Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing; an actuator installed inside the housing and configured to generate vibration in response to an application of a driving voltage; a temperature sensor configured to detect an operating temperature caused by the actuator; and a control circuit configured to apply the driving voltage to the actuator to drive the actuator, thereby generating a traction illusion, where the control circuit restricts an operation of the actuator, based on the operating temperature detected by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: Inside a housing of electronic equipment, a first actuator for generating vibration along a first axis is mounted. The first actuator is mounted in a direction in which the first axis is non-parallel and non-perpendicular to at least one of the six surfaces.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing; an actuator installed inside the housing and configured to generate vibration in response to an application of a driving voltage; a temperature sensor configured to detect an operating temperature caused by the actuator; and a control circuit configured to apply the driving voltage to the actuator to drive the actuator, thereby generating a traction illusion, where the control circuit restricts an operation of the actuator, based on the operating temperature detected by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: A tester obtains a test result indicating a subjective evaluation result of a test subject with respect to a traction illusion generated by a sample. A quality checker checks the quality of the sample in accordance with the test result. A measurer performs measurement processing to obtain objective sample characteristic data representing the traction illusion generated by the sample. A feature computer computes a reference feature in accordance with a quality check result and the sample characteristic data. An inspector performs measurement processing to obtain objective inspection target characteristic data representing a traction illusion generated by an inspection target.

Abstract: Inside a housing of electronic equipment, a first actuator for generating vibration along a first axis is mounted. The first actuator is mounted in a direction in which the first axis is non-parallel and non-perpendicular to at least one of the six surfaces.

Abstract: In a sensor relay apparatus (10), a storage unit (11) stores a communication protocol correspondence list (22B) in which a sensor terminal (ST) and a communication protocol are registered in association with each other, and a communication format (22C) to be used in the communication protocol, a relay processing unit (12) communicates with the sensor terminal (ST) specified in the communication protocol correspondence list (22B) based on the communication protocol associated with the sensor terminal (ST), receives sensor data detected by the sensor terminal (ST), converts the format of the sensor data based on the communication format (22C) in association with the communication protocol, and relays and transfers the sensor data to a processing apparatus (20), and a relay managing unit (16) updates the communication protocol correspondence list (22B) or the communication format (22C) in the storage unit (11), based on a communication protocol correspondence list or a communication format newly notified from th

Abstract: In a sensor relay apparatus (10), a communication control unit (13) receives sensor data from a sensor terminal (ST) via a terminal module (11) when a transmission data amount related to the sensor data to be transmitted from the sensor terminal (ST) is equal to or greater than a determination threshold. This can reduce the overhead time taken at the time of the transmission of the sensor data.

Abstract: In a sensor data acquisition terminal (10), an NTP back-end processing unit (12) synchronizes a terminal timing with a parent terminal timing by exchanging NTP packets for time synchronization with a parent terminal (20) based on NTP, and a protocol conversion unit (13) converts an NTP packet, which is output from the NTP back-end processing unit (12) and will be transmitted to the parent terminal (20), to a TPSN packet based on TPSN, outputs the TPSN packet to a wireless processing unit (14), converts a TPSN packet from the parent terminal (20), which is output from the wireless processing unit (14), to an NTP packet, and outputs the NTP packet to the NTP back-end processing unit (12).

Abstract: In a sensor relay apparatus (10), a communication control unit (13) receives sensor data from a sensor terminal (ST) via a terminal module (11) when a transmission data amount related to the sensor data to be transmitted from the sensor terminal (ST) is equal to or greater than a determination threshold. This can reduce the overhead time taken at the time of the transmission of the sensor data.

Abstract: In a sensor data acquisition terminal (10), an NTP back-end processing unit (12) synchronizes a terminal timing with a parent terminal timing by exchanging NTP packets for time synchronization with a parent terminal (20) based on NTP, and a protocol conversion unit (13) converts an NTP packet, which is output from the NTP back-end processing unit (12) and will be transmitted to the parent terminal (20), to a TPSN packet based on TPSN, outputs the TPSN packet to a wireless processing unit (14), converts a TPSN packet from the parent terminal (20), which is output from the wireless processing unit (14), to an NTP packet, and outputs the NTP packet to the NTP back-end processing unit (12).

Abstract: In a sensor relay apparatus (10), a storage unit (11) stores a communication protocol correspondence list (22B) in which a sensor terminal (ST) and a communication protocol are registered in association with each other, and a communication format (22C) to be used in the communication protocol, a relay processing unit (12) communicates with the sensor terminal (ST) specified in the communication protocol correspondence list (22B) based on the communication protocol associated with the sensor terminal (ST), receives sensor data detected by the sensor terminal (ST), converts the format of the sensor data based on the communication format (22C) in association with the communication protocol, and relays and transfers the sensor data to a processing apparatus (20), and a relay managing unit (16) updates the communication protocol correspondence list (22B) or the communication format (22C) in the storage unit (11), based on a communication protocol correspondence list or a communication format newly notified from th

Abstract: A sensor terminal which processes a sensor signal output from at least one sensor and transmits the sensor signal being processed to a center device through a network control unit and a communication line, includes a communication interface unit capable of being connected to the network control unit, a sensor input interface unit being connected to the sensor and inputting the sensor signal, and a control unit generating sensor data from the sensor signal input through the sensor input interface unit and transmitting sensor data corresponding to a request signal of the center device which is input through the communication interface unit from the network control unit or active sensor data to the center device through the network control unit from the communication interface unit.

