Abstract: A discrimination filtering device includes a filter and a filter having different pass bands, a detection unit, a processing unit, and a result output unit. The detection unit detects an electromagnetic wave from an object that is the target of identification through the filters. The pass band of the filters is designed to be suitable for object discrimination. The processing unit substitutes the output from the detection unit into a discrimination function determined based on the pass band of the filters and the teaching spectrum obtained in advance to infer the group which the object belongs to based on the substituted result.

Abstract: A microcapsule which is able to stably retain a benefit agent such as a volatile substance for an extended period, and which is also suitable for encapsulating fragrances and the like. Such capsule encapsulates a mixture comprising a volatile substance, and an additive that has a higher melting point than the volatile substance and is able to undergo mutual dissolution with the volatile substance, wherein the mixture exhibits a melting point range, and a portion of, or all of, that melting point range falls within a range from ?20 to 60° C. The present invention also relates to consumer products including cleaning and/or treatment compositions comprising such microcapsules, and processes of making and using same.

Abstract: An apparatus for production of a composite material sheet is provided that can achieve a thinner composite material sheet, effectively prevent occurrence of curling, perform continuous production, and produce a high-quality composite material sheet having excellent heat resistance, weather resistance, flexibility, shape retention, peel strength, and the like.

Abstract: In an NC program generating device that extracts shaping sites that are process areas of a workpiece based on the three-dimensional geometrical data of the unprocessed workpiece and the three-dimensional geometrical data of the processed workpiece and generates an NC program in accordance with the extracted shaping sites, the process attribute information setting unit sets up workpiece attribute information, based on related information of process operations feasible on the processing machine for the workpiece and the features, position, and direction of a shaping site of the three-dimensional shape of the processed workpiece that is configurable in the process attribute information.

Abstract: An information processor that calculates information concerning a three-dimensional shape comprises: a three-dimensional-shape input unit that inputs drawing data of a three-dimensional shape used for displaying a three-dimensional shape; a display unit that displays a three-dimensional shape of drawing data input to the three-dimensional-shape input unit; and a shape-value-information calculating unit that sets a shape element of a three-dimensional shape displayed on the display unit to data used for calculating a three-dimensional shape, based on an instruction input from outside, calculates a value of a shape concerning the three-dimensional shape not clearly shown within the drawing data as shape value information by using the set shape element, and displays a calculation result on the display unit.

Abstract: An NC programming assisting apparatus that creates an NC machining program reflecting dimensional tolerance data on shape data of a machining subject includes a machining target dimension calculation unit that calculates machining target dimensions of the machining subject based on the shape data and the dimensional tolerance data; a shape data deform processing unit that sets post-movement positions of graphic elements based on positional movement information about how to move the graphic elements, the machining target dimension, and the shape data so that a dimension between graphic elements included in the shape data conforms to the corresponding machining target dimension; and an NC machining program generation processing unit that creates an NC machining program by using the shape data and the post-movement position of each graphic element.

Abstract: There is provided a feed-forward amplifier which enables a predistortion circuit to obtain sufficient distortion compensation effects even if ambient temperature or the like changes.

Abstract: Included are a network information database for storing the statistical information collected from a router, a user request processing unit for accepting and processing a flow forwarding request from a user terminal connected to the network, a route control unit for searching for a route corresponding to the request from the user terminal by referring to the network information database, a load sharing control unit for executing such a load sharing process as to generate router setting information for sharing a transmission load of the network by referring to the network information database, and a router control unit for setting a router based on the route information determined by the route control unit and on the router setting information generated by the load sharing control unit.

Abstract: A Doherty amplifier includes a Doherty amplification circuit and an active bias circuit. The active bias circuit includes an average power detector for detecting a value of a voltage representing an average power of an input signal, an envelop detector for detecting an envelope of the input signal, a threshold calculator for calculating a boundary value of the envelop detected by the envelope detector based on the value of the voltage detected by the average power detector, and a voltage limiter for limiting the envelop detected by the envelope detector below a predetermined value. The bias voltage corresponding to the average power of the input signal is applied to the Doherty amplification circuit.

Abstract: A vehicle has a bed and a tailgate openably and closably formed at the rear end of the vehicle. The exterior of the bed is surrounded by side panels. Elongated support members are provided on the inner wall of the side panel. A cover member which covers the bed is placed on the support members. The cover member has lock means for fixing the cover member to the bed. The lock means comprises a first fixation member which fixes the cover member to the bed in a disengageable manner, and a second fixation member which fixes the tailgate to the cover member in a disengageable manner.

Abstract: An imaging system 1 comprises: an illumination light source unit 10 that emits an illumination light having a wavelength in a near-infrared range; an illumination optical system 20 that illuminates an observed object 90 with the illumination light emitted from the illumination light source unit 10; an imaging optical system 30 that guides as a physical body light the illumination light that has been illuminated by the illumination optical system 20 onto the observed object 90 and has been scattered, reflected, or refracted thereby; and an imaging unit 40 that has an imaging sensitivity in a wavelength band of a near-infrared range, receives the physical body light arrived after being guided by the imaging optical system 30, and images the image of the observed object 90. The imaging unit 40 receives the physical body light after the light has passed through water and hemoglobin.

