Abstract: A rotation support mechanism and a portable terminal having a rotation support function that allows a cover to semi-automatically open from a closed position to an open position in a horizontal or a vertical position, enabling a user to open the cover to a desired open position by one hand and one-touch operation. The rotation support mechanism allows the cover to rotate from the closed position at which a vertically long body and the cover are closed in a superposed manner to the open position at which the cover is stopped after it is rotated by a certain angle in a plane in which the body and the cover are superposed on each other. The rotation of the cover integral with an eccentric cam can be stopped at rotation positions of multiple stages in the horizontal or the vertical position by a pressing means that presses, in the plane, the cam surface of the eccentric cam.

Abstract: Measurement of blood flow rate in a convenient manner has been enabled by using a simple device constitution and a simple signal processing technique. A measurement mechanism having both the function of measuring temperature of the measurement site and the function of applying a thermal load to the measurement site is used, and a process of extracting temperature change associated with the recovery of the surface temperature by the blood flow is conducted from the measurement results obtained by the measurement mechanism.

Abstract: A metabolic rate measuring apparatus, which calculates metabolic rate based on the physiological parameters measurements. The apparatus measures the physiological parameters, and uses equations of metabolic rate calculates in consideration with thermal equilibrium of human body to facilitate the measurement of metabolic rate.

Abstract: Air conditioning equipment that ensures sufficient noise reduction in the low frequency range of a few hundred hertz or below. The air conditioning equipment is characterized by including a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between air and refrigerant of a refrigeration cycle, a fan that supplies air to the heat exchanger, an air duct in which the fan is installed and through which acoustic waves are propagated, and a plurality of small holes that blows a jet into the air duct and sucks a jet from the air duct by a pressure difference between the blow side and the suction side of the fan.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having display portion and peripheral portion, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines formed over the substrate, a plurality of switching elements connected to the plurality of gate signal lines and the plurality of drain signal lines and formed over the substrate, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the plurality of switching elements and formed in the display portion. An organic interlayer film is formed in the display portion and the peripheral portion, and a covering layer is formed on the organic interlayer film in the peripheral portion and the insulating film includes at least one of a plurality of recesses and protuberances.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having display portion and peripheral portion, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines formed over the substrate, a plurality of switching elements connected to the plurality of gate signal lines and the plurality of drain signal lines and formed over the substrate, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the plurality of switching elements and formed in the display portion. An organic interlayer film is formed in the display portion and the peripheral portion, an insulating film is formed between the substrate and the organic interlayer film in the display portion and the peripheral portion, and the insulating film includes at least one of a plurality of recesses and protuberances.

Abstract: The present invention has improved opening operationality of a cover, which enables a reduction in thickness of a rotational supporting mechanism performing an opening and closing operations of the cover in a planar direction, and enables a user to open the cover with a single touch of one hand. Therefore, in the present invention, when a pressing means, which presses against a cam surface of an eccentric cam that rotates in a planar direction, is fitted to one portion on the cam surface corresponding to a 180-degree rotated position corresponding to the open position or the other portion corresponding to the closed position, a rotational position of the eccentric cam is controlled to stop the rotation of the cover.

Abstract: An electrostatic photographic image forming toner is disclosed. The toner comprises a toner particle containing a binder resin and a colorant in which the binder resin has a specific softening point of from 105 to 132° C. and the toner particle has a hardness of from 6.0 to 24.0 mN and a circularity of from 0.92 to 0.99.

Abstract: Blood sugar levels are measured non-invasively based on temperature measurement. Non-invasively measured blood sugar level values obtained by a temperature measurement scheme are corrected by blood oxygen saturation and blood flow volume, thereby stabilizing the measurement data.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode to which a video signal is supplied and a counter electrode to which a reference signal is supplied in each pixel. In the display device a positive-side gray scale voltage and a negative-side gray scale voltage are formed. The positive-side gray scale voltage and the negative-side gray scale voltage are formed with respect to the reference signal such that an average value of the positive-side gray scale voltage and the negative-side gray scale voltage is increased along with an increase of the signal amplitude of the video signal in the vicinity of the minimum thereof, the average value is decreased along with a further increase of the signal amplitude of the video signal, and the average value is increased along with an increase of the amplitude of the video signal in the vicinity of the maximum thereof.

