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The present invention relates to molecularly imprinted polymers comprising tailor-made recognition sites for a target in which said recognition sites are located at or close to the surface of the polymer and / or of pores in the polymer. The molecularly imprinted polymer comprising tailor-made recognition sites for a target is obtainable by polymerising functional monomers and, optionally, cross-linked, optionally in a reaction solvent, in the presence of at least one template immobilised on a support material in a polymerisation process, whereby non-covalent or covalent are formed between said functional monomers and said immobilised template(s), and removing said template(s), and said support material from the molecularly imprinted polymer.

An orthopedic device is provided which comprises two components that are mounted so as to be pivotable relative to one another. The relative movement of the two components is transmitted as unidirectional mechanical energy by means of a transmitting mechanism which includes an energy accumulator connected to a generator. The mechanical energy is thereby converted to electric power.

In an ink-jet recording method employing ink that includes an aliphatic or an alicyclic monohydric alcohol having a vapor pressure of 4 mmHg or less at 20 to 25° C., in which ink droplets are discharged by applying thermal energy onto the ink, and the amount of ink discharged, corresponding to one pulse of energy, is 5 to 20 pl / dot. A recording unit, and ink-jet recording apparatus employing the ink are also included.

A thin film made of a wurtzite structure compound is manufactured by a reactive sputtering using a metal material as a target, and a nitrogen gas or oxygen gas as a reactive gas. By optimizing film-forming conditions when manufacturing the film, it is possible to obtain a wurtzite thin film whose polarization directions of crystal grains are aligned in a uniform direction. There is provided a laminate including a first wurtzite crystalline layer made of a wurtzite crystalline structure compound is formed in advance between a substrate and a functional material layer that is a ground. Thus it is possible to improve the crystallinity and crystalline orientation of a second wurtzite crystalline layer on the functional material layer.

A light emitting module (1) comprises a module substrate (2), a light emitting diode string (31), and a sealing member (48). The light emitting diode string (31) includes light emitting diode elements (32) and bonding wires (37) which connect the light emitting diode elements (32). The light emitting diode element (32) has a pair of element electrodes (33, 34) and has a rectangular shape extending in a direction along which the element electrodes (33, 34) are aligned. The sealing member (48) is laminated on the module substrate (2) to seal the light emitting diode string (31). The light emitting diode elements (32) are arranged at intervals in a direction crossing the direction along which the element electrodes (33, 34) are aligned, and the element electrodes (33, 34) with the same polarity are aligned to be adjacent to each other in an arrangement direction of the light emitting diode elements (32) between the light emitting diode elements (32) adjacent to each other. Each bonding wire (37) is obliquely wired with respect to the arrangement direction of the light emitting diode elements (32) to connect the element electrodes (33, 34) with different polarities of the light emitting diode elements (32) adjacent to each other.

Resistive-sensors are provided wherein networks or nanoframeworks of conducting polymer nanowires are electrochemically grown from pre-polymer solutions in the junction gap located between electrode pairs.

The present invention provides a clay film with excellent flexibility, whose main component is natural clay or synthetic clay, and in which there is uniform orientation in the clay particle layer, and relates to a novel clay film that has enough mechanical strength to be used as a self-supporting film, and has a structure in which layers of clay particles are highly oriented, and in which the main constituent component of the clay film is mica, vermiculite, montmorillonite, iron montmorillonite, beidellite, saponite, hectorite, stevensite, or nontronite, and which has excellent flexibility, undergoes no structural change at high temperatures of 250° C. and up to 600° C., contains no pinholes, and has a gas permeation coefficient of less than 3.2×10−11 cm2s−1cmHg−1 at room temperature for helium, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, or air.

A flat panel display includes locating members each having a plate-shaped base part, a holding surface rising substantially perpendicularly from sides forming a corner of the base part, and a flange extending outward from the skirt of the holding surface and provided with through holes. The locating members are disposed with the base parts thereof facing a back surface of a display panel and the holding surfaces pressed against side surfaces forming corners of the display panel. Screws passed through the through holes are screwed into the internally threaded holes of bosses to locate the display panel on a front cabinet. The specifications of the display panel can be changed without changing the design of the front cabinet.

