Abstract: A camera module is configured to capture an optical image of a target area and includes a lens member, an imager, a light transmitting member, and a seat. The lens member is configured to receive light from the target area. The imager has a curved portion convex in a direction away from the lens member and is configured to capture the optical image formed on the curved portion. The light transmitting member optically couples the lens member and the imager. The seat has a supporting portion that supports an outer rim of the imager and a fluid space defined inside the supporting portion. A heat dissipation fluid undergoes convection in the fluid space. The curved portion is interposed between the light transmitting member and the seat having the supporting portion and the fluid space.

Abstract: A residual gas volume measuring device for measuring volume of residual gas in a container filled with liquid. The device includes: a puncture member having a first communication path and a second communication path formed therein and connecting a penetrating portion and a coupling portion together, the penetrating portion being located inside the container and the coupling portion being located outside the container when the puncture member is in a penetrating position where an end of the puncture member penetrates into the container; an injection section coupled to the first communication path at the coupling portion and configured to inject a liquid into the container; a discharging section coupled to the second communication path at the coupling portion and configured to discharge the residual gas purged by the injected liquid; and a measurement section configured to measure the volume of the residual gas discharged by the discharging section.

Abstract: There is provided a light source module in which an optical element is accommodated in a housing, in which three projection portions are provided in the housing, and the light source module has a structure where the optical element is pressed to be brought into contact with the three projection portions by a pressing member, so that the optical element is fixed in the housing.

Abstract: A camera module is configured to capture an optical image of a target area and includes a lens member, an imager, a light transmitting member, and a seat. The lens member is configured to receive light from the target area. The imager has a curved portion convex in a direction away from the lens member and is configured to capture the optical image formed on the curved portion. The light transmitting member optically couples the lens member and the imager. The seat has a supporting portion that supports an outer rim of the imager and a fluid space defined inside the supporting portion. A heat dissipation fluid undergoes convection in the fluid space. The curved portion is interposed between the light transmitting member and the seat having the supporting portion and the fluid space.

Abstract: There is provided a light source module in which an optical element is accommodated in a housing, in which three projection portions are provided in the housing, and the light source module has a structure where the optical element is pressed to be brought into contact with the three projection portions by a pressing member, so that the optical element is fixed in the housing.

Abstract: A residual gas volume measuring device for measuring volume of residual gas in a container filled with liquid. The device includes: a puncture member having a first communication path and a second communication path formed therein and connecting a penetrating portion and a coupling portion together, the penetrating portion being located inside the container and the coupling portion being located outside the container when the puncture member is in a penetrating position where an end of the puncture member penetrates into the container; an injection section coupled to the first communication path at the coupling portion and configured to inject a liquid into the container; a discharging section coupled to the second communication path at the coupling portion and configured to discharge the residual gas purged by the injected liquid; and a measurement section configured to measure the volume of the residual gas discharged by the discharging section.

Abstract: A deposition of bubbles or foams to an inner wall of a liquid supplying member is prevented, thereby improving ejecting performance of the bubbles or foams. In the liquid supplying member which forms a flow path for supplying a liquid to a liquid discharging apparatus, the inner wall surface has a concave/convex shape in which a mountain portion and a valley portion are repeated at a predetermined spatial frequency. Assuming that an opening diameter of a filter provided for the liquid discharging apparatus is equal to R (?m), one period f (?m)of the spatial frequency lies within a range from R or more to ?{square root over (2)}·R or less and a maximum height Ry (?m) of the mountain portion is equal to ?{square root over (2)}·R/2 or more.

Abstract: A deposition of bubbles or foams to an inner wall of a liquid supplying member is prevented, thereby improving ejecting performance of the bubbles or foams. In the liquid supplying member which forms a flow path for supplying a liquid to a liquid discharging apparatus, the inner wall surface has a concave/convex shape in which a mountain portion and a valley portion are repeated at a predetermined spatial frequency. Assuming that an opening diameter of a filter provided for the liquid discharging apparatus is equal to R (?m), one period f (?m) of the spatial frequency lies within a range from R or more to ?{square root over (2)}·R or less and a maximum height Ry (?m) of the mountain portion is equal to ?{square root over (2)}·R/2 or more.

Abstract: A resin coating apparatus includes a feed tank 2 for feeding a coating material 9 to a coating tank 1 and an extraction cylinder apparatus 3 for extracting the coating material inside the coating tank 1 and returning the coating material extracted to the feed tank in addition to the coating tank 1 for immersing a work 10. The coating material compulsively extracted from the coating tank in which the work 10 is immersed. The extraction cylinder apparatus has a speed regulation apparatus 4 and the extraction speed of the coating material is regulated in accordance with the shape of the work.

