Abstract: A camera includes a main unit which has an arc-shaped groove and a fixed hook formed on and projecting from the groove; and a bayonet ring which has, on the back face thereof, an arc-shaped projection to be engaged in the groove and a stop hook to go under the fixed hook and stopped by the fixed hook when the projection is engaged in the groove and rotated. The bayonet ring has a mark formed in a position on the front face thereof and a part of the bayonet ring which is furthest away from the mark is lifted by pressing the mark in a state that the bayonet ring is rotated up to a detachment position.

Abstract: A heating device of the light irradiation type having an article to be heated, a guard ring located on the periphery of that article, multiple lamps located above the article to be heated and the guard ring, and a reflecting mirror located above the lamps, in which a light diffusion part is located in the upper region corresponding to the article to be heated so that the diffused light projects onto the entire surface of the article to be heated. The light diffusion part can be formed, for example, on a reflecting mirror, an optically transparent window part located between the article to be heated and the lamps or a light diffusion area formed on the light-emitting bulbs of the lamps. The size of the region occupied by the light diffusion part is such that diffused light is not projected to the guard ring.

Abstract: A filament lamp comprising a bulb which has a hermetically sealed portion on at least one end and multiple filament assemblies, each filament assembly comprising a coiled filament and connected leads to supply power to that filament, the filament assemblies being sequentially arranged in the axial direction of the bulb, the leads of each filament assembly being electrically connected to respective multiple conductive parts set in the sealed portions, and power being independently suppliable to each of the filaments. A respective one of the coiled filaments is located in a respective first quadrant formed by intersecting planes that are perpendicular to each other and that are tangent to an outer coil diameter of the respective coiled filament. The leads are positioned in quadrants other than the quadrant in which the coiled filament is located. A light irradiation type heat treatment apparatus uses a plurality of such filament lamps.

Abstract: The electric press is provided with a main CPU 1 and a sub CPU 3, the main CPU1 being responsive to a signal from a servo driver 10 to give an detecting signal to a relay 2 when a ram 51 is located in a predetermined position, thereby to give a mute signal to an area sensor 30 and the sub CPU 3 being responsive to a signal from an encoder 9 to give a detecting signal to a relay 4 when the ram is located in a predetermined position, thereby to give a mute signal to the area sensor 30. The main CPU 1 and sub CPU 3 watch each other, that is, the main CPU 1 checks the output of a relay 4 and turns the relay 2 off when the mute signal is not produced from the relay 4. The conditions of sub CPU and main CPU are compared with each other. In case the two conditions are in accord with each other, it is decided that the relay 4 is out of order. The sub CPU 3 makes the same check operation in connection with the relay 2.

Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is given as follows: That is, QoS of isochronous data can be effectively secured, and asynchronous data can be transferred with a small delay. In an information communication apparatus 100 of the present invention, in which both isochronous data and asynchronous data which are received by an IEEE 1394 receiving unit 210 based upon IEEE 1394 are transmitted by an IEEE 802.11 transmitting unit 300 based upon IEEE 802.11, the information communication apparatus 100 is equipped with: a packetizing unit (1) 230 for converting the isochronous data into data in a packet format of IEEE 802.11; and another packetizing unit (2) 240 for converting the asynchronous data into data in a packet formed of IEEE 802.11 based upon the packet format of the isochronous data converted by the packetizing unit (1) 230.

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor laser device includes, on a first principle face of the (0001) of a nitride semiconductor substrate, a nitride semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type, an active layer, and a nitride semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type that is different from the first conductivity type, and being formed a stripe ridge on the surface thereof. The (000-1) face and an inclined face other than the (000-1) face are exposed on a second principal face of the nitride semiconductor substrate. The inclined face other than the (000-1) face represents no less than 0.5% over the surface area of the second principal face.

Abstract: In a vehicle seat lock, an operating knob is provided at the top of the seat back of a chair. The operating knob is joined to the inner end of the bell crank at the lower end. The bell crank is pivotally secured to a bracket in the seat back. The outer end of the bell crank has the first and second elongate openings. The upper end of the first connecting rod slidably engages in the first elongate opening, and the upper end of the second connecting rod slidably engages in the second elongate opening. The lower end of the first connecting rod is coupled to a sensing member which detects invasion of the striker. The lower end of the second connecting rod is coupled to an opening lever which allows a hook member to disengage from a striker fixed to the vehicle body.

Abstract: A digital camera contains a circuit board and a battery box inside a housing. The housing and the battery box are made of plastic. The housing is fixed to the battery box with a tapping screw. A conductive plate for preventing the tapping screw from being charged is arranged between the housing and the battery box. Projections of the conductive plate penetrate into thread grooves of the tapping screw. The conductive plate transmits static electricity of the tapping screw to a grounding member of the circuit board.

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor laser device comprises, on a principle face of a nitride semiconductor substrate: a nitride semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type; an active layer comprising indium, and a nitride semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type that is different from said first conductivity type, and on the surface of which is formed a stripe ridge; said principal face of said nitride semiconductor substrate having an off angle a (?a) with respect to a reference crystal plane, in at least a direction substantially parallel to said stripe ridge.

Abstract: In a vehicle seat lock, a striker is mounted to a vehicle body and a hook member is mounted to the seat back. The striker comprises the first and second engagement portions which selectively engage in first and second engagement grooves of the hook member to hold the seat back in two kinds of standing positions. The hook member is pivotally secured on a pivot to open and molded with synthetic resin to buffer impacting of the striker.