Lighting system mountable on a surface and including one or more miniature light sources and a multi-part housing including recesses for accepting the light sources and an electrical supply line. The light sources can include light emitting diodes. Separate parts of the housing are mated in a manner to fix the position of the electrical supply line between them, and may be formed with a recess that receives an asymmetrically shaped electrical supply line in only one possible orientation. Similarly, the recesses receiving the light sources may be shaped such that electrical connections with proper polarity are assured. Either or both parts of the housing may be fastened to the surface with adhesives and / or optional holes for receiving pins, nails, screws, bolts or the like. The lighting system is particularly suitable for emergency, railing, landscape and vehicle illumination applications, and may be powered by batteries and renewable energy sources.

An IPS (in-plane switching) liquid crystal display has a color filter substrate (3), a TFT (thin film transistor) substrate (8), and a liquid crystal layer (7) interposed therebetween. The TFT substrate includes a TFT plate (5), a protrusion layer (6), and an electrode matrix. The electrode matrix includes a plurality of transversely disposed gate lines (22), a plurality of longitudinally disposed data lines (21), switching elements, a plurality of common electrodes (27), and a plurality of pixel electrodes (28). The protrusion layer has a plurality of protrusion portions (61). The common and pixel electrodes are formed on the protrusion portions in one-to-one correspondence to provide an array of protrusive electrodes that generate a strong and highly uniform parallel electric field. This provides better picture quality, and can lower power consumption and / or yield a higher aperture ratio.

Biomedical nanoparticles are disclosed based on new engineered modular carrier macromolecules, on engineered macromolecules or associated entities providing an internal nanoparticle structure, and compositions for minimizing non-specific binding of the nanoparticles while enabling efficient and convenient targeting to cells and tissues. These nanoparticles may be used to deliver atomic or molecular or associated entities which are useful for diagnostics, primarily in vivo imaging, for therapeutics, for vaccines, or for experimental research. Nanoparticles comprising combinations of active entities such as gene inhibitors with gene expression cassettes or imaging agents with therapeutic agents, and polyamide compounds useful for treatment of microbial infections are also disclosed.

An optical scanning apparatus comprising a plurality of light sources, a polygon mirror for deflecting beams emitted from the light sources in a main scanning direction, lenses for imaging the deflected beams on receiving surfaces and diverting mirrors for directing the beams which passed through the lenses to the receiving surfaces. In one side of the polygon mirror, three diverting mirrors are provided in an upper optical path, and two diverting mirrors are provided in a lower optical path. In the other side of the polygon mirror, one diverting mirror is provided in a lower optical path, and two diverting mirrors are provided in an upper optical path. Thereby, bows on the receiving surfaces have the same curving direction, and color displacement can be inhibited.

An optical information recording method and a device which can record information with a laser light irradiating direction kept constant even if an information recording surface of an optical information recording medium is inclined and, a recording medium having a program therefor recorded thereon are provided. When performing OPC, a relational expression between a recording power and asymmetry (a standard expression), a relational expression between a differential light intensity value and a recording power (a first detection expression), a relational expression between a recording power and a difference between a differential light intensity value and a reflected light amount ratio (a second detection expression), a relational expression between a reflected light amount ratio and a recording power (a third detection expression), a differential light intensity value with which optimum asymmetry can be obtained, a recording power, a reflected light amount ratio and the like are determined and stored. When information is actually recorded, the above expressions are used to correct the recording power so as to obtain optimum asymmetry at all times, whereby a decreased portion of the irradiated light amount per unit area caused with the inclination of the information recording surface can be corrected without correcting the irradiating direction of the laser light.

The object of the invention is to provide positive electrode material in which a discharge rate characteristic and battery capacity are hardly deteriorated in the environment of low temperature of −30° C., its manufacturing method and a lithium secondary battery using the positive electrode material. The invention is characterized by the positive electrode material in which plural primary particles are flocculated and a secondary particle is formed, and the touch length of the primary particles is equivalent to 10 to 70% of the length of the whole periphery on the section of the touched primary particles.

