Abstract: A silicate phosphor having a coating layer comprising a fluorine-containing compound on its surface which is obtained by a method of heating a mixture of 100 weight parts of a silicate phosphor and 0.5-15 weight parts of ammonium fluoride at a temperature in the range of 200 to 600° C. exhibits high light emission intensity and high moisture resistance.

Abstract: An optical communication system that connects a plurality of user-side optical line terminating apparatuses (hereinafter referred to as ONUs) to a station-side optical line terminating apparatus (hereinafter referred to as OLT) using a common optical fiber, wherein the ONU as at least a part of the ONUs includes a transceiver having a power saving function for inactivating a transmitting unit while supplying electric power to a receiving unit and a control apparatus that transmits support information of the power saving function to the OLT via the transceiver, and the OLT includes a control apparatus that generates transmission allowance information of upstream communication based on the support information of the power saving function and a transceiver that receives the support information of the power saving function and transmits the transmission allowance information to the ONU.

Abstract: An ophthalmic laser surgical apparatus includes: a laser irradiation optical system configured to irradiate a patient's eye with surgical laser; a fixation unit configured to fix the patient's eye on the laser irradiation optical system; an interface unit including an optical member configured to cover at least the cornea of the patient's eye; a tomography unit configured to capture a tomographic image of the anterior segment of the patient's eye; and a monitoring unit configured to monitor a position of the fixation unit and/or the interface unit with respect to the patient's eye based on the tomographic image captured by the tomography unit.

Abstract: An ophthalmic laser surgical apparatus includes a laser irradiation optical system configured to form a spot of laser light on a patient's eye and move the position of the spot three-dimensionally, a unit configured to obtain a tomographic image of the patient's eye, a unit configured to obtain control information of the laser irradiation optical system, the control information corresponding to a discriminative portion in the tomographic image, a unit configured to determine a surgical site based on the tomographic image, a unit configured to, based on the control information, generate control information of the laser irradiation optical system for irradiating the surgical site with the laser, and a unit configured to control the laser irradiation optical system based on the control information to allow the laser irradiation optical system to apply a predetermined surgical site of the patient's eye with the laser light.

Abstract: Glass fiber-treating agent which includes: (A) 5-95% by weight of an acetylene glycol or an ethylene oxide and/or a propylene oxide adduct of an acetylene glycol; and (B) 5-95% by weight of a silicone surfactant which may be polyoxyalkylene-modified. The glass fiber-treating agent reduces dynamic and static surface tension and contact angle. The glass fiber-treating agent provides excellent wetting, penetration, and antifoaming properties when glass fibers are treated therewith.

Abstract: The control device includes a power-saving control unit that intermittently repeats, based on a power saving permission signal transmitted from the master station apparatus, power saving control in which the slave station stops or reduces power supply to a transmitter or a receiver for a predetermined pause duration while maintaining a communication link and a monitoring unit that monitors out of synchronization by comparing a synchronization signal received from the OLT and a time of the ONU. The control device shifts from a registered state to a deregistered state when the monitoring unit detects the out of synchronization. On the other hand, after the pause duration of the power saving control, the control device suppresses the shift to the deregistered state due to the detection of the out of synchronization.

Abstract: There is disclosed a polycarbonate and polysiloxane block copolymer includes 1 to 50 percent by mass of a siloxane portion derived from a polysiloxane block represented by the following formula (I) and 50 to 99 percent by mass of a carbonate portion derived from a polycarbonate block represented by the following formula (II). There can be provided a novel polycarbonate and polysiloxane block copolymer capable of readily imparting excellent flame retardance, and a flame retardant resin composition.

Abstract: A logical-link management method to be executed in an optical communication system including a station side device (OLT) and a subscriber side device (ONU) that is capable of setting a plurality of logical links together with the OLT, in which the OLT transmits a signal for managing the ONU via a single logical link. The logical-link management method includes a status monitoring of the OLT monitoring whether there is a change in a connection status of the logical link between the OLT and the ONU and a link resetting of the OLT resetting, when a change of the connection status of the logical link is detected at the status monitoring, a device management logical link used for transmitting the signal for managing the ONU according to a predetermined procedure.

Abstract: The control device includes a power-saving control unit that intermittently repeats, based on a power saving permission signal transmitted from the master station apparatus, power saving control in which the slave station stops or reduces power supply to a transmitter or a receiver for a predetermined pause duration while maintaining a communication link and a monitoring unit that monitors out of synchronization by comparing a synchronization signal received from the OLT and a time of the ONU. The control device shifts from a registered state to a deregistered state when the monitoring unit detects the out of synchronization. On the other hand, after the pause duration of the power saving control, the control device suppresses the shift to the deregistered state due to the detection of the out of synchronization.

Abstract: A communication device, which provides a bandwidth allocation opportunity to ONUs each having different data transmission rates, not depending on any specific bandwidth-request notifying method, thereby realizing fair upstream transmission data delay between data transmission rates of respective ONUs, includes a bandwidth-update-cycle division processor that divides the bandwidth update cycle into slots of each of the data transmission rates, a bandwidth-allocation-amount calculating unit that allocates a bandwidth to the slave station devices in a slot of the data transmission rate, and a transmission-start-time calculating unit that sets a transmission start time and a transmission time of data of the slave station devices, based on an overhead length of a data frame transmitted by the slave station devices.

