Abstract: A silicon photonics element including an optical element that has no self-luminescent capability, a first optical waveguide that connects the optical element to an outside of the silicon photonics element, a ring resonator optically connected to the first optical waveguide and located proximate to the first optical waveguide, and a second optical waveguide optically connected to the ring resonator and located proximate to the ring resonator. The first optical waveguide includes a first end surface connected to the outside of the silicon photonics element, and the second optical waveguide includes a second end surface connected to the outside of the silicon photonics element.

Abstract: A method of determining biological movement includes detecting movement of a monitored portion of a person's body with a first sensor, detecting a potential of a muscle responsible for the movement with a second sensor, and determining whether or not the movement is normal, wherein the determining determines that the movement is normal, in response to a joint occurrence of the first sensor detecting the movement and the second sensor detecting the potential of the muscle responsible for the movement.

Abstract: A sensor module for measuring a concentration of a gas by utilizing changes in an amount of absorbed light includes a light emitting device and a light receiving device configured to receive light emitted by the light emitting device, wherein the light emitting device and the light receiving device are disposed to face each other across a gap, wherein the light emitting device and the light receiving device are positioned such as to be exposed to the gas, and the gap forms part of a flow pathway of the gas, and wherein the gap is greater than or equal to 0.2 mm and less than or equal to 1.0 mm.

Abstract: A sensor module for measuring a concentration of a gas by utilizing changes in an amount of absorbed light includes a light emitting device and a light receiving device configured to receive light emitted by the light emitting device, wherein the light emitting device and the light receiving device are disposed to face each other across a gap, wherein the light emitting device and the light receiving device are positioned such as to be exposed to the gas, and the gap forms part of a flow pathway of the gas, and wherein the gap is greater than or equal to 0.2 mm and less than or equal to 1.0 mm.

Abstract: A cap includes a main body attached to an end part of a charging port for fuel gas. The main body includes an elastic deformable portion for locking the main body to the end part when the main body is attached to the end part. The cap further includes a cover covering at least part of the elastic deformable portion and surrounding the main body. The elastic deformable portion at least partially elastically deforms when the main body is attached to the end part and when the main body is detached from the end part. The cover is a separate member from the main body. When the elastic deformable portion elastically deforms, the cover applies force to the elastic deformable portion in a direction opposite from the deforming direction.

Abstract: A cap includes a main body attached to an end part of a charging port of fuel gas, an elastic deformable portion provided to the main body and for locking the main body to the end part when the main body is attached to the end part, and a cover covering at least part of the elastic deformable portion and surrounding the main body. The elastic deformable portion at least partially elastically deforms when the main body is attached to the end part and when the main body is detached from the end part. The cover is a separate member from the main body. When the elastic deformable portion elastically deforms, the cover applies force to the elastic deformable portion in a direction opposite from the deforming direction.

Abstract: A boot for constant-velocity universal joint comprises a major-diameter cylindrical portion 2, a minor-diameter cylindrical portion 3 being separated away from and being put in place concentrically with the major-diameter cylinder portion 2, and having a smaller diameter than that of the major-diameter cylindrical portion 2, and an intermediate portion 10 connecting the major-diameter cylindrical portion 2 with the minor-diameter cylindrical portion 3. The intermediate portion 10 comprises a stretchable bellows portion 19 being connected with the minor-diameter cylindrical portion 3 integrally, and a rigidity-producing portion 11 being connected with the bellows portion 19 and the major-diameter cylindrical portion 2 integrally. The rigidity-producing portion 11 enlarges diametrically from the bellows portion 19 toward the major-diameter cylindrical portion 2, and additionally at least an outer peripheral surface 101 of the rigidity-producing portion 11 has a plurality of shoulders 61 in a stepwise manner.

Abstract: A boot for constant-velocity universal joint comprises a major-diameter cylindrical portion 2, a minor-diameter cylindrical portion 3 being separated away from and being put in place concentrically with the major-diameter cylinder portion 2, and having a smaller diameter than that of the major-diameter cylindrical portion 2, and an intermediate portion 10 connecting the major-diameter cylindrical portion 2 with the minor-diameter cylindrical portion 3. The intermediate portion 10 comprises a stretchable bellows portion 19 being connected with the minor-diameter cylindrical portion 3 integrally, and a rigidity-producing portion 11 being connected with the bellows portion 19 and the major-diameter cylindrical portion 2 integrally. The rigidity-producing portion 11 enlarges diametrically from the bellows portion 19 toward the major-diameter cylindrical portion 2, and additionally at least an outer peripheral surface 101 of the rigidity-producing portion 11 has a plurality of shoulders 61 in a stepwise manner.

Abstract: A power transmission device is provided to improve sealing performance by reducing change in a surface pressure of sealing parts between power transmission shafts and boots. A first cylinder part of a boot is made from thermoplastic elastomer. A thickness Ta of the first cylinder part ranges from 1 mm to 2 mm, and a crimping allowance of the first cylinder part by a clamp member ranges from 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm. A width Wa of a first engaging groove formed at a power transmission shaft is equal to or greater than 20 percents of an axial width Wb of the clamp member. An axial distance from an end of the clamp member, near a bellows part, to an edge portion of the first engaging groove, near the bellows part, is in the range between 42.5 percents to 100 percents of the axial width Wb of the clamp member.

