Abstract: A rear case and a front case are unified to form a casing. An internal antenna is accommodated in a predetermined space in the rear case, and supported in a state that it is inserted between the rear case and a printed circuit board. An output end of an antenna metal element is connected with a feeding point of the internal antenna, and an input end thereof is connected with a feeding terminal of the printed circuit board via a contacting means. Accordingly, there is no necessity for soldering the antenna metal element to the feeding terminal of the printed circuit board, the number of structural elements can be reduced, and the fabricating process can be simplified.

Abstract: A projection lens unit includes a main body; a lens fixed to the main body; and a hood disposed to one end of the main body close to a screen. The hood defines the outermost boundary of a view angle stretching with respect to the center of the lens and includes a light-shielding plate and a light-shielding barrel. When the shielding height of the light-shielding plate and the length of the light-shielding barrel are respectively represented by H and L, the shielding height H and the length L are set so as to satisfy the equation tan(?/2)=H/L, in relation to the view angle ?. More particularly, these dimensions are set so as to satisfy the condition that the ratio H/L lies in a range from 0.74 to 0.94. The inner surface of the light-shielding barrel is subjected to surface treatment so as to absorb unnecessary light thereby, reflect it thereat, or scatter it thereat. To be more specific, the light-shielding barrel has scattering grooves disposed on the inner surface thereof.

Abstract: A power steering system for a vehicle includes a power assist unit composed of a unitized combination of a torque sensor, an electric motor and a power transmission mechanism. The power assist unit is mounted to a cross member provided on the vehicle body side, to enable a reduction in the number of component parts and realization of a compact design. A steering shaft is rotatably supported on only a single support case mounted to a cross member. At least an electric motor of a power assist unit is mounted to the cross member through the support case.

Abstract: There is provided a decorative material which hardly undergoes deterioration of a substrate even when irradiated with an electron beam, and is excellent in surface properties such as stain resistance, abrasion resistance and marring resistance. The decorative material of the present invention comprises a substrate, and a pattern layer and/or a colored layer, and a surface protective layer which are successively laminated on the substrate, wherein the surface protective layer is obtained by crosslinking and curing an electron beam-curable resin composition, and a rate of reduction in a folding endurance of a material obtained by applying the electron beam-curable resin composition onto the substrate and then irradiating an electron beam to the electron beam-curable resin composition, relative to a folding endurance of the substrate before applying the electron beam-curable resin composition thereonto is 70% or lower as measured in the CD direction (lateral direction) of the substrate.

Abstract: This invention provides a compound represented by the following general formula (1) and capable of suppressing the blooming, which is observed in the compounding of the resorcin or the RF resin, as far as possible while maintaining the workability and high humidity-aged adhesion of the rubber composition obtained by compounding with rubber, reducing the deterioration of the adhesiveness during the storage of the rubber composition and stably developing the adhesiveness as well as the composition containing the above-mentioned compound as a main component: (wherein R represents a divalent aliphatic group having a carbon number of 1-16).

Abstract: A vertical boat 10 for heat treatment comprising a top plate 1, a bottom plate 2, and a column member fixed between the top plate and the bottom plate, a plurality of grooves 8 being formed in the column member, and a supporting part for horizontally supporting a wafer-like body to be treated being formed between the grooves, wherein, as the column member, two or more column members 3 and 4, each of which has a circular arc-shaped cross section and has the supporting parts in the shape of circular arc formed integrally inside by formation of the grooves, are cylindrically disposed, and the wafer-like body to be treated is inserted from the grooves of the column members and supported along a circumferential part of a lower surface thereof by the respective circular arc-shaped supporting parts. Thereby, there is provided a vertical boat for heat treatment that can effectively prevent a slip from being generated on a wafer and such during heat treatment, has low material cost, and is relatively easily produced.

