Abstract: A vehicle theft deterrent apparatus includes a driver verifier, a steering torque detector, an actuator, and a steering controller. The steering torque detector is configured to detect steering torque input by a driver to a steering system. The actuator is configured to generate drive torque to be given to the steering system. The driver verifier is configured to verify whether driver information obtained from the driver matches registered information registered in advance. The steering controller is configured to control the drive torque generated by the actuator based on the steering torque. In a case where the driver verifier determines that the driver information does not match the registered information, the steering controller is configured to permit the driver to steer until a vehicle drives a set distance, and then to cause the actuator to generate the drive torque prohibiting the driver from steering.

Abstract: Provided is a conjugate of a chelating agent chelated with a radionuclide and a deglycosylated antibody, where the chelating agent site-specifically modifies the Fc region of the aforementioned antibody via a linker. The conjugate shows increased accumulation in a tumor and decreased accumulation in normal tissues. These differences in accumulation are associated with a decrease in a risk of side effects.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing an electrocast belt which method ensures long-term use of an electrocasting bath and which method enables provision of an electrocast belt having a required product quality even when an electrocasting bath that has been used in electrolysis with a large cumulative amount of electricity. The method includes a first step of producing an electrocast belt having a required product quality in an electrocasting bath of a specific composition until a predetermined period of time has elapsed; a second step of subsequently producing an electrocast belt in the same electrocasting bath; and a third step of polishing a surface of the electrocast belt produced from the second step so that the electrocast belt produced from the third step has a product quality equivalent to that of the electrocast belt produced from the first step.

Abstract: An electromagnetic induction heating element includes a first heating layer 11 formed of electrocast nickel and having an endless-belt-like form; a second heating layer 12 formed of a non-magnetic material; and a coating layer 13 having a thickness of 3 ?m or less, wherein the first heating layer 11, the second heating layer 12, and the coating layer 13 are sequentially stacked.

Abstract: An electromagnetic induction heating element includes a first heating layer 11 formed of electrocast nickel and having an endless-belt-like form; a second heating layer 12 formed of a non-magnetic material; and a coating layer 13 having a thickness of 3 ?m or less, wherein the first heating layer 11, the second heating layer 12, and the coating layer 13 are sequentially stacked.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fixation member having a multi-layer metallic structure, which member comprises a substrate employing electroformed nickel for preventing image quality failure. The fixation member of the present invention includes a metallic substrate including a first layer formed of an electroformed seamless belt made of nickel or a nickel alloy, and a second layer formed of an electroformed seamless belt made of a metal having a thermal conductivity greater than that of the first layer; an adhesion layer disposed on the surface of the second layer; and a fluororesin layer disposed by the mediation of the adhesion layer, wherein the ratio of the thickness of the second layer to the total thickness of the metallic substrate is 0.66 to 0.95.

Abstract: The invention provides a multilayer metal member for image fixation which does not readily undergo breakage due to bending stress during use thereof and which has improved durability. The multilayer metal member includes a metal substrate formed of at least three laminated metal layers, and a fluororesin layer disposed on the metal substrate, wherein the metal substrate has a first layer which is an electrocast seamless belt formed of nickel or a nickel alloy, a second layer which is an electrocast seamless belt formed of a metal having a Young's modulus smaller than that of the first layer, and a third layer formed of a metal having a corrosion resistance higher than that of the second layer; and the ratio (y) of the thickness of the third layer to that of the first layer satisfies the following formula: y(x)??7.5x+3.015, including the ratio (x) of the thickness of the second layer to the total thickness of the metal substrate.

Abstract: The multilayer metal member of the invention includes a metallic base having a first layer 11 which is an electrocast seamless belt made of nickel or a nickel alloy, and a second layer 12 which is an electrocast seamless belt made of a metal having a Young's modulus lower than that of the first layer 11; and a fluororesin layer 17 provided on the second layer 12 side of the metallic base by the mediation of an adhesion layer, wherein the ratio of the thickness of the second layer 12 to the total thickness of the metallic base is 0.25 to 0.65.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing an electrocast belt which method ensures long-term use of an electrocasting bath and which method enables provision of an electrocast belt having a required product quality even when an electrocasting bath that has been used in electrolysis with a large cumulative amount of electricity. The method includes a first step of producing an electrocast belt having a required product quality in an electrocasting bath of a specific composition until a predetermined period of time has elapsed; a second step of subsequently producing an electrocast belt in the same electrocasting bath; and a third step of polishing a surface of the electrocast belt produced from the second step so that the electrocast belt produced from the third step has a product quality equivalent to that of the electrocast belt produced from the first step.

Abstract: The present invention provides a laminated electrocast sleeve and a fixation belt having drastically enhanced durability. The laminated electrocast sleeve formed of a plurality of metal layers including at least a first metal layer, and a second metal layer provided around the first metal layer through electrocasting, wherein the first metal layer is isolated from the second metal layer, and the difference between the outer diameter of the first metal layer and the inner diameter of the second metal layer is 50 ?m or less.

