Abstract: [A display device] comprises a display panel 20 that is ring-shaped or can be formed into a ring shape and displays various kinds of information, a ring-shaped support member 12 that supports the display panel 20, a transparent member 11 that is ring-shaped and is disposed on the front side of the display panel 20 supported by the support member 12 so as to protect the display panel 20, and ring-shaped lid members 13 and 14 that mate with the support member 12 and hold the display panel 20 in conjunction with the support member 12 and the transparent member 11, the result of which is that the display panel is held in a sealed state.

Abstract: An allyl compound having a formula different from that of an allyl starting compound is prepared by a process of reacting the allyl starting compound with a nucleophilic agent in the presence of a catalyst containing at least one transition metal compound containing a transition metal selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to Group 8 to Group 10 of the Periodic Table and at least one bidentate coordinated phosphite compound selected from the group consisting of compounds having the following formulae (I) to (III): wherein A1 to A3 are respectively independently a diarylene group having a branched alkyl group at the ortho-position, R1 to R6 are respectively independently an alkyl group which may have a substituent or an aryl group which may have a substituent (including a heterocyclic compound forming an aromatic 6? electron cloud on the upper and lower sides of the ring, hereinafter the same), and Z1 to Z3 are respectively independently an optionally substituted alkylene group, an option

Abstract: A plurality of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser devices each having a different lasing wavelength are arrayed by a simple structure and a manufacturing process without increasing device resistance. Each vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser device comprises a layered structure including an active layer and a current confinement layer. The area of current confinement portion in the laminate structures is set corresponding to a wavelength of laser light emitted from each vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser device. Thereby, the plurality of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser devices emits laser light with different lasing wavelengths.

Abstract: When a process of searching for assets stored in a memory card is selected, a controller of a printer sets searching icons associated with previously set searching-keywords as current searching icons (S110), and each time a memory card is installed in a reader/writer, acquires all keywords associated with assets, which are search objects, from the installed memory card (S170), collates the set searching-keywords with the acquired keywords (S200), and displays searching-keywords among the set searching-keywords, that do not match any of the acquired keywords in a manner that differs from a normal display (S210). A user can thus recognize that a searching-keyword that has been set is not contained in the memory card 18 before the user executes an actual search.

Abstract: The time required for the program verify and erase verify operations can be shortened. The change of threshold values of memory cells can be suppressed even if the write and erase operations are executed repetitively. After the program and erase operations, whether the operations were properly executed can be judged simultaneously for all bit lines basing upon a change, after the pre-charge, of the potential at each bit line, without changing the column address. In the data rewrite operation, the rewrite operation is not effected for a memory cell with the data once properly written, by changing the data in the data register.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit disclosed herein comprising: a phase control circuit which shifts a phase of a first clock signal based on a phase control signal and outputs a second clock signal; a first flip-flop to which one of the first clock signal and the second clock signal is inputted as a first operation clock signal, and which outputs evaluation data; a circuit under test which performs a predetermined process based on the evaluation data and outputs a result of the process as output data; and a second flip-flop to which the other of the first clock signal and the second clock signal is inputted as a second operation clock signal and the output data is inputted, and which outputs the output data inputted from the circuit under test.

Abstract: To reduce the size and the power consumption of a semiconductor device. A first circuit having a prescribed circuit function is provided. A second circuit which can be connected to the first circuit externally gives the first circuit a non-always-used particular function so that the first circuit can perform the particular function.

Abstract: A looper is brought into an advance state at the end of sewing, and a looper thread hanging hook arranged on the right rear side of a needle drop position is forced to advance and retreat to catch a looper thread running to the rear side of the looper and hold it on the rear side of the needle drop position. After performing sewing for one stitch in this state, the thread cutting hook arranged on the right side of the needle drop position is forced to advance and retreat to catch the looper thread running to the rear side of the looper with a first hold section and catch needle threads and the looper thread held by the looper thread hanging hook with a second hook section, and then these threads are collectively cut by bringing them into slide-contact with a thread cutting knife.