Abstract: A power steering system for a vehicle includes a steering shaft with its rear end in connection with a steering handle and with its axis inclined forwardly downwards. An electric motor is disposed with its axis orthogonal to a plane containing the axis of the steering shaft. The electric motor applies a steering force to the side of a steering wheel or wheels according to an operational torque exerted on the steering handle. This enables the power steering system to be easily applied to a vehicle in which the portion on the front side relative to the steering handle is short. A steering shaft is rotatably supported on a support case, at least a part of which is disposed on the inner side of the rotational locus of a steering handle in plan view. The rear end of an electric motor mounted to the support case is disposed on the front side relative to the rear end of the steering shaft.

Abstract: A low floor type small vehicle includes an engine mounted on a vehicle body while being disposed on the rear side of a floor portion on which to mount the feet of a vehicle driver seated on a passengers' seat. An electric motor provides electric power for assisting the steering of a steering handle by the vehicle driver. A control unit for controlling the operation of the electric motor from external forces is protected by using a simple configuration. The control unit is disposed on the inner side of a dashboard.

Abstract: A power steering system for a vehicle includes a torque sensor, an electric motor operated according to a detected value detected by the torque sensor, and a power transmission mechanism for transmitting rotational power of the electric motor to the side of a steering wheel or wheels. The power steering system makes it possible to protect the electric motor while reducing the weight through simplification of the vehicle body component members. A cross member that is bent to form a recessed portion is provided in the vehicle body. At least an electric motor of the power steering system is disposed inside the recessed portion. However, the torque sensor, the electric motor and a power transmission mechanism can be disposed inside the recessed portion.

Abstract: A writing implement, wherein elements forming a reverse flow prevention mechanism are formed in rather simple shapes and assembly process for the reverse flow prevention mechanism is rather simplified. The reverse flow prevention mechanism (19) comprises a valve chamber (54b), an inflow port (55) opened to the ink storage part (16) side of the valve chamber (54b), an outflow port (56) opened to the writing tip (17) side of the valve chamber (54b), a valve element (57) stored in the valve chamber (54b), a restricting body (58) stored in the valve chamber (54b) at a position on the outflow port (56) side of the valve element (57), and a valve seat (54c) formed around the inflow port (55). When the writing tip (17) is faced upward, the inflow port (55) is closed by the valve element (57), and when faced downward, the valve element (57) is allowed to touch the restricting body (58) and does not reach the outflow port (56).

Abstract: The present invention is a method for producing a wafer comprising, at least, a BMD forming step of subjecting a silicon single crystal in a state of an ingot to heat treatment thereby to form bulk micro defects (BMDs) inside, and a wafer processing step of processing the ingot in which the bulk micro defects (BMDs) was formed into wafers. Thereby, there can be provided a method for producing a wafer, wherein heat treatment for providing IG capability in production of wafer can be shortened and wafers with high IG capability can be produced in large quantity. Also, the present invention can further comprise a wafer heat-treating step of subjecting the processed wafer to heat treatment, or an epitaxial growth step of forming an epitaxial layer on the wafer. Thereby, there is improved productivity of annealed wafers or epitaxial wafers that are excellent in gettering capability.

Abstract: A writing implement includes a cylindrical shaft member, a pen tip member which is fixed to one end of the shaft member and from which colored ink seeps out, liquid for ink which is stored in the shaft member and which comprises a major component of the colored ink seeping out from an end of the pen tip member, colorant to be added to the liquid for ink, and a valve member for isolating the colorant from the liquid for ink. In the writing implement, at least a part of a cylindrical side surface of the shaft member corresponding to a part where the liquid for ink is stored is formed to be transparent, the valve member is positioned between the storing part of the liquid for ink and the colorant, and the storing part of the liquid for ink is provided with a pressure-regulating part.

Abstract: A cell culture method prepares first cells that are adhesion-dependent cells and monolayered or multilayered cells on a culture surface of a culture substrate, seeds second cells that are adhesion-dependent cells and are magnetized by allowing to have magnetic particles on the first cells, induces the second cells to a predetermined position on the first cells by magnetic force, and cultures the first cells and the second cells in a cell arrangement obtained by the magnetic induction. According to this cell culture method, after a cell sheet was prepared individually, cells can be multilayered without changing a temperature, peeling the monolayered sheet and laminating the monolayered sheets.

