Abstract: A wireless IC device includes a radiation plate, a wireless IC chip, and a substrate provided with a feed circuit that includes a resonant circuit and/or the matching circuit including an inductance element and that is electromagnetically coupled to the radiation plate. The substrate is made of a resin material. A recess is provided in a first main surface of the substrate. The substrate is provided with a wiring electrode arranged along a bottom surface and an inner circumferential surface of the recess and the first main surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the feed circuit, and a wedge member made of a different material from the resin material and extending between the bottom surface of the recess and a second main surface of the substrate spaced apart from the wiring electrode. The wireless IC chip is mounted in the recess and coupled to the wiring electrode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for filtering contaminants, such as particulates and vapor phase contaminants, from a confined environment such as electronic or optical devices susceptible to contamination (e.g. computer disk drives) by providing an improved reduced fiber filter.

Abstract: A wireless IC device includes a radiation plate, a wireless IC chip, and a substrate provided with a feed circuit that includes a resonant circuit and/or the matching circuit including an inductance element and that is electromagnetically coupled to the radiation plate. The substrate is made of a resin material. A recess is provided in a first main surface of the substrate. The substrate is provided with a wiring electrode arranged along a bottom surface and an inner circumferential surface of the recess and the first main surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the feed circuit, and a wedge member made of a different material from the resin material and extending between the bottom surface of the recess and a second main surface of the substrate spaced apart from the wiring electrode. The wireless IC chip is mounted in the recess and coupled to the wiring electrode.

Abstract: It is found that blood cytochrome c levels quantified for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis patients are higher than those for healthy persons, and that the quantified blood cytochrome c values correlated with fat deposition rates in hepatocytes. It is possible to test non-alcoholic steatohepatitis by quantifying cytochrome c in serum. A test method and a test kit for the test are provided.

Abstract: An intermittent photo-taking device for a microscope includes a condition setting means that sets an intermittent photo-taking condition composed of a given time lapse and the number of frames to be photo-taken, an image obtaining means that obtains an image taken under the intermittent photo-taking condition, a setting change means that changes the intermittent photo-taking condition in the middle of an operation based on the intermittent photo-taking condition set by the condition setting means, and a memory that, when the intermittent photo-taking condition has been changed by the setting change means, stores an image taken under the changed intermittent photo-taking condition following an image taken under the intermittent photo-taking condition before changing.

Abstract: An amplifier includes an amplifying block (26) for receiving an input signal to drive a speaker (23), and a power supply block (25) for supplying an output voltage to the amplifying block. The amplifying block (26) includes a PWM-signal generation circuit (4) which converts the input signal into a PWM signal, a speaker driving circuit (20) which drives the speaker based on the PWM signal, and a duty detection circuit (8) which outputs a time difference signal proportional to a difference between the pulse width and the pulse interval of the PWM signal. The power supply block (25) controls the output voltage thereof based on the time difference signal. If the volume of a speaker (23) is loud, the amplifier increases the drive voltage of the speaker (23) to suppress distortion of the volume.

Abstract: In a motor-driven power steering apparatus for a vehicle in which a worm wheel of a worm gear type speed reduction mechanism is fixed to a pinion shaft of a rack and pinion mechanism, a direction of a torsion angle ? of a helical pinion provided in the pinion shaft is set to be opposite to a direction of a tooth lead angle ? of the worm wheel.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a microscope system and an image processing method which are practical and capable of imaging a specimen efficiently in a short period of time and also ensuring reduction of the data amount of a generated image.

Abstract: Electrodes (2) and (3) are formed on the front face (1A) and the rear face (1B) of a dielectric substrate (1). Fan-shaped apertures (4A) and (4B) forming a resonator (4) are formed in the electrodes (2) and (3) such that the fan-shaped aperture (4A) opposes the fan-shaped aperture (4B). Accordingly, two parameters, that is, the radius and the central angle, of the fan-shaped apertures (4A) and (4B) can be used to set the resonant frequency of the resonator (4), thus improving the flexibility in design of the resonator (4).

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for filtering contaminants, such as particulates and vapor phase contaminants, from a confined environment such as electronic or optical devices susceptible to contamination (e.g. computer disk drives) by providing an improved reduced fiber filter.

Abstract: A signal processing apparatus is disclosed, which includes signal processing means for applying predetermined processing to a signal to be supplied, parameter adjusting means for manually and continuously changing a parameter in processing the signals using the signal processing means, at least one operating means which has a function different from a function of the parameter adjusting means, forming means for forming data which makes a value of the parameter and any one of the operating means correspond to each other, detection means for detecting that a current parameter value attributed to the operation of the parameter adjusting means agrees with a value of a parameter within the data, and function executing means for executing a function of the operating means in response to the value of the parameter within the data based on a detection result of the detection means.

