Abstract: The present invention is designed to realize appropriate communication in next generation communication systems. a control section that controls communication by using a radio frame that includes a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs), in which the downlink and the uplink can be switched, and a given TTI, which is for DL transmission and which is configured in a given cycle, and a receiving section that receives a synchronization signal and a broadcast signal in the given TTI are provided.

Abstract: A medical instrument includes a handpiece, a tank portion for housing a fluid, a plunger that changes a volume or pressure of an inside of the tank portion to suction the fluid into the tank portion or discharge the fluid from the tank portion, and an operating unit for operating the plunger. The handpiece includes a grip portion at the front end, and an operation member of the operating unit is disposed on a side of the grip portion.

Abstract: A digital line transmission unit can carry out switching between speech codecs during the same call to achieve balance between making effective use of a line and a high sound quality without bringing about a feeling of discomfort in a user by the switching. It includes in an encoder a first speech codec 7 with a high sound quality and a high bit rate, a second speech codec 8 with a reasonable sound quality but a low bit rate. It carries out switching between these speech codecs in response to the control information an operation monitoring controller 4 obtains by making a decision as to the traffic volume of the bearer line 111. The switching between the speech codecs is made during a speech pause a speech burst detector 31 in a signal detector 3 detects in an input speech signal.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an information processing apparatus and authentication program storage medium which can prevent unauthorized use reliably at low costs. The information processing apparatus has a connection section to which a device is removably connected and performs information processing using the device connected to the connection section. It is equipped with a condition setting section which establishes insertion/removal conditions for a device inserted into the connection section; and an authentication section which determines upon start-up of the information processing apparatus whether insertion/removal of a device satisfies the insertion/removal conditions established by the condition setting section, and permits the information processing apparatus to perform information processing if it is determined that the insertion/removal satisfies the established insertion/removal conditions.

Abstract: Recording peripheral image information by an electronic apparatus only when illegal use of the apparatus is determined to minimize resources and simplifying recording. The electronic apparatus includes a first memory storing a parameter representing at least one condition for the illegal use of the apparatus and a control unit for storing in a second memory image information by a photographing device that photographed a user of the apparatus after the conditions are satisfied. The control unit controls the output of the image information stored in the second memory through an output direction and directs a BIOS setup program to read out the parameter in the first memory and record the image information into the second memory and directs an operating system or an application program running on the apparatus to set and alter the parameter in the first memory via an interface in the BIOS program.

Abstract: A brake band assembly for use in a transmission is provided with a brake drum and a brake band arranged surrounding the brake drum and having a strap and a lining bonded on an inner surface of the strap. The brake band assembly includes an antitilt device for the brake band. The antitilt device is arranged on the brake band such that, when the brake band assembly is out of operation, the lining of the brake band is kept out of contact with the brake drum.

Abstract: The present invention provides a brake band in which brackets are joined to ends of a curved strap and a friction material is provided on an inner surface of the strap and wherein stress reducing means for reducing axial stress are provided on the strap.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a multiplexing transmission unit (1) for multiplexing and transmitting communication data, an operation monitoring control terminal (3) for monitoring the multiplexing transmission unit (1), and an IP terminal (2) connected with the multiplexing transmission unit (1) by way of a physical interface between the multiplexing transmission unit (1) and the operation monitoring control terminal (3) which the IP terminal shares with the operation monitoring control terminal, the IP terminal converting a signal inputted to the communication apparatus from outside into IP packets, and furnishing them to the multiplexing transmission unit (1). The multiplexing transmission unit (1) multiplexes the IP packets furnished thereto from the IP terminal (2) and communication data, and then transmits them to a station which is disposed opposite to the communication apparatus.

Abstract: A conical diffraction grazing incidence spectroscope for performing wavelength scanning by rotating a diffraction grating about an axis set parallel to groves in a grazing surface of the grating.

