Abstract: A reply apparatus includes: a reception analog switch matrix that outputs, to reception processing units, a wideband reception signal in a band wider than the bandwidth processable by the reception processing unit; a connecting unit that outputs demultiplexed signals to transmission processing units; a transmission analog switch matrix that outputs, to the same transmission antennas, signals subjected to transmission processing; a local generating unit that generates and transmits local signals having different frequencies to the reception processing units; a local-phase-difference calculating unit that calculates a phase difference between the local signals and inputs the phase difference to the reception processing units; and reception-phase correcting units that perform phase correction on the basis of the phase difference.

Abstract: The present invention provides a production method of a thienopyrimidine derivative or a salt thereof which has a gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonistic action with high quality in high yield. The present invention provides a method of producing a thienopyrimidine derivative, which comprises reacting 6-(4-aminophenyl)-1-(2,6-difluorobenzyl)-5-dimethyl aminomethyl-3-(6-methoxypyridazin-3-yl)thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione or salt thereof, 1,1?-carbonyldiimidazole or a salt thereof and methoxyamine or a salt thereof, and the like.

Abstract: A bottle shape is provided that allows for volume-reducing deformation of a peripheral wall of the body, while maintaining stable posture of the bottle by making use of a combination of a refill container and a regularly used container having an upright discharge cylinder segment. The body is formed to have a thin peripheral wall so that volume-reducing deformation would take place along with the depressurization going on inside the bottle. The peripheral wall has three ridge lines formed in a mountain fold at approximately equal intervals in the vertical direction and has three panel walls connected to one another. Each panel wall is bordered by two adjacent ridge lines, and has a valley fold line that diagonally connects an upper end of one ridge line to a lower end of another adjacent ridge line so that three valley fold lines are disposed obliquely in parallel along a circumferential direction.

Abstract: There are provided a pressure sensor which can avoid an endoscope from causing intestinal perforation, an endoscope including the pressure sensor, and an endoscope device including the endoscope. There is provided a pressure sensor including a support unit and a pressure sensitive unit disposed on the ridge line of the front end of the support unit and configured to output a signal corresponding to an applied pressure. The pressure sensitive unit includes a first electrode disposed in a ring shape and multiple second electrodes opposed to the first electrode. The second electrodes are spaced in the circumferential direction of the first electrode.

Abstract: A dispensing container that dispenses a liquid contained therein in foam includes: a container body storing therein a liquid; and a base cap mounted to a mouth of the container body. The container body is flexible so that a squeeze operation may be performed on the container body. The base cap is provided, on a top wall, with a nozzle forming a tubular passage communicating with a front end orifice. The nozzle is provided with a foaming mechanism for the liquid at an upstream end portion and with a through-hole in a predetermined position on a circumferential wall of the nozzle that is downstream of the foaming mechanism. The through-hole is provided with a check valve, and the front end orifice communicates with an inside of the container body through the through-hole.

Abstract: A backlight device includes a housing, a light source, a diffuse plate and a fixing member. The housing has an open surface. The light source is arranged in the housing. The diffuser plate is arranged on the open surface of the housing and allows light emitted from the light source to pass therethrough while diffusing the light. The fixing member prevents the diffuser plate from bending in a direction in which light passes through the diffuser plate. A part of the fixing member has transmittance adjusted to substantially equalize luminance distribution of light passed through the diffuser plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a water based lithium secondary battery that can inhibit deteriorations in capacity owing to charge-and-discharge operations and maintain a high capacity even after it is charged and discharged repeatedly. The water based lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator 4 sandwiched between these, and an aqueous electrolyte solution obtained by dissolving an electrolyte made of a lithium salt in a water based solvent. As the water based solvent, a pH buffer solution is employed. The buffer solution is obtained by dissolving an acid and its conjugate base's salt, a base and its conjugate acid's salt, a salt made from a weak acid and a strong base, a salt made from a weak base and a strong acid, or a salt made from a weak acid and a weak base in water.

Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary battery with excellent durability is provided using a two-phase coexisting compound as a positive electrode active material. This lithium-ion secondary battery is provided with an electrode body having a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material and a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing a lithium salt in an organic solvent. The positive electrode active material is mainly composed of a two-phase coexisting compound containing lithium, and also contains particles of a lithium-transition metal oxide with a layered structure. The particles of the layered oxide have an average particle diameter of 2 ?m or less, and the percentage content thereof in the positive electrode active material is 5 mass % or less.

Abstract: An image compressing device includes a block generating unit configured to divide an image into blocks having a predetermined size and to generate data corresponding to a plurality of blocks, a discrete cosine transform unit configured to perform a discrete cosine transform on the data corresponding to the plurality of blocks generated by the block generating unit for each block and to generate frequency domain data of the image, and a data adjusting unit configured to extract only components of a limited frequency domain from the frequency domain data of the image generated by the discrete cosine transform unit and to generate compressed data.

Abstract: It is desired to suppress an increase of the TAT or a repetition of processing in inserting a test circuit on designing. A test point insertion method includes: extracting a plurality of logic cones from a net list; generating an order for the plurality of logic cones based on a connection relation of logic cells in each of the plurality of logic cones; and setting a test point in each of the plurality of logic cones in turn in accordance with the order.

