Abstract: While applying an ultrasonic vibration to a housing 7 and/or a bearing sleeve 8, the outer peripheral surface 8d of the bearing sleeve 8 is press-fitted into the inner peripheral surface 7c of the housing 7 with a predetermined interference, and is welded thereto. During the press-fitting, the region of the inner peripheral surface 7c of the housing 7 coming into contact with the bearing sleeve 8 is melted or softened by the action of the ultrasonic vibration, so that, as compared with a case in which only press-fitting is conducted, the requisite press-fitting force at the time of press-fitting can be substantially reduced.

Abstract: An information communicating member is adapted to be disposed on a liquid container for supplying a liquid to a liquid ejecting head of a liquid ejection apparatus. The information communicating member includes: an information storing portion storing therein liquid information with regard to the liquid contained in the liquid container; an antenna portion for communicating the liquid information stored in the information storing portion between the information communicating member and the liquid ejection apparatus in a wireless manner; and a base member on which the information storing portion and the antenna portion are disposed. The base member has an electric insulating property and an ultraviolet ray shielding property.

Abstract: A cartridge, detachably attached to a recording apparatus, includes a recording sheet container. The recording apparatus includes a sheet turning device. When a recording sheet is conveyed from the cartridge to an image forming section, the sheet turning device turns the recording sheet around an axis parallel to a normal line to the recording surface of the recording sheet. The longitudinal direction of the recording sheets contained in the recording sheet container is generally perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the recording sheet being subjected to recording in the image forming section.

Abstract: [Problems] A composition curable with active energy beams for use in skin patches is provided, which is liquid at ordinary temperature, has a practical crosslinking property or curability in the absence of photopolymerization initiators even when irradiated with visible or ultraviolet light, and provides cured films that are not discolored and excellent in various pressure-sensitive adhesive performances and have appropriate pressure-sensitive adhesiveness so as not to cause pain or damage to the horny layer in the patch-applied area even when patches are repeatedly applied and peeled off, as well as excellent water resistance. [Means for solving problems] The composition curable with active energy beams for use in skin patches is liquid at ordinary temperature and comprises (A) a compound having two or more maleimide groups and (B) an oil component, or water or a water-soluble compound.

Abstract: An ink cartridge is provided with an ink accommodating section for containing ink, an ink supplying part for supplying ink contained in the ink accommodating section to an inkjet type recording apparatus by inserting an ink supplying needle provided at a lower part of the inkjet type recording apparatus, and an atmospheric valve, which seals a communicating hole in order that the ink accommodating section and the atmosphere communicate, while opening a communicating hole, which allows the ink accommodating section to communicates with the atmosphere, by moving perpendicular to a direction in which the ink cartridge is inserted into the inkjet type recording apparatus by being pushed up by a contact member.

Abstract: A liquid cartridge is provided that supplies liquid to a liquid ejecting apparatus by being mounted in the liquid ejecting apparatus. The liquid cartridge includes a cartridge body having a side face in which an opening is formed; and a flexible film for forming an ink accommodating chamber that is a closed space for accommodating the liquid, with the cartridge body by covering the opening of the cartridge body. The flexible film is caused to deform toward the ink accommodating chamber by atmospheric pressure that acts on the flexible film when the liquid cartridge is got out from a vacuum bag in which the liquid cartridge is packaged, thereby increasing the pressure in the ink accommodating chamber.

Abstract: According to the apparatus and method of the present invention, the motion vector Vij is weighted by the weighting coefficient ?ij of the motion vector Vij decided based on the AF evaluation value Iij indicating the degree of sharpness of the subject image so as to decide the entire motion vector V. For this reason, it is possible to reduce an influence on the decision of the motion vector V of the entire image exerted by the motion vector of the object of a low degree of sharpness, that is, the object not focused on.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cataplasm base that exhibits high water content, having adhesive strength and shape-retaining property, that is free from paste seepage, and that prevents skin irritation and can be cleanly detached from the skin without paste residue; and a cataplasm using the same. The inventive cataplasm base includes as indispensable components a water-soluble copolymer in the form of fine powder, the water-soluble copolymer including 1 to 30 mole percent of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid and 70 to 99 mole percent of acrylic acid as monomer units, wherein 20 to 60 mole percent of the acids is neutralized, and wherein the content of unreacted monomers is 0.5 weight percent or less; a polyhydric alcohol; a polyvalent metal compound; and water. A dermatological cataplasm including the cataplasm base is also provided.

Abstract: In a liquid cartridge, a surface of a valve lid side of a valve member communicates with a liquid supplying part, a surface of a first part of a wall face side of a liquid containing section communicates with the liquid containing section, in regard to the valve member, and a surface of a second part communicates with the liquid supplying part, and if the pressure of the liquid supplying part is smaller than the pressure of the liquid containing section, the valve member is pressed to the valve lid side, the liquid containing section and the liquid supplying part communicate with each other over the first and second parts of the valve member, the valve member is formed of a material softer than the wall face of the liquid containing section, and a projection is provided on a surface being in contact with the valve member in regard to the wall face of the liquid containing section along an outer circumference surrounding the first and second parts of the valve member, being in pressure contact with the valve m

Abstract: This invention can increase the focusing speed and quickly focus a camera to an object regardless of the position of the object within the field of the viewfinder. When the position of a main object falls within a range in which phase difference AF is impossible, the lens scan range of contrast AF is determined by referring to distance measurement information of phase difference AF near the main object or immediately preceding distance measurement information of phase difference AF. The scan range of contrast AF is narrowed to increase the focusing speed.

