Abstract: A camera apparatus (1) includes: a CCD (2) serving as an imaging device; a cleaning member (3) for performing cleaning of the front face of the CCD (2); and a cleaning controller (13) for controlling the movement of the cleaning member (3). Cleaning control is carried out so that when the cleaning of the CCD (2) is started, the cleaning member (3) is moved to a cleaning position located in front of and in proximity to the CCD (2), and when the cleaning of the CCD (2) is finished, the cleaning member (3) is moved to a retracted position retracted from the cleaning position. The camera apparatus itself is provided with the function of cleaning the imaging device, thereby enabling reduction in time and effort for a cleaning operation performed on the imaging device.

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a core substrate having a first main surface and a mutually opposing second main surface, the second main surface having a conductive property. A first through hole penetrates a core substrate. A first conductive layer extends from the first main surface to the second main surface via the first through hole. An insulating layer is formed on the first conductive layer. A second through hole has the insulating layer as an interior wall. And a second conductive layer is formed inside the second through hole.

Abstract: A camera apparatus (1) includes: a CCD (2) serving as an imaging device; a cleaning member (3) for performing cleaning of the front face of the CCD (2); and a cleaning controller (13) for controlling the movement of the cleaning member (3). Cleaning control is carried out so that when the cleaning of the CCD (2) is started, the cleaning member (3) is moved to a cleaning position located in front of and in proximity to the CCD (2), and when the cleaning of the CCD (2) is finished, the cleaning member (3) is moved to a retracted position retracted from the cleaning position. The camera apparatus itself is provided with the function of cleaning the imaging device, thereby enabling reduction in time and effort for a cleaning operation performed on the imaging device.

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a core substrate having a first main surface and a mutually opposing second main surface, the second main surface having a conductive property. A first through hole penetrates a core substrate. A first conductive layer extends from the first main surface to the second main surface via the first through hole. An insulating layer is formed on the first conductive layer. A second through hole has the insulating layer as an interior wall. And a second conductive layer is formed inside the second through hole.

Abstract: Analysis is carried out by the steps of putting a sample of an inflammable material on a support formed of a heat resistant material; heating the sample; depositing a combustion gas containing initial evaporation components evaporated and scattered from the sample in an early stage of a combustion process of the sample to an inspected substrate; and inspecting the deposit on the substrate and detecting and analyzing brominated compounds. According to this analysis method, there is provided a method, for analyzing detrimental brominated compounds contained in an inflammable material such as PBB and PBDE, which does not require pre-treatment for preparing a measurement sample but is capable of executing high precision high sensitivity analysis by using an economical apparatus and a simple analytical technology.

Abstract: Analysis is carried out by the steps of putting a sample of an inflammable material on a support formed of a heat resistant material; heating the sample; depositing a combustion gas containing initial evaporation components evaporated and scattered from the sample in an early stage of a combustion process of the sample to an inspected substrate; and inspecting the deposit on the substrate and detecting and analyzing brominated compounds. According to this analysis method, there is provided a method, for analyzing detrimental brominated compounds contained in an inflammable material such as PBB and PBDE, which does not require pre-treatment for preparing a measurement sample but is capable of executing high precision high sensitivity analysis by using an economical apparatus and a simple analytical technology.

Abstract: Rubber rollers for carrying media, comprising a blend of urethane rubber and silicone rubber, and an apparatus equipped therewith. A rubber roller abrasion evaluating tester provided with means for carrying a medium to be carried while in contact with rubber rollers to be evaluated, and means for forcefully causing slippage of the carried medium by a prescribed distance on the rollers. A method of selecting a medium to be carried which has a prescribed abrasive strength, by abrading a carried medium under a constant weight using an abrading material and calculating the rate of the abrasion of the carried medium.

Abstract: A bending sensor of the invention is formed of a flexible segment, a pressure-sensitive electrically-conductive resin film formed on the flexible segment, and a pair of electrodes to be attached to the resin film. The resin film is made of pressure-sensitive electroconductive ink and coated on the segment. The resin film has a characteristic such that an electric resistance value is reduced as a pressure on the resin film increases. When the segment is bend-formed at an inflection point by receiving an outer force, the segment provides a pressure to the resin film at the inflection point to produce an inner stress in the resin film. When the segment is bent-deformed, the electrodes output a resistance change of the resin film to thereby detect bending of the flexible segment.

