Abstract: A concentration sensor device includes a sensor unit, a substrate, and a sedimentation limit unit. The sensor unit detects a concentration of a specific component contained in liquid. The substrate has a face to which the sensor unit is arranged. The sedimentation limit unit is integrally arranged with the sensor unit or arranged at an upstream side of the sensor unit in a flowing direction of the liquid. The sedimentation limit unit is configured to prevent sedimentation of a foreign object on the sensor unit. The sedimentation limit unit includes a piezoelectric element to vibrate when electricity is supplied so as to promote the foreign object to be separated from the sensor unit. The substrate has a recess recessed in a thickness direction of the substrate.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix.

Abstract: The mammographic apparatus of this invention maintains peripheral portions of the breast area Ma of the sternal plate of a patient M in contact with a sternal plate contact box 3 during radiography for RI distribution images of the breast area Ma of the patient M. Since the body motion accompanying respiration of the patient M shifts from the breast side to the back side, the motion of the breast area Ma of the patient M accompanying respiration of the patient M is suppressed easily. In addition, since radiography for RI distribution images is carried out with the patient M in a seated position seated on a seating unit 2, the apparatus is compact and can installed in a limited area, compared with an apparatus that carries out radiography for RI distribution images with a patient in a sleeping position lying on her back or on a side on a top board.

Abstract: Disclosed is a print control apparatus that makes it possible to conduct the print controlling operations in the interruption printing mode, so as to optimize the beneficial balance between the interrupting side and the interrupted side. The apparatus includes a job-status parameter acquiring section to acquire job-status parameters including a residual printing time of the first print job, a printing time of the second print job, a first priority degree representing an implementation priority of the first print job and a second priority degree representing another implementation priority of the second print job and a controlling section to determine whether or not the interruption printing operation should be allowed, namely, an availability of the interruption printing operation, based on the residual printing time of the first print job, the printing time of the second print job, and at least one of the first priority degree and the second priority degree.

Abstract: A resin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate of which a specific ether diol residue constitutes 40-100 mol % and 1-40 parts by weight of polylactic acid, wherein the polylactic acid is composed of a poly-L-lactic acid component and a poly-D-lactic acid component, and wherein in the melting peak derived from the polylactic acid component during temperature increase for measurement with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), the proportion of the melting peak area for 195° C. and above is at least 60% of the sum of the melting peak area for 195° C. and above (high temperature) and the melting peak area for 140-180° C. (low temperature), as determined by measurement of the melting peak derived from the polylactic acid component during temperature increase with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC).

Abstract: A developer cartridge holds toner therein. A chamber is A shutter rotates in slide contact with the arcuate surface of the chamber, being movable either to a closing position where the shutter closes the first opening or to an opening position where the shutter opens the first opening. A rotating shaft is rotatably supported in the chamber. A resilient scraper blade has one end fixed to the rotating shaft and extends from the rotating shaft to scrape the arcuate surface when the rotating body rotates. When the scraper blade extends through the first opening, the scraper blade extends in a direction at an angle with a line tangent to an arcuate plane in which the arcuate surface lies, the scraper blade. The angle is in the range of 30 to 70 degrees.

Abstract: An optotype presenting apparatus capable of presenting an optotype having a high degree of flexibility to an examinee's eye while a production cost of the apparatus is curbed comprises a main body comprising an optotype forming unit comprising first and second displays displaying optotypes, and a beam combiner combining optical paths of the displays, the optotype forming unit adjusting, if optotype light bundles have polarizing axes, the axes, and providing, if optotype light bundles have no polarizing axis, polarizing axes to the bundles, whereby the bundles form optotypes having the perpendicular polarizing axes, and a projection optical system for projecting the light bundles onto the eye at a test distance, an optotype selecting unit, and a display control unit controlling the displays to display binocular-vision-test optotypes if they are selected, and controlling one of the displays to display a visual-acuity-test optotype if it is selected.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tire state variables management system where an external module can reliably receive data from a specific sensor module from which data is to be acquired when an external module transmits to the sensor module a command signal for requesting data transmission. Each sensor module 3 possesses a self-identifying code for distinguishing itself from other sensor modules; the command signal transmitted by the external module 2 includes the self-identifying code possessed by the sensor module 3 from which data is to be acquired; and the sensor module 3 is adapted to transmit the data only when the self-identifying code included in the command signal from the external module 2 coincides with the self-identifying code possessed by itself.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for routing communications traffic in a Proxy Mobile IP communications network. A Mobile Node is attached to a first Proxy Mobile Agent, and an optimized route is established between the Mobile Node and a Corresponding Node via the first Proxy Mobile Agent. When the Mobile Node subsequently attaches to a second Proxy Mobile Agent, a determination is made that the Mobile Node is no longer attached to the first Proxy Mobile Agent. As a result of the determination a request is sent from the first Proxy Mobile Agent to the Corresponding Node to cancel the route optimization. In one embodiment, packets from the Corresponding Node are bi-cast from the Proxy Mobile Agent to the Home Agent and the Mobile Node. The Proxy Mobile Agent determines that the Mobile Node is no longer attached to if packets are not returned from the Home Agent.

