Abstract: Upon receiving a beacon, a terminal B sends a RTS control message to a terminal A before sending a registration request message to the terminal A. Upon receiving the RTS control message, the terminal A sends a CTS control message. The terminal B measures the time from when the RTS control message is sent to when the CTS control message is received so as to calculate the distance with the terminal A. If the distance with the terminal A is within a predetermined distance X1, the terminal B sends a registration request message to the terminal A. Similarly, the terminal A measures the distance with the terminal B, and sends a registration request acknowledgement message to the terminal B when the distance with the terminal B is within a predetermined distance X2.

Abstract: A vertical magnetic recording medium enabling information recording/reproduction with high-recording density and having a soft magnetic backing layer that enables low-noise recording, can be thin, and is excellent in corrosion resistance and its manufacturing method are disclosed. The vertical magnetic recording medium (10) having a soft magnetic backing layer (12) and a vertical recording layer (12) as to serve as a main recording layer and having an easy-magnetization axis mainly oriented vertically to the film surface is characterized in that the soft magnetic backing layer (12) characterized by being made of a soft magnetic material having a composition of FeTaN.

Abstract: A terminal B, which is to enter a network, transmits a beacon including a network identifier and an operation mode of the terminal B. As the network identifier, the terminal identifier of a terminal that has issued an attribute certificate used for connecting the terminal B to the network can be used. Upon receiving the beacon, a terminal A checks whether the operation mode of the terminal A coincides with the operation mode contained in the beacon. The terminal A then sends an authentication request to the terminal B by providing an attribute certificate that matches the network identifier contained in the beacon.

Abstract: A system and method for performing ranging and positioning as follows by using the procedure for packet transmission and reception between a sender and a recipient. A first radio set transmits packets to a second radio set as a recipient. The second radio set returns the packets without fail after the lapse of time (from the detection of packets) which corresponds to an integral multiple of a prescribed unit time. The first radio set counts, by using its counter, the time which has elapsed from its transmission of packets to its detection of packets from the second radio set. The remainder of the thus counted time after subtraction of the time taken by the second radio set from packet detection to packet return and the processing time of the first radio set itself is converted into the distance of propagation between the first radio set and the second radio set as a recipient.

Abstract: An anode target (22) is rotatably supported by a rotating mechanism (25) having a rotary body (23) and a stationary body (28). A fitted portion between the rotary body (23) and the stationary body (28) is formed of bearing areas (L1) to (L4) having dynamic pressure type sliding bearings and a non-bearing area (L5) having a clearance between the rotary body (23) and the stationary body (28) larger than that in the bearing areas (L1) to (L4). The rotary body facing the non-bearing area is positioned where a time for heat transfer from the anode target (22) is shorter than the rotary body facing the bearing areas. Thus, the characteristics of heat radiation from the anode target (22) can be improved, and a stable bearing operation can be maintained.

Abstract: In a rotary anode type X-ray tube apparatus, a rotary anode target model X-ray pipe is received in housing. Housing is coupled by cooler device to supply a coolant in the housing. Anode target is fixed to a rotary cylinder, which is rotatably supported by a stationary shaft. The stationary shaft is provided with an inner hollow space for guiding the coolant. The coolant guided in the housing is split into two flowing streams, and one of the streams is introduced into the space for cooling of stationary shaft.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and convenient method of producing a polymer electrolyte membrane exhibiting high proton conductivity. This object is achieved by a method of producing a polymer electrolyte membrane comprising a step of coating a liquid containing a polymer electrolyte and a solvent onto a substrate and a step of removing the solvent, wherein the solvent is a mixture of a first solvent comprising at least one selected from alcohol and water, and a second solvent comprising a non-alcoholic organic solvent having a boiling point lower than that of the first solvent. The present invention further provides a method of improving the proton conductivity of a polymer electrolyte membrane comprising a step of coating a liquid containing a polymer electrolyte and a solvent onto a substrate and a step of removing the solvent, wherein the solvent is a mixed solvent comprising at least one solvent selected from alcohol and water, and a non-alcoholic.

Abstract: A communication processing system which allows a secure communication with a mobile terminal via a network. The communication processing system includes a server which provides a common key used to encrypt and decrypt data transmitted between communication terminals, and provides information about locations of communication terminals on the network. The server generates a session key and provides it to communication terminals. The server has a database in which location information of mobile terminals is stored. If the server receives, from a calling terminal, data designating a destination terminal, the server searches the database using an IP address of the destination terminal as a search key to acquire the latest location information of the destination terminal, and the server transmits encrypted data including a session key and address data of the destination terminal to the calling terminal.

Abstract: A vertical magnetic recording medium and a method for evaluating the same by which the thickness of the micro-crystalline texture part occupying the ferromagnetic layer in the recording layer of the medium can be grasped quantitatively along with the distribution thereof in the thickness direction and the crystal magnetic anisotropy constant Kugrain of magnetic crystal grains in a columnar texture part can be determined simultaneously.

