Abstract: An optical connector comprising: first and second movable members 7, 8 held on an optical connector body 6 to be axially movable in a longitudinal direction; locking means for locking the first and second movable members when the first movable member is located at a predetermined locking position in a tip part of the optical connector body, and integrally moving the first and second movable members; and unlocking means formed in the optical connector body 6, and including a locking acting portion which acts on the locking means when the first movable member is located rearwardly of a predetermined unlocking position in a rear part of the optical connector body, to unlock the first and second movable members, and which locks the first and second movable members when the first movable member is located forwardly of the unlocking position, and a second movable member hooking portion 10 for inhibiting rearward movement of the second movable member after the first and second movable members are unlocked, and where

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device capable of preventing a semiconductor chip from being damaged by any sharp burrs of a metallic shielding plate. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip and a metallic shielding plate provided on a circuit surface of the semiconductor chip. The metallic shielding plate is disposed in such a manner that a second surface of a shielding plate body is directed towards the circuit surface of the semiconductor chip, and burrs are positioned contiguous to the second surface of the shielding plate body. At distal ends of the burrs, cutting burrs are formed in a direction orthogonal to the second surface. The sharp burrs extend in a direction opposite to the semiconductor chip, so that the sharp burrs are prevented from damaging the circuit surface of the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a glass sheet including: a forming step of down-drawing a molten glass into a sheet-like glass ribbon, in which the molten glass is fed to a forming trough arranged in a forming furnace and the molten glass is caused to flow down from the forming trough through a conveyance passage extending vertically; an annealing step of removing an internal strain in the glass ribbon in an annealing furnace; a cooling step of cooling the glass ribbon to around room temperature; and a cutting step of cutting the glass ribbon in a given size, in which a pressure in an outside atmosphere of the forming furnace and/or the annealing furnace is elevated.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for handling a Local Break Out (LBO) session taking place in a first network between a user equipment and a corresponding node (CN) is provided. For the downlink packets, embodiments include: converting, in a node in the first or the second network, the IP address of the downlink packets from an LHoA to a Global Home Address (GHoA) and routing, from the first node to a second node in the second network, any downlink packets being sent from the corresponding node, so that the downlink packets will arrive at the user equipment having a GHoA. For the uplink packets embodiments include: converting, in a node in the first or the second network, the IP address of the uplink packets from a GHoA to an LHoA and routing, from the second node to the first node, any uplink packets being sent from the user equipment; so that the uplink packets will arrive at the corresponding node with a source address that is an LHoA.

Abstract: A method for producing an alcohol of the present invention provides an alcohol having the total sulfur content of 10 ppm by weight or less, by subjecting an alcohol having the total sulfur content of 30 ppm by weight or more and the propanols content of 200 ppm to at least one desulfurization treatment selected from at least one of a desulfurization treatment by a reaction process, a desulfurization treatment with a physical adsorbent, and a desulfurization treatment with a chemical adsorbent.

Abstract: A slide-type filter for detachably attaching to a housing of an electrical device. The filter includes a filter element. A support frame portion supports the filter element. A finger insert portion extends from the support frame portion and includes an insertion opening into which a finger is insertable. A lid portion is connected to the finger insert portion so as to cover the insertion opening. The lid portion resiliently bends with respect to the finger insert portion to open the insertion opening.

Abstract: A flow-metering valve for metering a flow of liquid has a valve member, a stopper and an electromagnetic driving member. The valve member is reciprocally displaceably arranged between a first position and a second position in the liquid chamber. The stopper is arranged at the second position in the liquid chamber. The electromagnetic driving member generates a magnetic attractive force between the valve member and the stopper to hold the valve member at the second position when the electromagnetic driving member is energized.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack having stacked unit fuel cells, each having a pair of separators between which a membrane electrode assembly is provided, which includes an anode and a cathode. Each separator has protruding lines arranged vertically in a zigzag manner, which protrude in a direction going away from the membrane electrode assembly. A space between the anode and the protruding lines of the separator facing the anode is used as a fuel gas passage. A space between the cathode and the protruding lines of the separator facing the cathode is used as an oxidant gas passage. At least part of the separators are each arranged in close contact with another separator so that a coolant passage through which a coolant flows horizontally is formed between both separators. A lower area of the coolant passage has a larger flow resistance than that of an upper area thereof.

Abstract: Each of memory bridges and I/O bridges, cross-linked to one another, is provided with an interface circuit section which performs data transmission and reception according to an PCI-Express interface. Each interface circuit section has a communication error processing section. When an error occurs in data received from the I/O bridge, the communication error processing section of the memory bridge cancels the received data and sends a communication error signal to the memory bridge. When receiving the communication error signal, the memory bridge stops receiving the data. Then, the communication error processing section of the memory bridge requests the I/O bridge to resend data.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor 1 having dielectric layers 2 and internal electrode layers 3 formed using a conductor paste, wherein the conductor paste contains a conductive material, the conductive material is comprised of a first ingredient and second ingredient, the first ingredient includes metal elements having Ni as a main ingredient, and the second ingredient includes a metal element dissolving in the first ingredient and having a melting point of 1490° C. or more.

