Abstract: A glow plug energization control apparatus is provided which includes a power supply working to supply electric power to a glow plug mounted in an internal combustion engine, an on-off switch working to produce a control trigger signal when turned on, and a controller including a microcomputer. The microcomputer is responsive to the control trigger signal to control supply of the electric power from the power supply to energize the glow plug. The microcomputer works to monitor an off-on interval from turning off to turning on of the on-off switch and control an amount of energization of the glow plug as a function of the off-on interval, thereby avoiding overheating of the glow plug.

Abstract: Two heat generating resistors are formed on a substrate in the upstream side with respect to an air flow direction and two other heat generating resistors are formed in the downstream side. A thermometer resistor for detecting a temperature in the intake manifold is formed on the substrate. A bridge circuit is formed of the heat generating resistors. A temperature of the four heat generating resistors is controlled to be at a predetermined temperature by balancing a bridge circuit constituted of the thermometer resistor or the like with a differential amplifier and a transistor. When air flows, electric potentials of the intermediate terminals in the bridge circuit change. A flow quantity and a flow direction of the air are calculated by detecting the electric potential difference.

Abstract: Provided is an organic EL element including: a first electrode 13; a protection layer 15 that is formed on the first electrode 13 and has an opening portion through which the first electrode 13 is exposed; an insulation layer 17 that is formed on the protection layer 15; an organic layer 19 that is formed over the insulation layer 17 and the first electrode 13 exposed through the opening portion, and includes an emission layer; and a second electrode 21 formed on the organic layer 19, wherein a film thickness of the protection layer 15 is less than that of the organic layer 19.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of observing a specimen in a field of view of an electron microscope comprising the acts of illuminating the specimen with an electron beam having a first angle and forming a first transmission image of the specimen in the field of view and adjusting the electron beam to a second angle and forming a second transmission image of the specimen in the field of view and calculating a degree of coincidence between the first and second transmission images.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator core, insulators, coils and a rotor. The stator core includes a plurality of coil cores, which are circumferentially arranged, wherein each of the plurality of coil cores includes a tooth that radially extends, and an outer peripheral core that circumferentially extends at a radially outer side of the tooth. Each of the insulators covers a corresponding one of the plurality of coil cores, wherein a part of each of the insulator is provided radially outward of an imaginary straight line, which connects circumferential ends of an inner peripheral surface of the outer peripheral core. Each of the coils is formed at the insulator. The rotor is rotatably provided to an inner peripheral side of the stator core.

Abstract: At least one of lower and upper magnetic cores is composed of magnetic films each of which contains two or more elements of Co, Ni, and Fe, which are formed by electroplating in a plating bath with pH 2 or less, and which have a saturation magnetic flux density of 23,000 gauss or more.

Abstract: A reel-shaped bristle unit 10 comprising a set of strands of bristles 4 formed by bending a plurality of strands 1, made of synthetic resin filament such as nylon, into two in a U-shape and by aggregating the strands 1 as a bunch, wherein a lead wire for winding 3 common to the center of the strands 2 is fixed by welding or adhering thereto, wherein a spiral groove 7 is formed at a circumference 6 of a bristle reel 8 in which one or more rows of said set of strands of bristles 4 are plunged into the groove 7, Said set of strands of bristles 4 is plunged into the spiral groove 7 in such a manner to be wound spirally around the groove 7 of the waist of the reel 8 with a spiral pitch along it from one end of the lead wire 3 while the center of the strands 2 is fixed by the lead wire 3, wherein a free end of the set of the stands 4 extends above the reel while a clearance 9 is provided between the grooves 7 adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A spin valve type magnetoresistive effect element for vertical electric conduction includes a magnetoresistive effect film in which a resistance adjustment layer made of a material containing conductive carriers not more than 1022/cm3 is inserted. Thus the resistance value of a portion in change of spin-relied conduction is raised to an adequate valve, thereby to increase the resistance variable amount.

Abstract: A positive resist composition comprising: (A) a resin which comes to have an enhanced solubility in an alkaline developing solution by an action of an acid; (B) a compound which generates an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or a radiation; (C) a fluorine-containing compound containing at least one group selected from the groups (x) to (z); and (F) a solvent, and a method of pattern formation with the composition: (x) an alkali-soluble group; (y) a group which decomposes by an action of an alkaline developing solution to enhance a solubility in an alkaline developing solution; and (z) a group which decomposes by an action of an acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fuel cell power system and a power generating method in which the rise of concentration of water vapor and carbon dioxide in the direction of the anode gas flow is controlled to enhance the electromotive force in the downstream region of the anode gas flow, thereby improving the power generating efficiency. A mixed gas of a hydrocarbon and water vapor and/or carbon dioxide or a reformed version of said mixed gas having an oxygen atom/carbon atom ratio (O/C ratio) of 2 or higher is supplied from a spot upstream in the direction of the anode gas flow while a hydrocarbon or a mixed gas of a hydrocarbon and water vapor and/or carbon dioxide having an O/C ratio of lower than 2 is supplied supplementally from a spot downstream, and the gas supplied supplementally from the downstream side is reformed by making use of water vapor and carbon dioxide generated by the electrochemical reactions upstream of the anode gas flow and is utilized for power generation.

