Abstract: A projection video display device 10b includes a main body 1 including a light source 11 and a video display element 13 and generating a video to be projected, a portrait converter 3 that rotates the video generated by the main body 1 around an optical axis by 90°, and a projection lens 2 that magnifies and projects the video rotated by the portrait converter 3. The main body 1 rotates directions of OSD (On Screen Display) images 42c and 42d in the video generated by the video display element 13 to an opposite direction to or in the same direction as a rotation direction of the video by the portrait converter 3 by 90°. Accordingly, the OSD image can be displayed in a direction in which it is easy for the user to see in portrait projection screens 40c and 40d.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device is disclosed. The surface acoustic wave device can include a ceramic substrate, a piezoelectric layer over the ceramic substrate, and an interdigital transducer electrode over the piezoelectric layer. The ceramic substrate can be a polycrystalline spinel substrate. The surface acoustic wave device can also include a temperature compensating layer over the interdigital transducer electrode.

Abstract: Information related to a vehicle can be displayed by projecting an image based on the information on a road surface or the like. An image projection apparatus that projects an image includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information to be displayed; and an image projection unit that projects the image based on the information to be displayed acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a refilled cartridge for performing refilling of printing material after use of a cartridge is provided. The cartridge includes a first case including a recess having a bottom surface and an opening, a flexible portion attached to the opening, a second case covering the open surface of the first case, a pressure receiving portion contacting the flexible portion, a chamber of variable capacity and a biasing member that generates negative pressure inside the chamber The printing material is refilled into the chamber so that two or more points across the biasing member on the pressure receiving portion do not contact the second case after refilling of the printing material is completed.

Abstract: A first wire has a first contact connected to a first semiconductor element, and a second contact connected to a second semiconductor element. A second wire has a third contact connected to the first semiconductor element and a fourth contact connected to the second semiconductor element. A first linear portion between the first contact and the second contact of the first wire has an undulation. A second linear portion between the third contact and the fourth contact of the second wire has an undulation. A first top portion of the first linear portion is adjacent to a second top portion of the second linear portion. An interval between the first top portion and the second top portion is narrower than an interval between the first contact and the third contact. The interval between the first top portion and the second top portion is narrower than an interval between the second contact and the fourth contact.

Abstract: An improvement is achieved in the reliability of a semiconductor device. A SIP includes an analog chip, a microcomputer chip having a main surface smaller in area than a main surface of the analog chip, a die pad over which the analog chip and the microcomputer chip are mounted, and a plurality of leads arranged so as to surround the die pad. The SIP further includes a plurality of suspension leads formed integrally with the die pad, a plurality of wires electrically coupling electrodes of the analog chip to the leads and electrically coupling the microcomputer chip to the leads, and a sealing body sealing therein the analog chip and the microcomputer chip. Each of first and second curved portions of the die pad has a radius of curvature larger than a radius of curvature of a third curved portion of the die pad.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting portion configured to eject a liquid, a liquid supply flow path of which a downstream end portion is attachably/detachably connected to the liquid ejecting portion and through which the liquid is supplied from a liquid accommodating portion that accommodates the liquid to the liquid ejecting portion, an opening/closing valve capable of opening and closing the liquid supply flow path, an atmosphere communication path connected to the liquid supply flow path on a downstream side of the opening/closing valve, an atmosphere release valve capable of opening and closing the atmosphere communication path, a suction mechanism capable of sucking the liquid in the liquid ejecting portion, and a control device configured to control operations of the opening/closing valve, the atmosphere release valve, and the suction mechanism.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head which performs a printing by ejecting liquid onto a medium from a nozzle, a wiping portion which wipes the liquid ejecting head by moving relative to the liquid ejecting head, a maintenance unit which performs a maintenance to forcibly discharge the liquid from the nozzle, and a preprocessing device which performs a preprocessing on the medium before the printing is performed, in which when the wiping portion and the liquid ejecting head are separated from each other in the wiping not accompanying the maintenance, the wiping portion is displaced in a direction away from the preprocessing device.

