Abstract: Provided are a displacement/distortion measuring method and a displacement/distortion measuring apparatus for easily and highly accurately measuring displacement or distortion of an object. An image of the surface of the measuring object is picked up by a line scanner apparatus adhered or brought close to the surface of the measuring object. The image is taken, displacement or distortion is measured by image analysis of the image of the measuring object surface prior to time lapse and that after time lapse, and displacement or distortion measuring results are outputted.

Abstract: Drumhead tightening devices include lugs secured to a shell of a drum, lug bolts screwed to the lugs, hooks, which are engaged with a hoop fitted to an open end of the shell, and retaining members for retaining the position of the hooks with respect to the lug bolts. Each retaining member is mounted on one of the lug bolts in a state where the associated hook is arranged between a head portion of the lug bolt and the retaining member.

Abstract: A control device controls an external storage device with a plurality of storage units which can be driven and stopped independently. The control device comprises: a display control unit; a setting unit; and a control signal output unit. The display control unit displays on a display a selection screen that allows a user to select which storage unit from among the plurality of storage units to operate. The setting unit sets a storage unit selected by the user as an operating storage unit to be operated. The control signal output unit outputs to the external storage device a control signal for having the operating storage unit be operated.

Abstract: A control-cage that can concentrate the distribution of shot-blasting media, a centrifugal shot-blasting device using this control-cage, and a centrifugal shot-blasting device for throwing abrasive grains, are provided. This control-cage is used for a centrifugal shot-blasting device that rotates an impeller having a plurality of blades at high speed, and that throws shot-blasting media at an object to be processed through the opening of the control-cage by means of the blades. The control-cage is cylindrically shaped and is placed inside the impeller. The opening of the control-cage is made by cutting out the cylindrical part of it in parallel with its central axis. Also, the opening has a quadrangular shape, and has lateral walls located upstream and downstream of the direction of the rotation of the impeller.

Abstract: An absorbent article in which a plurality of absorbent components is layered, and the absorbent component on top is peeled off after use. The article is configured to inhibit twisting or wrinkling during use. In the absorbent article, the upper absorbent component is layered on the skin-facing surface of the bottom absorbent component and peelably bonded by the temporal adhesive member. The bottom absorbent component has higher flexural rigidity than the upper absorbent component, and the compression recovery rate of the bottom absorbent component is also set so as to be higher than that of the upper absorbent component. It is thereby possible to prevent the bottom absorbent component from twisting and wrinkling when the upper absorbent component is placed against the discharge area, and after the upper absorbent component is peeled off, the volume of the bottom absorbent component is restored, and comfort during contact thereof with the discharge area is improved.

Abstract: An optical disk device of the present invention includes a spindle motor, an optical pick-up, and a rotation control portion. The spindle motor is a rotational drive portion that rotates an optical disk, on an information recording surface of which a plurality of addresses are recorded. The optical pick-up records an information signal onto and plays back the information signal from the information recording surface of the optical disk that is rotated by the spindle motor. The rotation control portion controls the rotation of the optical disk by the spindle motor. In this case, the rotation control portion performs control based on a first reference signal that can be read off the optical disk, such that the optical disk is rotated at a speed that is based on a specified clock count.

Abstract: The control device has a fetching unit, a virtual drive creation unit, and an access control unit. The fetching unit fetches, from the external storage device, attribute information relating to data stored in the external storage device. The virtual drive creation unit creates, in the control device, a virtual drive for storing the fetched attribute information. The access control unit controls access to the virtual drive and the external storage device. When an instruction relating to the attribute information is input, the access control unit accesses the virtual drive to fetch the attribute information. When an instruction to read the data from the external storage device is input, the access control unit accesses the external storage device to reads the data. When an instruction to write new data to the external storage device is input, the access control unit accesses the external storage device to write the new data.

Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes a sensor portion, a casing, and a vibration isolator. The casing includes a supporting portion with a supporting surface that is located to face an end surface of the sensor portion. The vibration isolator is located between the end surface of the sensor portion and the supporting surface of the casing to join the sensor portion to the casing. The vibration isolator reduces a relative vibration between the sensor portion and the casing.

Abstract: A CPU of an image forming apparatus controls, according to establishment of a sleep change condition, a MAC/PHY in a network unit to change the image forming apparatus from a link-up state to a link-down state. The CPU controls the image forming apparatus to change from a normal mode to a deep sleep mode. A CPU of the network unit controls, according to the change of the image forming apparatus from the normal mode to the deep sleep mode, the MAC/PHY to change the link-down state of the image forming apparatus to the link-up state. The CPU controls the MAC/PHY to transmit a MAC address necessary for causing the image forming apparatus to participate in VLAN to a switching hub.

Abstract: A digital watermark embedding device and a digital watermark detecting device are obtained, which can realize stable digital watermark detection using fewer, and embed and detect a larger amount of digital watermark information with an identical number of pixels used for digital watermark embedding in a conventional technology.

