Abstract: A piezoelectric sounding element includes a diaphragm made of metal and a piezoelectric element provided on at least one surface of the diaphragm. A non-fixed portion of the diaphragm includes the pair of long sides facing each other, a pair of short sides, shorter than the long sides, that face each other, and a pair of recesses, provided in the pair of long sides, that protrude so as to approach each other. The piezoelectric element is provided in a region between the pair of recesses of the diaphragm and the contour shapes of the non-fixed portion of the diaphragm and the piezoelectric element are defined so as to be symmetric with respect to a first imaginary line that bisects the pair of short sides and symmetric with respect to a second imaginary line that bisects the pair of long sides.

Abstract: A piezoelectric sounding element includes a diaphragm made of metal and a piezoelectric element provided on at least one surface of the diaphragm. A non-fixed portion of the diaphragm includes the pair of long sides facing each other, a pair of short sides, shorter than the long sides, that face each other, and a pair of recesses, provided in the pair of long sides, that protrude so as to approach each other. The piezoelectric element is provided in a region between the pair of recesses of the diaphragm and the contour shapes of the non-fixed portion of the diaphragm and the piezoelectric element are defined so as to be symmetric with respect to a first imaginary line that bisects the pair of short sides and symmetric with respect to a second imaginary line that bisects the pair of long sides.

Abstract: An embodiment provides a information handling device, including: one or more processors; one or more antennas, a communication element, and a memory device that stores instructions executed by the one or more processors, the instructions being executable by the one or more processors to: recognize a location within which the information handling device is operating through wireless communication received via the communication element; and modulate, based on which location the information handling device is operating within, a dynamic power reduction of transmission power through the antenna.

Abstract: A method is provided that establishes a communication link of a common wireless communication function between a first electronic equipment and a second electronic equipment, the first electronic equipment having a common wireless communication function to access a near field communication (NFC) tag using the second electronic equipment, the second electronic equipment having the common wireless communication function and an NFC function. The method further includes acquiring, by the second electronic equipment, data stored in the NFC tag through a close approach operation, and transmitting the data from the second electronic equipment to the first electronic equipment by using the common wireless communication function.

Abstract: Provided herein is a vibration-type angular velocity sensor capable of improving detection precision of angular velocities around the Z axis and preventing detection precision of angular velocities around the X and Y axes from deteriorating. A weight 3 is columnar or conic. The outline of an outer peripheral portion of a diaphragm 1 has such shape that a straight portion ST is formed at each of four corner portions of a square. Four vibration exciting electrodes 11 are respectively located in four regions partitioned by a first imaginary line L1 and a second imaginary line L2. Four angular velocity sensing electrodes 13 are respectively located in four regions partitioned by a first imaginary diagonal line CL1 and a second imaginary diagonal line Cl2.

Abstract: A method for reducing the positioning time of a GPS receiver is disclosed. In response to a request from a user function for positioning data, a GPS management section instructs a device control section to lower the functions of a group of components. The lowering of the functions of the components reduces the noise level. The GPS management section operates the GPS receiver. The GPS receiver executes an acquisition process in an environment with a low noise level. After completion of the acquisition process, the functions of the component are restored.

Abstract: A piezoelectric sound generating element capable of providing flatter and less fluctuated sound pressure frequency characteristics includes a diaphragm that is formed in a circular plate shape with a circular profile. A piezoelectric element is affixed to the side of a bottom wall portion of the diaphragm. The piezoelectric element has an asymmetric octagonal profile including a pair of long side portions opposing each other, a pair of short side portions opposing each other, and four connecting side portions.

Abstract: A method for reducing the positioning time of a GPS receiver is disclosed. In response to a request from a user function for positioning data a GPS management section instructs a device control section to lower the functions of a group of components. The lowering of the functions of the components reduces the noise level. The GPS management section operates the GPS receiver. The GPS receiver executes an acquisition process in an environment with a low noise level. After completion of the acquisition process, the functions of the component are restored.

Abstract: A method is provided that establishes a communication link of a common wireless communication function between a first electronic equipment and a second electronic equipment, the first electronic equipment having a common wireless communication function to access a near field communication (NFC) tag using the second electronic equipment, the second electronic equipment having the common wireless communication function and an NFC function. The method further includes acquiring, by the second electronic equipment, data stored in the NFC tag through a close approach operation, and transmitting the data from the second electronic equipment to the first electronic equipment by using the common wireless communication function.

Abstract: A piezoelectric sound generating element capable of providing flatter and less fluctuated sound pressure frequency characteristics includes a diaphragm that is formed in a circular plate shape with a circular profile. A piezoelectric element is affixed to the side of a bottom wall portion of the diaphragm. The piezoelectric element has an asymmetric octagonal profile including a pair of long side portions opposing each other, a pair of short side portions opposing each other, and four connecting side portions.

Abstract: Provided herein is a vibration-type angular velocity sensor capable of improving detection precision of angular velocities around the Z axis and preventing detection precision of angular velocities around the X and Y axes from deteriorating. A weight 3 is columnar or conic. The outline of an outer peripheral portion of a diaphragm 1 has such shape that a straight portion ST is formed at each of four corner portions of a square. Four vibration exciting electrodes 11 are respectively located in four regions partitioned by a first imaginary line L1 and a second imaginary line L2. Four angular velocity sensing electrodes 13 are respectively located in four regions partitioned by a first imaginary diagonal line CL1 and a second imaginary diagonal line Cl2.