Abstract: A method for producing an allyl compound having a compositional formula different from that of an allyl starting material compound, which comprises reacting the allyl starting material compound with an oxygen nucleophilic agent in the presence of a catalyst containing at least one transition metal compound containing a transition metal selected from the group consisting of transition metals belonging to Group 8 to Group 10 of the Periodic Table and a multidentate phosphite compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gene encoding ALS protein which shows a extremely high level of resistance to pyrimidinyl carboxy herbicides. The gene of the present invention encodes an acetolactate synthase protein, for instance, according to SEQ ID NO:1, where the acetolactate synthase protein has resistance to a pyrimidinyl carboxy herbicide and has acetolactate synthase activity.

Abstract: A plurality of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser devices each having a different lasing wavelength are arrayed by a simple structure and a manufacturing process without increasing device resistance. Each vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser device comprises a layered structure including an active layer and a current confinement layer. The area of current confinement portion in the laminate structures is set corresponding to a wavelength of laser light emitted from each vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser device. Thereby, the plurality of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser devices emits laser light with different lasing wavelengths.

Abstract: The present invention provides a blood cell separation membrane for separating blood into serum or plasma and blood cells while preventing hemolysis of the blood cells. Such a blood cell separation membrane can be obtained by impregnating a porous membrane for separating blood cells from blood supplied thereto with a solution containing a hydrophobic aminocarboxylic acid, a protein derived from silk, Tris, TES, ?-aminohexanoic acid, tranexamic acid, or heparin and then drying the membrane.

Abstract: A data writing method is disclosed. In a memory system comprising a NAND flash memory and a controller which controls the memory, the memory system storing data provided from a host to the NAND flash memory, the data writing method comprises a steps of specifying a column address in which a column failure which has occurred in the NAND flash memory by the controller, and a step of, during writing into the NAND flash memory, writing data of a first logic level into a memory cell which corresponds to the specified column address regardless of write data provided from the controller.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a control device for maintaining vehicle behavior stability by suppressing the transfer of excess driving force to the rear wheels even when the traction control is not effective.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to the invention obtains a first index that indicates the amount of fuel adhering to the wall surface of an intake passage, using intake valve timing; obtains a correction value that reduces the first index, using exhaust valve timing and the intake valve timing; and calculates a second index that indicates the amount of fuel adhering to the wall surface of the intake passage, using the correction valve. The control apparatus controls the amount of fuel to be injected based on at least one of the first index and the second index.

Abstract: The time required for the program verify and erase verify operations can be shortened. The change of threshold values of memory cells can be suppressed even if the write and erase operations are executed repetitively. After the program and erase operations, whether the operations were properly executed can be judged simultaneously for all bit lines basing upon a change, after the pre-charge, of the potential at each bit line, without changing the column address. In the data rewrite operation, the rewrite operation is not effected for a memory cell with the data once properly written, by changing the data in the data register.

Abstract: In a memory system using a storage medium, which is inserted into an electronic apparatus via a connector to add a memory function thereto, the storage medium has a GROUND terminal, a power supply terminal, a control terminal and a data input/output terminal, and the connector has a function of being sequentially connected to each of the terminals. When the storage medium is inserted into the connector, the GROUND terminal and control terminal of the storage medium are connected to corresponding terminals of the connector before the power supply terminal and data input/output terminal of the storage medium are connected to corresponding terminals of the connector. Thus, it is possible to improve the stability when a memory card is inserted into or ejected from the memory system.

Abstract: A method for producing an allyl compound having a compositional formula different from that of an allyl starting material compound, which comprises reacting the allyl starting material compound with an oxygen nucleophilic agent in the presence of a catalyst containing at least one transition metal compound containing a transition metal selected from the group consisting of transition metals belonging to Group 8 to Group 10 of the Periodic Table and a multidentate phosphite compound.

Abstract: A block comprises physical addresses 0, 1, 2, 3. In an initial state, all the physical addresses 0, 1, 2, 3, are in an erase state. When data LA0, LA1, LA2, LA3 are written in the physical addresses 0, 1, 2, 3, count values are “1”, respectively. In this manner, a write/erase operation is performed by a page (physical address) unit, and the count value of the physical address in which the data has been renewed is renewed. Finally, when a total of the count values in the block reaches an allowable value 32, refresh is performed, and states of memory cells in the block are initialized.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a PWM inverter control method capable of causing a reduction in a noise and energy saving to be consistent with each other by the reduction in a noise and the limit of the number of switching operations.