Abstract: An electrode for electrolytic capacitors having a large capacitance and having excellent tan ?, heat resistance, humidity resistance and stability. An electrolytic capacitor using the electrode. An electrode obtained by attaching a compound having a siloxane bond onto the surface of an electrode body comprising a valve-acting metal having formed thereon a dielectric film. The compound having a siloxane bond is attached by coating, dipping or vapor deposition. A solid electrolytic capacitor obtained by forming an electrolyte comprising an electrically conducting polymer on the electrode.

Abstract: In an MPEG data processing circuit, inputted MPEG system stream is divided into a data block to be processed (for example, video elementary data portion) and a data block to be not processed (for example, non-video elementary data portion). The data to be processed are stored one by one in a primary storing section (a barrel shifter) while the numbers of data stored in the primary storing section or the data to be not processed are stored one by one in a secondary storing section (a FIFO buffer), responsive to kinds of blocks, in a predetermined storing form to be managed. After necessary data processing is conducted on the data of the block to be processed, both the data block to be processed and the data block to be not processed are finally combined to each other to be outputted as an MPEG system stream.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor includes a valve acting metal having microfine pores, a dielectric film formed on a surface of the valve acting metal, and a solid electrolyte layer provided on the dielectric film, in which at least a portion of the solid electrolyte layer is of a lamellar structure. In particular, a solid electrolytic capacitor includes an electrically conducting polymer having a specified condensed ring structure containing (1) a solid electrolyte layer containing a sulfoquinone anion, and (2) a solid electrolyte layer containing an anthracenesulfonate ion and other anion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid electrolytic capacitor having a masking structure in which the insulation between the anode part and the cathode part can be ensured without fail, to its production method, to a method for coating a masking agent on a solid electrolytic capacitor substrate, and to apparatus therefore. According to the present invention, the masking material covers the dielectric film on the metal material having valve action and sufficiently infiltrates into the core metal made of a metal having valve action while the solid electrolyte is masked by the masking material without fail, so that a solid electrolytic capacitor can be produced that has a reduced leakage current and a reduced stress generated at the reflow treatment or the like.

Abstract: A method for producing a solid electrolytic capacitor, comprising coating a solution containing a monomer of an electroconducting polymer and a solution containing an oxidizing agent in repeating sequence on a valve-acting metal anode having formed on the surface thereof an oxide dielectric film, and then polymerizing wherein the electroconducting polymer is formed by setting the humidity in the atmosphere of polymerization process to from 10% to less than 60%.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor comprises an electrically conducting polymer composition formed on the surface of an oxide film which is formed on a valve-acting metal, by specifying the viscosity of an oxidizing agent solution and/or a monomer solution, particularly by specifying the viscosity to less than about 100 cp. A solid electrolytic capacitor can comprise an electroconducting polymer composition formed on the surface of an oxide film layer which is formed on a valve-acting metal, wherein a monomer compound or a derivative thereof as a repeating unit is polymerized by setting the humidity in the atmosphere to from about 10% to less than about 60%.

Abstract: An apparatus 10 for controlling image quality reduction of image information, which is related to the present invention, has a VLD 30 for introducing a code stream input 21 thereinto of image information based on an MPEG, a reverse circuit 40 for introducing a pre-reverse level 32 thereinto from the VLD 30, and a VLC 50 for introducing a RUN 31 from the VLD 30 and an after-reverse level 42 from the reverse circuit 40, and a code stream output 51 of image information based on the MPEG is generated by the VLC 50 and is sent therefrom, and this code stream output 51 is provided for a digital copy.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid electrolytic capacitor comprising a solid electrolyte layer and an electrically conducting layer comprising metallic powder or an electrically conducting layer comprising an electrically conducting carbon layer and a layer formed thereon and comprising metallic powder in which at least one of said layers contains a rubber-like elastic material; a production process thereof; a solid electrolyte for use in the solid electrolytic capacitor; a production process of the solid electrolyte; an electrically conducting paste for use in the solid electrolytic capacitor; and an electrically carbon conducting paste for use in the solid electrolytic capacitor. The solid electrolytic capacitor of the present invention can be made compact and can be endowed with high-capacitance and low-impedance and is excellent in external force-relaxing properties, productivity, heat resistance and moisture resistance, etc.

Abstract: In a boot including a larger cylindrical portion having a thick-walled portion and a thin-walled portion continuing smoothly in the circumferential direction on the inner peripheral surface, a ring groove coming full circle on the outer peripheral surface of the larger cylindrical portion is formed. Since shrinkage at the thick-walled portion can be prevented by the ring groove, and the ring groove is formed smoothly over the entire thick-walled portion and the thin-walled portion, there exists no varying point at which a stress generated when fastening with a fastening member suddenly changes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid electrolytic capacitor having a masking structure in which the insulation between the anode part and the cathode part can be ensured without fail, to its production method, to a method for coating a masking agent on a solid electrolytic capacitor substrate, and to apparatus therefore. According to the present invention, the masking material covers the dielectric film on the metal material having valve action and sufficiently infiltrates into the core metal made of a metal having valve action while the solid electrolyte is masked by the masking material without fail, so that a solid electrolytic capacitor can be produced that has a reduced leakage current and a reduced stress generated at the reflow treatment or the like.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid electrolytic capacitor having a masking structure in which the insulation between the anode part and the cathode part can be ensured without fail, to its production method, to a method for coating a masking agent on a solid electrolytic capacitor substrate, and to apparatus therefore. According to the present invention, the masking material covers the dielectric film on the metal material having valve action and sufficiently infiltrates into the core metal made of a metal having valve action while the solid electrolyte is masked by the masking material without fail, so that a solid electrolytic capacitor can be produced that has a reduced leakage current and a reduced stress generated at the reflow treatment or the like.