Abstract: A receiver device includes an antenna that receives a high frequency signal having a bandwidth, a mixer connected to the antenna and a frequency multiplier. A filter that removes a noise signal whose frequency is different from that of the local signal is provided between the local oscillator and the frequency multiplier. The filter removes the noise signal that satisfies the condition that the absolute value of the frequency difference between the center frequency of the local signal and the center frequency of the noise signal is less than the bandwidth of the high frequency signal.

Abstract: An air-conditioning register fin includes an elongated plate-shaped fin main body and an elongated decorative member attached to one of edges of the fin main body in a transverse direction. One of the fin main body and the decorative member includes an engagement projection. The other one of the fin main body and the decorative member includes a recess that accommodates the engagement projection and an engagement hook projecting from an inner surface of the recess. The engagement hook holds and engages the engagement projection.

Abstract: An air conditioning register includes: a downstream side fin; an upstream side fin; an operation knob; and a fork including a pair of transmission pieces, and connected to the operation knob. A transmission shaft is provided in the upstream side fin, and is interposed between the pair of transmission pieces. The transmission shaft is provided with a stopper that regulates further displacement of the fork. A surface of the stopper is an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to a center axis of the transmission shaft so as to be located outside in a radial direction centering on the center axis of the transmission shaft as approaching an end of the transmission shaft. An inclination angle of the inclined surface with respect to the center axis of the transmission shaft is an angle equal to or greater than 9° and equal to or less than 14°.

Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes a retainer having an airflow passage, and a shut-off damper, which is pivoted about a damper shaft between opening and closing positions for the airflow passage. The shut-off damper has opposed side sections, which are opposed to each other with the damper shaft located therebetween, and a distal sealing portion. The distal sealing portion includes a curved surface and a planar surface. The curved surface is arranged on the trailing side in a pivoting direction of the shut-off damper towards the closing position. The planar surface is arranged on the leading side in the pivoting direction in a manner defining an acute angle with respect to an opposing direction of the opposed side sections. At least the planar surface is a textured surface having raised features each having a height of 110 ?m±50 ?m.

Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes a retainer, a downstream fin, a knob, an upstream fin, and a fork. The downstream fin is swingably supported by the retainer with a downstream fin pivot. The knob is slidably attached to the downstream fin. The upstream fin has a transmission shaft. The fork is pivotally supported by the knob and includes two fork pivots. The knob includes two pivot receiving portions each having a pivot receiving hole. Each fork pivot is inserted into the pivot receiving hole of the corresponding one of the pivot receiving portions. An overlapping portion is provided at least at part of a location at which the fork and each pivot receiving portion contact each other. Slits are provided at two locations between the two fork pivots of the fork. A region between each slit and the nearest fork pivot constitutes an elastic support portion.

Abstract: A redox flow battery electrode includes an aggregate of a base containing carbon. When, on a cross section of the base, a circle that is centered at a center of gravity of the base and that has a diameter which is 95% of an isoarea equivalent circle diameter of the base is defined as a reference circle, the base includes a plurality of penetrating holes which extend from a surface toward an interior of the base and whose paths along extension directions of the penetrating holes are partially present within the reference circle.

Abstract: A sensor module of the present invention includes a flexible body and a sensor fixed to the outer surface of the body. The body is attachable to a robot hand having multiple fingers and is removable from the robot hand. The sensor is a proximity sensor or a tactile sensor. A position on the body where the sensor is fixed corresponds to a fingertip of a finger of the robot hand in a state where the sensor module is attached to the robot hand. The body has the shape of a glove, a finger cot, or a sheet.

Abstract: A shield includes an inductor that includes outer electrodes and that is mounted on a substrate in or on which a wiring pattern is formed, a second capacitor that is electrically connected between one of the outer electrodes of the inductor and a ground pattern formed in or on the substrate, and a shield member that is disposed so as to cover the inductor and electrically connected to the one of the outer electrodes of the inductor, to which the second capacitor is connected. The second capacitor has frequency characteristics such that, when the self-resonance frequency of the second capacitor serves as a boundary, the impedance of the second capacitor decreases as the frequency increases on the low frequency side and that the impedance of the second capacitor increases as the frequency increases on the high frequency side.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a central area and a reinforced outer peripheral area. A reference boundary cell with an inner wall orthogonal to an imaginary straight line, adjacent to the honeycomb center, and thinner than an outer wall adjacent to the honeycomb periphery has a reference wall different in wall thickness from the other three cell walls among the remaining four cell walls excluding the inner wall and the outer wall. The honeycomb structure includes a reference Y-shaped unit having the reference wall, the outer wall, and a cell wall. The honeycomb structure includes a plurality of Y-shaped units extending in the same directions as the reference Y-shaped unit. For every Y-shaped unit in the central area and the reinforced outer peripheral area of the honeycomb structure, the cell walls of each Y-shaped unit has an equal wall thickness.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a central area and a reinforced outer peripheral area. For a reference boundary cell having cell walls with different wall thicknesses on two sides parallel with an imaginary parallel line, a thin wall thickness t1<a thick wall thickness t3, an inner wall thickness t2<an outer wall thickness t4, t1=t2, and t3=t4. The honeycomb structure includes a reference cross-shaped unit having a thin wall, an inner wall, a cell wall, and a cell wall and a reference cross-shaped unit having a thick wall, an outer wall, a cell wall, and a cell wall. The honeycomb structure also includes a plurality of cross-shaped units extending vertically and horizontally from alternate cell vertexes arranged from a reference cell vertex as a starting point. In both the central area and the reinforced outer peripheral area, the cell walls of each cross-shaped unit have a substantially equal wall thickness.

