Abstract: A recording tape cartridge is provided that prevents damage to a recording tape if it experiences a shock. The recording tape cartridge includes a reel on which a recording tape T is wound, an upper case and a lower case that form the case thereof, a reel accommodated between the upper case and lower case, and a compression coil spring that urges the reel against the lower case. An allowable lower limit value of the distance between the reel and the upper case is defined by the spring axial-direction length of the compression coil spring when it is most compressed.

Abstract: A still image producing apparatus in which a user selects one piece of information, and production of still images and music associated with the mood in time of the production is provided. A still image producing apparatus 100 comprises: an image feature extraction unit 102 which analyzes image data, so as to extract feature; a music feature extraction unit 106 which extracts a music feature quantity from music data; and a mapping process unit 109 which uses each feature, so as to respectively map image data and music data on each sensitivity map using two axes. The user selects, from the sensitivity map, via a menu input unit 111, a quadrant for music or images desired in a slide show. Thus, the slide show associated with the mood is automatically produced in a slide show generation unit 110.

Abstract: A reel which can substantially equalize the rigidity at both ends in an axis line direction of a reel hub is obtained with using a small and light-weight reinforcing ring, and a recording tape cartridge which can well protect the recording tape is obtained by applying this reel. The reel includes a resin reel hub which is formed into a cylindrical shape with a bottom portion; a resin upper flange which is integrally extended from an opening end portion of the reel hub toward a radial outside; a resin lower flange member which has a lower flange, the lower flange facing the upper flange, in being welded to a bottom plate of the reel hub in a center portion; and a reinforcing ring which reinforces a part of the reel hub in the axis line direction, the part including the opening end in a cylindrical wall of the reel hub.

Abstract: The reel includes a reel hub that is made of a resin material and is formed into a cylindrical shape, an upper flange that is made of a resin material and is extended integrally outward in a radial direction from one end portion in an axial direction of the reel hub, and a reinforcement ring that is integrally disposed radially inside a tape take-up surface of the reel hub by insert molding and reinforces the reel hub in the radial direction. A position of an upper end of the reinforcement ring coincides with a position of an upper end of the tape take-up surface in the axial direction of the reel hub.

Abstract: A synchronous controller is formed with a cycle master module and one or more control modules doubly connected through a synchronous bus and an event bus. The event bus is used for transmitting data with a larger volume. The control modules each cyclically carry out execution of a user program for controlling an object apparatus to be controlled. The cycle master module exchanges data with the control modules through the event bus and the synchronous bus. Each of the control modules carries out one cycle of the execution of the user program by using reception of synchronous data transmitted from the cycle master module through the synchronous bus as a trigger.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reel having an engaging portion that can engage accurately with a braking member. A reel 30 has: a hub 32, an extending portion 36 being formed at a peripheral edge of a lower end portion of the hub 32; an upper flange 38 provided integrally at a peripheral edge of an upper end portion of the hub 32 so as to extend outward; and a lower flange 40 having a floor wall 42 to which a reel plate 46 is fixed, the lower flange 40 being welded to the extending portion 36 of the hub 32. In this reel 30, an engaging portion 48 is formed at the lower flange 40, the engaging portion 48 engaging with a braking member 60 that is held so as to be unable to rotate at the case 12 at times of non-use.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a display displaying an image with a predetermined number of pixels; an image holding unit holding an original image composed of a number of pixels larger than a number of pixels that is displayable on the display; and an object judgment unit judging whether or not an object is included in the original image held in the image holding unit, and generating object information related to the object in a case where the object is included in the original image. The image display apparatus also includes a display image generation unit extracting at least a part of an object area from the original image based on the original image specified by the user as well as on the object information corresponding to the original image, and generating a display image composed of a number of pixels corresponding to the number of pixels that is displayable on the display.

Abstract: A reel is provided that may raise the rigidity of the hub, and suppress flange deformation that is caused by winding tension of recording tape. The reel is provided with: a cylindrical hub on which recording tape may be wound; a top flange extending integrally to the hub from a peripheral edge at one end portion of the hub; a bottom flange, including a bottom wall that has had a reel plate fixed thereto, the bottom flange being welded to a portion of the hub at the opposite end of the hub to the end of the top flange, the welding site being within the region where the reel plate is fixed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a silicon-on-insulator substrate having a supporting substrate, an electrically insulating layer on the supporting substrate, and a semiconductor layer on the insulating layer. The semiconductor layer includes element regions for providing semiconductor elements and an isolation region located around the element region and extending to the insulating layer. The element regions are electrically isolated from each other by the isolation region. The semiconductor device further includes a thermal conductor disposed in the isolation region of the semiconductor layer and extending from a front side to a back side of the silicon-on-insulator substrate by penetrating through the insulating layer and the supporting substrate.

Abstract: A mobile communication terminal includes a measuring portion measuring intensity of received radio waves that are radio waves received from base stations, a selecting portion selecting one of the base stations to which a request for location registration of the mobile communication terminal should be sent, and a requesting portion sending the request to the base station selected by the selecting portion. When the request is sent, the selecting portion initially selects a first base station of the base stations whose received radio wave has the highest intensity measured by the measuring portion, and, subsequently if the location registration in accordance with the request sent to one of the base stations has failed, the selecting portion selects a second base station of the base stations whose received radio wave has intensity lower than the intensity of the received radio wave from the one of the base stations.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for modifying a composite resin, capable of efficiently obtaining a composite resin with the impact resistance or the like improved. A method for modifying a composite resin containing both an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin or either, and a carbon compound, wherein a modified carbon compound having a wet index (measurement temperature 25° C.) of 40 dyn/cm or more with a silicatizing flame treatment, in which a modifier compound having at least a silane atom is used as a fuel, applied on the surface of a carbon black, a graphite or the like as a carbon compound.

