Abstract: Status information representing the status of a device which performs predetermined processing is acquired from the device. The acquired status information is stored in a memory. The status information is output in response to input of a request to output the status information of the device. When the request is input after the lapse of the first time from the time corresponding to acquisition of the status information stored in the memory, status information is newly acquired from the device in accordance with the request, and the status information already stored in the memory before the input of the request is output.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to suppress a coating resin from being shaved off in an event where optical fibers are sent out from a coating dice. When a Young's modulus of ultraviolet curable resins 13 located on outermost layers of optical fibers 3 is 300 MPa or more, and the Young's modulus is 300 MPa to 600 MPa, a plurality of the optical fibers 3 in which friction force measured by the following measurement method is 0.3 N or less are arranged in parallel to one another, these respective optical fibers 3 are fixed to one another intermittently along a longitudinal direction thereof, and adhered portions 5 are formed.

Abstract: The present invention provides aniline black comprising no harmful substances such as chromium and copper in its products and having an excellent blackness and a high resistivity value, as well as provides a black resin composition, a water-based dispersion and a solvent-based dispersion which are colored with the aniline black and have an excellent dispersibility. The aniline black according to the present invention has a sulfur content of 0.2 to 6.0% by weight and comprises primary particles having an average major axis diameter of 0.05 to 0.80 ?m.

Abstract: The concentration of impurity elements included in an oxide semiconductor film in the vicinity of a gate insulating film is reduced. Further, crystallinity of the oxide semiconductor film in the vicinity of the gate insulating film is improved. A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor film over a substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode over the oxide semiconductor film, a gate insulating film which includes an oxide containing silicon and is formed over the oxide semiconductor film, and a gate electrode over the gate insulating film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a region in which the concentration of silicon is lower than or equal to 1.0 at. %, and at least the region includes a crystal portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming at least one circumferential belt layer of a pneumatic tire comprising: winding the strip for a half length of an outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane from a widthwise inner side of the belt end region; winding the strip for the remaining half length while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from a widthwise inner to outer side; winding the strip for the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass along the tire equatorial plane; winding the strip for the half length of the outer circumferential length of the crown portion of the carcass while shifting the strip for the width of the strip from the widthwise outer to inner side; and winding the strip for the remaining half length along the tire equatorial plane.

Abstract: A chemical supply system comprises: a first container and a second container for storing a chemical solution; a first pump, located on a first pipe connecting the first and second containers, for directing the solution stored in the first container to the second container; and a first filter, located in the first pipe, for filtering the solution flowing through the first pipe from the first container toward the second container. The system further includes: a second pipe for connecting the first container and the second container; and a second pump, located on the second pipe, for directing the solution stored in the second container to the first container.

Abstract: A pest control agent containing a compound represented by the following Formula (1), wherein A represents a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom, or the like, K represents a non-metal atom group necessary for forming a cyclic linking group derived from a 5- or 6-membered aromatic ring, in combination with A and two carbon atoms to which A bonds, X represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or the like, n represents an integer of from 0 to 4, T represents —C(=G1)-Q1 (wherein G1 and G2 represent an oxygen atom or the like, Q1 represents a phenyl group which may have a substituent, a heterocyclic group which may have a substituent, or the like), or the like, Q2 represents a phenyl group or the like, G3 represents an oxygen atom or the like, and R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a C1-C6 alkyl group, or a group represented by -L-D, or the like (provided that at least either R1 or R2 represents a group represented by -L-D); as an active ingredient exhibits an excellent effect.

Abstract: The honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure part having porous partition walls, and porous plugged portions, and when there is drawn a straight line as an inner boundary line which is positioned at a distance of 30% of a distance between an outer end surface and an inner end surface, from the inner end surface, and there is drawn a straight line as an outer boundary line which is positioned at a distance of 70% of the distance between the outer end surface and the inner end surface, from the inner end surface, each of the plugged portions has an outer region, and an inner region which is the region between the inner end surface and the inner boundary line and whose porosity is larger than a porosity of the outer region.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image data acquisition unit to acquire image data by optically reading a document. A frequency distribution acquisition unit acquires a first frequency distribution of luminances from the image data acquired by the image data acquisition unit. A generation unit generates a second frequency distribution of luminances of a background of the document, by using a maximum frequency of the first frequency distribution as a maximum frequency of the second frequency distribution of luminances of the background of the document. An acquisition unit acquires information indicating a degree of deviation of the second frequency distribution from the first frequency distribution. A correction unit corrects the second frequency distribution based on the information indicating the degree of deviation acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a control signal system for avoiding failure to check an indefinite signal propagation prevention circuit, for facilitating a check included in an automated tool, and for facilitating a power shutdown control inside a chip. In the semiconductor integrated circuit device, power shutdown priorities are provided by independent power domains (Area A to Area I). A method for preventing a power domain having a lower priority from being turned OFF when a circuit having a high priority is turned ON is also provided.

Abstract: In a side air bag of a vehicle side air bag device, a front bag portion and a rear bag portion are partitioned by a longitudinal partition portion. Further, a forward extending portion provided in an upper part of the rear bag portion so as to restrain a shoulder is partitioned from the front bag portion by an upper partition portion extending diagonally upward toward a front side of a seatback from an upper end of the longitudinal partition portion. When an inflator is activated, the rear bag portion is expanded and unfolded at an early stage, so that gas in the rear bag portion is supplied into the front bag portion via a communicating opening provided in the longitudinal partition portion. Hereby, it is possible to push up an upper arm by the front bag portion, and to restrain rear parts of a chest and abdomen and shoulder.

