Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a microscope that prevents a dew condensation on an objective lens and allows obtaining a good microscopic image, and a method of preventing a dew condensation on an objective lens. A microscope includes an objective lens having a heater 22 in a cell incubator 3 having a high humidity space. The high humidity space is maintained at 90% to 100% of relative humidity and controlled to be at a predetermined gas temperature. A cultured cell 12 in the cell incubator 3 is observed via the objective lens 1, and the heater 22 is controlled to make the temperature of the objective lens 1 higher than the gas temperature of the high humidity space.

Abstract: A display device including a display unit and a circuit unit for driving the display unit, in which the display unit includes a flexible substrate and can be housed by rolling and drawn out in a predetermined direction, one electrode is a metal electrode, and the other electrode is a stripe-shaped electrode comprising a metal oxide, and a long side of the stripe is disposed perpendicular to a rolling direction of the display device.

Abstract: The invention provides a display device comprising a display unit, a circuit unit for driving the display unit and a bend suppressing member for suppressing bending of the display unit in a predetermined direction, the display unit comprising a flexible substrate and a display element having at least one layer of a display section interposed between a pair of upper and lower electrodes formed on the flexible substrate, the display unit being bendable in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction, one of the electrodes being made of a metal and the other electrode being made of a metal oxide formed into strips, and the longitudinal side of the electrode formed into strips being aligned in the predetermined direction for suppressing bending of the display unit.

Abstract: Provided is a microscope having an immersion objective lens, a nozzle, and a liquid supplying mechanism. The immersion objective lens condenses light from a sample through liquid. The nozzle supplies the liquid to an upper surface of the immersion objective lens. The liquid supplying mechanism cooperates with one of a lens moving mechanism that moves the immersion objective lens and a sample moving mechanism that maintains and moves the sample, and moves the nozzle relative to the immersion objective lens to supply the liquid.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes a rotatable image heating member for heating an image on a recording material; a pressing member for forming a nip, with the image heating member, in which the recording material is nipped and conveyed; heating means for heating a part of the image heating member; drive means for rotationally driving the image heating member; contacting-and-separating means for contacting and separating said image heating member and said pressing member relative to each other; standby control means for heating said image heating member in a predetermined period, while said image heating member is rotated, in a state of separation between said image heating member and said pressing member during standby; and pressing operation control means for contacting said image heating member and said pressing member, wherein when an image forming signal is inputted in the predetermined period during the standby, said image heating member and said pressing member are contacted after heating of said imag

Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt for heating an image on a recording material in a nip; a pressing pad for pressing the belt from an inner surface thereof in the nip; a sheet-like member, provided to cover the pressing pad, for sliding movement relative to the belt; a lubricant absorbing member for suppressing swelling of the pressing pad by absorbing a lubricant applied on an inner surface of the belt, the lubricant absorbing member is covered by the sheet-like member.

Abstract: A multi-chip package suppresses a change, which is caused by packaging, of a circuit characteristic of an analog circuit of which characteristic is adjusted by a nonvolatile register. A digital circuit and an analog circuit are formed on a semiconductor chip. A nonvolatile register is also formed on the semiconductor chip to store information to adjust a circuit characteristic of the analog circuit. The circuit characteristic of the analog circuit is adjusted according to the information stored in this nonvolatile register. Then, another dummy semiconductor chip is attached with an adhesive being superimposed on a circuit area of the analog circuit to build a multi-chip package.

Abstract: The storage characteristics in a charged state are improved in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing a lithium cobalt oxide as a positive electrode active material. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material other than metallic lithium; and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode active material contains a lithium cobalt oxide as its main component. The non-aqueous electrolyte contains 0.1 to 10 volume % of a compound having an ether group. The positive electrode active material and the negative electrode active material are contained so that the charge capacity ratio of the negative electrode to the positive electrode is from 1.0 to 1.2 when the battery is charged until the potential of the positive electrode reaches 4.4 to 4.5 V (vs.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing a positive active material, a negative electrode containing a negative active material and a nonaqueous electrolyte. Characteristically, the positive active material comprises a mixture of a lithium transition metal complex oxide A obtained by incorporating at least Zr and Mg into LiCoO2 and a lithium transition metal complex oxide B having a layered structure and containing at least Ni and Mn as the transition metal.

