Abstract: A gateway device for relaying between a system bus, to which a system instrument is connected, and a field bus, to which a field instrument is connected, is used in a controlling system for controlling and monitoring facilities equipment. The gateway device includes: a packet capturing portion that captures packets that are exchanged with the field instrument over the field bus, in response to a start command from a higher-level device that is connected to the system bus; and a packet transmitting portion that transmits the captured packets, after encapsulation, to the higher-level device over the system bus.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a novel therapeutic or preventive agent for demyelinating disease. The present invention is a therapeutic or preventive agent for demyelinating disease, containing as an active ingredient a 2-phenylthiazole compound represented by Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A stepping motor uses a low-cost ferrite magnet instead of an expensive rare-earth magnet. The stepping motor has characteristics equivalent or superior to those of a conventional stepping motor. The stepping motor is provided with a rotor 300, a stator yoke 200, and bearings 501 and 502 which rotatably hold the rotor 300 with respect to the stator yoke 200. The rotor 300 has a columnar shape and has plural magnetic poles arranged in the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential surface. The stator yoke 200 has an outer cylindrical portion and an inner circumferential portion which surrounds the rotor 300 and which has plural first pole teeth and plural second pole teeth. The outer diameter “d” of the rotor 300 and the outer diameter “D” of the stator yoke 200 are set so that the ratio of “d/D” is greater than 0.6.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a novel therapeutic or preventive agent for demyelinating disease. The present invention is a therapeutic or preventive agent for demyelinating disease, containing as an active ingredient a 2-phenylthiazole compound represented by Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A vehicle headlamp includes a light source; a projection optical system that includes a projection lens projecting an image, formed by a light beam emitted from the light, source, forward of the vehicle; and a reflection optical system including a parabolic reflector that is provided at a position offset from the projection lens as viewed from the front of the vehicle, and that reflects the light beam emitted from the light source and irradiates the same in front of the vehicle, wherein the reflector has a light distribution pattern irradiating a region including a cut line, and the projection optical system has a light distribution pattern irradiating downward with respect to the reflector.

Abstract: A virtual node ID control unit controls a virtual node ID that specifies a plurality of nodes as a single group. A status control unit controls node statuses that include information indicating the operating statuses of each individual node belonging to the group, and selects an operating mode that is either a priority mode. The local mode operates as an active node, or a standby mode, and the local mode operates as a standby node. A transmission/reception control unit controls the operation of the local node in accordance with the operating mode selected by the status control unit.

Abstract: A vehicle headlamp includes a light source; a projection optical system that includes a projection lens projecting an image, formed by a light beam emitted from the light, source, forward of the vehicle; and a reflection optical system including a parabolic reflector that is provided at a position offset from the projection lens as viewed from the front of the vehicle, and that reflects the light beam emitted from the light source and irradiates the same in front of the vehicle, wherein the reflector has a light distribution pattern irradiating a region including a cut line, and the projection optical system has a light distribution pattern irradiating downward with respect to the reflector.

Abstract: The provision of a virtual node ID control unit for controlling a virtual node ID that specifies a plurality of nodes as a single group; a status control unit for controlling node statuses that include information indicating the operating statuses of each individual node belonging to the group, and for selecting an operating mode that is either a priority mode, wherein the local mode operates as an active node, or a standby mode, wherein the local mode operates as a standby node; and a transmission/reception control unit for controlling the operation of the local node in accordance with the operating mode selected by the status control unit.

Abstract: A bump electrode is a bump made from a fused metal in a shape of one of a circular cylinder, a cone, a pyramid, a frustum of a cone, and a frustum of a pyramid, formed on a substrate. A printed circuit board has a substrate and a wiring pattern provided thereon. The wiring pattern is made from one of a paste and a fused metal and has a cross-section at right angles with respect to an extending direction of the wiring pattern with such an aspect ratio of a depth thereof to a width thereof that the depth thereof is greater than a depth with an aspect ratio of 1:5 and the width thereof is smaller than a width with an aspect ratio of 1:5.

Abstract: A pressure valve having a valve body inserted into a bore of a valve housing. The valve body on one end that has plunged into the valve housing has a valve seat face in contact with a movable valve member which can be seated by a restoring force and which is adjoined by a through conduit. The movable valve member penetrates the valve body, for the sake of simpler axial securing of the valve body in the valve housing and also for easier dismantling, the valve body is secured axially in the valve housing via a detent connection.

Abstract: An intaglio printing method for transferring a resin to a print receiving material, using an intaglio printing master having portions depressed in a printing shape below the surface of the printing master, includes the steps of: filling a resin paste comprising a resin in the depressed portions of the printing master, bringing the printing master, with the resin paste being filled in the depressed portions thereof, into close contact with the print receiving material, hardening the resin in the resin paste in the depressed portions of the printing master, and separating the printing master from the print receiving material so as to transfer the hardened resin in the depressed portions of the printing master to the print receiving material. An apparatus for carrying out this intaglio printing method is proposed. By use of the apparatus, for instance, an elastic and durable spacer free from fatigue destruction for a touch panel is can be prepared in a circulation process.

Abstract: An intaglio printing method for transferring a resin to a print receiving material, using an intaglio printing master having portions depressed in a printing shape below the surface of the printing master, includes the steps of: filling a resin paste comprising a resin in the depressed portions of the printing master, bringing the printing master, with the resin paste being filled in the depressed portions thereof, into close contact with the print receiving material, hardening the resin in the resin paste in the depressed portions of the printing master, and separating the printing master from the print receiving material so as to transfer the hardened resin in the depressed portions of the printing master to the print receiving material. An apparatus for carrying out this intaglio printing method is proposed. By use of the apparatus, for instance, an elastic and durable spacer free from fatigue destruction for a touch panel is can be prepared in a circulation process.