Abstract: A pick-up style utility vehicle has a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed. The cargo bed is expandable forward and has a screen shield for partitioning at a front end thereof. The rear seat has a seat bottom for the rear seat detachably attached to a rear seat attaching portion provided on a vehicle body. The screen shield has a seat holding portion to which the seat bottom, detached from the rear seat attaching portion, is attachable.

Abstract: A bandwidth control method used in a case where, for example, a first communication device (OLT) allocates a bandwidth for signal transmission to each of a plurality of second communication devices (ONUs) connected to the OLT in a communication system having the OLT and the ONUs includes a sleep controlling of shifting devices among the ONUs that satisfy a predetermined condition into a power saving state, a control-target selecting of selecting control target devices among the ONUs based on a result of performing the sleep controlling, and a bandwidth determining of determining a bandwidth to be allocated to the selected control target devices.

Abstract: Glass fiber-treating agent which includes: (A) 5-95% by weight of an acetylene glycol or an ethylene oxide and/or a propylene oxide adduct of an acetylene glycol; and (B) 5-95% by weight of a silicone surfactant which may be polyoxyalkylene-modified. The glass fiber-treating agent reduces dynamic and static surface tension and contact angle. The glass fiber-treating agent provides excellent wetting, penetration, and antifoaming properties when glass fibers are treated therewith.

Abstract: A pick-up style utility vehicle has a front seat, a rear seat, a cargo bed that is expandable forward, and a screen shield arranged at the front end of the cargo bed. The position of the cargo bed can be changed between an expanded state and a non-expanded state. A winding device for the screen shield is provided on a front panel. The screen shield is made of a net material having flexibility, for example. One end of the screen shield is windably supported by the winding device. The other end of the screen shield has an engaging portion. A first engaged portion for a non-expanded position and a second engaged portion for an expanded position are provided in the cabin frame.

Abstract: An optical communication system that connects a plurality of user-side optical line terminating apparatuses (hereinafter referred to as ONUs) to a station-side optical line terminating apparatus (hereinafter referred to as OLT) using a common optical fiber, wherein the ONU as at least a part of the ONUs includes a transceiver having a power saving function for inactivating a transmitting unit while supplying electric power to a receiving unit and a control apparatus that transmits support information of the power saving function to the OLT via the transceiver, and the OLT includes a control apparatus that generates transmission allowance information of upstream communication based on the support information of the power saving function and a transceiver that receives the support information of the power saving function and transmits the transmission allowance information to the ONU.

Abstract: A flexible, abrasion-resistant, dry to the touch thermoplastic elastomer made of a hydrogenated block copolymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 80,000 to 1,000,000, an olefin-based crystalline resin, a hydrocarbon-based softening agent for rubbers and an acryl-modified organopolysiloxane. At least the block copolymer and the organopolysiloxane are dynamically heat-treated in the presence of an organic peroxide.

Abstract: A pick-up style utility vehicle having a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed in this order from the front of the vehicle. The cargo bed is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded forward into a rear riding space in front of the cargo bed and a non-expanded state not occupying the rear riding space. The utility vehicle has load storing devices in the leg space of the rear seat which serves as a load storing space in the expanded state.

Abstract: A transfer device including a main conveyor part having a first conveying surface and a subsidiary conveyor part having a second conveying surface and arranged at the same area as the main conveyor part, the main conveyor part being designed to convey an article placed on the first conveying surface in one conveying direction, the subsidiary conveyor part being designed to convey an article placed on the second conveying surface in another direction transverse to the conveying direction of the main conveyor part, the main conveyor part and/or the subsidiary conveyor part being a roller conveyor having rollers, at least one of the rollers being a braking roller equipped with a brake, and the brake being designed to prevent the article from proceeding at least to the direction transverse to the conveying direction of the roller conveyor by a frictional force acting between the article and the braking roller.

Abstract: An OLT includes an upper-layer processing unit that receives a transmission request for notifying a data amount transmitted from an ONU and applies predetermined upper-layer processing to data received from the ONU. The OLT includes a band-allocation-information managing unit that instructs, based on the transmission request, when determining that a free period, which is a period in which a band is not allocated to data transmission from the ONU, equal to or larger than a predetermined band threshold is present, the upper-layer processing unit to shift a power saving state. The upper-layer processing unit shifts to the power saving state based on the instruction.

Abstract: A pick-up style utility vehicle has a driver's seat, a seat next to the driver's seat, one or more passenger seats behind the driver's seat, and a cargo bed. Each of all the passenger seats and the seat next to the driver's seat is independently changeable between a first state in which the seat is seatable and a second state in which the seat is retracted so that an occupied space of the seat can be used as part of the cargo bed. Preferably, a screen shield partitioning the cargo bed and a riding space in front of the cargo bed is provided. The screen shield is divided into left and right screen shield members.