Abstract: An electronic device is provided which can appropriately adjust the brightness of a display apparatus in accordance with the lightness of visible light by preventing UV-light from being incident upon an optical sensor. An electronic device having, in a housing, a display apparatus (1) that includes an active matrix substrate (2) having a pixel array region (8) in which a plurality of pixels (5) are arranged and a display medium (4) provided in a gap between the active matrix substrate (2) and a counter substrate (3), includes an optical sensor (11) provided in a peripheral region (9) present in a periphery of the pixel array region (8) in the active matrix substrate (2) of a display apparatus (1), and a UV-light blocking member (70) that is provided in a portion covering the optical sensor (11) in the housing and transmits visible light and absorbs UV-light.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liver preservation solution containing trehalose and dibutyryl-cAMP. The content of nitroglycerin in the preservation solution is preferably lower than 0.44 mM. In the liver preservation solution of the present invention, since the toxicity due to nitroglycerin, which is observed during liver preservation, has been improved, liver transplantation can be performed with a high engrafted rate.

Abstract: There is provided a regulator circuit capable of increasing the capacity of the output transistor for supplying current, stably generating an internal power supply voltage and adapting to the reduction of a power supply voltage. The regulator circuit includes an output transistor which is supplied with an external power supply voltage and supplies dropped voltage to an internal circuit, a differential amplifier for outputting a gate potential applied to the gate of the output transistor, a reference voltage generating circuit for supplying a reference voltage to the differential amplifier, and a cut-off transistor for turning off the output transistor to stop supplying power to the internal circuit. The output transistor is comprised of a depression NMOS transistor whose threshold voltage is a negative voltage. The regulator circuit further includes substrate potential control means for controlling the substrate potential of the depression NMOS transistor.

Abstract: Provided is an integrated coal gasification combined cycle apparatus that can operate a coal pulverizer using gas turbine exhaust gas as drying gas even when the concentration of oxygen in the gas turbine exhaust gas to be used as the drying gas is temporarily increased. In the integrated coal gasification combined cycle plant using combustion exhaust gas from a gas turbine as the drying gas for a coal pulverizer and adjusting the temperature of the drying gas by mixing outlet gas from a denitration device installed inside an exhaust gas boiler and outlet gas from the exhaust gas boiler, an auxiliary burner is started when the concentration of oxygen in the drying gas is increased to a predetermined value or more and is installed so as to adjust the concentration of oxygen in the drying gas using the combustion exhaust gas generated thereby.

Abstract: The invention has a curved board. The curved board is formed into a shape that curves in a curving direction corresponding to an expanding direction of a net opening in a towing state, from a front-side end section that is a front side in a towing direction in the towing state towards a rear-side end section that is a rear side in the towing direction in the towing state. At least one of a projecting structure having a projecting surface, a top board, and a bottom board is formed in the curved board.

Abstract: A virtual computer system executes a virtual computer control program on a physical computer and thereby causes guest programs on the logical partitions, respectively. The virtual computer control program includes an error recovery module to periodically recover from an error in a cache memory, an error interruption handler module responsive to an interruption notice caused by an error which has occurred in the cache memory, to recover from an error in the cache memory, and an error data initialization module to recover from an error in the cache memory with shutdown or restart of one of the logical partitions as a momentum. And the virtual computer control program conducts recovery processing from an error in the cache memory.

Abstract: An image of an object is picked up by an image processing unit (10) to acquire an image signal of variable frame rate. An audio signal is acquired by an audio processing unit (20) to generate an audio signal having the number of frames caused to be in conformity with the system frame rate to generate a recording signal of recording frame rate from the image signal of the variable frame rate and an audio signal having the number of frames caused to be in conformity with the system frame rate. In recording a recording signal of the recording frame rate onto or into a recording medium (35) by a recording/reproducing unit (30), discrimination information indicating image pick-up frame rate and system frame rate is recorded onto or into the recording medium (35), e.g., as MXF (Material Exchange Format) file along with the image signal of the variable frame rate and the audio signal having the number of frames caused to be in conformity with the system frame rate.

Abstract: A resin to be added to a resist composition and locally distributed on a resist film surface to hydrophobitize the resist film surface includes a residual monomer in an amount of 1 mass % or less to the resin as a whole in terms of solid content.

Abstract: A mechanism for the heat sink to adhere to the transceiver inserted in the cage is disclosed. The heat sink provides a guide in the side thereof, while, the cage provides a slit in the side. A pair of elastic tabs is diagonally formed in the slit. The transceiver slides the heat sink rearward as the insertion thereof into the cage, then, the guide of the heat sink slips down the rear tab in the slit, which presses the heat sink downward to adhere to the transceiver. The heat conducting path from the transceiver to the heat sink is formed.

