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.

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: Provided is a technique for preventing excessive determination that control in a display control apparatus is abnormal. A control test apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a controller. The controller determines, whenever necessary, on the basis of a second image that is output from the display control apparatus and first test data that is acquired in the acquisition unit, whether the control in the display control apparatus over the display 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 first test data is input to the controller to a second time point at which the second image is input to the controller.

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 first sheet product 1 is gripped between an additional conveyor 2 and a feeding conveyor 3 at a downstream end of the additional conveyor 2. Subsequently, subsequent sheet products 1 are moved back by the feeding conveyor 3 to be separated from the first sheet product 1. Subsequently, the first sheet product 1 is supplied by the additional conveyor 2.

Abstract: A drug for cancer therapy characterized in that an Axl inhibitor and an immune checkpoint inhibitor (for example, an anti-PD-1 antibody) are administered in combination, wherein the Axl inhibitor is a compound represented by the general formula (I): (wherein in the formula, all of the symbols have the same meanings as defined in the specification), a salt thereof, a solvate thereof, an N-oxide thereof, or a prodrug thereof, and the combination exhibits a strong anti-tumor effect and, therefore, is useful for cancer therapy.

Abstract: A second portion of a writing device is caused to penetrate a through-hole of a tubular portion of a pen pressure transmitter, starting from a first end of the second portion of the writing device, and the tubular portion abuts a surface of a first portion of the writing device that faces the second portion of the writing device. When a pen pressure is exerted on the first portion of the writing device, the pen pressure also is exerted on the tubular portion of the pen pressure transmitter abutting the surface of the first portion of the writing device that faces the second portion of the writing device. The pen pressure is transmitted through the pen pressure transmitter to a pen pressure detector disposed at a position spaced apart from the writing device.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods relating to a therapeutic strategy for treatment of cancer, including hematological malignancies. In particular, the methods include administration of a Btk inhibitor and a checkpoint inhibitor, including combinations in which the Btk inhibitor is 6-amino-9-[(3R)-1-(2-butynoyl)-3-pyrrolidinyl]-7-(4-phenoxyphenyl)-7,9-dihydro-8H-purin-8-one, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and the checkpoint inhibitor is selected from inhibitors of PD-1, PD-L1, and CTLA-4.

Abstract: A first sheet product 1 is gripped between an additional conveyor 2 and a feeding conveyor 3 at a downstream end of the additional conveyor 2. Subsequently, subsequent sheet products 1 are moved back by the feeding conveyor 3 to he separated from the first sheet product 1. Subsequently, the first sheet product 1 is supplied by the additional conveyor 2.

Abstract: An electronic pen is provided that is enhanced in strength such as not to be bent or broken even when made to be thinner (smaller in diametric size). A connection section holds a core body at one end thereof and holds a circuit board at the other end thereof. The circuit board is accommodated in a board protecting pipe, which is fitted to the connection section. The board protecting pipe is provided with a side opening, and an operation on an electronic part on the circuit board accommodated therein and a work on an electronic circuit formed on the circuit board can be performed through the side opening. An electronic pen main body section wherein the core body and the circuit board and the board protecting pipe are united together through the connection section is accommodated in a casing, to constitute the electronic pen.

Abstract: A wind power generation system according to the invention includes: blades configured to receive wind to rotate; a nacelle supporting a load from the blades; a tower supporting the nacelle; a hub supporting the blades and configured to be rotated with the blades; a rotary main shaft configured to be rotated with the rotation of the hub; a gearbox connected to the rotary main shaft and configured to increase a speed of the rotation; and a generator configured to be driven at the rotation speed increased by the gearbox. The rotary main shaft is connected directly to the hub.

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: An electronic pen includes an ink writing section including a core body and an ink holding section configured to hold an ink that is supplied to the core body, a circuit board, a transmission section which, in operation, transmits a signal, a connection member including a first side that holds an end portion of the ink writing section, on a side of the ink writing section opposite to the core body, and a second side that holds a first end portion of the circuit board, a pen pressure detector provided adjacent to a second end portion of the circuit board, and a casing configured to accommodate the ink writing section, the connection member, the circuit board and the pen pressure detector such that a tip portion of the core body protrudes from the casing.

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: Disclosed herein is a laser processing apparatus including a controller. The controller includes a coordinate storing 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 to be focused by a focusing unit coincides with a predetermined position on each division line in a Y direction as an indexing direction, a deviation detecting section for detecting the amount of deviation of the Y coordinate of the characteristic point imaged by an imaging unit 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 in the coordinate storing section, and a determining section for determining whether or not the amount of deviation detected by the deviation detecting section is greater than an allowable value.

Abstract: A program execution system includes a program execution unit that executes a plurality of programs including a plurality of resident programs, and a resident program launch controller that controls a sequence in which a plurality of the resident programs is launched. The program execution unit sequentially launches the plurality of resident programs, at system startup, according to a launch sequence definition that is information specifying a sequence in which the plurality of the resident programs is to be launched. If the amount of resources being used exceeds a certain value due to the launch of the plurality of resident programs, the resident program launch controller modifies the launch sequence definition at the current system startup and uses the modified launch sequence definition at the next system startup.

Abstract: A second portion of a writing device is caused to penetrate a through-hole of a tubular portion of a pen pressure transmitter, starting from a first end of the second portion of the writing device, and the tubular portion abuts a surface of a first portion of the writing device that faces the second portion of the writing device. When a pen pressure is exerted on the first portion of the writing device, the pen pressure also is exerted on the tubular portion of the pen pressure transmitter abutting the surface of the first portion of the writing device that faces the second portion of the writing device. The pen pressure is transmitted through the pen pressure transmitter to a pen pressure detector disposed at a position spaced apart from the writing device.

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: 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.