Abstract: An information input device is provided which is to make input of information by operating a disk-shaped rotating member. The device includes the rotating member (36) which is rotatable with one main side thereof being operated, rotation detecting means (23, 32) for detecting a rotation of the rotating member (36), a central switch activator (26) provided at the center of rotation of the rotating member (36), a central switch (270) which is activated by operating the central switch activator (26), and a plurality of peripheral switches (27) which are turned on when a portion, apart from the center of rotation, of the rotating member (36) is pressed. Rotating the rotating member and pressing the apart portion makes input of information, and operating the central switch activator sets the information thus entered.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having display portion and peripheral portion, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines formed over the substrate, a plurality of switching elements connected to the plurality of gate signal lines and the plurality of drain signal lines and formed over the substrate, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the plurality of switching elements and formed in the display portion. An organic interlayer film is formed in the display portion and the peripheral portion, an insulating film is formed between the substrate and the organic interlayer film in the display portion and the peripheral portion, and the insulating film includes at least one of a plurality of recesses and protuberances.

Abstract: An electrostatic photographic image forming toner is disclosed. The toner comprises a toner particle containing a binder resin and a colorant in which the binder resin has a specific softening point of from 105 to 132° C. and the toner particle has a hardness of from 6.0 to 24.0 mN and a circularity of from 0.92 to 0.99.

Abstract: The present invention provides a space-saving rotary structure for relaying signals which can relay a large number of signal lines without causing a disconnection of the signal lines. The rotary structure for relaying signals comprising a fixed frame which is supported and fixed in the inside of first and second casings, a rotary sleeve which is rotatably inserted into a through hole of the fixed frame and has a distal end thereof projected to the outside of the first and the second casing, a rotary frame which is arranged outside the first and second casings and is fixed to the distal end of the rotary sleeve such that the rotary frame is integrally rotatable with the rotary sleeve, and a flexible printed wiring film which has a distal end thereof pulled out to the outside of the first and second casings along the rotary sleeve and is wound around a winding tongue of the rotary sleeve which is positioned in the inside of the first and the second casings.

Abstract: The present invention provides a space-saving rotary structure for relaying signals which can relay a large number of signal lines without causing a disconnection of the signal lines. The rotary structure for relaying signals comprising a fixed frame which is supported and fixed in the inside of first and second casings, a rotary sleeve which is rotatably inserted into a through hole of the fixed frame and has a distal end thereof projected to the outside of the first and the second casing, a rotary frame which is arranged outside the first and second casings and is fixed to the distal end of the rotary sleeve such that the rotary frame is integrally rotatable with the rotary sleeve, and a flexible printed wiring film which has a distal end thereof pulled out to the outside of the first and second casings along the rotary sleeve and is wound around a winding tongue of the rotary sleeve which is positioned in the inside of the first and the second casings.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image is disclosed. The toner comprises a resin, a colorant and a releasing agent or a crystalline polyester compound, and the toner has crushability index from 0.1 to 0.8.

Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic latent image is disclosed. The toner comprises a crystalline compound, and exhibits at least one recrystallization peak during the second heating process in the DSC curve of said toner. An image forming method employing the toner is also disclosed.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image comprising a resin, a colorant and a releasing agent in which the toner particles are obtained by salting out/fusion-adhering a resin particle comprising a binding resin and a releasing agent together with a colorant particle is disclosed. The toner comprises the toner particles having a variation coefficient of not more than 16% and a number variation coefficient of the number particle size distribution of not more than 27%.

Abstract: A toner for electrophotography is disclosed. The resin binder is obtained by fusing fine resin particles comprising a crystalline material and amorphous polymer in a water-based medium. The crystalline material preferably has a melting point of 60 to 130° C., a number average molecular weight of 1,500 to 15,000, and a melt viscosity at the melting point +20° C. of not more than 100 Pa·s, and the amorphous polymer is preferably composed of a radically polymerizable monomer.