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A plasma processing apparatus has a liquid storage vessel which is formed outside of a dielectric window and in which a plasma-exciting coil or electrode is placed inside and moreover in which an electrically insulative liquid is stored in the inside of the liquid storage vessel, as well as a cooling unit and a heating unit for the liquid. Temperature of the liquid stored in the liquid storage portion is adjusted, by which temperature of the plasma-exciting coil or electrode and the dielectric window is controlled via the liquid.

In a power supply unit, a printed circuit board is provided on which two or more different-shape components are mounted. Such components include semiconductor devices. The printed circuit board has a designated mounting surface of the board. The housing is also provided, which houses the printed circuit board and comprises a cooling member for cooling a first space formed between the mounting surface and an opposed surface in the housing. The opposed surface is opposed to the mounting surface. The cooling member is arranged at part of the opposed surface, the part of the opposed surface projects toward the semiconductor devices, and the opposed surface is opposed to the two or more types of different-shape components.

In a sound field control apparatus, a storage unit stores position information of a plurality of speakers disposed in a three-dimensional space and position information of a sound receiving point. An input unit inputs an audio signal and position information of a virtual audio source. A localization controller localizes the audio signal at a position of the virtual audio source. The localization controller defines a virtual polyhedral solid that has vertices at respective positions of the plurality of the speakers, selects a face of the virtual polyhedral solid through which a directional line from the sound receiving point to the virtual audio source passes, selects speakers located at vertices of the selected face as speakers to which the audio signal is output, and determines ratios of levels of the audio signals to be provided to the speakers located at the vertices of the selected face based on ratios of respective angles between the directional line and straight lines directed from the sound receiving point to the vertices of the selected face.

In the present invention, a floor console arranged between right and left seats of a vehicle is formed by a front-side console 2 and a garnish 15 installed to the front-side console 2; a cigarette lighter attachment portion 32 having a substantially horizontal surface shape is provided on the garnish 15; a cigarette lighter device 1 is disposed in the cigarette lighter attachment portion 32 so as to be directed in a substantially vertical direction; and a substantially horizontal ash receiving surface 37 which is formed separately from an ashtray is provided on the front-side console 2 located under the cigarette lighter attachment portion 32.

A flush valve device 20 of a flush toilet includes a flush valve body 22 connected to a city water source and an operation unit 50. The operation unit 50 has an operation button 63 and a flexible inner cable 71, which is part of a cable mechanism 70. The inner cable 71 is extended from a rear side to a lateral side of a toilet body 12 and is linked with the operation button 63. In response to a press of the operation button 63, the flush valve body 22 opens to make a supply of washing water flown into the toilet body 12. This arrangement desirably increases the degree of freedom in positioning of the flush valve body and the operation unit, enhances the operability of the flush valve device 20, and effectively facilitates installation of the flush valve device 20.

A method is provided for manufacturing a printed circuit board assembly. A method includes applying a liquefied radiant-heat material on a heating component mounted on the printed circuit board; mounting a shield unit on the printed circuit board in contact with the liquefied radiant-heat material; and simultaneously curing the liquefied radiant-heat material and bonding the shield unit.

A light beam scanning display for displaying an image on a drawing screen by modulating laser beams from three primary color light sources, the three primary color light sources being arranged in close vicinity to each other, based on image data respectively and then scanning the laser beams, the light beam scanning display comprising: a parallelizing section that parallelizes respective laser beams; wherein the laser beams being parallelized by the parallelizing section to form one pixel of a drawn image on the drawing screen via different optical paths such that optical axes of the laser beams do not overlap with each other.

An object collaboration apparatus is driven by a message action relation, and can dynamically build a collaboration between objects using a bidding system. A task initiator object circulates a requesting message, indicating the service content that the task initiator object wants to request, on a shared communication channel 504, and this requesting message is received by each service object. If an action that is a reaction to the message is listed in a reaction table 703 stored by the service objects, the service objects create and return a bidding message, which includes a bidding value, for example the CPU load ratio, with the bidding portion 707. An arbitrating portion of the initiator object receives all bidding messages in a certain period of time, and, in consideration of parameters such as the bidding value and the communication time between objects, determines and awards the bid to the bid-winning object. Then, it sends out the requested processing information together with the bid awarding message. The bid-winning object processes the requested task with an action execution portion 704.

