Abstract: A module robot includes a first link, a second link movably linked to the first link, and a fluid pressure cylinder configured to move the first link and the second link relative to each other, wherein the first link has a cylinder block in which a cylinder chamber of the fluid pressure cylinder is formed.

Abstract: Provided is a damper that exerts a damping force with a simple structure using elastically deformable granular bodies. The damper includes a cylinder, a piston, a rod, a rod guide, and a plurality of granular bodies. The piston is housed in the cylinder and reciprocates in the central axis direction of the cylinder. The rod is connected to the piston. The rod extends in the central axis direction of the cylinder and protrudes to an outside from an open end side of the cylinder. The rod guide is fixed to the open end of the cylinder. The rod guide has a through hole which penetrates in the central axis direction of the cylinder and through which the rod is reciprocably inserted. The granular bodies are elastic bodies each having a spherical shape. The granular bodies are filled in the cylinder.

Abstract: A damper that includes a piston reciprocally movable in a cylinder thereby dividing an interior of the cylinder into a first chamber located at an open end side and a second chamber located at a closed end side, a piston rod having a distal end to which the piston is connected and a rear end side protruding outward from the open end of the cylinder, a rod guide fixed to the open end of the cylinder and having a through hole through which the piston rod is reciprocally movable, and a seal which is provided in the rod guide so as to be located at a position spaced away from an outer end of a sliding surface of the through hole to the first chamber side by a distance longer than a maximum stroke width of the piston rod.

Abstract: An information processing system, information communication terminal and method, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program capable of enabling safer electronic commercial transactions. A point-of-purchase server generates purchasing information using a card Identification number allotted to a non-contact IC-card of a mobile telephone. A point-of-receipt server acquires this purchasing information and confirms the card identification number allotted to the non-contact IC card of the mobile telephone and a purchasing card identification number. The authentication server calculates user trustworthiness and store trustworthiness based on temporary commercial transaction information stored in the non-contact IC card of the mobile telephone. The calculated user trustworthiness and store trustworthiness is then reference by the mobile telephone and point-of-purchase server in the next commercial transaction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing system, information communication terminal and method, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program capable of enabling safer electronic commercial transactions in a straightforward manner. A point-of-purchase server 21 generates purchasing information using a card Identification number allotted to a non-contact IC-card of a mobile telephone 11. A point-of-receipt server 31 acquires this purchasing information and confirms the card identification number allotted to the non-contact IC card of the mobile telephone 11 and a purchasing card identification number. The authentication server 41 calculates user trustworthiness and store trustworthiness based on temporary commercial transaction information stored in the non-contact IC card of the mobile telephone 11.

Abstract: The semiconductor device comprises an insulating film having a device hole; inner leads disposed on one main face of the insulating film; a semiconductor element, which is mounted on the insulating film and connected to the ends of the inner leads; and a resin-encapsulating layer for covering such connections and the like, wherein the device hole of the insulating film has a flat shape externally protruded in the neighborhood of the middle on the short side, and a length of the long side containing the projections is larger than the corresponding length of the semiconductor chip. The expansion of the resin-encapsulating layer coated on the insulating film has a length on the short side of the semiconductor element larger than that on the long side.

Abstract: In a variable length code processor or image processor for encoding data to be coded into a variable length code corresponding to its run length and level, and decoding a variable length code to be decoded into a corresponding run length and level, there are provided a first memory for storing a variable length coding table which outputs a variable length code using its run length and level as input, a first shifter which applies a bit shift to the variable length code output by the first memory based on its length, a second memory for storing a variable length decoding table which outputs a run length and level using a variable length code as input, and a second shifter which applies a bit shift to the variable length code to be decoded based on the length of the variable length code decoded on the immediately preceding occasion, and supplies it to the second memory as input.