Abstract: An embodiment provides a information handling device, including: one or more processors; one or more antennas, a communication element, and a memory device that stores instructions executed by the one or more processors, the instructions being executable by the one or more processors to: recognize a location within which the information handling device is operating through wireless communication received via the communication element; and modulate, based on which location the information handling device is operating within, a dynamic power reduction of transmission power through the antenna.

Abstract: A biaxial angular velocity sensor provided herein has good detection sensitivity and allows an oscillator to be fixed stably. The biaxial angular velocity sensor includes an oscillator (3) made of a non-piezoelectric material, an electromechanical energy converting element (23) for driving and electromechanical energy converting element (25) for detection, both of which are provided in the oscillator (3), a plurality of drive electrodes (27) provided corresponding to the electromechanical energy converting element (23) for driving, and a plurality of detection electrodes (29) provided corresponding to the electromechanical energy converting element (25) for detection. The oscillator (3) includes a central portion (5) located in the center of the oscillator and eight first to eighth arm portions (7) to (21). The distal end portions of the fifth to eighth arm portions (15) to (21), located on the opposite side to the central portion (5), are fixed.

Abstract: A biaxial angular velocity sensor provided herein has good detection sensitivity and allows an oscillator to be fixed stably. The biaxial angular velocity sensor includes an oscillator (3) made of a non-piezoelectric material, an electromechanical energy converting element (23) for driving and electromechanical energy converting element (25) for detection, both of which are provided in the oscillator (3), a plurality of drive electrodes (27) provided corresponding to the electromechanical energy converting element (23) for driving, and a plurality of detection electrodes (29) provided corresponding to the electromechanical energy converting element (25) for detection. The oscillator (3) includes a central portion (5) located in the center of the oscillator and eight first to eighth arm portions (7) to (21). The distal end portions of the fifth to eighth arm portions (15) to (21), located on the opposite side to the central portion (5), are fixed.

Abstract: A semiconductor sensor of the present invention is capable of preventing a diaphragm portion of the sensor from being damaged if a weight collides against a semiconductor integrated circuit substrate of the sensor and is further capable of preventing the diaphragm portion from being bent significantly even when a semiconductor sensor element of the sensor is disposed inside a distorted or deformed casing. A rear surface of the semiconductor integrated circuit substrate 7 is joined onto a wall surface of the casing 9 that defines a receiving chamber of the casing. A support portion of the semiconductor sensor element is joined onto a front surface 7a of the semiconductor integrated circuit substrate 7.

Abstract: A semiconductor sensor of the present invention is capable of preventing a diaphragm portion of the sensor from being damaged if a weight collides against a semiconductor integrated circuit substrate of the sensor and is further capable of preventing the diaphragm portion from being bent significantly even when a semiconductor sensor element of the sensor is disposed inside a distorted or deformed casing. A rear surface of the semiconductor integrated circuit substrate 7 is joined onto a wall surface of the casing 9 that defines a receiving chamber of the casing. A support portion of the semiconductor sensor element is joined onto a front surface 7a of the semiconductor integrated circuit substrate 7.

Abstract: A duplex transmission and reception system wherein a local oscillator of the receiver is dispensed with by using the output of a modulated transmission oscillator, with its modulation cancelled, in lieu of a receiver local oscillator. The transmitter modulation signal is adjusted by appropriate level correction and phase inversion. The modulated output of the transmission oscillator is itself applied to a modulator, where it is modulated by the adjusted modulation signal. This results in substantially cancelling out the modulation component of the transmission oscillator output. This modulation-cancelled signal is supplied to the mixer of a superheterodyne receiver as a local oscillator signal.

Abstract: A semi-coaxial cavity resonator filter including a plurality of semi-axial cavity resonators, as constructed units, each of which has an adjustable device in which dielectric substrates having a specific dielectric constant of more than 1 are disposed in the gap between the inside wall of a tube-shaped outer conductor and the open end of an inner conductor provided on the inside wall of the outer conductor, and the electrostatic capacitance of the spaces interposed by the dielectric substrates is changed without steps by varying the area of the electrodes on the dielectric substrate. The filter is made by making an individual and predetermined frequency adjustment on the plurality of the semi-axial cavity resonators and then cascade-connecting those resonators in one block through shielding plates having a coupling iris so as to obtain desired filtering characteristics as a bandpass filter.

Abstract: A transmitter having a transmitting phase synchronizing system. To one input of a frequency mixer is applied the output of a phase synchronizing type digital frequency synthesizer, through a first frequency divider. A modulating signal is applied to another input of the frequency mixer. The output from the mixer is connected via a bandpass filter to a phase synchronizing system having in series, along a main route, a phase detector, a lowpass filter, and a voltage controlled oscillator, and thence to an amplifier system. In a feedback route from another outlet of the voltage controlled oscillator to the phase detector is a second fixed frequency divider. The digital frequency synthesizer itself may have a reference oscillator connected in series to a third fixed frequency divider, a second phase detector, a second lowpass filter and a second voltage controlled oscillator, from which a feedback circuit leads back to the phase detector via the first fixed frequency divider and a variable frequency divider.

Abstract: Gelatin, especially in a layer of a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material, is hardened with the reaction product of a compound having at least three vinylsulfonyl groups in the molecule and a compound having at least one water-soluble group and at least one group capable of reacting with the vinylsulfonyl group, such as --SH, .dbd.NH and --NH.sub.2.