A drive pulley structure has a cylindrical pulley member, a hub structure that is provided inside the pulley member so as to rotate relative to the pulley member, a coil spring that is fixed to the hub structure, a tapering which has a conical round surface as of a cone whose axis is made up of a rotational axis J of the hub structure, and a frictional member that is inserted to be interposed between the conical round surface of the tapering and the pulley member, and the coil spring is inserted to be interposed in place while being compressed in the direction of the rotational axis of the hub structure, the tapering, the frictional member and the pulley member being brought into press contact with each other by virtue of a restoring force P of the coil spring.

Provided is a compact ultrasound diagnostic device having a high degree of freedom in a viewing position and a viewing angle of a display panel and having excellent operability. The ultrasonic diagnostic device includes a main body (10) that includes an operation panel (20); a first display (30) connected to the main body through a supporter (60); and a second display (40) detachably connected to the main body. The second display (40) includes a transmission/reception circuit that performs transmission or reception with the main body (10). When the sub display 40 is detached, a connection unit (25) on a side of the main body, to which the sub display 40 is connected, functions as a connection unit of the main display 30.

In a low floor type vehicle 10, a banking angle θ1 of a longitudinal V-type engine 100 mounted below a low floor is set to an angle equal to or exceeding approximately 90°. The V-type engine is arranged with a bisector L1 of the banking angle directed toward a head pipe 21 of a body frame 20. The body frame is composed of a pair of right and left upper frames 22 extended backward and downward from the head pipe and a pair of right and left down frames 23 extended downward from the head pipe and coupled to the front of a crankcase 104 of the V-type engine and is a diamond type frame from which the V-type engine can be suspended.

To manufacture a dynamic pressure bearing part at a low cost, capable of making consumption power small by reducing a load of rotation and having remarkable durability while ensuring small size and high performance. Dynamic pressure generating projection parts 21 are formed on the surface of an annular ring, which is a material of the dynamic pressure bearing part having a profile shape of a herringbone type having a first belt-like part 11L and a second belt-like part 11R which are branched out from a tip end 21S to a rear end so as to form a double fork shape, and widths of which are made to be approximately fixed widths. The material of the dynamic pressure bearing part is subjected to a magnetic barrel polish processing to obtain the dynamic pressure thrust bearing part.

A method of manufacturing a liquid-cooled jacket, includes a preparation step which includes placing a sealing body on a stepped portion to allow a step side surface and a sealing-body side surface of the sealing body to butt each other, and a primary joining step which includes allowing a primary joining rotary tool to move once around the sealing body, while moving the rotary tool along a butted portion formed in the preparation step, to carry out friction stir welding. The primary joining step includes employing the primary joining rotary tool provided with a stirring pin having a length dimension greater than a thickness dimension of the sealing body, and carrying out friction stirring with only the stirring pin being brought into contact with a jacket body and the sealing body.

An electrode paste for a solar cell comprising electrically conductive particles, lead-free glass frit, a resin binder and zinc oxide particles, wherein zinc oxide particles having a specific surface area of 6 m²/g or less are contained at 10% by weight or more based on the total amount of zinc oxide.

A substrate processing apparatus includes: a carrier block including first and second carrier placement units spaced apart in a right and left direction; a processing block having a layered structure in which a plurality of layered parts are vertically arranged, the layered parts each including a substrate transport mechanism for transporting a substrate and a processing module for processing a substrate; a tower unit including plural substrate placement units located at height positions where a substrate is transferred by the substrate transport mechanism of the layered part corresponding to the substrate placement unit; a first substrate transfer mechanism configured to transfer a substrate between the carrier on the first carrier placement unit and the substrate placement unit of the tower unit; and a second substrate transfer mechanism configured to transfer a substrate between the carrier on the second substrate placement unit and the substrate placement unit of the tower unit.

A light emitting module includes an organic EL light emitting element and a support body supporting the organic EL light emitting element. The support body is attached to the organic EL light emitting element at the side of the non-light emitting surface of the light emitting module to cover one surface of the organic EL light emitting element. The organic EL light emitting element includes power feeding electrodes. The support body includes openings formed in a corresponding relationship with the power feeding electrodes. The power feeding electrodes exposed on the non-light emitting side of the support body through the openings. The support body includes power feeding terminals. The power feeding terminals partially exposed on the non-light emitting side of the support body. The power feeding terminals electrically connected to the power feeding electrodes by electric connection members extending via the non-light emitting side and the openings of the support body.

