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A system designs a thin and relatively flat microwave focusing lens that can produce multiple simultaneous beams, using readily-available isotropic dielectric materials, and having a gradient-index (GRIN) profile. The design optimizes the lens to achieve beam scanning and / or multiple beams over a wide field of regard (FOR) with broad bandwidth and a very short focal length compared with conventional lenses. The lens can be used individually or as an element in a more complex antenna having multiple lenses in various orientations that are independently switched, selected and / or excited simultaneously as elements in a phased array. The antenna terminal incorporates such lens into an array of lenses along with one or more feeds to produce single or multiple beams covering a broad field of regard for such applications as satellite communications on-the-move, cellular, broadband point-point or point-multipoint and other terrestrial or satellite communications systems. The lens and array design support multiple simultaneous independently steerable beams as well as null placement for interference cancellation.

A device for the manual metering of a medical fluid, such as a hardening resin of the bone cement type, comprises a chamber for the fluid to be metered (2, 102) with an end opening (6), a gripping handle (7, 107), a piston (10, 110) which is housed in the chamber (2, 102) and provided with an operating member (12) for a user, and screw-type actuating means (13) arranged in between the operating member (12) and the piston (10) so as to perform the longitudinal movement thereof and pressurise the fluid to be metered. The screw means (13) may be modified so as to change from an operative configuration, where the piston is fed micrometrically, to an inoperative configuration, where the piston may move freely. The screw means (13) comprise an outer thread (14, 114) associated with the piston (10) and a female-thread element (15, 115) formed integrally on the handle (7, 107); the handle may be deformed elastically by means of transverse compression so as to change the screw means (13) from their operative configuration to their inoperative configuration.

A first bending portion, a second bending portion, a third bending portion, and a fourth bending portion are formed by a coiled spring. A front link member is disposed toward a front tube of the first bending portion, and a rear link member is disposed toward a rear tube of the fourth bending portion. A first intermediate link member is disposed between the first bending portion and the second bending portion, a second intermediate link member is disposed between the second bending portion and the third bending portion, and a third intermediate link member is disposed between the third bending portion and the fourth bending portion. A first actuator includes a tube member and an SMA wire member, and when a distance between the front link member and the tube member is shortened by driving the first actuator, the first bending portion is bent.

An imaging lens consists of negative first lens having a concave image-side surface, positive second lens, negative third lens, positive fourth lens, positive fifth lens having a convex image-side surface, and negative sixth lens, which are in this order from an object side. In the imaging lens, all of the lenses constituting the lens system are single lenses, which are not cemented lenses, and a stop is arranged closer to the object side than an image-side surface of the fourth lens is arranged. When a refractive index of a material of the third lens for d-line is Nd3, the following formula (1-1) is satisfied:Nd3<1.65  (1-1).

The motorcycle is provided with a pipeline 84 for supplying at least hydrogen and oxygen. A fuel cell 12 is disposed below a seat 22 on which a driver sits. A connection port 80 between the fuel cell 12 and the pipe line 84 is disposed rearward of a foot step 82 on which the driver can set his foot. Accordingly, a space A necessary and sufficient for the foot step 82 is guaranteed, thereby improving a foot setting property at the time of traveling and a foot setting property at the time of stop.

A lead-frame circuit package comprises a die and a substrate located thereon to route radio frequency signals to / from the die. The package preferably comprises an exposed pad on the die to receive a power amplifier device wherein the substrate is used to provide high-Q elements such as RF chokes on signal paths to / from the power amplifier device.In this manner, the design benefits from the power capabilities and improved grounding of a lead-frame conductor, whilst also achieving the routeing capabilities and small scale advantages provided by a multi-layer printed circuit substrate.

The image forming apparatus includes a charging unit, a latent image forming unit, a transfer unit that develops the latent image, a first application unit that applies a voltage to the charging and transfer units, a second application unit that applies a voltage opposite in polarity to the voltage applied from the first application unit, a detection unit that detects a current flowing through the transfer unit, and a control unit that determines whether or not discharge starts between the charging unit and the image bearing member based on the current detected by the detection unit when the voltage is applied from the first application unit to the charging unit. The variation in potential of the image bearing member may be reduced in an apparatus having a low-cost structure without providing a density detection sensor or a temperature-humidity sensor.

A metallic barrier (1) and a method for separating fuel (5) and oxidant (6) gases are disclosed for use in high temperature systems such as solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) or cell stacks. The metallic barrier (1) can be formed as a metallic bipolar separator plate or a seal, without requiring the use of chromium alloys or noble metals. Controlled diffusion of fuel gas (5) through the metallic barrier (1) limits the thickness of an adherent electronically insulating oxide layer (4) on an opposing surface in contact with oxidant gas (6). This stabilized oxide layer may be penetrated by refractory conductive particles such as doped lanthanum chromite to provide multiple electronically conductive paths through the oxide layer and the metallic barrier.