Abstract: A composite construction 1 is obtained by coating the outer periphery of a core material 2 with a shell layer 3. The core material 2 is composed of a first sintered body that is obtained by bonding, with a binder metal, a first hard particle composed of one or more of carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides of metals of Groups 4a, 5a and 6a of the Periodic Table, or a first ceramics obtained by bonding, with a sintering additive, a first ceramic particle composed of at least one of oxides, carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides selected from the group consisting of metals of Groups 4a, 5a and 6a of the Periodic Table, Al, Si and Zn. The shell layer 3 is composed of a second hard sintered body or second ceramics having a different composition from the first hard sintered body. The ratio of the residual free carbon amount Cin in the core material 2 to the residual free carbon amount Cout in the shell layer 3, Cin/Cout, is 0.5 to 2.

Abstract: In a RAID system, the power supplied to hard disks (HDDs) can be increased, and a plurality of types of HDDs can be installed. A plurality of HDD packs 33 are supplied with a single high voltage from a motherboard 28. The HDD packs 33 each accommodate, in a canister, an HDD 107, 181, 185 or 187 with different power supply specifications or communication interface specifications, as well as a DC/DC converter 109 to convert the power supply. Part of the HDD packs 33 have a data transfer interface conversion circuit 195 as well.

Abstract: A security policy assignment apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires data relating to a storage location of a digital document and an assignment unit that assigns a security policy, which has been set to correspond to data relating to the acquired storage location, with respect to the digital document by referencing correspondence data that maps data relating to the storage location and a security policy setting.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an agent for preventing and/or treating diseases accompanied by tissue disruption, which comprises a polypeptide having granulocyte colony-stimulating factor activity as an active ingredient, and a medicament for mobilizing a multipotent stem cell from a tissue into peripheral blood, which comprises a polypeptide having granulocyte colony-stimulating factor activity as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A pattern forming method which uses a positive resist composition comprises: (A) a silicon-free resin capable of increasing its solubility in an alkaline developer under action of an acid; (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation; (C) a silicon-containing resin having at least one group selected from the group of consisting (X) an alkali-soluble group, (XI) a group capable of decomposing under action of an alkaline developer and increasing solubility of the resin (C) in an alkaline developer, and (XII) a group capable of decomposing under action of an acid and increasing solubility of the resin (C) in an alkaline developer, and (D) a solvent, the method comprising: (i) a step of applying the positive resist composition to a substrate to form a resist coating, (ii) a step of exposing the resist coating to light via an immersion liquid, (iii) a step of removing the immersion liquid remaining on the resist coating, (iv) a step of heating the resist coating, a

Abstract: A pattern forming method which uses a positive resist composition comprises: (A) a fluorine-free resin capable of increasing its solubility in an alkaline developer under action of an acid; (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation; (C) a fluorine-containing resin having at least one group selected from the group consisting of (X) an alkali-soluble group, (XI) a group capable of decomposing under action of an alkali developer and increasing solubility of the resin (C) in an alkaline developer and (XII) a group capable of decomposing under action of an acid and increasing solubility of the resin (C) in an alkaline developer; and (D) a solvent, the method comprising: (i) a step of applying the positive resist composition to a substrate to form a resist coating; (ii) a step of exposing the resist coating to light via an immersion liquid; (iii) a step of removing the immersion liquid remaining on the resist coating; (iv) a step of heating the resist coating; an

Abstract: A security policy assignment apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires key data from a set field in a digital document or its associated data and an assignment unit that assigns a security policy, which has been set with a set value corresponding to the acquired key data, to the digital document by referencing correspondence information that maps the key data and the set value of the security policy.

Abstract: The storage control device of the present invention detects faults on the disk drives at an early stage, thus enhancing convenience of use. The disk drives are switchingly connected to a subordinate communication control unit via a switching circuit. An error information collection unit of an error monitoring unit detects errors which have occurred at each port of the switching circuit. The errors which have been detected are stored in an intermediate storage unit, and are input via an error information notification unit to a fault recovery control unit of the subordinate communication control unit. By doing this, it is possible to immediately specify whether or not a fault has occurred on any of the disk drives, and to start a fault recovery procedure.

Abstract: In an optical access network using an optical switching device, a 2×1 optical splitter in the uplink and downlink directions is eliminated to extend the transmission distance between the OLT and the ONU. An optical switching device includes a downlink optical switch element for switching a downlink optical signal sent by an OLT, an uplink optical switch element for switching an uplink optical signal sent by a plurality of ONU, an O/E for converting a downlink optical signal to a first electrical signal, an E/O for converting the first electrical signal to a downlink optical signal and inputting the downlink optical signal to the downlink optical element, an O/E for converting an uplink optical signal output from the uplink optical switch element to a second electrical signal, and an E/O for converting the second electrical signal to an uplink optical signal and sending the uplink optical signal to the OLT.

Abstract: In a noise suppression structure of a blower motor according to the present invention, a noise reduction member is disposed inside of a peripheral wall part of an end bracket member in such a manner that the noise reduction member is located in a position opposite side of the peripheral wall part to which a connector part is provided, a metal terminal member extended from the connector part has an extension part extendedly provided along a bottom surface part of the end bracket member in a circumferential direction thereof, and the extension part of the metal terminal member has a connection part to which the noise reduction member is connected.