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An electronic apparatus includes a light source that outputs a laser light; a scanning unit that scans the laser light; a reflective member having a reflective surface that reflects the laser light; a light-receiving unit that receives a first reflected light reflected by the reflective member; and a signal processing unit that calculates a distance from the light source to the reflective surface using the first reflected light and determines a direction in which the laser light is output using the distance.

A multi-spectral imaging device includes pixels R, G, B, λ1, λ2, . . . , λ12 composing color sensors for four or more colors having mutually differing spectral sensitivity characteristics. In a first signal readout mode, an image signal including all of four or more types of signals read from the pixels composing the color sensors for the four or more colors is read from the multi-spectral imaging device. In a second signal readout mode, an image signal having a smaller number of colors than that of the first signal readout mode is read such that a narrower gamut than a gamut that can be reproduced by the image signal read in the first signal readout mode is formed.

I an LSI package, an interface module includes with an interposer having a signal processing LSI mounted thereon and has electric connection terminals for connection to a mounting board and a transmission line for transmitting a high-speed signal to an external wiring. An electric connection terminal is formed in each of the interposer and the interface module for electrically connecting the interposer and the interface module to each other by the mechanical contact, and a fixing holder is mounted for allowing the electric connection terminals to hold the electric connection between the interposer and the interface module. Thus, it is possible to suppress the increase in the manufacturing cost that is caused by the complex construction of the assembly.

Disclosed is a pneumatic tire enabling to even a weight balance thereof in a tire circumferential direction in realizing reduction of cavity resonance noise by using an annular object having cross-sectional areas which vary depending on locations in the tire circumferential direction. The pneumatic tire of the present invention is one in which an annular object having cross-sectional areas which vary depending on locations in the tire circumferential direction is mounted on an inner surface of a tread portion. In the pneumatic tire, the annular object is formed by partially applying compression forming to a porous material member having a density of 5 to 70 kg/m³ and having an uniform cross-sectional shape in the tire circumferential direction.

A tensile pole tent having improved wind performance, having a polygonal projection in plan view, perimeter catenaries, a flexible canopy continuously attached to the catenaries, corner posts to support the catenaries, a membrane interface or field joint between adjacent membrane modules consisting of, for example, a novel water-shedding keder rail, or a zipper or daisy chain grommets and loops. The membrane interface can be sealed against precipitation by cover flaps that extend upwards from the membrane and come into contact above the interface.

A display unit of the present invention includes a display section (10) that outputs a first linearly-polarized light as image light, and a display switching section (20) that performs switching between an image display mode and an external light reflection mode. The display section (10) includes a first absorption-type polarization member (11) that allows the first linearly-polarized light to pass through and absorbs second linearly-polarized light. The display switching section (20) includes a reflection-type polarization member (21), a switchable transmission polarization axis member (22), and a second absorption-type polarization member (23). The reflection-type polarization member (21) allows the first linearly-polarized light to pass through and reflects the second linearly-polarized light. The switchable transmission polarization axis member (22) performs switching between a first mode in which the first linearly-polarized light is converted into the second linearly-polarized light and a second mode in which the first linearly-polarized light is not converted into the second linearly-polarized light. The second absorption-type polarization member (23) allows the first linearly-polarized light to pass through and absorbs the second linearly-polarized light. The second absorption-type polarization member (23) has a hue b* value that is equal to or smaller than a hue b* value of the first absorption-type polarization member (11).

A segmented dual layer parallax barrier-based 3D display device may includes an image panel that displays a left image and a right image so as to alternately display a left-image column and a right-image column; a dual layer parallax barrier that includes a first common electrode, a second common electrode, a plurality of first individual electrodes, a plurality of second individual electrodes, a plurality of segmented electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer, and blocks specific portions of the displayed images; and a driving unit that drives the electrodes based on the distance between the image panel and the viewer so as to allow the viewer to view the left image and the right image, separately.

