Abstract: The solid-state imaging device according to the present invention includes: pixel units arranged two-dimensionally in rows and columns; signal holding units each holding an analog signal outputted from one of the pixel units in a corresponding one of the columns; and column AD circuits each converting, into a digital signal, the analog signal held by a corresponding one of said signal holding units. The signal holding units and the column AD circuits are respectively provided for the columns of the pixel units. Each of the signal holding units includes: a switching element connected to a column signal line through which the analog signal outputted from the one of the pixel units is transmitted; and a capacitor element holding the analog signal and being connected to the column signal line through the switching element.

Abstract: A flush toilet for discharging waste using flush water supplied from a flush water source, including a bowl portion having a bowl-shaped waste receiving surface, a rim portion formed on the top edge portion thereof, and a shelf portion formed between the rim portion and the waste receiving surface; a water discharge path for discharging waste, the path including an inlet which is connected at the bottom of the bowl portion; a water spouting portion for spouting flush water onto the shelf portion of the bowl portion to form a swirl flow; and a water conduit for supplying flush water to the spouting portion. The water spouting portion is formed on the rim portion, and a first swirl trajectory of a first circulation and a second swirl trajectory of a second circulation are mutually different when flush water spouted from the water spouting portion swirls along the rim portion.

Abstract: A flush toilet for discharging waste using flush water supplied from a flush water supply source is disclosed. The flush toilet comprises a bowl portion including a bowl-shaped waste receiving surface, a rim portion and a shelf portion; a water discharge path for discharging waste; a water spouting portion for spouting flush water onto the shelf portion of the bowl portion to form a swirl flow; and a water conduit for supplying the flush water to the water spouting portion; wherein the bowl portion includes a front region and a rear region, and the rim portion of the bowl portion is such that the curvature radius in the front region is equal to or smaller than the curvature radius of the rear region, and wherein the water spouting portion is formed on either the left or right side in the front region of the rim portion and spouts the flush water toward the front of the rim portion.

Abstract: An electron beam apparatus, in which an electron beam emitted from an electron gun having a cathode and an anode is focused and irradiated onto a sample, and secondary electrons emanated from the sample are directed into a detector, the apparatus further comprising means for optimizing irradiation of the electron beam emitted from the electron gun onto the sample, the optimizing means may be two-stage deflectors disposed in proximity to the electron gun which deflects and directs the electron beam emitted in a specific direction so as to be in alignment with the optical axis direction of the electron beam apparatus, the electron beam emitted in the specific direction being at a certain angle with respect to the optical axis due to the fact that, among the crystal orientations of said cathode, a specific crystal orientation allowing a higher level of electron beam emission out of alignment with the optical axis direction.

Abstract: An electron beam apparatus, in which an electron beam emitted from an electron gun having a cathode and an anode is focused and irradiated onto a sample, and secondary electrons emanated from the sample are directed into a detector, the apparatus further comprising means for optimizing irradiation of the electron beam emitted from the electron gun onto the sample, the optimizing means may be two-stage deflectors disposed in proximity to the electron gun which deflects and directs the electron beam emitted in a specific direction so as to be in alignment with the optical axis direction of the electron beam apparatus, the electron beam emitted in the specific direction being at a certain angle with respect to the optical axis due to the fact that, among the crystal orientations of said cathode, a specific crystal orientation allowing a higher level of electron beam emission out of alignment with the optical axis direction.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus by an electron beam comprises: an electron-optical device 70 having an electron-optical system for irradiating the object with a primary electron beam from an electron beam source, and a detector for detecting the secondary electron image projected by the electron-optical system; a stage system 50 for holding and moving the object relative to the electron-optical system; a mini-environment chamber 20 for supplying a clean gas to the object to prevent dust from contacting to the object; a working chamber 31 for accommodating the stage device, the working chamber being controllable so as to have a vacuum atmosphere; at least two loading chambers 41, 42 disposed between the mini-environment chamber and the working chamber, adapted to be independently controllable so as to have a vacuum atmosphere; and a loader 60 for transferring the object to the stage system through the loading chambers.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator; and a rotor including an iron core, which has a tubular connecting portion surrounding a shaft and 10 magnetic pole portions integrally formed with the connecting portion corresponding to a pole number, and a plurality of permanent magnets arranged between the magnetic pole portions. The iron core includes axially-penetrated magnet accommodating air gaps formed between the magnetic pole portions at the radial outer side of the connecting portion, and the permanent magnets are installed in the respective magnet accommodating air gaps such that a radial outer surface of each of the permanent magnets makes close contact with an inner surface of each of the magnet accommodating air gaps and such that a gap exists between a radial inner surface of each of the permanent magnets and the connecting portion.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes an iron core and permanent magnets. The iron core includes a cylindrical connection portion and ten magnetic pole portions. The cylindrical connection portion surrounds a rotation shaft. The ten magnetic pole portions, the number of which corresponding to the number of poles, are disposed radially outside the connection portion. The connection portion and the magnetic pole portions are integrated with each other. The permanent magnets are disposed between the magnetic pole portions. The magnetic pole portions include flange portions that cover parts of radially outer surfaces of the permanent magnets while allowing at least parts of the radially outer surfaces to be exposed. Each of the permanent magnets includes a tapered portion in at least a part thereof, and the tapered portion has a length in a direction perpendicular to the radial direction that decreases radially inward.

