Abstract: A capacitor is constituted by a capacitor device including an anode part and a cathode part; and a substrate for mounting the capacitor device. The front face of a main part of the substrate is formed with first and second electrodes connected to the cathode and anode parts, respectively. The rear face of main part is provided with first and second outer electrodes electrically connected to the first and second electrodes by way of first and second conduction paths penetrating through the main part, respectively. The first and second electrodes are arranged in a row in a longitudinal direction of the substrate. The first and second outer electrodes include first and second connection areas for connecting with external wiring. The first and second connection areas extend in the longitudinal direction of the substrate, and are arranged in a row in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A large volume of digital media home information output from each of audio, visual, computer and communication (AVCC) apparatuses is transmitted to a digital media home information network at a high data speed and is received by one AVCC apparatus. Also, a small volume of digital environment home information output from each of self-management apparatuses such as an energy sensor, a security sensor and a health care sensor is transmitted to a digital environment home information network at a low data speed and is received by a digital information transmitting/receiving and protocol converting unit. In this unit, a protocol of the digital environment home information in the digital environment home information network is converted into that in the digital media home information network, and the data speed of the digital environment home information in the digital environment home information network is changed to that in the digital media home information network.

Abstract: An electrode body 100 of a solid electrolytic capacitor component includes a foil-like aluminum substrate 2 whose surface is roughened or enlarged and which is formed with an aluminum oxide film the surface thereof as an insulating oxide film, two foil-like aluminum substrates 3a,3b whose surfaces are not roughened, and two foil-like copper substrates 4a,4b as a metal electric conductor for constituting a lead electrode. On the whole surface of the foil-like aluminum substrate 2, an anode electrode 14 including a solid high molecular polymer electrolyte layer 11, a graphite paste layer 12 and a silver paste layer 13 is formed. The thus constituted solid electrolytic capacitor component 110 is accommodated in a substantially closed space defined by a first insulating substrate 21 and a second insulating substrate 22, thereby fabricating a three-terminal type solid electrolytic capacitor.

Abstract: A surveying instrument, comprising a first image pickup unit for obtaining a first image in a collimating direction, a second image pickup unit for obtaining a second image highly magnified than the first image pickup unit, a display unit for displaying the images obtained by the first image pickup unit and the second image pickup unit, and a control unit for magnifying and continuously displaying the first image and the second image on the display unit.

Abstract: When a request to conduct format process is received from the external device, a write history management table which records histories of conducted writing processes in block units is referred to confirm whether or not writing process has been conducted to the block. As a result of the confirmation, the format process is conducted to only a block, which a writing process has not been conducted, and a history of conducting the writing process of the formatted block is recorded. In conducting the format process, when a request is received to conduct reading process and/or writing process from the external device, the write history management table is referred, and only in a case that a writing process has been conducted to said block, the disk array device is accessed and a reading process and/or writing process is conducted to the block.

Abstract: A disk array unit connected to a host unit to give information thereto and receive information therefrom. The disk unit includes a plurality of disk units for storing information transmitted from the host unit and a management information recording device, formed by utilizing information storage areas in the disk units, for causing information relating to a logical unit for storing information from the host unit to correspond to information relating to the units. The invention further includes a control unit, when there is no access from the host unit to the logical unit for a predetermined time, for determining the disk units corresponding to the logical unit based on information recorded in the management information recording device and performing power saving of power supply for the disk units.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrolytic capacitor manufacturing method capable of manufacturing an electrolytic capacitor having the PTC function as easy as possible. A main electrode layer in a cathode is formed so as to have the PTC function. Different from a conventional electrolytic capacitor manufacturing method of connecting a PTC thermistor to a capacitor element to give the PTC function to an electrolytic capacitor so that an electrolytic capacitor manufacturing process is complicated and the number of manufacturing processes is increased by the amount corresponding to the PTC thermistor connecting process, the process of connecting the PTC thermistor to the capacitor element is unnecessary. Consequently, complication of the electrolytic capacitor manufacturing process and increase in the number of manufacturing processes caused by the PTC thermistor connecting process can be prevented.

Abstract: A mura defect inspection apparatus 10 having an illuminating unit 12 which irradiates light onto a photomask 50 having a chip 55 on the surface thereof, the chip is formed with a repeated pattern that a unit pattern is regularly arranged, and a photoreceptor 13 which receives scattered light generated at the edge part of the unit pattern of the repeated pattern on the chip of the photomask and converts it to received light data, wherein the received light data is analyzed to detect a mura defect generated in the repeated pattern, wherein the illuminating unit irradiates light that is emitted from an illumination light source and has a orientation property of the rays almost parallel, the light having a parallelism within an angle of 2°, for example, onto a repeated pattern 51 on the chip 55 of the photomask 50. This application claims foreign priority based on Japanese Patent application No. 2004-106462, filed Mar. 31, 2004, the contents of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

Abstract: A capacitor comprises a laminate constituted by a plurality of laminated capacitor elements each including an anode terminal and a cathode terminal; and an object to be connected including a terminal having the anode terminal electrically connected thereto. The respective anode terminals of one capacitor element and another capacitor element in the laminate oppose a partial region and a region different from the partial region in the terminal of the object.