Abstract: A plane diffraction grating based on surface normal rotation according to the present invention is designed so that the profile of the grooves at a radial area is determined depending on a rotational position of the area about a rotational center defined as a foot of the rotational axis on the surface of the plane diffraction grating. An optical system such as a spectrometer or a monochromator according to the present invention uses such a plane diffraction grating, and requires a special arrangement. The optical system includes: a plane diffraction grating as described above; a mechanism for rotating the plane diffraction grating about the rotational axis; an incidence optical system for casting a converging beam of light on a point of the surface of the plane diffraction grating, where the point is set apart from the rotational center.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an information processing apparatus and authentication program storage medium which can prevent unauthorized use reliably at low costs. The information processing apparatus has a connection section to which a device is removably connected and performs information processing using the device connected to the connection section. It is equipped with a condition setting section which establishes insertion/removal conditions for a device inserted into the connection section; and an authentication section which determines upon start-up of the information processing apparatus whether insertion/removal of a device satisfies the insertion/removal conditions established by the condition setting sections, and permits the information processing apparatus to perform information processing if it is determined that the insertion/removal satisfies the established insertion/removal conditions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable information processing apparatus such as a notebook personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a “notebook PC”) which reduces the risk of information theft.

Abstract: A digital line transmission unit can carry out switching between speech codecs during the same call to achieve balance between making effective use of a line and a high sound quality without bringing about a feeling of discomfort in a user by the switching. It includes in an encoder a first speech codec 7 with a high sound quality and a high bit rate, a second speech codec 8 with a reasonable sound quality but a low bit rate. It carries out switching between these speech codecs in response to the control information an operation monitoring controller 4 obtains by making a decision as to the traffic volume of the bearer line 111. The switching between the speech codecs is made during a speech pause a speech burst detector 31 in a signal detector 3 detects in an input speech signal.

Abstract: The invention comprises an information processing apparatus equipped with a first communication module having a wireless data communication capability, and a portable information apparatus equipped with a second communication module capable of forming a wireless communication link with the first communication module, and the information processing apparatus is configured so as to present a password entry screen only when the communication link is formed between the first and the second communication module. The first and second communication modules are Bluetooth-compatible communication modules. Unless the preregistered portable information apparatus is located near the information processing apparatus, and unless the correct password is entered, the information processing apparatus does not start up the OS. The invention can thus provide a security system, for an information processing apparatus, equipped with a double check mechanism.

Abstract: An x-y coordinate is set on the surface of diffraction grating 3 with non-uniformly spaced grooves and expressed by the following series expansion which is a groove function describing a point (w,l) on the nth groove from the origin: 1 n = 1 σ ⁢ ∑ i , j ⁢ n i ⁢   ⁢ j ⁢ w i ⁢ l j ⁢   ⁢ ( i + j ≥ 1 )

Abstract: A Czerny-Turner spectroscope according to the present invention includes: a collimator mirror having a toroidal surface for reflecting a beam of light passing through an entrance slit to a plane diffraction grating; and a telemeter mirror having a cylindrical surface for reflecting and converging the beam of light reflected and separated by the plane diffraction grating to an exit. When a slit is placed at the exit, the straight generatrix is set substantially parallel to the exit slit. When a linear object (such as the separation channel of the capillary electrophoresis microchip) to receive a part of the spectrum of light reflected by the telemeter is placed at the exit, the linear object is set parallel to the straight generatrix. By this construction and configuration, the curving of monochromatic spectrum component at the exit is minimized, and the monochromatic light produced by the inventive Czerny-Turner spectroscope can pass the exit slit in full.

Abstract: A brake band comprises a strap and a lining bonded on an inner peripheral surface of the strap. The lining is provided in a surface thereof with at least one oil groove formed under compression to a predetermined depth.

Abstract: Recording of peripheral image information by an electronic apparatus is designed to be conducted only at a time when an illegal use of the apparatus is determined, whereby the consumption of the resource for the apparatus is reduced, thereby making it possible to simplify the recording.

Abstract: A server, a network system, and a received load control method at the network system, in which a received load at the server is reduced and deteriorating processing performance of the server is prevented, are provided. The server provides a shaper, a shaper value setting section, and a processing unit with storage. The shaper compares the total received load caused by received data transferred from plural clients and a shaper value set by the shaper value setting section. And the shaper discards a part of the received data being exceeded the shaper value based on the compared result. Therefore, at an input port of the server, being the shaper, the received load can be control corresponding to a receiving capacity of the server. With this, deteriorating remarkably the performance of the server itself and stopping the functions of the server are prevented. Further, the bad influence for the network caused by the a heavy load can be reduced.

Abstract: A brake band formed by pressing a smooth hot plate or hot drum heated to a temperature of 350 to 550° C. on a surface of the frictional material made of a fiber component, a filler, a friction adjustment agent and a thermosetting resin on a strap for 1 to 5 seconds before or after the frictional material is fixed.