Abstract: There is provided a method of managing binding information, on behalf of a Mobile Node, at a Home Agent in a Mobile IP network. A record of Correspondent Binding Recept ion and Correspondent Binding Registration is maintained at the Home Agent. The Correspondent Binding Reception record comprises a Home Address of the Mobile Node and a Care-of-Address of a Correspondent Node, and the Correspondent Binding Reception record comprises an IP address of the Correspondent Node and security credentials authenticating that the Home Agent can act on behalf of the Mobile Node. In the event that the Home Agent receives a Binding Update message on behalf of the Mobile Node, the Care of address of the Correspondent Node in the Correspondent Binding Reception record is updated. In the event that the Home Agent sends a Binding Update message on behalf of the Mobile Node, it is sent using the security credentials stored in the Correspondent Binding Reception record.

Abstract: A tire management system includes a sensor module secured to inside of a tire that is mounted on a vehicle, for measuring a tire state value and transmitting the measured data to the vehicle side, and a receiver module secured to the vehicle side for transmitting a signal demanding the measured data to the sensor module at a predetermined cycle and receiving the measured data transmitted from the sensor module. The sensor module measures a tire status value at a predetermined cycle, judges whether the measured data is out of a predetermined normal range, and immediately transmits the measured data and an abnormal state data through a predetermined channel exclusively used for transmitting the abnormal state data to the receiver module, if the data is judged to be out of the normal range. With this structure, if an abnormal state occurs, the receiver module can receive the abnormality without any delay, while preventing shortening of the cell life.

Abstract: An electric fastener driver having a compact size and simple construction. A driver segment provided with a rack is movably disposed in a housing. A flywheel is driven by a motor. A drive shaft is concentric with and integral with the flywheel. A coil spring is fixed to the drive shaft. A driven rotor is coaxial with the drive shaft and has one end portion serving as a spring seat portion positioned within the coil spring. A pinion is disposed at the driven rotor and is meshedly engaged with the rack. An urging section is disposed within the driven rotor. A ball is movably disposed in a through-hole formed in the driven rotor for urging an end portion of the coil spring by the urging section. A solenoid controls a protruding amount of the ball from the surface of the driven rotor.

Abstract: A method for supplying a pyrotechnic material slurry to a container, includes, taking out a pyrotechnic material slurry, stored inside a storage container, from the bottom portion of the storage container or a vicinity thereof, sealing the exposed surface of the pyrotechnic material slurry with a sealing material, and maintaining the sealed state of the pyrotechnic material slurry in the process of supplying the pyrotechnic material slurry to the container.

Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor having a good press life with a practical energy amount, which can be on-press developed without passing through a development processing step after recording an image by a laser of emitting an infrared ray, is provided, which is a lithographic printing plate precursor capable of performing a development and printing by loading on a printing press after imagewise exposure and supplying an oily ink and an aqueous component, the lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and an image recording layer, wherein the image recording layer comprises (A) a polymerization initiator, (B) a polymerizable monomer, (C) a binder polymer, and (D) a crosslinked resin particle having a reactive group or (F) a microcapsule containing a polymerizable monomer in the capsule wall, and the image recording layer is imagewise polymerization-curable upon irradiation of actinic ray.