Abstract: The non aqueous secondary battery electrode of the present invention includes a mixture layer and a porous layer formed on the surface of the mixture layer. The mixture layer includes an electrode material expressed by the composition formula SiOx where x in the composition formula satisfies 0.5?x?1.5, a conductive material and at least one binder selected from the group consisting of polyimide, polyamideimide and polyamide. The porous layer includes an insulating material unreactive with Li.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pyrazole derivative of the general formula (1), which has an excellent efficacy as an active component for a herbicide, an intermediate for the production thereof, processes for the production thereof, and a herbicide containing the derivative as an active ingredient.

Abstract: In a memory controller according to the present invention, an external I/F unit receives ID information associated with data from the outside of a non-volatile memory, and a recording controller manages a recording position of the data in the non-volatile memory based on the ID information, so that an amount of time necessary for the retrieval of rights information based on the ID information is reduced.

Abstract: A magnetostrictive stress sensor (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) includes: a magnetic member {20, (107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112)} having a magnetostriction; a permanent magnet (30, 35, 113) adjacent to the magnetic member; a magnetic sensor (40, 104A, 104B) for detecting a leak magnetic flux on a side opposite to the permanent magnet with respect to the magnetic member, wherein the leak magnetic flux changes according to a stress acting on the magnetic member and the magnetic sensor detects the change of the leak magnetic flux, to thereby detect the stress acting on the magnetic member, and a direction (21, 108A, 109A) of the stress acting on the magnetic member is substantially orthogonal to a magnetizing direction (31, 31, 113A) of the permanent magnet.

Abstract: A carbon fiber having a total content of Li, Na, Ti, Mn, Fe, Ni and Co metal elements of no more than 50 ppm and a fiber diameter of 0.001 to 2 ?m and not branched and a assembly of a plurality of the carbon fibers.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pyrazole derivative of the general formula (1), which has an excellent efficacy as an active component for a herbicide, an intermediate for the production thereof, processes for the production thereof, and a herbicide containing the derivative as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A reinforced member which is made from a steel product having a strain aging characteristic and has a closed section at a cross section perpendicular to an axis of the reinforced member. The reinforced member includes a reinforced area which is produced by press-forming the steel product so as to generate a compression strain in the press-formed steel product due to the application of a compression stress to the steel product along the direction from a surface of the steel product to an inside of the steel product, and by giving a strain aging treatment to the press-formed member.

Abstract: A printer for printing a continuous sheet with position detection marks has a mark detection function and a feed amount detection function that are normally enabled. Further, the printer is provided with a mechanism that operates in a sheet feed mode (mark detection mode) that utilizes the mark detection function and a sheet feed mode (feed amount detection mode) that utilizes the set feed amount detection function. If the mark detection function suffers an error, the sheet feed mode is switched from the mark detection mode to the feed amount detection mode, and a printing operation is continued.

Abstract: A right information encryption module 110a comprises a key generation part 111a, a right information encryption part 112a, and a key management information generation part 113a. Key information Km and key management information Mm corresponding to right information are generated and then recorded into a secret recording module 130a. In addition, the right information is encrypted, and then the encrypted right information Enc_a (ROm, Km) and the key management information Mm are recorded into a recording module 140a. This can eliminate the possibility of a capability shortage of a secret area caused by an increase in the data size of the right information including the key information and use restriction information for a content.

Abstract: A fluorescent lamp has a glass container that has a phosphor layer formed on an inner surface of the glass container, and that is hermetically sealed, wherein phosphors of the phosphor layer include a blue phosphor, a green phosphor, and a red phosphor, a main luminescence peak of the blue phosphor exists in a wavelength region in a range of 430 nm to 460 nm inclusive, a half-value width of a spectrum of the main luminescence peak of the blue phosphor is less than or equal to 50 nm, a main luminescence peak of the green phosphor exists in a wavelength region in a range of 510 nm to 530 nm inclusive, a half-value width of a spectrum of the main luminescence peak of the green phosphor is less than or equal to 30 nm, and a main luminescence peak of the red phosphor exists in a wavelength region in a range of 600 nm to 780 nm inclusive, and a difference between a wavelength of the main luminescence peak of the blue phosphor and a wavelength of the main luminescence peak of the green phosphor is in a range of 70 n

Abstract: A processing apparatus including an internal circuit having a CPU and internal devices and an external circuit including external devices provided externally of the internal circuit, and the like, and is aimed to prevent illicit access and reverse engineering. The internal circuit including a CPU, internal devices and a bus line connecting the CPU to the internal devices and extending externally, and the external circuit including external devices provided externally of an externally extending portion of the bus line. The internal circuit further including a ciphering section 120 provided at an entrance to an external side and ciphering addresses and data on the bus line by ciphering patterns according to a plurality of regions divided from an address space allotted to the entire external devices.

