Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a controller having (a) a section for storing the Y coordinate of a characteristic point having a predetermined positional relation to each division line formed on a wafer as a reference value with respect to a reference position where the focal point of a laser beam coincides with a predetermined position on each division line, (b) a section for detecting the amount of deviation of the Y coordinate of the characteristic point after indexing each division line of the wafer in the Y direction by the operation of a Y moving unit, from the Y coordinate stored as the reference value, and (c) a section for determining whether or not the amount of deviation detected is greater than an allowable value.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for cancer treatment, comprising an Axl inhibitor and an anticancer drug (for example, a cytotoxic anticancer drug, a molecular target drug, an anti-CTLA-4 antibody, and the like), wherein the Axl inhibitor is a compound represented by the general formula (I): (wherein all of the symbols have the same meanings as set forth in the specification), a salt thereof, a solvate thereof, an N-oxide thereof, or a prodrug thereof, and which exhibits a strong antitumor effect, and therefore is useful for treatment of blood cancer and/or solid cancer.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes a tubular casing, and a first coupling member and a second coupling member that are coupled to each other in a hollow portion of the casing in an axial direction of the casing. In the axial direction, the first coupling member and the second coupling member are coupled to each other while partially overlapping each other, and in a coupling portion between the first coupling member and the second coupling member, a welded portion that attaches the first coupling member and the second coupling member to each other is formed.

Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing a user interface execution apparatus and a user interface designing apparatus which can estimate the maximum size of a storage area for storing data to be prefetched when a user interface is designed and can present updated data to the user even when the prefetched data is updated after the prefetch. A user interface execution apparatus in the present invention includes a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of: transitioning a state of the user interface execution apparatus; issuing a prefetch request for data; storing the data; generating the code from an interface definition and a state transition definition; and selecting, before transitioning the state, data to be prefetched based on a difference between a data obtaining interface to be used in a state before the transitioning and a data obtaining interface to be used in a state after the transitioning.

Abstract: Provided is a technique that prevents excessive determination that control in a display control apparatus is abnormal. The display control apparatus includes an image acquisition unit, an image transmitter, and a controller. The controller determines, whenever necessary, on the basis of a second image that is output from the image transmitter and check data that is acquired in the image acquisition unit, whether the control in the display control apparatus is abnormal. The controller stops the determination until a predetermined time elapses from a first time point, the predetermined time being equal to or greater than a time from the first time point at which the check data is input to the controller to a second time point at which the second image is input to the controller.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or plural first plug-ins that are prepared according to a type of a data output apparatus for outputting data and collect data output from the data output apparatus, one or plural second plug-ins that receive data from the first plug-in and transmit the received data to an external apparatus, and a plug-in management unit that controls activation and stop of the first plug-in and the second plug-in.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image processing section that executes image processing, the operation control section that controls an operation of the information processing apparatus in any of two or more operation states including at least a first operation state, in which operations by all functions of the information processing apparatus are possible, and a second operation state in which operations by some functions of the information processing apparatus are limited, and the data processing section that executes specific data processing, which does not involve the image processing by the image processing section, in a case where the operation control section performs control in the second operation state.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes an electronic pen main body section coupled to a side of a housing that includes an opening. The electronic pen main body section includes: an axial portion that is put into a hollow portion of the housing via the opening; and a tip portion that is coupled to the axial portion and externally exposed from the opening of the housing. A diameter of the tip portion is larger than a diameter of the opening of the housing. A coupling side of the tip portion includes a second ring-shaped end face that comes into contact with a first ring-shaped end face on the side of the housing that includes the opening. The electronic pen main body section includes a stepped portion on a coupling area between the tip portion and the axial portion.

Abstract: A work request support system includes a receiver that receives, from a requester who requests a person to do work, a request of work with respect to a first person who has previously engaged in a transaction with the requester, an allower that allows the first person to request a second person different from the first person to do work, and storage that stores the second person and the requester in association with each other after the allower allows the request from the first person.

Abstract: An apparatus provided with a wafer processing chamber that houses a wafer supporting mechanism supporting a wafer and is used to irradiate the wafer supported by the wafer supporting mechanism with an ion beam and a transport mechanism housing chamber that houses a transport mechanism provided underneath the wafer processing chamber and used for moving the wafer supporting mechanism in a substantially horizontal direction, wherein an aperture used for moving the wafer supporting mechanism along with a coupling member coupling the wafer supporting mechanism to the transport mechanism is formed in the direction of movement of the transport mechanism in a partition wall separating the wafer processing chamber from the transport mechanism housing chamber.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes a core body including a tip portion having a tip and a tapered side surface tapered toward the tip and having a recessed section recessed toward a tip side of the core body from a side of the core body that is opposite to the tip side of the core body, and including a core rod that passes through a center axis of the recessed section from a side of the tip portion that includes the tip and extends away from the tip; and a tubular casing in which a pen-pressure detector is installed, the core body being attached to the tubular casing in an axially movable manner such that the core rod is pressable against the pen-pressure detector, and the tubular casing having a surface that is adjacent to an inner or outer surface of the recessed section of the core body.

