Yamaha Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Junichi Fujimori

Yoshihiro Inagaki

Tatsutoshi Abe

Hirotaka Kuribayashi

Yasutake Suzuki

Fumiaki Shinozaki

Yoshikazu Honji

Satoshi Sekine

Makoto Kurihara

Yasushi Ohtani

Takashi Suzuki

Yasumasa Kawabe

Hideyuki Nakamura

Tomohiro Mizuno

Minoru Maeda

Kazuhito Miyake

Shinji Fujimoto

Takeshi Ando

Yoshinari Nakamura

Hiroyuki Yonezawa

Yasuo Kageyama

Takeshi Imai

Teruhiko Iwase

Jun Sugiyama

Toshio Koura

Kazuhiko Shutoh

Takeshi Andou

Kenichi Ohya

Seiichi Hashimoto

Sekine Satoshi

Yashikoi Okamura

Takeshi Funada

There is provided that a method for producing a resin pattern, and the method includes at least the steps (1) to (7) in this order; (1) a coating step of coating a photosensitive resin composition on a substrate; (2) a solvent removal step of removing the solvent from the applied photosensitive resin composition; (3) an exposure step of patternwise exposing the photosensitive resin composition from which the solvent has been removed, to an active radiation; (4) a development step of developing the exposed photosensitive resin composition using an aqueous developer liquid; (5) an overcoating step of providing an overcoat layer on the developed photosensitive resin composition; (6) a heat-treating step of heat-treating the photosensitive resin composition on which the overcoat layer has been provided; and (7) a removal step of removing the overcoat layer.

Resin pattern, method for producing the pattern, method for producing MEMS structure, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, and method for producing plated pattern

An acoustic structure includes plate members defining a plurality of hollow regions in parallel relation to each other. Opening portions are formed in one surface (reflective surface) of the plate members in corresponding relation to the hollow regions and in such a manner as to communicate the hollow regions with an external surface. A plurality of sound absorbing members are provided in a dispersed fashion on regions of the one surface (reflective surface) other than the opening portions and neighborhoods of the opening portions. As a modification, a sound absorbing member may be loaded in one of the hollow regions and partly exposed to the outer space through the corresponding opening portion.

Acoustic structure

An object is to readily visualize a propagation state of sound emitted within a sound space. A sound to light converter includes: a microphone; a light emitting unit; and a light emission control unit that acquires an instantaneous value of an output signal from the microphone in synchronization with a strobe signal and that allows the light emitting unit to emit light with a luminance level corresponding to the acquired instantaneous value. The strobe signal is generated and output in a signal generator of the sound to light converter. Alternatively, the strobe signal is generated and output in a control device of a sound field visualizing system in synchronization with an emission of sound to be visualized by the sound to light converter.

Sound to light converter and sound field visualizing system

In an acoustic structure, sound absorbing effect is achieved by interference between incident waves falling in an opening portion and reflected waves radiated from the opening as a result of resonance occurring within a hollow member in response to the incident waves, and a sound absorbing region is formed, for example, in a frontal direction of the opening portion. Sound scattering effect is achieved through interaction between the above-mentioned interference and interference between the incident waves and sound waves radiated from the opening portion, and a sound scattering region is formed, for example, near the sound absorbing region. A sound scattering effect is achieved by flows of gas molecules being produced in an oblique direction, not normal to the opening portion and reflective surface, due to a phase difference between the sound waves radiated from the opening portion and the sound waves radiated from the reflective surface.

A speaker capable of properly adjusting a spring characteristic with which a voice coil is driven and capable of being driven in large amplitude. When a position control coil wound around a bobbin is at a reference position, both ends of the coil cross a magnetic gap formed between external and internal yokes by a predetermined length and Lorentz forces acting on the front and rear ends are balanced. When the voice coil moves in either forward or rearward direction, lengths of the magnetic gap crossed by the front and rear ends of the control coil are different therebetween, and the vector sum of Lorentz forces acting on the position control coil is opposite in direction from the movement of the voice coil, whereby the voice coil is stably held at the reference position.

Speaker and speaker apparatus

The present invention provides an optical sheet that excels in a light convergence function or a light diffusion function, has excellent brightness increase ratio in the desired angular direction, in particular the front surface direction, and greatly inhibits the side lobe, and a method for manufacturing such an optical sheet with good efficiency and high accuracy. The optical sheet has a substrate that has a first surface having formed thereon a peak-valley portion that converges and scatters light and an optical adjustment portion that differs in an optical property from the substrate. A plurality of the optical adjustment portions are formed at least in part of a non-passage portion for the light in the substrate in the case where a parallel beam falls from the first surface in a direction normal to a surface located opposite the first surface.

