Abstract: There is provided an alkaline battery produced by sealing in an outer package body: a positive mixture containing at least one selected from manganese dioxide and a nickel oxide, a conducting agent, and an alkaline electrolytic solution (A) containing potassium hydroxide; a separator; and a negative mixture containing zinc alloy powder, a gelling agent, and an alkaline electrolytic solution (B) containing potassium hydroxide where a concentration of potassium hydroxide of the alkaline electrolytic solution (A) is 45 wt % or more, and a concentration of potassium hydroxide of the alkaline electrolytic solution (B) is 35 wt % or less. Because of this, an alkaline battery can be provided, which has desirable load characteristics, prevents the generation of gas, prevents a decrease in a storage property due to the reaction with an electrolytic solution, and has heat generation behavior suppressed at a time of occurrence of a short-circuit.

Abstract: There is provided an alkaline battery produced by sealing in an outer package body: a positive mixture containing at least one selected from manganese dioxide and a nickel oxide, a conducting agent, and an alkaline electrolytic solution (A) containing potassium hydroxide; a separator; and a negative mixture containing zinc alloy powder, a gelling agent, and an alkaline electrolytic solution (B) containing potassium hydroxide where a concentration of potassium hydroxide of the alkaline electrolytic solution (A) is 45 wt % or more, and a concentration of potassium hydroxide of the alkaline electrolytic solution (B) is 35 wt % or less. Because of this, an alkaline battery can be provided, which has desirable load characteristics, prevents the generation of gas, prevents a decrease in a storage property due to the reaction with an electrolytic solution, and has heat generation behavior suppressed at a time of occurrence of a short-circuit.

Abstract: A turn lamp includes a base housing; a light source unit incorporated with a light source and housed in the base housing; an inner housing provided with a long and solid light guide; a lens cover that covers the base housing; and a diffused reflection generator that is structured such that light from the light source leaks out long from the light guide.

Abstract: In the present invention, a block level net list is separated from a chip level net list so that the chip level net list can be created in a form in which a block is transparent to a designer. The present invention determines a destination block for circuit elements that are described in a chip level net list and for which the destination block is not determined, and creates a final net list by reflecting the chip level net list to the block level net list based on the information on the destination block. As a net list can be created in a form in which a block is transparent to a designer for a circuit system that is required to be optimized for the entire chip, the circuit system can be efficiently optimized.

Abstract: The apparatus for analyzing a delay defect of the present invention obtains the RC of the maximal incidence among region codes (RCs) to which check circuits detecting errors caused with gradual increase in the frequency of an operational clock pulse fed to an integrated circuit belongs. The apparatus obtains information on latch in which an error is caused with the RC of the maximal incidence, with reference to a mapping table that describes the mapping relationship between an RC and a latch. The apparatus extracts a circuit portion in which an error can be captured with the region code of the maximal incidence by exhaustively tracing back circuit portions connected with each obtained latch, from the latch to the latch described in the mapping table. The apparatus gives delay defects to the input and the output pin of each of logic elements included in the extracted circuit portion, generates test patterns for detecting the given delay defects, and performs delay tests.

Abstract: A design support apparatus is provided, including control portion executes layout program to implement a position judging section which performs position judgment to check, for every net, the net being formed by a first cell to be called ‘driver’ and one or a plurality of cells driven via an output terminal of the first cell to be called ‘receiver(s)’, whether or not said driver exists outside a predetermined region for enclosing said receiver(s), and a layout section which determines a base point from an inside of said predetermined region, with respect to said net where it is judged that said driver exists outside said predetermined region, and arranges said diagonal wiring for wiring which connects said output terminal of said driver with said base point when said base point can be connected with an input terminal of said receiver by means of vertical and/or horizontal wiring.

Abstract: To provide a layout evaluating apparatus that can determine the feasibility of a layout from information only about a netlist, the layout evaluating apparatus is made to comprise a first individual index value generating unit for generating first individual index values, a second individual index value generating unit for generating second individual index values, a correlation extracting unit for generating an evaluation expression, which is an evaluation expression for calculating a second index value from the second individual index values and by which the second index value and its block size have a correlation, and a layout evaluating unit for identifying a range where the second index value and its block size have a correlation and for determining that a layout is possible if the first index value, which is obtained by substituting the first individual index values into the evaluation expression as a replacement for the second individual index values, is included in the correlation range.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing an optically active 2-allylcarboxylic acid derivative, which is useful as a pharmaceutical intermediate, from readily available and inexpensive starting materials by the process which can be practiced on a commercial scale in a simple and easy manner, and certain 2-allylcarboxamide derivatives, which are novel and important intermediates in that process. An N-allylcarboxamide derivative undergoes rearrangement reaction diastereoselectively in the presence of a base to give a 2-allylcarboxamide derivative, the resulting derivative is subjected to a carbamation reaction and solvolysis to give an optically active 2-allylcarboxylic acid ester, and then the ester obtained is stereoselectively hydrolyzed using an enzyme to produce 2-allylcarboxylic acid having a high optical purity. In addition, the present invention provides a 2-allylcarboxamide derivative compound which is a novel intermediate in the process of the present invention.

Abstract: A method for forming a pattern film with a narrower width than the resolution of an exposure machine and a resist used independently of etching is provided. The method comprises the steps of: forming a first frame layer having end surfaces facing each other across a space having a width W1; forming a second frame layer having end surfaces facing each other across a space having a width W2 that is larger than the width W1, the space having the width W2 being located right above the space having the width W1; forming a trench-forming film provided with a trench having a minimum width W3 that is smaller than the width W1 so as to fill at least a part of the spaces having the width W1 and the width W2 respectively; and forming a pattern film so as to fill at least a part of the trench.

