Abstract: A pulsating vibration air generation apparatus capable of sharply and quickly controlling air flow in turning on and off operation, thereby generating a pulsating vibration air with sharp and hardly attenuated peak and valley, and capable of operation without occurrence of so much mechanical vibration. The pulsating vibration air generation apparatus is comprised of a main body having a tubular hollow space R2 with which two air communication ports are associated, and a rotary body situated for rotation in the tubular hollow space R2 and which has a peripheral side surface S4c so as to slide on the inner surface S2c forming the tubular hollow space R2.

Abstract: To provide an optical density-changing element which has excellent properties that it can be brought into a colored state by applying only a low voltage, that it shows a rapid response speed and becomes completely colorless when restored to a bleached state from the colored state, and which can undergo a change in optical density in response to an applied voltage, the optical density-changing element includes, on each of an anode and a cathode, a material capable of at least one of donating and accepting an electron and, as a result of at least one of donating and accepting the electron, undergoing a change in absorption spectrum in a visible region and a material undergoing substantially no change in absorption spectrum in the visible region, with potentials of these materials satisfying a specific relation defined in the specification.

Abstract: An ink unit comprising: an ink utilized for an inkjet recorder; and a wetted member that contacts with the ink, wherein the ink comprises a pigment dispersedly held in a medium, and the pigment contains particles having a size of 200 nm or larger in 2 volume percent or less, and wherein a principal component of the ink-wetted member is [1] a compound of specific hydrotalcite; [2] a fatty acid and/or a fatty acid derivative; [3] a phenolic antioxidant having an isocyanurate skeleton; or [4] a polyolefin including an alkyl-substituted benzylidene sorbitol.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one lightsensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the lightsensitive material contains at least one compound represented by general formula (I) and at least one photographically useful group-releasing compound represented by general formula (II) or (III) that is capable of forming a compound having substantially no contribution to a dye after its coupling with an oxidized form of a developing agent: (X)k-(L)m-(A-B)n ??(I) COUP1-D1 ??(II) COUP2-C-E-D2 ??(III) The definitions of the substituents are set forth in the specification.

Abstract: An ink unit comprising an ink for use in an ink jet recording apparatus; and a liquid-contacting member that contacts with the ink, wherein the ink comprises a phthalocyanine dye of a specific structure which has an oxidation potential of 1.0 V (vs SCE) or more, and wherein the major component of the ink-contacting member is a polyolefin containing [1] a specific hydrotalcite-like compound, [2] a fatty acid and/or fatty acid derivative, [3] a phenolic antioxidant having an isocyanurate skeleton or [4] an alkyl-substituted benzylidenesorbitol.

Abstract: An optical element comprises: an electromotive force-generating element that generates an electromotive force in response to electromagnetic wave; and an optical density-changing element that changes its optical density according to the electromotive force, the optical density-changing element comprising: at least one of metal sulfide and metal nitride; and a material that causes a change of the optical density and adsorbs to said at least one of metal sulfide and metal nitride.

Abstract: A powder material application apparatus capable of applying powder material uniformly onto lower surfaces of plural upper punches, upper surfaces of plural lower punches and inner circumferences of plural dies of a tabletting machine. Powder material is applied on a material contacting surface of the lower punch by spraying powder material mixed with air from a powder material spray port for lower punch of a powder material application part for lower punch. Powder material is applied on a material contacting surface of the upper punch wherein powder material is not applied enough according to gravity by spraying powder material mixed with air from a powder material spray port for upper punch while the upper punch moves from an initial end to a terminal end of the powder material spray port for upper punch. The powder material spray port for upper punch is provided along the rotary orbit of the upper punches and is elongated more than the powder material spray port for lower punch.

Abstract: A non-volatile memory, which comprises an insulating substrate (11) that has a first electrode (18) that extends through the substrate from the front surface to the rear surface thereof; a second electrode (13) that is formed on one side of the insulating substrate (11); and a recording layer (12) that is clamped between the first electrode (18) and the second electrode (13) and whose resistance value varies when an electric pulse is applied across the first electrode (18) and the second electrode (13); wherein the insulating substrate (11) has a layered structure composed of an organic dielectric thin film (112) and an inorganic dielectric layer (111) that is thinner than the organic dielectric thin film (112); with the recording layer (12) being formed on the side on which the inorganic dielectric layer is formed. Use of this non-volatile memory increases the possible number of data writing cycles while saving power.

Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material comprises a blue-sensitive layer, a green-sensitive layer, a red-sensitive layer and a non-light-sensitive layer on a support. The silver halide color photosensitive material contains a compound selected from the following type 1 and type 2 compounds, and wherein the blue-sensitive layer meets the relationship of the following formula (I): SB(370 nm)/SB(420 nm)<0.

Abstract: A method of driving a non-volatile memory which comprises a plurality of memory cells arranged in a two dimensional array, each having a field-effect transistor (1) whose gate and substrate are connected and a variable resistor element (2) comprising a phase change material; in which a specific voltage is applied to a specific word line (WLi), bit line (BLj) and voltage supply section (VA) so that a voltage which is higher than a forward rise voltage of the pn junction between the source and substrate of the field-effect transistor (1) is applied between the specific word line (WLi) and bit line (BLj), and then the voltage applied to the word line (WLi) is rapidly or gradually returned to the initial voltage to change an applicable variable resistor element (2) into the high or low resistance state, whereby data is deleted or recorded, and data is read by turning on the field-effect transistor (1) and detecting the resistance value of the applicable variable resistor element (2).

