Abstract: A method for producing a fiber-reinforced resin composite material includes a step of curing a composition for producing a fiber-reinforced resin composite material, which includes a reinforcing fiber material and a resin composition including a radical reactive resin having at least one polymerizable unsaturated double bond, by irradiating the composition with ionizing radiation.

Abstract: There is provided an analog radio-controlled timepiece made so as to be capable of performing a time difference correction by a simple operation while maintaining an operability of a time difference correction timepiece. A radio reception section receives, through an antenna, information of a minute and a second in a time code included in a standard radio, and an operation section corrects only a minute hand and a second hand to the minute and the second, which were received. A correction of an hour hand is performed by operating a crown included in a time difference correction mechanism.

Abstract: In a via-human-body information transmission system, there is made so as to be capable of more stably transmitting a signal. An electrode (104) of a transmitter-receiver (102) contacting with or capacitance-connected to a human body (101) and an electrode (108) of a receiver (106) contacting with or capacitance-connected to the human body (101) are electrically connected through the human body (101) (mainly, a chest part and a left arm). An electrode (105) of the transmitter-receiver (102) contacting with or capacitance-connected to the human body (101) and an electrode (109), of the receiver (106), having been disposed while being directed to an outside of the human body (101) are electrically connected by a capacitance connection. A communication between the transmitter-receiver (102) and the receiver (106) is performed through a path passing the electrodes (104, 105, 108, 109) and the human body (101) and a path by the capacitance connection.

Abstract: To enhance precision in measurement of the number of steps even when a walk cycle changes. An acceleration detecting portion outputs a walk signal corresponding to a walk of a user detected by a walk sensor. A step number counting portion of a counting portion counts each signal which is judged to be beyond a first reference cycle range by a walk cycle comparing portion among signals from the acceleration detecting portion as the number of steps for one step, and when an extra-regulation step number processing portion judges that a predetermined number of signals each within a second reference cycle range among the signals each beyond the first reference cycle range is continuously outputted, counts the predetermined number of signals as the predetermined number of steps.

Abstract: To carry out step number measurement more precisely even when a walk signal enough to be detected is not obtained. After a fixed noise of a signal detected by an acceleration detecting portion having an acceleration sensor is removed by a filter portion of a counting portion, a walk cycle comparing portion compares a cycle of the resultant signal with a moving average value calculated by a walk cycle calculating portion, and each signal within a predetermined cycle range is counted as the number of steps for one step by a step number counting portion. A signal within a range similar to a cycle n times as large as a predetermined cycle of the signals each beyond the predetermined cycle range is judged as the number of steps for n steps by an extra-regulation step number processing portion and is counted as the number of steps for n steps by the step number counting portion. Data on the number of steps obtained through the counting in the step number counting portion is displayed on a display portion.

Abstract: To enhance precision in measurement of the number of steps even when a walk cycle changes. An acceleration detecting portion outputs a walk signal corresponding to a walk of a user detected by a walk sensor. A step number counting portion of a counting portion counts each signal which is judged to be beyond a first reference cycle range by a walk cycle comparing portion among signals from the acceleration detecting portion as the number of steps for one step, and when an extra-regulation step number processing portion judges that a predetermined number of signals each within a second reference cycle range among the signals each beyond the first reference cycle range is continuously outputted, counts the predetermined number of signals as the predetermined number of steps.

Abstract: To carry out step number measurement more precisely even when a walk signal enough to be detected is not obtained. After a fixed noise of a signal detected by an acceleration detecting portion having an acceleration sensor is removed by a filter portion of a counting portion, a walk cycle comparing portion compares a cycle of the resultant signal with a moving average value calculated by a walk cycle calculating portion, and each signal within a predetermined cycle range is counted as the number of steps for one step by a step number counting portion. A signal within a range similar to a cycle n times as large as a predetermined cycle of the signals each beyond the predetermined cycle range is judged as the number of steps for n steps by an extra-regulation step number processing portion and is counted as the number of steps for n steps by the step number counting portion. Data on the number of steps obtained through the counting in the step number counting portion is displayed on a display portion.

Abstract: To provide a portable pressure measuring apparatus with a pressure sensor of highly accurate output and small electric power consumption. A pressure measuring apparatus of the invention is provided with an impedance bridge circuit (pressure sensor part) for measuring pressure; a drive unit (sensor driving part) for applying voltage to the above impedance bridge circuit; a measuring unit (voltmeter) for sampling and measuring the electric potential difference between the middle points in both arms of the above impedance bridge circuit at a fixed time interval; and a determining unit (control part) for determining whether the difference between the pressure this time and the previous pressure sampled and measured by the above measuring unit reaches a predetermined threshold or below.

Abstract: A data transmission system for transmitting data among a plurality of electronic apparatuses each having a communication function, in which power consumption of the electronic apparatuses can be reduced, and data transmission among the electronic apparatuses can be surely carried out. In a communication standby state, an information processing unit transmits a synchronous signal at given intervals of X seconds, a biological information processing unit has a reception period corresponding to a timing synchronous with the synchronous signal, and the information processing unit and the biological information processing unit are synchronized with each other. In this state, after the information processing unit transmits a data request signal, the biological information processing unit transmits data Log1 to Log3 which have respective predetermined lengths and which are obtained through a division process.

