Abstract: An article storage facility includes a measuring jig for measuring an amount of tilt of a support body. A controller for controlling operation of an article transport device performs a tilt measurement control for controlling operation of the article transport device to transport the measuring jig sequentially to each of a plurality of measurement target storage sections which is all or part of the plurality of storage sections.

Abstract: An article storage facility includes a measuring jig for measuring an amount of tilt of a support body. A controller for controlling operation of an article transport device performs a tilt measurement control for controlling operation of the article transport device to transport the measuring jig sequentially to each of a plurality of measurement target storage sections which is all or part of the plurality of storage sections.

Abstract: An optical fiber connector in which: an optical fiber guide member includes a fiber guide side substrate portion forming part of a substrate, a fiber guide pattern, and a lid member; and an optical waveguide includes an optical waveguide side substrate portion adjacent to the fiber guide side substrate portion, an optical waveguide side first lower clad layer, an optical signal transmission core pattern, and an optical waveguide side upper clad layer. The fiber guide pattern is formed of a plurality of guide members aligned parallel to one another at intervals. A space defined by every two adjacent guide members, the fiber guide side substrate portion, and a fiber guide side lid member portion forms a fiber guide groove. The fiber guide groove is present on an extension of the optical signal transmission core pattern in an optical path direction.

Abstract: There are provided an optical waveguide including: a substrate 1; a lower clad layer 2; a core pattern 3 with a taper in thickness direction; and an upper clad layer 4, the lower clad layer, the core pattern, and the upper clad layer being sequentially laminated on the substrate 1, in which the lower clad layer 2 has a cutting part 5. There also provided with an optical waveguide including: a substrate 1; a lower clad layer 2; a core pattern 3 with a taper in thickness direction; and an upper clad layer 4, the lower clad layer, the core pattern, and the upper clad layer being sequentially laminated on the substrate 1, in which the lower clad layer 2 has a dummy part on the top. These optical waveguides can secure alignment tolerance when connected with an optical element.

Abstract: There are provided an optical waveguide including: a substrate 1; a lower clad layer 2; a core pattern 3 with a taper in thickness direction; and an upper clad layer 4, the lower clad layer, the core pattern, and the upper clad layer being sequentially laminated on the substrate 1, in which the lower clad layer 2 has a cutting part 5. There also provided with an optical waveguide including: a substrate 1; a lower clad layer 2; a core pattern 3 with a taper in thickness direction; and an upper clad layer 4, the lower clad layer, the core pattern, and the upper clad layer being sequentially laminated on the substrate 1, in which the lower clad layer 2 has a dummy part on the top. These optical waveguides can secure alignment tolerance when connected with an optical element.

Abstract: A solar cell module includes a plate-shaped solar panel including a plurality of solar cells arranged on same plane; a plate-shaped cell protection member that covers the plural solar cells that are arranged on the same plane; and a surface protection member that is bonded onto a top surface of the cell protection member; an outer frame that supports a circumference of the solar panel; and a brace having rigidity against bending and that supports a center area of a back surface of the solar panel in such a manner that both ends of the brace are joined to each of two opposed positions of the outer frame. An initial tension is provided to the brace.

Abstract: A solar cell module includes a plate-shaped solar panel including a plurality of solar cells arranged on same plane; a plate-shaped cell protection member that covers the plural solar cells that are arranged on the same plane; and a surface protection member that is bonded onto a top surface of the cell protection member; an outer frame that supports a circumference of the solar panel; and a brace having rigidity against bending and that supports a center area of a back surface of the solar panel in such a manner that both ends of the brace are joined to each of two opposed positions of the outer frame. An initial tension is provided to the brace.

Abstract: A resin composition for electrostatic coating, comprising a rubber-reinforced aromatic vinyl resin (A), a polyamide elastomer (B), a modified vinyl polymer (C) containing at least one functional group selected from among carboxyl, epoxy, amino and amido, and an alkali metal salt (D); a formed resin article excellent in electrostatic coatability which is formed from the resin composition; and a formed resin article having electrostatic coating film which is produced by coating the articles electrostatically.