Abstract: A virtual network prefix is provided as a dedicated prefix for a mobile node in a domain having a plurality of subnets. The domain includes a layered network that has a quasi-micro mobility network (QMMN) and a pure-micro mobility network (PMMN). The quasi-micro mobility network (QMMN) performs prefix-based routing, and the pure-micro mobility network (PMMN) performs routing using two different routing protocols, that is, prefix-based routing and host-based routing. In each network, processing for changing a route, such as changing cache data or the like, is performed depending on how a terminal moves.

Abstract: A terminal acquires a network prefix of a network connected thereto, and determines whether that network prefix is identical to an initial network prefix. When the terminal determines that the two prefixes are different, the terminal reads the network prefix of each of a destination address and a source address in a received packet. When the read network prefix is different from the initial network prefix, the terminal substitutes the initial network prefix for the read network prefix, thereby generating a pseudo header. The terminal authenticates the received packet using the generated pseudo header.

Abstract: In a rotary anode type X-ray tube apparatus, a rotary anode target model X-ray pipe is received in housing. Housing is coupled by cooler device to supply a coolant in the housing. Anode target is fixed to a rotary cylinder, which is rotatably supported by a stationary shaft. The stationary shaft is provided with an inner hollow space for guiding the coolant. The coolant guided in the housing is split into two flowing streams, and one of the streams is introduced into the space for cooling of stationary shaft.

Abstract: There is disclosed an automatic biochemical analyzer having a sample turntable and a reaction turntable. Plural sample containers for holding samples are arrayed on the sample turntable. Plural reaction containers are arrayed on the reaction turntable. A sampling pipette draws in a sample from some sampling container and injects the sample into some reaction container. A reagent pipette draws in some reagent from some reagent container and injects the reagent into the same reaction container. The resulting mixture is stirred by a stirring device. Produced reaction products are detected by a detector. Let N be the number of the reaction containers on the reaction turntable. The reaction turntable is rotated in M pitches in one step. Note that M and N do not have any common factor. First and second injecting positions adjacent to each other are established as positions where the reagent pipette can inject a reagent into the reaction container in position.

Abstract: A system for testing an overall system employing an integrated circuit with a modulator thereon is disclosed. The system for testing includes structure for causing the modulator to continually transmit data and structure for causing the continually transmitted data to exhibit extreme frequency deviation. In both instances the structure may be a single register. This register may also include a set of bits that may be set to select a continuous or an alternating pattern or, stated another way, a maximum or a minimum peak frequency deviation.

Abstract: There is disclosed a pipette-washing device for use with an automatic biochemical analyzer. The pipette-washing device includes a wash fluid-ejecting block for ejecting a wash fluid toward pipette. An upwardly spreading groove is formed in the top surface of the body of the block and extends along the trajectory of the front end of the pipette. The groove is connected at its lower end with the vertical wash fluid channel. A lateral draining channel is formed in the body of the block and connected with the lower end of the vertical wash fluid channel. When the pipette moves, the front end of the pipette moves through the groove. The block is inclined at an angle to the vertical within a plane in which the groove extends.

Abstract: There is disclosed a washing device for use with an automatic biochemical analyzer using reaction containers. The washing device comprises a sucking portion and a draining tube. When the sucking portion is advanced into any one reaction container placed in position and is set in a given position, a communication passage is created between the inner wall surface of the container and the outer wall surface of the sucking portion and between the bottom surface of the container and the bottom surface of the sucking portion. During draining, the container is depleted of wash liquid. Outside air flows from the communication passage into the container through its opening at the top end at a flow rate more than a given value. The air flow blows away the water droplets adhering to the inner wall surface of the container. The blown water droplets are urged downward toward the sucking port in the suction portion. Then, the water droplets are discharged into a waste tank through the draining tube.

Abstract: There is disclosed a small-sized automatic biochemical analyzer requiring reduced amounts of reagents. An original sample is transferred to diluting containers on a diluting turntable. The diluted sample is transferred to reaction containers on a reaction turntable and analyzed. The original sample is once diluted. The aliquots of sample are taken from the diluted sample. Thus, a limitation imposed by the minimum volume of liquid that the instrument can meter out can be overcome. Let N be the total number of the diluting containers on the diluting turntable. The turntable is rotated in M pitches at a time. M and N do not have any common factor.

Abstract: A transmitter and a two-way radio set which can be made structurally much simpler and also which can reduce consumption current. A carrier is obtained by frequency-dividing an oscillation signal generated by an oscillator, and the first local signal and the second local signal are obtained on the basis of the oscillation signal generated by the oscillator. Therefore, the construction can be made simple as compared with the conventional system, and power consumption can be reduced.

Abstract: A transmitter which can easily suppress diffusion of a spurious signal with a simple constitution, wherein the on/off operations of the transmitting circuit and the carrier signal generating circuit are controlled by the first control signal which rises at the predetermined timing and falls at the predetermined timing, and the on/off operation of the modulator is controlled by the second control signal which gently rises at the same or later timing than the rise timing of the first control signal and gently falls at the same or earlier timing than the fall timing of the first control signal, so that a phenomenon which is similar to pulse modulation of the leaked carrier signal fc becomes hard to be generated, therefore diffusion of the spurious signal can be suppressed.

Abstract: A transmitter or transceiver can satisfactorily transmit or transmit and receive signals based on an oscillation signal from a single oscillator.