Abstract: An oxynitride phosphor includes an ?-sialon as the main component, which is represented by the formula: MxSi12?(m+n)Al(m+n)OnN16?n:Lny (wherein 0.3?x+y<1.5, 0<y<0.7, 0.3?m<4.5, 0<n<2.25, and assuming that the atomic valence of the metal M is a and the atomic valence of the lanthanide metal Ln is b, m=ax+by) and in which the aggregation index, A1=D50/DBET?3.0 or the aggregation index A2=D50/Dparticle?3.0; and a production method and usage of the phosphor.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a multi-gas sensor, including an NOX sensor section and an ammonia sensor section. The NOX sensor section includes a first pumping cell adapted to pump oxygen into or out of a gas under measurement introduced into a first measurement chamber, and a second pumping cell communicating with the first measurement chamber and configured such that a second pumping current Ip2 corresponds to an NOX concentration of the gas under measurement. Oxygen concentration is calculated on the basis of a first pumping current flowing through the first pumping cell, and a corrected ammonia concentration is calculated on the basis of the oxygen concentration and the ammonia concentration output of the ammonia sensor section.

Abstract: An oxynitride phosphor includes an ?-sialon as the main component, which is represented by the formula: MxSi12-(m+n)Al(m+n)OnN16-n:Lny (wherein 0.3?x+y<1.5, 0<y<0.7, 0.3?m<4.5, 0<n<2.25, and assuming that the atomic valence of the metal M is a and the atomic valence of the lanthanide metal Ln is b, m=ax+by) and in which the aggregation index, A1=D50/DBET?3.0 or the aggregation index A2=D50/Dparticle?3.0; and a production method and usage of the phosphor.

Abstract: To provide sialon phosphor particles or a powder exhibiting high emission intensity in the region from ultraviolet to blue and not requiring a strong pulverization operation for pulverizing a sintered body or a large aggregated lump, and a production method thereof. Sialon phosphor particles represented by the formula: MxLnySi12?(m+n)Al(m+n)OnN16?n (wherein M is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Li, Ca, Mg and Y, Ln is a lanthanide metal containing at least Eu, and assuming that the valence of the metal M is a and the valence of the lanthanide metal Ln is b, ax+by=m, x is 0<x, y?2.0, 0.3?m<4.5 and 0.5?n<2.5), wherein in the surface analysis by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the ratio between the peak area of 3d5/2 spectrum of europium and the peak area of 2p spectrum of Si is 0.5 or less.

Abstract: A red phosphor where the crystal phase constituting the phosphor is monoclinic Eu-activated CaAlSiN3. A red phosphor which is Eu-activated CaAlSiN3 powder having an average particle diameter of 10 ?m or less as measured in the non-pulverized state by the laser scattering particle size distribution analysis. A light-emitting device comprising a blue light-emitting element, a yellow phosphor capable of converting the blue light emitted from the blue light-emitting element into yellow light, and the above-described red phosphor capable of converting the blue light emitted from the blue light-emitting element into red light. A method for producing Eu-activated CaAlSiN3, comprising firing a raw material powder comprising Ca3N2, AlN, Si3N4 and EuN at 1,400 to 2,000° C. in a nitrogen-containing atmosphere, the Ca3N2, AlN and Si3N4 giving a composition falling in the region surrounded by a straight line connecting the following four points A to D in the composition diagram of FIG.

Abstract: Supervisory control equipment for smart grids provided with a plurality of generators and loads and operated in interconnection with a commercial power system through an interconnected circuit breaker, comprising a frequency control ability calculation part for calculating the frequency control ability of the interconnected system by using a total power demand and a bus bar frequency; and an islanding and interconnection detection part for calculating frequency control ability of the commercial power system according to the frequency control ability of the system of the frequency control ability calculation part to discriminate between the interconnected and islanding operations according to the magnitude of the frequency control ability.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a multi-gas sensor, including an NOX sensor section and an ammonia sensor section. The NOX sensor section includes a first pumping cell adapted to pump oxygen into or out of a gas under measurement introduced into a first measurement chamber, and a second pumping cell communicating with the first measurement chamber and configured such that a second pumping current Ip2 corresponds to an NOX concentration of the gas under measurement. Oxygen concentration is calculated on the basis of a first pumping current flowing through the first pumping cell, and a corrected ammonia concentration is calculated on the basis of the oxygen concentration and the ammonia concentration output of the ammonia sensor section.

