Abstract: A navigation apparatus includes a map data storage apparatus which obtains map data needed for drawing an object; a map buffer; a map drawing unit which generates image information corresponding to an object included in a background image on the basis of the map data, and stores the image information in a frame buffer; and a display processing unit which reads out the image information stored in the frame buffer and displays a map image on a display apparatus. The map drawing unit generates shadow image information for a shadow region of the object which is a region sandwiched between an outline of the object and an outline of the object after the object has been moved in a predetermined direction.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a link information acquisition unit which acquires link information obtained by associating a reproduction location of contents with geographic information regarding geography associated with a story of the contents at the reproduction location; and a display control unit which performs control for displaying a geographic image based on the geographic information associated with the story of the contents being reproduced, based on the acquired link information and a reproduction location of the contents being reproduced.

Abstract: A susceptor of a holding part for holding a semiconductor wafer includes a disc-shaped holding plate, an annular shaped guide ring, and a plurality of support pins. The guide ring has an inside diameter greater than the diameter of the semiconductor wafer and is installed on the peripheral portion of the top face of the holding plate. The guide ring has a tapered surface along the inner circumference. The semiconductor wafer before irradiated with flash light is supported by the support pins. The annular shape of the guide ring increases the contact area when the semiconductor wafer that has jumped off the susceptor and fallen when irradiated with flash light collides with the guide ring, thus reducing the impact of the collision and preventing cracks in the substrate.

Abstract: The navigation device includes a detour exploring portion configured to explore a detour to avoid a section in which a traffic hazard occurs using map data at a level lower than a predetermined level when a traffic hazard determining portion determines that the traffic hazard occurs on the guidance route, and a display control portion configured to zoom the detour to match a scale of the detour to a currently designated scale, and synthesize and display the detour on a map image. The navigation device maintains the display of the wide area map and synthesizes and additionally displays a detour, for example, to pass through a road such as a narrow street included in a detailed map on the map image such that the user can receive, at a glance, a detour to easily bypass the section in which a traffic hazard occurs.

Abstract: The present invention provides a waste heat recovering device capable of recovering waste heat with good efficiency from various heat sources in an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: [Problem] There is provided a pipe end shape correcting apparatus capable of improving the roundness without loss of work efficiency and the mechanical damage to a weld bead even in the case where the pipe ends of UOE metal pipes having various outside diameters are worked.

Abstract: A flute spread angle ? in a drill axis-perpendicular section of a spiral flute is defined, a region of the flute taking part in chip treatment is formed along a first circle along an cutting edge of a concave curve and a second circle inscribed in this circle, both of the first circle and the second circle are circumscribed on a third circle expressing the web thickness, the radius R of the first circle and the radius R1 of the second circle are in the range of 0.40 D to 0.70 D and in the range of 0.15 D to 0.30 D respectively, and a drill rotational direction front portion of the spiral flute is formed on the second circle to be closer to the drill center than a fourth circle having a diameter of 0.65 D.

Abstract: A steam engine in which a liquid and a steam are jetted so that a rotor is turned by the reaction thereof, and the rotor having a well-balanced simple structure. In the steam engine, the rotor 5 having a plurality of bent flow paths 53A to 53D arranged at regular intervals therein is rotatably supported in a closed container 1 filled with the liquid being fitted onto a boss portion 11 of the closed container 1. The boss portion 11 is alternately forming slide-contact portions 11A having a steam feed port and recessed portions 11B. The steam fed into the bent flow path 53 from the steam feed port causes the liquid in the flow path to be jetted outward to rotate the rotor 5. The rotor 5 is of a point-symmetrical shape in cross section free of unbalanced weight, has no moving part, and is simple in structure. When the bent flow path 53 communicates with the recessed portion 11B, the steam remaining in the flow path is cooled and disappears, and the flow path is filled with the liquid.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an altitude information acquisition section which acquires altitude information, and a determination section which determines a degree of risk of physical strain on a user based on the altitude information.

Abstract: A lighting system has light-emitting diodes as light sources mounted on a circuit board, in which the light-emitting diodes include a red light-emitting diode, blue light-emitting diode and a green light-emitting diode, the light-emitting diodes are constituted of one single unit including one for each of the red, blue and green light-emitting diodes, and the one single unit is repeatedly arranged as plural pieces on the same circuit board, and each of the red, blue and green light-emitting diodes is individually connected electrically to emit a light.

