Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes: an image display unit including an image-light generating unit that generates image light representing an image and emits the image light and a light guide unit that guides the emitted image light to the eye of a user, the image display unit being for causing the user to visually recognize a virtual image; and a control unit that includes an operation surface, is connected to the image display unit, and controls image display by the image display unit. When it is assumed that the user shifts the user's attention from the virtual image, the control unit adjusts the luminance of the image-light generating unit or adjusts the image light generated by the image-light generating unit to reduce the visibility of the virtual image.

Abstract: When a hand of the user is recognized in an image pickup region of a camera, a head mounted display monitors behavior of the hand in the image pickup region. When the hand of the user in the image pickup region reaches an outer peripheral region forming an outer periphery of the image pickup region, a notification is give to the user.

Abstract: When a hand of the user is recognized in an image pickup region of a camera, a head mounted display stores a contour shape of the hand which would be imaged by the camera in advance. In addition, the head mounted display receives an input of image data per pixel included in the camera, calculates a difference between colors of adjacent pixels represented by the image data, sets a set of image data having the same color system, where the calculated difference is within a predetermined threshold, as a group, and captures a contour of a region of the data. Next, the head mounted display compares the captured contour to a contour shape of the hand which is stored in advance to allow the user to recognize the hand of the user in the image pickup region.

Abstract: An electric field writing magnetic storage device including: a rotatable disk including a substrate and a magnetic recording film provided on a surface of the substrate, the magnetic recording film including at least one ferromagnetic and ferroelectric layer; a writing device writing information into the magnetic recording film by means of an electric field, the writing device including a writing electrode generating a dielectric flux between the writing electrode and the substrate by having electric potential to the substrate; and a writing circuit choosing one electric potential among plurality of electric potential level and applying the chosen one electric potential to the writing electrode in every operation of writing information, wherein the dielectric flux generated according to the electric potential applied to the writing electrode by the writing circuit magnetizes the ferromagnetic and ferroelectric layer in a specific direction.

Abstract: An electric field writing magnetic storage device including: a rotatable disk including a substrate and a magnetic recording film provided on a surface of the substrate, the magnetic recording film including at least one ferromagnetic and ferroelectric layer; a writing device writing information into the magnetic recording film by means of an electric field, the writing device including a writing electrode generating a dielectric flux between the writing electrode and the substrate by having electric potential to the substrate; and a writing circuit choosing one electric potential among plurality of electric potential level and applying the chosen one electric potential to the writing electrode in every operation of writing information, wherein the dielectric flux generated according to the electric potential applied to the writing electrode by the writing circuit magnetizes the ferromagnetic and ferroelectric layer in a specific direction.

Abstract: When a golf club head is placed in a reference state, a distance A from a lowest part of a sole to a leading edge in a vertical direction is 6 mm?A?10 mm. A distance B from a bottom of the face to a top of a club head main body is 14 mm?B?18 mm. The distances A and B satisfy a relationship 13 mm?(A+B)/2?19 mm. When the sole is lifted for 6 mm from the ball bottom, a center of the face is about 3.6 mm above a ball equator and 2.4 mm below the ball equator. When the distance A is the minimum value of 6 mm and the distance B is the minimum value of 14 mm, the center of the face is located at about 7.0 mm below the ball equator.

Abstract: A magnetic profile measuring device which scans a space where an alternating-current magnetic field exists by a magnetized probe on a tip of a driven cantilever, detects vibration of the cantilever, and generates an image of magnetic field distribution of the space, the device including: the cantilever having the probe equipped on the tip thereof; a driver driving the cantilever; a vibration sensor detecting vibration of the probe wherein the driven vibration of the cantilever is frequency-modulated by the alternating-current magnetic field; a demodulator demodulating from a detection signal of the vibration sensor a magnetic signal corresponding to an alternating-current magnetic field; a scanning mechanism; a data storage storing an initial data for each coordinate of the space; a modified data generator recalling the initial data from the data storage and generating a plurality of data by modifying the phase of the initial data; and an image display device.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a low-phosphorus whey, the method including subjecting a raw whey liquid to a demineralization treatment using a nanofiltration method to obtain a low-chloride whey liquid in which the chloride content has been reduced to not more than 30 mmol per 100 g of solids, and passing the low-chloride whey liquid through an ion exchange resin to obtain an ion-exchanged whey liquid having a reduced phosphorus content, wherein the ion exchange resin is composed of an anion exchange resin, and at least an anion exchange resin in chloride form is used as the anion exchange resin. The method of manufacturing a low-phosphorus whey can reduce the phosphorus content within the whey while suppressing reduction in the calcium and magnesium content.

