Abstract: Provided is a watch capable of performing digital display as well as analog display. The watch can offer digital display without posing disadvantages peculiar to a liquid crystal panel. On the other hand, the watch can reduce the restrictions in design and make the digital display larger and easier to see. The watch includes a light-shielding plate 22 on the rear side of the dial 24. In the light-shielding plate, light-transmitting holes 23 are made piercing from a front of the light-shielding plate to a rear thereof. Thin chip LEDs 17 are inserted in the light-transmitting holes, and mounted on a circuit board 16. The circuit board is placed on the rear side of the light-shielding plate. On the rear side of the circuit board, an analog movement 13 is provided, and an LED drive circuit 33 for driving the LEDs is placed. Thus, the LEDs 17 for digital display are placed on the rear side of the dial.

Abstract: The invention provides an ink-jet ink including a fluorine-containing compound (C) in the form of fluorosilsesquioxane having an organic group having 1 to 100 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an inkjet ink including a polyamic acid (A), including a step of at least reacting one or more compounds selected from the group of a monoamine (a3) and a compound having one acid anhydride group (a4) with a compound having two or more acid anhydride groups (a1) and a diamine (a2).

Abstract: The present invention discloses a composition containing a component that is an in vivo intrinsic substance and widely-consumed. The present invention provides a composition containing pipecolic acid in its provided amount of 20 mg/kg to 2000 mg/kg of body weight per day. The composition of the present invention can be used, for example, in the treatment of diabetes.

Abstract: A UV-curable ink-jet ink is provided, which has a high sensitivity and allows soft and highly fine patterns to be formed. The UV-curable ink-jet ink includes a mono-functional polymerizable monomer (A) having a hydroxyl group, a di(meth)acrylate ester (B) and a photo-polymerization initiator (C).

Abstract: There has been a need for an overcoat film composition that functions as an overcoat film in terms of high transparency and flatness, and that also functions as an aligning film in terms of liquid crystal molecular alignment. There has also been a need to lower the cost of manufacturing a liquid crystal display element. There is provided an overcoat film composition comprising one or more compounds selected from the group of polyester-polyamic acids (A1) obtained using at least a polyhydric hydroxy compound (a1), a diamine (a2), and a compound having two or more acid anhydride groups (a3), and polyester-polyimides (A2) that are imidization products thereof, and a polyamic acid (B).

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for evaluating information which is submitted to an information display apparatus which a user operates, the information including characters and images, includes a state obtaining part obtaining at least any one of the number of the characters and the number of the images; a reading time obtaining part obtaining the user's reading time on information; and a reading time calculating part calculating, with the use of at least any one of the number of the characters and the number of the images, a reading time per character/image.

Abstract: The description relates to a rectenna solar-battery hybrid panels that not only receive electric power transmitted by microwaves after the electric energy has been generated from sunlight, but also gain sunlight energy on the open faces of the panels, and to hybrid solar photovoltaic generation systems. In the rectenna solar-battery hybrid panel, a plurality of solar battery cells for receiving sunlight and converting the sunlight into electricity and a plurality of microwave receiving antenna elements for receiving microwaves transmitted through space are provided. dc electric power is obtained from microwave power, having been received by the microwave receiving antenna elements, being rectified by a rectifying circuit. Stable electric power can be obtained from the output of the solar battery cells and the rectifying circuit.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus has a pressure-reducible reaction chamber, a substrate support provided in the reaction chamber, a gas inlet port provided in a wall portion of the reaction chamber to introduce a gas into the reaction chamber, a first plate provided between the substrate support and the gas inlet port in the reaction chamber and having a plurality of first holes for dispersing the gas introduced from the gas inlet port into the reaction chamber, and a second plate provided between the substrate support and the first plate in the reaction chamber in opposing relation to the first plate and having a plurality of second holes for further dispersing the gas dispersed by the first plate. The first and second plates can be moved relatively to each other such that a spacing between the first and second plates is variable.

Abstract: An internal condition detection system detects a charging and discharging current and a terminal voltage of a charge accumulating device, and learns the internal condition quantity of the charge accumulating device through a neural network based on the current values and the terminal voltage values. The current values and the terminal voltage values are stored in a buffer and supplied as time-series data so that historical information is included. Further the neural network is fed with type information of the charge accumulating device. The type information is stored in a memory.

Abstract: A multibeam antenna apparatus is disclosed. The multibeam antenna apparatus includes a main reflector (1), a sub-reflector (2), a focused beam feeder (3), a primary radiator array (5) having a plurality of primary radiators (5a), and a lens array (10) having a plurality of wavefront transformation lenses (10a) corresponding to the plurality of primary radiators (5a), respectively. The lens array (10) can be placed in the vicinity of a front end of the primary radiator array (5). As an alternative, the lens array (10) is placed in an electric wave propagation range of the focused beam feeder (3) where multiple beams which constitute a multibeam are spatially isolated from one another in terms of electric power. Thus the multibeam antenna apparatus can prevent an error from occurring in the orientation of each beam.

