Abstract: In the hydrogen remaining sensor of the present invention, the hydrogen remaining sensor is arranged in a space in which the hydrogen is absorbed/released by the main hydrogen storage alloy, and is equipped with the vessel-like sensor main body in which the sensor hydrogen storage alloy is filled and through which the hydrogen is moved. Also, the easy-to-deform portion in which the strain is caused easily due to the hydrogen absorption/release of the sensor hydrogen storage alloy is provided to a part of the sensor main body, and the strain gauge for measuring the strain of the easy-to-deform portion is provided. As a result, according to the hydrogen remaining sensor of the present invention can contribute to sense precisely a remaining amount of hydrogen in the main hydrogen storage alloy.

Abstract: An image taking device and an image taking method are provided. The image taking device and image taking method allow a shutter to be released without having to apply much force while preventing camera shake that can occur during image taking of a subject and while preventing unintended release of the shutter.

Abstract: A wiring substrate with improved heat dissipation capability and with reduced size is disclosed. The wiring substrate includes a metal core substrate, a buffer layer formed so as to cover at least a part of the metal core substrate and containing a phase change material or a material with an electrocaloric effect, an electronic device mounted on a surface of a base including the metal core substrate and the buffer layer or inside the base, and a thermal via formed between the electronic device and the buffer layer.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a wiring substrate that allows a wire to be released from an insulating material after use, a method for manufacturing the wiring substrate, and a method for disassembling the wiring substrate. A wiring substrate includes a release layer formed between an insulating material and a wire. The release layer is configured to reduce an a strength of adhesion between the wire and the insulating layer when disassembling or recycling the wiring substrate.

Abstract: A branching filter that is capable of being reduced in size, particularly in height, has a configuration in which a transmitting filter chip and a receiving filter chip include a first piezoelectric substrate and a second piezoelectric substrate, respectively, and are spaced from each other. The transmitting filter chip includes a first insulating layer which extends over an IDT or which is disposed above the IDT. The receiving filter chip includes a first insulating layer which extends over an IDT or which is disposed above the IDT. The upper surfaces of the transmitting and receiving filter chips and are covered with a second insulating layer. External terminals arranged on the upper surface of a third insulating layer are electrically connected to the IDTs and through conductors and extending through the first insulating layers and the second insulating layer and the conductors, and include plating films.

Abstract: A multipath mitigation technology (MMT) can mitigate the influence of multipath when a received signal is composed of a single direct-path wave and a single multipath wave. However, in an actual environment, it is not always true that the number of multipath wave is only one. When a plurality of multipath waves is included in the received signal, the influence of multipath cannot be completely removed. On the contrary, when no multipath wave is included, an error occurs because a single direct-path wave is deemed as a single direct-path wave and a single multipath wave for estimation. In addition, difficulties arise in calculation when maximum likelihood estimation is performed targeting a time-domain signal. A positioning apparatus estimates parameters for a signal model by applying thereto the maximum likelihood estimation in the frequency domain, and estimates the signal model based on an information criterion, so that multipath errors are mitigated.

Abstract: Devices, implementations and techniques for measuring the environment impact of electronic devices, such as CO2 emission reduction by using alternative power sources for powering or charging electronic devices.

Abstract: An angular velocity/angular acceleration calculator of the crankshaft in an internal combustion engine includes a crank angle detection device, a crank angle correction device, and an angular velocity/angular acceleration calculation device. The crank angle detection device detects a crank angle in the internal combustion engine and a time at the crank angle. The crank angle correction device corrects the crank angle and the time thus detected to an equiangular crank angle and a time corresponding thereto. The angular velocity/angular acceleration calculation device calculates an angular velocity and an angular acceleration of the crankshaft by converting a function of the time with respect to the crank angle that are corrected by the crank angle correction device so as to be regarded as a periodic function, and utilizing the discrete Fourier transform of the converted function.

Abstract: A framework is provided which performs location-based analysis using an individual feature such as a stress level obtained based on biological information.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is one in which unevenness of display, spots generated due to lowering of voltage retention because of impurity ions are sufficiently eliminated and reliability of long-time/long-term use is improved. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is one comprising a first substrate and a second substrate configured via a liquid crystal layer and a seal, wherein at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate comprises, towards the liquid crystal layer, a color filter layer, a transparent electrode and an alignment layer in this order and at least one of the transparent electrode and the alignment layer covers the color filter layer in a non-display region.

Abstract: Present invention provides an optical encoder capable of improving the precision of an interpolation angle in a single signal track, in an encoder of sine-wave angle interpolation type. The optical encoder includes a waveform, in which a phase-modulated wave is superimposed in a predetermined period over a sine-wave of a fundamental period, as a signal track (103), and an optical detector (104) for extracting the sine signal and the cosine signal of the phase-modulated wave. An operation unit (106) operates electric angles individually from the output signals of a first optical detector pair and a second optical detector pair belonging to the optical detector, and determines the sum and difference of the electric angles, thereby acquiring the electric angle and the phase-modulated wave of the fundamental period.

Abstract: A framework is provided which performs location-based analysis using an individual feature such as a stress level obtained based on biological information.

