Abstract: Provided is a lenticular lens sheet the contrast of that is high and that can improve the brightness of an image and the angle of visibility. The width A, in a cross section perpendicular to a lens element 3, of a portion 8 of connection that is created between the lens elements 3 on a light-emission side and a side wall 6 of a black stripe portion 4 is made to be 15 ?m or less. When it is assumed that P represents the pitch of the lens element 3 and H represents the width of the black stripe portion 4 as viewed in a cross section perpendicular to the lens element 3, the difference F in height between the black stripe portion 4 and the lens element 3 is set to have a range that is expressed by the inequality: 0.098 P?F?(P?H)/2 tan(?/3). Simultaneously, the width B as measured from an apex portion 5 of the black stripe portion 4 in regard to a colored portion 7 on a side wall 6 of the black stripe portion 4 is set to have a range that is expressed by the inequality: 0.30 F?B?0.89 F.

Abstract: Since, in Mobile IP, the correspondence of one Mobile Node home address and a care-of address is assumed to be one to one, it is not possible to associate multiple care-of addresses with one home addresses, select an appropriate care-of address from among these and dynamically modify the forwarding destination. In the invention, the binding update sent by the Mobile Node to the Home Agent is extended in order to make it possible to also report the application ID at the same time. The Home Agent selects an appropriate care-of address, based on the application ID.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image reading section for obtaining image data by reading an image from a document; an image forming section for forming the image on a sheet based on the image data; a reception section for accepting a user operation regarding use of the image forming apparatus; and a whole control section for controlling an operation of the image reading section and an operation of the image forming section, wherein the image forming apparatus has a normal mode under which an operation of the image forming apparatus is provided, and a power saving mode under which electric power consumption of the image forming apparatus is reduced, and the whole control section is in a non-operating state under the power saving mode, and the whole control section is set to be in an operating state when the reception section accepts the user operation.

Abstract: A lens sheet capable of preventing reflection of extraneous light without decreasing extraneous light absorption, having extraneous light absorbers that can be readily formed by printing and are scarcely stained. The present invention also provides a rear projection screen including such a lens sheet. A rear projection screen has a Fresnel lens sheet and a lenticular lens sheet placed on the viewing side of the Fresnel lens sheet. The lenticular lens sheet has lenses formed on those portions of the light-emergent-side surface of the sheet-shaped substrate part through which light converged by other lenses pass, and extraneous light absorbers formed on those portions of the light-emergent-side surface of the sheet-shaped substrate part through which light converged by the other lenses does not pass. Each extraneous light absorber includes a black-colored binder resin and a number of light-diffusing particles subjected to coloring treatment, incorporated in the binder resin.

Abstract: There is described an image forming apparatus, in which the influence of the overall controlling section startup time is reduced, thereby cutting down the time from turning on of power to enabling of image formation. The image forming apparatus includes: a main power switch to turn ON/OFF an AC power source to be supplied into the image forming apparatus; a DC power current generating section to convert AC power current, fed from the AC power source, to DC power current; an overall-controlling section to control overall operations of the image forming apparatus; an engine-controlling section to conduct a predetermined controlling operation among from controlling operations to be conducted in the image forming apparatus; a first power-controlling section, included in the overall-controlling section and/or controlled by the overall-controlling section; and a second power-controlling section, having a starting time shorter than that of the first power-controlling section.

Abstract: There is described an image-forming apparatus, which make it possible to prevent the occurrence of the image unevenness without complicating the configuration of the image-forming apparatus and without increasing the cost of the image-forming apparatus. The image-forming apparatus includes an image-bearing member; an image writing device, having a LED array head in which a plurality of LED elements are arranged in a line, to form a electrostatic latent image on the image-bearing member; a calculating section to calculate compensation values utilized for correcting light intensities of the LED elements included in the LED array head, based on distance information between the image-bearing member and the LED array head; a correction controlling section to correct the light intensities of the LED elements included in the LED array head, based on the compensation values; and a storage device to store the distance information between the image-bearing member and the LED array head.

