Abstract: This steel plate for cold forging includes a hot-rolled steel plate, wherein the hot-rolled steel plate includes: in terms of percent by mass, C: 0.13% to 0.20%; Si: 0.01% to 0.8%; Mn: 0.1% to 2.5%; P: 0.003% to 0.030%; S: 0.0001% to 0.008%; Al: 0.01% to 0.07%; N: 0.0001% to 0.02%; and O: 0.0001% to 0.0030%, with a remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, an A value represented by the following formula (1) is in a range of 0.0080 or less, a thickness of the hot-rolled steel plate is in a range of 2 mm to 25 mm, and an area percentage of pearlite bands having lengths of 1 mm or more in a region of 4/10t to 6/10t when a plate thickness is indicated by t in a cross section of a plate thickness that is parallel to a rolling direction of the hot-rolled steel plate is in a range of not more than a K value represented by the following formula (2), A value=O%+S%+0.033Al%??(1) K value=25.5×C%+4.5×Mn%?6??(2).

Abstract: A group structure preserving signature system that can be applied to groups based on symmetric bilinear mapping, that reduces the signature length, and that enables efficient computation of verification equations is provided. At least, information indicating p, G1, G2, GT, e, g1, and g2, information needed to obtain e(ku, hv), and data that includes gs, hs, gt, ht, {g1, h1}, . . . , {gK, hK} are held as a public key vk, and data that includes vk, ?s, ?s, ?t, ?t, ?u, ?v, {?1, ?1}, . . . , {?K, ?K} are held as a secret key sk. A signature device selects ? and ? at random from integers between 0 and p?1, both inclusive, obtains w, s, t, and r, and generates, as a signature ?, data that includes w, s, t, and r. A verification device verifies the signature ? by using two verification equations.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hot dip plated high strength steel sheet comprising a cold rolled steel sheet and a hot dip plated layer formed on the surface thereof, characterized in that the cold rolled steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: 0.0005 to 0.0050%, Si: over 0.3 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.70 to 2.0%, P: 0.05% or less, Ti: 0.010 to 0.050%, Nb: 0.010 to 0.040%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0030%, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.30%, and N: 0.0010 to 0.01%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and the cold rolled steel sheet has a value of TB* defined by the equation TB*=(0.11?[Ti])/(ln ([B]×10000)) of 0.03 to 0.06, and P is present in an amount of [P]?10×[B]+0.03, where [Ti] is the Ti content in mass percent, [B] is the B content in mass percent, and [P] is the P content in mass percent.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus in which a thermoelectric conversion element and at least one of a photoelectric conversion element and a transistor or a diode are monolithically integrated, or which prevents interference between a p-type thermoelectric conversion unit and an n-type thermoelectric conversion unit. This electronic apparatus includes a thermoelectric conversion element (100) including a semiconductor layer of stacked heterostructure (38) which performs thermoelectric conversion using Seebeck effect and at least one of a photoelectric conversion element (102) in which at least a portion of the semiconductor layer of stacked heterostructure (38) performs photoelectric conversion and a transistor (104) or a diode having at least a portion of the semiconductor layer of stacked heterostructure (38) as an operating layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a medium carbon steel sheet for cold working that has a hardness of 500 HV to 900 HV when subjected to high-frequency quenching in which a temperature is raised at an average heating rate of 100° C./second, the temperature is held at 1,000° C. for 10 seconds, and a quick cooling to a room temperature is carried out at an average cooling rate of 200° C./second. The medium carbon steel sheet includes, by mass %, C: 0.30 to 0.60%, Si: 0.06 to 0.30%, Mn: 0.3 to 2.0%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.0075% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.10%, N: 0.001 to 0.01%, and Cr: 0.001 to 0.10%, the balance composed of Fe and inevitable impurities. An average diameter d of a carbide is 0.6 ?m or less, a spheroidizing ratio p of the carbide is equal to or more than 70% and less than 90%, and the average diameter d (?m) of the carbide and the spheroidizing ratio p % of the carbide satisfy d?0.04×p?2.6.

Abstract: A hot stamped high strength part in which the propagation of cracks which form at the plating layer at the time of hot stamping when hot stamping aluminum plated steel sheet is suppressed and the post painting anticorrosion property is excellent even without adding special ingredient elements which suppress formation of cracks in an aluminum plating layer is provided.

Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of steel sheet for hot stamping use which is excellent in part strength after hot stamping and delayed fracture resistance comprised of large C content high strength steel sheet in which effective hydrogen traps are formed in the steel material. The steel sheet of the present invention solves this problem by forming Fe—Mn-based composite oxides in the steel sheet and trapping hydrogen at the interfaces of the composite oxides and matrix steel and in the voids around the composite oxides. Specifically, it provides steel sheet for hot stamping use which is comprised of chemical ingredients which contain, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.02% or less, Mn: 0.1 to 3%, S: 0.02% or less, P: 0.03% or less, Al: 0.005% or less, Ti: 0.01% or less, N: 0.01% or less, one or both of Cr and Mo in a total of 0.005 to 1%, and O: 0.003 to 0.03% and which have a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and which contains average diameter 0.

Abstract: A signature is generated by a scheme in which x denotes a secret key of a signature generating apparatus, mrec?{0, 1}M denotes a recovery message, k denotes an arbitrary value, g denotes a generator of a cyclic group G of order q, R represents gk?G, H1 represents a hash function H1: {0, 1}*?{0, 1}L, H2 represents a hash function H2: {0, 1}*?{0, 1}M that has a variable output length, H3 represents a hash function H3: {0, 1}*?Zq, r=H1(R, mrec)|mrec(+)H2(R, H1(R, mrec)), where (+) represents an exclusive-OR operator, t is defined for ?, which depends on r, as t=H3(?), s is defined as s=k?t·x?Z, and a signature is ?=(r, s).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is disclosed which can prevent occurrence of flicker regardless of display modes. The apparatus includes a liquid crystal modulation element which includes a liquid crystal layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, a controller which controls a potential difference to be applied between the first and second electrodes. The apparatus operates in first and second modes, which are different in the light amount entering the element. A memory stores first information for the first mode and second information for the second mode as controlling information on a potential difference between the electrodes for suppressing flicker within a certain range. The controller controls the potential difference between the electrodes based on the first information when the first mode is set and controls the potential difference between the electrodes based on the second information when the second mode is set.

Abstract: A particulate composition, wherein a hydrophilic substance is polydispersed in a matrix of a fat composition having a solid fat content at 25 C of 58% or more and a solid fat content at 37 C of 90% or less; and a coating fat composition containing 45% by weight or more of a triglyceride comprising at least both a saturated fatty acid having 6 to 12 carbon atoms and a saturated fatty acid having 14 or more carbon atoms as constituent fatty acids, wherein the proportion of the saturated fatty acid having 14 or more carbon atoms in the constituent fatty acids of the whole fat exceeds 50% by weight.

Abstract: A biometric authentication device includes an accommodation unit and a detection unit in which the accommodation unit accommodates a card-type recording medium providing alternative information alternative to feature information such that the card-type recording medium is faced to the detection unit, with a biologic object absent, and the detection unit detects the alternative information from the card-type recording medium, thereby collating the feature information extracted from an image of the biologic object with the feature information recorded in a memory in the case of placing the finger into the accommodation unit, and collating the alternative information from the card-type recording medium with the alternative information recorded in the memory in the case of placing the card-type recording medium into the accommodation unit.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal modulation element including first and second electrode, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second electrodes, a first alignment film disposed between the first electrode and the liquid crystal layer, and a second alignment film disposed between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer. The apparatus further includes a controller that respectively provides first and second electric potentials to the first and second electrodes such that a sign of an electric field generated in the liquid crystal layer is cyclically inverted in a modulation operation state. The controller respectively provides third and fourth electric potentials to the first and second electrodes such that the sign of the electric field is fixed in a state other than the modulation operation state. The apparatus can avoid an influence by cumulated charged particles without adding a new member.

