Abstract: A paper edge cleaner in which paper is carried along a paper guide by a paper carrying roller. A grinder grinds both sides of the paper parallel to the paper movement to remove burr from the paper. The paper is supported by a support.

Abstract: The present invention provides a Scandium catalyst that can be used in water or water-soluble organic solvent with no leaching of Scandium. Provided is a gold-polymer nanostructure-immobilized Scandium catalyst, which is formed by preparing, in liquid phase, a mixture comprising gold clusters with from 1 to 50 nm of diameter, disulfide monomer, sulfonic acid salt of disulfide and Lewis acid metal compound represented by ScY3, wherein Y is OSO2CF3 etc., and polymerizing the mixture in the presence of a radical polymerization initiator, wherein the disulfide monomer is represented by the formula below: CH2?CH—R1—S—S—R1—CH?CH2 wherein R1 represents a divalent hydrocarbon, which may contain an ether bond, and the sulfonic acid salt of disulfide is represented by the formula below: MO3S—R2—S—S—R2—SO3M wherein R2 represents a divalent hydrocarbon, which may contain an ether bond, and M represents an alkali metal.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus projecting 3D image data to 2D planar image data includes: an accumulation unit that accumulates the 3D image data having position coordinates and pixel values; an acquisition unit that acquires a display parameter, including a zoom parameter for changing image size, for the 2D image data to be created; a creation unit that creates the 2D image data from the 3D image data with the display parameter by determining a half view angle of the 3D image data and performing inverse projection transformation on the 2D image data while changing, in accordance with a change in the half view angle caused by the change in image size specified by the zoom parameter, an inverse projection transformation method applied to position coordinates used to create the 2D image data; and a display unit that displays the created 2D image data as a 2D planar image.

Abstract: An arithmetic operation circuit provided in a delta-sigma modulator of a delta-sigma A/D converter includes two reference capacitors which are respectively provided at a positive side input node and a negative side input node of an operational amplifier. When a signal corresponding to an output of the modulator is added or subtracted to or from an input signal, the amount of charge added to the input node of the operational amplifier is made to be always the same regardless of the reference voltage by complementarily switching the connection of the reference capacitors at the positive side input node and the negative side input node, and thereby the potential of the input node of the operational amplifier is made to converge to the common mode potential of the circuit.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes a first member disposed at least in a part of a periphery of an optical path of the exposure light, and has a first face that faces an upper face of the object through a first gap and holds the liquid between the upper face of the object and the first face, a second member disposed at an outer side of the first face with respect to the optical path and has a second face facing the upper face of the object through a second gap, a first supply port disposed at an outer side of the second face and supplies a fluid, and a first suction port disposed between the first face and the second face, and suctions at least part of gas in an outer space of the second member via a gap between the second face and the upper face of the object.

Abstract: A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using a downlink shared channel is disclosed. The base station apparatus includes a user selection unit selecting a user equipment terminal to which radio resources are to be allocated, the selection being based on whether there is a MAC-layer control signal to be transmitted to the user equipment terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that makes it easy to input desired characters using a directional key. Also disclosed is a display control method for an electronic device. The disclosed electronic device is provided with a display unit (21), a user input unit (11) that can specify a plurality of directions, and a control unit (45). If one of the plurality of directions is specified via the user input unit (11) while characters and numbers are being displayed on the display unit (21), the control unit selects different characters and different numbers for changing the characters and/or numbers displayed on the display unit (21) to other characters and numbers. The control unit then has the display unit (21) display the selected other characters and numbers.

Abstract: An image forming system has a first image forming section to form an image on a sheet, wherein the first image forming section heats the sheet to fix the image on the sheet, a second image forming section to form an image to the sheet on which the image has been formed by the first image forming section, and a transporting section to transport the sheet from first image forming section to the second image forming section. The transporting section has a first transporting part to transport the sheet to a predetermined position, and a second transporting part to reverse a surface of the sheet which has been transported by the first transporting part as transporting the sheet from the predetermined position to an area below the predetermined position.

Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device featuring reduced variation in capacitor characteristics. In the semiconductor device, a protective layer is provided at the periphery of the upper end portion of a recess (hole). This protective layer has a dielectric constant higher than that of an insulating layer placed in the same layer as the protective layer and configuring a multilayer wiring layer placed in a logic circuit region.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a feature point extraction unit that extracts feature points which are pixels located at the corner of a region within an image and directions indicating a positional relationship of the feature points in the region, a selection unit that selects the feature point and a set of feature points corresponding to the feature point, based on a color of the feature point, a position of the feature point, and a direction in the feature point, a representative point determination unit that determines a representative point representing a region, based on the set of feature points, a vector calculation unit that calculates a vector composed of two representative points, on the basis of the representative points, and a screen line number and angle extraction unit that extracts the number of screen lines and an angle used in the image, based on a distribution of the vectors.

