Abstract: A sensor device includes: a casing provided with an opening; a cover member covering the opening; a gasket interposed between the cover member and the casing; and a fixing cover which fixes both the gasket and the cover member to the casing. A plurality of welded portions bonding the casing and the fixing cover together are provided in a region outside the cover member such that the welded portions are distant from each other.

Abstract: An optical electronic device comprises: a casing having an external surface provided with an opening; a cable inserted through the opening; a bush attached to the cable; and a resin sealing portion. The bush is brought into close contact with the cable and the casing to seal a gap between the cable and the casing. The resin sealing portion is provided locally inside the casing to cover an internal surface of a portion of the casing surrounding the opening and a surface of a portion of the cable drawn from the opening into the casing.

Abstract: A plurality of screen aspects is acquired; each screen layout is optimized; switching of the screen aspects is supported; and visibility and functionality of the display screen are improved. An electronic device (portable terminal apparatus) including a display function in a rotatable and/or openable/closable case includes a displaying unit that displays a vertically elongated vertical screen or a horizontally elongated horizontal screen and a controlling unit (CPU) that changes screen layouts correspondingly to the vertical screen or the horizontal screen displayed on the displaying unit. The change in the screen layout corresponding to the vertical screen or the horizontal screen includes a change in arrangement of icons.

Abstract: With regard to an electronic device including a display function in a rotatable housing, operations necessary for function calling and determining processes are facilitated. An electronic device (portable terminal apparatus) including a display function in a rotatable housing includes a displaying unit that displays a first screen (e.g., vertical screen) or a second screen (e.g., horizontal screen) in accordance with rotation, and a controlling unit (CPU) that launches a function by rotating the displaying unit and switching the first screen to the second screen and that determines an selected item from the switched second screen by rotating and returning the displaying unit from the second screen to the first screen.

Abstract: An electronic device corrects its device side time with a time correction information supplied from outside the device. The electronic device includes a reception section and a time correction section. The reception section receives the time correction information. The time correction section judges whether the information is received during any correction inhibiting periods of the device side time, then either discards the time correction information if it is received during the correction inhibiting periods, or corrects the device side time with the time correction information if it is received other than the correction inhibiting periods.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to speed up rendering that is performed in the course of displaying a document that contains both icons and characters. A character display device that displays a document containing both icons and characters includes: a searching unit that searches the position in the document where an icon appears, a counter unit that counts the number of characters which successively appear until the position where the icon appears searched by the searching unit; and a rendering unit that renders the same number of characters, which successively appear, as the number of characters counted by the counter after designating the attributes shared by the characters, and then renders the icon after designating the attributes of the icon.

Abstract: With regard to an electronic device including a display function in a rotatable housing, operations necessary for function calling and determining processes are facilitated. An electronic device (portable terminal apparatus) including a display function in a rotatable housing includes a displaying unit that displays a first screen (e.g., vertical screen) or a second screen (e.g., horizontal screen) in accordance with rotation, and a controlling unit (CPU) that launches a function by rotating the displaying unit and switching the first screen to the second screen and that determines an selected item from the switched second screen by rotating and returning the displaying unit from the second screen to the first screen.

Abstract: A plurality of screen aspects is acquired; each screen layout is optimized; switching of the screen aspects is supported; and visibility and functionality of the display screen are improved. An electronic device (portable terminal apparatus) including a display function in a rotatable and/or openable/closable case includes a displaying unit that displays a vertically elongated vertical screen or a horizontally elongated horizontal screen and a controlling unit (CPU) that changes screen layouts correspondingly to the vertical screen or the horizontal screen displayed on the displaying unit. The change in the screen layout corresponding to the vertical screen or the horizontal screen includes a change in arrangement of icons.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to speed up rendering that is performed in the course of displaying a document that contains both icons and characters. A character display device that displays a document containing both icons and characters includes: a searching unit that searches the position in the document where an icon appears, a counter unit that counts the number of characters which successively appear until the position where the icon appears searched by the searching unit; and a rendering unit that renders the same number of characters, which successively appear, as the number of characters counted by the counter after designating the attributes shared by the characters, and then renders the icon after designating the attributes of the icon.

Abstract: An optical module is formed with a semiconductor optical element sealed inside a transparent resin part and a lens unit affixed to its upper surface. The-lens unit has a lens part that is disposed facing opposite the semiconductor optical element through the transparent resin part. A planar part extends from the lens part along the upper surface of the transparent resin part. A photoelectric sensor may include such an optical module as a light projector and another such optical module as a light receiver.

Abstract: The present invention is made with the aim of performing time correction appropriately, regarding an electronic device that corrects its device side time with a time correction information supplied from outside the device. This is achieved by the electronic device (mobile terminal device 2) that corrects its device side time with a time correction information supplied from outside the device, comprising a reception section (wireless reception section 8) that receives the time correction information; and a time correction section (processor 6) that judges whether the information is received during any correction inhibiting periods of the device side time, then either discards the time correction information if it is received during the correction inhibiting periods, or corrects the device side time with the time correction information if it is received other than the correction inhibiting periods.

