Abstract: A cover is configured into a tubular form and is fitted to a radially outer surface of each of projections of a rotor core and a radially outer surface of each of permanent magnets. A circumferential center portion of the radially outer surface of each projection contacts a radially inner surface of the cover. Circumferential end portions of the radially outer surface of each projection are radially inwardly spaced from the radially inner surface of the cover.

Abstract: There is provided a gel sheet that has high biocompatibility and safety, can contain both a hydrophilic medicinal agent and a hydrophobic medicinal agent, and provides an excellent feel in use during the application onto human skin or others. A gel sheet including: a lipid peptide gelator including a low molecular weight lipid peptide having a molecular weight of 1,000 or less or a pharmaceutically usable salt of the lipid peptide; and a polymeric compound, wherein the polymeric compound is included in an amount of more than 1% (w/w) and less than 50% (w/w) with respect to the total mass of the gel sheet.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a drug delivery carrier that is free from the drug leakage problem and has an easily controllable particle size, and that can be used to deliver water-soluble drugs such as genes and proteins in a wide range of applications, including delivery of water-soluble drugs that do not have high anionic properties, and also can be used as a non-viral gene vector. The invention also provides a process for production of such drug delivery carriers. The drug delivery carrier of the present invention includes a water-soluble drug double-coated with two types of inner and outer surfactants 1 and 2.

Abstract: A roadside-vehicle cooperative illumination system in which a headlight of a vehicle and a road illumination lamp can be controlled cooperatively through communications between an in-vehicle apparatus and a roadside apparatus. For example, when power consumption of the headlight has to be reduced, an in-vehicle apparatus side arbiter transmits a request to the roadside apparatus for increase illumination of the road illumination lamp. A roadside apparatus side arbiter determines whether or not to accept the request from the in-vehicle apparatus, and a roadside apparatus side controller controls the road illumination lamp according to the determination of the roadside apparatus side arbiter. This enables the road illumination lamp to be controlled cooperatively so that illumination of the road illumination lamp can compensate for deficiencies in illumination of the headlight, which leads to enhancement of vehicle driver's convenience and ensuring of safety.

Abstract: The vehicle-use electricity management system includes an electricity demand detection means to detect electricity consumed by electrical loads, and an electricity price information generation means to generate electricity price information indicative of a price of electricity supplied to the electrical loads based on the electricity demand. At least one of the electrical loads includes an electricity consumption ability determination means to determine whether electricity supplied to the own electrical load can be consumed unconditionally based on comparison between the electricity price information received from the electricity price information generation means and electricity consumption ability information stored in the own electrical load, and an electricity consumption control means to control an amount of electricity consumed by the own electrical load based on a determination result made by the electricity consumption ability determination means.

Abstract: A light guide plate (30) includes a body portion (40), and a plurality of unit shaped elements (50) defining a light exit surface (31) and arranged on one-side surface (41) of the body portion side by side in an arrangement direction intersecting a light guide direction. Each unit shaped element extends in a direction intersecting the arrangement direction. A light exit surface angle ?a, which is the angle of the contour (51) of each unit shaped element with respect to the one-side surface, is more than 10° and not more than 30° in a zone of the contour of each unit shaped element, the width of the zone along the arrangement direction being not less than 35% and not more than 70% of the full width of the unit shaped element.

Abstract: A light guide plate includes a body portion, first unit optical elements extending on the body portion in the light guide direction, and second unit optical elements disposed in between the first unit optical elements on the body portion. The width of each first unit optical element gradually decreases from that at the center to that at each end in the light guide direction. The ratio of the height to the width in each first unit optical element at the center is higher than the ratio of the height to the width in each second unit optical element.

Abstract: An optical module (20) includes a polarizing plate (40) and a light emitter (26) disposed in a position facing the polarizing plate. The polarizing plate includes a polarizer (41) and a protective film (50) joined to the polarizer (41). The protective film has a light control function that changes the traveling direction of light. The light emitter is disposed in a position directly facing the protective film of the polarizing plate.

Abstract: A surface light source system capable of emitting light without producing non-uniform luminance and non-uniform color distributions is provided. The surface light source system comprises a lenticular lens sheet having unit lenses with convexity on the light-exiting side, and a light source unit having emission sources of two types or more that are different in the wavelength range of light they emit. The unit lenses are arranged in one direction at approximately regular intervals. Emission sources of each type are arranged in the one direction at approximately regular intervals. The intervals at which the respective emission sources of two types or more arranged in the one direction are nearly the same in length.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a cosmetic or external skin preparation that has an improved feel in use, e.g., excellent stretching on the skin surface, excellent permeation into the skin, and no stickiness, or crinkles. A cosmetic or an external skin preparation, and a medical instrument, comprising at least one lipid peptide-based gelator that contains a low-molecular lipid peptide of Formula (1): (where R1 to R3 are independently an organic group) or a pharmaceutically usable salt thereof.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a drug delivery carrier that is free from the drug leakage problem and has an easily controllable particle size, and that can be used to deliver water-soluble drugs such as genes and proteins in a wide range of applications, including delivery of water-soluble drugs that do not have high anionic properties, and also can be used as a non-viral gene vector. The invention also provides a process for production of such drug delivery carriers. The drug delivery carrier of the present invention includes a water-soluble drug double-coated with two types of inner and outer surfactants 1 and 2.