Abstract: There is provided a feed-forward amplifier which enables a predistortion circuit to obtain sufficient distortion compensation effects even if ambient temperature or the like changes.

Abstract: An interior trim material for a vehicle has a base member, a band-like plate, and a cloth material, which is formed by applying double stitches on at least the band-like plate and the cloth material. The band-like plate is provided with a projecting portion formed in a longitudinal direction on the based member side and a cored bar inserted into the projecting portion, the base member is provided with a first groove portion capable of accommodating the whole band-like plate and a second groove portion engaging with the projecting portion of the band-like plate, the cloth material and the band-like plate are simultaneously sewn together in a disposition region of the band-like plate, the double stitches are applied on the cloth material, and the band-like plate sewn together with the cloth material is positioned on respective groove portions of the base member to be joined to the base member.

Abstract: A Doherty amplifier includes a Doherty amplification circuit and an active bias circuit. The active bias circuit includes an average power detector for detecting a value of a voltage representing an average power of an input signal, an envelop detector for detecting an envelop of the input signal, a threshold calculator for calculating a boundary value of the envelop detected by the envelop detector based on the value of the voltage detected by the average power detector, and a voltage limiter for limiting the envelop detected by the envelop detector below a predetermined value. The bias voltage corresponding to the average power of the input signal is applied to the Doherty amplification circuit.

Abstract: An indium-containing wafer from which removal of mercury can be reliably performed and a method of manufacturing such a wafer are provided in order to make the mercury C-V method, allowing characteristics of a the indium-containing wafer to be measured with high precision and being a non-destructive test, viable. An indium-containing wafer relating to the present invention is characterized by having, formed on its episurface layer, an added-on mercury-removal layer directed to removing wafer-surface adherent mercury and composed of a compound semiconductor. In addition, a method of manufacturing an indium-containing wafer relating to the present invention is characterized in that after evaluating electrical characteristics of the wafer with, as an electrode, mercury adhered onto the surface of the mercury-removal layer, the superficially adhered mercury is eliminated by removing the mercury-removal layer.

Abstract: A compound semiconductor wafer providing an InGaAs light receiving layer having superior crystal characteristic suitable for a near-infrared sensor includes an InAsxP1-x graded buffer layer consisting of a plurality of layers positioned on an InP substrate and an InAsyP1-y buffer layer positioned on the graded buffer layer, sandwiched between said InP substrate and the InGaAs layer, wherein maximum value of PL light emission intensity at an interface of each of the layers of the graded buffer layer and the buffer layer is, at every interface, smaller than 3/10 of the maximum PL light emission intensity of the buffer layer.

Abstract: A powder compacting apparatus (1) has a top plate (3), a die plate (9) and a bottom plate (12), combined with each other as follows. The top plate (3) holds upper punches (4) in place by punch holders (5), and the die plate (9) firmly grips a die holder (8) holding dies (7). The bottom plate (12) keeps lower punches (11) in place gripped by clamps (32) so that an amount of powder fed into each die (7) is compacted to give a consolidated powder piece. The die plate (9) is composed of an upper part (9a) and a lower part (9b) so that the die holder (8) is sandwiched by and between the parts (9a, 9b), in such a manner that these parts cooperate with each other to secure each die (7) in position.

Abstract: A microcapsule which is able to stably retain a benefit agent such as a volatile substance for an extended period, and which is also suitable for encapsulating fragrances and the like. Such capsule encapsulates a mixture comprising a volatile substance, and an additive that has a higher melting point than the volatile substance and is able to undergo mutual dissolution with the volatile substance, wherein the mixture exhibits a melting point range, and a portion of, or all of, that melting point range falls within a range from ?20 to 60° C. The present invention also relates to consumer products including cleaning and/or treatment compositions comprising such microcapsules, and processes of making and using same.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet having a support and a solid dispersion layer provided on one surface of the support and composed of microcapsules having an average particle diameter of 50 to 650 ?m, in which a liquid dispersion, a white pigment, additives and magnetic particles are encapsulated, and a binder. The magnetic particles include at least two kinds of magnetic particles different in particle diameter from each other. An erasing magnet for front face erasing and a writing magnet for front face erasable microcapsule magnetophoretic display sheet are also disclosed.

Abstract: A vehicle has a bed and a tailgate openably and closably formed at the rear end of the vehicle. The exterior of the bed is surrounded by side panels. Elongated support members are provided on the inner wall of the side panel. A cover member which covers the bed is placed on the support members. The cover member has lock means for fixing the cover member to the bed. The lock means comprises a first fixation member which fixes the cover member to the bed in a disengageable manner, and a second fixation member which fixes the tailgate to the cover member in a disengageable manner.