Abstract: A phase transition-type liquid crystal composition including a mixture of ester-type liquid crystal compound and chiral nematic liquid crystal compound having added thereto at least one of ethane-type liquid crystal compound and bicyclohexane-type liquid crystal compound. The liquid crystal composition exhibits an extended width (.DELTA.V) of voltage hysteresis and therefore a stabilized homeotropic (H') state, when its voltage hysteresis curve is plotted. The liquid crystal display devices or elements using this composition have a fast response characteristic and enable a large scale or area display and an input operation using keyboards.

Abstract: According to the present invention, using a display terminal for conversation, a module structure diagram (schemata expressive of the connectional relations among respective program modules) is created, and a processing flow diagram (a kind of processing flow chart), an internal data definition diagram (schemata for specifying the formats etc. of data for use in processes) and an interface data definition diagram (schemata for specifying the formats etc. of arguments, common data between the modules, etc.) are created for each module, the created contents being stored in a memory. Further, the schematic information items of the module structure diagram, processing flow diagram, internal data definition diagram and interface data definition diagram are read out from the memory for each module and have stereotyped sentences and symbols added thereto, to generate the individual sentences of a source program. These sentences are edited according to the rules of a language, to complete the source program.

Abstract: According to the present invention, using a display terminal for conversation, a module structure diagram (schemata expressive of the connectional relations among respective program modules) is created, and a processing flow diagram (a kind of processing flow chart), an internal data definition diagram (schemata for specifying the formats etc. of data for use in processes) and an interface data definition diagram (schemata for specifying the formats etc. of arguments, common data between the modules, etc.) are created for each module, the created contents being stored in a memory. Further, the schematic information items of the module structure diagram, processing flow diagram, internal data definition diagram and interface data definition diagram are read out from the memory for each module and have stereotyped sentences and symbols added thereto, to generate the individual sentences of a source program. These sentences are edited according to the rules of a language, to complete the source program.

Abstract: A diagrammatic method is disclosed of testing a program in a data processing system equipped with a display terminal for interactive operations. Program specification inputs are given in a diagrammatic form through interactive operations and are edited into diagrammatic specifications. Those diagrammatic specifications are then translated into a source program described in, for example, FORTRAN, in which are interspersed comment statements each of which indicates a diagrammatic specification corresponding to the associated statement of the source program. In the course of a test the diagrammatic specification corresponding to a process under execution is retrieved and displayed according to a comment statement, and the portions corresponding to executed operations are displayed distinctively, for example, in a special color, while the resultant values of variables are also displayed.

Abstract: A developing material for electrostatic images comprising (a) carrier particles comprising iron beads coated with a layer of butadiene polymer resin in which Fe.sub.3 O.sub.4 powder is dispersed, the volume ratio of the polymer resin to Fe.sub.3 O.sub.4 is from 1:2 to 4:1, and the butadiene polymer is cured by heating with an organic peroxide of from 0.5 to 5.0 parts by weight, based on the weight of the butadiene polymer, which comprises a homopolymer containing 1,2-polybutadiene units, or a homopolymer or copolymer of cyclized 1,4-cis-polybutadiene and (b) from 1% to 6% by weight, based on the weight of the carrier particles, of toner particles which comprise a bis-phenol A-epichlorohydrin type resin, carbon powder, a nigrosine dye, and either a styrene-n-butyl acrylate copolymer or a montan wax.

Abstract: Flame retardation of 1,2-polybutadiene based upon the use of halogenated bisphenol bisacrylate reactive flame retardants, for example, 2,2-bis(4-methacryloyl-3,5-dibromophenyl)-propane. Flame retardancy performance of UL 94 V-0 or V-1 has been achieved without impairing desirable dielectric properties and heat resistance inherently possessed by 1,2-polybutadiene. If an aromatic bismaleimide modifier, for example, N,N'-4,4'-diphenylmethane bismaleimide, is jointly used, a thermal expansion coefficient less than a half of the thermal expansion coefficient of cured 1,2-polybutadiene can be achieved.