Abstract: The present invention provides a water-proof sound-transmitting membrane including a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) porous membrane, in which the waterproofness is enhanced further with little lowering of the sound transmittance. The water-proof sound-transmitting membrane includes the PTFE porous membrane. The PTFE porous membrane includes a first porous layer, and a second porous layer stacked on and integrated with the first porous layer by a binding force acting between PTFE matrices. The first porous layer and the second porous layer each are composed of PTFE with a number-average molecular weight of 5.0×107 or more determined by a standard specific gravity method. At least one layer selected from the first porous layer and the second porous layer has an average pore diameter of 1 ?m or less. The water-proof sound-transmitting membrane has a surface density of 1 g/m2 to 10 g/m2.

Abstract: A hard disk includes: a plurality of servo areas which are elongated radially from a center of the hard disk to an outward thereof over tracks thereof; and a plurality of data areas which are respectively provided between the plurality of servo areas; wherein alternative operation is conducted per servo sector containing one of the plurality of servo areas and a data area provided subsequent to the one of the plurality of servo areas and having a defect created therein when a user sector containing at least a portion of the data area and functioning as an access unit has the defect therein.

Abstract: First, a mixture of a polytetrafluoroethylene fine powder and a liquid lubricant into a sheet-form body extending in a first direction. Next, the liquid lubricant is removed from the sheet-form body. Then, the sheet-form body is stretched by a factor of 40 to 250 in the longitudinal direction at a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point of polytetrafluoroethylene, and the stretched sheet-form body is further stretched by a factor of 3 to 40 in the width direction. Thus, a highly air-permeable porous polytetrafluoroethylene membrane is obtained.

Abstract: A hard disk includes: a plurality of servo areas which are elongated radially from a center of the hard disk to an outward thereof over tracks thereof; and a plurality of data areas which are respectively provided between the plurality of servo areas; wherein alternative operation is conducted per servo sector containing one of the plurality of servo areas and a data area provided subsequent to the one of the plurality of servo areas and having a defect created therein when a user sector containing at least a portion of the data area and functioning as an access unit has the defect therein.

Abstract: A power supply controller with a function to identify whether or not a signal that was output is reliable and to perform the necessary processing on the input side when an unreliable signal was sent that might adversely affect the input side in communication systems. A controller 1 and a controlled device 21 are connected at both ends of a cable 17 (27) with connectors. The controller contains a first processing system 1, a second processing system 2, and a comparator 7. The first processing system and the second processing system 2 are for example equivalent to microcomputers, etc. The comparator 7 compares the outputs of these two processors and generates a match/mismatch signal according to whether the outputs are a match or not. When the two outputs are a match then the outputs of these processors are reliable. However if the outputs are a mismatch then it signifies there is an error in one of these processing systems.

Abstract: An electronic device with a camera function, an electronic device, a photographing control method, a photographing control program, and a processor is provided with a preventive function to block inappropriate photographing such as spy shots. A photographing reporting section (54, 54A, 54B) issues a reporting information for photographing. An information detecting section (58, 58A, 58B) detects this reporting information and a judging section (image output judging section 60) judges, by using the reporting information detected at the information detecting section, whether or not the photographing is permitted, whether or not an image is stored, and whether or not the image is altered.

Abstract: Regarding an electronic device with a camera function, an electronic device, a photographing control method, a photographing control program, and a processor in which a preventive function to block inappropriate photographing such as spy shots is enhanced are provided. A photographing reporting section (54, 54A, 54B) issues a reporting information for photographing; an information detecting section (58, 58A, 58B) detects this reporting information; and a judging section (image output judging section 60) judges whether or not the photographing is permitted, whether or not an image is stored, and whether or not the image is altered by using the reporting information detected at the information detecting section.

Abstract: A mail server 302 calculates a reject priority for every mail source address of an E-mail on the basis of a date/time when receiving the E-mail from a sender terminal 100, further, the mail server 302, if a mail source address of the mail which should be rejected, count of the E-mails exceeds a registerable mail address count in a receipt reject address list 304, executes control to register the mail addresses having higher reject priorities preferentially in the receipt reject address list 304.

Abstract: A high-performance information processing technique permitting updating of an instruction buffer ready for effective prefetching to branch instructions and returning to the subroutine with a small volume of hardware is to be provided at low cost. It is an information processing apparatus equipped with a CPU, a memory, prefetch means and the like, wherein a prefetch address generator unit in the prefetch means decodes a branching series of instructions including at least one branched address calculating instruction and branching instruction to a branched address out of a current instruction buffer storing the series of instructions currently accessed by the CPU, and thereby looks ahead to the branching destination address. The information processing apparatus further comprises a RTS instruction buffer for storing a series of instructions of the return destinations of RTS instructions, and series of instructions stored in the current instruction buffer are saved into the RTS instruction buffer.