Abstract: A Steiner tree handling device handles a Steiner tree constituted by plural horizontal or vertical edges connecting plural nodes. The device has a Steiner tree obtaining unit which obtains a Steiner tree having one shape, and a Steiner tree deformation unit which deforms the obtained Steiner tree into a Steiner tree having a different shape, without changing the size of the obtained Steiner tree.

Abstract: A placement/net wiring processing system uses an interactive editor which eases and simplifies operations for placing or moving cells and adding, deleting or modifying wiring. The placement/net wiring processing system comprises a control means for controlling the execution of a placement and wiring operating and processing program, a display means for displaying placement and wiring information on a screen, an operating and processing means for operating the placement and wiring on the screen, and an information management means for managing the placement and wiring information. The control means copies the program read out thereby and afterwards executes the program.

Abstract: A placement/net wiring processing system uses an interactive editor which eases and simplifies operations for placing or moving cells and adding, deleting or modifying wiring. The placement/net wiring processing system comprises a control means for controlling the execution of a placement and wiring operating and processing program, a display means for displaying placement and wiring information on a screen, an operating and processing means for operating the placement and wiring on the screen, and an information management means for managing the placement and wiring information. The control means copies the program read out thereby and afterwards executes the program.

Abstract: Image heating apparatus capable of preventing an excessive temperature increase in a sheet non-passing area and heater for use in the image heating apparatus including: a substrate, a heat generating resistor formed on the substrate, and first and second electrodes for supplying an electric power to the heat generating resistor. Each of the first and second electrodes has a first area to contact a power supplying connector and a second area provided at an end portion electrically opposite to the first area along a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and the heat generating resistor is provided to electrically connect the second area of the first and second electrode so that when the heater is at a set temperature for an image heating operation a resistance value Rc of the second area, and a resistance value Rt between a portion within the second area of the first and second electrode and electrically closest to the first area satisfy a relation Rc/Rt<=1/30.

Abstract: A cylindrical alkaline battery of the present invention includes a positive outer can in the form of a cylinder having a bottom and an opening at its top, a sealing member located along the inner edge of the opening, and a negative terminal for sealing the opening along with the sealing member. The negative terminal is caulked to the inner edge of the opening of the positive outer can via the sealing member. The positive outer can is formed of a metal plate including crystal grains with a grain size number of 9 to 12. A soft nickel-plating layer is deposited on both sides of the metal plate. The cylindrical alkaline battery further includes either or both of the following two configurations. Configuration 1: The surface roughness Ra of a portion of the positive outer can that comes into contact with the sealing member is 2 or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing an optically active 2-allylcarboxylic acid derivative, which is useful as a pharmaceutical intermediate, from readily available and inexpensive starting materials by the process which can be practiced on a commercial scale in a simple and easy manner, and certain 2-allylcarboxamide derivatives, which are novel and important intermediates in that process. An N-allylcarboxamide derivative undergoes rearrangement reaction diastereoselectively in the presence of a base to give a 2-allylcarboxamide derivative, the resulting derivative is subjected to a carbamation reaction and solvolysis to give an optically active 2-allylcarboxylic acid ester, and then the ester obtained is stereoselectively hydrolyzed using an enzyme to produce 2-allylcarboxylic acid having a high optical purity. In addition, the present invention provides a 2-allylcarboxamide derivative compound which is a novel intermediate in the process of the present invention.

Abstract: A first and a second longitudinal bias-applying films are formed via a first mask at both sides of a magnetoresistive effective element film so that the difference in surface level between the magnetoresistive effective element film and the first and the second longitudinal bias-applying films is set within ±20 nm. Then, a first and a second electrode films are formed so as to cover edge portions of the magnetoresistive effective element film and the first and the second longitudinal bias-applying films.

Abstract: An alkaline battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode containing zinc or zinc alloy particles, an outer body, and a resin sealing member having a thin-walled part for preventing explosion, wherein all zinc or zinc alloy particles in the negative electrode pass through sieve openings of 80 mesh and 20 to 80% by weight of the zinc or zinc alloy particles pass through sieve openings of 200 mesh sieve, which has excellent load characteristics and high safety achieved by the prevention of heat-generation at the time of short-circuiting.

Abstract: An electronic circuit designing method analyzes noise with respect to a wiring pair, and automatically corrects the wiring pair by determining a spacing between wirings of the wiring pair so as to prevent generation of a noise error, if the noise error is detected based on the analysis of the noise.

Abstract: A first magnetic film is formed in a primary pattern which is larger than its definitive pattern and of which edges are located within frames to be used in a frame-plating method for the second magnetic film after forming the first pole portion and the gap film. Then, the second magnetic film is formed by the frame-plating method, and the first magnetic film is etched into the definitive pattern through the second magnetic film as a mask.

Abstract: A design support apparatus is provided, including control portion executes layout program to implement a position judging section which performs position judgment to check, for every net, the net being formed by a first cell to be called ‘driver’ and one or a plurality of cells driven via an output terminal of the first cell to be called ‘receiver(s)’, whether or not said driver exists outside a predetermined region for enclosing said receiver(s), and a layout section which determines a base point from an inside of said predetermined region, with respect to said net where it is judged that said driver exists outside said predetermined region, and arranges said diagonal wiring for wiring which connects said output terminal of said driver with said base point when said base point can be connected with an input terminal of said receiver by means of vertical and/or horizontal wiring.