Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical head device, an optical recording device, and an optical recording method, and an object of the present invention is to enable to acquire optimum recording characteristics of an optical recoding medium having multiple data layers, with respect to each of the multiple data layers without increasing learning time required for learning a relation between aberration amount and optimum recording compensation with respect to each of the multiple data layers. To accomplish this object, the optical head device, the optical recording device, and the optical recording method of the present invention are constructed such that the wavefront converting means 4 is driven in such a manner as to reduce the aberration amount detected by the aberration detecting means 12.

Abstract: A facsimile capture device is provided that functions in a plurality of operating modes. In a first automatic operating mode, the facsimile device captures received facsimile or “document” data without user intervention, and subsequently transmits the data to a device represented by a capture address. In one embodiment, the data is transmitted to a file management appliance (“FMA”) which utilizes multiple processes and queues to provide document capture and indexing services to a network. In a second manual operating mode, the facsimile device selectively captures and modifies received document data based upon additionally received external input data. The facsimile device is capable transmitting the document data to a plurality of secondary devices utilizing various transmission and encapsulation protocols. In one embodiment, the facsimile device transmits captured document data to indexing and archiving devices according to standard Internet protocols.

Abstract: In a document outputting method for editing a document managed by a document management service, which provides the document when an edit or an output of the document is permitted, an output condition property candidate obtain request for obtaining an output condition property candidate including an edit property indicating edit contents executable for the document and an output property indicating an output method executable when the document is output is received, and the output condition property candidate is provided to a request originator sending the output condition property candidate obtain request.

Abstract: In an output information providing method for providing an edit property indicating edit contents executable for a document and an output property indicating an output method executable when the document is output, an output condition property candidate obtain request is received, and the output condition property candidate is provided to a request originator sending the output condition property candidate obtain request.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a therapeutic agent for soft tissue sarcoma (particularly synovial sarcoma), which contains a histone deacetylase inhibitor (particularly compound A) as an active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor wafer comprising steps of obtaining information of a device manufacturing process, selecting a wafer manufacturing process corresponding thereto, and manufacturing a semiconductor wafer according to the selected wafer manufacturing process.

Abstract: A user authentication method is applicable to an image forming apparatus connectable via a network to an authentication apparatus that performs authentication of a user and including authentication set information that sets whether to perform authentication in the authentication apparatus.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a plurality of communication ports sends and receives data in accordance with different communication protocols. A data managing part stores and manages the data received from the plurality of communication ports as a data file in a storing part. A data distributing part distributes the data file to a device in response to a request concerning obtaining the data file from the device connected to the image apparatus through a network.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical head, which comprises a semiconductor laser, a collimator lens for converting a beam emitted from the semiconductor laser light into parallel beam, a lens frame holding the collimator lens, a beam shaping prism for shaping the parallel beam passing through the collimator lens from an elliptic section into a circular section, an objective lens for converging the parallel beam passing through the beam shaping device on an optical recording medium formed with a track, and a photodetector for detecting a reflected light or transmitted light from an optical disk. The collimator lens is adhesively fixed to the lens frame at two positions opposed to one another along a radial direction corresponding to the minor axis direction of the cross section of the incoming parallel beam into the beam shaping prism. The optical head can suppress the displacement of detected-light spots in an photodetector caused by the displacement of an optical axis due to change in ambient temperature.

Abstract: There are provided left and right gripper devices for holding left and right tip side portions of a slide fastener chain, transferring the fastener chain in a longitudinal direction (an X-axis direction) and opening and closing the left and right tip side portions in a Y-axis direction orthogonal to the X-axis direction based on a command sent from operation control means. There is provided an electric motor for controllably driving the left and right gripper devices in the X-Y axis direction based on a command sent from a numeric control section of the operation control means in the X-Y axis direction of the gripper devices. A slider can be automatically inserted by only a specified operation using a single device without preparing a special device for all types of fastener chains and sliders and requiring a time for a considerable reconstruction.

Abstract: An optical head device includes: an optical element collecting light reflected from a reproduction information layer (a target information layer in an optical information recording medium) and light reflected from information layers adjacent to the reproduction information layer at different positions; a light receiving element obtaining a detection signal from the reflected light collected by this optical element; and arithmetic circuitry obtaining a reproduction signal from this detection signal.