Abstract: A light guide plate (30) has a light exit surface (30a), a back surface (30b) opposed to the light exit surface, and a light entrance surface (30c) consisting of at least part of a side surface. The light guide plate has a body portion (40), and a light exit-side layer (50) formed from an ionizing radiation curable resin. The light exit-side layer includes an optical element portion (54) which defines the light exit surface. The optical element portion includes unit shaped elements (55) arranged in one direction intersecting a light guide direction, each unit shaped element extending linearly in a direction intersecting the one direction.

Abstract: A surface light source device has a light emitting surface and includes a light guide plate 30 having a light exit surface and a pair of light entrance surfaces 33, 34. When the angular distribution of luminance in a plane parallel to a first direction is measured on the light emitting surface at varying positions along the first direction, the peak angle ?c in the angular distribution of luminance at a center position Pc in the first direction lies between the peak angle ?a in the angular distribution of luminance at an end position on one side in the first direction and the peak angle ?b in the angular distribution of luminance at an end position on the other side in the first direction.

Abstract: A gelator made of an aliphatic oxyglycyl polyol that is capable of forming a gel by a small amount of addition in a pH range from acidic to alkaline regions, and a gel having high environmental compatibility, biocompatibility and biodegradability. A gelator including an aliphatic oxyglycyl polyol of Formula (1) wherein R is a C18-20 saturated aliphatic group or a C18-20 unsaturated aliphatic group having one double bond) or a pharmaceutically usable salt thereof; a self-assembly formed by self-assembling of the gelator; and a gel comprising the gelator or the self-assembly, and water, an alcohol, an aqueous solution, an alcohol solution, a hydrophilic organic solution, or a hydrophobic organic solution.

Abstract: A surface light source device including a light source unit having a plurality of light-emitting sources in a two-dimensional direction, and a lenticular lens sheet having a plurality of unit lenses, each of which is a part of a substantially elliptic cylinder, such that lens surfaces of the unit lenses face a light emergent side. There is a particular relationship between an interval at which the light-emitting sources are arranged in the same direction as an arrangement direction of the unit lenses, an interval between the light emitting sources and a rear surface of the lenticular lens sheet, a unit-lens end-portion angle, and the refractive index of the material of the lens sheet.

Abstract: A roadside-vehicle cooperative illumination system in which a headlight of a vehicle and a road illumination lamp can be controlled cooperatively through communications between an in-vehicle apparatus and a roadside apparatus. For example, when power consumption of the headlight has to be reduced, an in-vehicle apparatus side arbiter transmits a request to the roadside apparatus for increase illumination of the road illumination lamp. A roadside apparatus side arbiter determines whether or not to accept the request from the in-vehicle apparatus, and a roadside apparatus side controller controls the road illumination lamp according to the determination of the roadside apparatus side arbiter. This enables the road illumination lamp to be controlled cooperatively so that illumination of the road illumination lamp can compensate for deficiencies in illumination of the headlight, which leads to enhancement of vehicle driver's convenience and ensuring of safety.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for controlling an electric compressor, which can actuate the electric compressor rapidly through a simpler and lower-cost configuration while achieving reduction in weight, cost, and assembling time of the electric compressor. In the case where a pressure difference between the inlet side and the outlet side of the compressor body is present when a motor of the electric compressor is actuated, the motor is actuated at a number of revolutions lower than that in the normal mode. Thereby, even if a refrigerant has been liquefied on the outlet side of the compressor body, for example, the motor can be actuated by performing such action as to push out the liquefied refrigerant. In this case, the number of revolutions of the motor is increased by being changed stepwise or linearly, by which the number of revolutions of the motor is caused to reach a required number of revolutions as early as possible while surely performing the actuation.

Abstract: The vehicle-use electricity management system includes an electricity demand detection means to detect electricity consumed by electrical loads, and an electricity price information generation means to generate electricity price information indicative of a price of electricity supplied to the electrical loads based on the electricity demand. At least one of the electrical loads includes an electricity consumption ability determination means to determine whether electricity supplied to the own electrical load can be consumed unconditionally based on comparison between the electricity price information received from the electricity price information generation means and electricity consumption ability information stored in the own electrical load, and an electricity consumption control means to control an amount of electricity consumed by the own electrical load based on a determination result made by the electricity consumption ability determination means.

Abstract: An optical member (28) includes a first optical sheet (30), and a second optical sheet (40) disposed on the light exit side of the first optical sheet (30). The optical sheets each include a body portion (32, 42), and unit shaped elements (35, 45) arranged side by side on the body portion. The ratio of the height of the unit shaped elements relative to the arrangement pitch of the unit shaped elements in the first optical sheet is smaller than that in the second optical sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus corrects a position coordinate measured by a GPS receiver. Road data representing a position coordinate of a constructed road is included. Locus data representing a plurality of position coordinates of the GPS receiver during a past specified period is generated based on a position coordinate acquired. A road section traveled by the GPS receiver during the past specified period is estimated based on road data stored and a position coordinate acquired. A bias error of a position coordinate measured by the GPS receiver is estimated based on position coordinates at a plurality of points in a road section estimated and position coordinates at a plurality of points represented by the locus data. A position coordinate measured by the GPS receiver is corrected based on a bias error estimated and outputted.