Abstract: A memory system includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory including a first memory region for storing start-up information and a second memory region for storing a copy of the start-up information, a volatile semiconductor memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine whether or not an address of the second memory region is stored in the volatile semiconductor memory, issue a first start-up read command, which designates no read address, to the nonvolatile semiconductor memory to read the start-up information from the first memory region if the address of the second memory region is not stored in the volatile semiconductor memory, and issue a second start-up read command, which designates the address of the second memory region as a read address, to read the start-up information from the second memory region if the address of the second memory region is stored in the volatile semiconductor memory.

Abstract: A membrane separation apparatus includes: a lower support body that includes a water-to-be-treated introduction port and a concentrated water discharge port; an upper support body that includes a permeated water discharge port; a separation membrane that is provided between the lower support body and the upper support body, and that separates water to be treated into permeated water and concentrated water; and a first sheet-like elastic member that is provided between the separation membrane and the lower support body, and that forms seals between the separation membrane and the lower support body and between the lower support body and the upper support body.

Abstract: A clothing treatment apparatus capable of enabling an orientation of a bag body and an orientation of an ozone supply apparatus to keep a desired relationship is provided. A clothing deodorizing apparatus comprises a bag body for accommodating clothing; an ozone supply apparatus for supplying air into the bag body; an introduction pipe for guiding the air with the ozone exhausted from the ozone supply apparatus into the bag body; a cylindrical part formed on the bag body and fixed with one end part of the introduction pipe; and an inserting port part formed on the ozone supply apparatus and configured to detachably install the other end part of the introduction pipe in a specified orientation.

Abstract: Terminal portions are arrayed at regular widths and regular intervals, and each face any enable terminal, and are electrically connected to the enable terminals by conductive particles. A lead portion is connected to the other terminal portion except for a pair of terminal portions which is a pair of terminal portions adjacent to each other, and extends from an overlap region to a lead region. A connection portion connects the respective terminal portions that are not connected with the lead portion to the adjacent terminal portions that are connected to the lead portion within an area of the overlap region. An interval between a pair of lead portions extending from a pair of connection portions located to sandwich a pair of terminal portions that are not connected with the lead portion therebetween is larger than an interval between the other adjacent lead portions.

Abstract: A lubricating oil temperature sensor to detect a temperature of a lubricating oil is provided in a lubricating oil passage in a speed reducer, a coil temperature sensor to detect a temperature of a motor coil is provided in a stator of an electric motor, and a rotation speed detection sensor to detect a rotation speed of the electric motor is provided. A control device includes: an abnormality detector to detect an abnormality in the lubricating oil temperature sensor; and a lubricating oil temperature estimator to estimate the temperature of the lubricating oil on the basis of a determined relationship using the temperature detected by the coil temperature sensor and the rotation speed detected by the rotation speed detection sensor, when the abnormality detector detects the abnormality in the lubricating oil temperature sensor.

Abstract: A fibrillated blend of lyocell and cellulosic pulp having a degree of polymerization of 200 to 1000 as measured by ASTM Test 1975-96, a method of making the blend and materials which incorporate the blend.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a light-emitting element; a coating member that covers the light-emitting element; and two external connection electrodes exposed form a first surface of the coating member. Each of the external connection electrodes includes an electrode buried in the coating member; and a metal layer formed on the electrode. A surface of each of the metal layers is exposed from the first surface of the coating member. The first surface of the coating member includes a plurality of grooves between the external connection electrodes.

Abstract: A display device notifies a server device of identification information for specifying an electronic file to be displayed. The server device specifies the electronic file and page information based on the notified identification information to transmit the electronic file and the page information to the display device. The display device displays, as an initial screen, a specified page of the received electronic file based on the received electronic file and page information.

Abstract: A position measuring apparatus instructs a first node to emit light by transmitting a first light emission pattern to the first node, instructs a second node to emit light by transmitting the first light emission pattern to the second node, when light emission following the instructed first light emission pattern is detected, and instructs the second node to emit light by transmitting a second light emission pattern that is different from the first light emission pattern, when light emission following the instructed first light emission pattern is not detected.

Abstract: An interior reinforcement body (14) is provide inside a piston (16) so as to continue to an inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical wall portion (17) and an inner surface of a bottom wall portion (18). A plurality of reinforcement walls (26a, 26b) which make up a radially outward portion of the interior reinforcement body (14) are not arranged in a radial direction but are arranged so as to be inclined relative to the radial direction. In particular, a pair of circumferentially adjacent reinforcement walls (26a, 26b) are arranged so as to be inclined reversely relative to the radial direction, and radially inward end portions of the pair of reinforcement walls (26a, 26b) are connected together.

Abstract: A part installation machine, when having entered a part installation work area, operates a separation/coupling device to bring a drive carriage section and a part mounting carriage section from a coupled state into a separated state. The part installation machine also operates an engagement device such that the part mounting carriage section is engaged with a transfer system and transported by the transfer system. In this state, the part installation machine controls a travelling speed of the drive carriage section such that a relative position detected by a relative position detection device is maintained within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A mobile wireless terminal is provided that controls a timing or a position in which handover is conducted between a plurality of access points, the terminal includes an antenna that receives a radio wave from an access point, a wireless communication interface that measures the radio wave, a processor, and a memory. The processor stores first and second received powers from respective first and second access points in the memory, conducts handover where a difference acquired by subtracting the first received power from the second received power is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, estimates a first available bandwidth before the handover and stores it in the memory, estimates a second available bandwidth after the handover and stores it in the memory, and controls a timing when handover of the mobile wireless terminal is conducted based on an available bandwidth difference between the first and second available bandwidths.

