Abstract: A solid-state imaging device comprises pixels including: a light receiving portion comprising intra-substrate photoelectric conversion portions, formed in a silicon substrate, that detect light rays of different color, an on-substrate photoelectric conversion portion, stacked above the intra-substrate photoelectric conversion portions, that detects light rays of a color differing from the colors detected by the intra-substrate photoelectric conversion portions; first and second signal read circuits that read signals corresponding to electric charges in the intra-substrate photoelectric conversion portions and signals corresponding to electric charges in the on-substrate photoelectric conversion portion, respectively. The electric charges in the intra-substrate photoelectric conversion portions are electrons, and the electric charges in the on-substrate photoelectric conversion portions are positive holes.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device comprising a semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged on a surface of said semiconductor substrate both in a line direction and in a column direction perpendicular to the line direction to form a tetragonal lattice, wherein: said photoelectric conversion elements include a plurality of high-sensitive photoelectric conversion elements for performing photoelectric conversion in relatively high sensitivity, and a plurality of low-sensitive photoelectric conversion elements for performing photoelectric conversion in relatively low sensitivity; and said plurality of high-sensitive photoelectric conversion elements and said plurality of low-sensitive photoelectric conversion elements are arranged so as to be shaped like a checkered pattern.

Abstract: The present invention includes a fuel supply system having a fuel pump constructed to pump fuel from a fuel tank and to supply the fuel, a pump controller constructed to control the fuel pump, and a pump controller case constructed to receive the pump controller. The pump controller case includes a wall portion made of an electrically conductive material, and a portion of the fuel is directed to the wall portion of the pump controller case for cooling the wall portion.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a sample treatment system is capable of successfully detecting the shape of a stopper of a stopper-equipped sample vessel. A sample treatment system comprises: a sample rack for supporting a stopper-equipped sample vessel in which collected samples are stored; a transfer line for transferring the sample rack; a pretreatment unit that is lined up along the transfer line, and that performs various kinds of pretreatment; and a control unit for controlling the operation of the transfer line and that of the pretreatment unit; wherein the pretreatment unit includes a sample rack supplying unit, a centrifugal separation unit, a stopper opening unit, a dispensing unit, a stopper closing unit, a classification unit, and a sample storing unit, the sample treatment system further comprising shape detection means for detecting the shape of the stopper.

Abstract: In a solid-state image capturing device 100 comprising pixel arrays 11r, 11g and 11b arranged in a row direction and a column direction which is orthogonal thereto and a vertical register 12 including a plurality of transfer electrodes in which a signal charge generated by light acceptance of each pixel is read and is sequentially transferred in the column direction upon receipt of a transfer pulse, an electrode terminal for generating K (K is an integer of 2 or more) continuous electric potential wells for a signal charge in the vertical register 12 upon receipt of the transfer pulse and an electrode terminal for generating one electric potential well for a smear charge after the K electric potential wells for a signal charge are provided as electrode terminals 101 to 116 for cyclically transmitting the transfer pulse to each of the transfer electrodes.

Abstract: To provide an irrigation/aspiration apparatus by which a trouble for an operator is reduced and handling is facilitated and which is capable of preventing a sharp decrease of pressure of an anterior chamber with a simple constitution. The apparatus has a chamber storing an irrigation liquid, a vent tube for making the liquid flow into an aspiration tube, a leading vent leading the liquid into the chamber from an irrigation tubes an outflow pipe extended in an up-and-down direction, an opening formed on a wall of the outflow pipe, of which a width is narrow and set such that an opening is closed by the liquid under surface tension when a liquid level of the liquid inside the chamber rises, an outflow vent to which the irrigation tube or a vent tube is connected, and an air chamber which is a space provided above an inflow hole of the outflow pipe.