Abstract: A disk array unit connected to a host unit to give information thereto and receive information therefrom. The disk unit includes a plurality of disk units for storing information transmitted from the host unit and a management information recording device, formed by utilizing information storage areas in the disk units, for causing information relating to a logical unit for storing information from the host unit to correspond to information relating to the units. The invention further includes a control unit, when there is no access from the host unit to the logical unit for a predetermined time, for determining the disk units corresponding to the logical unit based on information recorded in the management information recording device and performing power saving of power supply for the disk units.

Abstract: A capacitor enlarging an anode electrode pattern of a substrate is provided. The capacitor in accordance with the present invention comprises a capacitor device including anode and cathode parts; and a substrate including a device mounting surface formed with anode and cathode electrode patterns connected to the anode and cathode parts, respectively, and a rear face formed with anode and cathode land patterns connected to the anode and cathode electrode patterns corresponding thereto by way of anode and cathode vias extending along a thickness direction. The anode electrode pattern is integrally formed with a region including at least a part of a region corresponding to the anode land pattern and at least a part of a region corresponding to the cathode land pattern in an area of the device mounting surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A capacitor is constituted by a capacitor device including an anode part and a cathode part; and a substrate for mounting the capacitor device. The front face of a main part of the substrate is formed with first and second electrodes connected to the cathode and anode parts, respectively. The rear face of main part is provided with first and second outer electrodes electrically connected to the first and second electrodes by way of first and second conduction paths penetrating through the main part, respectively. The first and second electrodes are arranged in a row in a longitudinal direction of the substrate. The first and second outer electrodes include first and second connection areas for connecting with external wiring. The first and second connection areas extend in the longitudinal direction of the substrate, and are arranged in a row in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: There is disclosed a radiographic apparatus comprising a top plate for supporting a subject, an image receiver for receiving a radiographic image of the subject, a vertical moving mechanism for vertically moving the top plate and the image receiver, and means for limiting the action of the vertical moving mechanism according to the position relative to the top plate and/or posture of the image receiver. There is also disclosed a radiographic apparatus comprising a top plate for supporting a subject, an image receiver for receiving a radiographic image of the subject, a moving mechanism for varying the position relative to the top plate and/or posture of the image receiver, and means for limiting movement of the top plate in the predetermined direction in case the posture of the image receiver is not horizontal or limiting change in posture of the image receiver according to the position of the top plate.

Abstract: N_Port_Name information capable of distinctly identifying a host computer has seen set in a microprocessor 42 of a storage controller 40 prior to start-up of host computers 10, 20, 30; upon startup of the host computers 10, 20, 30, when the storage controller 40 receives a frame issued, then the microprocessor 42 operates to perform comparison for determining whether the N_Port_Name information stored in the frame has been already set in the microprocessor 42 and registered to the N_Port_Name list within a control table maintained. When such comparison results in match, then continue execution of processing based on the frame instruction; if comparison results in failure of match, then reject any request.

Abstract: An exhaust emission control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is capable of suppressing a nasty smell due to the hydrogen sulfide generated upon recovery from SOx poisoning.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor 1 comprises a valve metal support 10, a dielectric layer 22, a solid polymer electrolyte layer 24, and an insulating layer 16. The valve metal support 10 has an opening 12 formed about an anode terminal forming area except for a part of surroundings thereof. The dielectric layer 22 is formed on a surface of the valve metal support 10 so as to expose a part of the anode forming area. The solid polymer electrolyte layer 24 is formed on the dielectric layer 22. The solid electrolytic capacitor 1 is provided with the insulating layer 16 for electrically insulating the anode terminal forming area in the valve metal support 10 and the solid polymer electrolyte layer 24 from each other.

Abstract: A light guide plate includes at least one surface including a first region having relatively small surface roughness and a second region having relatively great surface roughness, which are adjacently formed. A boundary-blurring pattern composed of a plurality of surface roughness aspects is formed in a boundary part between the first region and the second region.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor having significantly lowered its ESL is provided. In solid electrolytic capacitor elements adjacent each other in the solid electrolytic capacitor in accordance with the present invention, their respective anodes are connected to each other by an anode conduction path of a conduction path pair, whereas their respective cathodes are connected to each other by a cathode conduction path of the conduction path pair. Therefore, when electrons migrate between the solid electrolytic capacitor elements, respective currents directed opposite from each other flow through a pair of substantially parallel conduction paths. Consequently, a magnetic field caused by the current flowing through one conduction path is offset by a magnetic field caused by the current flowing through the other conduction path, whereby both magnetic fields cancel each other out. Hence, the solid electrolytic capacitor lowers its ESL.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel compound which is suitable as the starting material of a side-chain type liquid crystalline polymeric substance having a reactive group which is excellent in reactivity upon fixation of the liquid crystal orientation structure. The novel compound is a (meth)acrylic compound having an oxetanyl group represented by the formula wherein R1 is hydrogen or methyl, R2 is hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl, “-L1-M-L2-” represents a mesogen portion, and n and m are each an integer of 0 to 10. The present invention also provides a liquid crystal film containing the side-chain type liquid crystalline polymeric substance and a liquid crystal display mounted with such a liquid crystal film.

Abstract: A photoelectric converting device is provided which device is excellent in appearance and durability and free from the occurrence of troubles such as liquid leakage and has an ion conductive film exhibiting reversible electrochemical oxidation-reduction characteristics, as a charge transport layer. The ion conductive film is an ion conductive film comprising (a) a polymeric matrix containing therein (b) a plasticizer and (c) a substance exhibiting reversible electrochemical oxidation-reduction characteristics. The polymeric matrix is a polyvinylidene fluoride-based polymeric compound.