Abstract: High-output transmitters are applied to a power generation satellite and a transmission antenna apparatus and a transmission antenna having an array antenna with a small number of element antennas and a reflecting mirror antenna is applied, thereby providing a power generation satellite and a transmission antenna apparatus in a space photovoltaic generation system comprising transmission antennas each having performance equivalent to that of a phased array antenna with a smaller number of transmitters and a smaller number of element antennas than those of a transmission antenna implemented as a phased array antenna.

Abstract: A multibeam antenna apparatus is disclosed. The multibeam antenna apparatus includes a main reflector (1), a sub-reflector (2), a focused beam feeder (3), a primary radiator array (5) having a plurality of primary radiators (5a), and a lens array (10) having a plurality of wavefront transformation lenses (10a) corresponding to the plurality of primary radiators (5a), respectively. The lens array (10) can be placed in the vicinity of a front end of the primary radiator array (5). As an alternative, the lens array (10) is placed in an electric wave propagation range of the focused beam feeder (3) where multiple beams which constitute a multibeam are spatially isolated from one another in terms of electric power. Thus the multibeam antenna apparatus can prevent an error from occurring in the orientation of each beam.

Abstract: A power generation satellite converts electric energy generated from sunlight into a microwave and spreads and applies the microwave through a power transmission antenna of the power generation satellite to any desired area widely on earth. The beam width of the microwave is determined by the aperture area of the power transmission antenna placed in the power generation satellite. To spread and apply the microwave to a wide area, the power transmission antenna provided in the power generation satellite need not be a very large antenna having a diameter of several km or more like a power generation satellite power transmission antenna in a space photovoltaic power generation system in a related art.

Abstract: High-output transmitters are applied to a power generation satellite and a transmission antenna apparatus and a transmission antenna having an array antenna with a small number of element antennas and a reflecting mirror antenna is applied, thereby providing a power generation satellite and a transmission antenna apparatus in a space photovoltaic generation system comprising transmission antennas each having performance equivalent to that of a phased array antenna with a smaller number of transmitters and a smaller number of element antennas than those of a transmission antenna implemented as a phased array antenna.

Abstract: A piezoelectric ceramic having a basic composition expressed by a ternary PbTiO.sub.3 O.sub.3 --PbTiO.sub.3 --PbZrO.sub.3 solid solution, wherein part of the Pb is substituted by Sr, the Pb(Y.sub.0.5 Nb.sub.0.5)O.sub.3 is present in an amount of more than 42 mol % of the ternary solid solution, and the ceramic contains Mn.sub.2 O.sub.3 in an amount of 0.01 wt % or more and less than 0.5 wt %. The piezoelectric ceramic provides a material for a piezoelectric device which operates without substantially varying in output, and thereby mitigates the load on the drive circuit, under a large temperature variation.

Abstract: An instruction cache and a data cache are formed with a 2-port structure, the first port of the instruction cache is exclusively used for readout of the contiguous instruction, and the second port thereof is exclusively used for readout of the branched instruction when the conditional branch instruction is executed. With this construction, two instructions which may be executed can be simultaneously fetched irrespective of whether the branch of the conditional branch instruction is taken or untaken, thereby making it possible to enhance the CPU performance. Further, in the 2-port data cache, time for the cache refill process can be reduced by means of the contiguous data transfer and non-cacheable access.

Abstract: A method of cutting a fed sheet-material into a cut segment and a remaining portion by engaging a movable cutting edge with a fixed cutting edge is disclosed, wherein the remaining portion after being cut off is fed in a spacing with a predetermined amount of insertion between the fixed and movable cutting edges. The top of remaining portion can therefore be prevented from being curled down forward in the moving direction of the movable and fixed cutting edges. An apparatus for cutting a fed sheet-material into a cut segment and a remaining portion by engaging a movable cutting edge with a fixed cutting edge is also disclosed, wherein a plate member incorporated therein hinders the movement of the top of remaining portion after being cut off together with the movable cutting edge. Hence, the top of remaining portion can be prevented from being turned up by the movable cutting edge.

Abstract: A method of cutting a fed sheet-material into a cut segment and a remaining portion by engaging a movable cutting edge with a fixed cutting edge is disclosed, wherein the remaining portion after being cut off is fed in a spacing with a predetermined amount of insertion between the fixed and movable cutting edges. The top of remaining portion can therefore be prevented from being curled down forward in the moving direction of the movable and fixed cutting edges. An apparatus for cutting a fed sheet-material into a cut segment and a remaining portion by engaging a movable cutting edge with a fixed cutting edge is also disclosed, wherein a plate member incorporated therein hinders the movement of the top of remaining portion after being cut off together with the movable cutting edge. Hence, the top of remaining portion can be prevented from being turned up by the movable cutting edge.

Abstract: A feed additive for ruminants, which comprises core containing a carbamate of a basic amino acid and coated with a polymer coating agent soluble or swellable in water in an acidic region of a pH of at most 5.