Abstract: A bag manufacturing and packaging apparatus includes a bag manufacturing unit that tubularly forms a strip film and manufactures a bag filled with articles; a feed roller unit that feeds a strip, to which the bag manufactured by the bag manufacturing unit is mounted; and a mounting unit that mounts the bag to the strip fed by the feed roller unit. The strip is rectilinearly maintained between the feed roller unit and the mounting unit by imparting a bend on the strip in the transverse cross section that intersects a transport pathway of the strip. The object of the present invention is to provide a bag manufacturing and packaging apparatus that, even if the strip to which bags are mounted lacks rigidity, can smoothly feed the strip, automatically thread the strip to the mounting unit, and form appropriate slits in the strip.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that has at least one of a scanning function, a printing function, a copying function, and a facsimile function, and is connected via a communication channel to a server storing image data includes: a memory storing image information printed on or scanned from a paper sheet; a transfer unit automatically transferring appendant information specifying the image information to the server together with the image information irrespective of the presence or absence of an explicit command to transfer from a user; a display operating unit displaying a list of a plurality of users so as to obtain a user name as the appendant information so that the user selects the user name; and user name initial-part search and selective display means for performing a search on the user names by initial parts thereof using at least one letter or figure entered from the display operating unit and displaying a result.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a control system for electrical equipment comprising an electrical equipment group or groups including at least one piece of electrical equipment and a control unit or units connected to said electrical equipment group or groups wherein:

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a network communication controlling part controls communications by a process request from a device connected through a network and a process response to the device, and a Web service providing process part processes internal information concerning said image forming apparatus based on a message described in accordance with a predetermined message exchange protocol within the process request and generating the process response showing a process result.

Abstract: To provide a laser driving apparatus which is inexpensive and has high reliability in spite of using a plurality of light sources, since a multi-wavelength light source is required for treating different kinds of optical disks such as CD, DVD or the like. In a two-wavelength LD apparatus including: a semiconductor laser 1a; a semiconductor laser 1b; and a photo detector 2, optical outputs of the semiconductor lasers 1a, 1b are controlled by APC circuits 6a, 6b on the basis of respective voltage values of variable resistors 4a, 4b connected in series to the photo detector 2. Alternatively, in the two-wavelength LD apparatus including: the semiconductor laser 1a; the semiconductor laser 1b; and the photo detector 2, the optical outputs of the semiconductor 1a, 1b are controlled by the APC circuits 6a, 6b on the basis of respective intermediate potentials of variable resistors 4a, 4b connected in parallel with the photo detector 2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a single crystal wafer, wherein the main surface has a plane or a plane equivalent to a plane tilting with respect to a [100] axis of single crystal by angles of &agr; (0°<&agr;<90°) for the [011] direction, &bgr; (0°<&bgr;<90°) for the [01-1] direction and &ggr; (0°≦&ggr;<45°) for the [10-1] or [101] direction. Thus, a single crystal wafer that can sufficiently bear device production processes even with a small wafer thickness is provided and thereby loss of single crystal raw material is reduced. Further, by using such a wafer, MIS type semiconductor devices and solar cells are provided at a low cost.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for slicing a single crystal, wherein the single crystal is sliced by irradiating a portion to be sliced with an ultra short pulse laser beam while supplying a gas containing gaseous molecules or radicals that react with atoms constituting the single crystal to become stable gaseous molecules in the vicinity of the portion under slicing. Thus, there is provided a method for slicing a single crystal by using a laser processing, in which a single crystal is processed while obtaining a good sliced surface and markedly reducing slicing loss.

Abstract: To provide a laser driving apparatus which is inexpensive and has high reliability in spite of using a plurality of light sources, since a multi-wavelength light source is required for treating different kinds of optical disks such as CD, DVD or the like. In a two-wavelength LD apparatus including: a semiconductor laser 1a; a semiconductor laser 1b; and a photo detector 2, optical outputs of the semiconductor lasers 1a, 1b are controlled by APC circuits 6a, 6b on the basis of respective voltage values of variable resistors 4a, 4b connected in series to the photo detector 2. Alternatively, in the two-wavelength LD apparatus including: the semiconductor laser 1a; the semiconductor laser 1b; and the photo detector 2, the optical outputs of the semiconductor 1a, 1b are controlled by the APC circuits 6a, 6b on the basis of respective intermediate potentials of variable resistors 4a, 4b connected in parallel with the photo detector 2.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, screen information for displaying a plurality of function options available for a predetermined process is generated. A screen generating program and option information showing the plurality of function options is transmitted in response to an request from an apparatus that is connected through a network and the user uses. The predetermined process is conducted by using a hardware resource when receiving the setting parameter indicating the function option set by the user from the plurality of the function options that the apparatus displays by executing said screen generating program, from the apparatus.