A door weather strip is attached round a circumferential edge of a door of an automotive vehicle. An extruded portion 7 which makes up mainly an upper side portion of the door weather strip includes an attaching base portion 15 which is fixed to an inner panel 5 with clip members 13, a hollow main seal portion 16 which is brought into press contact with a circumferential edge of a door opening, a sub-seal lip 25 which is brought into press contact with the circumferential edge of the door opening in a position lying further transversely outwards than the main seal portion 16, a back-side lip 26 which is brought into press contact with a flange portion 27 formed on the circumferential edge of the door, a draining lip 30 which is formed to extend from an external side wall portion 19 of the attaching base portion 15 so as to be brought into press contact with the flange portion 27 and a water stopping rib 33 which is provided on a base bottom portion 17 of the attaching base portion 15 in such a manner as to be brought into press contact with an attaching surface 5b of the inner panel 5.

A liquid crystal display device includes a touch panel constructed from a single substrate plate and disposed over a liquid crystal display panel. A color filter is disposed over a TFT substrate, and the touch panel is bonded onto the color filter substrate by way of a first adhesion layer. An upper polarizing plate is bonded over the touch panel, and a front window is bonded over the upper polarizing plate via a second adhesion layer. The front window covers a terminal portion which is a portion where only the TFT substrate exists so as to physically protect the portion. Since the upper polarizing plate is disposed over the touch panel, the connection portion of the flexible wiring substrate for the touch panel does not contact with the front window. Thus, the touch panel can be prevented from being strained.

A magnetic tape device includes a magnetic tape as a storage medium; a travel unit that moves the magnetic tape along a travel route; a magnetic head that is arranged at the travel route and performs data reading and writing for the magnetic tape that moves on the travel route; and a lifter unit that is arranged at the travel route and contacts the magnetic tape which is stopped on the travel route, where the lifter unit is able to reciprocate in a direction that intersects the travel route so as to separate the magnetic tape from the magnetic head.

A substantially slow moving lawnmower capable of slowly mowing a lawn solely depends on the sun power is presented. The lawnmower needs no recharging from any other power source. A small battery is used to regulate the unsteady sun power so that normal mowing operation can be continued for a specific time period depends on the capacity of the battery. The lawnmower operates by itself continuously with least human interruption.

A region including an engaging hole is given surface treatment such as partial quench hardening by induction hardening for improving surface hardness of the region. The partial quench hardening by induction hardening provides the region with satisfactory mechanical strength or surface hardness enough for resisting deformation of the engaging hole and wear-out of an edge of opening of the engaging hole caused by putting in and out of the lock pin.

A circuit board is connected to a connector including a connection port and contact portions located at upper and lower positions of the connection port. The contact portions face each other in the vertical direction, and each contact portion is connected electrically to the opposite contact portion. The circuit board includes a base substrate, a first wiring layer, and a second wiring layer. First terminals connected to the first wiring layer are provided on one principal surface of the base substrate, and second terminals connected to the second wiring layer are provided on the other principal surface. The first terminals and the second terminals come into contact with the contact portions and are arranged so as not to overlap each other in the vertical direction.

A display device includes a display panel, a vibration sound device disposed below the display panel, a lower panel sheet disposed adjacent to the vibration sound device below the display panel and including a functional layer and a bottom coupling layer disposed on a lower surface of the functional layer, and a bracket disposed below the vibration sound device and the lower panel sheet and coupled with the bottom coupling layer, wherein the bottom coupling layer partially exposes the lower surface of the functional layer, a separation space is defined between the bracket and the lower surface of the functional layer where the bottom coupling layer is exposed, and the separation space is partially connected with the vibration sound device.

A salt mixture used for chemical strengthening of data recording disks is subjected to sub-micron filtration prior to use to remove certain impurities. Preferably, glass disks are chemically strengthened by ion exchange in a bath of molten sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate. A salt fresh mixture is prepared by starting with high-grade bulk salt in the intended proportions, melting the salt, and filtering the salt in a stainless steel filter, which is preferably approximately 2 micron or smaller. Filtration removes trace amounts of certain contaminants. The salt mixture thus prepared is then used for chemical strengthening of disks in the conventional manner.

