Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a developer supply container capable of simplifying a mechanism for displacing a developer receiving portion to connect it with a developer supply container. A developer supply container 1 for supplying a developer through a developer receiving portion 11 displaceably provided in a developer receiving apparatus 8 to which said developer supply container 1 is detachably mountable, said developer supply container 1 includes a developer accommodating portion 2c for accommodating a developer; and an engaging portions 3b2, 3b4, engageable with said developer receiving portion 11, for displacing said developer receiving portion 11 toward said developer supply container 1 with a mounting operation of said developer supply container 1 to establish a connected state between said developer supply container 1 and said developer receiving portion 11.

Abstract: An engaging portion 30 is provided which is engageable with a portion-to-be-engaged 11b a displaceable integrally with a developer receiving portion 11 with a mounting operation of a developer supply container 1 to displace 11 in an upward direction U to bring a receiving opening into communication with a discharge opening. An engaging portion 30 includes a first engagement surface 31a extending in the upward direction U as going toward a developer accommodating portion of the developer supply container 1, and a second engagement surface 32a provided at a position closer to the developer accommodating portion than the first engagement surface 31a. When the receiving opening in communication with a shutter opening, a height of an end of the first engagement surface 31a close to the developer accommodating portion is higher than the second engagement surface 32a.

Abstract: Provided is a friction material that comprises a fiber base material, a bonding material, an organic filler, and an inorganic filler, wherein: the contained amount of a copper element is at most 0.5 wt % with respect to the total amount of friction material; the inorganic filler contains an inorganic matter having a Mohs hardness of at least 6.5 and a cleavable inorganic matter; the contained amount of the inorganic matter having a Mohs hardness of at least 6.5 is less than 1.0 wt % with respect to the total amount of the friction material; and the contained amount of the cleavable inorganic matter is 12.0-24.0 wt % with respect to the total amount of the friction material.

Abstract: An electric leakage detection method includes: measuring a set of a first voltage and total voltage times to be recorded in a memory by the control apparatus in a state that one of first and second switches is closed and another of the first and second switches is opened; measuring, by the voltage detector, at least one second voltage corresponds to the total voltage whose difference from any one of the total voltages recorded in the memory is equal to or less than a voltage threshold value; computing a total insulation resistance between the storage battery group and the ground by using the total voltage, the first voltage, and the second voltage; and determining presence of electric leakage when a value of the total insulation resistance is equal to or less than an electric leakage threshold value.

Abstract: A power adjustment method includes: measuring output power that is obtained when input power to be amplified in a linear region is input to a power amplifier configured to amplify input power linearly in the linear region and amplify input power nonlinearly in a nonlinear region; deriving a straight line connecting a measurement point corresponding to the measured output power and a boundary point between the linear region and the nonlinear region in a coordinate plane representing input/output characteristics; acquiring information on an approximate equation that is stored in advance in correspondence with the measured output power, the approximate equation representing a relation between input power and output power in the nonlinear region; and storing information on the derived straight line and the acquired information on the approximate equation in a semiconductor integrated circuit provided at a preceding stage of the power amplifier.