Abstract: A sensor terminal which processes a sensor signal output from at least one sensor and transmits the sensor signal being processed to a center device through a network control unit and a communication line, includes a communication interface unit capable of being connected to the network control unit, a sensor input interface unit being connected to the sensor and inputting the sensor signal, and a control unit generating sensor data from the sensor signal input through the sensor input interface unit and transmitting sensor data corresponding to a request signal of the center device which is input through the communication interface unit from the network control unit or active sensor data to the center device through the network control unit from the communication interface unit.

Abstract: A desulfation device 10 drives its switching circuit 140 by using a pulse wave drive signal having a pulse width of 1.6 ?sec and a frequency of 20000 Hz. The switching circuit 140 is switched on to allow extraction of electric current of 500 mA from a battery via a resistor R1, while being switched off to stop the extraction of electric current. When the switching circuit 140 is switched off, a back electromotive force and a reverse current of 500 mA are supplied to the battery. The supplied reverse current is negative current in the form of spikes. This electric current acts on electrodes of the battery and thereby enables removal of sulfation on the electrodes of the battery, while reducing a temperature increase of the desulfation device 10 during its operation.

Abstract: A label having an identifier 41L is applied to the upper left corner of the key top of each character key in a left hand region of a keyboard device. A label having an identifier 41R is applied to the upper right corner of the key top of each character key in a right hand region. The identifier 41L is a mark of a reversed L shape and the identifier 41R is a mark of a mirror image pattern of the identifier 41L. Further, different colors are applied to the identifiers 41L and 41R depending on regions for individual fingers. As a consequence, the identifiers 41L and 41R have a function to visually display information representing which hand is to be used to press a key and information representing which finger is to be used to press the key. The keyboard device enables a user to naturally understand the arrangement of the keys and the use of the fingers.

Abstract: A label having an identifier 41L is applied to the upper left corner of the key top of each character key in a left hand region of a keyboard device. A label having an identifier 41R is applied to the upper right corner of the key top of each character key in a right hand region. The identifier 41L is a mark of a reversed L shape and the identifier 41R is a mark of a mirror image pattern of the identifier 41L. Further, different colors are applied to the identifiers 41L and 41R depending on regions for individual fingers. As a consequence, the identifiers 41L and 41R have a function to visually display information representing which hand is to be used to press a key and information representing which finger is to be used to press the key. The keyboard device enables a user to naturally understand the arrangement of the keys and the use of the fingers.

Abstract: A magnet pump includes a synthetic resin casing, divided into a front casing and a rear casing and configured to internally form an impeller housing chamber and a magnet can housing chamber contiguous thereto, having an inlet and an outlet for a target fluid to be transferred. The casing forms an eddy chamber at a position for dividing the front casing and the rear casing along the outer rim of the impeller housing chamber to surround the outer rim of the impeller. The eddy chamber has overhangs formed at an entry of the eddy chamber hanging over from both sides in the rotational-axis direction of the impeller.

Abstract: The lead sulfate (PbSO4) deposited on the surface of the positive electrode 18 or negative electrode 20 is reduced owing to the flow of the pulsating direct current from the positive electrode 18 toward the negative electrode 20 in the sullation removing step 34, while at the same time the positive electrode 18 of the lead-acid storage battery 10 is activated through the electrochemical doping in which the carbon suspension obtained by the electrolytic oxidation of the carbon positive electrode is used as at least a part of the battery electrolyte of the lead-acid storage battery 10 in the electrode activating step 40.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for analyzing a gene and an analysis device thereof which are suited to be used, for example, as a fully automatic gene analysis device or a fully automatic gene diagnostic device which can be simplified in structure, made compact in size and light in weight, and manufactured at a low cost and in which detection of various kinds of DNA can be conducted rapidly and with precision and analysis of a plurality of genes can be made simultaneously from different kinds of samples by restraining, as much as possible, the use of a valve in an analytic system, thereby preventing admixture of cross contamination.

Abstract: A magnet pump comprises a synthetic resin casing (1), divided into a front casing (2) and a rear casing (3) and configured to internally form an impeller housing chamber (4) and a magnet can housing chamber (5) contiguous thereto, having an inlet and an outlet for a target fluid to be transferred. The magnet can housing chamber (5) in the casing (1) houses a substantially cylindrical magnet can (11) with a follower magnet (14) mounted on the outer rim thereof. The magnet can (11) is rotatably supported by a spindle (8). A disk-like impeller (21) is fixed at the front end of the magnet can (11), having a flow path formed inside to suck the target fluid from the center, transfer the target fluid outward in the radial direction, and discharge the target fluid from the outer rim. The impeller (21) is housed in the impeller housing chamber (4).