Method and apparatus for communication (e.g., transmitting and/or receiving) command, address and data signals from a memory device to a memory controller or vice versa. The data signals are transferred with a first rate and command signals and/or address signals are transferred with a second rate lower than a first rate. Additionally or alternatively a command sequence code identifying a command sequence from a predefined group of command sequences is transferred with the first or with the second rate.

Provided is a battery device having high overcurrent detection current accuracy that suppresses increases in a resistance value of a charge/discharge path and in a manufacturing cost. A first charge/discharge control device is configured to monitor a charge/discharge current with a voltage generated across both ends of a charge/discharge control switch, and a second charge/discharge control device is configured to monitor the charge/discharge current with a voltage generated across both ends of a current sensing resistor. A field effect transistor forming the charge/discharge control switch is selected based on a desired ON resistance value. The charge/discharge control switch of the first charge/discharge control device includes a field effect transistor having the desired ON resistance value, and a charge/discharge control switch of the second charge/discharge control device includes a field effect transistor having an ON resistance value other than the desired ON resistance value.

An ultrasonic transducer includes a piezoelectric layer for generating an ultrasonic by using a power received from outside, a ground electrode attached to a first surface of the piezoelectric layer, a signal electrode attached to a second surface of the piezoelectric layer, and circuit boards connected to the ground electrode and the signal electrode. A part of the ground electrode and a part of the signal electrode are directly connected to the circuit boards, each of the ground electrode and the signal electrode includes flexible material, and the circuit boards include rigid material. The circuit boards may be provided on both sides of the ground electrode and the signal electrode. This structure provides a direct connection of the ground electrode or the signal electrode and the circuit boards to improve issues of cost increase for manufacturing socket connector ultrasonic transducers socket volume increase, socket designing challenges and socket failures.

A photovoltaic generation system includes: a solar cell array formed with one or more solar cell modules; and a power conditioner, wherein each of the solar cell modules includes one or more solar cells, the photovoltaic generation system further has a first conductive wire connected to a conductor parts which is provided at each of the solar cell modules and which is insulated from the solar cells, and a constant voltage power supply whose one end is connected to the first conductive wire, and a potential is supplied to the conductor parts by the constant voltage power supply. As a result, the photovoltaic generation system which can suppress degradation of solar cell characteristics due to PID while suppressing increase in manufacturing cost of the solar cell module is provided.

A cleaning member provided with a sheet structure in which fiber bundles having a structure in which multiple fibers are bundled together are joined to a base sheet, the cleaning member being configured such that a support handle insertion part having an insertion space to which a support handle for supporting the sheet structure can be inserted at a predetermined direction is formed on the sheet structure, wherein the base sheet is formed in a tubular shape, a space is formed in the interior of the base sheet, the fiber bundles are joined to the outer peripheral surface of the base sheet in the sheet structure, and the space of the base sheet and the insertion space of the support handle insertion part are formed apart from one another.

The card edge connector includes a housing and a card edge terminal. A plurality of through holes is formed on the housing. A cable is electrically connected to the card edge terminal. The card edge terminal to which the cable is attached by crimping is pressed and inserted into a plurality of through holes on the housing. Conductor areas are provided on the surface and the back of the substrate. The substrate is inserted and fitted into the housing and also held by the holding part of the card edge terminal which is pressed and inserted into the housing and electrically conducted to the conductor areas.

An apparatus for manufacturing a membrane electrode assembly to selectively drive/stop by checking whether temperature control of transfer rolls is normal is provided. The apparatus includes transfer rolls, the temperature of which is controlled by a temperature control unit, to pass a transfer film on which a polymer electrolyte membrane and electrodes are formed therebetween in order to press the transfer film and to transfer the electrodes onto the polymer electrolyte membrane; a thermochromic pigment inserting device installed at a front end of the transfer rolls to coat the thermochromic pigment on the polymer electrolyte membrane; a color information acquiring unit installed at the rear side of the transfer rolls to acquire color change information of the thermochromic pigment; and a controller to check whether temperature control of the transfer rolls is normal from the color change information of the thermochromic pigment acquired by the color information acquiring unit.

