Abstract: A contact device includes: a contact block which includes a fixed terminal including a fixed contact formed thereon, and a movable contactor including a movable contact formed thereon; and a driving block including a driving shaft to which the movable contactor is attached, the driving block configured to drive the movable contactor. The contact block includes: a biasing portion configured to bias the movable contactor toward one side in a driving shaft direction; and a yoke disposed at least on an opposite side of the movable contactor in the driving shaft direction while the movable contact is in contact with the fixed contact. The biasing portion includes a biasing end configured to make biasing force act on the movable contactor by pressing a member other than the yoke.

Abstract: A receipt printer sends print data received from a POS terminal and identification information of the receipt printer to a control server. The control server acquires layout information related to the identification information based on relation information linking the identification and layout information, and analyzes the print data by a method appropriate to the acquired layout information.

Abstract: A throttle operating device that adjusts the opening degree of an engine throttle valve is provided. In a throttle operating device according to an aspect of the invention, one end of an inner cable inserted through an outer tube is fixed to a cable fixing part provided in a throttle lever, and the opening degree of the engine throttle valve is adjusted via the inner cable by rotationally operating the throttle lever. The one end of the inner cable is fixed to the cable fixing part with the extending direction of the inner cable changed within the throttle lever. Additionally, a moving mechanism that moves the cable fixing part along a longitudinal direction of the inner cable, is provided in the throttle lever.

Abstract: To provide a handle that is effective at achieving both vibration resistance and usability. A handle attached to a tool body of a power tool has: a grip portion; a connecting portion that connects to the tool body; elastic element interposing regions that are formed between the grip portion and the connecting portion; elastic elements disposed in the elastic element interposing regions; a powder filling region formed between the grip portion and connecting portion; and a plurality of powder bodies that fill the powder filling region.

Abstract: A route display method for display on a terminal apparatus comprises: acquiring starting point information indicating a starting point and destination information indicating a destination; generating route information indicating a route from the starting point to the destination, wherein the route information includes a plurality of passing points; extracting captured images corresponding to the plurality of the passing points from a database which stores the captured images in relation to corresponding image capturing locations respectively, wherein each of the image capturing locations is within a range from the each of the plurality of the passing points; and displaying the extracted captured images in association with a map image sequentially in an order from a first captured image corresponding to a first passing point closest to the starting point to a second captured image corresponding to a second passing point closest to the destination.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device capable of increasing the number of signals. A semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the invention includes memories; a controller that designates addresses of the memories; amounting board having lines formed thereon, the lines connecting the controller with the memories; and a first ball group that connects the controller with the lines of the mounting board. A plurality of address lines formed on the mounting board includes an address line formed of a front surface wiring layer, and an address line formed of a back surface wiring layer. In each of the front surface wiring layer and the back surface wiring layer, each of the address lines from first balls of the first ball group is routed in order from a first memory to a fourth memory.

Abstract: An envelope tracking system is employed in a power amplification module that supports multiple frequency bands. The power amplification module includes multiple power amplification circuits, each of which includes: a first transformer to which a radio frequency signal is input; a differential amplification circuit, in which a first radio frequency signal output from transformer is input to a control electrode and in which a second radio frequency signal output from the transformer is input to a control electrode, the differential amplification circuit outputting an amplified signal obtained by amplifying a difference between the first and second radio frequency signals; and a second transformer for supplying, to the first differential amplification circuit, power-supply voltage varying according to the amplitude of the radio frequency signal and to which the first amplified signal is input.

Abstract: A hard disk drive (HDD) is described which includes a magnetic field-generating device in the vicinity of a load/unload ramp such that the write head moves into a magnetic field generated by the device while the head is being unloaded from disk, whereby the magnetic field pins in a predominant direction the direction of magnetization of a magnetic shield associated with the write head, and away from the direction toward the disk. Recording magnetic field leakage associated with the shield is thereby suppressed and corresponding far track interference is inhibited.

Abstract: A POS terminal 8 in a transaction system 1 transmits control data instructing executing a transaction-related process during a transaction; a recording device 12 receives the control data, executes a process based on the control data, transmits transaction information based on the control data and transaction identification information identifying the transaction information, and outputs a 2D code representing the transaction identification information; a terminal 14 reads the transaction identification information from the 2D code output by the recording device 12, and transmits the transaction identification information that was read and a customer ID, which is identification information to store; and a control server 10 receives the transaction information and transaction identification information from the recording device 12, receives the transaction identification information and customer ID from the terminal 14, and relationally stores the transaction information and customer ID when both of the receiv

Abstract: Provided are a coating with good blocking resistance, transparency, and scratch resistance, a laminated film including such a coating, an active-energy-radiation-curable resin composition, and a method for manufacturing such a resin composition. The laminated film includes a coating layer and a plastic film layer. The coating layer is made of a resin composition containing, as essential components, fine inorganic particles (A) and a resin component (b) in a mass ratio [(A)/(b)] of 30/70 to 60/40. The coating has an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of 1 to 30 nm and a haze of 1.4 or less for a thickness of 100 ?m or less.

