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An ink jet head which is -prevented from corrosion by ink, and an ink jet recording apparatus using the same. An ink-resistant thin film (25) made of Ti, a Ti compound, or Al2O3 is formed on the surface of recess portions (21 to 23) of a substrate in which a reservoir (8) for reserving ink, orifices (7) and pressure chambers (6) are formed. Since this ink-resistant thin film (25) is formed, corrosion can be restrained without reducing printing quality, without necessity to change the component / composition of the ink and the material of the head, and with little change of its manufacturing process, even if there is a fear that the head material may be corroded by the ink.

Coding an audio signal includes selecting a reference sequence that has the smallest error relative to a sequence of the audio signal, calculating pitch predictor coefficients for the selected reference sequence using one of a set of pitch predictor orders, producing a predicted sequence from the selected reference sequence using the calculated pitch predictor coefficients, and calculating a coding error by comparing the predicted sequence to the sequence to be coded. Coding also includes calculating pitch predictor coefficients for the selected reference sequence, producing a predicted sequence from the selected reference sequence, and calculating a coding error by comparing the predicted sequence to the sequence to be coded, for each of the remaining orders of the set of pitch predictor orders, and using an order from the set of pitch predictor orders that results in the smallest coding error to select a coding method for the sequence to be coded.

To realize downsizing. This invention provides an imaging apparatus with an irradiation means for irradiating a body with irradiation light stronger than light in the air coming to the body, a solid imaging element for performing photoelectric conversion on a pattern light of unique tissues obtained through the body, and a sensitivity adjustment means for adjusting the imaging sensitivity of the solid imaging element to the unique tissues by limiting the amount of a signal which is stored per unit time through the photoelectric conversion in the solid imaging element.

The present invention provides a method of synthesizing fluorided metallocene catalyst components comprising contacting at least one fluoriding agent comprising fluorine with one or more alkylated metallocene catalyst components comprising one or more non-halogen leaving groups to produce a fluorided catalyst component; wherein from less than 3 equivalents of fluorine are contacted for every equivalent of leaving group. The method of the invention is exemplified by the following reaction which takes place in a non-coordinating diluent such as pentane: wherein one or both of the “Cp” rings may be substituted with an R group as described herein, and may be bridged. The reaction can be run at any desirable temperature, desirably between 10° C. and 35° C. The reaction product of the BF3 and dimethyl zirconocene is the fluorided zirconocene. The mole ratio of the BF3 fluoriding agent and the starting metallocene is less than 2:1 (fluoriding agent:metallocene) in one embodiment, and less than or equal to 1.6:1 in a particular embodiment, and less than or equal to 1.5:1 in a more particular embodiment, and less than or equal to 1.2:1 in yet a more particular embodiment.

An ink container includes a casing having a substantially rectangular shape; a plurality of ink accommodating portions defined by partition in the casing; ink supply ports provided, in a bottom side of the casing, for the ink accommodating portions, respectively; wherein the ink container is detachably mountable to a holder provided with a recording head portion for ejecting ink accommodated in the ink accommodating portion, wherein the plurality of ink supply ports are disposed deviated toward one of long edge of the bottom side; and a plurality of dimple portions in which the supply ports are formed, respectively, and the dimples is cut away and opens adjacent to the one of edges.

In a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor layer, a conductive layer is formed in contact with a lower portion of the oxide semiconductor layer and treatment for adding an impurity is performed, so that a channel formation region and a pair of low-resistance regions between which the channel formation region is sandwiched are formed in the oxide semiconductor layer in a self-aligned manner. Wiring layers electrically connected to the conductive layer and the low-resistance regions are provided in openings of an insulating layer.

