Abstract: A secondary battery of a proton conductive polymer, wherein a positive electrode and a negative electrode are arranged facing to each other via a separator in an electrolyte and only a proton or a proton of a hydroxyl group in an indole trimer and a &pgr; conjugated polymer, i.e., an active material of electrode in the positive electrode and in the negative electrode participates in a charge/discharge, and a proton concentration is 5 to 40% and an anion concentration is 30 to 60% in the solution, respectively, and the anion concentration is at least higher than the proton concentration.

Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb structure (1) comprising: porous cell partition walls (2) forming a compound material in which a plurality of cells (3) are disposed adjacent to one another; and a porous honeycomb outer wall (4) which surrounds and holds an outermost peripheral cell positioned in an outermost periphery of the cell compound material. At this time, a porosity is 5% or more and is less than 30%, and an outer peripheral distortion of the honeycomb structure (1) is 0.030 or less. According to the honeycomb structure, a method for manufacturing the structure, and a method for measuring the outer peripheral distortion of the honeycomb structure, it is possible to obtain satisfactory and practical erosion resistance and isostatic strength in the respective honeycomb structures including various cell structures.

Abstract: The present invention provides a secondary battery and a capacitor which may provide an excellent high rate and cycle characteristic as well as sufficient electromotive force and capacity. The secondary battery and a capacitor have an active material of an electrode comprising a trimer compound comprising three units of indole or indole derivatives in condensed ring form, wherein the second position and the third position of each unit form a six-membered ring, and a proton which can be utilized as a charge carrier of the trimer compound.

Abstract: In the metallic thin film magnetic recording medium having the magnetic layer formed on a main face of a nonmagnetic supporting body according to vacuum thin film formation technology, the thickness of the nonmagnetic supporting body is 5 &mgr;m or less, the thickness of the magnetic layer is 20 nm-100 nm and a lining layer 20 nm-200 am in thickness is formed of metal, non-metal or alloy of these materials or oxide compound thereof according to vacuum thin film formation technology. Light transmittance is 5% or less and permeating water vapor amount is 5 g/m2·day or less. The lining layer and the back layer are formed successively on a main face opposite to the magnetic layer formation face. The relative roughness factor (Ra) of the topmost surface of the lining layer formation face is 2-15 nm.

Abstract: There is provided a magnetic recording medium which exhibits superior lubricating properties and superior tape-transport properties as well as superior robustness even in a low-temperature environment. A magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic metal is formed on a nonmagnetic support, and a protecting film is formed on the magnetic layer. A lubricant auxiliary coating composition comprising an aromatic alcohol is applied to the protecting film to form a lubricant auxiliary layer, and a lubricant coating composition comprising a compound represented by the formula (1) below is applied to the lubricant auxiliary layer to form a lubricant layer.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium having high C/N ratio characteristics particularly in a short wavelength range and capable of attaining a further higher-density recording as a magnetic recording tape produced by forming a magnetic layer by a vapor deposition method and other magnetic recording media of the next generation and a method of producing the same, wherein a magnetic layer is formed by a vapor deposition method on a nonmagnetic supporting body made of a polymer substrate, which has a configuration of comprising a nonmagnetic supporting body, an under layer formed on the nonmagnetic supporting body, containing Co and O and having an atomic ratio of O/Co of 0.4 or more and a magnetic layer containing Co and O, wherein the film thickness of the under layer is made 50 nm or less and the maximum incident angle is made 70° or less in the vapor deposition method.

Abstract: In a light detecting device for detecting light beams passing through a light-gathering optical system, an aberration detector of the present invention includes photodetectors for forming a light-gathering spot of a first light beam passing near an optical axis, and photodetectors for forming a light-gathering spot of a second light beam passing outside the first light beam. In accordance with detection signals of the detectors, a spherical aberration of the light-gathering optical system can be detected. With this arrangement, a spherical aberration appearing on the light-gathering optical system is precisely detected and corrected in an appropriate manner, so that it is possible to suitably record and reproduce information in a magneto-optical disk.

Abstract: A metallic thin film magnetic recording medium having a magnetic layer formed on a main face of a nonmagnetic supporting body according to vacuum thin film formation technology, wherein the thickness of the nonmagnetic supporting body is 5 &mgr;m or less and the thickness of the magnetic layer is 20 nm-100 nm, the metallic thin film magnetic recording medium further comprising a lining layer having the thickness of 20 nm-200 nm formed on a main face opposite to said magnetic layer formation face, of metal, non-metal or alloy or oxide compound thereof according to the vacuum thin film formation technology.

Abstract: An adaptive peak value detector, wherein the peak value for a peak hold section is detected, the peak hold section being selected by a peak hold control circuit. A solid-state imaging sensor generates pixel signals representative of an image and the peak value of portions of the pixel signals is detected. The exposure time of the sensor is adjusted as a function of the detected peak value and auto-focusing of the image for the camera is carried out on the basis of the image received during the adjusted exposure time.

Abstract: A time information repeating installation in a radio clock system, which receives advance notice information, distinguishes advance notice content by detecting means 9, sets a transmission start time by addition setting means 10 in accordance with the content, sets an additional period by change period setting means 11, and stores the content into transmission start time storage means 12. When the stored time agrees with the time of a main counter 8, transmission starts. Therefore, even when a sudden time change occurs, the repeating installation can perform transmission at the reception timing of a subsidiary device. The subsidiary device can effectively update time data for summer or daylight savings time.