Abstract: A substrate for bioassay comprises a substrate and a group of reaction regions serving as a field where interaction between substances proceeds and formed in the substrate, and a group of information pits used to obtain positional information of individual reaction regions and/or substance information used in the reaction regions. The group of reaction regions and the group of information pits are not formed in the same substrate surface. A bioassay apparatus using the substrate and a method for making the substrate are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention allows a plasma display panel to have gradation levels being sufficient in number and to have stable address discharge. In the plasma display apparatus having a panel and a driver circuit, the driver circuit drives the panel on the subfield structure that satisfies the following. One field has a first subfield group and a second subfield group temporally successive to the first subfield group. Each of the subfield groups is formed of a plurality of temporally successive subfields. The luminance weight increases in the order of occurrence of the subfields within each subfield group. The first subfield of the second subfield group has a luminance weight smaller than that of the last subfield of the first subfield group. When a gradation having a level greater than a gradation threshold is displayed, the first subfield of the second subfield group has no light emission.

Abstract: The present invention allows a plasma display apparatus having a high-luminance panel to decrease initializing bright points that easily occur just after power-on of the apparatus, enhancing the quality of display image. The panel has discharge cells, each of which including a data electrode, and a display electrode pair formed of a scan electrode and a sustain electrode. In the driving method of the panel, one field period is formed of subfields, each of which including an initializing period for generating initializing discharge in the discharge cells, an address period for applying scan pulses to the scan electrodes and applying address pulses to the data electrodes, and a sustain period for applying sustain pulses to the data electrode pairs. In the structure above, a predetermined period after power-off of the apparatus has no generation of the address pulses, the scan pulses, and the sustain pulses.

Abstract: In a driving method of a panel, one field period is formed by arranging a plurality of subfields that have an address period for selectively causing address discharge in a discharge cell, and a sustain period for causing as many sustain discharges as the number corresponding to luminance weight in the discharge cell. One field period is formed by arranging a plurality of subfield groups having a plurality of subfields whose luminance weights monotonically increase. In the discharge cell for causing address discharge in a certain subfield other than the head subfield in each subfield group, address discharge is caused even in the head subfield.

Abstract: In a driving method of a panel, one field period is formed by arranging a plurality of subfields that have an initializing period for causing initializing discharge in a discharge cell, an address period for selectively causing address discharge in the discharge cell, and a sustain period for causing as many sustain discharges as the number corresponding to luminance weight in the discharge cell. One field period is formed by arranging a plurality of subfield groups having a plurality of subfields whose luminance weights monotonically increase. A holding period when discharge is not caused is disposed before the head subfield belonging to at least one subfield group of the plurality of subfield groups. In the initializing period of the head subfield belonging to at least one subfield group, an initializing operation of causing initializing discharge is performed in the discharge cell where the sustain discharge has been performed in the sustain period of the immediately preceding subfield.

Abstract: A plasma display panel; a scan electrode drive circuit for generating a gently decreasing downward inclined waveform voltage in an initializing period, a gently increasing first inclined waveform voltage, and a second inclined waveform voltage having a steeper gradient than the first inclined waveform voltage and decreasing immediately after the increasing waveform voltage reaches a predetermined potential in the last part of the sustain period. The lowest voltage in the downward inclined waveform voltage is switched at a first voltage, a second voltage higher than the first voltage and a third voltage higher than the second voltage to generate a downward inclined waveform voltage. The lowest voltage is switched according to the detected temperature to generate the downward inclined waveform voltage.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electromagnetic induction heating element provided with a first heating layer (11), which is in the shape of an endless belt and is configured from a nickel electrocast, a second heating layer (12), which is configured from a non-magnetic material, and a coating layer (13), which has a thickness of 3 [mu]m or less. The first heating layer (11), second heating layer (12), and coating layer (13) are laminated in said order.

Abstract: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The plasma display device has a panel having a plurality of discharge cells including a display electrode pair that is formed of a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, and a temperature detecting circuit for detecting the ambient temperature of the panel and outputting the detected temperature. In the driving method, an unusual charge erasing period when a rectangular waveform voltage is applied to the scan electrode is disposed between the initializing period and address period of at least one of a plurality of subfields, and the number of subfields having the unusual charge erasing period is controlled based on the detected temperature detected by the temperature detecting circuit.

Abstract: The plasma display device has a sustain pulse generating circuit for generating sustain pulses in a sustain period. The sustain pulse generating circuit generates at least two kinds of sustain pulses of different rising gradients in the sustain period, generates a predetermined number of sustain pulse whose rising gradient becomes steeper to the latter half in at least one-side electrode in the sustain period after first two sustain pulses and except an erasing pulse, and continuously generates the sustain pulses while the rising gradient of the sustain pulses is varied in response to the light emitting rate of the plasma display panel in the sustain period.

Abstract: A recording medium processing device includes a printing section capable of printing visible information on a non-recording side of a recording medium, a data processing section for retrieving print data in which one recording medium and visible information printed and/or to be printed on the non-recording side of the recording medium are associated with each other, and a print configuration section for determining a printing area of the visible information to be printed on the non-recording side of the one recording medium based on the print data retrieved by the data processing section.