Abstract: An electric-power-generation level predicting apparatus 1 includes a memory unit 20 that stores, as past data relating to a past electric power generation level of an electric power generator, past data containing information at multiple time points in each day, and an predicted-value calculating unit 13 that calculates, as time-series data containing an occurrence probability, an predicted value of the past data relating to an electric power generation level of the electric power generator based on a statistical correlation between different times in the past data or a statistical correlation between locations of the different electric power generators. The predicted-value calculating unit 13 includes a variance-covariance-matrix generator unit 131 that generates a variance-covariance matrix based on the past data, and a random-number generator unit 132 that generates a random number following the probability distribution based on the variance-covariance matrix.

Abstract: An induction heating cooker including a top plate where a pan is placed; a heating coil for induction heating the pan; an inverter circuit for supplying a high frequency current to the heating coil; an infrared sensor, which is arranged under the heating coil and detects an infrared light radiated from the pan; a light guiding part including an upper opening formed at an upper end facing the top plate and a lower opening formed at a lower end, and guiding the infrared light from the pan to the infrared sensor; and a control unit for controlling an output of the inverter circuit according to an output from the infrared sensor; wherein the light guiding part includes a nonmetallic material part in which the upper opening is formed upper than a lower surface of the heating coil.

Abstract: A display device (10) includes: a display section (23) which displays a picture; a user specifying section (130) which specifies a user viewing the display device; an image quality specifying section (170) which, in a case where the user specifying section (130) has specified a plurality of users, (i) obtains, from a recording section which records a plurality of setting values that correspond to user information for discriminating the plurality of users and are used to adjust an image quality, the plurality of setting values that correspond to the respective plurality of users thus specified and (ii) specifies, in accordance with the plurality of setting values thus obtained, a plurality of image qualities of a respective plurality of pictures to be displayed in the display section (23); and an image quality adjustment instructing section (150) which instructs an image quality adjusting section (22) to cause the display section (23) to display the plurality of pictures at the respective plurality of image qu

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a blocking member having a blocking surface with which a leading end of a sheet that is being conveyed comes into contact for obliquity correction. The blocking member is rotated by being pushed by the sheet against an urging force of a positioning unit that positions the blocking member to be in the standby position. The blocking member is rotatable to be in a sheet-passage-allowing orientation in which the sheet is allowed to pass. When a trailing end of the sheet that is being conveyed has passed the blocking member, the blocking member that is in the sheet-passage-allowing orientation rotates in a same direction as a sheet conveyance direction and is positioned to be in a standby position.