An imaging lens includes a first lens, second lens, third lens, aperture stop, and fourth lens, sequentially arranged from the object-side. The first lens has negative power, and an object-side surface is convex and an image-side surface is concave. Both surfaces of the second lens are aspheric, and in the vicinity of the optical axis, the second lens has negative power, and the object-side surface is concave and the image-side surface is concave. Both surfaces of the third lens are aspheric, and in the vicinity of the optical axis, the third lens has positive power, and the object-side surface is convex, and the image-side surface is convex. Both surfaces of the fourth lens are aspheric, and in the vicinity of the optical axis, the fourth lens has positive power, and the object-side surface is concave, and the image-side surface is convex. Formula (1) about curvature radii is satisfied.

The present invention provides a LED (Light Emitting Diodes) traffic signal device including a plurality of LEDs, a light-distribution lens and a Fresnel lens arranged between the plurality of LEDs and the light-distribution lens. The Fresnel lens is formed with multiple sections coaxially arranged with respect to an optical axis, every section having a different radius of curvature corresponding to a different focal distance.

A heat treatment apparatus includes a plurality of induction heating devices which heat a steel product, a correctional device which corrects the steel product, a computing device which computes supply predetermined electric power which is supplied to the induction heating device, on the basis of a size of the steel product, a conveying speed of the steel product, a heating target temperature of the steel product, and a predetermined temperature of the steel product at the previous stage of the induction heating devices, and a power supply unit which supplies the supply predetermined electric power computed by the computing device to the induction heating devices, and the computing device which computes electric power for uniform heating processing on the steel product or electric power for surface layer heating processing on the steel product.

The motorcycle is provided with a pipeline 84 for supplying at least hydrogen and oxygen. A fuel cell 12 is disposed below a seat 22 on which a driver sits. A connection port 80 between the fuel cell 12 and the pipe line 84 is disposed rearward of a foot step 82 on which the driver can set his foot. Accordingly, a space A necessary and sufficient for the foot step 82 is guaranteed, thereby improving a foot setting property at the time of traveling and a foot setting property at the time of stop.

In a disk array system, multiplexed clusters and multiplexed power source units for supplying power sources to the respective clusters are arranged. Each cluster has a power failure judging unit for judging the power source condition of other cluster. In response to a case where one cluster stops its operation first owing to a power failure, at the power failure, for example, MP of the cluster blocks the portion of the other cluster, and judges the power source condition of the other cluster on the basis of a signal from the power failure judging unit, and records power failure information showing the power source condition to a memory. At power recovery, if the cluster recognizes that the portion in blocked condition of the other cluster is in blockage owing to the power failure, the cluster recovers the portion.

A lens meter for measuring refractive power distribution of a progressive power lens and displaying its distribution map, has a lens rest having an aperture, an optical system including an axis, a source projecting a light bundle along the axis, a plate having targets and a two-dimensional image sensor detecting images by the bundle passing through the lens, aperture and plate, a part calculating the distribution within a measurement region from detection results, a part detecting a lens-position in a two-dimensional direction orthogonal to the axis, a device guiding movement on the rest to shift the measurement region and obtaining the distribution within an analysis region including distance, progressive and near portions, a part storing the distribution in the measurement region in association with the detected position, a display part, and a part controlling to display the distribution map within the analysis region based on the stored distribution and position.

A multi-chip light emitting device (LED) uses a low-cost carrier structure that facilitates the use of substrates that are optimized to support the devices that require a substrate. Depending upon the type of LED elements used, some of the LED elements may be mounted on the carrier structure, rather than on the more expensive ceramic substrate. In like manner, other devices, such as sensors and control elements, may be mounted on the carrier structure as well. Because the carrier and substrate structures are formed independent of the encapsulation and other after-formation processes, these structures can be tested prior to encapsulation, thereby avoiding the cost of these processes being applied to inoperative structures.

A robotic system including at least one support that supports a carriage for movement. The support may include a drive surface that is a “net shape” surface, i.e., is formed without machining. The carriage may have a traction drive that engages with the drive surface to move the carriage relative to the support. The traction drive may allow for slip at the drive surface. A bearing arrangement used to support the carriage on the support may require mainly radial forces be exerted on roller bearing elements on the carriage. A machine vision system and / or force control techniques may be used to control movement of the carriage and / or other portions of the robotic system.

System and method for funding via a prepaid card a financial product intended at a time of purchase by a purchaser for a customer. A customer cash account is created and funds allocated to the prepaid card are redeemed solely as cash funds in the customer's cash account. The customer may either withdraw at least some of the cash funds in the customer's cash account or apply at least some of the cash funds in the customer's cash account to a financial product. In response to receiving the customer's instructions to apply at least some of the cash funds from the customer's cash account to a financial product selected by the customer as well as their acknowledgement of disclosures or consent to an agreement related to the selected financial product, the cash funds are applied to an associated financial product account.