Abstract: A system is disclosed, which comprises a step of extracting parts data having been newly recorded in a master database (10a) within a certain period of time to copy extracted new parts data into a parts integration database (20a), a step of comparing the new parts data with existing parts data to allow an examiner to examine whether the integration of the existing parts and the new parts and/or the change of a sales mode is possible or not, a step of sending a request to approve a resulting judgement to an authorized approver terminal device (42), a step of allowing an authorized approver to determine the possibility or not of the integration of the existing parts and the new parts and/or the change of the sales mode, and a step of providing integrated parts data and/or changed sales mode data by updating the parts data in the master database (10a) on the basis of approval data.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunication station which is connected to a mobile telecommunication network and is provided with a mobile telecommunication service from the network, providing a function enabling unit (for example a voice coding unit) with a function which is masked in advance and is enabled by release of the mask and a masking control unit for watching predetermined air interface information (for example a broadcast information) from the mobile telecommunication network and releasing the mask of the function enabling unit according to an instruction, in extended information elements thereof, for releasing the mask. A half rate mobile telecommunication unit capable of increasing for example a channel capacity can therefore be released on the market early without waiting for the completion of the entire system on the network side. When the network side system is completed, the potential half rate functions of the mobile telecommunication unit are revealed all at once.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunication station which is connected to a mobile telecommunication network and is provided with a mobile telecommunication service from the network, providing a function enabling unit (for example a voice coding unit) with a function which is masked in advance and is enabled by release of the mask and a masking control unit for watching predetermined air interface information (for example a broadcast information) from the mobile telecommunication network and releasing the mask of the function enabling unit according to an instruction, in extended information elements thereof, for releasing the mask. A half rate mobile telecommunication unit capable of increasing for example a channel capacity can therefore be released on the market early without waiting for the completion of the entire system on the network side. When the network side system is completed, the potential half rate functions of the mobile telecommunication unit are revealed all at once.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunication station which is connected to a mobile telecommunication network and is provided with a mobile telecommunication service from the network function enabling unit (for example a voice coding unit) is provided with a function masked in advance, and is enabled by release of the mask and a masking control unit. The masking control unit watches predetermined air interface information (for example a broadcast information) from the mobile telecommunication network, and releases the mask of the function enabling unit according to an instruction, in extended information elements thereof, for releasing the mask. A half rate mobile telecommunication unit capable of increasing, for example, a channel capacity can therefore be released on the market early without waiting for the completion of the entire system on the network side. When the network side system is completed, the potential half rate functions of the mobile telecommunication unit are revealed all at once.

Abstract: A probe apparatus comprises a housing, a probing mechanism arranged in the housing and including a supporting table for supporting an object having electrodes and movably arranged to locate the object at a measurement position, and probes which is brought into contact with the respective electrodes of the object supported by the supporting table, a load/unload mechanism arranged in the housing, for loading/unloading the object in/from the supporting table, and a downflow forming unit for forming a downflow of clean air flowing from an upper position to a lower position of the housing in every region inside the housing.

Abstract: An image reading and recording apparatus such as an electronic blackboard includes a reading unit movable along a guide rail for reading information written on a board, a drive motor integral with the reading unit and operative to move the reading unit relative to the board, and a power transmission mechanism for transmitting a driving force of the drive motor to the reading unit so as to move the reading unit relatively to the board. The power transmission mechanism is composed of a pulley fixed to a drive shaft of the motor and a wire rope extending along the guide rail in a stretched condition and wound around the pulley by one turn. Upon rotation of the motor, the pulley rolls on and along the wire rope, thereby moving the reading unit relative to the board. Due to a large contact area provided between the pulley and the wire rope, the movement of the reading unit is highly reliable and hence the information on the board can be read with high accuracy.

Abstract: A method of the probing test comprising the steps of detecting a first scribe line of chips in a wafer, calculating a first center line of said first scribe line on the basis of the resultant, detecting a second scribe line intersecting the first scribe line, calculating a second center line of said second scribe line on the basis of the resultant, calculating a crossing point of the first and second center lines, identifying a reference pad of a first chip at predetermined position by referring to the crossing point, positioning a reference probe, which has a predetermined positional relationship with the crossing point, at the reference pad on the first chip, moving the test object. Therefore, each of the pads is respectively contacted with each of the probes.

Abstract: Disclosed are a system and a method for improving the visibility of objects within the visual field of a vehicular driver while driving under optically adverse conditions. The system includes an optical filter with a pass band in the visible light range disposed in front of the eyes of the driver, and a light transmitter sending out a beam of visible light with frequency components within the pass band toward the object. In addition, this system protects the driver from being dazzled by light from an approaching vehicle in the opposite lane. The method includes the steps of allowing transmission of visible light with a first frequency component to the driver and transmitting visible light with a second frequency component into the visual field, the second frequency component being a subset of the first frequency component.