Abstract: A mail notification apparatus is provided that enables a user of a cellular phone to know of the arrival of an electronic mail, even when the user is away from his/her office. The mail notification apparatus stores an electronic mail address of a local mail account in association with a mail address of a cellular phone. When it is determined that the electronic mail has arrived at the electronic mail address, the mail notification apparatus notifies, by using electronic mail, the arrival of the electronic mail to the cellular phone through the Internet and a communication vender mail server.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transfer technique that can improve the transfer ability when reinforcing and expanding the transfer system, with effectively using the existing system. The transfer system includes tracks that link a plurality of manufacturing equipments, a plurality of carriers having different performances that run on the tracks to transfer objects between the manufacturing equipments and the like in a factory space having a plurality of manufacturing equipments, and the plurality of carriers having different performances are simultaneously provided and run on the same tracks. The plurality of carriers are composed of old carriers and new carriers that provided together and run depending on their own performances (running performance such as running speed, acceleration/deceleration, and the like and transfer performance such as transfer speed and the like).

Abstract: An external preparation characterized by comprising, as selected from gallic acid derivatives of the following formula (I), 1

Abstract: A first impurity diffusion area is formed in the semiconductor substrate at a bottom of the first trench formed in a surface of the semiconductor substrate. A second impurity diffusion area is formed in the surface of the semiconductor substrate, each have one end contacting a first side wall of the first trench, and each have the same conductive type as the first impurity diffusion area. A first gate electrode is provided on the first side wall between the first and second impurity diffusion areas with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween. A first ferroelectric film is provided on a first lower electrode, which is provided on the second impurity area. A first upper electrode is provided on the first ferroelectric film. A first interconnection layer is provided above the first upper electrode. A first contact plug electrically connects the first interconnection layer and first impurity diffusion area.

Abstract: A high frequency detection circuit in accordance with the present invention detects information about a first high frequency power in a high frequency power source device supplying the first high frequency power having a first frequency (t) and a second high frequency power having a second frequency (f1) lower than the first frequency (f) to a load (7). A third high frequency signal (V1) that is a mixed signal of a first high frequency signal having the first frequency (f) and a second high frequency signal having the second frequency (f1) is detected by a directional coupler (12). The third high frequency signal (V1) is converted to a fourth high frequency signal (V1′) having a third frequency (&Dgr;f) between the first and second frequencies (f, f1) using a heterodyne system. A progressive wave power (Pf) of the first frequency (f) is detected based on the fourth high frequency signal (V1′).

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first transistor formed on the semiconductor substrate and including a first gate electrode and first and second diffusion layers, a first contact connected to the first diffusion layer, a first conductive oxygen barrier film electrically connected to the first contact and covering at least the upper surface of the first contact, a first ferroelectric capacitor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first ferroelectric film interposed between the first and second electrodes, and a first connecting member connected to the first electrode and to the first conductive oxygen barrier film.

Abstract: Reagents which regulate human B7-H2 and reagents which bind to human B7-H2 gene products can play a role in preventing, ameliorating, or correcting dysfunctions or diseases including, but not limited to, allergic diseases, such as respiratory allergies, food allergies, asthma, and atopic dermatitis, as well as in the treatment of intracellular bacterial infections, such as tuberculosis, leprosy, listeriosis, and salmonellosis; and autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and type I diabetes, as well as in the treatment of helminth and extracellular microbial infections.

Abstract: A through-bore is provided in an outer wall of a passage defining structure defining a liquid passage faced by at least a portion of a vibration generating section, and opens at its inner end into the liquid passage. A vibration absorbing device includes an occluding member mounted to the outer wall to occlude the through-bore, an elastic membrane with its one end facing the liquid passage and other end facing a space defined between the elastic membrane and the occluding member, and a retaining member mounted to the occluding member for retaining the elastic membrane between the retaining member and the occluding member. Thus, a variation in pressure of a liquid in the liquid passage which is induced by the vibration generated in the vibration generating section is absorbed by flexing of the elastic membrane, whereby an exciting force applied from the liquid to the passage defining structure is effectively reduced, and a vibration sound radiated from the passage defining structure is reduced.

Abstract: A tire/wheel assembly assembling method, including a balance weight determination step, in which the weight and attachment position of a balance weight to be attached to a wheel are determined on the assumption that the minimum point of the RRO of the wheel will be phase matched with the maximum point of the RFV of a tire and based on the weight and position of the heavy point of the static unbalance of the wheel and the weight and position of the light point of the static unbalance of the tire, a balance weight attachment step, in which the balance weight is attached to the wheel based on the determined weight and attachment position, and an assembling step, in which the wheel and the tire are assembled together upon phase matching the minimum point of the RRO of the wheel with the maximum point of the RFV of the tire.

Abstract: An insulating member is made of an abrasion-resistant resin composition prepared by mixing a base resin with a polyamide ultrafine, fibers-dispersed polyolefin resin composition that contains a polyolefin, polyamide fibers, a silane coupling agent and silica particles. In the resin composition, the silica particles may be in the polyamide fibers.

Abstract: Reagents which regulate human chemokine-like receptor and reagents which bind to human chemokine-like receptor gene products can play a role in preventing, ameliorating, or correcting dysfunctions or diseases including, but not limited to, HIV infection, cardiovascular disorders, asthma and COPD.

