Abstract: A cylindrical battery gasket that will not functionally deteriorate in absorbing stress caused by the gasket extending radially upon the battery being sealed is provided with a boss part with a central hole through which a negative electrode collector is inserted, a canister contact part that is affixed in place and in contact with a cathode canister, a disk-shaped part that is provided to connect the boss part to the canister contact part, and a stress buffering part that is provided on the way to the disk-shaped pat. The stress buffering part has a first bent part and a second bent part, both of an acute angle, and is set nearer the center of the cathode canister than to the positive electrode mixture, upon the gasket being installed in the cathode canister.

Abstract: The home appliance managing system includes a plurality of central managing devices and a center server. The center server is connected to the plurality of the central managing devices, and stores plural data used at home appliances. When the central managing device stores predetermined data requested by the home appliance, the central managing device sends the predetermined data to the home appliance. When the central managing device does not store the predetermined data, the central managing device requests the predetermined data from the center server. The center server sends the predetermined data to the central managing device in response to the request from the central managing device. The central managing device sends the predetermined data received from the center server to the home appliance and stores the same data.

Abstract: The invention provides a film mirror having excellent regular reflectance to solar heat, and exhibiting excellent light resistance and weather resistance, which is possible to sufficiently suppress regular reflectance decline; is lightweight and flexible; and can be large-area- and mass-produced at low cost, employing it as a film mirror for solar heat power generation under severe environment for long duration, and provides a manufacturing method and a reflection device for solar heat power generation thereof. A film mirror possessing a resin substrate and provided thereon, a silver reflection layer and a layer possessing at least one UV absorbent, provided on a light incidence side beyond the resin substrate and the silver reflection layer, wherein the at least one UV absorbent satisfies Aa?1.2×Ab. Aa represents absorbance at an absorption maximum peak in 260-320 nm, and Ab represents absorbance at an absorption maximum peak in 321-400 nm.

Abstract: A cylindrical battery gasket that will not functionally deteriorate in absorbing stress caused by the gasket extending radially upon the battery being sealed is provided with a boss part (32) with a central hole 31 through which a negative electrode collector 22 is inserted, a canister contact part 33 that is affixed in place and in contact with a cathode canister 11, a disk-shaped part 34 that is provided to connect the boss part 32 to the canister contact part 33, and a stress buffering part 37 that is provided on the way to the disk-shaped part 34. The stress buffering part 37 has a first bent part 37a and a second bent part 37b, both of an acute angle, and is set nearer the center of the cathode canister 11 than to the positive electrode mixture 12, upon the gasket being installed in the cathode canister 11.

Abstract: An optical device includes an interferometer for a received optical differential phase shift keying DPSK signal, and an equalizer integrated with the interferometer in a manner for reducing from optical filtering effects an interference by signal bits of the DPSK signal with signal bits of a contiguous DPSK signal. The interferometer is a Michelson delay interferometer type, but can also be a Mach-Zehnder delay interferometer type on fiber, waveguide or other optical structure. The equalizer is a Fabry-Perot type equalizer, but can be a ring resonator type or a fiber based equalizer.

Abstract: The home appliance managing system includes a plurality of central managing devices and a center server. The center server is connected to the plurality of the central managing devices, and stores plural data used at home appliances. When the central managing device stores predetermined data requested by the home appliance, the central managing device sends the predetermined data to the home appliance. When the central managing device does not store the predetermined data, the central managing device requests the predetermined data from the center server. The center server sends the predetermined data to the central managing device in response to the request from the central managing device. The central managing device sends the predetermined data received from the center server to the home appliance and stores the same data.

Abstract: A home appliance monitoring system includes: a plurality of home systems respectively including a central managing device configured to collect monitoring information from a home appliance; and a center server connected to the central managing device of each home system. The center server calculates the current load amount, and sends an activating instruction signal or a deactivating instruction signal to each central managing device on the basis of the current load amount. The central managing device sets its communication status to an activated status in response to receiving the activating instruction signal, and sets its communication status to a deactivated status in response to receiving the deactivating instruction signal. The home system stores the monitoring information while the communication status is the deactivated status. The home system sends the stored monitoring information to the center server when the communication status is switched from the deactivated status to the activated status.