Abstract: An energy beam method and apparatus for processing a workpiece is accomplished by making the energy density per unit time and unit area of the energy beam proportional to the traveling velocity of the workpiece. This is accomplished by adjusting the frequency, irradiation power, or duty cycle of the energy beam. The travel velocity of the workpiece is measured by using a linear scale to generate pulse signals, calculating a traveling velocity based on the pulse signals and generating a pulse signal, dividing the pulse signals output by the calculation step, and generating a trigger signal in response to the pulse signals created by the dividing step to drive an energy beam irradiation device (such as a laser generator) to output the energy beam.

Abstract: An intaglio printing method and an intaglio printer are proposed, which are suitable for forming a wiring pattern and/or bumps such as bump electrodes on a print receiving material on which printing is to be performed, such as a substrate and a semiconductor package, using a paste or a fused metal. In addition, a method of forming the wiring pattern and the bumps such as bump electrodes on the printing substrate, using the intaglio printing method, a method for forming a wiring pattern, an apparatus for carrying out the method of forming the wiring pattern, the bump electrode and the wiring pattern are proposed.

Abstract: An intaglio printing method for transferring a resin to a print receiving material, using an intaglio printing master having portions depressed in a printing shape below the surface of the printing master, includes the steps of: filling a resin paste comprising a resin in the depressed portions of the printing master, bringing the printing master, with the resin paste being filled in the depressed portions thereof, into close contact with the print receiving material, hardening the resin in the resin paste in the depressed portions of the printing master, and separating the printing master from the print receiving material so as to transfer the hardened resin in the depressed portions of the printing master to the print receiving material. An apparatus for carrying out this intaglio printing method is proposed. By use of the apparatus, for instance, an elastic and durable spacer free from fatigue destruction for a touch panel is can be prepared in a circulation process.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for machining an electrically conductive film at a low cost, suitable for multi-product small-amount production are provided to reduce variations in resulting dimensions, a partially remaining conductive film, damage to an insulating substrate, and so on after machining, while eliminating the need for a waste liquid treatment. The apparatus includes a YAG laser for emitting near infrared light (at wavelength &lgr;=1064 nm), an optical system including a step index optical fiber for guiding the laser light emitted from the laser to the vicinity of an electrically conductive film on an insulating transparent substrate, an X-Y stage having a carrier for carrying the transparent substrate thereon, and a controller for controlling and driving the X-Y stage to move the transparent substrate in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the laser light is irradiated. Instead of the optical fiber, a kaleidoscope may be used.

Abstract: A plastic mask unit for paste printing, which is capable of performing paste printing with superior quality for a relatively large number of times over a long life span, and also a method of fabricating the above-mentioned plastic mask unit. The plastic mask unit includes a mask frame and a plastic mask plate which is secured directly to the mask frame. The plastic mask plate can be formed with a plurality of slit-shaped through-holes for serving as a print pattern for paste printing, either before or after the plastic mask plate is secured directly to the mask frame.

Abstract: An optical image forming method and device, an image forming apparatus, and an aligner for lithography, capable of forming a light image at a high pixel density and enhancing the intensity of irradiated light to each pixel by effectively utilizing reflected light from respective mirrors of a spatial light modulator. The optical image forming device has a light source, a DMD including a plurality of mirrors, each capable of independently controlling the inclination of a reflecting surface thereof for reflecting light from the light source, wherein reflected light from the DMD is irradiated to an object moving in one direction relative to the reflected light to form a light image on the object. The respective mirrors of the DMD are arranged such that reflected light images therefrom are aligned on the object in a direction orthogonal to the direction of the relative movement, with a pitch smaller than the pitch p of the mirrors.

Abstract: A method of producing a nozzle plate for use in an ink jet head includes the steps of (a) stretching a predetermined number of resin lines, each having a cross section corresponding in shape to each nozzle hole to be formed in an ink jet head, in the same arrangement as that of nozzle holes to be formed in the ink jet head, (b) plating the peripheral surface of each of the resin lines with a metal, while maintaining the arrangement of the resin lines, (c) forming a nozzle substrate so as to include the resin lines therein with the metal used in the plating of the resin lines, (d) slicing the nozzle substrate, and (e) removing the resin lines from the sliced nozzle substrate, thereby forming the nozzle plate. In the above method, the resin lines can be removed from the nozzle substrate, and then the nozzle substrate can be sliced so as to form the nozzle plate.

Abstract: A method of producing a nozzle plate for use in an ink jet head includes the steps of (a) stretching a predetermined number of resin lines, each having a cross section corresponding in shape to each nozzle hole to be formed in an ink jet head, in the same arrangement as that of nozzle holes to be formed in the ink jet head, (b) plating the peripheral surface of each of the resin lines with a metal, while maintaining the arrangement of the resin lines, (c) forming a nozzle substrate so as to include the resin lines therein with the metal used in the plating of the resin lines, (d) slicing the nozzle substrate, and (e) removing the resin lines from the sliced nozzle substrate, thereby forming the nozzle plate. In the above method, the resin lines can be removed from the nozzle substrate, and then the nozzle substrate can be sliced so as to form the nozzle plate.