Abstract: Operations as a variable resistor are favorably realized even when a drain-source voltage of a variable MOS resistor and that of a reference MOS resistor are not the same. A gate voltage Vp12 of the variable MOS resistor is controlled with reference to a gate voltage Vp11 which is controlled such that a voltage generated in the reference MOS resistor is controlled to be the same as a reference voltage. A resistor is connected in parallel with the reference MOS resistor between the drain and source thereof, the resistor including resistor bodies R11 and R12 having the same resistance connected in series. Half of a drain-source voltage Vds of the reference MOS resistor is detected at an intermediate point of the resistor having resistor bodies connected in series. The gate voltage Vp12 of the variable resistor is obtained by subtracting Vds/2 from the gate voltage Vp11 of the reference MOS resistor.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor has a fixed scroll member, a movable scroll member, an oil reservoir, a back-pressure chamber, an oil extraction passage, a flow passage, and a partition wall. The back-pressure chamber disposed behind the movable scroll member is in communication with a discharge chamber. The oil extraction passage having a regulating valve or a throttle connects the back-pressure chamber to the oil reservoir. The oil return passage and the flow passage connect the oil reservoir to a suction chamber, respectively. The flow passage introduces excess lubricating oil into the suction chamber when the level of lubricating oil in the oil reservoir becomes higher than a predetermined level. The partition wall disposed between the openings of the oil extraction passage for restricting lubricating oil from the oil extraction passage other than the excess lubricating oil collected in the oil reservoir from flowing to the flow passage.

Abstract: A delivery service providing system including identifier control database for registering a plurality of ticket identifiers; for judging whether or not the ticket identifier has been registered in the identifier control database; and a delivery service providing unit for transmitting contents defined by the contents request with a sub ticket identifier relating to the ticket identifier toward the user's unit through the access point terminal in case that it is judged that the ticket identifier has been registered in the identifier control database.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a number of processing modules which apply a process to predetermined data in inputted print data; a detecting unit configured to detect a processing module that has performed a process during processing by the plurality of processing modules of print data inputted in a predetermined mode; and a setting unit configured to make a setting that enables a processing module detected by the detecting unit, after the end of the predetermined mode.

Abstract: An auto-focus apparatus including an evaluation value calculator periodically calculating evaluation values using high frequency components of image signals in a specific region of a subject image, a distance measurement unit measuring a distance to a subject and output a distance measurement result, a control unit outputting instruction values based on the evaluation values and determining whether a subject image is in-focus or out-of-focus, and a storage storing the distance measurement results and lens positions. In the apparatus, after searching the peak of the evaluation values, the control unit returns the lens to the position at which the relative maximum has been detected, obtains evaluation values, stores lens positions and distance measurement results when the evaluation values satisfy a prescribed condition, and retrieves distance measurement results and lens positions when the number of times that results are stored reaches a prescribed number, and computes a correction amount.

Abstract: A portable telephone set has a function of conversation simulation with a user allows the user to easily perform pretended communication, and is provided with a scenario information storage unit storing conversation simulation scenario information using data prepared depending on an property of a conversation simulation partner and the conversation simulation date and time and stored in a storage unit of the portable telephone set itself as conversation simulation data, an acquisition unit acquiring the scenario information stored as associated with property information about an input conversation simulation partner and date-and-time information about an entry point of the conversation simulation from the scenario information storage unit, and an execution unit executing the conversation simulation with the user according to the scenario information acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: The present invention was made in view of a problem of an electron microscope in which a reduction in detection efficiency of electrons detected by a detector should be prevented by eliminating any influence of a leakage magnetic field through a gap in an objective lens onto the electrons emitted from a specimen. To solve the problem, the present invention provides an electron microscope having a configuration with: a pole piece electrode for accelerating primary electrons emitted at an electrons source; and an objective lens including the pole piece electrode. In the objective lens, an electrically and magnetically insulated gap is formed between the pole piece electrode and other pole piece, and an auxiliary coil is concentrically disposed with the objective lens at a middle position between the gap and a detection surface of the electron detector, with an electric current flowing through the auxiliary coil in the opposite direction from that of an electric current flowing through the objective lens coil.

Abstract: A memory cell includes an antifuse device that is capable of having data written thereto by breakdown of a gate dielectric film by application of a high voltage. A data inversion portion generates, according to a relationship between the sense amplifier's determination and write data to be written to the memory cell, inverted write data obtained by inverting the write data. The data inversion portion also inverts, when data is read from the memory cell to which the inverted write data is written, the read data and reads it.

Abstract: A hard coating combining excellent mold releasability with respect to glass with excellent durability at high temperature environment of 600° C. or more, and a glass molding die having the hard coating are provided. A glass molding die has a hard coating formed on a molding surface of a base. The hard coating includes one or two of W and V, and B, C and N; wherein when a composition of the coating is expressed as Wa1Va2BbCcNd, 0.1?a1+a2?0.5, 0.05?b?0.5, 0.02?c?0.15, 0.05?d?0.5, and a1+a2+b+c+d=1 are given. The hard coating can be formed on the molding surface of the base via an intermediate layer including an amorphous CrSiN film.

Abstract: A taking lens consists of first to third lens groups. The second lens group is held in a lens frame that is coupled through an arm to a supporting shaft, and is able to rotate about the supporting shaft, to move the second lens group in a circular direction in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the taking lens. As a movable lens barrel retreats into a camera body, the lens frame rotates to remove the second lens group from an inserted position inserted in an optical path of the taking lens to a removed position set out of the optical path. The arm is provided with an actuator that causes the lens frame to move in a lengthwise direction of the arm. Because the movement in the circular direction includes a component that is perpendicular to the lengthwise movement of the arm, it is possible to move the lens frame and thus the second lens group in any directions in the perpendicular plane to the optical axis, in order to cancel a deviation of an optical image that result from a camera shake.