Abstract: A body fat measuring device comprises electrodes brought into contact with the waist portion of a subject, an optical sensor composed of a light applying section and a light receiving section, an impedance computing section for computing the impedance between the electrodes, a subcutaneous fat thickness computing section for computing the thickness of the subcutaneous fat of the subject from the value detected by the optical sensor, and a body fat computing section which subtracts the amount of subcutaneous fat determined using the thickness of the subcutaneous fat computed by the subcutaneous thickness computing section from the total fat amount of the subject determined using the impedance computed by the impedance computing section so as to determine the visceral fat amount of the subject. With this, not only the accuracy of measurement of the visceral fat amount is improved but also the visceral fat amount of the subject can be easily computed even without a database.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an interleaver configuration for at least one of combining or separating odd and even channel groups to achieve channel density doubling; and an optical equalizer for suppressing inter symbol interference within the channels to provide intra-channel equalizing in the optical path, the equalizer being integrated into the interleaver. Preferably, optical equalizer and interleaver are integrated together as a single monolithic device, the optical equalizer includes a passband that has a dip in the channel center to achieve a raised-cosine filtering profile in the optical signal path to achieve inter-symbol interference ISI suppression, and the equalizer includes integration into the optical path of the interleaver to realize a monolithic device combining or separating odd and even channel groups to achieve channel density doubling.

Abstract: A cognitive function training unit including an eye-target showing unit for showing a movable eye-target on a display disposed in front of the subject's eye, an eye movement measuring unit for measuring a position and/or movement of the subject's eye, and a judgment unit for judging whether or not the subject can fixedly look at or follow the eye-target based on the position and/or the movement of the eye-target shown on the display and the position and/or the movement of the subject's eye measured by the eye movement measuring unit, and the eye-target showing unit shows the eye-target repeatedly while changing the position and/or the movement of the eye-target according to a judgment result of the judgment unit. Therefore, it is possible to show a suitable eye-target according to a symptom of a patient, whereby it is possible to conduct training efficiently.

Abstract: Disclosed are: an optical element which is reduced in the changes in transmittance which may be caused by a reflow processing; an electronic module; and a method of producing an electronic module. The optical element comprises an optical material which comprises a curable resin material comprising a curable resin and a curing agent and at least one additive, wherein the light transmittance of the optical material at a wavelength of 400 nm is lower by 1 to 10% than that of the curable resin material without the additive at a wavelength of 400 nm.

Abstract: An optical device includes an interferometer for a received optical differential phase shift keying DPSK signal, and an equalizer integrated with the interferometer in a manner for reducing from optical filtering effects an interference by signal bits of the DPSK signal with signal bits of a contiguous DPSK signal. The interferometer is a Michelson delay interferometer type, but can also be a Mach-Zehnder delay interferometer type on fiber, waveguide or other optical structure. The equalizer is a Fabry-Perot type equalizer, but can be a ring resonator type or a fiber based equalizer.

Abstract: An optical device includes an interferometer for a received optical differential phase shift keying DPSK signal, and an equalizer integrated with the interferometer in a manner for reducing from optical filtering effects an interference by signal bits of the DPSK signal with signal bits of a contiguous DPSK signal. The interferometer is a Michelson delay interferometer type, but can also be a Mach-Zehnder delay interferometer type on fiber, waveguide or other optical structure. The equalizer is a Fabry-Perot type equalizer, but can be a ring resonator type or a fiber based equalizer.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an interleaver configuration for at least one of combining or separating odd and even channel groups to achieve channel density doubling; and an optical equalizer for suppressing inter symbol interference within the channels to provide intra-channel equalizing in the optical path, the equalizer being integrated into the interleaver. Preferably, optical equalizer and interleaver are integrated together as a single monolithic device, the optical equalizer includes a passband that has a dip in the channel center to achieve a raised-cosine filtering profile in the optical signal path to achieve inter-symbol interference ISI suppression, and the equalizer includes integration into the optical path of the interleaver to realize a monolithic device combining or separating odd and even channel groups to achieve channel density doubling.