A baseball bat or the like comprised of one or more continuous spiral wound layers of wood, cellulose, or other like material rolled in a spiral fashion from the center to the outermost surface. The cellulose or other material is bound to each subsequent layer with a thin layer of resin, glue, epoxy, or other binding material of adequate strength to hold the layers together for multiple impacts by a baseball or other object. This spiral wound composite roll, in its final configuration, is of comparable density, weight and balance to ash, maple or oak material commonly used in baseball bat construction. The composite roll can be machined to a shape consistent with the shape and balance of traditional baseball bats.

A pair of substrates is disposed in parallel at a gap distance therebetween. Liquid crystal material containing liquid crystal molecules having negative dielectric anisotropy is filled in between the substrates. The liquid crystal molecules are homeotropically aligned. On the opposing surface of one of the substrates, pixel electrodes are disposed in a matrix form and data bus lines and gate bus lines are disposed. The gate bus line passes an inner area of each pixel electrode. Switching elements are formed on the opposing surface of the substrate. Each switching element is controlled by the gate bus line at another row. Protrusions are formed on the opposing surface of one of the substrates. The protrusions divide an area of the pixel electrode into a plurality of areas and each is bent on the gate bus line. A domain border regulating unit is formed on the opposing surface of the other of the substrates. The protrusions and domain border regulating unit define the borders of each domain.

The present invention provides a method for producing a large substrate of single-crystal diamond, including the steps of preparing a plurality of single-crystal diamond layers separated form an identical parent substrate, placing the single-crystal diamond layers in a mosaic pattern on a flat support, and growing a single-crystal diamond by a vapor-phase synthesis method on faces of the single-crystal diamond layers where they have been separated from the parent substrate.According to the method of the invention, a mosaic single-crystal diamond having a large area and good quality can be produced relatively easily.

According to the present invention, a thin film made of a wurtzite structure compound is manufactured by a reactive sputtering using a metal material as a target, and a nitrogen gas or an oxygen gas as a reactive gas. By optimizing film-forming conditions when manufacturing the film, it is possible to obtain a wurtzite thin film whose polarization directions of crystal grains are aligned in a uniform direction. According to a laminate of the present invention, a first wurtzite crystalline layer made of a wurtzite crystalline structure compound is formed in advance between a substrate and a functional material layer that is a ground. Thus, it is possible to improve the crystallinity and crystalline orientation of a second wurtzite crystalline layer formed on the functional material layer.

An oriented film of polyvinyl alcohol derived film with reduced stretch irregularity and uniform orientation in a wide range of a stretching ratio is obtained by a manufacturing method for an oriented film, comprising the steps of: contacting a non-stretched film, comprising polyvinyl alcohols or derivatives thereof, with moisture percentage adjusted to no more than 10%, to at least one heating roll currently driven and heating the film at no less than 70° C.; subsequently giving a tension and stretching using a peripheral velocity difference between the heating roll concerned and a stretch roll in a position ahead of said heating roll in a running direction of the film.

A substrate for an electrooptic device comprising a light-transmissive base member, a reflection layer formed on the base member so as to include each reflection portion and a corresponding transmission portion having a transmission factor higher than that of the reflection portion, a light transmission layer formed over the base member so as to coincide with the reflection layer and to include each hollow at a position that coincides with the transmission portion in plane, and an orientation film formed over the base member so as to coincide with the light transmission layer and to define a concavity while entering the corresponding hollow. The thickness “b” of a liquid crystal layer corresponding to the concavity is greater than the thickness “a” of the liquid crystal layer at the other positions thereof.

