Abstract: A router checks traffic with respect to the SIP server at reception of a request message addressed to an SIP server from an SIP terminal. If the traffic exceeds a band allocated to the SIP server, the router transfers the request message to a congestion server.

Abstract: Erroneous detection of a failure in spite of the absence of failure on the route on account of a communication delay is to be prevented. A node device detects a failure on the route to a remote node device is detected by a failure to receive a packet from the remote node device after the elapse of a determined detection time. The node device sets “remote system transmission interval x detection multiplier” to be a first detecting time on the basis of a packet transmission interval determined by negotiation with the remote node device. It also sets the sum of “remote system actual transmission interval x detection multiplier” and “tolerable delay time” to be a second detecting time. The first detecting time and the second detecting time are compared, and what is longer is determined as the detecting time to be applied to actual operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a human artificial chromosome which is genetically transmissible to the next generation with high efficiency and the method for using the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to: a human artificial chromosome in which an about 3.5 Mb to about 1 Mb region containing an antibody ? light chain gene derived from human chromosome 22 is bound to a chromosome fragment which is transmissible to a progeny through a germ line of a non-human animal, said chromosome fragment is derived from another human chromosome; a non-human animal carrying the human artificial chromosome and an offspring thereof; a method for producing the non-human animal; a method for producing a human antibody using the nonhuman animal or an offspring thereof; and a human antibody-producing mouse carrying the human artificial chromosome.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a modified foreign chromosome(s) or a fragment(s) thereof, which comprises the steps of: (a) preparing a microcell comprising a foreign chromosome(s) or a fragment(s) thereof, and transferring said foreign chromosome(s) or a fragment(s) into a cell with high homologous recombination efficiency through its fusion with said microcell; (b) in said cell with high homologous recombination efficiency, inserting a targeting vector by homologous recombination into a desired site of said foreign chromosome(s) or a fragment(s) thereof, and/or a desired site of a chromosome(s) derived from said cell with high homologous recombination efficiency, thereby marking said desired site; and (c) in said cell with high homologous recombination efficiency, causing deletion and/or translocation to occur at the marked site of said foreign chromosome(s) or a fragment(s) thereof.

Abstract: A camera having a lens barrel housed therein includes a reflection optical member for reflecting a light beam incident along a first optical axis (O1) from a subject so as to reflect the light beam toward a second optical axis (O2) intersecting the first optical axis; a light-quantity adjusting member for adjusting the quantity of incident light from the subject; and a drive source for displacing the light-quantity adjusting member, in which by displacing the light-quantity adjusting member, the quantity of the incident light from the subject can be adjusted, and the light-quantity adjusting member is displaced in a direction substantially perpendicular to an optical axial plane inclusive of the first optical axis and the second optical axis so as to adjust the light-quantity.

Abstract: In a lighting apparatus for conducting product inspection by irradiation of LED light at an improved inspection accuracy, an LED light source device for scattering lights of a plurality types of LEDs of different emission wavelengths by a light guiding member and irradiating them from a light emitting surface in the direction of the lighting optical axis is attached to a casing having a light transmitting imaging section through which an imaging optical axis extends, the light guiding member has a plurality of light guiding plates with the light emitting surface being directed to the lighting optical axis, each of the light guiding plates is mounted with LEDs at a predetermined pitch on the plane perpendicular to the light emitting surface, such that the combination of the emission wavelengths is identical for each of the rows in the direction of the lighting optical axis.

Abstract: An illumination apparatus used by connecting an illumination head to a power source device, capable of supplying a rated current to individual light emitting devices of the illumination head by using a power source device of an identical rating irrespective of the specification of the illumination head, wherein the illumination head has a current detection resistor for detecting current flowing through the power supply circuit, and the resistance value of the resistor is selected so as to cause a voltage drop equal with a predetermined reference potential when a rated current is supplied to each of the light emitting devices, and the power source device is provided with a current controller for controlling the supplied current such that the potential for the voltage drop caused by the current detection resistor is equal with the reference potential.

Abstract: A camera having a lens barrel housed therein includes a reflection optical member for reflecting a light beam incident along a first optical axis (O1) from a subject so as to reflect the light beam toward a second optical axis (O2) intersecting the first optical axis; a light-quantity adjusting member for adjusting the quantity of incident light from the subject; and a drive source for displacing the light-quantity adjusting member, in which by displacing the light-quantity adjusting member, the quantity of the incident light from the subject can be adjusted, and the light-quantity adjusting member is displaced in a direction substantially perpendicular to an optical axial plane inclusive of the first optical axis and the second optical axis so as to adjust the light-quantity.