An electronic book system, which provides a service for improving usability for users by sharing, acquiring, and analyzing text information and image information contained in an electronic book and various information items added to the electronic book, is provided. A typical aspect of the present invention includes a content server and a terminal including a viewer. The viewer includes comment input means that receives an input of a comment for transmission to the content server and freehand-memo input means that receives an input of a freehand memo for transmission to the content server; and the content server includes a comment processing unit that retains information about the comment in comment storing means, retains information about the freehand memo in freehand-memo storing means, causes the comment and the freehand memo to be displayed when a user browses the electronic book and, when another user browses the electronic book, causes the freehand memo to be displayed on a viewer of the another user.

To realize downsizing. This invention provides an imaging apparatus with an irradiation means for irradiating a body with irradiation light stronger than light in the air coming to the body, a solid imaging element for performing photoelectric conversion on a pattern light of unique tissues obtained through the body, and a sensitivity adjustment means for adjusting the imaging sensitivity of the solid imaging element to the unique tissues by limiting the amount of a signal which is stored per unit time through the photoelectric conversion in the solid imaging element.

Conventionally, there is a technique to conduct a cause analysis in which a single evaluation axis, such as a performance time, is used to configure a problem point network. However, in particular, in a system to visualize a management problem in which problems are intricately-intertwined with one another, information on multiple evaluation axes, collected from a business system, are utilized, and units are different for respective evaluation axes. Therefore, it is difficult to simply specify a cause of problem occurrence. In view of this situation, an object of the present invention is to extract and present factor which has a significant influence on the problem occurrence. The present invention is directed to an apparatus which stores causal relation information specifying the causal relation and the relation level between the indexes, business goal achievement level information, and an influence level of the causal relation, calculates the influence level by using the business goal achievement level information and the relation level of the causal relation, specifies as the causal index the index having a large influence, and generates screen information for displaying a graph and / or table relating to the causal index.

The present invention enables a power-supply voltage terminal and an internal circuit to be isolated from each other in a noncontact operation without largely increasing a chip area in a semiconductor integrated circuit device for an IC card. A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises: a first power supply circuit for rectifying and smoothing an AC signal supplied from an antenna to an antenna terminal, thereby obtaining a DC voltage in a first power-supply line; a second power supply circuit comprising a voltage control circuit for controlling gate terminal voltage of a first MOS transistor disposed between a power supply terminal to which power is input from the outside and the first power supply line; a substrate potential control circuit for forming source voltage of the first MOS transistor as a substrate voltage; and a second MOS transistor which makes substrate voltage and gate voltage of the first MOS transistor conductive in the case of using the voltage generated by the first power supply circuit as a power supply, and which makes the substrate voltage and the gate voltage nonconductive in the case of using a power supply from an external terminal.

Provided is a manufacturing method for a solid-state image pickup device, which enables easily manufacturing a thin-type solid-state image pickup device at a wafer level. A support substrate is bonded to a cover glass substrate. A surface of the cover glass substrate on an opposite side to the support substrate is mechanically polished. A part of the support substrate is removed, and a plurality of frame-shaped spacers are formed on the cover glass substrate. The cover glass substrate is made thinner by wet etching so as to have a predetermined thickness. The cover glass substrate and a silicon wafer on which solid-state image pickup elements are formed are attached to each other via the spacers. The cover glass substrate is divided into individual pieces. The silicon wafer is divided into individual pieces. In this way, the solid-state image pickup device is manufactured.

In a sensor network system, sensor data having a high precision (high resolution) is collected, and yet congestion of a communication network and an apparatus for processing the sensor data is suppressed. A sensor node 1 has a contribution degree calculating means 123 for calculating an influence that the detected sensor information exerts upon the entire precision (resolution). And, a first communicating means 121 transmits sensor information responding to a calculated contribution so that no congestion caused by transmitting a large quantity of data all at once occurs.

Embodiments of the invention provide a rotary disk storage device in which dust particles are less likely to deposit on the air bearing surface of each head / slider. The actuator head suspension assembly is configured so as to make the skew angle of the head / slider positive at about 80% or more of all the tracks. Specifically, the actuator head suspension assembly is configured in such a manner that the distance L2 between the center of the pivot shaft and the intersection point P of the trailing edge of the head / slider is made longer than a given length or there is an angle β between the reference line Y and the pivot line Z.