Abstract: This steel plate for cold forging includes a hot-rolled steel plate, wherein the hot-rolled steel plate includes: in terms of percent by mass, C: 0.13% to 0.20%; Si: 0.01% to 0.8%; Mn: 0.1% to 2.5%; P: 0.003% to 0.030%; S: 0.0001% to 0.008%; Al: 0.01% to 0.07%; N: 0.0001% to 0.02%; and O: 0.0001% to 0.0030%, with a remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, an A value represented by the following formula (1) is in a range of 0.0080 or less, a thickness of the hot-rolled steel plate is in a range of 2 mm to 25 mm, and an area percentage of pearlite bands having lengths of 1 mm or more in a region of 4/10t to 6/10t when a plate thickness is indicated by t in a cross section of a plate thickness that is parallel to a rolling direction of the hot-rolled steel plate is in a range of not more than a K value represented by the following formula (2), A value=O%+S%+0.033Al%??(1) K value=25.5×C%+4.5×Mn%?6??(2).

Abstract: The problem to be solved of the present invention is to provide a method which can efficiently and economically produce a flavoring agent and can give the original flavor of a raw material to a food and drink. The objective of the present invention is also to provide a flavoring agent. The method for producing a flavoring agent according to the present invention is characterized in comprising the steps of mixing a flavor material with a solvent and extracting a flavor component contained in the fragrant material under pressure; wherein a solubility parameter of the solvent is not less than 8.0 and not more than 25.0.

Abstract: An apparatus for extracting the contents from a refill pouch comprises a holding member for holding the pouch with its extraction port facing downward, and a pump attached to the extraction port of the pouch. The pump has a pump body defining a housing space having an inlet opening and an outlet opening, an inlet-side valve which communicates with the extraction port to open and close the inlet opening so that the contents can be introduced into the housing space from the pouch, and an outlet-side valve to open and close the outlet opening so that the contents in the housing space can be discharged through a nozzle that communicates with the outlet-side valve. The pump wall portion is constituted by a resiliently compressible, restorable and flexible material so that the contents in the housing space can be extracted through the nozzle by manually squeezing the pump wall portion thereby pressurizing the housing space.

Abstract: An image projection apparatus is disclosed which projects an image having a good color by reducing the influence of a lateral electric field in a liquid crystal display element (LCD). The apparatus includes three LCDs, each including two opposite electrodes. As the voltage applied to a liquid crystal layer is increased, retardation provided for light in each color band is increased. A controller controls an electrode application voltage in the first LCD such that, in a white display state, a liquid crystal application voltage (LCAV) in the first LCD is lower than the LCAVs in the second and third LCDs, and such that, in a black display state, the LCAV in the first LCD is higher than the LCAVs in the second and third LCDs and has a value from 1% to 30% of the LCAV in the first LCD in the white display state.

Abstract: An operation of floating charged particles and an operation of dispersing charged particles in a liquid crystal layer are controlled by determining strengths of electric fields to be applied to a liquid crystal element in accordance with a length of elapsed time from a point turning on the liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: An image projection apparatus is disclosed which projects an image having a good color by reducing the influence of a lateral electric field in a liquid crystal display element (LCD). The apparatus includes three LCDs, each including two opposite electrodes. As the voltage applied to a liquid crystal layer is increased, retardation provided for light in each color band is increased. A controller controls an electrode application voltage in the first LCD such that, in a white display state, a liquid crystal application voltage (LCAV) in the first LCD is lower than the LCAVs in the second and third LCDs, and such that, in a black display state, the LCAV in the first LCD is higher than the LCAVs in the second and third LCDs and has a value from 1% to 30% of the LCAV in the first LCD in the white display state.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus in which a thermoelectric conversion element and at least one of a photoelectric conversion element and a transistor or a diode are monolithically integrated, or which prevents interference between a p-type thermoelectric conversion unit and an n-type thermoelectric conversion unit. This electronic apparatus includes a thermoelectric conversion element (100) including a semiconductor layer (38) which performs thermoelectric conversion and at least one of a photoelectric conversion element (102) in which at least a portion of the semiconductor layer (38) performs photoelectric conversion and a transistor (104) or a diode having at least a portion of the semiconductor layer (38) as an operating layer.

Abstract: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a reflective liquid crystal display apparatus which includes a polarization beam splitter having a polarization split film used as both a polarizer and an analyzer; a reflective liquid crystal display device; a quarter wave plate; and a projection optical system; where the absolute value of phase difference of diffracted light generated by the reflective liquid crystal display device in a black display state is reduced by the phase difference of the quarter wave plate, and thus the amount of stray light of the diffracted light guided from the polarizing beam splitter to the projection optical system decreases.