Abstract: A method for producing a spark plug, the spark plug comprising a center electrode, a metal shell and an alumina ceramic insulator disposed between the center electrode and the metal shell, wherein at least part of the surface of the insulator is covered with a glaze layer, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a plurality of kinds of element glaze powders wherein each kind of the element glaze powders has a different dilatometric softening point and a different linear expansion coefficient compared to other kinds of element glaze powders; coating a surface of the insulator with the plurality of kinds of element glaze powders so as to form a glaze powder layer; and baking the glaze powder layer to the surface of the insulator so as to form the glaze layer by heating the glaze powder layer.

Abstract: An authentication method makes a personal identification when a plurality of operation target regions corresponding to a personal identification code are operated in a predetermined sequence. The authentication method judges whether or not a predetermined operation target region that is preset is operated in a preset operation direction or a preset operation angle, and confirms the personal identification based on a judgement result.

Abstract: A chromate film-containing plug metal component which is a metal component for a spark plug or a glow plug, wherein: the metal component has a surface, at least part of the surface being coated with a chromate film comprising at least 95% by weight of trivalent chrome based on 100% by weight of a total chrome content in the chromate film; and the chromate film comprises dye particles.

Abstract: A spark plug comprising: a center electrode; a metal shell; and an alumina ceramic insulator disposed between the center electrode and the metal shell, wherein at least part of the surface of the insulator is covered with a glaze layer comprising oxides, wherein the glaze layer comprises: 1 mol % or less of a Pb component in terms of PbO; 30 to 60 mol % of a Si component in terms of SiO2; 20 to 50 mol % of a B component in terms of B2O3; 0.5 to 25 mol % of a Zn component in terms of ZnO; 0.5 to 15 mol % in total of at least one of Ba and Sr components in terms of BaO and SrO, respectively; 2 to 12 mol % in total of at least two alkaline metal components of Na, K and Li, in terms of Na2O, K2O, and Li2O, respectively, wherein K and Li is essential; and 0.1 to 10 mol % of a F component in terms of F2.

Abstract: A resistor-containing spark plug 100 has an alumina insulator 2 coated with a glaze layer 2d, the glaze layer 2d has a lead component content of 1 mol % or lower in terms of PbO and containing a silicon component, a boron component, a zinc and/or alkaline earth metal component, and an alkali metal component. The insulator has, in an axially central position thereof, a projection part protruding from the outer circumferential surface thereof and extending in a circumferential direction. That main body of the insulator which is located adjacent to the projection part on the rear side thereof, which is the side opposite to the front side facing the center electrode in the axial direction, has a base portion having a cylindrical outer circumference. The outer circumference of the base portion is covered with the glaze layer which, when examined by the method as provided for in JIS B 0601, gives a surface roughness curve having a maximum height Ry of 10 &mgr;m or smaller.

Abstract: A spark plug comprising: a center electrode; a metal shell; and an alumina ceramic insulator disposed between the center electrode and the metal shell, wherein at least part of the surface of the insulator is covered with a glaze layer comprising oxides, the glaze layer comprising: 1 mol % or less of a Pb component in terms of PbO; 40 to 60 mol % of a Si component in terms of SiO2; 20 to 40 mol % of a B component in terms of B2O3; 0.5 to 25 mol % of a Zn component in terms of ZnO; 0.5 to 15 mol % in total of at least one of Ba and Sr components in terms of BaO and SrO, respectively; 2 to 12 mol % in total of at least one alkaline metal component of Na, K and Li, in terms of Na2O, K2O, and Li2O, respectively, wherein K is essential; and 0.

Abstract: A method for producing a spark plug, the spark plug comprising a center electrode, a metal shell and an alumina ceramic insulator disposed between the center electrode and the metal shell, wherein at least part of the surface of the insulator is covered with a glaze layer comprising oxides, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a coated glaze powder so that a surface of each particle of a glaze powder is covered by an elution-suppressing coating layer, the elution-suppressing coating layer suppressing an elution of water soluble component that is contained in each particle of the glaze powder; preparing a glaze slurry by suspending the glaze powder in a water solvent; applying the glaze slurry to a surface of the insulator so as to form a glaze powder-deposited layer; and baking the glaze powder-deposited layer to the surface of the insulator to form the glaze layer by heating the glaze powder-deposited layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a spark plug, the spark plug includes: a cylindrical metal shell having a portion to be caulked and a tool-engaging portion that is to be attached on an engine; an insulator that is inserted into the metal shell and extends axially; and a caulking metallic mold, the method including caulking the portion to be caulked to be fixed to an outer circumferential face of the insulator with the caulking metallic mold, where in the caulking metallic mold includes a face, the face including a hard carbon film that includes an amorphous carbon phase, and the face is contact with or sliding to the portion to be caulked.

Abstract: A chromate film-containing plug metal component which is a metal component for a spark plug or a glow plug, wherein: the metal component has a surface, at least part of the surface being coated with a chromate film comprising at least 95% by weight of trivalent chrome based on 100% by weight of a total chrome content in the chromate film; and the chromate film comprises dye particles.