Abstract: A stylus includes in a tubular casing a core body, a pressure detector that detects a pressure applied to the core body, a coupling fitted over the core body, the coupling transmitting the pressure to the pressure detector, and a core pressing controller that controls the coupling to press the core body axially in the tubular casing. The coupling includes a push bearer that bears a push from the core pressing controller, a presser having an axial end fitted in the pressure detector, a fitting region fitted over a portion of the core body remote from a pen tip end of the tubular casing, a receptacle in which another end of the presser remote from an axial end thereof is axially movably housed, and an elastic member disposed in the receptacle, the elastic member biasing the other end of the presser resiliently toward an axial pen tip end of the receptacle.

Abstract: It is intended to recognize the state of charge or depth of discharge of the battery more accurately than conventional technologies and to recognize health of a battery appropriately. Complex impedance between positive and negative electrodes of the battery is determined at a plurality of frequencies, and the state of charge or depth of discharge of the battery is estimated by comparing frequency dependency of Warburg impedance of the determined complex impedances with frequency dependency of Warburg impedance corresponding to a known state of charge or depth of discharge of the battery.

Abstract: A pen pressure detection device includes: a pressure sensor including electrodes that output electrical information corresponding to an applied pressure; and a holder configured to electrically connect the pressure sensor to a circuit board having a circuit that detects the applied pressure based on the electrical information output from the pressure sensor. The holder includes a first portion that retains the pressure sensor and a second portion that engages with the circuit board, and the holder has a surface on which wiring is formed, the wiring extending from the first portion to the second portion, and the electrodes of the pressure sensor being electrically connected to the circuit board via the wiring when the holder and the circuit board are engaged with each other. The pen pressure detection device can be easily assembled and maintain a connection to the circuit board when the applied pressure is high.

Abstract: A technique is provided that reduces dullness of a potential provided to a line such as gate line on an active-matrix substrate to enable driving the line at high speed and, at the same time, reduces the size of the picture frame region. On an active-matrix substrate (20a) are provided gate lines (13G) and source lines. On the active-matrix substrate (20a) are further provided: gate drivers (11) each including a plurality of switching elements, at least one of which is located in a pixel region, for supplying a scan signal to a gate line (13G); and lines (15L1) each for supplying a control signal to the associated gate driver (11). A control signal is supplied by a display control circuit (4) located outside the display region to the gate drivers (11) via the lines (15L1). In response to a control signal supplied, each gate driver (11) drives the gate line (13G) to which it is connected.

Abstract: A writing instrument includes a cylindrical outer housing, one end of the outer housing having an outer opening, and an electronic pen body stored in the outer housing. The electronic pen body includes a stylus, one end of the stylus in an axial direction of the stylus serving as a pen tip, and a cylindrical inner housing storing the stylus, the one end of the stylus serving as the pen tip extending from an inner opening at a distal end of the inner housing, the inner opening of the inner housing defining one axial end of a hole extending axially forming a stylus guide that enables the stylus to move axially. In operation, the pen tip of the stylus and a distal portion of the inner housing having the inner opening extend from the outer opening of the outer housing.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes: a tubular casing; a rod-shaped core body that projects outside of the casing through an opening of the casing, the opening being formed on one side in axial direction of the casing; a pen pressure detector disposed within a hollow portion of the casing, wherein the pen pressure detector, in operation detects a pen pressure applied to the core body; a core body insertion member disposed between the pen pressure detector and the opening of the casing within the hollow portion of the casing, the core body insertion member housing the core body movably in the axial direction of the casing and having a hollow space closed on a side of the pen pressure detector by a barrier; and a first sealing member that separates the hollow space of the core body insertion member from the hollow portion of the casing.

Abstract: This relates to a technology capable of efficiently deciding a screen layer to which a user input event should be delivered even when screen layers that do not receive the user input event are displayed in an overlapping manner other than a screen layer that should receive the user input event. A user interface device includes an acquisition unit, a transmission unit, a determination unit, and a decision unit. On the basis of inquiry information from the transmission unit, the determination unit concurrently determines, for a plurality of screen layers, whether input information is accepted in each of the screen layers. The decision unit decides the screen layer based on a determination result.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes: a tubular casing; a rod-shaped core body that projects outside of the casing through an opening of the casing, the opening being formed on one side in axial direction of the casing; a pen pressure detector disposed within a hollow portion of the casing, wherein the pen pressure detector, in operation detects a pen pressure applied to the core body; a core body insertion member disposed between the pen pressure detector and the opening of the casing within the hollow portion of the casing, the core body insertion member housing the core body movably in the axial direction of the casing and having a hollow space closed on a side of the pen pressure detector by a barrier; and a first sealing member that separates the hollow space of the core body insertion member from the hollow portion of the casing.

Abstract: A technique is provided that reduces dullness of a potential provided to a line such as gate line on an active-matrix substrate to enable driving the line at high speed and, at the same time, reduces the size of the picture frame region. On an active-matrix substrate (20a) are provided gate lines (13G) and source lines. On the active-matrix substrate (20a) are further provided: gate drivers (11) each including a plurality of switching elements, at least one of which is located in a pixel region, for supplying a scan signal to a gate line (13G); and lines (15L1) each for supplying a control signal to the associated gate driver (11). A control signal is supplied by a display control circuit (4) located outside the display region to the gate drivers (11) via the lines (15L1). In response to a control signal supplied, each gate driver (11) drives the gate line (13G) to which it is connected.