Abstract: This invention is directed to reducing power consumption even when there is a great amount of power consumed by a root complex in a printing apparatus that employs a PCI Express architecture. To accomplish this, a printing apparatus that includes a controller capable of switching between a root complex and an endpoint and an accelerator controller serving as a root complex performs the following processing. More specifically, in the power saving mode, the power source of the accelerator controller is turned off and the controller is set as a root complex. Power consumption in the power saving mode can be greatly reduced, and a return sequence from the power saving mode can be executed.

Abstract: A contactor and an associated contact structure, probe card and test apparatus are provided. The contact may include a base part having three or more steps in a stairway state, a support part with a rear end side provided at the base part and a front end side sticking out from the base part, and a conductive part formed on a surface of the support part and electrically contacting a contact of a device under test.

Abstract: Swine Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9)-expressing cells are prepared by cloning a TLR9 gene from swine intestinal Peyer's patches. Functional analysis on CpG DNAs using the above cells revealed that swine TLR9 shows a higher recognition ability for a human CpG DNA motif (CpG2006) than for a mouse-specific CpG DNA motif (CpG1826). When the mRNA expression levels in various tissues are compared by the real-time PCR method, it is found out that the mRNA is expressed in Peyer's patches and mesenteric lymph nodes, which play important roles in the intestinal tract immune system, at a level thrice as much as in spleen or more. Thus, the cells expressing an intestinal tract tissue-expressed TLR (for example, TLR9) can be used to identify samples capable of activating the intestinal tract immune system.

Abstract: This invention is directed to enhancement of flexibility when connecting an add-in card conforming to the PCI-Express specification. More specifically, the operation mode of the system board of a printing apparatus is configured to cope with both a root-complex and end-point. When an add-in card is inserted into an extension slot, the type of add-in card is discriminated by confirming the ON state of a detection pin. When the inserted add-in card operates as a root-complex, the system board is set to operate as an end-point. When the inserted add-in card operates as an end-point, the system board is set to operate as a root-complex.

Abstract: An inductance element (1) includes a doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) and a bottomed container (3) for housing the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2). The bottomed container (3) has a cylindrical outer wall portion, a cylindrical inner wall portion, a bottom portion, an open section and a hollow portion. The open section of the bottomed container (3) is covered with an adhesive portion (4) for integrally fixing the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) and the bottomed container (3). The adhesive portion (4) has an extended portion (4a) extended in the cylindrical inner wall portion. The ratio (B/A) of a length (B) of the extended portion (4a) to a height (A) of the cylindrical inner wall portion is in a range of 0.1 to 0.5.

Abstract: A probe card having a plurality of silicon finger contactors contacting pads provided on a tested semiconductor wafer and a probe board mounting the plurality of silicon finger contactors on its surface, wherein each silicon finger contactor has a base part on which a step difference is formed, a support part with a rear end side provided at the base part and with a front end side sticking out from the base part, and a conductive part formed on the surface of the support part, each silicon finger contactor mounted on the probe board so that an angle part of the step difference formed on the base part contacts the surface of the probe board.

Abstract: An antenna core includes a laminate of a plurality of Co-based amorphous magnetic alloy thin strips in which a length ratio of a long axis to a short axis is greater than 1. 60% or more of the Co-based amorphous magnetic alloy thin strips in terms of the number of the thin strips as percentage have a line-shaped mark formed along the long axis on at least one surface thereof. An antenna includes the antenna core and a winding wound around the antenna core along the long axis.

Abstract: An inductance element (1) includes a doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) and a bottomed container (3) for housing the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2). The bottomed container (3) has a cylindrical outer wall portion, a cylindrical inner wall portion, a bottom portion, an open section and a hollow portion. The open section of the bottomed container (3) is covered with an adhesive portion (4) for integrally fixing the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) and the bottomed container (3). The adhesive portion (4) has an extended portion (4a) extended in the cylindrical inner wall portion. The ratio (B/A) of a length (B) of the extended portion (4a) to a height (A) of the cylindrical inner wall portion is in a range of 0.1 to 0.5.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an inductance element includes a toroidal core and a bottomed insulating resin case. The bottomed insulating resin case includes a cylindrical outer wall section, a cylindrical inner wall section, a bottom section, an open section and a hollow section. The cylindrical outer wall section has an extending section exceeding the height of the toroidal core. The open section of the insulating resin case is covered with a cover portion having a bent section formed by bending an extending section of the cylindrical outer wall section.

Abstract: Lactobacillus screening methods were carried out using surface plasmon resonance spectrums and human intestinal mucin and blood group antigens as probes. A trial to set selection criteria in the above-mentioned methods of screening for lactobacilli was made to adapt the methods to mass screening, and it was discovered that lactobacilli compatible with ABO blood groups can be screened by setting 100 RU as a criterion for judging bacterial binding under certain conditions. Using 238 lactobacillus strains, the above-mentioned screening methods and tests to judge their compatibility for the use of yogurt production were carried out, to at long last specifically discover bacillus strains compatible with blood groups A, B, and O.

Abstract: Lactobacillus screening methods were carried out using surface plasmon resonance spectrums and human intestinal mucin and blood group antigens as probes. A trial to set selection criteria in the above-mentioned methods of screening for lactobacilli was made to adapt the methods to mass screening, and it was discovered that lactobacilli compatible with ABO blood groups can be screened by setting 100 RU as a criterion for judging bacterial binding under certain conditions. Using 238 lactobacillus strains, the above-mentioned screening methods and tests to judge their compatibility for the use of yogurt production were carried out, to at long last specifically discover bacillus strains compatible with blood groups A, B, and O.