Abstract: In a recorder, since an AV signal inputted to an input part is temporarily recorded on a sub-recording medium and then recorded on an optical disk with a delay of a prescribed time or more, there is a deviation in time until a second encoding part encodes the AV signal inputted to the input part when the setting of an encode rate is changed. Accordingly, when the change of the setting of the encode rate is received, the setting of an encode rate relative to the AV signal inputted to the input part can be smoothly changed. Advantageously, the record of the AV data of the AV signal inputted to the input part is not interrupted when the change of the setting of the encode rate is received.

Abstract: In order to provide an ink reservoir for a writing instrument which has satisfactory permeation resistance and moisture-absorption resistance against permeation of a solvent and absorption of moisture and which is excellent in a storing property of the ink with the passage of time, an ink reservoir for a writing instrument in which an ink for a writing instrument is stored is constituted of at least one selected from the group consisting of a cyclic olefin resin, a fluorine base resin and a high molecular weight olefin resin or the ink reservoir for a writing instrument described above is constituted of a laminated structure which is formed by extrusion molding of two or more kinds of thermoplastic resins.

Abstract: A motor-driven steering assist apparatus is disclosed having a single unit body covered by first to third housings. An upper end portion of an input shaft and a torque sensor are supported by the first housing. An upper end portion of an output shaft, an electric motor, a worm gear and a worm wheel are supported by the second housing. A lower end portion of the output shaft is supported to the third housing, and the second housing can be attached to the vehicle body side.

Abstract: An electrostatic latent image is formed on an image carrier. A first roller is opposed to the image carrier with a gap in between. A second roller is in contact with the first roller such that toner of a one-component type is supplied onto the image carrier by way of the first roller to develop the electrostatic latent image as a visible toner image. A single power source supplies a bias voltage in which an AC voltage is superposed on a DC bias voltage. The bias voltage is supplied to the first roller through a first path and to the second roller through a second path. A resistor is provided on the first path between the first roller and a branching point of the first path and the second path.

Abstract: The present invention provides an annealed wafer which has a wafer surface layer serving as a device fabricating region and having an excellent oxide film dielectric breakdown characteristic, and a wafer bulk layer in which oxide precipitates are present at a high density at the stage before the wafer is loaded into the device fabrication processes to give an excellent IG capability, and a method for manufacturing the annealed wafer. The present invention is directed to an annealed wafer obtained by performing heat treatment on a silicon wafer manufactured from a silicon single crystal grown by the Czochralski method, wherein a good chip yield of an oxide film dielectric breakdown characteristic in a region having at least a depth of up to 5 ?m from a wafer surface is 95% or more, and a density of oxide precipitates detectable in the wafer bulk and each having a size not smaller than a size showing a gettering capability is not less than 1×109/cm3.

Abstract: In a vehicle floor structure, a subsidiary frame is provided between a front frame and a seat frame and at a position higher than a lower frame, for supporting thereon a floor section. Step support frame is provided laterally outwardly of the lower frame, for supporting thereon a boarding step so that the floor section is located at a level higher than the boarding step.

Abstract: Epidermal keratinocytes not incorporating magnetic particles therein and epidermal keratinocytes incorporating magnetic particles therein were seeded in a 24-well ultra-low-attachment plate, and cultured for one day after a neodymium magnet was placed outside the bottom of the well. As a result, control epidermal keratinocytes not incorporating magnetic particles therein did not adhere to the bottom of the well and did not form an undifferentiated cell sheet. On the contrary, epidermal keratinocytes incorporating magnetic particles therein, while being attracted to the bottom of the well by magnetic force, formed a multilayered cell sheet. This cell sheet could be easily recovered by removing the neodymium magnet placed outside the bottom of the well, then bringing a magnet having a hydrophilic film attached thereto close to the cell sheet from upside and to attract it via this hydrophilic film, and lifting it.