Abstract: A router is provided, which includes a main body with a pair of coupling hollows, and a base having a pair of guide shafts standing on. Each of the pair of coupling hollows has an opening facing downward through which a corresponding guide shaft is inserted. A linear ball bearing which serves as a bushing to support a corresponding guide shaft is provided in a lower portion of at least one of the coupling hollows. With this linear ball bearing, the guide shaft can be slid in the coupling hollow smoothly.

Abstract: An electrical power tool may include a base capable of contacting the work-piece, a tool main body detachably attached to the base, and an elevating mechanism that is capable of changing a relative position of the tool main body to the base. The elevating mechanism includes a male elevating member that is releasably integrated with the tool main body, a female elevating member that is attached to the base and is capable of relatively raising and lowering the male elevating member, and an integrating mechanism that is capable of releasably integrating the male elevating member with the tool main body. The tool main body is capable of being removed from the base while the male elevating member is left in the base when the male elevating member is released from the tool main body by operating the integrating mechanism.

Abstract: A power tool includes a base and a drive unit movable relative to the base and having a spindle and a drive device for rotatably driving the spindle. The power tool further includes a movable member mounted to the base and movable in a first mode and a second mode. A first device is coupled between the movable member and the drive unit and moves the drive unit relative to the base when the movable member moves in the first mode. A second device is coupled to the movable member and is configured to fix the drive unit in position relative to the base when the movable member moves in the second mode.

Abstract: The ceramic green sheet is formed by molding and drying “a ceramic slurry containing a ceramic powder, an unreacted portion of an isocyanate, an unreacted portion of a polyol, a urethane resin that is produced by mixing isocyanate and polyol and serves as an organic binder, and a solvent”, the ceramic slurry being prepared by mixing the ceramic powder, the isocyanate, the polyol, and the solvent. A thin sheet-like molded body is formed by printing a molded body of a paste, which is prepared by mixing a ceramic powder, an organic binder that is a resin not containing a hydroxyl group, and a solvent, on the ceramic green sheet, and by drying the resultant. A dry shrinkage percentage of the ceramic green sheet upon forming the thin sheet-like molded body thereon can significantly be reduced.

Abstract: A compact of a support-member divided-member, which has a shape formed by dividing a support member into two in the thickness direction so as to divide the fuel channel into two in the thickness direction, is manufactured by a gel cast method in which slurry is filled in a molding die. A compact of a fuel-side electrode and a compact of an electrolyte are successively stacked on the upper surface of the compact of the support-member divided-member, whereby a compact of a cell divided member is obtained. The two compacts of the cell divided member are bonded and sintered, whereby an SOFC cell (sintered body) in which an oxygen-side electrode is not formed is formed. A compact of the oxygen-side electrode is formed respectively on the upper and lower surfaces of the sintered body, and then, the compact of the oxygen-side electrode is sintered, whereby the SOFC cell is completed.

Abstract: A power tool includes a tool unit having an electric motor for driving a tool bit, and a first base and a second base each capable of being assembled with the tool unit. The tool unit and the first base can be assembled into a first tool. The tool unit and the second base can be assembled into a second tool that is different from the first tool.

Abstract: A reproducing device includes: a reading module configured to read at least any of content data, a content reproduction permitting condition and a reproducing device reproduction permitting condition from a storage medium detachable to/from the reproducing device; a reproducing module configured to reproduce the content data; a content determining module configured to determine whether the content reproduction permitting condition is satisfied or not; a reproducing device determining module configured to determine whether the reproducing device reproduction permitting condition is satisfied or not; and a reproduction controller configured to control the reproducing module to reproduce the content data when the content reproduction permitting condition for the content data is determined to be reproducible by the content determining module and the reproducing device reproduction permitting condition for the reproducing device is determined to be reproducible by the reproducing device determining module.

Abstract: The ceramic slurry is prepared by mixing a ceramic powder, a solvent, a dispersion medium, an isocyanate, a polyol, and a catalyst for accelerating a urethane reaction between the isocyanate and the polyol. A temperature-sensitive catalyst, which substantially exhibits a catalyst function only within a specific temperature range including an active temperature and higher than room temperature, is used as the catalyst. In a solidifying and drying step performed after a molding step of the slurry at room temperature, the solidification/drying temperature is set to be a high temperature within the range (within the specific temperature range) relatively close to the active temperature of the temperature-sensitive catalyst, and this temperature is maintained. Thus, the catalyst function can sufficiently be exhibited under high temperature.

Abstract: A method for controlling the shrinkage of ceramic formed bodies is provided, including performing a preliminary test to determine an average shrinkage of ceramic formed bodies made from test lots of a ceramic powder, and determining a linear correlation between the average shrinkage and measured amounts of the ground test lots removed from a ball mill during a specific milling time interval. A batch of the ceramic powder is then ground, an amount of the ground ceramic powder removed from the ball mill during the specific time interval is measured, and the linear correlation is used to estimate the shrinkage of a ceramic body made therefrom. The difference between a target shrinkage and the estimated shrinkage is determined, and one or more of the processing conditions used to form the ceramic body are changed to offset the difference.