Abstract: An induction heating cooking device includes a heating coil (8) that induction-heats a cooking container, an infrared sensor (10) that detects infrared radiation which is emitted from a bottom surface of the cooking container and that outputs a detection signal based on the quantity of energy of the detected infrared radiation, and a heating control section (9) that controls supply of electric power to the heating coil based on the detection signal. When the temperature of the bottom surface of the cooking container is equal to or higher than a first predetermined temperature which is higher than 230 degrees C., the infrared sensor (10) outputs the detection signal, and when the bottom-surface temperature is lower than the first predetermined temperature, the infrared sensor (10) does not output the detection signal substantially.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of inspecting a sample, in which the sample is inspected under a plurality of inspection conditions, and inspection data obtained by inspecting the sample under each of the plurality of inspection conditions and position information on the sample of the inspection date in correspondence with the respective inspection conditions, are stored. The inspection data for each of the plurality of inspection conditions is against each other by the use of the position information on the sample to determine a position to be inspected in detail, and an image of the sample at a position to be inspected in detail is obtained. The obtained image is classified, the inspection condition of the sample by the use of information of classification of the image is determined.

Abstract: A sliding bearing 1 includes a bearing alloy layer 2 which has annular grooves 2a and a ridge portion 2b formed thereon and an overlay layer 3 which is made from a low-friction synthetic resin and covers the surface of the bearing alloy layer, wherein the overlay layer 3 forms an uneven face so that the surface of the overlay layer 3 follows an uneven face of the surface of the bearing alloy layer 2. The ridge portion 2b is structured so as to be plastically deformed when a load is applied to the sliding bearing from a rotary shaft, and thereby be capable of making the sliding bearing conform to the rotary shaft.

Abstract: A partial groove 14 is formed in an inner circumferential surface of an upper side bearing member 11 of a main bearing 5 which pivotally supports a main shaft 3A of a crankshaft 3, and a space D between an end portion of the partial groove 14 and each of crush reliefs 11b formed at both ends in a circumferential direction of the upper side bearing member 11 is provided within a range of 2 mm?D?main shaft diameter/3. Further, a depth gradually decreasing portion 14b having an arc-shaped section is formed at an end portion of the partial groove 14, and a radius r of the depth gradually decreasing portion 14b is provided within a range of 0?r?main bearing inner circumferential surface radius×0.5. Further, in a connecting rod bearing 6, a lubricating oil discharge passage 23, which discharges a lubricating oil outside a connecting rod 4 when communicating with an internal passage 3C formed in the crankshaft 3, is provided.

Abstract: An integrated transmission apparatus includes a plurality of optical supervisory channel (OSC) processing units for processing OSC signals contained in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) signal received from a WDM network and a switching unit for performing the path control of synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) frames. An OSC processing unit transmits the SDH frame, containing wavelength information indicated by, to the switching unit. Another OSC processing unit acquires the SDH frame, containing wavelength information, from the switching unit and sets an OSC signal which is to be appended to the WDM signal to be transmitted, based on the wavelength information.

Abstract: A resin composition comprising a fiber component and a resin component, wherein the fiber component is (A) a surface-treated fiber (component A) which comprises 100 parts by weight of a fiber comprising a polyalkylene terephthalate and/or a polyalkylene naphthalene dicarboxylate (component Af) and 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a sizing agent having a glass transition point of ?80° C. or higher and lower than 70° C.

Abstract: A radio communication device includes, a radio communication device includes, a plurality of IC chips that conducts radio communicate with a reader/writer, a first setting unit that sets one IC chip selected from the plurality of IC chips to an exclusive-lock release state that allows radio communication to be conducted with the reader/writer, a determination unit that determines whether the radio communication is being conducted normally when radio communication between the one IC chip set to the exclusive-lock release state and the reader/writer is conducted, and a second setting unit that sets the one IC chip set to the exclusive-lock release state to a exclusive-locked state that does not allow radio communication with the reader/writer when the radio communication is determined as not being conducted normally, and sets another IC chip that is different from the one IC chip set to the exclusive-locked state to the exclusive-lock release state.

Abstract: A method for producing hexagonal boron nitride single crystals including mixing boron nitride crystals with a solvent thereby obtaining a mixture, heating and melting the mixture under high-temperature and high-pressure thereby obtaining a melted mixture, and rectystallizing the melted mixture thereby producing hexagonal boron nitride single crystals, wherein the solvent is boronitride of alkali earth metal, or boronitride of alkali metal and the boronitride of alkali earth metal.