit includes a friction compensation portion and a return compensation portion, which calculate a friction compensation torque for compensating for the assist torque and a return compensation torque for compensating for the assist torque from the steering shaft reaction torque and the road surface reaction torque respectively. The control unit compensates for an overall friction torque in a steering mechanism and a gradient of the road surface reaction torque, using the friction compensation torque and the return compensation torque.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel benzene compounds presented by the following formulas, and analogs thereof, that exert an ACC activity-inhibiting effect that is effective in the treatment of obesity, hyperlipemia, fatty liver, hyperglycemia, impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes, diabetic complications (diabetic peripheral neuropathy, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, and diabetic macroangiopathy, hypertension, arteriosclerosis), hypertension, and arteriosclerosis.

Abstract: In order to easily transport a fuel cell stack, without increasing costs, the fuel cell stack according to the present invention includes a stack body 5 in which end plates 8, 8 are arranged at both ends in a cell lamination direction, and suspension hangers 10 provided on the end plates 8, 8. The suspension hangers 10 project outward from a case 6 in which the stack body 5 is stored. With this arrangement, the fuel cell stack can be suspended from outside the case 6, and transported. Also using the suspension hangers 10, this fuel cell stack can be secured in a predetermined installation location.

Abstract: A non-volatile memory comprising: a first substrate (100) and a second substrate (110), the first substrate (100) having a plurality of switching elements (4) arranged in matrix, and a plurality of first electrodes (18) connected to the switching element (4), the second substrate (110) having a conductive film (32), and a recording layer (34) whose resistance value changes by application of an electric pulse, wherein the plurality of first electrodes (18) are integrally covered by the recording layer (34), the recording layer (34) thereby being held between the plurality of first electrodes (18) and the conductive film (32); the first substrate (100) further comprising a second electrode (22), the second electrode (22) being electrically connected to the conductive film (32), the voltage of which is maintained at a set level while applying current to the recording layer (34). This non-volatile memory achieves high integration at low cost.

Abstract: The projection distances of connecting portions of a coil are reduced, thereby enabling the size and power consumption of an analyzing electromagnet to be reduced, and therefore the size and power consumption of an ion implanting apparatus are enabled to be reduced. [Means for Resolution] An analyzing electromagnet 200 constituting an ion implanting apparatus has a first inner coil 206, a second inner coil 212, three first outer coils 218, three second outer coils 224, and a yoke 230. The inner coils 206, 212 are saddle-shaped coils cooperating with each other to generate a main magnetic field which bends an ion beam in the X direction. Each of the outer coils 218, 224 is a saddle-shaped coil which generates a sub-magnetic field correcting the main magnetic field.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lactam compound, a sugar transport enhancement agent containing this compound as an active ingredient, an agent for the prevention and/or treatment of diabetes mellitus, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macrovascular disease, glucose tolerance anomaly, obesity and the like. In addition, the present invention also provides a preparation method for the novel lactam compound, and a preparation intermediate thereof.

Abstract: System for detecting stability/instability of behavior of a motor vehicle upon occurrence of tire slip or lock. State of the motor vehicle is determined on the basis of an alignment torque (Ta) applied from a road and a side slip angle (?). By taking advantage of such torque/slip-angle characteristic that although the alignment torque is proportional to a side slip angle when the latter is small, the alignment torque becomes smaller as the side slip angle increases, a normal value is determined from a straight line slope and the side slip angle in a region where the latter is small. Unstable behavior of the motor vehicle is determined when deviation of actual measured value from the normal value increases. Further, unstable state is determined when the slope of the alignment torque for the slip angle departs significantly from that of approximate straight line slope.

Abstract: A tape cartridge in which an operation for engaging a reel hole of a tape reel with a drive shaft can be carried out smoothly, the tape reel can be rotationally driven in a state in which the centers of the drive shaft and the reel hole match, and reading/writing from/to recording tape can consistently be carried out in a stable manner. A drive shaft 13 of a tape drive comprises a fitting shaft 15 formed in a multi-sided cross-section shape and an engagement guide shaft 16 formed in an upwardly tapered shape. A drive shaft insertion hole 1c for the drive shaft 13 is provided in a lower wall of a housing 1. A reel hole 9 into which the drive shaft 13 is fitted is provided in a hub 5 of the tape reel 2. The reel hole 9 is formed in the same multi-sided cross-section shape as the fitting shaft 15, the vertical depth of the reel hole 9 being set so as to accept the fitting shaft 15 and the coupling guide shaft 16.