Abstract: A R-T-B based permanent magnet which has equivalent magnetic properties as the existing Nd—Fe—B based permanent magnet and light mass but also can be suitably used as a magnet for field system of a permanent magnet synchronous rotating machine. The magnet can be obtained in a case where the composition of the compound for forming the main phase is (R1?x(Y1?zCez)x)2T14B (R is rare earth element(s) consisting of one or more elements selected from La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu, Y is yttrium, Ce is cerium, T is one or more transition metal elements with Fe or Fe and Co as essential element(s), B is boron, 0.0<x?0.5 and 0.0?z?0.5), by making the abundance ratio of Y4f/(Y4f+Y4g) in relation to the Y occupying the 4f site of the tetragonal R2T14B structure (i.e., Y4f) and the Y occupying the 4g site (i.e., Y4g) satisfies 0.8?Y4f/(Y4f+Y4g)?1.0.

Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner which improves the frost formation judging precision of an outdoor heat exchanger, acquires the heating performance, and avoids unnecessary defrosting. A controller executes a heating mode. The controller (32) judges frost formation onto the outdoor heat exchanger (7) on the basis of a refrigerant evaporation pressure PXO of the outdoor heat exchanger (7) and a refrigerant evaporation pressure PXObase of the outdoor heat exchanger (7) during non-frost formation or on the basis of a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXO of the outdoor heat exchanger (7) and a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXObase of the outdoor heat exchanger (7) during the non-frost formation, and allows a high-temperature refrigerant gas to flow through the outdoor heat exchanger (7), thereby performing defrosting of the outdoor heat exchanger (7).

Abstract: A recording medium processing apparatus includes a housing that accommodates a processing unit, which is capable of processing a recording medium, and that has an internal space a part of which is open; an internal stacker that is disposed in the internal space and that allows the recording medium to be stacked thereon; a light source that is disposed in a part of the internal stacker and that emits a light beam toward a predetermined position on the internal stacker, the light beam notifying a user of a state in which the recording medium is or is not stacked on the internal stacker; and a reflection member that is disposed in a part of the internal stacker and that reflects the light beam from the light source laterally outward from the internal stacker.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel nargenicin related compounds which can inhibit DnaE and have antibacterial, particularly antimycobacterial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The present invention also relates to method for inhibiting growth of mycobacterial cells as well as a method of treating mycobacterial infections by Mycobacterium tuberculosis by administering an antimycobacterially effective amount of nargenicin or a nargenicin-related compound and/or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives, during or after reproduction of a video, a predetermined operation with respect to the video, an associating unit that associates the received operation with a reproduction location where the received operation has been generated in the video, and a setting unit that sets in response to the received operation an importance degree of the reproduction location associated with the received operation.

Abstract: A gas detecting method includes heating a gas detector, formed of a gas sensing layer and an adsorption layer, for an oxygen adsorption period t0 at an oxygen adsorption temperature T0; heating the gas detector for a target gas adsorption period t1 at a target gas adsorption temperature T1 at which a target gas is adsorbed to the adsorption layer, heating the gas detector for a target gas desorption period t2 at a target gas desorption temperature T2 at which the target gas adsorbed to the adsorption layer is desorbed to move to the gas sensing layer; and calculating a gas concentration of the target gas from a sensor resistance of the gas sensing layer. A gas detecting device includes the gas detector and a drive processing unit configured to carry out the method.

Abstract: Provided is a valve opening/closing timing control device that can speedily achieve a stable operation at the time of starting an engine. The device includes a drive-side rotating body that is rotated in synchronism with a crankshaft and has a plurality of projecting portions, a driven-side rotating body that has a partition portion which forms an advance angle chamber and a retard angle chamber and that is rotated together with a camshaft for valve opening/closing, an intermediate lock mechanism switchable between a locked state and an unlocked state, a pump for supplying fluid to the advance angle chamber, the retard angle chamber or the intermediate lock mechanism, and a communication passage configured to establish communication between the advance angle chamber and the retard angle chamber disposed adjacent in a circumferential direction when the intermediate lock mechanism is under the locked state.

Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air conditioner capable of preventing or inhibiting deterioration of a vehicle interior heating capability which is caused by frost formation to an outdoor heat exchanger. The vehicle air conditioner includes a compressor 2, an air flow passage 3, a radiator 4, a heat absorber 9, and an outdoor heat exchanger 7, and executes a heating mode in which a refrigerant discharged from the compressor radiates heat in the radiator, is decompressed and then absorbs heat in the outdoor heat exchanger. The vehicle air conditioner includes an accumulator 12 disposed on a suction side of the compressor, and a bypass circuit 24B disposed from a refrigerant outlet side of the radiator to an inlet side of the accumulator. A controller has a mode in which the refrigerant flowing out from the radiator is passed through the bypass circuit, does not flow through the outdoor heat exchanger, but flows into the accumulator.