Abstract: In a panel washing device for conveying a panel on a surface plate using an endless belt, spraying washing liquid from a wash nozzle, and washing and removing foreign substances from a surface of the panel by a washing head, a wash nozzle and water discharge path are disposed on a rear end part of a surface plate in a conveying direction of the panel in order to wash and remove the portion of the foreign substances removed from the surface of the panel that has accumulated on an inner surface of the endless belt. Accordingly, the foreign substances accumulated on the endless belt for conveying the panel are washed away and removed, and can be discharged to an exterior of the washing machine.

Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to detecting a micro-relief that exists on surfaces of a magnetic disk. A phase or frequency of a read signal obtained when data written to a minute projection or a minute concavity on a recording surface of a magnetic disk is read out, differs from that of a read signal obtained when data written to a flat recording surface is read out. The phase progresses in the minute projection, whereas the phase is delayed in the minute concavity. A micro-relief is detected by measuring a deviation value of this frequency, and then defect registration is performed. Embodiments in accordance with the present invention are configured to detect a minute projection whose level does not cause TA. Embodiments in accordance with the present invention may also be configured to provide a highly reliable magnetic disk drive by controlling the flying height in response to a state of a minute projection and that of a minute concavity.

Abstract: Many different key data items can be prepared even if the memory capacity of a key data setting unit incorporated in a content decryption unit. Partial content data items to be successively read are stored in an accumulation medium, encrypted with corresponding key data items. There are provided a key data table which stores the key data items, a read processing section for reading, from the accumulation medium, the partial content data items, a decryption unit for decrypting the read partial content data items, and a set-key selection section for reading, from the key data table, a key data item for decrypting a partial content data item to be decrypted, and a key data item for decrypting a partial content data item to be processed next at least, the set-key selection section also setting the read key data items in the decryption unit.

Abstract: This invention provides a scheme that can indicate whether or not a plurality of objects have logical continuity when there are plurality of objects recorded by stream recording. Management information of a storage medium includes information indicating continuity between a plurality of objects. When the plurality of objects include leading and trailing objects, and the information indicating continuity includes a continuous recording flag indicating that the trailing and leading objects are continuously recorded.

Abstract: This invention has as its object to be able to support stream recording/playback even when information associated with a reception time of a digital stream signal is not available. Management information of a storage medium is configured to include a flag bit (PATS_SS) indicating validity/invalidity of information (PATS) associated with a reception time of a digital stream signal.

Abstract: This invention provides a scheme that can indicate whether or not a plurality of objects have logical continuity when there are plurality of objects recorded by stream recording. Management information of a storage medium includes information indicating continuity between a plurality of objects. When the plurality of objects include leading and trailing objects, and the information indicating continuity includes a continuous recording flag indicating that the trailing and leading objects are continuously recorded.

Abstract: This invention provides a scheme that can indicate whether or not a plurality of objects have logical continuity when there are plurality of objects recorded by stream recording. Management information of a storage medium includes information indicating continuity between a plurality of objects. When the plurality of objects include leading and trailing objects, and the information indicating continuity includes a continuous recording flag indicating that the trailing and leading objects are continuously recorded.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk drive capable of reducing an area used for a preamble of each data sector to increase the storage capacity. The magnetic disk drive adopts a data-surface servo system. In one embodiment, main preambles are written on a magnetic disk at a frequency of a data clock. Each of data sectors is written with a write clock that is synchronized with a signal obtained by reading the main preamble. The data sectors include sub preambles respectively. When the data sector which has been written in this manner is read, a read clock is synchronized by use of a signal obtained by reading the main preamble, and a signal obtained by reading the sub preamble included in a data sector to be read. The bit length of the sub preamble is shorter than that of the conventional preamble that is used to independently achieve the synchronization.

Abstract: An antibody or a functional fragment thereof, acting agonistically or antagonistically on CD40.

Abstract: An antibody or a functional fragment thereof, acting agonistically or antagonistically on CD40.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic disk drive in which the error correction capability of ECC is improved without sacrificing the storage capacity. In one embodiment, a data track adopts a format structure in which no data-to-data gap area is formed in data sectors. When one of the data sectors is updated in a state in which the rotational speed of a magnetic disk does not satisfy specified conditions, a leading end area of a succeeding data sector or a trailing end area of a preceding data sector is overwritten by the data sector. If a read error occurs in the overwritten data sector, ERP steps are executed to perform read retry so that the read error is recovered by means of on-the-fly ECC or erasure correction. In the case of the erasure correction, an erasure pointer equivalent to the maximum number of overwritten bytes is set.