A brake system comprises a brake lever that operates an integrated brake assembly that is housed within a portion of the frame of a bicycle. Operation of the brake system can employ a master cylinder that is actuated by the brake lever either directly or by cable. Actuation of the master cylinder causes one or more corresponding slave cylinders to actuate. The slave cylinders are operatively coupled with the master cylinder via a hydraulic line. Actuation of the one or more slave cylinders causes a brake pad that is connected to the slave cylinder to come into contact with the rim of the bicycle.

To provide a compact projector in which a projection image is formed by using four kinds of color light so as to expandmagnify an expressible color gamut of the projection image and to achieve an excellent light utilization efficiency, a projector includes a light source, a color-separation optical system, a light-modulation optical system, and a color-synthesis optical system. The color-separation optical system produces four kinds of color light whose output directions are different from each other. The light-modulation optical system includes a first two-color-modulation electro-optical device to modulate any two of the four kinds of color light separated by the color-separation optical system and a second two-color-modulation electro-optical device to modulate the remaining two kinds of color light. Each two two-color-modulation electro-optical device includes a microlens array on a substrate close to the color-separation optical system and a plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to respective microlenses.

An image capturing apparatus performs focus detection based on a pair of image signals obtained from an image sensor including pixels each having a pair of photoelectric conversion units capable of outputting the pair of image signals obtained by independently receiving a pair of light beams that have passed through different exit pupil regions of an imaging optical system. In the focus detection, an f-number of the imaging optical system is acquired, the pair of image signals undergo filtering using a first filter formed from an summation filter when the f-number is less than a predetermined threshold, or using a second filter formed from the summation filter and a differential filter when the f-number is not less than the threshold, and focus detection is performed by a phase difference method based on the pair of filtered image signals.

Disclosed is a lamp unit 10 which comprises a hat-shaped reflector 2 having an inner surface formed as a reflective surface for reflecting light, a plurality of bar-shaped light source lamps 1 each of which has an anchor end fixed to a vicinity of an end wall 2a of the reflector 2, and an insertion portion inserted inside the reflector 2 to protrude toward an opening of the reflector 2, and a reflection member 3 having an outer surface formed as a reflective surface. The reflection member 3 is disposed in a central region of the end wall 2a of the reflector 2 in such a manner to protrude toward the opening of the reflector 2. In the lamp unit, a protrusion length “d1” of the reflection member 3 is set in the range of one-third to three-fourths of a protrusion length “d2” of the insertion portion of each of the bar-shaped light source lamps 1. The present invention can optimize a positional relationship between the reflection member and each of the bar-shaped light source lamps so as to obtain enhanced illumination efficiency.

An attribute reading portion (43) reads attribute information (53, 73, 93, 113) stored in a plurality of second units (5, 7, 9, 11). A connection order deciding portion (45) decides optimum order of a plurality of second units in a daisy-chain connection relative to a first unit (3) based on the read attribute information. A selector controlling portion (47) controls selectors (25, 27, 29, 31, 33) based on the decision. Also, according to another embodiment, when card modules (1002, 1003) are connected to a receiver unit main body, a daisy-chain connection of the card modules can be achieved by switches (1042, 1043, 1044, 1045). Then, a synchronizing signal detector circuit (101) detects a packet synchronizing signal in a digital broadcasting signal which is passed through the card modules. A video / sound decoder circuit (1008) decodes the digital broadcasting signal. In case an error is generated in each circuit (101, 1008), a control circuit (1032) disconnects the defective card module from the daisy-chain connection.