Abstract: An electroplating method calls for immersing a body to be plated in a plating solution containing tin and bismuth to form a tin-bismuth alloy skin layer on surfaces of the body. The plating is carried out such that a solid tin metal and a solid bismuth metal placed in the plating solution are connected to an anode and the body to be plated is connected to a cathode of a power supply.

Abstract: This invention provides an image forming apparatus that can suppress variations in writing densities of LED heads and form stable images. An image forming apparatus has an image retainer 1 for retaining a toner image, an image writing unit 3 equipped with a plurality of LED heads 31 to form a static latent image the image retainer 1, a developing unit 4 for developing the static latent image formed by the image writing unit 3 with a developing agent, a patch formation controller 23 for forming patches for each LED head on the image retainer 1, a density detector 25 for detecting the density of each patch formed by the patch formation controller 23, and a correction controller 26 for correcting the light amount of each LED head by the density detected by the density detector 25.

Abstract: A non-lead type, stacked-type semiconductor device includes a sealing body of insulative resin, a tab, leads, each having one surface exposed on a mounting surface of the sealing body, a first semiconductor chip located in the sealing body having a first circuit-forming surface and a second surface supported on the tab through adhesive, electrode pads formed in the periphery of the first surface, conductive wires for electrically connecting the electrode pads and the leads, a second semiconductor chip having a first circuit-forming surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and stacked and mounted on the first surface of the first semiconductor chip toward the second surface thereof, electrode pads formed on the first surface of the second semiconductor chip, and conductive wires for electrically connecting the electrode pads of the second semiconductor chip and the leads.

Abstract: Provided herein is a rear projection screen capable of displaying a sharper image by reducing deterioration in the image quality, such as coarsening, flickering and glaring. A rear projection screen 10 comprises a Fresnel lens sheet 11 having, on its light-entering-side surface, a Fresnel lens part 11a in the shape of a Fresnel lens. In the Fresnel lens sheet 11, both the Fresnel lens part 11a and a part (diffusing part 11b) situated on the light-emerging side of the Fresnel lens part 11a comprise light-diffusing particles P. The mean particle diameter of the light-diffusing particles P contained in the diffusing part 11b is not more than ? of the lens pitch of the Fresnel lens part 11a.

Abstract: The apparatus of the invention is an injection molding apparatus of a type adapted to cool a molten metal under shearing by an extrusion screw in a substantially vertical chamber into a semi-solidified slurry and then inject the semi-solidified slurry discharged from a discharge port at the lower end of a channel into molding plates, in which a clamping device is adapted to open or close a movable plate relative to a stationary plate in the horizontal direction, and a connection member having, at the inside, a vertical first channel and a second channel extending in the horizontal direction from the lower end of the first channel and in communication with the stationary plate is connected to the discharge port at the lower end of the chamber. Since this can inject and mold light metal molding products of high quality with less pore or shrinkage without excessively enlarging the size for the height of the apparatus, casting products of high quality can be obtained at a reduced cost by injection molding.

Abstract: The apparatus of the invention is an injection molding apparatus of a type adapted to cool a molten metal under shearing by an extrusion screw in a substantially vertical chamber into a semi-solidified slurry and then inject the semi-solidified slurry discharged from a discharge port at the lower end of a channel into molding plates, in which a clamping device is adapted to open or close a movable plate relative to a stationary plate in the horizontal direction, and a connection member having, at the inside, a vertical first channel and a second channel extending in the horizontal direction from the lower end of the first channel and in communication with the stationary plate is connected to the discharge port at the lower end of the chamber. Since this can inject and mold light metal molding products of high quality with less pore or shrinkage without excessively enlarging the size for the height of the apparatus, casting products of high quality can be obtained at a reduced cost by injection molding.

Abstract: A data processing system includes an application unit including a force pattern calculating section and a data processing section. The force pattern calculating section analyzes screen definition data for defining display screen data which is generated by the data processing section, determines a force pattern based upon the disposition of display elements, such as buttons and spaces, in a display screen and based upon force patterns corresponding to the types of the display elements recorded in an object attribute table, and stores the force pattern in a force pattern table. The force pattern is applied to a user based upon an input to the display screen. A commander driver determines a force corresponding to an input from a haptic commander, and controls the haptic commander such that the determined force is applied to the user.

