Abstract: A wavelength conversion laser light source having: a laser medium which generates a fundamental wave light; a laser resonator for causing laser oscillation of the fundamental wave light; a wavelength convertor which is provided with a wavelength converting region to convert the fundamental wave light under the laser oscillation by means of the laser resonator into converted light of a different wavelength; and an excitation laser light source for exciting the laser medium, wherein the laser resonator has at least one reflecting surface which reflects the fundamental wave, and a first reflecting element which is provided on an end surface of the wavelength convertor to reflect the fundamental wave light; the wavelength converting region is situated between the at least one reflecting surface and the first reflecting element; the wavelength convertor has a periodic first polarization reversal structure formed in the wavelength converting region, and a non-converting region formed between the first reflecting el

Abstract: Animal litter is provided that causes little damage to the legs or the like of animals using a litter box and generates a small amount of ammonia. The animal litter includes a plurality of particulate matter, in which the plurality of respective particulate matter includes a group of particles configured with an inorganic porous material and an inorganic binder which binds the group of particles together, and the inorganic binder includes a non-cement solidifying agent.

Abstract: Methods of replacing/reforming a top oxide around a charge storage element of a memory cell and methods of improving quality of a top oxide around a charge storage element of a memory cell are provided. The method can involve removing a first poly over a first top oxide from the memory cell; removing the first top oxide from the memory cell; and forming a second top oxide around the charge storage element. The second top oxide can be formed by oxidizing a portion of the charge storage element or by forming a sacrificial layer over the charge storage element and oxidizing the sacrificial layer to a second top oxide.

Abstract: The optical element supporting device of the present invention includes a first supporting member that supports the optical element, a second supporting member that supports the first supporting member at a plurality of locations, a plate spring fastened to the first supporting member and having a plate thickness extending in the optical axis direction of the optical element, and a force supplying unit, which is provided on the first supporting member, configured to provide a force in the optical axis direction applied to the plate spring at a location different from the plurality of locations, wherein the force supplying unit elastically deforms the first supporting member by receiving the reactive force generated by the force applied to the plate spring to thereby adjust the position of the optical element.

Abstract: Subject-distance information is acquired by a light-weight, small-size arrangement without a significant change in the structure of a conventional image processing apparatus. The apparatus acquires diffraction images obtained by sensing the image of a subject, using an image sensing unit, obtained via a diffraction grating and imaging optical system, detects a real image from luminance gradients of the diffraction images, calculates the distance between the detected real image and a virtual image corresponding to this real image in the diffraction images, and calculates the depth distance between the subject and the diffraction grating using the distance calculated by first calculating unit.

Abstract: A printing apparatus and a conveyance control method are provided, both capable of detecting a print medium conveying state highly precisely in an entire process of conveying the print medium being printed. For this purpose, the surface of the print medium placed on the belt and the surface of the belt are detected to acquire the moving distance or moving speed of the print medium. Based on the moving distance or moving speed thus obtained, the driving of the belt is controlled. Even in a situation where the object being detected switches from the print medium to the belt in the middle of the conveying operation, the measurement of the moving distance can be performed without interruption by the same detection method using the same optical sensor unit.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a toner having the transfer efficiency and the cleanability in combination, exhibiting excellent stress resistance, and ensuring the low-temperature fixing. A toner characterized in that the average circularity of the above-described toner is 0.960 or more, and 0.985 or less, where the average circularity is analyzed by dividing particles having a circle equivalent diameter of 1.98 ?m or more, and 200.00 ?m or less, the number A of toners having a circularity of 0.990 or more, and 1.000 or less is 25.0 percent by the number or less, and the percentage of the number of particles B having a circle equivalent diameter of 0.50 ?m or more, and 1.98 ?m or less relative to the total particles of 0.50 ?m or more, and 200.00 ?m or less is 10.0 percent by the number or less.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an array substrate which includes a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of auxiliary capacitive lines, a plurality of pixels, an auxiliary capacitive line driving circuit, a logic circuit, a first auxiliary capacitive voltage supply line, a second auxiliary capacitive voltage supply line, and a power supply line, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. Each of the pixels includes a switching element, a pixel electrode, and an auxiliary capacitive element. A first common line and a second common line are connected to each other on one end side and are in a non-connected state in parts other than the part on the one end side. A common voltage is supplied to the first common line and the second common line from the one end side.

Abstract: A flat speaker device capable of emitting loud reproduced sound with a relatively simple configuration is provided. The speaker device includes a diaphragm, a frame supporting the diaphragm vibratably in the vibration direction, a magnetic circuit disposed in the frame, and a driving member for driving the diaphragm. The driving member includes a voice coil movably disposed in a magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit, a driving part formed movably in a direction different from the vibration direction of the diaphragm, and an angle conversion and transmission part, one end of which is angle-variably joined to the driving part and another end of which is angle-variably joined to the diaphragm. The angle conversion and transmission part has rigidity and is obliquely disposed with respect to each of the vibration direction of the diaphragm and the moving direction of the driving part.

Abstract: A thermally-assisted magnetic recording head includes: a main pole and a plasmon generator disposed to align along the direction of travel of a recording medium; a first heat sink layer having two portions that are located on opposite sides of the plasmon generator in the track width direction; a second heat sink layer having two portions that are located on opposite sides of the main pole in the track width direction; and a nonmagnetic layer disposed between the plasmon generator and the main pole. The first and second heat sink layers are each made of SiC or AlN. The nonmagnetic layer is made of a material that is lower in thermal conductivity at 25° C. than alumina.