There is provided a cover panel including a lighting device which is attachable without a mounting seat. A cover panel 1 includes a panel main body 5 fixed on an instrument panel 3 in an interior of an automobile and a lighting device 6 provided inside the panel main body 5. The panel main body 5 comprises an opening 7 which forms a gap between itself and the instrument panel 3, and light emitted through the opening 7 from the lighting device 6 illuminates the interior of the automobile. The panel main body 5 and the lighting device 6 are integrated and are fixed on the instrument panel 3, so that the cover panel 1 including the lighting device 6 can be fixed on the instrument panel 3 without utilizing the mounting seat as was conventionally done.

A projector includes a power source accommodation section and a projection section body. The power source accommodation section is supported by a duct and accommodates a power source circuit that converts electric power supplied from the duct. The projection section body accommodates a projection section that projects an image, and the projection section body is so supported by the power source accommodation section that a direction in which the image is projected is adjustable.

A cemented lens is produced by cementing a first lens having a concave surface with a second lens having a convex surface. The second lens is placed on the concave surface of the first lens to align the concave surface with the convex surface. Adhesive is dropped in each predetermined place around the second lens by a predetermined quantity to abut against an outer circumferential end of the second lens. The position of the second lens is adjusted. The adhesive is irradiated with ultraviolet light. Thus, the outer circumferential end of the second lens is bonded with the concave surface of the first lens. There is no bonding layer between the cementing surfaces as in the related art. There is no fear that light passes through the bonding layer. It is therefore unnecessary to consider deterioration of optical performance caused by deformation of the adhesive exposed to intensive light.

There is provided an engine for a small vehicle where driven sprockets, around which a cam chain for transmitting power from a crankshaft is wound, are provided at one end of camshafts that form a part of a valve system provided with hydraulic valve-operation mode changing mechanisms; and a valve-moving hydraulic pressure control device, which controls hydraulic pressure applied to the valve-operation mode changing mechanisms, is provided in the engine body. In the engine, it is possible to increase the degree of freedom in disposing the oil passage between the valve-operation mode changing mechanism and the valve-moving hydraulic pressure control device while avoiding the increase in the number of parts and assembly man-hours. A valve-moving hydraulic pressure control device is mounted on the side surface of the engine body on the side opposite to a cam chain in an axial direction of a camshaft.

The present invention relates to a hair cutting appliance (10), a blade set (20) for a hair cutting appliance (10), and to a stationary blade (22) for said blade set (20), said blade (22) comprising a first wall segment (50), a second wall segment (52), and an intermediate wall segment (54), wherein the first wall segment (50), the second wall segment (52), and the intermediate wall segment (54) are fixedly interconnected, thereby forming a segmented stack (56), wherein the intermediate wall segment (54) is disposed between the first wall segment (50) and the second wall segment (52), wherein the first wall segment (50), the second wall segment (52), and the intermediate wall segment (54) comprise a substantially equivalent overall extension, thereby jointly forming, at an end of the segmented stack (56), at least one toothed leading edge (32, 34), wherein the at least one leading edge (32, 34) comprises a plurality of mutually spaced apart projections (36) defining a plurality of teeth (40) and respective tooth spaces (42), wherein the mutually spaced apart projections (36) at least partially extend forwardly in a longitudinal direction (X, r) approximately perpendicular to the transverse direction (Y, t), wherein the intermediate wall segment (54) comprises at least one cutout portion (68), and wherein the at least one cutout portion (68) in the intermediate wall segment (54), the first wall segment (50) and the second wall segment (52) define therebetween a guide slot (76) for a movable blade (24). The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing a respective blade.

An antenna module, which minimizes a space, in an electronic apparatus set, occupied thereby without changing characteristics thereof, improves a degree of freedom of the installation structure thereof to increase the space utilization of the set, and achieves miniaturization and multi-functionality of electronic apparatuses, and an electronic apparatus having the antenna module. The antenna module includes a PCB (printed circuit board) made of nonconductive material having flexibility; an antenna element mounted at a designated position of the upper surface of the PCB; a ground line formed on the PCB so that the ground line is connected to a ground terminal of the antenna element, and provided with a joint portion formed at one end thereof; a feeder line formed on the PCB so that the feeder line is connected to a signal terminal of the antenna element, and provided with a joint portion formed at one end thereof; and a passive line, having a designated length, formed on the PCB in parallel with the feeder line. The joint portions of the ground line and the feeder line are bonded to designated positions of a set of the wireless electronic apparatus, and a portion of the antenna module having the antenna element mounted on the PCB is located outside the set.

