Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Jcu Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Kenichi Nishikawa

Kazuhiro Ikeda

Yasuo Kurosu

Shuuichi Sugawara

Daisuke Sadohara

Masaaki Fujinawa

Yasutake Nemichi

Katsumi Shimoda

Eiichi Sato

Akira Matsui

Hiroyuki Yoshida

Tatsuya Murakami

Hidefumi Masuzaki

Yoshihiro Yokoyama

Yoshifumi Zimoto

Takahiro Hayashi

Seiichi Kanema

Shinsuke Mochizuki

Masahiro Okumura

Yoshimasa Kawabata

Hirowo Shimizu

Naoaki Kubushiro

Hajime Uchiyama

Yu Hasegawa

Hiroki Yasuda

Nobutaka Mochizuki

Keita Suzuki

Toshiyasu Nagai

Hiroshi Hirayama

Syuuichi Sugawara

Kouta Ibe

Christopher Ernest John Cordonier

Shinsuke Takagi

Jun Nishiyama

Hisayuki Toda

A new method capable of forming a circuit by performing metal plating on a desired portion on a substrate through a small number of steps regardless of the kind of the substrate. A method for forming a circuit on a substrate characterized in that when forming a circuit by plating on a substrate, the method includes steps of applying a coating film containing a silicone oligomer and a catalyst metal onto the substrate, and thereafter, performing an activation treatment of the catalyst metal in the coating film to make the catalyst metal exhibit autocatalytic properties, and then, performing electroless plating.

Method for forming circuit on substrate

An object of the present invention is to provide a silicon oligomer having a novel function that has not been achieved by a conventional condensation product of water and a tetraalkoxysilane. Provided are a silicon oligomer represented by the following formula (I) and a production method therefor:  

Silicon oligomer and production method therefor

An object is to provide a technique capable of forming a film having a dark black appearance and high corrosion resistance on a zinc plated component in a simple process, and a black coating film-forming vehicle component and/or fastening component that is obtained by: treating a surface of a zinc plated metal substrate with a black chemical conversion treatment agent containing trivalent chromium as an active ingredient, to form a black chemical conversion treatment film having an L value (brightness) of from 33 to 30; coating a black coating composition containing a black pigment in an amount of from 25 to 65% by weight in a thermosetting film-forming component and an alkoxysilane oligomer, on the black chemical conversion treatment film; and heat-curing the black coating composition thus coated.

Black coating film-forming vehicle component and/or fastening component, and manufacturing method thereof

This storage control apparatusis able sufficiently to manifest the merits of economization of electrical power. The storage control apparatusincludes one or more additional storage unitswhich are adapted for the supply of power to them to be turned ON and OFF individually. Each of these additional storage unitsincludes a plurality of storage devices(for example, a plurality of HDDs). When a user actuates a management device, and causes one or more RAID groups and a spare HDD for each of these RAID groups to be set within the storage control apparatus, an MPUof the storage control apparatuscontrols the management deviceto make the user set each RAID group and the spare HDD for it within the same additional storage unit

Storage control apparatus and storage control method for recovering data in a failed storage device of a RAID sysytem

A key top attachment structure which makes the key-top attachment work easy, prevents the key top from being taken off from the outside, and suppresses looseness of the key top. A spring (,) provided with a rectangular hole (,), and lock portions (,A,,B and,) in which corresponding stoppers (,A,,B and,) of a key top (,) are to be locked respectively, are provided in a casing (,) of a small-sized electronic equipment such as an inter-call receiver or the like. A protrusion (,) which pushes the spring (,) at the time of attachment, a protrusion (,) which abuts against the spring (,) after attachment, a protrusion (,) which turns on a switch (,) on a printed board (,), and the stoppers (,A,,B and,) are provided in the key top (,).

Key top attachment structure

A closed loop is formed by loop antenna elements which equivalently function as inductance, a capacitor inserted in such a manner as to divide the loop antenna into the loop antenna elements, and an impedance-matching dividing element for tuning the antenna and establishing matching with a high-frequency circuit side. A subsidiary substrate with the capacitor mounted thereon is fixedly installed by a retaining pawl of an antenna holder, and is connected to the loop antenna elements by being soldered thereto at a pair of lands on the subsidiary substrate. As a result, it is possible to improve the effective gain of the antenna and effectively utilize the substrate space.