Abstract: A D/A conversion circuit for performing D/A conversion at high speeds. The D/A conversion circuit includes a resistor string including a plurality of resistor elements connected between a low-potential power supply and a high-potential power supply. A plurality of first switch groups are connected to the connection nodes between the resistor elements for selectively outputting voltages at the connection nodes. The outputs of the switches of the first switch groups are connected in common to a corresponding one of the nodes. The plurality of nodes are connected to an output terminal of the D/A conversion circuit via a second switch group. Predetermined switches of the first switch groups are connected in parallel to third switches to apply voltages to the nodes.

Abstract: A clamping circuit including a current mirror circuit including transistors constituting a mirror pair disposed at ground side, each of the transistors being connected to a power source through a resistance element; a plurality of adjusting transistors connected in parallel to a first transistor as one transistor of the current mirror circuit at a side for determining mirror current flowing in the current mirror circuit; a plurality of switch circuits that are respectively connected to conduction control terminals of the plural adjusting transistors in connection with one another and control the conduction states of the corresponding adjusting transistors; and a clamping transistor that has a conduction control terminal connected to a power source side terminal of a second transistor as the other transistor of the mirror pair, and clamps a voltage applied to a clamp terminal with the potential of the conduction control terminal as a reference.

Abstract: A vitrified bond tool including: (a) a support body; (b) a vitrified bond layer which is formed on a working surface of the support body; and (c) a plurality of abrasive grains which are held by the vitrified bond layer so as to be fixed relative to the working surface of the support body and which are spaced apart from each other with spacing between the adjacent ones of the abrasive grains. This vitrified bond tool is advantageously manufactured according to a method including the steps of (i) forming a pattern layer which includes a vitrified bond, in a predetermined pattern on the working surface of the support body; (ii) sprinkling the abrasive grains over the pattern layer before the pattern layer is dried; and (iii) firing the pattern layer and the abrasive grains which are bonded to the pattern layer and are arranged in the predetermined pattern on the working surface of the support body.

Abstract: The housing made of a resin composition is formed by injection molding with a sintered metal bearing sleeve as an insert piece. The housing includes a cylindrical body part, a sealing portion extending from the top of the body part radially inwards, and a bottom part closing the lower end of the body part. Of these, the body part and bottom part are integrally formed, to which the sealing portion is welded.

Abstract: A reaction prevention layer is formed to prevent Si from reacting with a gallium nitride group semiconductor (semiconductor crystal A) which is deposited after the reaction prevention layer is formed. By forming a reaction prevention layer comprising a material whose melting point or thermal stability is higher than that of a gallium nitride group semiconductor, e.g., AlN, on a sacrifice layer, a reaction part is not formed in the semiconductor substrate deposited on the reaction prevention layer when the gallium nitride group semiconductor is grown by crystal growth for a long time. In short, owing to the effect that the reaction prevention layer prevents silicon (Si) from diffusing, the reaction part is generated only in the sacrifice layer and it is never formed at the upper portion of the reaction prevention layer even by growing the semiconductor crystal A at a high temperature for a long time.

Abstract: A water-soluble thickener which is highly effective even in thickening strongly acidic aqueous solutions and has excellent stability in such solutions. It comprises a water-soluble copolymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 6,000,000 or higher obtainable by polymerizing a monomer mixture which comprises 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid and/or a salt thereof and acrylic acid and/or a salt thereof as essential components and optionally one or more other copolymerizable monomer components including the compound represented by the following Formula (1) and/or a salt thereof, wherein the 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid and/or a salt thereof represents 20 mol % or more of all the monomers. (wherein n is an integer of 1 to 12).

Abstract: An optical apparatus which achieves fast focusing operation and allows accurate focusing is disclosed. The optical apparatus includes a first focus detector which detects a focus state on a subject, a second focus detector which detects a focus state on the subject in a detection method different from a detection method of the first focus detector, and a controller which has a function of detecting whether or not the subject is a moving body and a function of performing focus control of an image-taking optical system in a first sequence in which at least one of the first and second focus detectors is used and a second sequence in which at least the other of the focus detectors is used. The controller preferentially uses one of the first and second sequences depending on the result of the detection with the moving body detecting function.

Abstract: A bearing sleeve 8 is press-fitted into a housing 7, and an axial portion 2a of an axial member 2 is inserted into the inner peripheral surface 8a of the bearing sleeve 8, and then a thrust member 10 is attached to the lower end of the inner peripheral surface 7c of the housing 7 and positioned in a predetermined position to fix it by ultrasonic welding. The lower end of the housing 7 is pressed against the outer peripheral surface of the thrust member 10 with applying ultrasonic vibration, to fix the melting junction surface of the housing 7 on the thrust member 10.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device is provided to reduce the adverse effect of PWM noise occurring in a PWM driving section on an analog voltage processing section in an IC, in which digital and analog circuits are combined on a single chip. A sampling signal generation circuit outputs a sampling signal St to an A/D converter at a predetermined time when “delay time td+allowance time ta” has elapsed from a start signal Sp. The delay time td is shorter than “the minimum time width of H level of PWM signal SPWM1?allowance time ta”. The delay time td is also time from the variation of level of the PWM signal SPWM1 to actual variation in the passage of current through a power section.

Abstract: There is disclosed a heating apparatus which has an electrostatic adsorption function and which comprises at least a supporting substrate, an electrode for electrostatic adsorption formed on a surface of one side of the supporting substrate, a heating layer formed on a surface of the other side of the supporting substrate, and an insulating layer formed so that it may cover the electrode for electrostatic adsorption and the heating layer wherein a volume resistivity of the insulating layer is varied in a plane. Thus, there can be provided a heating apparatus which has an electrostatic adsorption function wherein uniformity of a temperature distribution in a plane of the wafer when the wafer is heated can be improved, and the wafer can be heat-treated uniformly.