Abstract: The present invention provides a tablet which comprises a water-absorbent amino acid and a coating agent which is soluble in ethanol and hardly soluble in water. The tablet of the present invention is useful as amino acid preparations for sports, dieting, or pharmaceuticals, and also useful as nutritional supplements, pharmaceuticals and the like in order to supply nutritious of amino acids effective to human health maintenance, or enhance physiological activity of human tissues.

Abstract: A voltage generating circuit comprising a capacitor (4), a ferroelectric capacitor (6) serially connected to the capacitor (4), an output terminal (11), a capacitor (10) which grounds the output terminal (11), a supply voltage supplying terminal (13), a switch (1) which connects the supply voltage supplying terminal (13) and the connecting node (N1) of the two capacitors (4, 6), and a switch (9) which connects the connecting node (N1) and output terminal (11); wherein during a first period, with the two switches (1) and (9) placed in the OFF state, a terminal (3) is grounded and a terminal (7) is provided with a supply voltage; wherein during a second period, the terminal (3) is provided with the supply voltage and the switch (9) is placed in the ON state; wherein during a third period, the switch (9) is placed in the OFF state, the switch (1) is placed in the ON state, and the terminal (7) is grounded; wherein during a fourth period, the terminal (7) is provided with the supply voltage; and wherein thereafte

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-volatile memory comprising: a first electrode (11); a second electrode (12); and a phase-change recording medium (14) sandwiched between the first electrode (11) and the second electrode (12), in which resistance value is varied by applying an electrical pulse across the first electrode (11) and the second electrode (12), at least one of the first electrode (11) and the second electrode (12) contains as a main ingredient at least one member selected from the group consisting of ruthenium, rhodium and osmium, and the phase-change recording medium (14) is formed of a phase-change material that contains chalcogen(s). This non-volatile memory exhibits improved durability and reliability by preventing deterioration of property (i.e., mutual impurity diffusion between the electrode and the phase-change recording medium) caused by application of current.

Abstract: The present invention provides a chewable tablet having an improved oral disintegration property, which is easily chewed and capable of containing a large amount of an amino acid depending on need, more specifically, a chewable tablet comprising an amino acid and an oral disintegration promoting agent.

Abstract: According to the tablet production method of the present invention, tablet is produced by compressing molding material by means of punches and dies comprising the steps of using powdered or granular material including compound which is denaturalized or inactivated when tabletted at high pressure is used as the molding material, housing the punches and the dies in a spraying chamber, generating pulsating vibration air and spraying lubricant mixed in air in the spraying chamber, applying the lubricant on the surfaces of the punches and the dies while the lubricant sprayed in the spraying chamber is mixed with the pulsating vibration air, and tabletting the molding material by means of the punches applied with the lubricant on the surface thereof and the dies applied with the lubricant on the surface thereof.

Abstract: An electrochromic element wherein, in a colored state of the electrochromic element, a first average optical density in a first wavelength range of 450 to 470 nm, a second average optical density in a second wavelength range of 540 to 560 nm and a third average optical density in a third wavelength range of 630 to 650 nm have a fluctuation (difference of a maximum value and a minimum value of the first to third average optical densities) equal to or less than 0.5.

Abstract: An optical element comprises: an electromotive force-generating element that generates an electromotive force in response to electromagnetic wave; and an optical density-changing element that changes its optical density according to the electromotive force, the optical density-changing element comprising: at least one of metal sulfide and metal nitride; and a material that causes a change of the optical density and adsorbs to said at least one of metal sulfide and metal nitride.

Abstract: A semiconductor device equipped with a fuel cell of the present invention includes a fuel cell and a semiconductor element, and the fuel cell includes an anode separator in which a flow channel for fuel is formed, a cathode separator in which a flow channel for oxidizer is formed, and a membrane electrode assembly interposed between the anode separator and the cathode separator. In the semiconductor device, the semiconductor element is formed on one of the principal surfaces of one separator selected from the anode separator and the cathode separator, and the semiconductor element and the selected separator are connected electrically. With this configuration of the semiconductor device equipped with a fuel cell, a more compact and versatile semiconductor device equipped with a fuel cell is provided.

Abstract: A powder concentration measuring apparatus comprising a pair of purge gas introducing paths being provided across a material measuring path which introduces a powder material pneumatically transported, a pair of transparent windows being provided so that said material measuring path is viewable through said pair of purge gas introducing paths at the one of the transparent windows, and the light receiving device being provided at the other of the transparent windows, and a powder concentration operation and control means, wherein the control means calculates a powder concentration depending on the light amount received by the light receiving device when a light beam is projected into the material measuring path from the light projecting device.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one lightsensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the lightsensitive material contains at least one compound represented by general formula (I) and at least one photographically useful group-releasing compound represented by general formula (II) or (III) that is capable of forming a compound having substantially no contribution to a dye after its coupling with an oxidized form of a developing agent: (X)k—(L)m—(A—B)n??(I) COUP1—D1??(II) COUP2—C—E—D2??(III) The definitions of the substituents are set forth in the specification.