Abstract: A continuously variable transmission includes, in a case: a drive pulley and a driven pulley each including a fixed-side pulley half and a movable-side pulley half configured to move to the fixed-side pulley half; a belt including a plurality of elements and a plurality of rings wound around the drive pulley and the driven pulley; a parking gear provided to the fixed-side pulley half of the driven pulley; and a parking pawl configured to be fitted to the parking gear, the continuously variable transmission transmitting a driving force to a wheel while changing a transmission ratio by changing groove widths of the drive pulley and the driven pulley, wherein the case includes an annular rib integrally molded with the case in a manner surrounding an outer periphery of the parking gear except for a position intersecting a swing trajectory of the parking pawl and a predetermined position.

Abstract: A power amplifying circuit includes an output transistor that amplifies a radio frequency signal and outputs an amplified signal, a bias circuit that supplies a bias current or voltage to the output transistor, and a bias control part connected to the bias circuit and includes a control circuit that increases the bias current or voltage when an ambient temperature is equal to or less than a predetermined value. In consecutive time periods of a first, a second, and a third time period, when output of the output transistor in the third time period is greater than output of the output transistor in the first and the second time period, the bias control part increases the bias current or voltage in the second time period as to become higher than the bias current or voltage of a case where the ambient temperature is higher than the predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: According to one implementation, a drill includes the first cutting edges, the second cutting edges and a deflection reducer. The first cutting edges drill a prepared hole to a workpiece. The first cutting edges are formed in a tip side of the drill. The first point angle and each first relief angle of the first cutting edges continuously or intermittently decrease from the tip side toward a rear end side of the drill. The second cutting edges finish the prepared hole. The second cutting edges are formed at positions away in the rear end side from the first cutting edges. The second cutting edges have the second relief angles at a maximum diameter position. The deflection reducer reduces deflection of the second cutting edges. The deflection reducer is formed between the first cutting edges and the second cutting edges. The deflection reducer is inserted into the prepared hole.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate that includes a first region in which a plurality of first photodiodes are arranged along a first direction, and a second region in which a plurality of second photodiodes are arranged along the first direction, and an insulating film that is disposed on the semiconductor substrate to cover the first region and the second region. The insulating film includes an optical path changing portion that changes an optical path of light incident on the insulating film on the first region and directed to the second region in at least an intermediate region between a first edge photodiode closest to the second region among the plurality of first photodiodes and a second edge photodiode closest to the first region among the plurality of second photodiodes.

Abstract: A pressure sensor has a stem in which a pressure introduction hole into which a pressure medium is introduced and a diaphragm deformable according to the pressure of the pressure medium are formed, and a strain detecting element which is arranged on the diaphragm via an insulating film and being configured to output a detection signal according to the deformation of the diaphragm. The strain detecting element is configured to have a portion made of polysilicon. A low doping layer having a higher electrical resistivity than polysilicon and a higher crystallinity than the insulating film is arranged between the insulating film and the strain detecting element.

Abstract: A breathable salt core is provided that is placed in a cavity of a casting mold in order to mold a hollow part of a cast product and that is dissolved and removed after casting, the breathable salt core being formed by powder molding innumerable salt particles into a predetermined shape corresponding to the hollow part, wherein a gap that can retain a gas remaining in the cavity in a casting process is formed between the innumerable salt particles that have been powder molded. The breathable salt core thus manufactured assures that residual gas within the cavity pushed by the molten metal to enter the gap formed between salt particles of the salt core, thereby avoiding any incomplete filling of the molten metal, and which can be formed with a simple production process at a low cost.

Abstract: A breathable salt core is provided that is placed in a cavity of a casting mold in order to mold a hollow part of a cast product and that is dissolved and removed after casting, the breathable salt core being formed by powder molding innumerable salt particles into a predetermined shape corresponding to the hollow part, wherein a gap that can retain a gas remaining in the cavity in a casting process is formed between the innumerable salt particles that have been powder molded. The breathable salt core thus manufactured assures that residual gas within the cavity pushed by the molten metal to enter the gap formed between salt particles of the salt core, thereby avoiding any incomplete filling of the molten metal, and which can be formed with a simple production process at a low cost.

Abstract: A pressure sensor has a stem in which a pressure introduction hole into which a pressure medium is introduced and a diaphragm deformable according to the pressure of the pressure medium are formed, and a strain detecting element which is arranged on the diaphragm via an insulating film and being configured to output a detection signal according to the deformation of the diaphragm. The strain detecting element is configured to have a portion made of polysilicon. A low doping layer having a higher electrical resistivity than polysilicon and a higher crystallinity than the insulating film is arranged between the insulating film and the strain detecting element.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device according to an embodiment is a solid-state image pickup device including a first pixel row, a second pixel row, and a third pixel row that are arranged in a horizontal direction. In the solid-state image pickup device, a first control pulse for transferring charges of first accumulation portions of the fourth and sixth CCD registers in a vertical direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction and a second control pulse for transferring charges of second accumulation portions of the fourth and sixth CCD registers in the horizontal direction are input to the fourth and sixth CCD registers such that an Hi period of the first control pulse and an Hi period of the second control pulse do not overlap each other in a timing period in which charges accumulated in the first, second, and third pixel rows are transferred.