Abstract: A reinforcement ring is insert-molded as an insert body on a reel hub of a reel around which recording tape is wound. The reinforcement ring includes a metal ring at least whose inner peripheral surface is covered by a resin layer. The clearance between the reinforcement ring and a mold during reel molding can be reduced, and the amount of eccentricity of the insert body with respect to the reel hub can be reduced.

Abstract: Provided is a surface modification process in which the mixture molar ratio of air/hydrocarbon gas in a fuel gas including a reforming agent modifying compound containing a silane molecule silicon atom, titanium atom or aluminum atom, air and a hydrocarbon gas is set to a value in valu within a predetermined range, whereby a predetermined surface modification effect can be stably obtained for a solid material, regardless of differences of boiling points of reforming agent modifying compounds, environmental conditions of the surroundings, and the like. For this end, a flame produced from of the fuel gas, in which the mixture molar ratio of air/hydrocarbon gas is adjusted to 23 or more, together with a predetermined reforming agent modifying compound, is blown against toward the surface of a solid material by means of a surface modification apparatus.

Abstract: A reel includes a bottomed circular cylinder-shaped hub around which recording tape is wound, a first flange that is integrally disposed at an open side of the hub and holds one width direction end portion of the recording tape, a second flange that is disposed at a bottom wall side of the hub and holds the other width direction end portion of the recording tape, and a reel plate that is disposed at the second flange and is attracted by magnetic force to a rotating shaft of a drive device. An attachment portion disposed at, so as to project from, the bottom wall of the hub is inserted through through holes disposed in the second flange and the reel plate and caulked, whereby the second flange and the reel plate are attached to the hub.

Abstract: The present invention provides a communications terminal in which feelings which arise spontaneously can be actively communicated to a partner. Communications terminals (30a) and (30b) communicate with a partner terminal via a transmission line (90), and include: an input unit (31), which receives a finger operation including tapping; a packet generating unit (32), which generates a packet which is data describing an action that is a motion to be executed by a partner terminal, based on the received operation; a transmission unit (33), which sends the generated packet to the partner terminal; a receiving unit (11), which receives the sent packet; and an action executing unit (22), which executes an action described in the received packet.

Abstract: A method for modifying the surface of a solid material and a surface-modified solid material are provided, where an excellent adhesion strength between the surface of the solid material and any of coating films made of various UV-curing resins or the like can be obtained. In other words, it is attained by carrying out a silicatizing flame treatment on the surface of the solid material by wholly or partially blowing a flame of a fuel gas containing a specific silicon-containing compound having a flash point of 0 to 100° C. and a boiling point of 105 to 250° C., such as hexamethyldisilazane, vinyltrimethoxysilane, trifuloropropyl trimethoxysilane, 3-chloropropyl trimethoxysilane and the like.

Abstract: The bearing device contains two rolling bearings installed on a shaft 9 and a preload is applied to the inner ring of the rolling bearings. The respective dimension for the two rolling bearing inner rings is shortened on both sides in the orientation of the width dimensions of the inner ring, centered on the grooves for the inner ring, with each being set smaller than the dimension of the outer rings. The difference in dimensions is double the difference in the dimensions capable of eliminating rattling of the rolling bearings, when a preload is applied to the outer edge of the inner ring. The outer rings and races are respectively formed to be in a position at half the width dimension of the inner ring from the outer edges of the two outer rings for the two rolling bearings.

Abstract: A method of producing a laminate body having a thin metal layer on a substrate including processes (1) to (4) as follows: (1) preparing the substrate; (2) blowing a flame in which a silicon containing compound is introduced; (3) forming an undercoating layer by coating with a lacquer or a primer; and (4) forming a thin metal layer by reducing a metal ion. In addition, process (5), in which a topcoating layer is formed on the metal layer is preferably included in the present invention. The present invention makes it possible to coat various substrates with the metal layer (silver mirror). Practically all kinds of substrate may be used as a substrate to be coated.

Abstract: The image display apparatus 1 includes the following: the display 50 for displaying an image with a predetermined number of pixels; an image holding unit 210 for holding an original image composed of a number of pixels larger than a number of pixels that is displayable on the display 50; an object judgment unit 30 for judging whether or not an object is included in the original image held in the image holding unit 210, and generating object information related to the object in the case where the object is included in the original image; a display image generation unit 40 for extracting at least a part of an object area from the original image based on the original image specified by the user as well as on the object information corresponding to the original image, and generating a display image composed of a number of pixels corresponding to the number of pixels that is displayable on the display 50.

Abstract: The data measuring unit 11 measures a subject's blood and urine, and acquires numerical data (S501). The communication control unit 12 transmits the acquired numerical data to the data management apparatus 20 (S502). The overall control unit 14 receives the numerical data from the data measuring apparatus 10 (S503), and analyzes the content of the received numerical data (S504). The overall control unit 14 selects calibration curve data based on the above mentioned analysis result (S505), and calculates health care data (S506). Furthermore, the overall control unit 14 directs the communication control unit 13 to transmit the calculated health care data to the data measuring apparatus 10 (S507). The data measuring apparatus 10 receives the health care data from the data management apparatus 20 (S508).