Abstract: A rail-guided transfer system, capable of preventing the reduction of the operation rate of manufacturing equipments on a manufacturing line such as a semiconductor manufacturing line etc., is provided. Two RGVs 11A and 11B are arranged in advance on one transfer rail 3 laid between two stockers BS1 and BS2. For example, when maintenance of the manufacturing equipment EQ8 provided between the stockers BS1 and BS2 is done, a transfer region MA1 of the RGV 11A is set from the stocker BS1 to the manufacturing equipment EQ7 and a transfer region MA2 of the RGV 11B is set from the stocker BS2 to the manufacturing equipment EQ9.

Abstract: For balancing a wheel, which is formed of a rolled plate having varying thickness, the wheel is provided with a disk which is formed by a rolled plate having varying thickness in the rolling direction, wherein wheel balance is adjusted by radially adjusting the angle between the location of the thick part of the disk and the location of the air valve insertion hole, and the location of the air valve insertion hole certainly accords with the heaviest point by conforming the location of the air valve insertion hole with the location of the thick part of the disk.

Abstract: If an abnormal current is applied to a laser diode at rise time and at fall time of a power voltage, a laser diode's life may be shortened. In a laser diode drive, circuits monitoring a current voltage are set up in two systems. At the same time, the monitor voltage of one system that controls on/off operation of the internal bias voltage is set high relative to a monitor voltage of the other system controlling an output current; until the internal bias voltage becomes stable when power is on and before the internal bias voltage cuts off and makes the circuit operation unstable when power is off, by giving another reference voltage in lieu of a reference voltage as the reference voltage of the voltage-current conversion circuit, the output status of the voltage-current conversion circuit is controlled in the direction of decreasing a current that is applied to the laser diode, so that the laser diode is prevented from receiving an abnormal current at the rise time of the power voltage.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a balance adjusted wheel and its manufacturing method utilizing a cutting surface, for which cutting is performed by setting a point as a rotation center offset by a given distance from the central axis of a wheel central portion. The invention will improve the work efficiency for wheel balance adjustment and manufacturing of tire/wheel assembly.

Abstract: A current control circuit for maintaining constant current characteristics with respect to power source potential fluctuations has a first resistor with one end connected to a source potential first and second P-channel field effect transistors each having a source connected to the other end of the first resistor and a gate coupled to a gate of the other P-channel FET. The first P-channel FET has a drain directly connected to the mutually coupled gates. A second resistor connects a drain of the second P-channel FET to the mutually coupled gates, and a resistor element connects the mutually coupled gates to a zero potential. A voltage arising at the drain of the second P-channel FET is used as a gate-driving voltage for driving a gate of a current-setting transistor.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed, which includes a semiconductor substrate, drain and source regions of a MOS transistor, a gate electrode formed on a surface of a channel region of the MOS transistor trench type element isolation regions in each of which an insulating film is formed on a surface of a trench formed in the surface of the semiconductor substrate, the element isolation regions sandwiching the channel region from opposite sides thereof in a channel width direction, and a conductive material layer for a back gate electrode, which is embedded in a trench of at least one of the element isolation regions, configured to be supplied with a predetermined voltage to make an depletion layer in a region of the semiconductor substrate under the channel region of the MOS transistor or to voltage-control the semiconductor substrate region.

Abstract: In a semiconductor chip, a second power source pad, to which a ground potential is applied, is arranged adjacent to a first power source pad, to which a power source potential is applied, signal pads are arranged adjacent to the second power source pad by the number corresponding to a size of an external part such as a bypass capacitor inserted between power source terminals in an IC chip, and further, a third power source pad, to which the ground potential is applied, is arranged adjacent to the signal pad. The second power source pad or the third power source pad is selected according to the size of the external part, and then, is connected to a lead terminal, to which the ground potential is applied, in an IC chip, thereby providing a power source terminal, to which the ground potential is applied.

Abstract: Components of sampled gases are analyzed by a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer 28. It is determined whether or not the analyzed gases include at least one kind of specific gases equal to or more than a predetermined quantity. In a case where mixed gases include at least one kind of the specific gases equal to or more than the predetermined quantity, a controller 30 supplies an operation display monitor 31 with a signal indicating leakage of the kind of the specific gases. Hence, it is possible to realize detection by kind of the gases with high accuracy irrespective of the kind of leaked gas.

Abstract: A current control circuit capable of maintaining constant current characteristics with respect to a wide range of power source potential fluctuations, comprising: a first resistor (R7) with one end connected to a source potential (VDD); a first and second P-channel field-effect transistors (FETs) (MP10, MP11), each having a source connected to the other end of the first resistor and a gate coupled to a gate of the other P-channel FET, the first P-channel FET (MP10) having a drain directly connected to the mutually coupled gates; a second resistor (R6) through which a drain of the second P-channel FET (MP11) is connected to the mutually coupled gates; and a resistor element (R3P) through which the mutually coupled gates are connected to the zero potential, wherein a voltage arising at the drain of the second P-channel FET (MP11) is used as a gate-driving voltage for driving a gate of a current-setting transistor.