Abstract: A solid state imaging apparatus of which spatial phases of pixels forming a first matrix of adjoining rows and adjoining columns are relatively different from each other is characterized by that an intersection of a line between two pixels to be added in a row direction and a line between two pixels to be added in a column direction approximately agreed with a center of four pixels to be added when the four pixels adjoining in the row and column directions are added, and phases of said centers of four pixels adjoining in the row direction or column direction are relatively different from each other in a second matrix consisted of a plurality of said centers of four pixels.

Abstract: An electric charge transfer apparatus comprising a plurality of vertical charge transfer devices for transferring a signal electric charge, a plurality of charge-discharging circuit sets formed next to each of the plurality of vertical charge transfer device, and an output circuit for outputting the signal electric charge transferred by the plurality of charge-discharging circuits to outside of the electric charge transfer apparatus. Each of the plurality of charge-discharging circuit sets includes at least two charge-discharging circuits for discharging the signal electric charge transferred by at least one of adjacent vertical transfer devices consecutively to avoid an electrical barrier caused by left-behind electric charge.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oxynitride phosphor comprising an ?-sialon as the main component, which is represented by the general formula: MxSi12?(m+n)Al(m+n)OnN16?n:Lny (wherein 0.3?x+y<1.5, 0<y<0.7, 0.3?m<4.5, 0<n<2.25, and assuming that the atomic valence of the metal M is a and the atomic valence of the lanthanide metal Ln is b, m=ax+by) and in which the aggregation index, A1=D50/DBET?3.0 or the aggregation index A2=D50/Dparticle?3.0; and a production method and usage of the phosphor. The phosphor of the present invention has less aggregation and a narrow particle size distribution, and therefore is easy to uniformly mix with a resin or the like, and a high-brightness white LED can be easily obtained. D50 [?m]: The median diameter in the grain size distribution curve. DBET [?m]: The equivalent-sphere diameter calculated on the basis of a BET specific surface area. Dparticle [?m]: The primary particle diameter measured by the image analysis of a scanning electron micrograph.

Abstract: A solid state imaging device comprises a semiconductor substrate defining a two-dimensional surface, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements disposed in a light receiving area of said semiconductor substrate in a plurality of rows and columns, an electric charge read-out device that reads out signal electric charges accumulated in said plurality of photoelectric conversion elements in interlace by dividing the signal electric charges in a plurality of fields, each field at least including the signal electric charges accumulated in the vertically adjacent photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to one color, and a vertical adding device that adds, for each field, the read-out signal electric charges divided into the plurality of fields. A solid state imaging device that can increase vertical resolution at a time of an interlace operation is provided.

Abstract: During a first horizontal blanking period, signal charges on a first row are transferred from a vertical transfer channel to a line memory. During a second horizontal blanking period, the transferred signal charges are partly transferred from the line memory to a horizontal transfer channel. During a third horizontal blanking period, the remaining signal charges on the first row are transferred from the line memory to the horizontal transfer channel. Thereafter, the signal charges on the second row next to the first row are transferred from the vertical transfer channel to a line memory that is vacant.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a heating rotation body, a heat source and a pressurization member. The heating rotation body has an endless peripheral surface that moves circularly. The heat source heats the heating rotation body. The pressurization member is in pressure-contact with the peripheral surface of the heating rotation body to press a recording medium, which passes through a nip between the pressurization member and the heating rotation body, against the peripheral surface of the heating rotation body. The pressurization member includes a base material and plural layers deposited on the base material. A volume resistance of a surface layer forming a surface of the pressurization member is larger than that of a layer disposed just below the surface layer. The layer disposed just below the surface layer is grounded.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an imaging device that forms a toner image based on image data and transfers the toner image to a recording medium; a fixing device including a pair of rotatable members that defines a contact pressing portion that allows the recording medium with the toner image to pass through, and heats and presses the recording medium with the toner image; a surface potential measuring device that measures a surface potential of at least one of the pair of rotatable members; and a controller that performs control to give an alert notification that at least one of the pair of rotatable members which contacts with the toner image to be fixed should be replaced, when a result of the surface potential measured by the surface potential measuring device has exceeded a predetermined value.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section which transfers toner onto a latent image due to a difference of electrostatic potential to form a toner image, a transfer section which transfers the toner image onto a recording material directly or via an intermediate transfer body, a fixing section which passes the recording material carrying the toner image between a fixing rotation body and a pressurizing member contacted and pressed each other, and heats and pressurizes to fix the toner image, and a paper dust amount measuring section which measures an amount of paper dust adhering to the recording material. The image forming section forms an image pattern with high toner area coverage at a predetermined interval based on the measured amount of paper dust, and the fixing section fixes the image pattern with the high toner area coverage transferred onto a recording material.

Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator has a substrate and a piezoelectric layered structure including a lower electrode, piezoelectric aluminum nitride thin film with c-axis orientation and upper electrode formed on the substrate in this order. The lower electrode are made of a metal thin film including a layer containing ruthenium as a major component having a full-width half maximum (FWHM) of a rocking curve of a (0002) diffraction peak of ruthenium of 3.0° or less. The piezoelectric aluminum nitride thin film formed on the lower electrode has a full-width half maximum (FWHM) of a rocking curve of a (0002) diffraction peak of 2.0° or less.

Abstract: To provide sialon phosphor particles or a powder exhibiting high emission intensity in the region from ultraviolet to blue and not requiring a strong pulverization operation for pulverizing a sintered body or a large aggregated lump, and a production method thereof. Sialon phosphor particles represented by the formula: MxLnySi12?(m+n)Al(m+n)OnN16?n (wherein M is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Li, Ca, Mg and Y, Ln is a lanthanide metal containing at least Eu, and assuming that the valence of the metal M is a and the valence of the lanthanide metal Ln is b, ax+by=m, x is 0<x, y?2.0, 0.3?m<4.5 and 0.5?n<2.5), wherein in the surface analysis by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the ratio between the peak area of 3d5/2 spectrum of europium and the peak area of 2p spectrum of Si is 0.5 or less.

Abstract: A solid state imaging device comprises a semiconductor substrate defining a two-dimensional surface, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements disposed in a light receiving area of said semiconductor substrate in a plurality of rows and columns, color filters in a plurality of colors, each color filter being arranged in correspondence with each photoelectric conversion element, wherein at least a color defining resolution corresponds to two photoelectric conversion elements adjacent to each other in a horizontal direction or in a vertical direction, a vertical electric charge transferring device that vertically transfers signal electric charges generated by the photoelectric conversion elements, a horizontal electric charge transfer device that horizontally transfers the signal electric charges transferred by the vertical electric charge transferring device, and an output device that outputs the signal electric charges transferred by the horizontal electric charge transferring device.

Abstract: It has been found that the urine from an IC patient shows a high value in amount and the existence of activity of an azurophilic granular substance, thereby to establish a method for examining IC. The present invention relates to a method for examining interstitial cystitis using the kinetics of an azurophilic granular substance in urine as a marker. Also, the present invention relates to a kit for examining interstitial cystitis for use in the examination method, a use of an azurophilic granular substance as a test marker for examining interstitial cystitis or evaluating pharmacological effects of a drug, and a method for examining therapeutic effects on a patient with interstitial cystitis using an azurophilic granular substance as a marker.

Abstract: A thin film piezoelectric device includes a substrate (12) having via holes (22) and a piezoelectric laminated structure (14) consisting of a lower electrode (15), a piezoelectric film (16), and an upper electrode (17) formed on the substrate (12) via an insulation layer (13). A plurality of thin film piezoelectric resonators (210, 220) are formed for the via holes (22). The piezoelectric laminated structure (14) includes diaphragms (23) located to face the via holes (22) and a support area other than those. The thin film piezoelectric resonators (210, 220) are electrically connected by the lower electrode (15). When the straight line in the substrate plane passing through the centers (1, 2) of the diaphragms (23) of the thin film piezoelectric resonators (210, 220) has the length D1 of the segment passing through the support area and the distance between the centers of the diaphragms of the thin film piezoelectric resonators (210, 220) is D0,the ratio D1/D0 is 0.1 to 0.5.