Abstract: An infrared sensor comprises: an electrical insulating film sheet; first and second temperature sensor devices which are provided on one side of the electrical insulating film sheet, and are located at a distance from each other; a pair of contact electrodes, with which the first and second temperature sensor devices are attached respectively, formed on one side of the electrical insulating film sheet; an infrared absorbing film provided on the other side of the electrical insulating film sheet opposite the first temperature sensor device; and an infrared reflector film provided on the same side as the infrared absorbing film opposite the second temperature sensor device. The first and second temperature sensor devices respectively comprise: a thermistor element; and a pair of electrode layers, in which one of them is in contact with the contact electrode, formed both on the upper and lower surfaces of the thermistor element.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a plant body in which the program for accumulating storage products has been modified, and applications of the same. In the invention, the plant body is constructed so as to have a B3 DNA-binding domain and an EAR motif, and so as to be capable of repressing the expression of two or more genes which code for two or more proteins having a sugar-inducible promotor function-suppressing activity.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a plant body in which the program for accumulating storage products has been modified, and applications of the same. In the invention, the plant body is constructed so as to have a B3 DNA-binding domain and an EAR motif, and so as to be capable of repressing the expression of two or more genes which code for two or more proteins having a sugar-inducible promotor function-suppressing activity.

Abstract: The present invention provides an audio/visual data communication system including an audio/visual data reproducing device capable of changing the type of data to be transmitted. Further, the present invention provides an audio/visual data transmitting device and an audio/visual data reproducing device forming the audio/visual data communication system. An audio data reproducing speaker 3 includes an instruction input unit 33 that inputs an instruction to change data transmitted from an audio data transmitting device, a message generating unit 32 that generates a message for requesting to change data on the basis of the instruction, and a message transmitting unit 31 that transmits the message.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a head suspension assembly includes: a metal thin plate held by a head suspension; a fixed plate formed in the metal thin plate and joined to the head suspension; a supporting plate formed in the metal thin plate on the front side of the fixed plate and supporting a head slider on a surface thereof and held on a rear surface thereof by a protrusion formed on the head suspension; an arm formed in the metal thin plate and extending from the fixed plate to the supporting plate and allowing a change in a posture of the supporting plate; an insulating layer extending from the fixed plate to the supporting plate and supported by the arm; a wiring pattern formed on the insulating layer; and a visco-elastic body arranged on a flat surface formed on the arm, the insulating layer, or the wiring pattern.

Abstract: The personal computer adaptor device is provided with an adaptor-side signal input terminal connectable to a headphone terminal for audio signals of a personal computer, a control signal output terminal connectable to a microphone terminal of the personal computer, a plug unit connectable to an outlet jack of a power line, a digital converter for converting audio signals inputted from the adaptor-side signal input terminal into digital signals, an adaptor-side power line communication transmitting unit for transmitting audio signals via the power line connected to a plug unit, an adaptor-side power line communication receiving unit for receiving control signals of the personal computer transmitted from the output device connected to the power line via the power line connected to the plug unit, and an analog converter for converting control signals into analog signals and outputting them from the control signal output terminal.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technology for modifying the gene expression of a plant body in combination with using histone-chaperon-activity of protein 6b. According to the invention, gene expression is changed or modified globally.

Abstract: There is provided a data communication system that performs power line communication having satisfactory communication quality by disposing data in channels where notches or noises do not exist in a distributed manner.

Abstract: The power line communications system of the present invention comprises a power line L that has a plurality of branch lines LB1 to LBn branched at a branch point; communications devices T1 to Tn that are connected to the branch lines LB1 to LBn and perform sending and receiving of data via the branch lines LB1 to LBn; and a relay device 1 that is disposed at the branch point and relays sending of the data. It is also provided with a branching device Y that consists of a plurality of couplers K1 to Kn that couple the relay device 1 and the plurality of branch lines LB1 to LBn and have different resonance frequencies for each of the respective branch lines LB1 to LBn, with the relay device 1 performing sending of data by changing the communication frequency to the resonance frequency of the branch lines LB1 to LBn through which the data are sent.

Abstract: The invention provides a data communication system in which synchronization is taken between devices transmitting and receiving continuously reproduced data such as audio signals or visual signals by using a power line, and data delay is compensated for, a data reproducing device, and a method of reproducing data. The data reproducing device includes an audio data receiving unit 31 that receives data transmitted by a data transmitting device, a data buffer 32 that temporarily accumulates the received data, and a data amount monitoring unit 33 that monitors an amount of the accumulated data. Further, the data reproducing device includes a voltage control oscillator 34 that outputs an electric signal such that when the monitored data amount is ‘greater’, ‘equal’, or ‘smaller’ than a threshold value within a predetermined range, an oscillation frequency is ‘increased’, ‘maintained’, or ‘decreased’.

