Abstract: A sanitary washing apparatus includes: a washing nozzle; and a pressurizing device. The sanitary washing apparatus that performs first and second jetting processes alternately jetted with a prescribed waiting time there between. The pressurizing device makes minimum pressure of water in the second jetting process higher than minimum pressure of water in the first jetting process and makes maximum pressure of water in the second jetting process higher than maximum pressure of water in the first jetting process so that the second water mass is faster than the first water mass. The prescribed waiting time between the first and the second jetting processes is set so that before the first water mass impinges on the human body, the second water mass having faster velocity than the first water mass overtakes the first water mass to enlarge jetting water cross-sectional area of the first water mass.

Abstract: A ceramide production enhancer and a moisturizer containing, as an active ingredient, an extract of at least one plant selected from the group consisting of Chenopodium hybridum, Melia toosendan, Indigofera tinctoria, Cirsium japonicum, Catalpa ovate, and Tagetes erecta, or a compound represented by the following Formula (1): wherein, R represents an acyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atom(s).

Abstract: One end of a float arm is connected to a float and the other end thereof is rotatably supported by a housing made of insulating resin material. An electrically conductive portion, which is for example made of conducting resin material, is integrally formed with the housing and electrically connecting the other end of the float arm to a ground terminal which is fixed to the housing. A detecting circuit is accommodated in the housing. Electric charge generated at the float due to friction between the float and fuel is grounded to the earth via the float arm, the electrically conductive portion and the ground terminal, so that an adverse effect of the electric charge to the detecting circuit can be avoided.

Abstract: Provided is a reactor that enables high inductance to be generated with stability in a wide current range, while minimizing noise, processing cost, and eddy-current loss. The reactor (D1) has the ratio (t/W) of the width (W) to the thickness (t) of a conductive member that composes an air-core coil configured to be 1 or less, and preferably, 1/10 or less. Furthermore, the reactor also has the absolute value of a value ((L1?L2)/L3) that has had: the difference (L1?L2) between; the space interval (L1) between an inner wall face of a first core member (3) and an inner wall face of a second core member (4), at the innermost circumference position of the air-core coil (1); and the space (L2) between the inner wall face of the first core member (3) and the inner wall face of the second core member (4), at the outermost circumference position of the air-core coil (1); divided by an average value (L3); configured to be 1/50 or less.

Abstract: When a new application is filed in a workflow system, designation of image data to be attached to data included in the application is accepted. Then, when the image data to be attached to the data is insufficient, a scan ticket to be used when generating the image data to be attached to the data is generated. It is designated in the scan ticket to which data the generated image data is to be attached, and then the generated image data is actually attached to the data by a server apparatus according to such information.

Abstract: A projected end of a bus bar (20), including projection portions (21A, 22B, 23C, 24D, 25E, 26F), and a recessed connector (30), including a cylindrical portion (43A), a recess portion (31B), a cylindrical portion (42C), a recess portion (31D), a cylindrical portion (41E), and a recess portion (31F), are engaged with each other, thereby enabling the bus bar (20) and the connector (30) to electrically connect with each other. That is, only inserting the bus bar (20) into the connector (30) makes an electrical connection possible, so it is not necessary, for example, to fasten the terminal with a screw. Therefore, this facilitates the connection between the bus bar (20) and the connector (30).