Abstract: Disclosed are an exposure mask capable of improving uniformity of a resist film thickness of a half film thickness part and reducing a display defect to increase a manufacturing yield, a method of manufacturing a TFT substrate using the exposure mask and a liquid crystal display comprising the TFT substrate manufactured by the method and having no display defect. The exposure mask includes a light-shielding pattern on a transparent substrate in which a gray-tone area is provided to at least a part of the light-shielding pattern, the gray-tone area having an oblong light-shielding pattern having a width of a submarginal resolution of an exposure apparatus and sandwiched between oblong slit-type transmissive patterns having a width of the submarginal resolution, and a light-shielding rate of the gray-tone area is gradually reduced toward a center of the oblong light-shielding pattern from longitudinal ends thereof.

Abstract: A reflection type liquid crystal display device having excellent display capability even if the number of the photolithography process is reduced and a process for producing the device. A process includes the steps of (a) forming a source/drain wiring by using a first mask; (b) forming a thin film transistor region and gate wiring by using a second mask; (c) forming an opening for a transistor, in a passivation film by using a third mask; (d) forming a rough surface of the interlayer insulating film and to form an opening for the transistor by using a fourth mask by halftone exposure, and (e) forming a reflective metal which extend through the respective openings for the transistor in the passivation film and the interlayer insulating film so that it is electrically connected to the source wiring by using a fifth mask.

Abstract: A storage device including a plurality of storage units for storing data dispersively among the storage units, includes: a processor for controlling boot-up of the storage units; and a memory for storing operation history indicative of the sequence of any failure causing any of the storage units to become inoperative, the processor controlling reboot-up of the storage units, when a plurality of the storage units becomes inoperative on account of a plurality of failures, in accordance with process including: determining the order of the reboot up of the storage units that is reversal of the sequence of the failures causing the storage units to become inoperative in reference to the operation history in the memory; rebooting the inoperative storage units successively in accordance with the determined order.

Abstract: Card type information device includes wiring board having a wiring pattern with an electronic component mounted on a first face of wiring board and an antenna connecting electrode, antenna board having antenna pattern with antenna terminal electrodes formed on a first face of antenna board, magnetic material placed between wiring board and antenna board confronting each other, flexible wiring board for coupling the antenna connecting electrode to antenna terminal electrode, and housing for accommodating wiring board, antenna board, magnetic material, and flexible wiring board. Wiring board and antenna board are made from one and the same insulating motherboard.

Abstract: A cold cathode fluorescent lamp includes a glass bulb (16), a protective film (22) formed on an inner face of the glass bulb, and a phosphor layer (24) that overlaps the protective film and that contains blue phosphor particles (26B), green phosphor particles (26) and red phosphor particles (26). The glass bulb has been formed from soda glass, and the blue phosphor particles have been coated with a metal oxide (30). Also, the protective film is made of silica (SiO2). Since the protective film has been provided in the fluorescent lamp and since the blue phosphor particles, which readily deteriorate, have been coated with the metal oxide, a good luminance maintenance rate is obtained. In addition, although the glass bulb of the fluorescent lamp is made of soda glass, since the protective film is made of silica, the fluorescent lamp obtains an initial luminance equivalent to the initial luminance of a fluorescent lamp whose glass bulb is made of borosilicate glass.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fibrous activated carbon wherein fine pores in the surface of the activated carbon have diameters of 0.1-200 nm and the activated carbon is in the form of fiber having a fiber diameter of not more than 1000 nm.

Abstract: To provide an oil-absorbing cosmetic sheet having very excellent oil absorption property and remarkably soft touch and enabling oil removal with enjoyment before and during use by virtue of an imparted picture pattern. The oil-absorbing cosmetic sheet comprises a porous stretched film formed of a plastic material and is constructed such that an image-forming oil agent, in an amount imparting a picture pattern to the plastic film by at least partially filling voids of the plastic film, is applied to the plastic film and thereby an image region is formed.

Abstract: An electronic circuit module with a built-in antenna (1) includes the following elements: a mounting module having a wiring board (2), a passive component, and a semiconductor device; a resin sheet substrate (11) having an antenna pattern (12) formed on a first principle surface of a base thereof; and a magnetic layer interposed between the mounting module and the resin sheet substrate (11). These elements are housed in a case (16).

Abstract: The semiconductor memory module incorporating antenna includes a wiring board (11) having a connection terminal (17) connected with a control semiconductor element (16) and arranged at a position exposed to the surface of an outer case (15), and a terminal electrode (18) for antenna connection connected with the control semiconductor element (16) and arranged in the outer case (15); a semiconductor storage element (12) mounted on one side of the wiring board (11); and a loop-like antenna (13) and an antenna terminal electrode (20) formed on the other side of the wiring board (11) along the outer peripheral thereof, the wiring board (11) includes at least one magnetic body layer (14) and the terminal electrode (18) for antenna connection is connected with the antenna terminal electrode (20).