Abstract: An inductance element (1) includes a doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) having a wound body or a stacked body of a magnetic ribbon, a bottomed container (3) in which the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) is housed, and a conductive lead portion (5) inserted into a hollow section of the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) housed in the bottomed container (3). An open section of the bottomed container (3) is covered with an adhesive portion (4) which integrally fixes the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2), the bottomed container (3) and the conductive lead portion (5). The adhesive portion (4) is entered into a gap between the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) and the bottomed container (3) and a gap between the bottomed container (3) and the conductive lead portion (5) in a range of 5 to 50% in average to a thickness of the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2).

Abstract: A probe card having a plurality of silicon finger contactors contacting pads provided on a tested semiconductor wafer and a probe board mounting the plurality of silicon finger contactors on its surface, wherein each silicon finger contactor has a base part on which a step difference is formed, a support part with a rear end side provided at the base part and with a front end side sticking out from the base part, and a conductive part formed on the surface of the support part, each silicon finger contactor mounted on the probe board so that an angle part of the step difference formed on the base part contacts the surface of the probe board.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an inductance element includes a toroidal core and a bottomed insulating resin case. The bottomed insulating resin case includes a cylindrical outer wall section, a cylindrical inner wall section, a bottom section, an open section and a hollow section. The cylindrical outer wall section has an extending section exceeding the height of the toroidal core. The open section of the insulating resin case is covered with a cover portion having a bent section formed by bending an extending section of the cylindrical outer wall section.

Abstract: A probe card having a plurality of silicon finger contactors contacting pads provided on a tested semiconductor wafer and a probe board mounting the plurality of silicon finger contactors on its surface, wherein each silicon finger contactor has a base part on which a step difference is formed, a support part with a rear end side provided at the base part and with a front end side sticking out from the base part, and a conductive part formed on the surface of the support part, each silicon finger contactor mounted on the probe board so that an angle part of the step difference formed on the base part contacts the surface of the probe board.

Abstract: An inductance element (1) includes a doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) having a wound body or a stacked body of a magnetic ribbon, a bottomed container (3) in which the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) is housed, and a conductive lead portion (5) inserted into a hollow section of the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) housed in the bottomed container (3). An open section of the bottomed container (3) is covered with an adhesive portion (4) which integrally fixes the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2), the bottomed container (3) and the conductive lead portion (5). The adhesive portion (4) is entered into a gap between the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2) and the bottomed container (3) and a gap between the bottomed container (3) and the conductive lead portion (5) in a range of 5 to 50% in average to a thickness of the doughnut-shaped magnetic core (2).

Abstract: A contact pin (50) for contacting a terminal of a wafer and supplying a signal to that wafer is provided with a first conductive layer (51b) composed of a first conductive material having a relatively higher hardness than the oxide film formed on the terminal of the wafer, a second conductive layer (51c) composed of a second conductive material having a relatively lower hardness than the oxide film, and a base material (51a) with the first conductive layer (51b) and second conductive layer (51c) formed at the outside, the first conductive layer (51b) being formed so as to closely contact the outside of the second conductive layer (51c), the first conductive layer (51b) and second conductive layer (51c) both being exposed at the front end face (50a) of the contact pin (50).

Abstract: A probe card 1 is composed of a plurality of probe pins 50 having wafer-side plungers51 at one end portion and substrate-side plungers52 on the other end side; two probe guides 30 and 40 one above the other for supporting the plurality of probe pins 50, so that the plurality of probe pins 50 are arranged to be corresponding to an arrangement of external terminals of a semiconductor wafer and the wafer-side plungers 51 of the probe pins 50 protrude; a print substrate 10 having pads 13 for the substrate-side plungers 52 of the probe pins 50 supported by the probe guides 30 and 40 to contact; and a stiffener 20 provided on the back surface of the print substrate 10.

Abstract: A contact terminal for measurement is provided, for transmitting a signal between a desired probe pin among a plurality of probe pins arranged in parallel at a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction on the surface of a probe substrate and an external measurement apparatus. The contact terminal for measurement includes: a signal terminal having an width smaller than the distance between the probe pins provided on both sides of one probe pin in the arrangement direction; two ground terminals to which a ground potential is applied, which are provided on both sides of the signal terminal in the arrangement direction and which have each width larger than that of the signal terminal in the arrangement direction; and a signal line electrically connecting the signal terminal to a signal input terminal of the external measurement apparatus.

Abstract: A pump for discharging bubbles is provided on a neck portion of a container body. The pump for discharging bubbles comprises a cylinder for liquid in which a first piston slides, a cylinder for air in which a second piston slides, a pump head on which a nozzle is provided and which is connected to the first piston and the second piston so as to drive the both pistons, a vapor-liquid mixing chamber in which liquid delivered from the cylinder for liquid and air delivered from the cylinder for air are joined and a bubbling member provided between the nozzle and the vapor-liquid mixing chamber. Liquid within the container body and outside air are pumped up to be joined in the vapor-liquid mixing chamber and the vapor-liquid is bubbled via the bubbling member to be discharged in a foamy state from the nozzle by depressing the pump head.