Abstract: Provided is a carbon fiber bundle for obtaining a fiber-reinforced plastic having high mechanical characteristics. An acrylonitrile swollen fiber for a carbon fiber having openings of 10 nm or more in width in the circumference direction of the swollen fiber at a ratio in the range of 0.3 openings/?m2 or more and 2 openings/?m2 or less on the surface of the swollen fiber, and the swollen fiber is not treated with a finishing oil agent. A precursor fiber obtained by treating the swollen fiber with a silicone-based finishing oil agent has a silicon content of 1700 ppm or more and 5000 ppm or less, and the silicon content is 50 ppm or more and 300 ppm or less after the finishing oil agent is washed away with methyl ethyl ketone by using a Soxhlet extraction apparatus for 8 hours. The fiber is preferably an acrylonitrile copolymer containing acrylonitrile in an amount of 96.0 mass % or more and 99.7 mass % or less and an unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one carboxyl group or ester group in an amount of 0.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon fiber bundle for obtaining a fiber-reinforced resin having high mechanical characteristics. A carbon fiber bundle formed of single carbon fibers, each of which has no uneven surface structure of 0.6 ?m or more in length extending in the longitudinal direction of the single fiber; which has an uneven structure having a difference in height (Rp?v) of 5 to 25 nm between the highest portion and the lowest portion of the surface of the single fiber and having an average roughness Ra of 2 to 6 nm; and which has a ratio of the major axis to the minor axis (major axis/minor axis) of a cross-section of the single fiber of 1.00 to 1.01, wherein a mass of the single fiber per unit length falls within the range of 0.030 to 0.042 mg/m; a strand strength is 5900 MPa or more; a strand elastic modulus measured by the ASTM method is 250 to 380 GPa; and a knot tenacity is 900 N/mm2 or more.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus which is communicably connected to a management server for managing a scan ticket in which an instruction content for performing reading of a paper document is defined and can issue an instruction concerning printing to accumulated print jobs, when it is judged that the instruction concerning the printing is issued to the designated print job, a generation request of the scan ticket including reading setting for performing the reading of the paper document on which the print job has been printed is transmitted to the management server, a list of the scan tickets obtained from the management server is displayed, the reading of the paper document is performed using the scan ticket selected from list information of the displayed scan tickets, and an image obtained by the reading is transmitted to a transmission destination specified by the scan ticket.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a substrate, a nonvolatile memory device formed in a memory cell region of the substrate, and a semiconductor device formed in a device region of the substrate. The nonvolatile memory device has a multilayer gate electrode structure including a tunnel insulating film and a floating gate electrode formed thereon. The floating gate electrode has sidewall surfaces covered with a protection insulating film. The semiconductor device has a gate insulating film and a gate electrode formed thereon. A bird's beak structure is formed of a thermal oxide film at an interface of the tunnel insulating film and the floating gate electrode, the bird's beak structure penetrating into the floating gate electrode along the interface from the sidewall faces of the floating gate electrode, and the gate insulating film is interposed between the substrate and the gate electrode to have a substantially uniform thickness.

Abstract: A sanitary washing apparatus includes: a washing nozzle; and a pressurizing device. The sanitary washing apparatus being configured to perform first and second jetting processes alternately jetted with a prescribed waiting time there between. In the first jetting process, the pressurizing device makes pressure of water subsequently jetted higher than pressure of water previously jetted in the first jetting process so that the water subsequently jetted overtakes and unites with the water previously jetted in the first jetting process In the second jetting process, the pressurizing device makes pressure of water subsequently jetted higher than pressure of water previously jetted in the second jetting process so that the water subsequently jetted overtakes and unites with the water previously jetted in the second jetting process.

Abstract: A medicine feeding device including a support portion (32) for supporting a seal surface side of a press through pack (5), a press section (33) for pressing the housing recess portions (9) from one side other than the seal surface of the press through pack (5), and a cutter (38) for making a cut slit in the sheet (11) at a boundary portion between the housing recess portions (9) and the seal surface (8) at least before the sheet (11) is broken or the medicine (6) is damaged by the pressure exerted by the press section (33).

Abstract: A machine tool has a pair of guide rails and a pair of upper and lower ball screws. No forces are transferred between a beam of a double column frame and a movable unit. The guide rails are spaced from each other and disposed on a bed, and the movable unit is horizontally movably supported on the guide rails. The upper and lower ball screws are mounted respectively on upper and lower portions of the double column frame for moving the movable unit horizontally. Even when the beam is deformed by flexing downwardly by gravity, the movable unit moves stably and smoothly at a high speed to machine a workpiece highly accurately without being adversely affected by the deformation of the beam.