A marine vessel propulsion device includes an engine, a jet propulsion unit, and a reverse gate. The jet propulsion unit includes a jet port arranged to jet water toward a rear of a hull. The reverse gate is arranged to be capable of being changed in opening degree between a fully closed position of covering an entirety of the jet port and a fully opened position of not covering the jet port at all. The reverse gate is arranged to be moved, between the fully closed position and the fully opened position, to a first partially closed position of only partially covering the jet port and a second partially closed position of only partially covering the jet port and being closer to the fully opened position than the first partially closed position.

In one example, an apparatus comprises a treatment metric model database that stores a plurality of treatment metric models, each of the plurality of treatment metric models being generated for a first cluster of cluster features vectors, each cluster feature vector representing a distribution for each of a plurality of data categories of patients data represented by patient feature vectors clustered in a second cluster. The apparatus is further configured to: receive patient characteristics features data of a patient; identify a first treatment metric model based on the patient characteristics features data of the patient; input the first patient characteristic features data and data representing a range of administrations of the treatment to the first treatment metric model to compute a range of the treatment metric; and select an administration of the treatment from the range of administrations of the treatment having optimal treatment metric.

An estimator 120 of a mobile station 100a of the present invention estimates traveling speed information which is a value variable with either a traveling speed of the mobile station or a variation in the traveling speed. A comparison unit 130 or a comparison unit 320 compares the traveling speed information estimated by the estimator with a threshold defined as a value of traveling speed information for achieving a desired level of communication quality which varies depending on the traveling speed. A selector 150 or a selector 340 selects an applicable frequency band in response to a result of comparison.

In an electric motor control apparatus, an electric motor driving unit includes: a current detection unit configured to detect a current flowing through a current detection place in the electric motor driving unit. A control unit includes a current calculation unit configured to calculate a current value of a current flowing through an electric motor from an offset correction value obtained based on a first detection value detected at a time when a current flows through the current detection place and a second detection value detected at a time when a current does not flow through the current detection place. The offset correction value includes: a first offset correction value stored in nonvolatile memory of the control unit at a time of assembling the electric motor control apparatus; and a second offset correction value computed by the control unit while the electric motor is driven.

The present invention provides a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device that can optimize a timing of performing an error detection and correction process to shorten a processing time. Upon receiving a write request to a memory cell array including a variable resistive element where information is stored based on a resistance state of a variable resistor, an input / output buffer outputs write data to a write control unit and an ECC control unit. The write control unit performs a data write process of writing divided data, obtained by dividing the write data into a predetermined number of data, to the databanks. The ECC control unit generates a first error correction code by performing an error correction code generation process to the write data or the divided data, in parallel with the data write process. The write control unit performs a code write process of writing first test data into an ECC bank.

With a conventional method of causing impregnation of a liquid seasoning into food, it takes many hours for the liquid seasoning to substantially make permeation. Occasionally, impregnation was not at all attained. Such proposals have been made that food soaked in a liquid seasoning is pressurized, or that water content of food is dehydrated. An apparatus and a facility for carrying out processing to food need to be larger in size, thereby taking cost and being not suitable for mass production. Also, uniform permeation of the liquid seasoning in a short time was not achieved.The present invention provides a liquid seasoning used for seasoning food subjected to processing with a micro-nano bubble generating device, thereby enabling the liquid seasoning to have impregnation to food in a short time, particularly, facilitating impregnation of good flavor and taste compositions other than salt. Moreover, providing the processing to the liquid seasoning enables the apparatus and equipment to be simple in comparison with the conventional art applying processes to food, resulting in cost reduced and energy-saving.food

In order to provide an optical recording condition setting method which reduces effects from uneven properties of a rewritable or recordable optical disk and an optical recording / reproducing device, and to provide an optical recording / reproducing device which executes the method, (i) a test writing is carried out with respect to an optical disk under various settings of recording-power parameters for use in forming a shortest record-mark (S1 to S3), (iii) a test pattern used in the test writing is reproduced (S4), and then (iv) recording-power parameters that result in a good quality of reproduced signals are selected (S5).