A work piece conveyor whose structure is simplified and downsized with the intention of achieving cost reduction, an improved degree of freedom in setting a motion pattern and improved productive efficiency. The workpiece conveyor is such that a cross bar carrier for supporting a cross bar provided with vacuum cups is movably attached, through a linear movement mechanism, to a feed lever which is oscillating-driven along a workpiece conveying direction, thereby making the relative distance between the center of oscillation of the rocking element and the cross bar variable.

A coil is configured so that: N conductor wires of wave windings each divided at at least two positions in a circumferential direction are provided in one of a plurality of slots; within a unit of the divided wave windings in which conduction is made, the N conductor wires are connected in one of series and parallel to each other at division positions located at substantially the same circumferential position of conductor-wire end portions; division units of the divided wave windings are connected in series to each other, and a total number of series turns of the series-connected division units of the each phase is a predetermined number of series turns, which does not exceed an upper limit value of a terminal voltage of the rotary electric machine; and the series-connected division units of the each phase have the same total number of series turns.

The present invention relates to a terminal and a method for executing an application in the same, including the steps of: confirming the weight of the application when a code of the application to be executed is inputted; calculating an allocation index using the confirmed weight; selecting a processing device for executing the application between a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit through the calculated application index; and executing the application through the selected processing device. Accordingly, the present invention determines whether the execution of the application is assigned to the central processing unit or the graphics processing unit according to the weight designated by the user. Thus, the present invention can prevent the tipping effect of the workload only to one processing unit which is caused by an increase in the degree of freedom for the workload distribution.

A display optical system for guiding light from an image to an observer or a surface projecting an image thereon with a first optical system and second optical system. The first optical system having a first surface formed on a transparent body with a reflecting action, a second surface reflecting light reflected on the first surface toward the first surface again, and a third surface formed on the transparent body transmitting light from the image. The light transmitted through the third surface travels toward the first surface and is reflected for the first time. In addition, a principal ray, central angle of view to be reflected for the last time on the first surfaces is reflected to a side opposite a side of the first reflection on the first surface with respect to a normal line of a surface on a hit point thereof.

A resonator device includes a resonator supported by a substrate as a base. The resonator is connected to a wire extending from the substrate by wire bonding so as to be suspended in midair and supported over the supporting substrate.

Disclosed herein are a capacitive touch screen and a manufacturing method thereof. The capacitive touch screen includes a base member on which a plurality of electrode patterns are formed; a conductive adhesive member formed on ends of the electrode patterns; and a window disposed on an upper side of the base member and having a plurality of electrode wirings formed in the outer side thereof to be conducted with the electrode patterns by the conductive adhesive member and to be opposite to the electrode patterns.

It is configured by forming first IDT (202) and second IDT (203) on piezoelectric substrate (201), and first IDT (202) is arranged between one terminal (204) of input/output terminals and other terminal (205) of the input/output terminals, i.e., serially to a signal path, and second IDT (203) is arranged in parallel to a signal path from a portion between one terminal (204) of the input/output terminals and first IDT (202). First IDT (202) and second IDT (203) are arranged in proximity to each other on the same propagation path of surface acoustic waves which are excited by respective resonators.

A method of production of a circuit board utilizing electroplating which prevents signal reflection and noise due to unnecessary parts in the circuit patterns when electroplating to form circuit patterns on the board to thereby improve the electrical properties and realize higher density layout of the circuit patterns, including the steps of forming a first electroless plating layer and an overlying first plating resist on a metal foil-clad insulating board, feeding power to the first electroless plating layer to form a first electroplating layer over the first electroless plating layer in resist openings; removing the first plating resist; removing the exposed first electroless plating layer and metal foil to expose the insulating board; forming a second electroless plating layer over the exposed parts of the board and the circuit patterns; forming a second plating resist over that; removing the second electroless plating layer at the resist openings; feeding power to the second electroless plating layer under the second plating resist to form a second electroplating layer over the circuit patterns in the resist openings; removing the second plating resist; and removing the exposed second electroless plating layer.