Abstract: A portable information communications terminal includes a wiring board on which a ground pattern is formed, a connector including connector pins and mounted on the wiring board, a housing that has electrical conductivity and accommodates the wiring board on which the connector is mounted, an electroconductive connector shell (first shield member) that covers at least a portion of the connector pins, which are included in the connector, and that is electrically connected to the ground pattern of the wiring board, an electroconductive second shield member that is disposed so as not to be in contact with the connector shell and to cover the connector pins including a portion of the connector pins, the portion being not covered with the connector shell. The electroconductive second shield member is electrically connected to the housing, and an insulating member is interposed between the connector shell and the second shield member.

Abstract: A receiver device includes an antenna that receives a high frequency signal having a bandwidth, a mixer connected to the antenna and a frequency multiplier. A filter that removes a noise signal whose frequency is different from that of the local signal is provided between the local oscillator and the frequency multiplier. The filter removes the noise signal that satisfies the condition that the absolute value of the frequency difference between the center frequency of the local signal and the center frequency of the noise signal is less than the bandwidth of the high frequency signal.

Abstract: A portable information communications terminal includes a wiring board on which a ground pattern is formed, a connector including connector pins and mounted on the wiring board, a housing that has electrical conductivity and accommodates the wiring board on which the connector is mounted, an electroconductive connector shell (first shield member) that covers at least a portion of the connector pins, which are included in the connector, and that is electrically connected to the ground pattern of the wiring board, an electroconductive second shield member that is disposed so as not to be in contact with the connector shell and to cover the connector pins including a portion of the connector pins, the portion being not covered with the connector shell. The electroconductive second shield member is electrically connected to the housing, and an insulating member is interposed between the connector shell and the second shield member.

Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes a tubular retainer including a wall and a downstream opening, fins that are located adjacent to the downstream opening in the retainer and arranged parallel to one another so as to be tiltable relative to the retainer, and an operation knob mounted to a central fin. Each of the fins includes two rotation shafts at opposite ends of the fin. The wall of the retainer includes bearing holes, each supporting one of the rotation shafts of the corresponding fin. The overlap between the rotation shaft of one of the fins that is free of the knob and the inner surface defining the corresponding bearing hole is smaller than the overlap between the rotation shaft of the fin to which the knob is mounted and the inner surface defining the corresponding bearing hole.

Abstract: Nanofiber that keep crystallinity are obtained from a cellulose material under light load. The nanofiber are obtained by treating a material containing cellulose with 4% by mass or more and 9% by mass or less of an aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution to produce alkali cellulose, reacting the alkali cellulose with carbon disulfide to give cellulose xanthate, and defibrating the cellulose xanthate. Then, the xanthate is treated with acid or heat to be regenerated into cellulose nanofiber.

Abstract: It is possible to prevent a central processing unit and a security processing unit from accessing of a non-volatile memory at the same time. A data flash 13 includes a secure area 31 and a user area 32. In the secure area 31, a plurality of pieces of security information used in a security process is stored. A security IP 12 reads out a portion of the plurality of pieces of security information from the secure area 31 and stores it in the secure RAM 22. When the security information to be used in the security process is stored in the secure RAM, the security IP 12 reads out the security information from the secure RAM 22 and uses it.

Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a control unit having redundant processors, a memory storing target data, a secure memory storing a key used for encryption or decryption processing, an cryptographic unit, a secure processor instructing cryptographic processing to the cryptographic unit in response to a request from the control unit, a first bus coupled to the control unit, the memory, the cryptographic unit, and the secure processor, and a second bus coupled to the secure memory, the cryptographic unit, and the secure processor. The control unit communicates with the memory via a predetermined error detection mechanism, the cryptographic unit includes a plurality of cryptographic processors that independently perform cryptographic processing on target data using a key based on an instruction, and each of the plurality of cryptographic processors includes a data transfer unit that performs data transfer with the memory via the error detection mechanism.

Abstract: An electrode for redox flow battery is disposed opposite a membrane of a redox flow battery. The electrode includes a fiber assembly including a plurality of carbon fibers. The fiber assembly includes soft carbon fibers with a Young's modulus of 200 GPa or less. An average carbon fiber diameter of the soft carbon fibers is preferably 20 ?m or less.

Abstract: An image transmitting apparatus includes a transmitting unit and a controller. The transmitting unit transmits information according to a standard for video image communication. The controller exerts control in such a manner that still image information or information other than still image information is transmitted by using a bus for video image communication. The transmitting unit transmits the still image information or the information other than still image information in accordance with the control exerted by the controller.

Abstract: A portable information communications terminal includes a wiring board on which a ground pattern is formed, a connector including connector pins and mounted on the wiring board, a housing that has electrical conductivity and accommodates the wiring board on which the connector is mounted, an electroconductive connector shell (first shield member) that covers at least a portion of the connector pins, which are included in the connector, and that is electrically connected to the ground pattern of the wiring board, an electroconductive second shield member that is disposed so as not to be in contact with the connector shell and to cover the connector pins including a portion of the connector pins, the portion being not covered with the connector shell. The electroconductive second shield member is electrically connected to the housing, and an insulating member is interposed between the connector shell and the second shield member.