Optical sheet and method for manufacturing the same

A communication system comprises: a dominated node comprising a lower layer having a communication device that transmits/receives a signal to/from another node connected to a network, a notifying device that notifies said another node that the dominated node does not have an upper layer when the communication device receives a signal to an upper layer, and a processor that executes a process in accordance with the received signal corresponding to the lower layer; and a dominating node comprising a lower layer having a communication device that transmits/receives a signal to/from another node connected to the network, a first upper layer that manages the lower layer, and a second upper layer that manages the lower layer of the dominated node connected to the network.

Communication system having dominating node and dominated node

In a network which includes at least a transmission-side apparatus having a plurality of logical plugs and a reception-side apparatus having a plurality of logical plugs, correspondence between transmission-side logical plugs (e.g., Pto P) and reception-side logical plugs (e.g., Pto P) is established. The reception-side apparatus stores therein plug data Splug (P) representing one of the transmission-side logical plugs, plug data Dplug representing a logical plug corresponding to the plug data Splug, among the plurality of reception-side logical plugs, and connection number Nconn representing the number of logical plugs to be connected. The transmission-side apparatus adds to control data a plug number PluNO (P) representing the logical plug which has output the control data and transmits the control data. The reception-side apparatus determines whether to receive the control data, on the basis of PluNO, Splug, and Nconn, and specifies a logical plug (P) which receives the control data, on the basis of PluNO, Splug, and Dplug.

Method and apparatus for managing transmission and reception of data over a network

Dominated nodes A, B and C equip only with lower layersand, and upper layers for the lower layers are not equipped. Each of the lower layersandcomprises a preset device, and managing information for managing a communication function of the lower layer is read from the preset device and set to a function device of the lower layer. The dominated nodes A, B and C can execute isochronous transmission without a dominating node equipped with an upper layer for managing the lower layers. The dominating node is not always necessary on an IEEE1394 bus.

Communication apparatus and network system having rapid digital interface

The present invention provides an image forming method comprising the steps (1) to (5): (1) forming a first negative photosensitive resin layer on a substrate; (2) forming a barrier layer on the first negative photosensitive resin layer; (3) forming a second negative photosensitive resin layer on the barrier layer; (4) exposing the substrate, on which the first and second negative photosensitive resin layers are formed, to light via a photo mask having at least two types of light transmissible patterns; and (5) developing the exposed first and second negative photosensitive resin layers, wherein a photosensitivity ratio of the first negative photosensitive resin layer to the second negative photosensitive resin layer (the first/the second) is more than 1. The invention also provides a color filter, a spacer for a liquid crystal display device, and a projection for orientation control, each of which is formed by the method.

Image forming method used in liquid crystal display device for both reflection and transmission modes

One or more nodes on a communication network are selected and set as one node group. In each of the nodes, group identification information representing the node group to which the node belongs is stored in advance. The group identification information is attached to the header of a data packet to be transmitted, so that nodes constituting a node group that should commonly receive data can be readily identified by comparing the group identification information imparted to the transmitted data packet and the group identification information stored in each receiving node. Given node can choose to become a node of a particular function, such as a clock master node, in which case control is performed to delete, from the node group, a node having so far played the role of the node of the particular function in such a manner that there exists only one node of the particular function per node group.

Communication control apparatus and method

A multicolor image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four (yellow, magenta, cyan, black and the like) thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, wherein image-recording is performed by the method comprising superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with laser beams in two-dimensional array to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, and a recording area of a multicolor image in each of the thermal transfer sheets is a size of 515 mm&#xd7;728 mm or more, a resolution of the transferred image is 2,400 dpi or more, and each of the light-to-heat converting layers comprises from 1 to 20% by weight of a substance which is liquid at 30&#xb0; C.

Multicolor image-forming material and multicolor image-forming method

A connection setting apparatus having a connection information acquiring unit for acquiring first connection information from a plurality of apparatus connected to a network, each apparatus having at least one line, and a generating unit for generating second connection information in accordance with the acquired first connection information.

Connection setting apparatus

In a communication system capable of establishing synchronization among a plurality of communication apparatuses, a master node transmits a WC packet including a system time and a sample count to a transmission node and a reception node. The transmission node transmits a data packet to the reception node while establishing synchronization by using the WC packet. The reception node processes the received data packet while establishing synchronization by using the WC packet.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Junichi Fujimori