Abstract: A medical instrument of the present invention comprises a spiral shaped portion provided at an insertion portion main body, for generating a force at the insertion portion main body to advance/retreat in a subject by a contact with a body wall of the subject, a balloon provided so as to expand radially in a radial direction of the insertion portion main body and capable of contact with the body wall, a suction opening portion provided between the spiral shaped portion and the balloon in the insertion portion main body, and a suction pipeline communicating with the suction opening portion, inserted into the insertion portion main body and connected to a suction pressure controller on a rear end side of the insertion portion main body in the insertion direction.

Abstract: An indexable insert for a drill includes a chip breaker for disposing chips, provided at an upper face thereof along a cutting edge. The chip breaker has at least one recess. The recess is retracted from an end of the chip breaker near the cutting edge toward the center of the insert by 0.2 mm or greater, or an end of the recess near a center hole of the insert communicates with the center hole.

Abstract: An information processing system, information communication terminal and method, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program capable of enabling safer electronic commercial transactions. A point-of-purchase server generates purchasing information using a card Identification number allotted to a non-contact IC-card of a mobile telephone. A point-of-receipt server acquires this purchasing information and confirms the card identification number allotted to the non-contact IC card of the mobile telephone and a purchasing card identification number. The authentication server calculates user trustworthiness and store trustworthiness based on temporary commercial transaction information stored in the non-contact IC card of the mobile telephone. The calculated user trustworthiness and store trustworthiness is then reference by the mobile telephone and point-of-purchase server in the next commercial transaction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a high frequency tuner module, including: a circuit component; signal lines; a GND line; and a multilayer board formed by laminating a plurality of layers, wherein the circuit component is placed on a top layer surface of the multilayer board; the signal lines and the GND line are formed inside the multilayer board; and among the signal lines, high frequency signal transmitting signal lines to transmit a high frequency signal are formed on a single layer inside the multilayer board.

Abstract: [Problem] There is provided a pipe end shape correcting apparatus capable of improving the roundness without loss of work efficiency and the mechanical damage to a weld bead even in the case where the pipe ends of UOE metal pipes having various outside diameters are worked.

Abstract: A steam engine in which a liquid and a steam are jetted so that a rotor is turned by the reaction thereof, and the rotor having a well-balanced simple structure. In the steam engine, the rotor 5 having a plurality of bent flow paths 53A to 53D arranged at regular intervals therein is rotatably supported in a closed container 1 filled with the liquid being fitted onto a boss portion 11 of the closed container 1. The boss portion 11 is alternately forming slide-contact portions 11A having a steam feed port and recessed portions 11B. The steam fed into the bent flow path 53 from the steam feed port causes the liquid in the flow path to be jetted outward to rotate the rotor 5. The rotor 5 is of a point-symmetrical shape in cross section free of unbalanced weight, has no moving part, and is simple in structure. When the bent flow path 53 communicates with the recessed portion 11B, the steam remaining in the flow path is cooled and disappears, and the flow path is filled with the liquid.

Abstract: An insertion apparatus includes: an introducing duct including; insertion portion cover portion for covering an insertion portion extending from a distal side portion of a handling portion constituting an endoscope; and a spiral duct which is disposed on an inner circumferential surface side of the insertion portion cover portion, and has on a circumferential surface of the spiral duct, a propulsion power generating portion for applying a propulsion power for introducing the insertion portion into a deep portion in a body cavity, to the insertion portion covered by the insertion portion cover, and a rotating device comprising a rotating portion for rotating the spiral duct equipped to the introducing duct.

Abstract: In an engine, a rotor having a folded jet pipe is rotatably supported in a sealed container filled with a liquid. A heating portion is inserted in a center cylinder at the center of the rotor, and a fluid of a high temperature is passed therethrough to vaporize the liquid sucked through the suction pipe of the rotor. A mixture of steam and liquid is jetted from the jet pipe due to the pressure of the steam that is vaporized to rotate the rotor. A check valve for jetting and a check valve for suction are disposed at the ends of the jet pipe and the suction pipe. The jetted steam is guided to a condenser disposed on the sealed container, and is condensed and is refluxed into the sealed container. A vacuum pump is connected to the condenser, and the pressure in the sealed container is held at the saturated steam pressure.

Abstract: Provided is a double-angle twist drill that increases the quality of drilling without increasing the amount of manufacturing work or the like. A secondary cutting edge 4b is substantially parallel to the rotation axis O of the drill, and at least a rake face 10 of the secondary cutting edge is included in the flute face of a helical flute 6. A part of the flute face of the helical flute that is located along a leading edge 9 is convexly curved with respect to the normal direction of rotation of the drill, so that the secondary cutting edge 4b having a small skew angle with respect to the rotation axis can be formed as a ridge at which the flute face intersects a second flank face.