Abstract: A lighting device includes a first light source portion, a light guide that includes a light guide body with an elongated shape, guides light incident from the first light source portion in a longitudinal direction of the elongated shape, and emits a first light including the guided light to illuminate an illuminated object, and a second light source portion that emits a second light to illuminate the illuminated object. The second light source portion is provided independently of the first light source portion and the light guide.

Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source portion, a light guide that includes a light guide body with an elongated shape, guides light incident from the light source portion in a longitudinal direction of the elongated shape, and emits the light in an emission direction substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, and a bezel that is provided along the light guide and includes an elongated-shaped opening through which the light emitted from the light guide passes and is emitted to the outside. The bezel includes at least one bridge portion that is formed along a lateral direction of the opening so as to partially bridge opposed walls of the opening in the lateral direction.

Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source unit that outputs light, an elongated light guide including a first end surface on which the light is incident, a second end surface located opposite to the first end surface, an emitting surface, and at least one held portion provided on at least one of the longitudinal side surfaces different from the emitting surface, the light guide guiding the light from the first end surface to the second end surface, and a housing including an attachment portion to which the light source unit is attached, a housing portion that is open at an end portion on the attachment portion side and includes a housing recess to house the light guide and an exposure opening exposing the emitting surface, and a holding portion that holds the light guide in the housing recess by sandwiching the at least one held portion.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a foaming apparatus that discharges a foamable material obtained by mixing gas into a viscous material of a resin and dispersing bubbles in a liquid of the viscous material. The foaming apparatus includes: a pipe; a material supply unit; a gas supply unit; a first gear pump; a second gear pump; a third gear pump; a mixer; a discharge unit; and a control unit.

Abstract: A light guide includes a rod-shaped first light guide portion including a prism surface including a prism to reflect internally propagating light and output the light to an outside along a lengthwise direction thereof, a rod-shaped second light guide portion including a light intake portion to take in light from a light source, and a rod-shaped intermediate light guide portion between the first light guide portion and the second light guide portion provided such that side surfaces thereof are connected to side surfaces of the first light guide portion and the second light guide portion. A thickness of the intermediate light guide portion is smaller than a thickness of the first light guide portion and a thickness of the second light guide portion. A side surface of the intermediate light guide portion on a side of the prism surface is continuous with the prism surface in a same plane.

Abstract: A light guide includes a rod-shaped first light guide portion including a prism surface including a prism to reflect internally propagating light and output the light to an outside along a lengthwise direction thereof, a rod-shaped second light guide portion including a light intake portion to take in light from a light source, and a rod-shaped intermediate light guide portion between the first light guide portion and the second light guide portion provided such that side surfaces thereof are connected to side surfaces of the first light guide portion and the second light guide portion. A thickness of the intermediate light guide portion is smaller than a thickness of the first light guide portion and a thickness of the second light guide portion. A side surface of the intermediate light guide portion on a side of the prism surface is continuous with the prism surface in a same plane.

Abstract: A curable composition for mechanical foaming has a complex viscosity ?* that satisfies the following conditions (A) and (B) in frequency dependence measurement by a rheometer: condition (A): ?* at 0.1 Hz and 25° C. is in a range of 1000 to 50000 Pa·s; and condition (B): ?* at 10.0 Hz and 25° C. is in a range of 100 to 1000 Pa·s. The curing form of the curable composition for mechanical foaming is not a moisture curing form.

Abstract: An illuminating device includes a light source having a light-source optical axis, a lens that is located substantially parallel to the light-source optical axis such that a surface of the lens faces the light-source optical axis, the lens extending to a position rearward of the light source in a direction of the light-source optical axis, and a light reflecting portion located so as to be opposed to a front side of the light source, the light reflecting portion being adapted to reflect emitted light of the light source obliquely rearward of the light source, and reflect the emitted light toward the lens.