Abstract: The invention provides a ceramic green sheet having plasticity, punching property, and sinterability of satisfactory levels as well as a low percent (heat) shrinkage. In the production of a ceramic slurry serving as a raw material of the sheet, ingredients thereof are mixed under such conditions that the functional group ratio (polyol to isocyanate) is 1.5/11.5 to 11.5/11.5; the urethane resin formed from isocyanate and polyol has a repeating-unit-based molecular weight of 290 to 988; and the ratio by weight of the urethane resin to a ceramic powder falls within a range of 4.5 to 10 parts by weight of the urethane resin with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ceramic powder. As a result, a ceramic green sheet having, in well balance, all of the properties (i.e., plasticity, punching property, sinterability, and (heat) shrinkage) required for facilitating subsequent processes such as mechanical working and firing can be provided.

Abstract: A router is provided, which includes a main body with a pair of coupling hollows, and a base having a pair of guide shafts standing on. Each of the pair of coupling hollows has an opening facing downward through which a corresponding guide shaft is inserted. A linear ball bearing which serves as a bushing to support a corresponding guide shaft is provided in a lower portion of at least one of the coupling hollows. With this linear ball bearing, the guide shaft can be slid in the coupling hollow smoothly.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a broadcast recorder including a tuner which, upon receipt of a broadcast signal, demodulates the signal, and outputs the signal as a reproducing signal, a monitor which monitors a receiving condition of the tuner and outputs a time-series recording condition checking signal, and a recorder which records the reproducing signal output from the tuner and the time-series recording condition checking signal output from the monitor in a recording area.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus has a battery portion which supplies power, a remaining capacity detecting portion which detects a remaining capacity of the battery portion, a remaining time computing portion which computes a remaining time during which processing of an application for information processing can be carried out by the power supplied from the battery portion, on the basis of the remaining capacity detected by the remaining capacity detecting portion, and a display portion which displays the remaining time computed by the remaining time computing portion. In this manner, a user can know a time of an application which can be used with a current remaining battery capacity from a screen.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus has a buffer unit, an input/output unit, a first image recording time storage unit which accumulates an image recording time length in units of recording, and then, calculates and stores an image recording time length for a single file, a second image recording time storage unit which calculates and stores a total image recording time length of a plurality of files, an image recording time length update processing unit which updates an image recording time length component in units of recording in addition to the image recording time length for the single file and the total image recording time length, and a recording control unit which records the image recording time length for the single file and the total image recording time length in the medium.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data processing method of a data processor for storing data into a recording medium having a first storage area which allows access from only specific applications complying with a copyright protection technique and a second storage area which allows access from the specific applications and other applications, the data processing method comprises: generating a packet having a nonencrypted portion including copy control information showing conditions for copying the data and an encrypted portion including the copy control information and predetermined information arranged at predetermined positions; and storing a file containing a plurality of packets into the second storage area of the recording medium.

Abstract: An organism-culture apparatus, which can be conveniently prepared, can be stored for a long period, can be efficiently handled, and can be adapted to various organisms and culture conditions without restricting a kind of an organism to be cultured or the culture condition, and can be recycled after sterilization and washing is provides. The organism-culture apparatus, which comprises a microporous body retaining a culture medium, wherein an organism is cultured on a surface of the microporous body.

Abstract: A recording apparatus records video data in an SD memory card in which a parameter information file is pre-recorded, the parameter information file containing a codec for videos that can be reproduced by a predetermined motion picture reproducing apparatus and recording parameter information on the codec. The recording apparatus includes a receiving section which receives video data, an interface section which interfaces with the SD memory card, a control section which controls the interface section to read the recording parameter information file from the SD memory card, and an MPEG recording and reproducing section which encodes the video data received by the receiving section on the basis of the recording parameter information file and which records the resulting video data in the SD memory card.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for vehicle-to-vehicle communication between vehicles having vehicle-to-vehicle communication apparatuses. When a vehicle transmits a request, a network is formed including the vehicle that has transmitted the request and the vehicles that should respond to the request. The vehicles included in the network respond to the request or take action in response to the request.

Abstract: A housing body has a recess. A motor is housed in the housing body at a rear side of the recess. A hammer casing houses a rotatable spindle and an impact mechanism operable to convert the rotation of the spindle into intermittent impact actions in a first direction which is a circumferential direction of the spindle, and has an opened rear end. The hammer casing is mounted in the recess. A disk-shaped member is coupled to the hammer casing so as to close the opened rear end and to rotatably support the spindle. The disk-shaped member has a through hole receiving an output axis of the motor, thereby causing the output axis of the motor to couple with the spindle to transmit a rotation of the motor to rotate the spindle. A first engagement member is formed on an outer face of the disk-shaped member.

Abstract: In a portable electronic apparatus of the present invention, when a timer unit measures a video recording permission/inhibition determination time, in order to determine the reception condition of the reservation program stored in a memory unit, a CPU/control unit obtains the determination signal from a tuner unit and a demodulation unit to perform a video recording permission/inhibition determination process. If it is determined that the reception condition is a reservation video recording disable condition, the user who has performed reservation video recording is notified of the condition. By this notification, the user can take countermeasures for improving the reception condition until a video recording start time, or requesting a substitute device to execute the video recording process, before the reservation video recording start time.