Abstract: There is disclosed a memory element including a layered structure including a memory layer that has magnetization perpendicular to a film face and a magnetization direction thereof varies corresponding to information; a magnetization-fixed layer that has magnetization that is perpendicular to the film face; and an insulating layer that is provided between the memory layer. An electron that is spin-polarized is injected in a lamination direction of the layered structure, and thereby the magnetization direction of the memory layer varies and a recording of information is performed with respect to the memory layer, a magnitude of an effective diamagnetic field which the memory layer receives is smaller than a saturated magnetization amount of the memory layer, and the memory layer and the magnetization-fixed layer have a film thickness in such a manner that an interface magnetic anisotropy energy becomes larger than a diamagnetic energy.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a storage element, including: a storage layer which has magnetization vertical to a film surface and in which a direction of the magnetization is changed in correspondence to information; a magnetization fixing layer which has magnetization vertical to a film surface becoming a reference of the information stored in the storage layer, which is composed of plural magnetic layers, and which has a multilayered ferri-pin structure into which the plural magnetic layers are laminated one upon another through a non-magnetic layer(s); and an insulating layer made of a non-magnetic material and provided between the storage layer and the magnetization fixing layer.

Abstract: An LED module includes a substrate including a main surface and a rear surface that are opposed to each other. The LED module also includes a plurality of LED chips arranged on the main surface, a drive circuit chip that is provided on the substrate and that is provided for driving the plurality of LED chips, a first heat dissipater that is provided on the rear surface and that overlaps the plurality of LED chips as viewed in the thickness direction of the substrate, and a second heat dissipator that is provided at a position closer to the drive circuit chip than the first heat dissipater is. The second head dissipater has a thickness greater than that of the first heat dissipater. The LED module emits a uniform amount of light and color.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an anti-cadherin antibody having high antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity. The present invention provides an anti-cadherin antibody, which recognizes any one of an upstream region of EC1, a cadherin domain 4 (EC4) and a cadherin domain 5 (EC5), wherein an antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity at an antibody concentration of 1 ?g/mL is 30% or more.

Abstract: There is disclosed a glass-fiber coating liquid for forming a coating layer on a glass fiber cord, prepared in the form of an emulsion by dispersing a phenol resin, a vinylpyridine-stylene-butadiene copolymer (B) and a chlorosulfonated polyethylene (C) into water to form a coating layer on a glass fiber cord, wherein the phenol resin is a monohydroxybenzene-formaldehyde resin (A) obtained by reaction of monohydroxybenzene (D) and formaldehyde (E).

Abstract: Provided is a gate signal line driving circuit including: 2n clock signal lines where 2n-phase clock signals are input in the normal order of the sequence in normal-directional scanning and in the inverse order of the sequence in inverse-directional scanning, respectively; and a plurality of basic circuits, each being connected with the 2n clock signal lines and outputting a gate signal from an output terminal, in which each of the basic circuits includes a high-voltage applying switching circuit where one clock signal line is connected to an input side and applies a voltage applied to the clock signal line to the output terminal and an off-signal applying switching circuit that applies an off-voltage to a switch of the high-voltage applying switching circuit, and a clock signal line where a clock signal having an inverse phase is connected to a switch of the off-signal applying switching circuit.

Abstract: Alpha-helix mimetic structures and compounds represented by the formula (I) wherein the general formula and the definition of each symbol are as defined in the specification, a compound relating thereto, and methods relating thereto, are disclosed. Applications of these compounds in the treatment of medical conditions, e.g., cancer diseases, fibrotic diseases, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the mimetics are further disclosed.

Abstract: Provided are a large-current and highly stable gas field ionization ion source, and a high-resolution ion microscope with a large focal depth. The present invention relates to an ion microscope provided with a gas field ionization ion source, in which disposed are a refrigerator for cooling the gas field ionization ion source independent of the main body of the ion microscope, and a refrigerant circulation circuit cooling mechanism for circulating a refrigerant between the gas field ionization ion source and the refrigerator. Consequently it is possible to reduce the mechanical vibration of the refrigerator, which propagates to the gas field ionization ion source, and to achieve both the improvement of the brightness of the ion source and the improvement of ion beam focusing performance.

Abstract: A method for producing a single crystal scintillator material according to the present invention includes the steps of: providing a solvent including: at least one element selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs; W and/or Mo; B; and oxygen; melting a Ce compound and a Lu compound that have been mixed with the solvent by heating the mixture to a temperature of 800° C. to 1,350° C.; and growing a single crystal by cooling the compounds melted. The single crystal is represented by the compositional formula (CexLu1-x)BO3, in which the mole fraction x of Ce satisfies 0.0001?x?0.05.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a wind-power generating system 10 includes: a lightning protecting device including a receptor 70 provided on a blade surface and a lightning conductor 73 grounding the receptor 70; an airflow generating device 60 provided on the blade surface and including first and second electrodes 61, 62 separated via a dielectric 63; a discharge power source 65 including switches 90, 91 able to connect the first and second electrodes 61, 62 to output terminals 84, 85 respectively and a switch 92 able to connect the first or second electrode 61, 62 to a grounding conductor 100; and a thundercloud detecting device detecting information regarding thundercloud approach. When the information regarding the thundercloud approach is detected, the second electrode 62 is connected to the grounding conductor 100 and the first and second electrodes 61, 62 are disconnected from the output terminals 84, 85.