Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon commutator and a carbon brush for a fuel pump which have excellent slidability and abrasion resistance, and a fuel pump having the carbon commutator and the carbon brush incorporated therein. In the carbon commutator for a fuel pump, at least a contact portion to contact with a brush contains 0.2 to less than 5% by weight of an amorphous carbon. The carbon brush for a fuel pump to contact with and slide on the carbon commutator contains 0.2 to not more than 5% by weight of an amorphous carbon. The fuel pump includes the carbon commutator having the foregoing structure and the carbon brush having the foregoing structure.

Abstract: An electronic component substrate (1-1) includes an insulating base (10) and a flexible circuit board (20) mounted on the insulating base (10). The flexible circuit board (20) is a synthetic resin film provided thereon with terminal patterns (29) and a conductor pattern (25) whose surface is slidingly contacted with a slider. The insulating base (10) is a synthetic resin molded piece. The flexible circuit board (20) is insert-molded to the insulating base (10). The electronic component substrate (1-1) is produced by preparing the flexible circuit board (20) and first and second mold members (41, 45) having a cavity (C1) with a shape that corresponds to the external shape of the electronic component substrate (1-1). Then, the flexible circuit board (20) is accommodated in the cavity (C1) between the first and second mold members (41,45), and the cavity (C1) is filled with a molten molding resin. After the molding resin has solidified, the first and second mold members (41, 45) are removed.

Abstract: A method for ink-jet textile printing including the steps of: (a) ejecting a pigment ink from a recording head onto a fabric, wherein the pigment ink contains at least water, a pigment and a polymer, wherein the polymer has a plurality of said chains in a hydrophilic main chain and is capable of cross-linking between the side chains by irradiation of active energy rays, and (b) forming an image by irradiation of active energy rays onto the ink ejected areas.

Abstract: An internal high hardness type pearlitic rail that has a composition containing 0.73% to 0.85% by mass C, 0.5% to 0.75% by mass Si, 0.3% to 1.0% by mass Mn, 0.035% by mass or less P, 0.0005% to 0.012% by mass S, 0.2% to 1.3% by mass Cr, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, in which the value of [% Mn]/[% Cr] is greater than or equal to 0.3 and less than 1.0, where [% Mn] represents the Mn content, and [% Cr] represents the Cr content, and in which the internal hardness of a rail head that is defined by the Vickers hardness of a portion located from a surface layer of the rail head to a depth of at least 25 mm is greater than or equal to 380 Hv and less than 480 Hv.

Abstract: Encrypted communications are performed between private networks over a wide-area network (e.g., the Internet) by way of routers, each of which includes a management table for storing entries including identifiers and control parameters. Uplink control connections are established between routers so as to mutually communicate and update stored contents of management tables therebetween. Updated stored contents of management tables are subjected to publication to other routers. Alternatively, stored contents of management tables are periodically subjected to publication to other routers. Thus, it is possible for operations managers to reduce manual operations for setting up control parameters in management tables of routers.

Abstract: An image forming method in which after recording by ejecting ink on an ink-jet recording medium containing a thermoplastic resin in the surface layer, a fixing process to fuse said thermoplastic resin or make it into a film is provided, wherein a colorless or white liquid is supplied on said ink-jet recording medium before the fixing process.

Abstract: A method for separating and recovering trivalent and tetravalent actinoids in a simple and less costly manner without using an organophosphorus compound is provided. This method selectively separates and recovers the tetravalent actinoid plutonium Pu (IV) and the trivalent actinoids americium Am (III) and curium Cm (III) from trivalent lanthanoids Ln (III), etc. with the use of an extractant having a functional group with neutral multidentate ligand activity which is a hybrid donor type organic compound having both of donor atoms, i.e., an oxygen atom and a nitrogen atom.