Abstract: In a snowmobile, a four-cycle engine is mounted in such a manner that its crankshaft is arranged along the body width direction and the central axis of a cylinder(s) is tilted rearward by angle ? with respect to the vertical direction of the body, forming a rear tilted engine. At least part of the engine intake system including an air cleaner box and throttle body, connected to the intake port(s) of the engine is accommodated in the space inside the topmost projected portion of the engine hood. Exhaust is led out to the muffler located in front of the cylinder(s) by the exhaust system connected to the exhaust port(s) at the front of the cylinder head. Further, the intake passage is arranged between the engine body and the steering post.

Abstract: A radiator core support has right and left bolt holes. A bracket is fixed to the radiator core support and has a pin projecting toward the radiator core support. A hood lock has an upper portion with upper right and left through-holes and a lower portion, insertable between the radiator core support and the bracket, with a lower through-hole surrounded by a wall portion. The hood lock is coupled on the radiator core support so that the upper portion is fastened on the radiator core support by two bolts inserted through the upper right and left through-holes and screwed into the right and left bolt holes, respectively, and the lower portion is fixable to the radiator core support by engagement of the pin and the wall portion when they move relative each other.

Abstract: An intermittent photo-taking device for a microscope includes a condition setting means that sets an intermittent photo-taking condition composed of a given time lapse and the number of frames to be photo-taken, an image obtaining means that obtains an image taken under the intermittent photo-taking condition, a setting change means that changes the intermittent photo-taking condition in the middle of an operation based on the intermittent photo-taking condition set by the condition setting means, and a memory that, when the intermittent photo-taking condition has been changed by the setting change means, stores an image taken under the changed intermittent photo-taking condition following an image taken under the intermittent photo-taking condition before changing.

Abstract: A moisture-absorbent unit capable of sufficiently restricting condensation inside a semi-sealed container that can be miniaturized and whose interior is at a comparatively high humidity, when this semi-sealed container undergoes a sharp temperature drop from being placed in a low-temperature environment, and to provide a semi-sealed container having the moisture-absorbent unit. A moisture-absorbent unit used inside a semi-sealed container, this moisture-absorbent unit characterized in having a porous moisture-absorbent material for which the difference in moisture absorption, obtained by subtracting the moisture absorption at a relative humidity of 85% from the moisture absorption at a relative humidity of 95%, is 15% by mass or more of the moisture-absorbent material before absorption.

Abstract: Electrodes (2) and (3) are formed on the front face (1A) and the rear face (1B) of a dielectric substrate (1). Fan-shaped apertures (4A) and (4B) forming a resonator (4) are formed in the electrodes (2) and (3) such that the fan-shaped aperture (4A) opposes the fan-shaped aperture (4B). Accordingly, two parameters, that is, the radius and the central angle, of the fan-shaped apertures (4A) and (4B) can be used to set the resonant frequency of the resonator (4), thus improving the flexibility in design of the resonator (4).

Abstract: In a motor-driven power steering apparatus for a vehicle in which a worm wheel of a worm gear type speed reduction mechanism is fixed to a pinion shaft of a rack and pinion mechanism, a direction of a torsion angle ? of a helical pinion provided in the pinion shaft is set to be opposite to a direction of a tooth lead angle ? of the worm wheel.

Abstract: In a snowmobile, a four-cycle engine has an alternator as a generator while the snowmobile body has heat exchangers through which the cooling water of the engine is cooled by heat exchange with external air and snow, in a front part and at the ceiling of a crawler house. The alternator is positioned between the four-cycle engine and the front heat exchanger. Further, an exhaust manifold is arranged at an upper position in front of the engine body while an approximately cylindrical oil filter is provided under the exhaust manifold and inclined forwards in the vehicle's direction of travel.

Abstract: A ground electrode and a terminal electrode are formed on a first main surface of dielectric substrate forming a circuit board. Wiring electrodes are formed on a second main surface of the dielectric substrate. A semiconductor device and a filter are mounted on the wiring electrodes. A strip line electrode of the filter is connected to the ground electrode of the circuit board for conducting direct current, via a through-hole provided in the filter, a ground electrode of the filter, the wiring electrode, and a through-hole provided in the circuit board. With this arrangement, the terminal electrode is connected to a high-frequency signal terminal of the semiconductor device via the filter.

Abstract: To provide a mounting structure for a gas adsorption filter and a housing equipped with the gas adsorption filter that make it possible to overcome the contradiction between achieving a further reduction in the size of airtight containers such as casings for magnetic storage disk devices, and ensuring improved control over moisture, noxious gases, and other types of contaminants in the airtight containers.