Abstract: An automobile exterior component, having good balance between impact resistance and fluidity and being excellent in coating heat resistance and rigidity, which is prepared by performing urethane coating or melamine coating on a molded article obtained by molding a resin composition which comprises a polyamide resin (A); a grafted polymer (B) prepared by graft polymerizing an aromatic vinyl monomer and a vinyl cyanide monomer in the presence of a diene rubber; an unsaturated carboxylic acid-modified copolymer (C) which has a reduced viscosity of 0.2 to 0.5 dl/g and is prepared by polymerizing an unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer, an aromatic vinyl monomer and a vinyl cyanide monomer; a copolymer (D) prepared by polymerizing an aromatic vinyl monomer and a vinyl cyanide monomer; and talc, wherein the amount ratio of (A), (B), (C) and (D) is in a specific range.

Abstract: This invention provides a data distribution system capable of changing dynamically a capability of the data distribution system. In the present invention, there are provided a plurality of distributing servers, a supplying server connected to each of the plurality of distributing servers. In the case that there is a request for a content not included in the disk unit of the distributing server, it is transmitted from the supplying server to the distributing server and concurrently the content is distributed from the distributing server to the requesting set top box.

Abstract: The invention relates to a chlorofluorocarbon resistant resin composition characterized by comprising an agglomerated graft polymer (Y) occurring in clusters having a weight average particle diameter of 0.8-2.0 .mu.m as formed from a small particle diameter graft polymer (y) obtained in a grafting degree of 10-40 weight % by polymerizing 60-20 weight % of a monomer mixture comprising 30-45 weight % of a vinyl cyanide compound and 70-55 weight % of an aromatic vinyl compound in the presence of 40-80 weight % of a rubber like polymer having a weight average particle diameter of 0.05-0.2 .mu.m and a copolymer (Z) obtained by polymerizing 35-45 weight % of a vinyl cyanide compound with 65-55 weight % of an aromatic vinyl compound and having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.6-0.9, the rubber like polymer accounting for 15-25 weight % of the total composition. The resin composition of the invention is superior to the conventional resin composition in chlorofluorocarbon resistance.

Abstract: A data transfer device to read the data distributed and stored to a plurality of disk devices by striping and to generate and transfer the stream data, comprises a disk controller connected to said disk device for data reading/writing, a stream data generation controller connected to the disk controller via a first exclusive bus to instruct reading of unit data as pieces of stream data and to generate the stream data from the read unit data for output, a communication controller connected to the stream data generation controller via a second exclusive bus to transfer the stream data output from the stream data generation controller to a predetermined external processor, a general controller to control the stream data generation controller and the communication controller.

Abstract: An optical character recognition apparatus is comprised of an original document reading out section for generating an original character signal corresponding to light and shade of an original document, a character slice section for sequentially generating a slice signal corresponding to one character from the original character signal, a character recognition section for recognizing a character corresponding to the slice character signal, and a display section for displaying a recognized character in correspondence to the original document, wherein when a correction target character is found from the displayed characters, the correction target character and characters around the correction target character are displayed on the display section by utilizing the original character signal.

Abstract: In an arithmetic unit comprising a partial product circuit for calculating a plurality of partial products for two numbers and a Wallace tree responsive to the partial products for producing a plurality of tree outputs which gives a total product of the two numbers when summed up, an addend is supplied to the Wallace tree as an additional partial product. The arithmetic unit produces a resultant sum of the total product plus the addend. The addend may be supplied to the Wallace tree from one or more registers therefor. Alternatively, a result register is used for the total product with the total product supplied to the Wallace tree as the addend. As a further alternative, an additional register is used for a third number which is used with bit shifts as the addend. In this last event, the arithmetic unit preferably produces a sum selected from the resultant sum.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition having excellent and well balanced physical properites such as chemical resistance, drop weight impact resistance and thermal stability which comprises (A) a styrenic polymer and (B) a ternary polymer comprising 50 to 98.5% by weight of an olefin, 0.5 to 10% by weight of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride and 1 to 40% by weight of an unsaturated carboxylic acid alkyl ester, the weight proportion of the styrenic polymer (A) and the ternary polymer (B) being 100:0.5-200.