Abstract: A multiple discharge lamp lighting apparatus includes first and second transformers and a bridge circuit configured such that four branch paths each including a discharge lamp are connected to form a quadrangle with four sides constituted by the four branch paths, wherein one terminals of two secondary windings of the first transformer are connected to two lamp connection points disposed at two diagonally opposing corners of the quadrangle and one terminals of two secondary windings of the second transformer are connected to another two lamp connection points disposed at the remaining two diagonally opposing corners, and wherein output voltages from the first transformer repeat inversion with their respective polarities reversed, thus constituting a first differential voltage output, and output voltages from the second transformer repeat inversion with their polarities reversed at every cycle of the polarity inversion at the first differential voltage output, thus constituting a second differential voltage ou

Abstract: An image is formed by dividing rasterized original image data into regions in accordance with N recording heads, and scanning a recording body by simultaneously irradiating recording beams from the N recording heads. Corrected image data divided into regions in accordance with the recording heads are generated by changing the rasterized original image data based on information including positional displacements of the recording beams, so that the positional displacements are corrected. Scanning information is generated based on the positional displacement information. The scanning information includes positions and orders for the recording beams to scan the recording body to record the corrected image data.

Abstract: A discharge lamp lighting apparatus for lighting multiple discharge lamps is provided in which two step-up transformers to apply AC voltages to two discharge lamp groups are mounted on a circuit board, and an antenna pattern is disposed on the circuit board so as to extend under both secondary windings of the step-up transformers and has its one end electrically connected to a tank circuit of a protection circuit, wherein the resonance frequency of the tank circuit is set to a frequency corresponding to five times the driving frequency of the step-up transformers, and the fifth-order high harmonic component is extracted from a signal induced in the antenna pattern, and when the signal extracted by the tank circuit exceeds a predetermined value, the output side of the step-up transformers is determined to be in an open state and the step-up transformers are stopped from being driven.

Abstract: The invention provides a high-strength pearlitic steel rail, which is inexpensive, and has a tensile strength of 1200 MPa or more, and is excellent in delayed fracture properties. Specifically, the rail contains, in mass percent, C of 0.6 to 1.0%, Si of 0.1 to 1.5%, Mn of 0.4 to 2.0%, P of 0.035% or less, S of 0.0005 to 0.010%, and the remainder is Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein tensile strength is 1200 MPa or more, and size of a long side of an A type inclusion is 250 mm or less in at least a cross-section in a longitudinal direction of a rail head, and the number of A type inclusions, each having a size of a long side of 1 mm to 250 mm, is less than 25 per observed area of 1 mm2 in the cross-section in the longitudinal direction of the rail head.

Abstract: To provide a transformer in which costs of a backlight device are reduced by lighting a lamp without requiring an additional member for connecting the lamp to an inverter. A transformer according to the present invention includes terminal bases and in which terminal pins are implanted, a bobbin formed by winding a primary winding and secondary windings and around the outer circumference of a winding core, and a core. A lamp connecting terminal is arranged to the terminal bases and, and an electrode of a lamp is directly connected to the lamp connecting terminal, thereby attaching the lamp to the terminal bases and. The transformer is integrated into an inverter for a backlight device of a liquid crystal display apparatus, thereby lighting the lamp without using an additional member for connecting the lamp to the inverter.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and a method of semiconductor defect inspection in which an optimal process condition can be determined without performing electrical evaluation. To achieve the object, the present invention includes a configuration in which the type of an extracted defect is identified with reference to a database that stores the types of defects obtained by inspecting a sample, a defect density according to each defect type is obtained for each region of the sample, and the defect density is displayed. Moreover, the present invention includes a configuration in which the type of an extracted defect is identified with reference to a database that stores the types of defects obtained by inspecting a sample, a defect density according to each defect type is determined for each production process of the sample, and the defect density is displayed on a display.