Abstract: A therapeutic agent for fibrosis, whose active ingredient is constituted by a glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor or lactosylceramide synthase inhibitor, or both, inhibits the nuclear translocation of phosphorylated Smad, thereby treating and preventing fibrosis.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a technique capable of providing a semiconductor device with information indicating a plurality of electrical characteristics. A semiconductor device sorting system includes a characteristic measurement unit measuring electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device, a rank determination database for classifying the electrical characteristics into ranks, a calculation unit classifying the plurality of electrical characteristics of the semiconductor device measured by the characteristic measurement unit into a plurality of ranks with reference to the rank determination database, a writing unit converting the plurality of ranks classified by the calculation unit into a graphic symbolic code and forming the graphic symbolic code on the semiconductor device, a reading unit reading the plurality of ranks from the graphic symbolic code formed on the semiconductor device, and a sorting unit sorting the semiconductor device based on the plurality of ranks being read by the reading unit.

Abstract: A point management system manages points on the basis of an index related to a financial product, the points being held by a user in a loyalty points program with which accumulated points can be exchanged for a product or the like. The point management system includes a point management unit that, on the basis of a target value and/or a withdrawal value of a point balance in management set on the basis of a tiered unit of exchange in exchanging points for a product or the like, calculates information related to prediction of whether or not the point balance reaches each of the target value and/or the withdrawal value by a term, or selects a financial product with which the point balance is highly likely to reach the target value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a highly contracted artificial fibroin fiber including a modified fibroin, in which a contraction percentage defined by the following equation exceeds 7%.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a first semiconductor element, a second semiconductor element, and a metal pattern formed on the second semiconductor element. The metal pattern includes a first connection connected to the first semiconductor element and a second connection connected to a first terminal portion of the first semiconductor element and positioned away from the first connection. A first electrically conductive path formed between the first and second connections has a larger electric resistance than an electric resistance of a second electrically conductive path formed between the second connection and the first terminal portion.

Abstract: After acquiring order information on an order from a user, a food ingredients delivery instruction corresponding to the order information is transmitted due to acquiring of trigger information including at least one of user identification information, device identification information, and order identification information.

Abstract: While there are various methods for acquiring biological information based on pulse waveforms, none of the methods have been implemented in a biological information reading device that can be constantly operated stably. Provided is a biological information reading device which has achieved high accuracy by removing disturbance components from a pulse signal acquired by means of a multi-axis pressure sensor or a plurality of single-axis pressure sensors, and which can be attached to an examinee at all times for continuous observation taking advantage of the small and light-weight feature of the pressure sensors.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device comprises a substrate and an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode disposed on the substrate. The IDT electrode includes a lower electrode layer having a lower surface in contact with an upper surface of the substrate and an upper electrode layer having a lower surface defining a base in contact with an upper surface of the lower electrode layer. Side surfaces of the lower electrode layer are substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate. Side surfaces of the upper electrode layer are disposed at an acute angle relative to the upper surface of the substrate.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device that includes a polycrystalline spinel layer, a piezoelectric layer and an interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric layer is disclosed. The piezoelectric layer is disposed between the interdigital transducer electrode and the polycrystalline spinel layer. The acoustic wave device is configured to generate an acoustic wave having a wavelength of ?. The piezoelectric layer can have a thickness that is less than ?. In some embodiments, the acoustic wave device can include a temperature compensating layer that is disposed between the piezoelectric layer and the spinel layer.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device that includes a spinel layer, a piezoelectric layer, a temperature compensating layer between the spinel layer and the piezoelectric layer and an interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric layer is disclosed. The piezoelectric layer is disposed between the interdigital transducer electrode and the spinel layer. The acoustic wave device is configured to generate an acoustic wave having a wavelength of ?. The piezoelectric layer can have a thickness that is less than ?. In some embodiments, the spinel layer can be a polycrystalline spinel layer.

Abstract: A therapeutic agent for fibrosis, whose active ingredient is constituted by a glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor or lactosylceramide synthase inhibitor, or both, inhibits the nuclear translocation of phosphorylated Smad, thereby treating and preventing fibrosis.

Abstract: Aspects and examples provide improvement in the attenuation level near the passband within the stopband of the bandpass-type filter using a ladder-type circuit formed by a BAW resonator. In one example the filter includes a ladder-type circuit formed by a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator, and a loop circuit connected between two distinct points on a signal path extending from an input to an output of the ladder-type circuit for phase-cancellation of signals at the two distinct points. The two distinct points may be the input and the output of the ladder-type circuit. The loop circuit may include a SAW resonator or a BAW resonator. The BAW resonator may be a film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) or solidly mounted resonator (SMR).