Loop antenna and antenna holder therefor

A center shaft (2a) for holding a key top (1), and springs (2b) are provided in a casing (2) of a small-sized electronic equipment such as an inter-call receiver. The springs (2b) are provided so as to extend from the peripheral portions toward the center shaft (2a), and holes are formed in the springs (2b) respectively. The key top (1) is provided with a stopper nail (1a), first protrusions 1b and second protrusions 1c. The protrusions (1c) of the key top (1) for pushing switches (3) are inserted through the holes of the springs (2b) respectively, and the stopper nail (1a) of the key top (1) is engaged with the center shaft (2a) acting as a fulcrum during the seesawing operation of the key top (1). Thus, the key top (1) is held in a stable manner. The existence of the center shaft (2a) prevents simultaneous depression of the two switches (3).

Key top holding structure

A small motor holding device in an individual Stalling receiver is designed, in which, even when the casing is shocked, the small motor is scarcely shocked, and vibration informing of the reception of a calling signal is transmitted positively to the casing, and which can be assembled with high work efficiency. A small motor is held in a motor holder of elastic material. The motor holder is coupled to a printed circuit board with the engaging section of the motor holder engaged with the engaging/receiving section of the printed circuit board. The motor holder is detachably press-fitted in a holding frame which is fixedly formed on the inner surface of a casing.

Small motor holding device in individual calling receiver

In an image-data managing apparatus for a work-flow system, wherein image data transmitted from a server are updated sequentially by a plurality of clients, a temporary storage for temporarily storing data being updated is provided in each client, and an image database, an image-data storage device, a work-flow managing unit, and a recovery-state managing unit are provided in the server. When a failure occurs in the image-data managing apparatus and the recovery of image data is requested, the recovery-state managing unit extracts control information from the work-flow managing unit, which control information indicates whether or not image data are preserved in the temporary storage or the image-data storage device in the course of update processing, thereby executing a function for identifying image data to be retrieved

Image-data managing apparatus

A waterproof switch apparatus for an electronic device comprises at least one push-button for switching, a sheet-like water sealing member groove-engaged with the shaft portion of the push-button, and a holding member for holding the water sealing member by pressing the outer peripheral portion of the water sealing member against the device body. An excellent waterproof feature and a thin shape of the waterproof switch apparatus can be obtained.

Waterproof switch apparatus for electronic device

Method for determining and correcting the amount of an skew of image which may be read by an image reader, preferably one with with an automatic paper feeding device. Information dependent on the angle of skew of image is obtained in a plurality of the directions with respect to image data and the amount of skew is determined based on the information obtained. Measurement of the information is performed in two or more stages (or steps). At the first stage, the measurement is performed within a narrow range of angles including a reference direction. If no skew angle is detected in the narrow range, then the measurement is performed again at the second stage in a wider range of angles. If a skew angle is detected in the first stage, the second stage is omitted. With the skew angle determined, the image data is rotated in accordance with the skew angle detected to cancel the skew. No correction of the image data is performed if skew angle detection does not result in either the first or the second stage. Preferably, correction of the image data is omitted if the detected skew angle falls within a very small range of angles.

Method for determining the amount of skew of image, method for

A filing method and a system for filing image data operate to divide an input image having a dot number larger than a predetermined dot number of a display screen at a fundamental unit equal to the display screen size, to file the divided input images as a plurality of partial image data on an optical disk, and to retrieve the filed images at high speed. The division filing system includes an input image process device for compressing the divided partial image data, and an index generating device, such as a complexity detecting circuit, for extracting either position information of a distinguishable partial image, or address information among the divided partial images. An optical disk device stores either the position information or the address information as well as the compressed image data into an optical disk. The image retrieval process sequentially reads the compressed image data of only the distinguishable particular image from the optical disk, while referring the address information or the position information image.

Method and apparatus for retrieving image data

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Kenichi Nishikawa