Abstract: The present invention comprises a process for combining foamed polystyrene fine particles (C) to two-component reaction curing type soft urethane liquid resin (A), injecting a resulting mixture into a mold for core (C) with a concave portion corresponding to said hollow portion, hardening it, removing a resulting cured matter from said mold for core (C), and forming a vanishing core (D) having a shape corresponding to said hollow portion; a process for setting said vanishing core (D) at a specific position inside a mold for resin model (E) having a concave portion corresponding to an outer shape of said resin model, injecting two-component reaction fast curing type urethane liquid resin (F), hardening it, removing a resulting cured matter, and forming a resin model (G) including said vanishing core (D); and a process for injecting organic solvent capable of dissolving foamed polystyrene (H) into said vanishing core (D of said resin model (G) to dissolve said foamed polystyrene fine particles (B), removing a r

Abstract: The present invention provides novel intermediates represented by general formula (I) etc. for preparing a phenoxyacetic acid derivative represented by general formula (X) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which has ?3-adrenoceptor stimulating activity and are useful for treating or preventing obesity, hyperglycemia, diseases caused by intestinal hypermotility, pollakiuria, urinary incontinence, depression or biliary calculus. The present invention also provides a process for preparing said intermediates and a method of using said intermediates.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wiring board offering efficient operations of peeling and collection of a protective film as well as preventing a lowered yield. A method for manufacturing a build-up multilayer resin wiring board, which includes a taping process S2 and a peeling process S3. In the taping process S2, two sheets of substrate are supported and adjoined under the condition that the edges thereof are placed close to each other, and a tape is affixed so that the protective film may be connected on the edge of the substrate. In the peeling process S3, the protective films connected to each other are continuously peeled by sequentially lifting them via the tapes so that an interlayer insulation material may remain on the substrate.

Abstract: A camera having a barrier according to the present invention includes a barrier unit in a space between a front main body and a front metal cover serving as an exterior member. Rotation of a barrier driving motor is transmitted to a rotary shaft member passing through the front main body, thereby allowing opening/closing actions of the lens barrier between a protection position for a photographing lens and a lens-barrier retracted position. The front main body is sealed waterproof by an O-ring provided to the outer circumferential surface of the rotary shaft member. With the lens barrel of the camera, rotation of a rotary moving frame is effectively transmitted to a cam frame through a cam follower fit to a linear-action groove, using a circumferential groove and the linear-action groove of a bayonet mechanism.

Abstract: The A/D converter has first and second PPDC circuits (pulse-phase-difference coding circuits). The first PPDC circuit performs A/D conversions on the reference voltage and on the voltage signal amplified by an amplifier in an alternating sequence, the amplifier using the reference voltage as a potential base thereof. The second PPDC circuit performs A/D conversions always on the reference voltage. The A/D-converted data set of the voltage signal outputted from the first PPDC circuit is corrected depending on the difference between the A/D-converted data set of the reference voltage outputted from the second PPDC circuit when the first PPDC circuit A/D-converts the reference voltage and the A/D-converted data set of the reference voltage outputted from the second PPDC circuit when the first PPDC circuit A/D-converts the voltage signal.

Abstract: The invention aims at determining a transmission power value or a data rate in transmission power control in a reception side apparatus. A communication apparatus (2) includes a modulation class controlling portion (14) for selecting one data rate, and transmits a communication signal having the selected one data rate to a communication apparatus (3).

Abstract: An electronic component housing package includes a base body made of a metal; a rectangular frame body made of a metal; an input/output terminal made of insulating material, which has line conductor for electrically conductively connecting the interior and exterior of the frame body; and an input/output terminal mounting portion, into which input/output terminal is fitted and which is formed as a notch extending across two adjacent corners of a frame body's lower part. The input/output terminal is so configured that its opposed end-face pair at two corners are made flush with opposed outer-side-surface pair including two corners of frame body, and that metal layer is applied to both of a part of an input/output terminal's end-face extending along the mounting portion and another part thereof extending along the base body.

Abstract: The A/D converter has first and second PPDC circuits (pulse-phase-difference coding circuits). The first PPDC circuit performs A/D conversions on the reference voltage and on the voltage signal amplified by an amplifier in an alternating sequence, the amplifier using the reference voltage as a potential base thereof. The second PPDC circuit performs A/D conversions always on the reference voltage. The A/D-converted data set of the voltage signal outputted from the first PPDC circuit is corrected depending on the difference between the A/D-converted data set of the reference voltage outputted from the second PPDC circuit when the first PPDC circuit A/D-converts the reference voltage and the A/D-converted data set of the reference voltage outputted from the second PPDC circuit when the first PPDC circuit A/D-converts the voltage signal.

Abstract: A copper alloy for electronic machinery and tools, containing Ni 2.0 to 4.5 mass %, and Si 0.3 to 1.0 mass %, with the balance being Cu and unavoidable impurities, which satisfies the following expression: I{311}×A/(I{311}+I{220}+I{200})<1.5 wherein I{311} represents an X-ray diffraction intensity from a {311} plane at a sheet surface; I{220} represents an X-ray diffraction intensity from a {220} plane at the sheet surface; I{200} represents an X-ray diffraction intensity from a {200} plane at the sheet surface; and A (?m) represents a crystalline grain size, and which has good bending property.

Abstract: A copper alloy, which contains: a precipitate X composed of Ni and Si; and a precipitate Y that comprises Ni or Si or neither Ni nor Si, wherein the precipitate X has a grain size of 0.001 to 0.1 ?m, and the precipitate Y has a grain size of 0.01 to 1 ?m.