Abstract: A secondary battery of a proton conductive polymer, wherein a positive electrode and a negative electrode are arranged facing to each other via a separator in an electrolyte and only a proton or a proton of a hydroxyl group in an indole trimer and a &pgr; conjugated polymer, i.e., an active material of electrode in the positive electrode and in the negative electrode participates in a charge/discharge, and a proton concentration is 5 to 40% and an anion concentration is 30 to 60% in the solution, respectively, and the anion concentration is at least higher than the proton concentration.

Abstract: A secondary battery of a proton conductive polymer, wherein a positive electrode 2 and a negative electrode 4 are arranged facing to each other via a separator in an electrolytic solution and only a proton in a &pgr; conjugated polymer or a proton of a hydroxyl group in a hydroxyl-containing macromolecular as an active material of an electrode in the positive and negative electrodes participates in a charge/discharge; the secondary battery uses a membrane, which has acid resistance, oxidation resistance and a functional group having cation exchange function, as the separator 3.

Abstract: The present invention provides a secondary battery and a capacitor which may provide an excellent high rate and cycle characteristic as well as sufficient electromotive force and capacity. The secondary battery and a capacitor have an active material of an electrode comprising a trimer compound comprising three units of indole or indole derivatives in condensed ring form, wherein the second position and the third position of each unit form a six-membered ring, and a proton which can be utilized as a charge carrier of the trimer compound.

Abstract: A time signal repeater, capable of selectively relaying standard time radio signals having different modulation frequencies and correcting the time based on the plurality of standard time radio signals without changing a radio correction clock side, including an antenna portion capable of receiving a standard time radio signal by a set resonance frequency, an oscillating circuit outputting a signal having a frequency of the received standard time radio signal in synchronization with the standard time radio signal received by the antenna portion, at least one frequency conversion circuit converting the frequency of the output signal of the oscillating circuit, a receiving circuit receiving as input the standard time radio signal received by the antenna portion and correcting a time of an internal clock according to a time code included in the received radio signal, a transmission circuit generating a time radio signal including a time code based on the internal clock based on the output signal of the oscillati

Abstract: A time signal repeater enabling a radio correction clock to receive a relayed radio signal without regard as to the position of arrangement and without complicated trouble, including a reception circuit for receiving a standard time radio signal and correcting an internal clock to a time according to the time code included in the received radio signal and a transmission circuit for generating and transmitting time radio signals which have different intensities and include time codes based on the internal clock at a plurality of predetermined times, and a time correction system using the same.

Abstract: An adaptive peak value detector, wherein the peak value for a peak hold section is detected, the peak hold section being selected by a peak hold control circuit. A solid-state imaging sensor generates pixel signals representative of an image and the peak value of portions of the pixel signals is detected. The exposure time of the sensor is adjusted as a function of the detected peak value and auto-focusing of the image for the camera is carried out on the basis of the image received during the adjusted exposure time.

Abstract: A tape-type magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic support member; and a magnetic layer formed on the non-magnetic support member, wherein relationship Br.delta..ltoreq.Bst/2 is satisfied when an assumption is made that the residual magnetic flux density of the tape-type magnetic recording medium is Br, the thickness of the magnetic layer is .delta., the saturated magnetic flux density of a magnetoresistance effect device for use in a shield-type magnetoresistance effect magnetic head serving as a reproducing head is Bs and the thickness of the same is t, and coercive force Hc of the tape-type magnetic recording medium satisfies Hc.gtoreq.1500 (Oe).

Abstract: A tape-type magnetic recording medium is disclosed which is adaptable to a yoke-type magnetoresistance effect magnetic head and with which a dense recording operation can be performed and a signal reproducing method is disclosed for reproducing a signal recorded on the tape-type magnetic recording medium. The tape-type magnetic recording medium has a magnetic layer formed on a non-magnetic support member, wherein when an assumption is made that residual magnetic flux density of the tape-type magnetic recording medium is Br, the thickness of the magnetic layer is .delta., the saturation magnetic flux density of a magnetoresistance effect device of a yoke-type magnetoresistance effect magnetic head serving as a reproducing head is Bs and the thickness of the magnetoresistance effect device is t, the following relationship is satisfied:Bst/2.ltoreq.Br.delta..ltoreq.Bstand coercive force Hc of the tape-type magnetic recording medium satisfies Hc.gtoreq.1500 (Oe).

Abstract: Disclosed are a peroxidase composition and an antibody composition with high stability. In the compositions of the present invention, a substituted benzene ring having at least one hydroxyl group and at least one substituting group selected from the group consisting of groups with a Hammett sigma value .sigma. p of not more than -0.20, groups with a Hammett sigma value .sigma. p of not less than +0.24 and amide group is contained as a stabilizer for stabilizing the activity of peroxidase or the antibody.

Abstract: A substantially purified cancer-related galactosyltransferase and a monoclonal antibody which may be used as a diagnostic reagent of cancer are disclosed. The galactosyltransferase of the present invention has a molecular weight of about 50,000 determined by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under reducing conditions and has a reactivity with MAb4880 under native conditions. A part of the galactosyltransferase self-associates and its reactivity with MAb4880 and the degree of self-association are promoted when it is reduced so that a part of which is detected in a fraction of a molecular weight of not less than 200,000 in gel permeation chromatography. The galactosyltransferase of the present invention can be used as a cancer marker or as a reagent for preparing a monoclonal antibody with a specificity to the galactosyltransferase, which monoclonal antibody can be used as a diagnostic of a cancer.