Abstract: There is provided highly efficient discharge lamp lighting apparatus capable of reducing its cost by reducing high withstand voltage components on the secondary side of a high voltage transformer and stabilizing, its circuit operation. A discharge lamp lighting apparatus (1) comprises a high voltage transformer (2), a switching circuit (4) for driving the primary side of the high voltage transformer (2), and a triangular wave generation circuit (15) for determining the operation frequency of the switching circuit (4). The triangular wave generation circuit (15) includes a frequency switching means (25) for switching the operation frequency of the switching circuit (4) between before and after the lighting of a discharge lamp (3). At the secondary side of the high voltage transformer (2), a resonant circuit having a capacitance component consisting of only a parasitic capacitance (CCFL) is also formed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nano-precision sintering system 1 for sintering a nano-sized powder of a material in the pulse energization and pressure sintering process to obtain a highly purified sintered compact having a nano-sized grain structure, said nano-precision sintering system 1 comprising: at least one pre-process chamber 20 defined by at least one sealed housing 21 having at least one glove and designed to be controlled into a predetermined atmosphere; a sintering process chamber 30 defined by a sealed housing 31 having at least one glove and designed to be controlled into a predetermined atmosphere; a shut-off system 26 disposed in a passage providing communication between the pre-process chamber and the sintering process chamber so as to block the communication between the two chambers selectively while keeping it in an air tight condition; and a pulse energization and pressure sintering machine 50 having a vacuum chamber “C” allowing for the sintering process to be carried out under a vacuum

Abstract: A transfer mechanism distributes drive power from a drive power source of a motor vehicle to left and right front wheels and left and right rear wheels of the vehicle. A rear differential mechanism transfers the drive power to the left and right rear wheels. A clutch is provided between the rear differential mechanism and each of the left and right rear wheels. A control device independently controls an engaged state of each of the clutches. A speed-increasing mechanism sets revolution speeds of an output shaft of the transfer mechanism and of an input shaft of the rear differential mechanism to be the same and sets a speed of the outer circumference of the rear wheel to which the drive power is transferred, via an engaged clutch, to be faster than a speed of the outer circumference of the left and right front wheels.

Abstract: There is provided a discharge lamp lighting apparatus including a dimmer circuit which is provided with a control means to dynamically adjust screen brightness according to an input signal, and a control means to adjust screen brightness based on a user's operation. The dimmer circuit includes: an amplitude adjusting circuit to superpose a first dimming control signal composed of a DC voltage onto a second dimming control signal composed of a pulse width modulation signal; an integration circuit to integrate an output of the amplitude adjusting circuit; and a comparison circuit to compare an output of the integration circuit with a triangular wave having a predetermined frequency thereby generating a dimming signal, wherein a burst dimming mode is performed according to the dimming signal.

Abstract: In manufacturing a ceramic multi-layer wiring substrate which is formed by stacking a plurality of ceramic layers and which includes an internal wiring, a ceramic paste is printed using a screen printing process on a part of a ceramic green sheet to be a ceramic layer having the internal wiring formed thereon which part does not include the internal wiring, to form between the ceramic layers a ceramic filling layer including a same ceramic component as that in the ceramic layers which ceramic filling layer is not formed on the internal wiring. The ceramic paste includes a ceramic component, an acrylic resin, and a cellulose resin, and loss factor tan ? of the paste represented by (loss modulus)/(storage modulus) in a dry condition after printing is equal to or greater than loss factor tan ? of a conductor paste layer to be the internal wiring in a dry condition.

Abstract: Described herein is a light source apparatus in which wasteful cost increases can be suppressed during the manufacture of various types of light source apparatuses and replacement of a broken light source can be performed at low cost, a recording apparatus using the light source apparatus, and an image forming apparatus comprising the recording apparatus, a plurality of optical units comprising optical members (a light source element and a lens) for outputting a single beam are combined separably in row form, and a holder used as means for holding the optical units in row form.

Abstract: A backlight inverter to light a plurality of CCFLs is provided which supplies a stable clamp current without influence of the CCFL temperature, and which stabilizes the LCD surface brightness immediately from the start of lighting the CCFLs, and a method of driving the backlight inverter is also provided. In a backlight inverter including a plurality of inverter transformers and adapted to light a plurality of CCFLs, two primary windings of each of the inverter transformers are connected in series to each other, and a resonant circuit is formed of a leakage inductance and capacitances at the secondary side of each of the inverter transformers, wherein the inverter transformers are operated at a frequency which is lower than an intermediate frequency between the series resonance frequency and the parallel resonance frequency of the resonant circuit, and which is higher than a frequency at which the phase characteristic curve has its peak.