Abstract: Provided is a board for ion generation that is capable of generating negative ions with much better efficiency and in an amount larger than that of positive ions. In the board for ion generation, a discharge electrode is formed on one principal surface of a substrate formed of ceramics, an induction electrode is formed on another principal surface of the substrate, the discharge electrode and the induction electrode being disposed opposite to each other, a first protective layer and a second protective layer are formed so as to cover the discharge electrode and the induction electrode, respectively. Surface discharge is generated on a surface of the first protective layer by applying an AC voltage between the discharge electrode and induction electrode, and positive ions and negative ions are alternately generated in the air. In the board for ion generation, the porosity of the substrate is 5 to 10 vol. %.

Abstract: A digital camera having an acoustic member includes a first cover, a water-proof sheet and a second cover. The second cover is spaced from the water-proof sheet. The first cover has a first sound hole opposed to the acoustic member. The water-proof sheet is disposed such as to covers the first sound hole. The second cover has a second sound hole. The second sound hole is deviated in position toward an outer periphery of the first sound hole so that the second sound hole is not located on an extension of an axis of the first sound hole.

Abstract: An electronic component housing package includes a base body made of a metal; a rectangular frame body made of a metal; an input/output terminal made of insulating material, which has line conductor for electrically conductively connecting the interior and exterior of the frame body; and an input/output terminal mounting portion, into which input/output terminal is fitted and which is formed as a notch extending across two adjacent corners of a frame body's lower part. The input/output terminal is so configured that its opposed end-face pair at two corners are made flush with opposed outer-side-surface pair including two corners of frame body, and that metal layer is applied to both of a part of an input/output terminal's end-face extending along the mounting portion and another part thereof extending along the base body.

Abstract: The DCT converter 103 extracts block data 102 of a 8×8 pixel size from the original image 101 and then subjects it to DCT conversion. The quantizer 104 quantizes the DCT coefficient. The movement decision unit 106 obtains the difference between the number V(t) of DCT coefficients obtained by the DCT converter 103 and the number V(t?1) of DCT coefficients of the previous frame previously held. The movement decision unit 106 decides the movement as a large value if the difference exceeds a certain threshold value and decides the movement as a small value if the difference is less than the threshold value. The electronic watermark data inserter 105 extracts electronic watermark data W(j) which matches the location where 8×8 block data is extracted from the electronic watermark data table 109, the picture type and the movement and then inserts it into the data after quantization output from the quantizer 104.

Abstract: An image display apparatus which can always display images in proper gradation in the process of receiving image data and successively displaying images. The image display apparatus includes: a data receiving unit for successively receiving a plurality of pixel data representing an image; an image data generating unit for generating image data representing a picture on the basis of the pixel data, which has been received and represents a part of the picture, at predetermined intervals; an average value calculating unit for obtaining a quantity relevant to gradation of the picture; a look-up table altering unit for altering gradation processing condition of the image data on the basis of the quantity relevant to gradation; an image processing unit for executing gradation processing of the image data, in accordance with the gradation processing condition; and a display unit for displaying the picture by using the image data.

Abstract: A watermarking system allowing both sufficiently high quality of watermarked moving pictures and enhanced ease of watermark detection is disclosed. A watermark level of a watermark to be embedded into a picture of data is changed depending on the picture type of a selected block of frequency component data, and then a watermark having the watermark level is inserted into the selected block of frequency component data. Therefore, a moving-picture can be effectively embedded with a digital watermark without substantially reducing the quality of image and the digital watermark can be detected reliably. A relative proportion of watermark levels of I-picture, B-picture, and P-picture is preferably set to 10:7:5.

Abstract: This application provides a human protein AMSH having the amino acid sequence of SE ID No. 1 which is a novel signal transduction molecule interacting with the SH3 domain of cytokine based signal transduction molecule STAM; a gene encoding the above AMSH; a cDNA having the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID No. 2; and antibody against AMSH.

Abstract: A vehicle dynamics control (VDC) apparatus for an automotive vehicle with a differential limiting device capable of limiting at least one of a differential motion between front and rear wheel axles and a differential motion between left and right wheel axles, includes a VDC system that controls a braking force of at least one of road wheels to control vehicle cornering behavior depending on a vehicle's turning condition independently of a driver's braking action. The VDC system advances a VDC initiation timing used in a differential limited state in which at least one of the front-and-rear wheel axle differential motion and the left-and-right wheel axle differential motion is limited, in comparison with a VDC initiation timing used in a differential non-limited state in which the front-and-rear wheel axle differential motion and the left-and-right wheel axle differential motion are allowed.

Abstract: In a communication device, a counter counts a reference clock CLK1 at each edge of a data signal, and a clock generator generates a reception clock corresponding to the count value of the counter. When there is a frequency lag between the reception clock and the frequency of the transmission clock at a communication partner side, the count value when an edge detection signal is at a H-level is deviated from the count value. This deviation reflects decode signals DS1 to DS3, and phase delay or phase advance is detected on the basis of a signal P1 or P2. At this time, the estimated value of the next edge period is increased/reduced by only “1”. When the deviation of the count value occurs sequentially, a frequency excessively-small state or excessively-large state is detected on the basis of the signal F1 or F2. At this time, the estimated count value of the next edge period is increased/reduced by only “2”.

Abstract: A watermarking system allowing both sufficiently high quality of watermarked moving pictures and enhanced ease of watermark detection is disclosed. A watermark level of a watermark to be embedded into a picture of data is changed depending on the picture type of a selected block of frequency component data, and then a watermark having the watermark level is inserted into the selected block of frequency component data. Therefore, a moving-picture can be effectively embedded with a digital watermark without substantially reducing the quality of image and the digital watermark can be detected reliably. A relative proportion of watermark levels of I-picture, B-picture, and P-picture is preferably set to 10:7:5.