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: A view angle control sheet having a wide view angle, in which diffuse light from a screen image source is effectively utilized to suppress a decrease in screen brightness while a decrease in image contrast caused by an outside light beam is suppressed to prevent generation of a ghost to improve contrast. The lens portions have trapezoidal shapes in section arranged at predetermined intervals. A wedge-shaped portion between the lens portions has a bottom surface on a screen image source side while having a leading end on an observer side, and the following relationships hold: Nx £ Ny and ?0.01<Dn?cos q<0.002, where Nx is a refractive index of a material constituting at least a slope portion of the wedge-shaped portion, Ny is a refractive index of a material constituting the lens portion, and Dn is a ratio (Nx/Ny).

Abstract: The present invention provides an oil-in-water emulsified food product containing plant sterol, which has the effect of reducing the level of cholesterol in the blood, and having a smooth texture and excellent emulsification stability. An oil-in-water emulsified food product containing a complex of plant sterol with egg yolk lipoprotein is provided. This oil-in-water emulsified food product can be obtained by a production method having a step wherein a liquid dispersion of a complex is prepared by adding a water-based medium as needed to egg yolk lipoprotein and plant sterol followed by stirring and mixing; a step wherein water-phase ingredient(s) are added as needed, stirred and mixed; and a step wherein oil-phase ingredient(s) are added and an emulsification treatment is performed.

Abstract: A converging sheet includes a light-emerging-side lens member formed of a plurality of unit lenses of convex shape that are arranged on a light-emerging side, and a scattering layer that is formed along a surface of each unit lens and scatters light. The scattering layer includes light diffusing particles. A thickness t of the scattering layer is equal to or more than one-tenth the lens pitch p. The converging sheet satisfies the following relationships: d×((t+h+p)/?)>50% and d×(t/?)<50%, in which d represents a volume ratio (%) of the light diffusing particles mixed in the scattering layer relative to the scattering layer, ? represents an average grain diameter (mm) of the light diffusing particles, and h represents a height from the apex to a bottom of the convex shape of the unit lens.

Abstract: The present invention provides an external preparation which can improve a skin permeability of a hydrophilic medicine such as NSAID so that the medicine can act directly on a diseased area without passing through gastrointestinal tract or mucosa. The S/O type external preparation external preparation excellent in percutaneous absorbability of the present invention comprises a medicine-containing complex dissolved or dispersed in an oil phase, wherein the complex contains a hydrophilic medicine covered with a surfactant and is in a form of a solid.

Abstract: A light-diffusing sheet having a flat entrance surface and an exit surface parallel to the entrance surface, the light-diffusing sheet includes a sheet body, and a plurality of wedge-shaped parts, each being embedded on the side of the exit surface of the sheet body and expanding toward the exit surface. The wedge-shaped parts have a refractive index lower than that of the sheet body. Each of side surfaces of each of the wedge-shaped parts is formed of inclined surfaces constituting a polygonal surface. Angles formed by the inclined surfaces of each side surface and the perpendicular to the exit surface gradually become greater toward the exit surface. An end of each of the wedge-shaped parts on the side of the entrance surface is flat surface parallel to the entrance surface.

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: The present invention is a light-controlling sheet for making light emitted from light sources uniform and/or converging the light. The light-controlling sheet includes a lens part having a large number of rod-like unit lenses arranged in parallel, with a lens surface of each unit lens facing to the light-exiting side. A cross section of the lens surface of each rod-like unit lens taken perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the unit lens is asymmetrical. The lens surface of each unit lens has a flat surface part in the shape of a flat surface, and a curved surface part in the shape of part of a cylindrical surface.

Abstract: A surface light source system 50 capable of emitting light without producing non-uniform luminance and non-uniform color distributions is provided. The surface light source system 50 comprises a lenticular lens sheet 14-1 having unit lenses 141-1 with convexity on the light-exiting side, and a light source unit 100 having emission sources 101 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: The present invention provides a diffusing sheet, a surface light source device, and a transmission type display, that can attain uniform illumination so that the brightness of light on the display screen appears uniform regardless of the position from which the display screen is observed. A transmission type display 10 comprises an LCD panel 11, and a surface light source device 16 for illuminating the LCD panel 11 from its rear. The surface light source device 16 includes a plurality of cathode ray tubes 13 that are arranged in parallel. A diffusing sheet 14 and a convergent sheet 12 are placed between the cathode ray tubes 13 and the LCD panel 11 in the surface light source device 16. The diffusing sheet 14 includes, on its light-emerging side surface, a diffusion lens array 141.

Abstract: In a diffusion sheet 101, a plurality of approximately trapezoidal columnar unit lens portions 11 are disposed such that the long-axis directions thereof are in parallel with each other, and all the surfaces of the unit lens portions, which correspond to the long bottom segments 112 of the approximately trapezoidal sections of the unit lens portions 11 are disposed on a light-incident-side flat surface. Further, light absorbing portions 12 are disposed in the grooves between adjacent unit lens portions 11 to absorb and/or shield external light incident from a light outgoing side. In the diffusion sheet 101 arranged as described above, light incident on the unit lens portions 11 from a light incident side is totally reflected on the surfaces corresponding to the side segments 111 of the approximately trapezoidal sections vertical to the long-axis direction of the unit lens portions and outgoes from the light outgoing side.

