Abstract: An optical filter, which is capable of cutting-off unnecessary near infrared rays, neon light or the like, and preventing reflection of fluorescent light or the like, in plasma display panels and the like, at the same time, superior in transmittance for visible light, and also superior in heat resistance, moisture resistance, and the like of the coloring matter contained, had been desired. The present invention was made to solve such problems.

Abstract: Breakage in a coupling portion of a side plate subjected to repeated flexure is prevented by using fatigue resistant resin materials in the side plate. The coupling portion of the side plate due is subjected to repeated flexure. Excellent fatigue resistance is realized. The fatigue resistant resin material is selected from the group of an elastomer—or rubber component—compounded polyamide resin and polybutylene terephthalate resin. The rubber component is selected from the group of ethylene-propylene rubber (EPDM), nitrile rubber (NBR) and butyl rubber (IIR).

Abstract: A cable protection and guide device in which contact impact noise between adjacent side plates is dispersed. The noise is liable to occur at the time of linear position holding and at the time of flexional position restriction when cables accommodated therein are transmitted or moved from a mounting fixed end toward a mounting movable end. A number of pairs of right and left side plate units (110) are connected from a mounting fixed end to a mounting movable end and side plate unit comprises a side plate front portion (111) which is connected to a preceding side plate unit (110), a side plate rear portion (112) which is connected to a subsequent side plate unit (110), and a flexible coupling portion (113) integrally intervened between the side plate front portion (111) and the side plate rear portion (112).

Abstract: A skate disposed between facing portions of a folded, flexible, cable guide includes a first set of rollers which contact only one of the two facing portions, and a second set of rollers which contact only the other of the two facing portions. A turning member mounted at an end of the skate is in rolling contact with the bent portion of the guide.

Abstract: A substrate for immobilizing biomolecules comprises a chip substrate, a hydrophilic monolayer, and a lipid bilayer, and a biochip comprising the substrate for immobilizing biomolecules on which biomolecules are immobilized. The substrate for immobilizing biomolecules includes a transparent chip substrate, a metal layer provided on the chip substrate, a monolayer provided on the metal layer, and a lipid bilayer provided on the monolayer. The metal layer is composed of fine particles of Au, the monolayer is composed of self-assembled molecules represented by X—(CH2)n—OH (where X is a thiol group), and the lipid bilayer is composed of self-assembled phospholipids. The monolayer and the lipid bilayer are relatively flexibly bound together via hydrogen bonds. In the biochip, a receptor is immobilized on the lipid bilayer via a biorecognition molecule.

Abstract: A cable or the like protection and guide device is disclosed which prevents inadvertent disconnection due to repeated flexure. Excellent fatigue resistance is exhibited. A cable or the like protection and guide device in which pairs of side plates are respectively formed of a highly-rigid resin front side plate portion connected to a preceding side plate and a highly-rigid resin rear side plate portion is connected to a subsequent side plate. A flexible fatigue resistant resin coupling portion is interposed between the front side plate portion and the rear side plate portion in an integrated manner by using a using two-color molding.

Abstract: Breakage in a coupling portion of a side plate subjected to repeated flexure is prevented by using fatigue resistant resin materials in the side plate. The coupling portion of the side plate due is subjected to repeated flexure. Excellent fatigue resistance is realized. The fatigue resistant resin material is selected from the group of an elastomer- or rubber component- compounded polyamide resin and polybutylene terephthalate resin. The rubber component is selected from the group of ethylene-propylene rubber (EPDM), nitrile rubber (NBR) and butyl rubber (IIR).

Abstract: A cable protection and guide device is disclosed which can reliably protect and guide cables without increasing and decreasing the width between link plates even if the height of the link plates of the cable protection and guide device is increased. The cable protection and guide device includes a number of link frame bodies each comprising a pair of right and left spaced link plates and upper and lower connecting rods respectively bridged on upper edge and lower edges of the link plates are connected to each other in the longitudinal direction of the device while restricting a flexion radius to a fixed value. A central connecting rod connects the pair of link plates at substantially the center portion along the height direction of the link plate. The central connecting rod is integrally molded with the pair of link plates.

Abstract: A cable protection and guide device is disclosed which can reliably protect and guide cables without increasing and decreasing the width between link plates even if the height of the link plates of the cable protection and guide device is increased. The cable protection and guide device includes a number of link frame bodies each comprising a pair of right and left spaced link plates and upper and lower connecting rods respectively bridged on upper edge and lower edges of the link plates are connected to each other in the longitudinal direction of the device while restricting a flexion radius to a fixed value. A central connecting rod connects the pair of link plates at substantially the center portion along the height direction of the link plate. The central connecting rod is integrally molded with the pair of link plates.

Abstract: An improved cable or the like protection and guide device in which even if curling, strain and the like exist in a side plate after molding, static electricity can escape and the device can be produced at a reduced cost. In a cable or the like protection and guide device according to the present invention a plurality of link bodies (11) articulably connected to each other in the longitudinal direction in a state where a cable or the like (15) was inserted into the device, comprises a pair of side plates (21) disposed on both sides of the cable or the like and connecting rods (22, 23) respectively bridged on the bend or articulation outer peripheral side and on the bend or articulation inner peripheral side of the side plate. Each of the side plates slide-contacts a side plate of an adjacent link body. At least the side plate is made of a synthetic resin having conductivity and a conductive member (55) is provided in a slide contact portion between the side plates of the adjacent link bodies.