Abstract: A power supply system is provided. The power supply system includes electronic equipment adapted to control power supply based on battery identification information from a battery installed in a battery housing section; and a power supply plate, the power supply plate including a plate main body installed in the battery housing section of the electronic equipment, and a cable, one end of which is connected to the plate main body and the other end of which is led through a lead-out hole of the battery housing section out of the electronic equipment, the other end also having a connector formed thereon which is connected to a power source, wherein power is supplied from the power source connected to the connector of the power supply plate to the electronic equipment.

Abstract: The present invention provides a non-halogen polyamide-imide resin soluble in an amide solvent at a concentration of 10%, the resulting varnish, when stored at 5° C. for 1 month, exhibiting a solution viscosity change ((solution viscosity after 1 month?initial solution viscosity)/initial solution viscosity), expressed as an absolute value, of not greater than 3.0, and the resin having a moisture absorption (25° C., 90% RH, 24 hours) of not greater than 2.0%; a flexible metal-clad laminates using such a resin; and a flexible printed wiring board prepared from such a flexible metal-clad laminate by circuit formation. The flexible metal-clad laminate of the invention does not curl under any conditions, including humid conditions, and exhibits excellent dimensional stability since the heat resistant resin used as an insulation material has low moisture absorption and low thermal expansion coefficient and there is less internal stress in the flexible metal-clad laminate.

Abstract: A process for production of a substrate for attachment of cells at certain positions and a substrate for attachment of cells. A support structure comprising a hydrophobic resin base material and a hydrophilic polymer layer formed on the hydrophobic resin base material. Areas of the hydrophilic polymer layer and a chemical reaction product present on a boundary surface between the hydrophilic polymer layer and the hydrophobic resin base material are removed, so as to expose areas of the hydrophobic resin base material at which cells will attach, by irradiating the support structure with UV radiation emitted from a light source via a pattern mask. The exposed areas are depressions with a controlled shape matched to the mask pattern, each of the depressions having a bottom surface which is formed by exposure of the hydrophobic resin base material.

Abstract: The moisturized nonwoven fabric of the invention contains 1% or more of a water-soluble component to a weight of a pre-moisturized nonwoven fabric and an increase ratio of an equilibrium moisture regain (equilibrium water content) is 0.5% or more as compared with an equilibrium moisture regain of the moisturized nonwoven fabric after the water-soluble component is removed. Therefore, this moisturized nonwoven fabric is excellent in use feel such as skin touch and wiping property and functionalities such as water absorption property and water retention property. Further, this moisturized nonwoven fabric is excellent in functionalities such as moisturizing liquid transferring capability and skin moisturizing effect.

Abstract: A seat back lock is included in a seat back of a vehicle. A knob is provided at the top of the seat back. A passenger in the vehicle pushes down the knob to cause the seat back to move from a standing position to a folding position on a seat. In the standing position, a striker extending from the body of the vehicle engages with a hook of the seat back lock. The seat back lock comprises a binding lever and a warning lever connected to the knob. Whenever the strike engages with the hook, the binding lever directly contacts the striker. If the striker incompletely engages with or disengages from the hook, the knob is pulled down by the warning lever to expose an indicator to permit the passenger to visually recognize it.

Abstract: A filament lamp that allows independent control of the state of luminescence of multiple filaments and that reliably prevents the occurrence of unwanted discharge between adjacent portions of neighboring filaments, even when a high voltage is injected into the filaments to achieve a desired irradiation distribution, and light-irradiation-type heat treatment device that can heat the article to be treated uniformly. The filament lamp has multiple filament assemblies, each having a filament and respective leads arrangement sequentially within a light emitting bulb, in the axial direction of the light emitting bulb. With alternating current power supplied to each filament independently, the current will be supplied with the same phase and mutually adjacent terminals of neighboring filament assemblies will have the same potential, and with direct current power supplied to each filament independently, adjacent terminals of neighboring filament assemblies will be of the same polarity.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat body having a seat back, a pair of left and right legs, a headrest coupled to the seat back at above the seat back through the pair of legs, load detecting means provided on the seat back and having a movable part that displaces in a predetermined direction upon undergoing a load from the front of the seat back; a first interacting member mechanically coupled to one leg of the pair and to the movable part of the load detecting means, to move one leg of the pair in conjunction with a displacement of the movable part caused upon undergoing the load, thereby displacing the headrest frontward, and a second interacting member mechanically coupled to the other leg of the pair and to the first interacting member, to move the other leg of the pair in conjunction with a movement of the first interacting member caused upon moving the one leg of the pair, thereby displacing the headrest frontward.

Abstract: An apparatus for low-temperature plasma treatment of a continuous length plastic film which can work for surface modifying processing for a film using low-temperature plasma while maintaining the dimensional stability without causing damage to the film. The apparatus for performing surface modifying processing for a film comprises: a first vacuum chamber equipped with an unrolling unit for unrolling a rolled plastic film; a second vacuum chamber in which the unrolled plastic film is subjected to a low-temperature plasma treatment on the surface; and a third vacuum chamber equipped with a winding unit for winding the plasma-treated plastic film into a roll, the vacuum chambers being connected together in series along the running direction of the plastic film under treatment.

Abstract: In a vehicle seat lock, a striker is mounted to a vehicle body and a hook member is mounted to the seat back. The striker comprises the first and second engagement portions which selectively engage in first and second engagement grooves of the hook member to hold the seat back in two kinds of standing positions. The hook member is pivotally secured on a pivot to open and molded with synthetic resin to buffer impacting of the striker.

Abstract: A hook member of a vehicle seat lock engages with a striker fixed to a vehicle body. An opening lever is pivotally secured to the first base plate to constitute the first subassembly. The hook member is pivotally secured to the second base plate to constitute the second subassembly. The first base plate is coupled to the second base plate. Between the first and second base plates, a sensing member is pivotally secured in parallel with the hook member to detect invasion of the striker in the hook member.