Abstract: A contact point device 1 includes a drive block 2 that has a drive shaft 25 to which a movable contactor 29 is attached, and drives the movable contactor 29. The movable contactor 29 is attached to the drive shaft 25 so as to be movable relatively to the drive shaft 25 in an axial direction of the drive shaft, and in addition, relative movement thereof in the axial direction is regulated due to abutment of the movable contactor 29 against a regulating portion 60. Then, between the movable contactor 29 and the regulating portion 60 is formed a rotational movement deregulating portion 80, which relaxes the regulation by the regulating portion 60 for the relative rotational movement of the movable contactor 29 in the axial direction.

Abstract: A hard disk drive (HDD) is described which includes a magnetic field-generating device in the vicinity of a load/unload ramp such that the write head moves into a magnetic field generated by the device while the head is being unloaded from disk, whereby the magnetic field pins in a predominant direction the direction of magnetization of a magnetic shield associated with the write head, and away from the direction toward the disk. Recording magnetic field leakage associated with the shield is thereby suppressed and corresponding far track interference is inhibited.

Abstract: A receipt printer sends print data received from a POS terminal and identification information of the receipt printer to a control server. The control server acquires layout information related to the identification information based on relation information linking the identification and layout information, and analyzes the print data by a method appropriate to the acquired layout information.

Abstract: Linearity and power efficiency in a power amplifier circuit are enhanced. The power amplifier circuit includes a first transistor that amplifies a signal input to the base and that outputs the amplified signal from the collector and a first capacitor that is disposed between the base and the collector of the first transistor and that has voltage dependency of a capacitance value lower than that of a base-collector parasitic capacitance value of the first transistor.

Abstract: To provide a curable composition from which a cured film having lipophilicity to such an extent that application of an organic solvent-based coating liquid is possible while maintaining water repellency, having sufficient insulating properties and having a low dielectric constant, is obtained, a method for producing a cured film using the curable composition, and a semiconductor device using a cured film obtained by curing the curable composition. A curable composition comprising a fluorinated polyarylene prepolymer (A) having crosslinkable functional groups, a compound (B) having at least two crosslinkable functional groups, having no fluorine atom and having a number average molecular weight of from 140 to 3,000, a compound (C) having a C6-24 alkyl group which may have an etheric oxygen atom between carbon atoms, having crosslinkable functional groups, having no fluorine atom and having a number average molecular weight higher than 3,000 and at most 50,000, and a radical polymerization initiator (D).

Abstract: To provide a laminate which is thin and light in weight, which has excellent gas barrier properties, flexibility and durability, and which is excellent in the flatness. A glass sheet/fluororesin laminate comprising a glass sheet having a thickness of from 10 to 500 ?m, and a fluororesin coated layer preferably having a thickness of from 0.1 to 1,000 ?m. Particularly, the thickness ratio of the fluororesin coated layer to the glass sheet is preferably from 0.001 to 10 by the fluororesin coated layer/the glass sheet. Further, the transmittance at a wavelength of from 400 to 700 nm is preferably at least 80%. Further, this laminate is suitable as a protective plate. Still further, this laminate is suitably applied to a photoelectric conversion element.

Abstract: The present invention provides a non-cyanogen type electrolytic gold plating solution, which can form a plating film capable of maintaining a high hardness even when the plating film is subjected to a heat treatment. A non-cyanogen type electrolytic gold plating solution of the present invention includes: a gold source including an alkaline salt of gold sulfite or ammonium of gold sulfite; and a conductive salt including sulfite and sulfate. The non-cyanogen type electrolytic gold plating solution includes a salt of at least one of iridium, ruthenium, and rhodium in a metal concentration of 1 to 3000 mg/L. Further, the non-cyanogen type electrolytic gold plating solution preferably includes a crystal adjuster. The crystal adjuster is particularly preferably thallium.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device capable of increasing the number of signals. A semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the invention includes memories; a controller that designates addresses of the memories; amounting board having lines formed thereon, the lines connecting the controller with the memories; and a first ball group that connects the controller with the lines of the mounting board. A plurality of address lines formed on the mounting board includes an address line formed of a front surface wiring layer, and an address line formed of a back surface wiring layer. In each of the front surface wiring layer and the back surface wiring layer, each of the address lines from first balls of the first ball group is routed in order from a first memory to a fourth memory.

Abstract: Linearity and power efficiency in a power amplifier circuit are enhanced. The power amplifier circuit includes a first transistor that amplifies a signal input to the base and that outputs the amplified signal from the collector and a first capacitor that is disposed between the base and the collector of the first transistor and that has voltage dependency of a capacitance value lower than that of a base-collector parasitic capacitance value of the first transistor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate processing method of etching a substrate including a target layer, and a mask layer and an intermediate layer that are stacked on the target layer, to form a pattern on the target layer via the intermediate layer and the mask layer. The intermediate layer is etched under a processing pressure of 100 mTorr (1.33×10 Pa) to 150 mTorr (2.0×10 Pa) by using as a processing gas a mixture gas of CF4, CHF3, and C4F8, and the mask layer is etched by using a COS-containing gas as a processing gas.