The present invention provides a means capable of determining the surface state of the target to execute accurate and quick cleaning of necessary part. The means includes: a magnet unit capable of forming a magnetic field on the surface of a target; a rotary system capable of driving the magnet unit of change the magnetic field pattern; and an ammeter configured to measure target current when the magnetic field is formed by the magnet unit and discharge voltage is applied to a target electrode to which the target is attached. The position of the magnet unit is variously changed by the rotary system, and the target current is measured at each position and compared with a reference value. It is then determined whether cleaning is necessary at each position, so that cleaning can be performed only for necessary part.

A sealed-type secondary battery is disclosed. A battery module of a sealed-type secondary battery is formed by heating and fusing a top lid member and an integrated battery container. The integrated battery container is formed with a polymer alloy including a polyphenylene ether resin and a polyolefin resin, and the top lid member or a lateral lid member is formed with a polypropylene-based resin. A nucleating agent is added to the polypropylene-based resin of the top lid member or the lateral lid member, to improve mechanical strength, and the molecular weight is increased to reduce a melt flow rate MFR to approximately the same degree as the polymer alloy.

A remote operation system enables remote operation by an operation terminal of an electronic appliance, which executes a process according to control data from an external apparatus and outputs response data to the external apparatus, via the Internet. The remote operation system includes a first processor connected to the Internet and a second processor locally connected to the electronic appliance and set up for access by the first processor via the Internet. The second processor executes a first process that establishes a first path for reception of transmission data via the Internet from the first processor at any time. The first processor executes a second process that instructs the second processor via the first path to establish a second path for end-to-end communication to enable remote operation of the electronic appliance by the operation terminal via the Internet.

The invention relates to a refrigerant compressor provided with a muffler for an air conditioning unit in a vehicle, wherein the refrigerant compressor includes a swash plate or pivoting ring rotatably supported in a casing of the refrigerant compressor for driving axially moving pistons arranged in cylinders, a suction side provided with an inlet channel and an inlet chamber, and a pressure side provided with an outlet channel and an outlet chamber. The muffler including a partition wall having a plurality of apertures formed therein is disposed in at least one of the suction side and the outlet side of the casing.

A process for fabrication of a power semiconductor device is disclosed in which a single photomask is used to define each of p-conductivity well regions and n-conductivity type source regions. In the process a single photomask is deposited on a layer of polysilicon on a wafer, the polysilicon layer is removed from first regions of the power semiconductor device where the p-conductivity well regions and the n-conductivity type source regions are to be formed, and both p-conductivity type and n-conductivity type dopants are introduced into the wafer through the first regions.

A magnetic head includes a magnetic pole placed opposite a surface of a recording medium and moving relatively to the surface in a direction along the surface, the magnetic pole generating a magnetic line of force that crosses the surface of the recording medium, and a coil that excites the magnetic pole. The magnetic pole has a number of layers stacked on one another in a direction along the movement relatively to the surface of the recording medium, and the layers include a most forward layer located at a most forward position of the movement and consisting of a first magnetic material and a most backward layer located at a most backward position of the movement and consisting of a second magnetic material having a saturation magnetic flux density higher than that of the first magnetic material and a coercive force larger than that of the first magnetic material.

A telescoping, uncoupling lever for a railroad car. The lever is formed of round rod and includes a handle rod, a lock lifter rod and a track assembly. The track assembly includes a handle rod track and a lock lifter rod track with tracks connected to each other at their opposite ends. A glide housing is attached to one end of the handle and lock lifter rods to allow the handle and lock lifter rods to slide on the tracks of the track assembly. Each glide housing is tubular, has a cavity extending there through to connect rod openings at the opposite ends and has glide of C-shaped transverse cross-section positioned therein to receive and partially encircle a rod.

A motor driving device includes a printed board on which a pattern is printed, and a resin board which is formed by molding a resin and on which no pattern is printed, and the printed board is provided on the resin board.