In a peer-to-peer network system, a first network terminal sends a request message to a host terminal. The host terminal receives this request message and extracts from this message an IP address of the first network terminal. A second network terminal also sends a request message to the host terminal, and the host terminal receives this request message, too. The host terminal sends a reply message to the second network terminal, where the host terminal has the IP address of the first network terminal contained in this reply message. The second network terminal extracts from the reply message the IP address of the first network and, based on this extracted IP address, starts a peer-to-peer communication with the first network terminal.

The invention relates to a positioning device, in particular to a non-contact type positioning device for a lighting body capable of utilizing different color sequences, comprising a light source device, a shooting inductor, a software and hardware device processed by the shooting inductor, and connection software which is connected with a terminal device and has corresponding communication and positioning functions, wherein the light source device is a lighting source with two or more than two colors and can sequentially change a color light source, the shooting inductor is used for image interception with fixed frequency in each second, each distinct image is taken by the shooting inductor, the software and hardware device processed by the shooting inductor is used for judging if the light source device can sequentially change the color light source and the light spot positions of the color light source and is also used for eliminating the interruption of other fixed light sources, and then the software and hardware device carries out light spot coordinate operation, and then inputs light spot coordinate values to the terminal device. The invention has the advantages that the non-contact type positioning device eliminates the interruption by a changing light source when being compared with a fixed or changed background color or other interrupting light sources and precisely positions the light source position, thereby having low cost and effectively preventing the environmental interruption.

A semiconductor laser, such as a vertical cavity, surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is coupled to an optical fiber. The other end of the optical fiber has a reflector, so as to provide a fiber-extended cavity for the VCSEL. Such a construction is useful for providing modal stability to the VCSEL or for forming a mode-locked VCSEL. The optical fiber may be a graded index fiber. In such a case, the fiber length may be selected to have an integral number of quarter pitch lengths. The fiber may be doped with an excitable species and lies within a fiber laser cavity. A semiconductor laser may pump the fiber laser, yielding an emission wavelength beyond the scope of the conventional semiconductor laser.

A retainer plate 7a is fitted on a smaller-diameter step portion 9a of an outer ring 5a, and a retaining ring 11 fitted on the smaller-diameter step portion 9a is engaged with retaining projections 15 formed on an inner circumferential surface of a fitting hole 12 formed through the retainer plate 7a, thereby preventing the retainer plate 7a from falling-off from the smaller-diameter step portion 9a. The structures and shapes of the various portions are so determined that working or machining can be easily effected to form these portions so as to overcome a problem encountered with the conventional structure.

A retainer plate 7a is fitted on a smaller-diameter step portion 9a of an outer ring 5a, and a retaining ring 11 fitted on the smaller-diameter step portion 9a is engaged with retaining; projections 15 formed on an inner circumferential surface of a fitting hole 12 formed through the retainer plate 7a, thereby preventing the retainer plate 7a from falling-off from the smaller-diameter step portion 9a. The structures and shapes of the various portions are so determined that working or machining can be easily effected to form these portions so as to overcome a problem encountered with the conventional structure.

Provided is a printer apparatus, including: a thermal print head that performs printing by contacting a heat-sensitive color-developing layer of a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet that includes a printable surface made from the heat-sensitive color-developing layer on one surface of a sheet-like base material, and a heat-sensitive adhesive layer on another surface of the sheet-like base material; a thermal-activation thermal head that activates the heat-sensitive adhesive layer by heating; a cutter device that cuts the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet; a transporting unit that transports the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet; and a controlling unit that controls the thermal print head, the thermal-activation thermal head, and the cutter device. The controlling unit controls the transporting unit to transport the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet so as to pass through the thermal print head, the thermal head used for activation, and the cutter device, in order; and to transport a leading edge of a remainder portion of the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet, after the cutter device cuts the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet, to return to a printing position of the thermal print head or to a heating position of the thermal-activation thermal head.

A rotation information record surface of a rotary disk is disposed at an intermediate position between a fixing point of the rotary disk and a rotary shaft and a fixing position of a detection head, so that a stable gap can be obtained with a variation due to thermal expansion being reduced. In order to attain this, the fitting portion of the rotary disk is shaped to have a first fitting portion and a second fitting portion. The first fitting portion is provided for attaining satisfactory coaxiality, and the second fitting portion is adapted to form a clearance into which bonding means such as an adhesive is to be infused. With the above structure, an optimum detection position (i.e. an optimum gap position) would not be varied by a change in the ambient temperature.

A starter for an internal combustion engine is provided which includes a pair of angular contact ball bearings used to support an armature shaft. The bearings are disposed close to opposed ends of a core of an armature. The core has disposed thereon coils which define a commutator on one of the ends of the core. One of the bearings is disposed within an inner periphery of the commutator. This structure results in a decreased interval between the bearings, thus ensuring stability in supporting the armature shaft during rotation, which results in decreased mechanical vibrations, magnetic noises, and wear of the bearings.