Abstract: Provided is a new boron isotope (10B) tracing drug which can exhibit wide-area molecular-targeting function and stereotactic destructive power. The invented boron isotope (10B) tracing drug has higher selective tumor-targeting and tumor-accumulating pharmacokinetic functions appropriate for neutron beam dynamic therapy (NBDT) and boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT).

Abstract: The present invention is the creation of stable boron isotope (10B) containing nanosilica particles composing of amino acids, amino-oligosaccharides, and oligopeptides appropriate to the improvement of drug delivery system (DDS) function of delivering more boron to tumors selectively to facilitate the efficacy of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT).

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device according to an embodiment is a solid-state image pickup device including a first pixel row, a second pixel row, and a third pixel row that are arranged in a horizontal direction. In the solid-state image pickup device, a first control pulse for transferring charges of first accumulation portions of the fourth and sixth CCD registers in a vertical direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction and a second control pulse for transferring charges of second accumulation portions of the fourth and sixth CCD registers in the horizontal direction are input to the fourth and sixth CCD registers such that an Hi period of the first control pulse and an Hi period of the second control pulse do not overlap each other in a timing period in which charges accumulated in the first, second, and third pixel rows are transferred.

Abstract: An access information setting system includes: a data reception device; a data transmission device that transmits data to the data reception device via a network; and a writing device that writes access information for accessing to the data reception device via the network, in a storing medium. The data transmission device obtains the access information written in the storing medium, and sets a network setting for accessing to the data reception device in accordance with the access information as one network setting which can be used by the data transmission device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a user interface unit including a display unit and an input unit; and a processor outputting, by an operation of a user, a diagnostic/recovery menu in which a processing detail of each of a plurality of diagnostic/recovery processing is associated with importance of the processing detail on the display unit as well as determining a range and a type of information to be acquired for a trouble analysis on the basis of diagnostic/recovery processing selected by the user on the diagnostic/recovery menu and storing the determined information into a storage unit along with the importance.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, in a case a user is authenticated, allocates a sub address provided under the network address of the image forming apparatus to the user, outputs destination information including the network address and the sub address along with a job file for setting to the outside, in a case the job file for setting is received, associates the sub address and identification information of the user with one another, in a case the sub address and the identification information of the user are associated with one another, associates the printing data with the identification information of the user, and stores the printing data on a storage.

Abstract: A crystalized red pigment of saw palmetto fruit obtained by extracting a saw palmetto fruit with ethanol and depositing a red pigment in the extract.

Abstract: An object stop position control method includes: when a movement instruction as to an object displayed on a display unit is received by a first operation method, moving the object in accordance with the movement instruction, stopping the movement of the object based on the movement instruction when the object moves past a predetermined stop position, and causing the object to automatically stop at the stop position; and, when the movement instruction is received by a second operation method, not causing the object to automatically stop, but moving the object in accordance with the movement instruction.

Abstract: Disclosed in an operation display apparatus including: a display unit; a touch panel to detect a touch position on which a display face of the display unit is touched; and a control unit to control display contents of the display unit and to switch a specific area provided in a part of the display face, between an operable state in which display of information and a detection of a touch action for the touch panel are operated and a non-operable state in which the display and the detection are not operated, wherein the control unit sets a part of the specific area, which is arranged in a boundary with another operation display apparatus disposed with the operation display apparatus side by side, to the operable state.

Abstract: A multilayer composite body in which a shaped metal article, a thermosetting resin layer, a modified polyolefin resin layer, and a polypropylene-based resin composition, or a PP-based GFRTP are laminated in the order of description. A multilayer composite body of a metal and a resin is obtained which excels in a fixing strength (shear breaking stress) between the shaped metal article and the molded article of the polypropylene-based resin composition. The thermosetting resin layer is composed mainly of a urethane resin or an epoxy resin. The polypropylene-based resin composition is molded by an injection molding. The modified polyolefin resin forming the modified polyolefin resin layer includes one or two or more of non-chlorinated modified polyolefin resins having a weighted average of melting points of 70° C. to 110° C., as determined with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC).

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, in a case a user is authenticated, allocates a sub address provided under the network address of the image forming apparatus to the user, outputs destination information including the network address and the sub address along with a job file for setting to the outside, in a case the job file for setting is received, associates the sub address and identification information of the user with one another, in a case the sub address and the identification information of the user are associated with one another, associates the printing data with the identification information of the user, and stores the printing data on a storage.