Abstract: There are provided a tape cartridge which can reliably remove contamination adhering to the surface of a head and a tape loading system using the same. A tape such as recording tapes and leader tapes is unreeled from a case body housing the tape and is taken up to the take up reel of a tape drive through a loading path of the tape drive. A brush which can bend elastically is placed on a leading end side of the tape in a protruding manner. The brush moves in the state of being in contact with a head placed along the loading path of the tape drive upon unreeling of the tape, so that the head of the tape drive is cleaned by the brush.

Abstract: A tape cartridge suitable for high density recording of information signals is provided by enhancing the form accuracy and the assembly precision of a flange fixed to a hub to achieve a high-precision tape reel. The tape reel is placed inside a main casing for winding and storing a recording tape. The tape reel is composed of an upper flange and a hub integrally having a lower flange. The upper flange joined to the upper surface of the hub is fastened and fixed with a screw screwed into the hub from the upper side of the upper flange. The upper flange is fastened and fixed to the hub with a plurality of screws provided in positions away from the central axis of rotation of the tape reel.

Abstract: The present invention provides an acylamide compound of the following formula (1), prodrugs thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; and an adiponectin inducer or secretagogue, therapeutic agent of metabolic syndromes, therapeutic agent of hypoadiponectinemia, therapeutic agent of hyperlipemia, preventive/therapeutic agent of diabetes, improving agent of impaired glucose tolerance, improving agent of insulin resistance, enhancing agent of insulin sensitivity, therapeutic agent of hypertension, preventive/therapeutic agent of vascular disorders, an anti-inflammatory agent, therapeutic agent of hepatic inflammation, therapeutic agent of fatty liver, therapeutic agent of hepatic fibrosis, therapeutic agent of liver cirrhosis, preventive/therapeutic agent of non-alcoholic/nonviral steatohepatitis (NASH) or non-alcoholic/nonviral fatty liver disease (NAFLD), or therapeutic agent of obesity, each of which has the above compounds as an active ingredient.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide PPAR (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor) activity regulators, which can be widely used for improving insulin resistance and preventing/treating various diseases such as diabetes, metabolic syndromes, hyperlipemia, high-blood pressure, vascular disorders, inflammation, hepatitis, fatty liver, liver fibrosis, NASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis) and obesity. The present invention provides PPAR activity regulators which comprise an acylamide compound having the specific structure, prodrugs thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.

Abstract: In a fuel cell casing of the invention, a laminate structure of a first double-sided adhesive tape, an interposed member, and a second double-sided adhesive tape is placed between a casing body and a depressurizing cover. In the fuel cell casing of this structure, adequate selection of the material for the interposed member and adequate specification of an adhesion area of at least either the first double-sided adhesive tape or the second double-sided adhesive tape to the interposed member readily attain the desired design of ensuring easy separation of the depressurizing cover from the casing body by simple application of a force to the depressurizing cover under a preset level of inner pressure, without changing the materials of the casing body and the depressurizing cover.

Abstract: A non-volatile memory (1) which comprises an insulating substrate (11) having a plurality of first electrodes (15) extending therethrough from a front surface of the substrate to a rear surface thereof, a second electrode (12) formed on one surface side of the substrate (11), and a recording layer (14) held between the first electrodes (15) and the second electrode (12) and variable in resistance value by electric pulses applied across the first electrodes (15) and the second electrode (12), the plurality of first electrodes (15) being electrically connected to the recording layer (14) in a region constituting a single memory cell (MC). The non-volatile memory (1) can be reduced in power consumption and has great freedom of design and high reliability.

Abstract: An optical device package comprises: a metal frame including a substrate and a rectangular die pad portion integrally connected to the substrate, wherein the substrate is a metal plate, and the die pad portion is bent from the substrate such that the die pad portion extends from the substrate at an angle of 90 degrees; signal lead pins extend in the opposite direction from the die pad portion relative to the substrate such that the first lead pins intersect the principal surfaces of the substrate at a right angle and are spaced apart from the metal frame; and a molded resin member including a plate-like resin base extending across and in close contact with one of the principal surfaces of the substrate, wherein the signal lead pins protrude from a surface of the resin base; surfaces of the signal lead pins are covered with the molded resin member; and the metal frame and the signal lead pins are secured in place by the molded resin member.

Abstract: When a server RM detects a failure in an operating server, a system resource manager selects a substitute server from a pool of a server domain to which a failed server belongs, based on information in a system resource DB, disconnects the failed server from a business network and a storage sub group and moves the failed server to a pool, and permits the substitute server to access a storage group to which the failed server had an access and to connect to the business network to which the failed server was connected, to boot up the substitute server from a SAN.