Abstract: Disclosed is a packet-switched communication apparatus (DNS proxy server) receiving and forwarding messages which are used to obtain an address corresponding to a domain name assigned to a device connected to a network from the domain name and to obtain such a domain name from the address. The communication apparatus comprises mapping retaining means for retaining mappings between network-dependent parts of addresses which are used in a first network and address translators; address translator selecting means for selecting an address translators, based on an address included in a received packet; address obtaining means for obtaining a substitutive address to replace the address included in the received packet from the selected address translator; and address replacement means for replacing the address included in the received packet by using the obtained substitutive address.

Abstract: This invention provides a photoreactive composition in which reaction of a hydrolyzable metal compound takes place by irradiation of light.

Abstract: To provide a lenticular lens sheet where separation, or wrinkling or undulation is prevented from occurring in a manufacturing stage and a projection screen with the lenticular lens sheet. Constructed is a composite lenticular lens sheet that is disposed on a light-emission surface side of the Fresnel lens sheet and on the light-incidence surface side and on the light-emission surface side of that there are used respectively different plastic materials. In this composite lenticular lens sheet, the following assumption is made. Regarding the light emission surface side material, Ta(° C.) represents the glass transition point; Am(1/° C.) represents the coefficient of linear expansion at a temperature equal to or higher than Ta; and As(1/° C.) represents the coefficient of linear expansion at a temperature equal to or lower than Ta, while, regarding the light-incidence surface side material, Tb(° C.

Abstract: A switch of the present invention is featured as one employing: a contact to make and break an electrical circuit, and an electromagnet, both of which are installed in a case, and a handle to make and break the contact by operation from outside of the case, wherein a permanent magnet is installed with one of its poles facing the electromagnet inside of the handle, and wherein the direction of the current passing through the electromagnet is changed so that the permanent magnets are attracted to or released from the electromagnet, and thereby the contact is opened or closed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lens sheet capable of preventing reflection of extraneous light without decreasing extraneous light absorption, having extraneous light absorbers that can be readily formed by printing and are scarcely stained. The present invention also provides a rear projection screen including such a lens sheet. A rear projection screen 10 is composed of a Fresnel lens sheet 11 and a lenticular lens sheet 12 placed on the viewing side of the Fresnel lens sheet 11. The lenticular lens sheet 12 has lenses 121 formed on those portions of the light-emergent-side surface of the sheet-shaped substrate part 12a through which light converged by lenses 125 pass, and extraneous light absorbers 122 formed on those portions of the light-emergent-side surface of the sheet-shaped substrate part 12a through which light converged by lenses 125 does not pass.

Abstract: In order to shorten a time for preliminary original reading which is performed prior to reading of an original image, an image reading apparatus of the present invention scans an original mounted on a platen glass by a scan optical system that moves to the original and reads a scanned image of the original by using a CCD sensor, the apparatus having a function to perform a preliminary original read operation for automatically deciding a density of the original before the reading operation of the original image, wherein the preliminary original reading is performed while the scan optical system in an idling state is moving from a read standby position to an image read operation start position; a white background level correction operation of the CDD sensor is performed after collection of original density data by the preliminary original read operation; and a result of the correction is reflected on the original density data obtained by the preliminary original reading to control the decision of the original d

Abstract: To provide a lenticular lens sheet where separation, or wrinkling or undulation is prevented from occurring in a manufacturing stage and a projection screen with the lenticular lens sheet. Constructed is a composite lenticular lens sheet that is disposed on a light-emission surface side of the Fresnel lens sheet and on the light-incidence surface side and on the light-emission surface side of that there are used respectively different plastic materials. In this composite lenticular lens sheet, the following assumption is made. Regarding the light emission surface side material, Ta (° C.) represents the glass transition point; Am (1/° C.) represents the coefficient of linear expansion at a temperature equal to or higher than Ta; and As (1/° C.) represents the coefficient of linear expansion at a temperature equal to or lower than Ta, while, regarding the light-incidence surface side material, Tb (° C.