Abstract: Low-temperature charge-discharge performance is improved in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that employs flake graphite as a negative electrode active material. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions, a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a mixture layer (1) containing, as the negative electrode active material, a graphite material having flake-shaped primary particles, a current collector (3) made of Cu or a Cu alloy, and an intermediate layer (2) disposed between the mixture layer (1) and the current collector (3) and composed of a material that intercalates and deintercalates lithium ions at a nobler potential than the graphite material.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus comprising first and second belts for forming a nip for heating an image on a recording material; a first pressing pad for pressing the first belt at the nip; a first roller, provided spaced from the first pressing pad with a gap therebetween, for pressing the first belt at the nip; a second pressing pad, provided opposed to the first pressing pad, for pressing the second belt at the nip; a second roller, provided opposed to the first roller and contacted to the second pressing pad, for pressing the second belt at the nip, the second roller having a friction coefficient which is smaller than that of the first roller.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes a coil for generating magnetic flux; an image heating member, comprising an electroconductive layer which generates heat by eddy current generated by the magnetic flux from the coil, for heating an image on a recording material; energization control means for controlling energization of the coil so that a temperature of the image heating member is a target image heating temperature Tf (° C.); and a heat pipe contactable with the image heating member. The electroconductive layer has a Curie temperature Tc satisfying the following relationship: Tf?Tc?Tf+Qmax (W)×Rh (° C./W), wherein Qmax (W) represents a maximum amount of heat transport, and Rh (° C./W) represents a value of heat resistance of the heat pipe immediately after an occurrence of dryout.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an organic electroluminescent element including, between a pair of electrodes, a plurality of layers including at least one light-emitting layer, wherein at least one layer of the plurality of layers contains a main component and an accessory component (dopant), and a volume ratio of the main component to the accessory component varies in proportion to a distance from an electrode terminal.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus comprising first and second belts for forming a nip for heating an image on a recording material; a first pressing pad for pressing the first belt at the nip; a first roller, provided spaced from the first pressing pad with a gap therebetween, for pressing the first belt at the nip; a second pressing pad, provided opposed to the first pressing pad, for pressing the second belt at the nip; a second roller, provided opposed to the first roller and contacted to the second pressing pad, for pressing the second belt at the nip, the second roller having a friction coefficient which is smaller than that of the first roller.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes a rotatable heating member configured to heat an image on a recording medium at a nip, driving means configured to drive the heating member, an endless belt configured to form the nip with the heating member, and a driving roller configured to drive the endless belt. In the image heating apparatus, the following expressions are satisfied: ?2<?1 0.005<?2<0.3 V1<V2 where ?2 is a friction coefficient between the endless belt and the driving roller, ?1 is a friction coefficient between the heating member and the endless belt, V1 is a peripheral speed of the heating member, and V2 is a peripheral speed of the driving roller.

Abstract: An observation apparatus includes an incident-light illumination optical system, a transmitting illumination optical system, an imaging unit, an input device, a storage unit, an imaging controller, a microscope controller, an imaging information management unit. The imaging information management unit compares an area position, of an imaging area of the imaging unit, indicated by position information input from the input device with an area position stored in the storage unit to determine whether the area position indicated by the position information is stored in the storage unit. When the area position is not stored in the storage unit, the imaging controller controls the imaging unit to image the specimen and to generate an observation image, and stores the observation image in the storage unit. The microscope controller controls one of the optical systems to illuminate the specimen only during an imaging period, when the imaging unit images the specimen.

Abstract: An observation apparatus includes an illuminating unit that illuminates a sample; an imaging unit that captures an image of the sample to generate an observation image; a storage unit that stores the observation image in association with an illumination condition of the illuminating unit at generation of the observation image by the imaging unit; an imaging controller that controls the imaging unit to capture the image of the sample to generate the observation image and stores the observation image in the storage unit; and an illumination controller that controls the illuminating unit to illuminate the sample, and stores the illumination condition in the storage unit every time the imaging unit captures the image of the sample.

Abstract: A tissue culture microscope apparatus includes a culture unit that includes a chamber in which a specimen is put, and maintains the chamber at a predetermined temperature to culture the specimen; an observation unit that forms an observation image of the specimen put in the chamber; and a liquid supply unit that stores a liquid in a protrusion portion penetrating into a wall of the chamber and protruding to an inside of the chamber, matches a temperature of the liquid with the temperature of the chamber, and injects the liquid from the protrusion portion to the specimen.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes a first belt contactable to an image on a recording material to heat the image; a second belt for forming a nip with the first belt; a first pressing pad for pressing the first belt in the nip; a second pressing pad for pressing the second belt toward the first pressing pad, wherein the first pressing pad has a surface roughness Rz of not more than 20 ?m, and the second pressing pad has a surface roughness Rz of 50-300 ?m.

Abstract: An observation apparatus includes an illumination unit that illuminates a specimen; an imaging unit that captures an image of the specimen to generate an observation image; and an imaging and display controller that controls the imaging unit so that an image of the specimen is preliminary captured to generate a preliminary observation image, and controls a display unit so that the preliminary observation image is displayed. The apparatus also includes a storage controller that stores, in a storage unit, a position selected based on the preliminary observation image and employed as a main observation position for a main observation of a partial region inside the specimen; and an illumination controller that controls the illumination unit so that the specimen is illuminated only in a time period during which the imaging unit captures an image of the specimen, at least when the imaging unit generates the preliminary observation image.