Abstract: Upper and lower leaf springs linear-movably support a sub movable portion with respect to a sub fixed portion. Each of the upper and lower leaf springs has a substantially symmetrical shape, which is symmetric with respect to a center portion thereof, so as to be mounted on the sub fixed portion at the center portion and so as to be mounted on the sub movable portions at both end portions thereof. Each of the upper and lower leaf springs has at least one pair of bending portions, which is symmetric with respect to the center portion, between the center portion and the both end portions.

Abstract: A method for forming small holes in a workpiece with a press tool (punch) and a female mold (die) of a press machine. The workpiece is positioned on the female mold such that the workpiece is positioned in the horizontal direction. The workpiece is then restrained only in the horizontal direction and is not pressed in the thickness direction of the workpiece. Since the holes are formed while the workpiece is supported without being pressed, reduction in the pitch accuracy due to the relief of the material, generation of burrs in regions around the holes, deformation such as sags, sticking of the material to the punch, etc., are avoided, and high-aspect-ratio, high-pitch-accuracy small holes are formed.

Abstract: A bolt is provided with a head part and a shank part. The shank part includes a first constant diameter cylindrical part, a transition part, a cylindrical connection part, and a second constant diameter cylindrical part concentrically extending from the first constant diameter cylindrical part to the second constant diameter cylindrical part. The first constant diameter cylindrical part has a screw thread with a predetermined pitch formed on the side surface thereof. The transition part has a tapered shape and has a screw thread with a predetermined pitch formed on the side surface thereof. The cylindrical connection part has a diameter smaller than that of the first constant diameter part. The second constant diameter cylindrical part has a diameter smaller than the first constant diameter part, and has a screw thread with a predetermined pitch formed on the side surface thereof. The crest part of the screw thread formed on the side surface of the transition part is truncated.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an inkjet head having orifice plates with improved ink-repellent properties and durability, including the step of forming the ink-repellent film on the surface of the substrate by using the gas deposition process is provided.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an inkjet head having orifice plates with improved ink-repellent properties and durability, including the step of forming the ink-repellent film on the surface of the substrate by using the gas deposition process is provided.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a bolt and a nut capable of appropriately adjusting the orientation of the bolt and fastening the bolt and the nut without fastening defects such as slipping and seizure even when the bolt is obliquely inserted into the nut.

Abstract: A matrix-type liquid crystal device is formed so as to have a matrix of pixels defined by and isolated from each other by an outside-pixel region. The liquid crystal in the outside-pixel region in placed in an alignment state, typically a homeotropic state or one close thereto, which is different from an alignment state, typically a homogeneous uniform alignment state, at the pixel region. As a result, the liquid crystal device is provided with improved display qualities due to suppression of irregularities at the outside-pixel region and/or a local pressure distribution.

Abstract: Provided are a CVD system and a CVD process which can grow excellent compound semiconductor thin films of two or more components having least defects and which enjoy high source gas utilization efficiency and increased productivity. According to the CVD system and the CVD process, at least two kinds of source gases are introduced parallel to the surface of a substrate 11 placed in a reactor 10 to grow a compound semiconductor thin film of two or more components on the surface of the substrate 11.

Abstract: In a video game machine, a character's action is scored according to whether or not a game player operates an operation unit at a suitable timing. An action selecting control function urges the game player to select an action. A command specifying control function specifies a command representing a combination of operations to be performed by the game player when a competitor reaches a predetermined distance from a course lip of a half-pipe course and causes a display unit to display the specified combination of operations corresponding to the selected action. A command input determining function determines whether the specified command has been input before the competitor reaches the course lip. An action conducting control function causes the competitor to conduct the selected action when the specified command is input. A scoring control function scores the competitor's action in view of five performance elements.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device is formed by a pair of substrates each having thereon electrodes, and a liquid crystal disposed between the substrates so as to be movable along surfaces of the substrates. The liquid crystal is disposed over regions extending between the surfaces of the substrates including an effective optical modulation region, a first peripheral region outside the effective optical modulation region and a second peripheral region formed along a part or an entirety of outer periphery of the first peripheral region. The liquid crystal is disposed to have a higher liquid crystal molecular pretilt angle in the first peripheral region than in the effective optical modulation region. The liquid crystal is disposed in a random alignment state free from uniaxial alignment characteristic or in a layer structure in the second peripheral region.