Abstract: To provide a movement-detecting altimeter designed so as to be capable of avoiding excessive accumulation of errors. The movement-detecting altimeter has a movement dependent altitude updating unit which updates an indicated altitude when a moving condition is maintained, and which avoids updating of the indicated altitude when the moving condition is not maintained.

Abstract: To prevent process centralization to a master unit at the time of communications channel setting to slave units. Included are: a plurality of biometric information detection devices for detecting biometric information about attaching body such as heartbeat, and wirelessly transmitting corresponding biometric data; biometric information processing device for receiving the biometric data from each of the biometric information detection devices., and going through various types of processes such as a display process; and an information processing unit for receiving the biometric data of the biometric information detection devices from the biometric information processing device via a transmission/reception section. The biometric information detection devices determine their own communications channels, and transmit the biometric data to the biometric information processing device.

Abstract: A portable altimeter of the present invention is provided with a movement determining unit for determining whether or not the altimeter is at a standstill or moving by comparing an amount of change in altitude with a prescribed standstill threshold value and movement threshold value. When the standstill mode is set, the moving mode is then set only when the amount of change equals or exceeds the movement threshold value, and when the moving mode is set, the standstill mode is then set only when the amount of change falls below the standstill threshold value.

Abstract: To provide a portable pressure measuring apparatus with a pressure sensor of highly accurate output and small electric power consumption. A pressure measuring apparatus of the invention is provided with an impedance bridge circuit (pressure sensor part) for measuring pressure; a drive unit (sensor driving part) for applying voltage to the above impedance bridge circuit; a measuring unit (voltmeter) for sampling and measuring the electric potential difference between the middle points in both arms of the above impedance bridge circuit at a fixed time interval; and a determining unit (control part) for determining whether the difference between the pressure this time and the previous pressure sampled and measured by the above measuring unit reaches a predetermined threshold or below.

Abstract: To provide a movement-detecting altimeter designed so as to be capable of avoiding excessive accumulation of errors. The movement-detecting altimeter has a movement dependent altitude updating unit which updates an indicated altitude when a moving condition is maintained, and which avoids updating of the indicated altitude when the moving condition is not maintained.

Abstract: A portable pressure measuring apparatus detects a designated altitude by sensing an outside atmospheric pressure. An A/D converter generates pressure data corresponding to the outside pressure. Pressure data corresponding to a designated altitude is stored in a memory, and the pressure data generated by the A/D converter is compared with the stored pressure data. The designated altitude may be set to any value through a manually-operated input switch and converted into pressure data. Alternatively, the designated altitude may be set as the altitude at which the apparatus is positioned by converting pressure data generated by the A/D converter at that altitude into a corresponding altitude.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a portable pressure measuring apparatus to be used as an altimeter, which can be automatically switched to an optimum sampling period in accordance with a use of the apparatus before a pressure measurement at all times. A portable pressure measuring apparatus additionally comprises a pressure/altitude operation section for obtaining an altitude from a measured pressure by an arithmetic operation, a rate of pressure change operation section, and a movement detecting section, wherein, if the movement detecting section detects a movement, a pressure is measured in a sampling period, for example, in a 1-second sampling period, if a rate of altitude change is equal to or greater than a threshold or in a sampling period, for example, in a 5-second sampling period, if the rate of altitude change is smaller than the threshold and wherein, unless the movement detecting section detects any movement, the pressure sampling measurement is not performed.

Abstract: A portable altimeter of the present invention is provided with a movement determining unit for determining whether or not the altimeter is at a standstill or moving by comparing an amount of change in altitude with a prescribed standstill threshold value and movement threshold value. When the standstill mode is set, the moving mode is then set only when the amount of change equals or exceeds the movement threshold value, and when the moving mode is set, the standstill mode is then set only when the amount of change falls below the standstill threshold value.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a portable pressure measuring apparatus to be used as an altimeter, which can be automatically switched to an optimum sampling period in accordance with a use of the apparatus before a pressure measurement at all times. A portable pressure measuring apparatus additionally comprises a pressure/altitude operation section for obtaining an altitude from a measured pressure by an arithmetic operation, a rate of pressure change operation section, and a movement detecting section, wherein, if the movement detecting section detects a movement, a pressure is measured in a sampling period, for example, in a 1-second sampling period, if a rate of altitude change is equal to or greater than a threshold or in a sampling period, for example, in a 5-second sampling period, if the rate of altitude change is smaller than the threshold and wherein, unless the movement detecting section detects any movement, the pressure sampling measurement is not performed.

Abstract: A timepiece has a gear train having a plurality of intermeshed gears including a 24 o'clock wheel. To avoid error, the phase angle of the 24 o'clock wheel at which a given detection state is assumed is equal to the phase angle of backlash of the gear train between forward and reverse rotations of the 24 o'clock wheel. An electrically conductive contact spring is mounted to the 24 o'clock wheel. A circuit board is provided with electrical contacts disposed to come into contact with the contact spring when rotated. A 24 o'clock detection circuit is connectd to the electrical contacts to input an angular position detection signal indicating the angular position of the 24 o'clock wheel when the contact spring contacts a respective one of the electrical contacts.