Abstract: A bottle shape is provided that allows for volume-reducing deformation of a peripheral wall of the body, while maintaining stable posture of the bottle by making use of a combination of a refill container and a regularly used container having an upright discharge cylinder segment. The body is formed to have a thin peripheral wall so that volume-reducing deformation would take place along with the depressurization going on inside the bottle. The peripheral wall has three ridge lines formed in a mountain fold at approximately equal intervals in the vertical direction and has three panel walls connected to one another. Each panel wall is bordered by two adjacent ridge lines, and has a valley fold line that diagonally connects an upper end of one ridge line to a lower end of another adjacent ridge line so that three valley fold lines are disposed obliquely in parallel along a circumferential direction.

Abstract: A backlight device includes a housing, a light source, a diffuse plate and a fixing member. The housing has an open surface. The light source is arranged in the housing. The diffuser plate is arranged on the open surface of the housing and allows light emitted from the light source to pass therethrough while diffusing the light. The fixing member prevents the diffuser plate from bending in a direction in which light passes through the diffuser plate. A part of the fixing member has transmittance adjusted to substantially equalize luminance distribution of light passed through the diffuser plate.

Abstract: A hydrogen permeable module includes a hydrogen permeable membrane that permeates hydrogen, an outer peripheral part of the hydrogen permeable membrane being restricted, an inside of the outer peripheral part of the hydrogen permeable membrane being not restricted. The hydrogen permeable module permeates the hydrogen by constantly keeping a pressure of a primary side to a pressure that is equal to or more than a pressure of a secondary side. The inside of the outer peripheral part of the hydrogen permeable membrane is not restricted so as to be capable of expanding to the secondary side.

Abstract: It is desired to suppress an increase of the TAT or a repetition of processing in inserting a test circuit on designing. A test point insertion method includes: extracting a plurality of logic cones from a net list; generating an order for the plurality of logic cones based on a connection relation of logic cells in each of the plurality of logic cones; and setting a test point in each of the plurality of logic cones in turn in accordance with the order.

Abstract: A backlight device includes a housing, a light source, a diffuse plate and a fixing member. The housing has an open surface. The light source is arranged in the housing. The diffuser plate is arranged on the open surface of the housing and allows light emitted from the light source to pass therethrough while diffusing the light. The fixing member prevents the diffuser plate from bending in a direction in which light passes through the diffuser plate. A part of the fixing member has transmittance adjusted to substantially equalize luminance distribution of light passed through the diffuser plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a water based lithium secondary battery that can inhibit deteriorations in capacity owing to charge-and-discharge operations and maintain a high capacity even after it is charged and discharged repeatedly. The water based lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator sandwiched between these, and an aqueous electrolyte solution obtained by dissolving an electrolyte made of a lithium salt in a water based solvent. As the water based solvent, a pH buffer solution is employed. The buffer solution is obtained by dissolving an acid and its conjugate base's salt, a base and its conjugate acid's salt, a salt made from a weak acid and a strong base, a salt made from a weak base and a strong acid, or a salt made from a weak acid and a weak base in water.

Abstract: A hydrogen permeable module includes a hydrogen permeable membrane that permeates hydrogen, an outer peripheral part of the hydrogen permeable membrane being restricted, an inside of the outer peripheral part of the hydrogen permeable membrane being not restricted. The hydrogen permeable module permeates the hydrogen by constantly keeping a pressure of a primary side to a pressure that is equal to or more than a pressure of a secondary side. The inside of the outer peripheral part of the hydrogen permeable membrane is not restricted so as to be capable of expanding to the secondary side.

Abstract: An Nb—Ti—Co alloy having both good hydrogen permeability and good hydrogen embrittlement resistance comprises one of Fe, Cu or Mn as a fourth element, incorporating from 1 to 14 mol %. The content of Mn, if any, is preferably from 1 to 9 mol %. The desired hydrogen permeability can be attained by the (Nb, Ti) phase and the desired hydrogen embrittlement resistance can be attained by the CoTi phase, making is possible to obtain excellent hydrogen permeability and excellent hydrogen embrittlement resistance. None of Fe, Cu or Mn can impair these properties. Fe, Cu or Mn can replace some of the Co elements. Fe, Cu or Mn enhances the workability of the alloy.

Abstract: A (Nb, Ti) phase in an Nb—Ti—Co alloy is composed of a granular structure. The Nb—Ti—Co alloy is preferably subjected to heat treatment at 800° C. or more so that the eutectic structure in the casted state can be changed to a granular structure. The Nb—Ti—Co alloy used there is preferably NbxTi(100-x-y)Coy, (x?70, 20?y?50 (mol %)). By properly predetermining the heating temperature and time, the resulting alloy exhibits improved hydrogen permeability in combination with a good hydrogen embrittlement resistance characteristic in the CoTi phase, making it possible to provide a practical hydrogen permeable membrane having an advantageously high performance.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a cathode active material for an alkaline battery with a lamellar crystal structure including nickel oxyhydroxide. The cathode active material has a diffraction peak at a position that ranges from 8.4 degrees to 10.4 degrees in diffraction angle 2? by X-ray diffraction using CuK?-rays. In addition, the present invention provides an alkaline battery having a cathode having a cathode active material, an anode having an anode active material, and an alkaline water solution as an electrolytic solution. Furthermore, the present invention provides a manufacturing method for a cathode active material for an alkaline battery with a lamellar crystal structure including nickel oxyhydroxide. The manufacturing method has an oxidation process for manufacturing the cathode active material by oxidizing a starting material made from ?-type nickel hydroxide with a lamellar crystal structure in an airstream including alkaline water solution or alkali.