Abstract: The present invention provides an audio/visual data communication system including an audio/visual data reproducing device capable of changing the type of data to be transmitted. Further, the present invention provides an audio/visual data transmitting device and an audio/visual data reproducing device forming the audio/visual data communication system. An audio data reproducing speaker 3 includes an instruction input unit 33 that inputs an instruction to change data transmitted from an audio data transmitting device, a message generating unit 32 that generates a message for requesting to change data on the basis of the instruction, and a message transmitting unit 31 that transmits the message.

Abstract: A wireless temperature sensor that is attached to the patient's skin in order to measure the patient's temperature, thereby adopting a patient moving in the facilities as a measuring object. The wireless sensor is a wireless temperature sensor?having a function of wirelessly transmitting measured data through a chip antenna, and the chip antenna has a length of a shortening coefficient so as to be received in a container, and is received in the container. In addition, the invention provides a wireless interface device in which a wireless communication function is provided to a wireless communication card having a low carrier frequency, a small antenna, an enlarged communication distance, and low power consumption. Furthermore, the invention provides a wireless sensor system in which the sensor notifies a patient of surrounding environment information by a wireless communication device whereby a base station collects the environment information from a plurality of sensors.

Abstract: A relay amplifier provided at a branching point of an electric power line in an electric power line communication for amplifying communication signals, comprising a plurality of signal couplers provided at the respective electric power lines on both sides of the branching point for transmitting/receiving the communication signals to/from the electric power lines; and an amplifier for amplifying the communication signals inputted from the plurality of signal couplers.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high-safety head slider and an information storage apparatus having high operational reliability. The present invention provides a head slider equipped with a head that accesses a movable information storage medium on which information is recorded and that implements at least information reproduction, and situated close to the information storage medium. The head slider includes: a floating force generating section, opposing the information storage medium, that generates floating force upward from the information storage medium, through movement of the information storage medium; and a base section, equipped with the head, that, through floating force generated by the floating force generating section, floats from the information storage medium, the thickness in the floating direction of the base section varying along the direction of movement of the information storage medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radio server system. The communications service area of this radio server system is made of a plurality of zones and the radio server system connects to the Internet via a radio server in which a mobile radio is connected to a base station radio by carrying out data communications between base station radios in each of the zones and a plurality of mobile radios such that the base station radio continuously sends data and the mobile radio sends a burst signal to the base station radio, wherein the base station radio communicates using a single frequency that is different from the frequency used by neighboring base station radios, and each mobile radio detects the frequency used by the base station radio in the base station radio's zone and communicates with the base station radio using the detected frequency.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radio server system. The communications service area of this radio server system is made of a plurality of zones and the radio server system connects to the Internet via a radio server in which a mobile radio is connected to a base station radio by carrying out data communications between base station radios in each of the zones and a plurality of mobile radios such that the base station radio continuously sends data and the mobile radio sends a burst signal to the base station radio, wherein the base station radio communicates using a single frequency that is different from the frequency used by neighboring base station radios, and each mobile radio detects the frequency used by the base station radio in the base station radio's zone and communicates with the base station radio using the detected frequency.

Abstract: A radio communication apparatus which uses one of phase shift keying (PSK), differential phase shift keying (DPSK), or quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), and in which frequency synchronization is achieved based on calculated phase difference data associated with a received signal at time intervals shorter than symbol intervals. The radio communication apparatus includes a frequency synchronization control unit for correcting a frequency of a reference signal used to achieve frequency synchronization in accordance with a mean value of the phase difference data calculated over a period of time in which two or more symbols are input.

Abstract: A communication system and a communication method arranged to obtain a diversity effect in mobile communication, to reduce the influence of multipath interference, fading or the like, to perform comparatively simple information communication such as message communication with improved reliability, and to achieve effective utilization of frequencies. A plurality of base stations having receivers are provided around an urban area within base station zones. The base stations repeatedly transmit the same message data. Receiving repeaters are provided in the urban area and small or medium suburban zones. Each receiving repeater relays a signal from a small mobile terminal via an Internet network if the output level of the mobile terminal is so low that direct transmission to one of the base stations is impossible. A 25 kHz frequency band is divided into four narrower bands of 6.25 kHz in one of the embodiments.

Abstract: A mobile station of a two-frequency simplex radio communication system, in which communication between a base station and each mobile station is performed in such a manner that the base station continuously transmits packet data whereas each mobile station transmits burst data. The mobile station includes a radio wave propagation path condition detector for detecting the condition of a radio wave propagation path used for communication, and a communication control circuit which, when it is determined based on the condition of the radio wave propagation path detected by the radio wave propagation path condition detector, that transmission or reception timing cannot be obtained within a predetermined period of time, adaptively selects a transmission mode and notifies the base station of the selected transmission mode so as to receive data which is transmitted from the base station after the notification.

Abstract: For the purpose of providing a technique available for the production of a transgenic plant, a method to promote the proliferation of a plant cell is developed. This invention provides an amino acid sequence of precursor polypeptide of phytosulfokine (preprophytosulfokine), a growth factor of plant origin, and a base sequence encoding the phytosulfokine precursor polypeptide. Incorporation of the gene encoding the phytosulfokine precursor polypeptide enables the promotion of plant cell proliferation.