A circumferential flow pump in which the quantity of swelling by alcohol or toluene contained in fuel, is curbed and an impeller thereof is prevented from locking is provided.A circumferential flow pump for feeding into an internal combustion engine, fuel from the fuel tank thereof includes an impeller, made of fiber-reinforced PPS, having a base portion fitted to a motor rotor, a vane portion provided outer-circumferentially on the base portion, and an outer ring portion provided outer-circumferentially on the vane portion; the vane portion is composed of a plurality of vanes arranged radially protruding straightly from the base portion and each vane includes a bend thereon; and furthermore, given that a projected area of the entire vane portion is S1, that of the ring portion, S2, that of the base portion, S3, when the impeller, is projected from a direction along a motor shaft of the motor rotor, the ratio of S3 to S1 is made to fall between 9:1 to 15:1, and the ratio of S2 to S1 is made to fall between 0.10:1 to 0.13:1.

An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for ensuring a uniform orientation of liquid crystal molecules of an alignment layer by irradiation with ion beams. An apparatus of the present invention comprises a grid 11a having a plurality of ion ejection holes 30 of various sizes. The size of the ion ejection hole 30 varies depending on an ion density. The size of the ion ejection hole 30 increases with decrease in the ion density.

Apparatus for cleaning the rim of a wheel. The apparatus comprises a housing journaling a driveshaft, driven by an electric motor and mounting a pair of wire brushes configured to contact the wheel rim. Guides on the housing cause the axis of the drive shaft to be parallel to the wheel axis. In use, the housing pivots to follow the wheel rim while the electric motor remains in the same orientation. A brake mechanism between the housing and electric motor prevents rotation of the housing when the guides are not engaged with the wheel rim.

An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for ensuring a uniform orientation of liquid crystal molecules of an alignment layer by irradiation with ion beams. An apparatus of the present invention comprises a grid 11a having a plurality of ion ejection holes 30 of various sizes. The size of the ion ejection hole 30 varies depending on an ion density. The size of the ion ejection hole 30 increases with decrease in the ion density.

A crystalline silicon ingot is produced using a directional solidification process. In particular, a crucible is loaded with silicon feedstock above a seed layer of uniform crystalline orientation. The silicon feedstock and an upper part of the seed layer are melted forming molten material in the crucible. This molten material is then solidified, during which process a crystalline structure based on that of the seed layer is formed in a silicon ingot. The seed layer is arranged such that a {110} crystallographic plane is normal to the direction of solidification. It is found that offers a substantial improvement in the proportion of mono-crystalline silicon formed in the ingot as compared to alternative crystallographic orientations and leads to highly uniform solar cells after an isotropic texture.

Method and system for generating a metal thin film with a uniform crystalline orientation and a controlled crystalline microstructure are provided. For example, a metal layer is irradicated with a pulsed laser to completely melt the film throughout its entire thickness. The metal layer can then resolidify to form grains with a substantially uniform orientation. The resolidified metal layer can be irradiated with a sequential lateral solidification technique to modify the crystalline microstructure (e.g., create larger grains, single-crystal regions, grain boundary controlled microstructures, etc.) The metal layer can be irradiated by patterning a beam using a mask which includes a first region capable of attenuating the pulsed laser and a second region allowing complete irradiation of sections of the thin film being impinged by the masked laser beam. An inverse dot-patterned mask can be used, the microstructure that may have substantially the same as the geometric pattern as that of the dots of the mask.

A method of manufacturing KNbO3 single crystal thin film having single-phase high quality and excellent morphology on each of single crystal substrates. A surface acoustic wave element, frequency filter, frequency oscillator, electronics circuit, and electronic device employ the thin film manufactured by the method, and have high k2, and are wideband, reduced in size and economical in power consumption. A plasma plume containing K, Nb, and O in the range 0.5≦x≦xE is supplied to a substrate, where x is a mole ratio of niobium (Nb) to potassium (K) in KxNb1−xOy, and xE is a mole composition ratio at the eutectic point for KNbO3 and 3K2O.Nb2O5 under a predetermined oxygen partial pressure. Maintaining the temperature Ts of the substrate in the range TE≦Ts≦Tm where TE represents the temperature at the eutectic point and Tm represents a complete melting temperature, the KNbO3 single crystal is precipitated from the KxNb1−xOy deposited on the substrate.