Abstract: Provided is a current application device capable of applying a test current of a magnitude necessary for testing of a semiconductor element without any trouble. A current application device 1 is configured to have a contacting section having a plurality of projections 21 for contacting a contact region 24 inside an active region 23 of a semiconductor element 22 and applying the test current thereto, and a pressing section 3 which presses the contacting section 2 against the semiconductor element 22 such that each projection 21 contacts the contact region 24. A plurality of the projections 21 are arranged such that an arrangement density of outside projections 21 is larger than the arrangement density of inside projections 21.

Abstract: A method for predicting a therapeutic effect of chemotherapy with a combination drug containing tegafur, gimeracil, and oteracil potassium in a gastric cancer patient by: (1) measuring an expression level of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in a biological sample obtained from the patient; (2) comparing the expression level of EGFR obtained in step (1) with a corresponding predetermined cut-off point; and (3) predicting that the patient is likely to sufficiently respond to chemotherapy when a tegafur, gimeracil, and oteracil potassium combination drug is used with an EGFR inhibitor, when the step (2) comparison reveals that the expression level of EGFR is greater than the cut-off point, or predicting that the patient is likely to sufficiently respond to chemotherapy when a tegafur, gimeracil, and oteracil potassium combination drug is used alone, when the step (2) comparison reveals that the expression level of EGFR is not greater than the cut-off point.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including an element region, an inner sealing and an outer sealing which are formed on the element region and have a first opening part and a second opening part, respectively, a multilayer interconnection structure which is formed on the substrate and stacks multiple inter-layer insulation films each including a wiring layer, a moisture resistant film formed between a first inter-layer insulation film and a second inter-layer insulation film which are included in the multilayer interconnection structure, a first portion which extended from a first side of the moisture resistant film and passes the first opening part, a second portion which extended from a second side of the moisture resistant film and passes through the second opening part, and a wiring pattern including a via plug which penetrates the moisture resistant film and connects the first portion and the second portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including an element region, an inner sealing and an outer sealing which are formed on the element region and have a first opening part and a second opening part, respectively, a multilayer interconnection structure which is formed on the substrate and stacks multiple inter-layer insulation films each including a wiring layer, a moisture resistant film formed between a first inter-layer insulation film and a second inter-layer insulation film which are included in the multilayer interconnection structure, a first portion which extended from a first side of the moisture resistant film and passes the first opening part, a second portion which extended from a second side of the moisture resistant film and passes through the second opening part, and a wiring pattern including a via plug which penetrates the moisture resistant film and connects the first portion and the second portion.

Abstract: A golf club head includes a hosel section and a head main body. The head main body is composed of a face section, and an upper structural section and a lower structural section. The upper structural section and the lower structural section are provided on a back side of the face section. The upper structural section and the lower structural section are secured on the face section by welding, brazing, bonding, screwing, or the like. The upper structural section is configured so to be heavier than the lower structural section.

Abstract: A magnetic-field-observation device and method for measuring magnetic force near a magnetic material specimen's surface with high resolution and detecting the polarity of the magnetic pole of specimen's surface.

Abstract: A golf club includes a club head having a face surface for hitting a ball. A center of gravity of the club head is situated on a vertical plain including an axis of a shaft. The club head includes a body portion for connecting to the shaft and a face portion attached to the body portion. The face portion is configured so that a face angle of the club head becomes a hook face.

Abstract: A head-mount type display device adapted to allow a user to visually recognize a virtual image in a state of being worn on the head of the user includes an image display section having an image light generation section adapted to generate an image light representing an image, a light blocking section adapted to transmit external light at a predetermined transmittance, and a virtual image forming section adapted to transmit the external light transmitted through the light blocking section and to form the virtual image in an eye of the user with the image light, and configured to allow the user to visually recognize the virtual image and an external image, an operation section with which the user inputs operation data, and a control section adapted to perform control of changing the transmittance of the light blocking section in accordance with operation data from the operation section.

Abstract: An insulation film (24) having a gradual inclination of a surface is formed by a high density plasma CVD method, an atmospheric pressure CVD method or the like, after a ferroelectric capacitor (23) is formed. Thereafter, an alumina film (25) is formed on the insulation film (24). According to the method, low coverage of the alumina film (25) does not become a problem, and the ferroelectric capacitor (23) is reliably protected.

Abstract: Provided are a surface state measuring device which can measure an alternating force of an arbitrary frequency and which is excellent in spatial resolution, and a surface state measuring method using the device. This surface state measuring device measures the surface state of a sample by detecting the modulation of the oscillation of a probe arranged above the sample. The measuring device comprises: a cantilever having a probe near a free end; an excitation mechanism for exciting the cantilever; a scanning mechanism for making the probe scan the sample by moving the probe and the sample relative to each other; and alternating force generator for generating an alternating force of an arbitrary frequency in a space; and a modulation measuring mechanism for measuring the degree of frequency modulation or amplitude modulation of the oscillations of the probe, which are generated by the alternating force.