Abstract: An embodiment includes: a first transport module on which a carriage moves; a second transport module that is configured to be able to move to a position for connecting to the first transport module and on which the carriage is able to move to and from the first transport module; a position detection unit that detects a position in a moving direction of the second transport module and outputs position information; a first control unit that controls motion of the carriage on the first transport module; a second control unit that controls motion of the carriage on the second transport module; a third control unit that controls motion of the second transport module; and a fourth control unit that controls the first to third control units. The fourth control unit corrects a position where the second transport module connects to the first transport module based on the position information.

Abstract: The number of response-waiting requests which are already sent to a server (4) but to which a response is not yet returned from the server (4) is limited. To limit this number, received requests are temporarily accumulated in a buffer if the number of response-waiting requests has reached a threshold and, until the number of response-waiting requests falls below the threshold, requests are not sent from the buffer. The execution status of the server (4) is monitored, and the threshold is increased when the response time from the server (4) to a request is within an allowable range, and the threshold is decreased when the response time exceeds the allowable range. In addition, TCP connections between a load control device (3) and clients (1-1, . . . , 1-n) are aggregated so that the number of simultaneous connections of TCP connections between the server (4) and the load control device (3) becomes equal to or smaller than the threshold of the number of response-waiting requests.

Abstract: A lens driving device accurately and smoothly moves a holder in an optical axis direction even when the distance between lower shaft end supporting portions differ from the distance between upper shaft end supporting holes. The cross-section, in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, of at least one upper shaft end supporting hole 42 among the plurality of upper shaft end supporting holes 41 and 42 arranged in the cover is larger than the cross-section, in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, of a corresponding sub-shaft 52 among the plurality of shafts.

Abstract: A lens driving device prevents its holder from tilting while driving the lens, and has a small number of components, low cost, and small size. The lens driving device includes a base, a holder, magnets, and magnetic plates. The base includes a projection having a hook-shaped cross section. The holder includes a rotation inhibitor which comes into contact with the projection of the base. The holder is supported to the base by one shaft. One magnetic plate is located further from the shaft than the center of the magnet is. The other magnetic plate is located closer to the shaft than the center of the magnet is. The magnetic forces generated between the magnetic plates and the magnets make the holder subjected to a torque on the shaft. The torque allows the rotation inhibitor to be slightly pressed against the projection.

Abstract: A lens driving device includes a holder which holds a lens and is movable in the direction of an optical axis of the lens and a plurality of magnets which is fixed to the holder so as to be separated from each other in a circumferential direction. Cut-out portions are provided on the holder and the magnets which are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction are communicated with each other through the cut-out portions. When an adhesive is filled into the cut-out portions, the adhesive bonds the magnets which are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: In an imaging lens, one compound lens and two single lenses are arranged in a lens barrel. On the light output side of the lens barrel, a filter is arranged with a distance from lens barrel. With a further distance from the filter, an imaging element is arranged. In the compound lens, a resin lens is bonded to a base member lens, having an output surface center of the resin lens displaced by a prescribed amount relative to an output surface center of the base member lens, so that a transmission decentration amount attributed to the base member lens, not including the resin lens, and the single lenses is cancelled by a transmission decentration amount by the resin lens when taken as a whole lens system. Thus, the imaging lens capable of suppressing reduction in resolving power due to transmission decentration of the lenses is obtained.

Abstract: A composite lens of the present invention has a base lens and a resin lens placed on the base lens. The resin lens has, in an area outside an optically effective diameter, a first surface, a second surface that is adjacent to the first surface, and a third surface that is adjacent to the second surface in sequence from an optical axis to an outer circumference. The first surface has an inclined surface that becomes higher from the outer circumference toward the optical axis, and the inclined surface is connected to the second surface. The second surface has a plane that is substantially perpendicular to the optical axis, and the substantially perpendicular plane is connected to the first plane. The third surface has an inclined surface that becomes lower from an inner circumference toward the outer circumference.

Abstract: A composite lens of the present invention has a base lens and a resin lens placed on the base lens. The resin lens has, in an area outside an optically effective diameter, a first surface, a second surface that is adjacent to the first surface, and a third surface that is adjacent to the second surface in sequence from an optical axis to an outer circumference. The first surface has an inclined surface that becomes higher from the outer circumference toward the optical axis, and the inclined surface is connected to the second surface. The second surface has a plane that is substantially perpendicular to the optical axis, and the substantially perpendicular plane is connected to the first plane. The third surface has an inclined surface that becomes lower from an inner circumference toward the outer circumference.

Abstract: The number of response-waiting requests which are already sent to a server (4) but to which a response is not yet returned from the server (4) is limited. To limit this number, received requests are temporarily accumulated in a buffer if the number of response-waiting requests has reached a threshold and, until the number of response-waiting requests falls below the threshold, requests are not sent from the buffer. The execution status of the server (4) is monitored, and the threshold is increased when the response time from the server (4) to a request is within an allowable range, and the threshold is decreased when the response time exceeds the allowable range. In addition, TCP connections between a load control device (3) and clients (1-1, 1-n) are aggregated so that the number of simultaneous connections of TCP connections between the server (4) and the load control device (3) becomes equal to or smaller than the threshold of the number of response-waiting requests.

Abstract: In an imaging lens, one compound lens and two single lenses are arranged in a lens barrel. On the light output side of the lens barrel, a filter is arranged with a distance from lens barrel. With a further distance from the filter, an imaging element is arranged. In the compound lens, a resin lens is bonded to a base member lens, having an output surface center of the resin lens displaced by a prescribed amount relative to an output surface center of the base member lens, so that a transmission decentration amount attributed to the base member lens, not including the resin lens, and the single lenses is cancelled by a transmission decentration amount by the resin lens when taken as a whole lens system. Thus, the imaging lens capable of suppressing reduction in resolving power due to transmission decentration of the lenses is obtained.

Abstract: A dielectric filter including at least three coaxial dielectric resonators of predetermined size which are bonded as arranged side by side. The resonators serving respectively as an input stage and an output stage are each formed with an external connection electrode positioned on the peripheral surface other than the adjoining surface in proximity to an exposed end face and insulated from an outer conductor layer. An inner conductor layer of the resonator serving as an intermediate stage is removed over only a suitable region from an exposed end face thereof so as to approximately match the resonance frequency of the intermediate-stage resonator to the resonance frequency of the input-stage and the output-stage resonators. The dielectric filter may include at least three coaxial dielectric resonators which are bonded as arranged side by side.

Abstract: A process for producing a dielectric filter by bonding coaxial dielectric resonators of predetermined size as arranged side by side. The process comprises forming interstage coupling windows by removing an outer conductor layer from the same region of each of adjoining surfaces of the resonators to be adjacent to each other, and bonding the resonators as arranged side by side in proximity to each other on a smooth-surfaced table with an electrically conductive bonding material applied to at least one of the outer conductive layers remaining on the adjoining surfaces.

Abstract: A slider body and a yoke each made of a ferromagnetic oxide are butted against each other with a gap spacer provided therebetween. An air bearing portion is formed on the upper surface of the slider body. The yoke has a width t smaller than the width w of the air bearing portion, and is covered over both side faces thereof with glass and bonded to the slider body with the glass.