Abstract: An illuminating device includes a light source having a light-source optical axis, a lens that is located substantially parallel to the light-source optical axis such that a surface of the lens faces the light-source optical axis, the lens extending to a position rearward of the light source in a direction of the light-source optical axis, and a light reflecting portion located so as to be opposed to a front side of the light source, the light reflecting portion being adapted to reflect emitted light of the light source obliquely rearward of the light source, and reflect the emitted light toward the lens.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a light weight wood cement board having high strength and sufficient toughness. To attain the object, the present invention provides a wood cement board made of a cured raw material mixture of cementitious inorganic powder (C), a material containing silica (S), bundled wood fiber, and mica, wherein the weight ratio of said cementitious inorganic powder and said material containing silica is set to be in the range of between 40:60 and 50:50. The bundled wood fiber has a bulky shape, and gives good toughness to said wood cement board, with the mica improving its dimensional stability. In a case where the C/S is set to be in the range of 40:60 and 50:50, the curing of said board proceeds smoothly, leaving little unreacted material remaining in the board.

Abstract: A data transmitting device capable of performing copyright protection processing, when digital data retrieved from the information recording medium is AV data, which includes: an interface section for receiving information specifying the digital data to be output and the data receiving device and for outputting the digital data via the digital interface; a judgment section for judging whether or not the digital data includes video information; an authentication section for authenticating whether not the data receiving device is a proper data receiving device having a function of converting digital data into video data based on authentication data output from the data receiving device; a data retrieval section for retrieving the specified digital data from an external medium; and a control section for controlling the interface section to output the digital data via the digital interface only when the judgment section judges that the digital data includes video information and the authentication section authent

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a multimedia presentation device which, by executing a setting process for an information block, which is an address of an automatic branch, by means of an automatic discharge process for a button which stores the branch address, enables the user to understand how a branch address was selected. Command discharge condition information is stored the information block reproduction means for managing buttons which are automatically discharged at an end of a reproduction period or other such time, so that by executing a branch process by automatically selecting a button in place of a user operation, then even if there has been no user selection of a branch address before the end of the reproduction period, a branch address can be automatically selected and, by showing on the display the button which for manual selection stores a link to the same branch address, the data can be presented in a form which can readily understood by the user.

Abstract: A data editing apparatus includes a mass storage device to edit multimedia data such as picture, audio, text and other data. By the visual graphic display of the time positions of the edited information, the user can easily grasp the reproduction time of the picture, text and audio data, thereby simplifying synchronization of plural media data. Graphic editing may be effected to facilitate multimedia data editing.

Abstract: A data editing apparatus includes a mass storage device to edit multimedia data such as picture, audio, text and other data. By the visual graphic display of the time positions of the edited information, the user can easily grasp the reproduction time of the picture, text and audio data, thereby simplifying synchronization of plural media data. Graphic editing may be effected to facilitate multimedia data editing.

Abstract: Information which must be continuously inputted or outputted in time, namely, audio and picture information, are inputted and outputted into a file apparatus as the digital data. Conventionally, the continuous inputting and outputting operations of the audio and the picture information and editing operations such as deletion, insertion and so on could not be made compatible and instantaneous. In the present technique an individual size is continuously stored into a storage media physically, and the input and output of the data and the storage reproduction with the storage media are effected in non-synchronization, with the size of an input/output buffer, a unit of an input/output of the audio and the picture information, and the unit of the editing being the same in size so as to realize instantaneousness and continuous input/output operations of the editing.

Abstract: Mass data is managed as data files in a mass data storage device. Each data file is formed or plural data blocks. Upon editing of a data file, the data content of each data block forming the file is examined. If the data content of a data block is less than a predetermined value, data from one or more adjacent data blocks is extracted and placed in the one data block so that the data content thereof will be at least the predetermined constant value. In this manner, the data content of blocks forming a file is maintained at or above a predetermined level.

Abstract: Information including pictures, sounds, and characters is inputted. A form of the inputted information is converted into a prescribed format in accordance with properties of the information, and thus converted information is derived. A first storage means holds the inputted information and/or the converted information. The information held in the first storage means is edited, and thus edited information is derived. A reproduction sequence is generated. A second storage means holds the edited information. The information held in the first storage means and/or the second storage means is reproduced in the reproduction sequence to allow a check on the information and the reproduction sequence. The information held in the first storage means or the second storage means is outputted for manufacturing a recording medium.