Abstract: A 2-(N-methyl-N-methanesulfonylamino)pyrimidine compound of the formula (3): [R is a hydrocarbyl group], is prepared by the steps of: (I) reacting an isobutyrylacetate ester with 4-fluorobenzaldehyde and urea in the presence of a protonic compound and a metal salt; (II) oxidizing the reaction product of the step (I); (III) reacting the oxidation product of the step (II) with an organic sulfonyl halide or an organic sulfonyl anhydride; and (IV) reacting the reaction product of the step (III) with N-methyl-N-methanesulfonamide.

Abstract: An aminoalkoxystyrene represented by the formula (1) wherein R1 and R2 are C1-4 alkyl and n is 3-6. The aminoalkoxystyrene is prepared by reacting an aminoalkoxyphenylmagnesium halide with vinyl halide in the presence of a catalyst. A quaternized amino group-containing polymer made by quaternizing the amino groups of a polymer prepared from the aminoalkoxystyrene is useful as an anion exchanger.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and facility for preventing crumbling and powderization of green pellets when producing high strength green pellets using a powder feedstock and using the pellets in a rotary hearth reducing furnace and for efficiently reducing the same. It comprises kneading by a kneader 5 a feedstock of a powder of a fine particle size (20 to 80 wt % having size of not more than 10 ?m) including a metal oxide and carbon-bearing powder fed from a feed storage tank 1 and producing green pellets by a pan type pelletized 7. The green pellets are screened by a pellet screen 9, then dried by a pellet dryer 11 and reduced by firing in a rotary hearth reducing furnace 13. At that time, the green pellets are continuously conveyed to prevent crumbling.

Abstract: An orthodontic bracket comprises a bracket body and a ligating member. The ligating member retains an archwire in an archwire slot and includes archwire control structure including projecting portions spaced apart in a mesial-distal direction with a recessed area therebetween. The recessed area and the projecting portions overlie the archwire slot. The recessed area may include a flat or a curved surface in a mesial-distal direction. The recessed area and projecting portions may define a radius of curvature that is less than the radius of curvature of the archwire seated in the slot. The archwire contacts one or both the projecting portions resulting in a larger moment arm and better rotational control of the bracket with the force applied by the archwire.

Abstract: A method of facilitating multihoming in the case of a mobile node possessing an Upper Layer Identifier belonging to a home network, where the mobile node is assigned a Global Mobility Management anchor within the home network and a Local Mobility Management anchor within a visited network. The method comprises allocating to the mobile node a primary SHIM6 proxy at said Global Mobility Management anchor, and at least one secondary SHIM6 proxy at said Local Mobility Management anchor. At said primary SHIM6 proxy, a SHIM6 context is established on behalf of the mobile node in respect of a peer node; and the established context is shared with said secondary SHIM6 proxy. Locator switching is then performed in respect of traffic exchanged between the mobile node and said peer node at one of said primary and secondary SHIM6 proxies.

Abstract: A method for conveniently preparing 2,2-dichloro-12-(4-chlorophenyl)-10-hydroxydodecanoic acid useful as an active ingredient of therapeutic agents for diseases such as diabetes at a high yield, which comprises the step of reacting a compound represented by the following general formula (A): wherein X represents a halogen atom, and a compound represented by the following general formula (B): CHCl2COOR1 wherein R1 represents hydrogen atom or a protective group of carboxyl group, to prepare a compound represented by the following general formula (C): wherein R1 has the same meaning as that defined above.

Abstract: This invention provides a protective member comprising a ceramic body comprising a plurality of first phases (2) composed mainly of silicon carbide and a plurality of second phases (3) having a composition different from the composition of the first phase (2) and containing at least boron, silicon and carbon. A part of the second phase is present in the first phase as a whole, and at least a part of the remaining part of the second phase is present between a plurality of the first phases.

Abstract: A reference voltage generation circuit generates a reference voltage and outputs it to an amplifier reference voltage line. A power-supply-noise adding circuit adds power supply noise superimposed on a power supply to the reference voltage generated by the reference voltage generation circuit. A differential amplifier amplifies a difference between a voltage of a vertical signal line and a voltage of an amplifier reference voltage line and outputs the amplified voltage.

Abstract: In traceability system applications, it is required to check relationships between individual articles under management and containers therefor such as container cases or pallets. Since relevant data in each stage of physical distribution is not always registered, the absence of some necessary data may occur to cause inaccurate commodity tracing. To solve this disadvantage, the present invention provides a traceability system capable of complementing information regardless of time-series factors. Even in a situation where a plurality of sets of information (relational data) regarding packing-unpacking relationships between articles and containers, e.g., relationships between commodity products and packing cases, or relationships between packing cases and pallets, are not registered in time-series order, the relational data are complemented in registration to enable complementary estimation from registered information available at the time of reference.

Abstract: Reduction in power consumption of a counter circuit for continuous operation is demanded. Therefore, provided is a counter circuit including: a first counter of m bits for counting and storing a value of a predetermined bit width according to an input clock; a clock transmission control circuit for controlling whether to transmit the input clock based on a value output according to a counting result of the first counter; and a second counter of n bits for counting and storing another value of the predetermined bit width according to the input clock transmitted from the clock transmission control circuit.