Abstract: To provide a cable or the like protection and guide device, which can suppress the sliding contact noise by reliably limiting a linear position and a bending position exhibited during the movement of the cable or the like, and at the same time, which can reduce a setting space by suppressing the impact noise and wear of a connecting pin piece on a connecting pin hole even if the height size of the link body is decreased. A connecting pin piece 13, convexly provided on a link body 10, which forms a cable or the like protection and guide device, includes stopper surfaces 13a, 13a, which are parallel to the upper edge center portion and the lower edge center portion of the side plates 11 and are oppositely disposed across a bending center point O and a pair of front, and rear arc-shaped outer circumferential surfaces 13b, 13b, which are oppositely disposed across the bending center point O.

Abstract: The present invention provides an RF module capable of outputting balanced electromagnetic waves without requiring adjustment and easily realizing miniaturization. The RF module includes: a waveguide (3) having an area which is surrounded by a pair of ground electrodes (6) and (7) provided so as to face each other and through holes (8) for making electric conduction between the pair of ground electrodes (6) and (7) and in which electromagnetic waves in the TE mode can propagate and a one-wavelength resonator (11) is formed; and a pair of output lines (4a) and (4b) connected to portions corresponding to half-wavelength resonance regions (A) and (B) of the one-wavelength resonator (11) in the ground electrode (6).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic dye-sensitized semiconductor device and to a solar cell using it and, particularly, to a photoelectric conversion device using semiconductor fine particles sensitized with a dye having an acrylic acid part and a solar cell using it. According to the present invention, a low-cost photoelectric conversion device having favorable conversion efficiency and a solar cell can be obtained.

Abstract: To provide a cable and/or the like supporting and guiding device, by which a cable and/or the like can be easily incorporated into a chain and damage of the cable and/or the like and an accident of break in a cable can be minimized. A cable and/or the like supporting and guiding device comprises a chain (CH), a cable and/or the like (CB) disposed along the chain, and a support (20), which intersects the chain to support the cable and/or the like disposed on the chain. The support is composed of a material, which is flexed in the longitudinal direction of the cable and/or the like. In a curved section of the chain, when force is applied to the cable and/or the like, the support is flexed or bent in a direction of an action of force to ensure a length of the cable and/or the like, which is required for bending.

Abstract: A sealing agent for a photoelectric conversion device which comprises one or more of a compound having a glycidyl structure, a compound having a cyclohexene oxide structure, a compound having an oxetane structure and a compound having a vinyl ether structure, and a cationic polymerization initiator; a photoelectric conversion device using the sealing agent; and a solar cell comprising the photoelectric conversion device. The sealing agent for a photoelectric conversion device can be used for pasting together upper and lower electroconductive glass substrates at an ordinary temperature in the manufacture of a photoelectric conversion device, and is excellent with respect to adhesion strength and the reliability in moisture resistance.

Abstract: The present invention provides an RF module capable of converting electromagnetic waves in the TE mode to balanced electromagnetic waves in the TEM mode without adjustment and outputting the balanced electromagnetic waves while easily realizing miniaturization. The RF module includes: a waveguide (3) in which a half-wavelength TE mode resonator (2) is formed; an E plane coupling window (4) formed in a wall portion (3a) orthogonal to an H plane out of wall portions (3a) to (3e) constructing the TE mode resonator (2) in the waveguide (3); an output line (5a) provided at the edge on the side of the wall portion (3d) parallel with the H plane on the E plane coupling window (4), and magnetically coupled to electromagnetic waves in the TE mode resonator (2); and another output line (5b) provided at the edge on the side of the wall portion (3e) parallel with the H plane in the E plane coupling window (4), and magnetically coupled to the electromagnetic waves.

Abstract: Europium compounds represented by the general formula (1) and water-base ink compositions containing the same: [wherein X is an optionally substituted aromatic or heterocyclic group: Y is a fluorohydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms: Z1 to Z3 are each independently a hydrophilicity-imparting group: R1 to R3 are each a direct bond or a divalent hydrocarbon or heterocyclic group which may be substituted: n1 to n3 are each independently an integer of 0 to 2: and m1 to m3 are each independently an integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that all of n1to n3must not be 0]. The compounds and the ink compositions are excellent in stability and safety, and emit red light by irradiation with ultraviolet light though they are substantially invisible in the visible light region. Thus, they are useful for prints which are to be read by a system having a sensor reading function with the need for hidden letters or security markings.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic dye-sensitized photoelectric conversion device and a solar cell utilizing the same. In accordance with a demand to now for development of an organic dye-sensitized photoelectric conversion device with high conversion efficiency and high practicability using an inexpensive dye, there is provided in the present invention, a photoelectric conversion device with high conversion efficiency by producing a photoelectric conversion device by sensitizing fine semiconductor particles with a methine dye having specified skeleton.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical device is disclosed. The method includes coating a substrate with a resin thin layer, wherein temperature of the resin thin layer is controlled lower than a polymerization reaction starting temperature thereof and the resin is not substantially polymerized, heating the resin thin layer to a temperature higher than polymerization reaction starting temperature and glass-transition temperature but lower than a thermal decomposition starting temperature of the resin so that the resin thin layer is polymerized on the substrate to form a resin thin film thereon, pressing a stamp having an inverted micro-asperity pattern against the resin thin film such that a micro-asperity pattern is formed on a surface of the resin thin film; cooling the resin thin film to a temperature lower than the glass-transition temperature; and separating the stamp from the resin thin film.

Abstract: A cable or the like protection and guide device, which can escape static electricity reliably without an antistatic additive and can minimize the generation of wear particles due to sliding contact is disclosed. A cable or the like protection and guide device according to the present invention includes a number of synthetic resin link bodies (11) articulably connected to each other with a cable or the like (10) inserted therein. Each link body comprises a pair of link plates (21) disposed on both sides of the cable or the like and an inner circumferential side connecting plate (22) and an outer circumferential side connecting plate (23) spanned across a bending inner circumferential side and a bending outer circumferential side of the link plate, respectively.