Abstract:
A method and a device for identifying an upper surface and a lower surface of a component having asymmetric upper and lower outer shapes are provided. In particular, a method and a device for identifying orientation of an item that hardly allows visual identification of the upper and lower surface. A disk-like, cylindrical, or annular component having asymmetric upper and lower outer shapes is placed on a reference surface having a reference block, an outer peripheral part of the component on the reference surface is brought into contact with the reference block, and identification of the upper and lower surface of the component is achieved in an inline system based on a gap created between the outer peripheral part of the component and the reference block, using a light source lighting device and a detection camera arranged across the reference block.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a polymer at least comprising repeating units represented by the following general formulae (1) and (2), and the polymer having a mass average molecular weight of 1,000 to 500,000. There can be provided a polymer, and a resist composition, in particular, a chemically amplified positive resist composition that exhibit higher resolution than conventional positive resist compositions, good in-plane dimension uniformity of developed resist patterns on substrates such as mask blanks and high etching resistance.
Abstract:
To provide an electromagnetic-wave shielding plate superior in an electromagnetic-wave shielding property, a light-transmitting property and non-visibility of a mesh pattern at low cost. A pattern of a resin layer is printed on a metal layer of a transparent substrate by a printing method. After that, the metal layer is over-etched with the resin layer used as an etching mask, and a part of the resin layer protruding from the remaining metal layer in a plate-surface direction is removed. As a result, an electromagnetic-wave shielding plate superior in an electromagnetic-wave shielding property and non-visibility and having, for example, a pattern line width of 3 μm or more and 25 μm or less.
Abstract:
A fixing device and an image forming apparatus having the fixing device are provided. The fixing device includes at least two support members, a belt wound on the support members and supported to be movable in a circumferential direction of the support members, a heating member compressed to the belt, and a heat source heating the heating member. A recording medium electrostatically carrying a toner image passes through a fixing nip section formed between the belt and the heating member, thereby heating and fixing the toner image onto the recording medium. Among suspended portions of the belt suspended between the support members, a first suspended portion is in a tensile state, and the second suspended portion is in a non-tensile state. The heating member contacts the outside of the tensile suspended portion to form the fixing nip section.
Abstract:
A supporting mechanism movably supports a display body, a display surface of which is in the vertical position and in an inclined position. A pressing mechanism has an elastic member which stores repulsive force by being pressed by the display body as the display body moves from the vertical position to the inclined position, and presses the display body by the repulsive force in the direction from the inclined position to the vertical position. A position holding mechanism holds the display body at an optional position anywhere between the vertical position and the inclined position.
Abstract:
An image processing apparatus includes a first eyes-and-mouth detecting unit to detect eye boundaries and a mouth boundary from a first face image; a second eyes-and-mouth detecting unit to detect eye boundaries and a mouth boundary from a second face image; a first skin model generating unit to generate a first skin model; a second skin model generating unit to generate a second skin model; an inside-of-mouth model generating unit to generate an inside-of-mouth model; an eyeball model generating unit configured to generate an eyeball model; a first deformation parameter generating unit to generate a first deformation parameter; a second deformation parameter generating unit configured to generate a second deformation parameter; and an output unit to output the first and second skin models, the first and second deformation parameters, the inside-of-mouth model, and the eyeball model as animation data.
Abstract:
A negative resist composition is provided comprising a polymer comprising recurring units having formula (1), an organic solvent, a crosslinker, and an optional photoacid generator. In formula (1), R1 and R2 are hydrogen or methyl, m is 0 or a positive integer of 1 to 5, p and q are positive numbers. The composition has a high contrast of alkali dissolution rate before and after exposure, high resolution and good etching resistance.
Abstract:
A sealed prismatic battery includes a laterally elongated cap that closes the upper surface of the opening of a battery can 1 and a safety vent that is provided at the cap and opens when the battery internal pressure abnormally rises. The safety vent has a looped groove that is formed recessed and located nearer to the left end of the cap on the outer surface side of the cap. The looped groove is annularly formed of front, rear, left and right groove portions into a laterally elongated prismatic shape, and the thickness of the bottom wall of the end side groove portion is thicker than that of the bottom walls of the other groove portions. The center side groove portion of the looped groove is formed into a circular arc shape curved convex toward the center side of the cap.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method capable of selecting and providing content while reducing the load on a user are provided. A controlled device is determined based on content identification information. Control information corresponding to the determined controlled device is generated and output to, for example, a remote controller, and device control is performed based on a control signal from the remote controller. The user can output and view content without performing processing necessary to output the content, such as processing on a control device, a channel operation to the control device, and searching for the content storage location. Further, content cards recording content information are displayed as a card group and content information of a card at a position of a cursor is displayed.
Abstract:
A frequency converter comprising a variable gain amplifier which amplifies the local oscillation signal according to a gain control signal and outputs an amplified local signal, an even harmonic mixer which is supplied with an input signal and an amplified local oscillation signal and outputs an output signal whose frequency is a sum of a first frequency of the input signal and a second frequency of two or more even numbered times a frequency of the amplified local oscillation signal, an amplitude detector which is supplied with the amplified local oscillation signal and outputs a direct current signal having an amplitude corresponding to an amplitude of the amplified local oscillation signal, and a comparator which compares the direct current signal of the amplitude detector with the reference direct current signal to generate an output signal as the gain control signal.