Abstract: A color solid state imaging device as defined herein, which includes an output signal processing section including: signal memory means provided for respective columns of the unit pixels, for holding signals read-cut from the pixels of the same color of the same unit pixel row, respectively; and row-direction scanning control means for switching between an all pixels reading operation in which the signals held by the respective signal memory means are read out individually and output to the outside and a sum reading operation in which among the signals held by the respective signal memory means signals held by signal memory means corresponding to adjoining unit pixels are read out simultaneously and output to the outside.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device as defined herein, in which each of the signal reading circuits for reading the detection signals of the first-color pixels includes three transistors which are a reset transistor, a row selection transistor, and an output transistor; and each of the signal reading circuits for reading the detection signals of the second-color pixels and each of the signal reading circuits for reading the detection signals of the third-color pixels include four transistors which are a read transistor, a reset transistor, a row selection transistor, and an output transistor

Abstract: A fuel supply system includes a fuel pump disposed within the fuel tank A cover can close an opening formed in an upper portion of the fuel tank. A receptacle is provided on the cover. A controller can control the operation of a motor of the fuel pump. The controller includes an earth terminal and noise-generating electrical elements. The receptacle has an electrically conductive wall surrounding at least the electrical elements of the controller. The electrically conductive wall is electrically connected to the earth terminal of the controller.

Abstract: A color solid-state imaging device including: a semiconductor substrate; a photoelectric conversion layer provided over the semiconductor substrate, for absorbing light of a first color among three primary colors so as to generate photocharges; plural charge storage regions arranged in a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate, for storing the photocharges; plural first photodiodes arranged in the surface layer of the substrate, for detecting mixed light of second and third colors among the three primary colors that has passed through the photoelectric conversion layer and for storing generated photocharges; plural second photodiodes arranged in the surface layer of the semiconductor substrate, for detecting light of the second color of the mixed light that has passed through the photoelectric conversion layer and for storing generated photocharges; color filter layers provided over the second photodiodes, for interrupting light of the third color; and signal reading units as defined herein.

Abstract: An information storage unit stores pieces of information that are classified on the basis of their relationships. An information providing unit provides a client terminal with information stored in the information storage unit via a communication network in response to an access request from the client terminal. An access frequency acquiring unit acquires access frequencies, for respective classification items of the pieces of information, of accesses to the pieces of information. An information generating unit generates prescribed information so that pieces of information of plural classification items will be displayed in the client terminal in such a form as to be based on histories of the access frequencies.

Abstract: An apparatus (20) may comprise a fuel tank (10), a cover (22), a fuel discharging unit (30), a control unit (26), and a heat sink (28). The cover (22) closes an opening (12) in an upper portion of the fuel tank (10). The fuel discharging unit (30) is disposed within the fuel tank (10), and the fuel discharging unit (30) draws fuel into the fuel tank and discharges the drawn fuel outside the fuel tank. A biasing member (25) may be disposed between the fuel discharging unit (30) and the cover (22), and bias the fuel discharging unit (30) toward the bottom surface of the fuel tank (10). The control unit (26) controls the fuel discharging unit (30). The heat sink (28) is thermally connected to the control unit (26), and dissipates heat from the control unit (26). The heat sink (28) may include an extended portion (28b) extending in an up-down direction in the fuel tank (10). The fuel discharging unit (30) may be slidably supported by the extended portion (28b).

Abstract: A water-cooled internal combustion engine has a cylinder head 21 provided with a cylinder head water jacket Jh through which cooling water flows. The cylinder head water jacket Jh includes a combustion chamber water jacket 70 surrounding combustion chambers 26 and an exhaust passage water jacket 71 around an exhaust manifold passage 38. The exhaust gas discharged from the combustion chambers 26 through exhaust ports 28 flows through the exhaust manifold passage. The exhaust passage water jacket 71 is divided into an upstream water jacket 72a and a downstream water jacket 72b by a partition wall 75. The cooling water flows from both the upstream water jacket 72a and the downstream water jacket 72a into the combustion chamber water jacket 70. Equality in temperature between a combustion chamber wall and an exhaust passage wall is improved and the cylinder head 21 is heated in a uniform temperature distribution.