Abstract: A grip for a backpack-type air blowing machine which performs a work by using air discharged from a distal end of an air blowing pipe that is coupled to a blower body driven by a power source while the air blowing pipe is manipulated by an operator with the power source and the blower body being carried on a back of the operator. The grip comprises a base section that constitutes an attachment section to the air blowing pipe, a vertical grip section that is provided with a proximal end portion provided continuously to the base section, and that extends in a direction away from the air blowing pipe, and a lateral grip section that extends backward along the air blowing pipe from a free end of the vertical grip section. The lateral grip section is located adjacent to a back of a hand of the operator holding the air blowing pipe.

Abstract: An insolation calculating device has a 3D model acquisition module to acquire a 3D model of an area around a target location to calculate insolation, a routing information acquisition module to acquire routing information about the area around the location, a main routing information extractor to acquire main routing information including a plurality of representative points from the routing information acquired by the routing information acquisition module, a sky diagram generator to generate a sky diagram at each of the representative points, the sky diagram being generated as two-dimensional image data corresponding to a shot image of the whole sky, a representative point insolation calculator to calculate representative point insolation showing insolation at each of the representative points, and a route insolation calculator to calculate insolation of each route connecting two adjacent representative points in the representative points.

Abstract: Provided a node (ANDSF) that based on subscriber information of a terminal and a communication amount of the terminal controls whether or not to notify information concerning a different radio access network capable of becoming an offload target from the current access network.

Abstract: An occupant protection system for a vehicle includes right and left vehicle seats; right and left inflators each mounted in a center-side side portion, as viewed in the vehicle width direction, of each of seat backs of the right and left vehicle seats; and right and left far-side airbags each mounted in the center-side side portion of each of the seat backs. The far-side airbag is partitioned into a front bag portion that protrudes toward a vehicle forward side of the side portion in an inflated and deployed state, and a rear bag portion located on a vehicle rearward side of the front bag portion. The rear bag portion is adapted to have an internal pressure higher than that of the front bag portion in the inflated and deployed state. The rear bag portion is adapted to be compressed between the seat backs when the vehicle seats approach each other.

Abstract: First, a supply device supplies a foamed kneaded material into a cylinder. Then, in a state in which an internal space of the cylinder is communicated with a pattern forming space of a mold, the piston disposed in the cylinder is moved toward the foamed kneaded material side while opening a gas release hole formed piercing through the piston. Then, at a timing when the piston has reached an expected position where the piston is expected to be on contacting the foamed kneaded material supplied into the cylinder, the gas release hole is closed by an open-close plug. Then, the foamed kneaded material supplied into the cylinder is pressed toward the pattern forming space side of the mold by moving the piston toward the foamed kneaded material side.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire main object information specifying a main object in generation of a layout image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire object correlation information specifying an object having a correlation with the main object, an extraction unit configured to extract at least one image including the main object and at least one image including the object having the correlation with the main object from a plurality of images based on the acquired main object information and the acquired object correlation information acquired, and a generation unit configured to generate, using a layout template, a layout image in which the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the main object and the at least one image extracted by the extraction unit and including the object having the correlation with the main object are laid out therein.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electroluminescent element including: a first manufacturing step of layering on a substrate, in the following order, a first electroconductive layer, a dielectric layer in which plural contact holes are formed which pass therethrough in a direction orthogonal to the substrate, a second electroconductive layer which is electrically connected to the first electroconductive layer inside the contact holes and which fills the contact holes, a light-emitting layer, and a third electroconductive layer; a temperature distribution measurement step of applying a voltage to the first electroconductive layer and the third electroconductive layer, causing the light-emitting layer to emit light, and measuring the temperature distribution of the electroluminescent element to obtain temperature unevenness information for the electroluminescent element; and a second manufacturing step of adjusting, the basis of the temperature unevenness information, the density of the plural contact holes that p

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a semiconductor circuit includes a substrate, a tunnel oxide film, a charge storage film, a blocking layer, and plural nodes. The substrate is made of a semiconductor in which two diffusion layers each serving as either a source or a drain are formed. The tunnel oxide film is formed on a region of the substrate between the diffusion layers. The charge storage film is formed on the tunnel oxide layer and stores charge. The blocking layer is formed between the charge storage film and a gate electrode and has layers of a first oxide film, a nitride film and a second oxide film to have a thickness of 5 nm or larger but 15 nm or smaller. The nodes allow external application of voltages so that the source and the drain are reversed and allow detection a gate voltage, a drain current and a substrate current.

Abstract: An inductor (1) includes an inductor (L11P) formed into the shape of a spiral on the outer circumference of an inductor region and having a start point connected to a terminal (N11P), an inductor (L12P) formed into the shape of a spiral on the inner circumference of the inductor region and having a start point at the end point of the inductor (L11P) and an end point connected to a terminal (N12P), and an inductor (L13P) formed into the shape of a spiral in a region sandwiched between the inductor (L11P) and the inductor (L12P) and having a start point at a node between the inductor (L11P) and the inductor (L12P) and an end point connected to a terminal (N13P).