Abstract: The perimeter comprises a display device 1, infrared light-emitting diodes 2, a CCD camera 3, a half mirror 4, an image processing device 5, a computer 6, and an operating switch 7. The computer 6 shows a fixed eye-target for fixing a line of sight of a subject and a light stimulus eye-target for giving a light stimulus to a pupil of the subject at a plurality of predetermined positions on the display device 1. The infrared light-emitting diodes 2 irradiate infrared light to an eye of the subject. The CCD camera 3 takes an image of the eye of the subject using the infrared light irradiated from the infrared light-emitting diodes 2. The image processing device 5 detects a pupil diameter of the subject based on the image taken by the CCD camera 3. The computer 6 measures a visual field of the subject based on the change of the pupil diameter of the subject detected by the image processing device 5.

Abstract: A body fat measuring device comprises electrodes brought into contact with the waist portion of a subject, an optical sensor composed of a light applying section and a light receiving section, an impedance computing section for computing the impedance between the electrodes, a subcutaneous fat thickness computing section for computing the thickness of the subcutaneous fat of the subject from the value detected by the optical sensor, and a body fat computing section which subtracts the amount of subcutaneous fat determined using the thickness of the subcutaneous fat computed by the subcutaneous thickness computing section from the total fat amount of the subject determined using the impedance computed by the impedance computing section so as to determine the visceral fat amount of the subject. With this, not only the accuracy of measurement of the visceral fat amount is improved but also the visceral fat amount of the subject can be easily computed even without a database.

Abstract: An optical device includes an interferometer for a received optical differential phase shift keying DPSK signal, and an equalizer integrated with the interferometer in a manner for reducing from optical filtering effects an interference by signal bits of the DPSK signal with signal bits of a contiguous DPSK signal. The interferometer is a Michelson delay interferometer type, but can also be a Mach-Zehnder delay interferometer type on fiber, waveguide or other optical structure. The equalizer is a Fabry-Perot type equalizer, but can be a ring resonator type or a fiber based equalizer.

Abstract: The perimeter comprises a display device 1, infrared light-emitting diodes 2, a CCD camera 3, a half mirror 4, an image processing device 5, a computer 6, and an operating switch 7. The computer 6 shows a fixed eye-target for fixing a line of sight of a subject and a light stimulus eye-target for giving a light stimulus to a pupil of the subject at a plurality of predetermined positions on the display device 1. The infrared light-emitting diodes 2 irradiate infrared light to an eye of the subject. The CCD camera 3 takes an image of the eye of the subject using the infrared light irradiated from the infrared light-emitting diodes 2. The image processing device 5 detects a pupil diameter of the subject based on the image taken by the CCD camera 3. The computer 6 measures a visual field of the subject based on the change of the pupil diameter of the subject detected by the image processing device 5.

Abstract: This cognitive function training unit comprises an eye-target showing means for showing a movable eye-target on a display disposed in front of the subject's eye, an eye movement measuring means for measuring a position and/or movement of the subject's eye, and a judgment means for judging whether the subject can fixedly look at or follow the eye-target based on the position and/or the movement of the eye-target shown on the display and the position and/or the movement of the subject's eye measured by the eye movement measuring means, and the eye-target showing means shows the eye-target repeatedly while changing the position and/or the movement of the eye-target according to a judgment result of the judgment means.

Abstract: An optical equalization filter and method for simultaneously suppressing inter-symbol interference within a number of dense wavelength division multiplexed channels contained within a DWDM signal wherein the filter may be positioned in any of a number of locations within a DWDM system such that an entire channel therein exhibits a raised cosine function.