Abstract: A power adjustment method includes: measuring output power that is obtained when input power to be amplified in a linear region is input to a power amplifier configured to amplify input power linearly in the linear region and amplify input power nonlinearly in a nonlinear region; deriving a straight line connecting a measurement point corresponding to the measured output power and a boundary point between the linear region and the nonlinear region in a coordinate plane representing input/output characteristics; acquiring information on an approximate equation that is stored in advance in correspondence with the measured output power, the approximate equation representing a relation between input power and output power in the nonlinear region; and storing information on the derived straight line and the acquired information on the approximate equation in a semiconductor integrated circuit provided at a preceding stage of the power amplifier.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a unit includes battery modules each including an assembled battery including battery cells and a monitoring device, a BMU to communicate with the battery modules, a first drawer holding the battery module, a second drawer holding the BMU, and a housing containing the first drawer and the second drawer. The first and second drawers include first composite connectors secured to a side of the housing, which is almost orthogonal to a direction in which to insert the drawers into the housing. The housing has second composite connectors which mate with the first composite connectors, thereby to connect communication lines between the monitoring device and the BMU and the main-circuit lines between the assembled batteries of the battery modules.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage battery device includes a battery unit, a charging unit, a terminal, and a first circuit breaking unit. The battery unit includes a lithium ion battery and is connectable in parallel to other storage battery device that charges an external lithium ion battery. The charging unit is supplied with electric power from an external electric power source and charges the battery unit. The terminal is connectable to a wire connecting the other storage battery device with the battery unit. The first circuit breaking unit is connected between the battery unit and the terminal, and blocks an electric current flowing from the terminal to the battery unit.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a battery pack device includes a plurality of battery modules, a cell detector, and a determiner. Each of the plurality of battery modules stores a plurality of cells. The cell detector detects a cell detection signal representing whether a cell is present or absent at each of a plurality of positions in each battery module. The determiner determines the arrangement state of the cells in each battery module based on the cell detection signal detected by the cell detector, determines the presence/absence of an abnormality from the determined arrangement state of the cells and the connection state of each battery module, and outputs an abnormal signal in case of the abnormality.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power supply apparatus includes a battery assembly, a fuse element, a switch unit, and a control unit. The fuse element is connected between the battery assembly and a load unit driven by being supplied with power from the battery assembly. The switch unit is connected in parallel to the load unit. The control unit causes, when an over voltage of at least one of the battery assembly and the load unit is detected, the switch unit to be in an ON state, provides an over current to flow from the battery assembly to the fuse element, and fusing the fuse element.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage battery device includes a battery unit, a charging unit, a terminal, and a first circuit breaking unit. The battery unit includes a lithium ion battery and is connectable in parallel to other storage battery device that charges an external lithium ion battery. The charging unit is supplied with electric power from an external electric power source and charges the battery unit. The terminal is connectable to a wire connecting the other storage battery device with the battery unit. The first circuit breaking unit is connected between the battery unit and the terminal, and blocks an electric current flowing from the terminal to the battery unit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a unit includes battery modules each including an assembled battery including battery cells and a monitoring device, a BMU to communicate with the battery modules, a first drawer holding the battery module, a second drawer holding the BMU, and a housing containing the first drawer and the second drawer. The first and second drawers include first composite connectors secured to a side of the housing, which is almost orthogonal to a direction in which to insert the drawers into the housing. The housing has second composite connectors which mate with the first composite connectors, thereby to connect communication lines between the monitoring device and the BMU and the main-circuit lines between the assembled batteries of the battery modules.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical disk device includes types of semiconductor laser diodes configured to emit laser light of different wavelengths, an output control circuit configured to control light output of each semiconductor laser diode, and a composite power source configured to generate voltages required for driving the types of semiconductor laser diodes and operating the output control circuit from a single power source voltage and to selectively output the generated voltages. The composite power source includes an input port to input an external control signal at a time of voltage selection and is configured to change the output voltage stepwise in response to the control signal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical disk device includes types of semiconductor laser diodes configured to emit laser light of different wavelengths, an output control circuit configured to control light output of each semiconductor laser diode, and a composite power source configured to generate voltages required for driving the types of semiconductor laser diodes and operating the output control circuit from a single power source voltage and to selectively output the generated voltages. The composite power source includes an input port to input an external control signal at a time of voltage selection and is configured to change the output voltage stepwise in response to the control signal.

Abstract: A wireless communication device including an amplifying unit amplifying a transmission signal, a transmission unit configured to transmit the transmission signal amplified through the amplifying unit, a regulating unit configured to regulate a load of the amplifying unit, and a control unit configured to control the regulating unit so that the regulating unit regulates the load of the amplifying unit to attain a load impedance determined based on, a) a power ratio of the transmitted transmission signal to a reflected signal reflected from the transmission unit, and b) at least one of a value of a current passing through the amplifying unit and a gain of the amplifying unit.

Abstract: The invention provides extended release formulations of proton pump inhibitor, such as an extended release formulation of rabeprazole, comprising an amount of rabeprazole between 30 and 90 mg rabeprazole and having an AUC of between 900 and 1750 ng*hr/mL and other properties.

Abstract: In a continuously variable transmission metal belt, a lateral-most projecting portion of a side edge of a metal ring assembly wherein each metal ring is located between a radially central plane and a radially inner peripheral surface of the metal ring. A contact point in which the projecting portion abuts against a V-face of a pulley is closer to the radially central plane than to the radially inner peripheral surface. Moreover, as the metal rings are laminated on one another, recesses are formed between the side edges of the adjacent metal rings to retain oil therein, which lubricates the sliding faces of adjacent metal rings and enhances durability of the assembly.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical disk device includes types of semiconductor laser diodes configured to emit laser light of different wavelengths, an output control circuit configured to control light output of each semiconductor laser diode, and a composite power source configured to generate voltages required for driving the types of semiconductor laser diodes and operating the output control circuit from a single power source voltage and to selectively output the generated voltages. The composite power source includes an input port to input an external control signal at a time of voltage selection and is configured to change the output voltage stepwise in response to the control signal.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for determining a surface condition of an inspected object. A potential region having an intensity different from the other regions by more than a predetermined threshold value in an object image captured by an imaging device is detected. An inspected region surrounding the potential region is identified. A feature for a parameter is extracted from the inspected region. The surface condition is determined based on the feature. The parameter includes one or more of an area of the potential region, a slope of the potential region, an intensity value entropy of the inspected region, an intensity value anisotropy of the inspected region, an average intensity value of an edge image of the inspected region, and a roundness of the potential region.

Abstract: The present invention provides a preventive or therapeutic agent of a new type for diabetes mellitus and diabetic complications on the basis of an adenosine A2 receptor antagonist action. A purine compound represented by the formula (I), its pharmacologically acceptable salt or hydrates thereof has an adenosine A2 receptor antagonistic action and is useful for prevention or therapy of diabetes mellitus and diabetic complications. In addition, adenosine A2 receptor antagonists having different structures from those of the compounds described above, for example KW6002, are also effective for prevention or therapy of diabetes mellitus and diabetic complications. In the formula, W is —CH2CH2—, or —CH?CH— or —C?C—; R1 is: (in the formula, X is hydrogen atom, hydroxyl group, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, etc.; and R5 and R6 are the same as or different from each other and each represents hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, etc.) and the like; R2 is an amino group, etc.