Abstract: There is provided an optical element including first and second substrates that are disposed to face each other; a pair of wall portions that are erected on an inner surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate to be adjacent to each other in a first direction and extend in a second direction different from the first direction; first and second electrodes that are disposed on wall surfaces of the pair of wall portions to be insulated from each other and face each other and are provided to be apart from the first substrate; an insulating film that covers the first and second electrodes; a third electrode that is provided on an inner surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate; and a polar liquid and a non-polar liquid that are sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate and have different refractive indexes.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing an optical element forming mold, the method including forming a ta-C film 12 on a mold matrix 10 for an optical element forming mold by an FCVA process, in which the mold matrix 10 is kept at a floating potential, a voltage is applied to a mold matrix-holding member 2 for holding the mold matrix via insulating members (3a,3b), and a magnet 4 internally provided in the mold matrix forms a magnetic field for applying a magnetic force in a normal direction of a transfer surface of the mold matrix so as to follow a magnetic force applied by a filter coil 22, thereby homogenizing the film quality.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reference signal generating circuit includes a first nonlinear element that generates a first reference voltage, a second nonlinear element that generates a second reference voltage, a current controlling circuit that controls a current flowing to the first nonlinear element and a current flowing to the second nonlinear element based on an output voltage of the current controlling circuit itself, and N temperature characteristic adjusting elements (N is an integer of 2 or larger) that individually adjust the temperature characteristics of the output voltage of the current controlling circuit.

Abstract: An imaging element includes a red color filter, a blue color filter, and two kinds of first and second green color filters. The first green color filter has a peak spectral sensitivity in a longer wavelength region than a wavelength of a peak spectral sensitivity of the second green color filter.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a heat-assisted magnetic recording head includes the step of forming an internal mirror that includes a reflecting film support body and a reflecting film. The reflecting film support body includes first and second inclined surfaces. The reflecting film includes first and second portions that are located on the first and second inclined surfaces, respectively. The step of forming the internal mirror includes the step of forming the reflecting film support body and the step of forming the reflecting film. The step of forming the reflecting film support body forms an initial support body, and performs two taper-etching processes on the initial support body so that the initial support body is provided with the first and second inclined surfaces.

Abstract: A nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery has a closed-end tubular container containing a spiral-shaped electrode assembly formed by winding a negative a positive electrode with a separator interposed therebetween such that the outermost periphery of the assembly is the negative electrode which is formed by disposing on a conductive substrate a mixture layer containing a hydrogen-absorption alloy. The positive electrode employs nickel hydroxide as an active material. In the nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery, the surface roughness of the outermost peripheral portion of the mixture layer of the negative electrode which contacts an inner side wall of the closed-end tubular container is 3.5 ?M or more in terms of ten-point average roughness and is larger than the surface roughness of the other portion of the mixture layer. The reduction of oxygen gas during rapid charging is thereby facilitated without lowering the design capacity of the battery.

Abstract: A key drive device to be installed on a musical instrument with a keyboard partly located above a leg block via a key bed, including: drive units to be at least partly inserted into a removal space in the key bed. In a state in which the drive units are installed, at least one drive unit which drives at least one key located above the leg block includes: (a) a first portion at least a part of which is inserted into an insertion space portion of the removal space between the leg block and the keyboard; and (b) a second portion at least a part of which is disposed in other space portion of the removal space, a dimension of the second portion in at least one of a vertical direction and a horizontal short-side direction being larger than that of the first portion.

Abstract: In a twin roll continuous caster, the contour of the strip cast is controlled during casting by regulating the temperature of temperature-regulating medium circulated through temperature-regulating passages in the casting rolls spaced inward of cooling passages in the circumferential portion adjacent the casting surfaces. The temperature-regulating passages may be positioned in the circumferential portion or in the inner portion of the casting rolls, or both.

Abstract: The gaming system of the present invention comprises: a plurality of gaming machines; a control device; a single pedestal having an installation surface for installing the gaming machines; a supporting member provided such that a first end thereof is supported by the pedestal and the second end thereof is oriented upwardly; a common image display supported at a position above the upper surfaces of the gaming machines by the supporting member, and communication cables for communication between the plurality of gaming machines and the control device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the following formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, being useful as a renin inhibitor. [wherein R1a is halogen, etc.; R1m is H, etc.; G1 is —N(R1b)—, etc.; G2 is —CO—, etc.; G3 is —C(R1c)(R1d)—, etc.; G4 is oxygen, etc.; R1b is optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, etc.; R1c and R1d are independently the same or different, H, etc.; R3 is H, optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, etc.; R3a, R3b, R3c and R3d are independently the same or different, and a group: -A-B (said A is single bond, etc., and said B is H, etc.), etc.; and n is 1, etc.