Abstract: A positive resist composition comprises: (A) a resin that has a repeating unit represented by general formula (a1) and increases its solubility in an alkali developer by action of an acid; (B) a compound which generates an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or a radiation; and (C) a resin that has at least one of a fluorine atom and a silicon atom and has a group selected from the group consisting of (x), (y) and (z); and (D) a solvent: (x) an alkali-soluble group; (y) a group capable that decomposes by action of an alkali developer to undergo an increase in a solubility of the resin (C) in an alkali developer; and (z) a group that decomposes by action of an acid, wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Rxa represents an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group, and n represents an integer of 1 to 8.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a read unit and a first correction unit. The read unit reads a document and generates multilevel image data from the document. The first correction unit corrects the multilevel image data contained in a first range predetermined as a color indicating a fluorescent color so as to move the multilevel image data contained in the first range to an outside of a print color range when at least a part of the multilevel image data is contained in the first range.

Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus of precisely measuring the intensity profile of an x-ray nanobeam, which can measure x-rays having different wavelengths with one knife edge and can perform optimal measurements corresponding to the depth of focus of an x-ray beam and the conditions of other measurement devices, using a dark field measurement method which enables precise measurements of the profile of an x-ray beam using a knife edge and using diffracted and transmitted x-rays. The knife edge (4) is formed of a heavy metal which advances the phase of an x-ray passing therethrough and is fabricated in such a manner that the thickness may change in the longitudinal direction continuously or in a stepwise fashion.

Abstract: To suppress peeling of an Au pad for external coupling provided in a rewiring containing Cu as a main component. On the surface of a rewiring including a two-layer film in which a first Ni film is laminated on the top of a Cu film, a pad to which a wire is coupled is formed. The pad includes a two-layer film in which an Au film is laminated on the top of a second Ni film and formed integrally so as to cover the top surface and the side surface of the rewiring. Due to this, the area of contact between the rewiring and the pad increases, and therefore, the pad becomes difficult to be peeled off from the rewiring.

Abstract: The invention provides an input/output-integrated display device equipped with a means for inputting information through handwriting comprising a protective glass plate arranged as an outermost layer on the observation side of the device, leaving a space between the protective glass plate and a part of the device facing the same. The protective glass plate is a chemically reinforced glass plate prepared by immersing, in a molten salt bath, a glass plate produced according to the floating technique and has a Young's modulus of 71 to 74 GPa and a Poisson's ratio of 0.22 to 0.

Abstract: A multilayer body is formed by laminating multiple insulating layers. External electrodes are provided on the opposed side surfaces of the multilayer body and extend in the z axis direction. Coil conductors are laminated together with the insulating layers and form a coil. Coil conductors other than coil conductors connected to the external electrodes are made up of pairs of adjacent coil conductors having an identical shape, and coil conductors forming each pair are connected in parallel to each other. None of the coil conductors connected to the external electrodes is connected in parallel to coil conductors with an identical shape.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a coating composition capable of forming a cured coating film with excellent scratch resistance, acid resistance, stain resistance, and finished appearance. The present invention provides coating composition comprising (A) carboxy-containing polymer, (B) epoxy-containing acrylic resin, and (C) carboxy-containing reaction product with an acid value of 50 to 200 mg KOH/g and a number average molecular weight of 600 to 5,000 obtained by a half-esterification reaction of an acid anhydride with a polycarbonate polyol having three or more hydroxyl groups per molecule.

Abstract: A cartridge heater is accommodated in a heater bore in a shaft connected to a valve element, and a heating portion provided at an end portion of the cartridge heater is located at a joint portion of the shaft and the valve element. At the joint portion, a heat receiving groove and a pressurizing portion communicating with the heater bore are provided at a position between a surface of the valve element and that of the shaft located so as to oppose and to contact each other. The heat receiving groove includes an arcuate groove portion of the same radius as that of the heating portion of the cartridge heater, and the heating portion is pressed by the pressurizing portion to enter into plane-to-plane contact with an inner circumferential surface of the arcuate groove portion of the heat receiving groove, upon fastening the valve element and the shaft to each other with a bolt, with the heating portion located between the heat receiving groove and the pressurizing portion.

Abstract: A blood-pressure sensor includes a substrate, a first electrode, a magnetization fixed layer, a nonmagnetic layer, a magnetization free layer, and a second electrode. The substrate is bent to generate a tensile stress at least in a first direction. The first electrode is provided on the substrate. The magnetization fixed layer has magnetization to be fixed in a second direction, and is provided on the substrate. The nonmagnetic layer is provided on the magnetization fixed layer. The magnetization free layer has a magnetization direction which is different from the first direction and from a direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second electrode is provided on the magnetization free layer.

Abstract: A high strength cold rolled steel sheet excellent in weldability and has a TS of 440 MPa or more includes a composition including C: 0.0005 to 0.005%, Si: 0.1 to 1.0%, Mn: 1 to 2.5%, P: 0.01 to 0.2%, S: 0.015% or less, sol. Al: 0.05% or less, N: 0.007% or less, Ti: 0.01 to 0.1%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0020%, Cu: 0.05 to 0.5%, and Ni: 0.03 to 0.5% by mass with the balance Fe and incidental impurities; and a microstructure constituted by a ferrite single phase.

Abstract: A picture type identifier, indicating one of intra-picture coding (an I-picture), forward or backward predictive coding (a P-picture) and bi-directionally predictive coding (a B-picture), is included with a picture signal when the signal is encoded and when the signal is decoded. Each of initial and subsequent encoding and decoding is a function of the included picture type.