Abstract: This invention relates to a compound represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof, and a therapeutic agent for osteoporosis, an osteoblast activator, and an osteoclast suppressor comprising the same: wherein X represents a halogen atom; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted C1-6 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C2-6 alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted C2-6 alkynyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group, substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl, substituted or unsubstituted acyl, substituted or unsubstituted arylsulfonyl, substituted or unsubstituted C1-6 alkylsulfonyl, or hydroxyl; R2 represents substituted or unsubstituted C1-21 alkyl; R3, R5 and R6, which may be the same or different, each represent a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; and R4 represents a hydrogen atom or substituted or unsubstituted C1-6 alkyl.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging element converts light intensity into an electric charge signal and stores the thus-converted electric charge signal through use of a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a square lattice pattern on the surface of a semiconductor substrate in a row direction and a column direction. Vertical transfer sections transfer the electric charges from the first and second photoelectric conversion elements in the column direction. The vertical transfer section comprises a first electric charge reading region for reading electric charge from the first photoelectric conversion element to a vertical transfer channel; and a second electric charge reading region for reading electric charge from the second photoelectric conversion element. The first and second electric charge reading regions are provided at positions corresponding to a vertical transfer electrode, which are activated in difference phases.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a filter device in which a filter is directly fixed to a container, thus eliminating the use of a filter frame. A fuel filter 6 of a fuel supply system 60 includes a filter element 22 for filtering fuel and a filter case 21 made of resin which houses the filter element 22. Ends 22b and 22c of the filter element 22 are directly fixed to an inner wall surface of the filter case 21 by welding. Further, the filter case 21 is formed, on the inner wall surface, with a groove 34 at each end of a weld part 36 in a longitudinal (vertical) direction. The groove 34 serves to receive a melted resin squeezed out from the weld part 36. To isolate the weld part 36 from a (filtering) body 22a of the filter element 22, protrusive ribs 32 and 33 are provided on the inner wall surface of the filter case 21.

Abstract: To provide a solid-state imaging device in which the number of transistors for each signal readout circuit provided in a semiconductor substrate side is reduced and the number of image signal readout lines is reduced, solid-state imaging device a semiconductor substrate; a stacked photoelectric conversion films detecting different colors contained in an incident light; and pixel electrode films partitioned in accordance with pixels, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes: a plurality of color selection transistors corresponding to one of the pixels, wherein the color selection transistors each corresponds to one of the photoelectric conversion films and connects to one of the pixel electrode films on the one of the photoelectric conversion films so as to be capable of selecting the one of the photoelectric conversion films; and a charge detection cell corresponding to one of the pixels, the charge detection cell being common to the photoelectric conversion films.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device comprising pixels arranged in a row direction and a column direction, wherein each of the pixels comprises: (i) a light receiving portion including photoelectric converting elements which are formed overlappingly in a depth direction of a semiconductor substrate, and which detect lights of different colors respectively, and a photoelectric converting film which is stacked above the plural photoelectric converting elements, and which detects a light of a color different from the colors detected by the photoelectric converting elements; and (ii) a signal read circuit which reads out signals corresponding to the lights detected by the photoelectric converting elements and the photoelectric converting film, wherein the solid-state imaging device comprises: a first signal processing section which applies a predetermined signal process on signals read out from first signal read circuits in a part of the pixels; and a second signal processing section which applies the predetermined signa

Abstract: Disclosed are a camera body and a replaceable imaging device to be removably received therein. An aligning section is provided to regulate the imaging element such that a light-receiving area thereof coincides with an imaging surface of an imaging optical system of the camera body in a state the replaceable imaging device is received in the camera body. The replaceable imaging device has a control section that starts to control the image-taking operation according to an image-taking start signal supplied from the camera body and outputs a signal of an image captured to the camera body.

Abstract: A magnetic head suspension of the present invention includes a flexure, a load-bent portion, a load beam and a base portion. The base portion has a main body and an embedded body embedded in the main body so as to be positioned in a region where the main body and the load-bent portion overlap with each other. The main body is made of a material having a specific gravity lower than that of the embedded body. The embedded body is made of a material which can be welded to the load-bent portion. The load-bent portion and the embedded body are welded to each other to thereby join the load-bent portion and the base portion to each other.