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.

Abstract: In a diffusion sheet 101, a plurality of approximately trapezoidal columnar unit lens portions 11 are disposed such that the long-axis directions thereof are in parallel with each other, and all the surfaces of the unit lens portions, which correspond to the long bottom segments 112 of the approximately trapezoidal sections of the unit lens portions 11 are disposed on a light-incident-side flat surface. Further, light absorbing portions 12 are disposed in the grooves betweenadjacent unit lens portions 11 to absorb and/or shield external light incident from a light outgoing side. In the diffusion sheet 101 arranged as described above, light incident on the unit lens portions 11 from a light incident side is totally reflected on the surfaces corresponding to the side segments 111 of the approximately trapezoidal sections vertical to the long-axis direction of the unit lens portions and outgoes from the light outgoing side.

Abstract: Disclosed is a gene detecting method for determining mutation of a specific base or presence/absence of a specific base in a target gene. There are provided a the target gene sample and a control gene sample having a base sequence which is wild-type or standard-type with respect to the target gene.

Abstract: In a diffusion sheet 101, a plurality of approximately trapezoidal columnar unit lens portions 11 are disposed such that the long-axis directions thereof are in parallel with each other, and all the surfaces of the unit lens portions, which correspond to the long bottom segments 112 of the approximately trapezoidal sections of the unit lens portions 11 are disposed on a light-incident-side flat surface. Further, light absorbing portions 12 are disposed in the grooves between adjacent unit lens portions 11 to absorb and/or shield external light incident from a light outgoing side. In the diffusion sheet 101 arranged as described above, light incident on the unit lens portions 11 from a light incident side is totally reflected on the surfaces corresponding to the side segments 111 of the approximately trapezoidal sections vertical to the long-axis direction of the unit lens portions and outgoes from the light outgoing side.

Abstract: An optical member that will be incorporated in a surface light source unit and that is scarcely deformed while it is used as a component of the surface light source unit. The optical member comprises optical sheets layered on each other. The optical sheets at least includes: an outermost optical sheet on the light-entrance side, which is situated outermost on the light-entrance side; and a high-rigidity optical sheet situated on the light-exit side of the outermost optical sheet on the light-entrance side, a rigidity of the high-rigidity optical sheet being higher than a rigidity of the outermost optical sheet on the light-entrance side.

Abstract: In a diffusion sheet 101, a plurality of approximately trapezoidal columnar unit lens portions 11 are disposed such that the long-axis directions thereof are in parallel with each other, and all the surfaces of the unit lens portions, which correspond to the long bottom segments 112 of the approximately trapezoidal sections of the unit lens portions 11 are disposed on a light-incident-side flat surface. Further, light absorbing portions 12 are disposed in the grooves between adjacent unit lens portions 11 to absorb and/or shield external light incident from a light outgoing side. In the diffusion sheet 101 arranged as described above, light incident on the unit lens portions 11 from a light incident side is totally reflected on the surfaces corresponding to the side segments 111 of the approximately trapezoidal sections vertical to the long-axis direction of the unit lens portions and outgoes from the light outgoing side.

Abstract: In a diffusion sheet 101, a plurality of approximately trapezoidal columnar unit lens portions 11 are disposed such that the long-axis directions thereof are in parallel with each other, and all the surfaces of the unit lens portions, which correspond to the long bottom segments 112 of the approximately trapezoidal sections of the unit lens portions 11 are disposed on a light-incident-side flat surface. Further, light absorbing portions 12 are disposed in the grooves between adjacent unit lens portions 11 to absorb and/or shield external light incident from a light outgoing side. In the diffusion sheet 101 arranged as described above, light incident on the unit lens portions 11 from a light incident side is totally reflected on the surfaces corresponding to the side segments 111 of the approximately trapezoidal sections vertical to the long-axis direction of the unit lens portions and outgoes from the light outgoing side.

Abstract: A diffusing sheet, a surface light source unit, and a transmission type display that can attain uniform illumination so that the brightness of light on the display screen appears uniform regardless of the position from which the display screen is observed. The diffusing sheet includes, on its light-emerging side surface, a diffusion lens array having a plurality of unit lenses, each unit lens being in a shape equivalent to a part of an elliptic cylinder having an elliptical cross section. The surface light source unit includes the diffusing sheet and a convergent sheet 12 that has a plurality of unit lenses 121 having almost trapezoidal cross sections, formed on one surface thereof. It is possible to attain uniform illumination by diffusing light from cathode ray tubes in the surface light source unit, and, at the same time, to converge the light serving as backlight to enhance optical efficiency.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical member having excellent anti-reflection properties, capable of being produced inexpensively as compared with conventional optical members having anti-reflection properties and of being mass-produced with quality kept constant. An optical member 1 has a plane of incidence 3 and a plane of emergence 5. The plane of emergence 5 has, as an optical element, prisms 2 by which the optical path of incident light (see symbol X) is changed. The plane of incidence 3 has a plurality of minute concavities 4 (see FIG. 2) by which reflection of incident light is prevented.