Abstract: Provided is a polyacetal resin composition obtained from a raw material composition containing a polyacetal resin, a hydrazine derivative, and a compound for lowering the melting point of the hydrazine derivative, wherein a mixture of the hydrazine derivative and the compound satisfies both of the following conditions: T1<T2 and T1<T3, in which T1 is an apex temperature of an endothermic peak of the mixture having a maximum endothermic capacity by, with DSC, heating and cooling the mixture in accordance with a predetermined temperature program and then heating it at a predetermined rate until the mixture fuses; and T2 and T3 represent apex temperatures of endothermic peaks of the hydrazine derivative and the polyacetal resin having a maximum endothermic capacity, respectively by the similar treatment.

Abstract: A code converting apparatus is designed to estimate the incoming time and the like of a signal modulated by a spreading sequence composed of m elements in a set A having n kinds of symbols as elements accurately. A symbol sequence memory section 102 stores a converted sequence of symbols obtained by concatenating consecutive 2d symbols at the center of each sequence pattern pi composed of 4d elements in the set A. The converted sequence of symbols is structured so that d symbol immediately preceding the 2d symbols and d symbol immediately following the 2d symbols are identical to d symbol immediately preceding corresponding 2d symbols and d symbol immediately following the corresponding 2d symbols of a corresponding sequence pattern. A symbol sequence specifying section 103 specifies a matching sequence pattern for every consecutive 2d symbols in a symbol sequence obtained by assigning a symbol to the signal in a coding cycle of the spreading sequence.

Abstract: The present invention is based on the discovery that the cytoxicity of anti-desmocollin 2 (DSC2) antibodies can be used for treating various cancers including lung, colon, pancreatic, prostate, breast, gastric or liver cancers. Specifically, the present invention provides antibodies against DSC2 that have effector function. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods and pharmaceutical compositions that comprise anti-DSC2 antibody as an active ingredient for damaging DSC2-expressing cells via the effector function of the antibody.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalytic converter apparatus for purifying exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine for vehicles. The catalytic converter apparatus includes a first catalytic converter that holds a first catalyst and that is to be coupled to a side of the engine, and a second catalytic converter that holds a second catalyst and that is coupled to a rear of the first catalytic converter. Each of the first and second catalysts has a catalytic support on which a wash coat layer having a thickness equal to or less than 0.2 mm is formed. The wash coat layer includes a first wash coat layer and a second wash coat layer, and each of the first and second wash coat layers has voids therein. This catalytic converter apparatus achieves an improved purification property with a small number of cells and a small amount of noble metal.

Abstract: Provided are a steel having excellent rolling contact fatigue life and the manufacturing method thereof. The steel consists essentially of 0.7 to 1.1% C, 0.2 to 2.0% Si, 0.4 to 2.5% Mn, 1.6 to 4.0% Cr, 0.1% or more and less than 0.5% Mo, 0.010 to 0.050% Al, bymass, and balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, is treated by quenching and tempering, has residual cementite grain sizes ranging from 0.05 to 1.5 ?m, and has prior-austenite grain sizes of 30 ?m or smaller. When the steel is used to bearing steel, the bearing life extends even under service in more severe environments.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a piezoelectric device, an ion implantation layer is formed at a desired depth from one principal surface of a piezoelectric single crystal substrate by implanting hydrogen ions into the piezoelectric single crystal substrate under desired conditions. The piezoelectric single crystal substrate in which the ion implantation layer has been formed is bonded to a supporting substrate, and THG laser light is irradiated from the supporting substrate side. Since the optical absorptance of the piezoelectric single crystal substrate to the THG laser light is higher than that of the supporting substrate, the irradiated light is absorbed primarily at the bonding surface side of the piezoelectric single crystal with the supporting substrate and heat is locally generated.

Abstract: A steel part having a long rolling contact fatigue life and capable of further increasing the life of a bearing under severer using condition than usual conditions. The steel part includes steel having a composition containing 0.7% by mass to 1.1% by mass of C, 0.5% by mass to 2.0% by mass of Si, 0.4% by mass to 2.5% by mass of Mn, 1.6% by mass to 5.0% by mass of Cr, 0.1% by mass to less than 0.5% by mass of Mo, 0.010% by mass to 0.050% by mass of Al, less than 0.0015% by mass of Sb as an impurity, and the balance composed of Fe and inevitable impurities, the steel being hardened and tempered. In the steel structure of a portion from the surface to a depth of 5 mm, residual cementite has a grain diameter of 0.05 to 1.5 ?m, prior austenite has a grain diameter of 30 ?m or less, and the ratio by volume of the residual austenite is less than 25%.

Abstract: A lower electrode and an adhesive layer made of an insulator are formed on a back surface on the ion implantation layer side of a piezoelectric single crystal substrate. A supporting substrate in which sacrificial layers made of a conductive material have been formed is bonded to the surface of the adhesive layer. By heating the composite body including the piezoelectric single crystal substrate, the lower electrode, the adhesive layer, and the supporting substrate, a layer of the piezoelectric single crystal substrate is detached to form a piezoelectric thin film. A liquid polarizing upper electrode is formed on a detaching interface of the piezoelectric thin film. A pulsed electric field is applied using the polarizing upper electrode and the sacrificial layers as counter electrodes. Consequently, the piezoelectric thin film is polarized.