Abstract: A control-relay apparatus that controls a device to be controlled, according to a control request received from a management device includes a request receiving part that receives, from the management device, control request data containing data indicating a condition that a device to be controlled should satisfy, and data indicating contents of control with respect to a device that satisfies the condition, and stores the control request data in a recording part accessible from the control-relay apparatus, an information obtaining part that obtains device data relating to a device communicable with the control-relay apparatus; and a device control part that, when the device data obtained by the information obtaining part satisfy the condition indicated by the control request data recorded in the recording part, performs control including the contents indicated by the control request data, with respect to the device.

Abstract: A volumetric data connecting apparatus, includes a reference point determining device for having an operator determine reference points A, B and C which are not on the same straight line on first volumetric data V; a connection point a determining device for having the operator determine a connection point a corresponding to said reference point A on second volumetric data v; an auxiliary line q displaying device for displaying “a section fb of the second volumetric data v” selected by the operator and a curve q which results from the crossing of said section fb and “a spherical surface Q having the distance between the reference points AB as its radius and the connection point a as its center”.

Abstract: The disclosure pertains to a semiconductor device and its manufacture method, the semiconductor device including non-volatile memory cells and a peripheral circuit including field effect transistors having an insulated gate. A semiconductor device and its manufacture method are to be provided, the semiconductor device having memory cells with a high retention ability and field effect transistors having an insulated gate with large drive current. The semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate (1) having first and second areas (AR1, AR2), a floating gate structure (4, 5, 6, 7, 8) for a non-volatile memory cell, a control gate structure (14) formed coupled to the floating gate structure, formed in the first area, and an insulated gate electrode (12, 14) for a logical circuit formed in the second area, wherein the floating gate structure has bird's beaks larger than those of the insulated gate electrode.

Abstract: In executing projection processing for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of diagnosis, if a threshold is reached again after a specific value of a pixel reaches the threshold in the x direction in which tomographic planes are arrayed, the execution of the projection processing is ended, and a projected image is generated. Then, in generating that projected image by executing projection processing, tomograms are so synthesized with the projected image that the positions of the pixels projected in the x direction and the pixels of the tomograms generated in the x direction match each other in the scanned three-dimensional area of the subject, and the synthesized images are thereby generated.

Abstract: Provided are a drug, a cosmetic, etc. for promoting production of ceramide. Provided is a ceramide production promoter including a compound represented by the formula (1) or salts thereof as an active ingredient (in the formula, R1 represents a phosphono group or a hydrogen atom, R2 represents an alkyl group having 8 to 24 carbon atoms or an acyl group having 8 to 24 carbon atoms, and R3 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 24 carbon atoms when R1 represents a phosphono group or represents a phosphono group when R1 represents a hydrogen atom, or a salt thereof as an active ingredient.

Abstract: In a hydraulic chain tensioner having a housing, a hollow plunger slidable in a plunger-accommodating hole in the housing, and a hollow sleeve extending into the plunger from a bottom of the plunger-accommodating hole, and a check valve mounted at the opposite end of the sleeve, a passage is provided on the outer surface of the sleeve to accelerate the balance of pressure between a first high pressure chamber between the check valve and the protruding end of the plunger and a second high pressure chamber between the inner end of the plunger and the bottom of the plunger-accommodating hole. In an alternative embodiment, balance is accelerated by communication between the second high pressure chamber and an oil reservoir inside the sleeve on the upstream side of the check valve.

Abstract: A sanitary washing apparatus includes a nozzle having jetting water outlets from which water that pulsates by cyclically changing pressure jets, and a pump and a controller that functions as a flowing water adjuster that adjusts flowing water fed to the jetting water outlets in such a manner that first jetting water and second jetting water alternately occur at peaks of the pulsation of the water. With such an arrangement the first jetting water hits an anus and the private parts of a human body in a smaller area with a higher density than the second jetting water, and the second jetting water hits the anus and the private parts in a larger area with a lower density than the first jetting water.