Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Calsonic Kansei Corporation

Miki Pulley Co., Ltd.

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Sony Corporation

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Bandai Co., Ltd.

Calsonic Corporation

Casio Computer., Ltd.

Shibasoku Co., Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Satoshi Kimura

Yasuo Kotaki

Wataru Takahashi

Seiji Suzuki

Shingo Okushima

Katsumi Nakamura

Ryoichi Hori

Yukuo Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Koshikawa

Tatsuo Nanjo

Satoshi Oikawa

Takaya Sato

Kenta Udagawa

Kyosuke Toda

Hiromasa Amma

Takuya Iwano

Naozumi Nabeshima

Mikiya Umeyama

Kazuya Yoshii

Yasushi Iijima

Naoko Tsujiuchi

Shinji Araki

Yoshihiro Ono

Soji Kondo

Hidenori Aoki

Yumi Komamiya

Hikaru Watanabe

Ryosuke Araki

Yoshiyuki Sato

Kenji Igarashi

Kazuto Yamamoto

Takayuki Okamoto

Yuji Horiuchi

Shigeki Fukui

Yoshiaki Mochizuki

Toshio Koyama

Masafumi Seki

Nobushige Fujioka

Kenji Kobayashi

Kenzo Ito

Masayuki Ikeda

Shiro Nakajima

Kensaku Takeuchi

Kenji Suyama

Koji Deguchi

Hideaki Kanazawa

Yasushi Murai

Takashi Kadowaki

Nobuyasu Shiba

Ryozo Nagai

Toshimasa Yamauchi

Katsuhiko Ueno

Manabu Takayama

Nobuyuki Mochinaga

Junji Kamon

Hideharu Suzuki

Kenji Tochigi

Kinya Iri

Ran Kudo

Takashi Tajima

Takahiro Samata

Yoshinari Nakada

Hiroyuki Okura

Hiroshi Hiraki

Koichi Kubo

Satoshi Tamagawa

Katsuyuki Matsuo

Hiroto Shimizu

Hideki Miyazaki

Takuya Hane

Nobuyuki Tozawa

Takayuki Maruyama

Ryoichi Furukawa

Shinichi Miyasaka

Tsuyoshi Kato

Masaomi Orito

Nobutaka Hirata

Shigeo Uehara

Kazuo Asaka

Hironori Waki

Motoo Tomita

Koihci Iguchi

Chihiro Fujishima

Kazumi Hatakeyama

Hisashi Koyama

Yuji Murai

Wanchun Lau

A signal control apparatus is connected to a plurality of traffic signals located on a road with a plurality of intersections having travel lanes with designated traffic classifications. The signal control apparatus comprises: means for detecting the number of vehicles staying in the travel lane or lanes of the same traffic classification among the travel lanes of the plurality of intersections; means for determining whether or not to extend or reduce signaling time for permitting traffic of the traffic classification of the travel lane or lanes based on the number of vehicles staying in the travel lane or lanes of the same traffic classification at the plurality of intersections and means for adjusting split of the plurality of traffic signals based on a result of the determination so as to extend or reduce the signaling time.

Signal control apparatus, signal control method and program

Disclosed is an electronic device including: a cartridge holder that holds a cartridge; a motor for moving the cartridge holder in a moving direction; and a motor control circuit that controls a movement in the moving direction of the cartridge holder by the motor, wherein the motor control circuit applies a voltage or a current to the motor to apply, to the cartridge holder, a resisting force in a direction facing an external force, against the external force which is applied along the moving direction to the cartridge holder through the cartridge so as to mount the cartridge in the cartridge holder from the moving direction.

Electronic device and drive method of motor

A method of creating a three-dimensionally shaped object, the method having: a creation step for creating image data for printing an image on a thermally expandable sheet; a printing step for printing an image on the thermally expandable sheet on the basis of the image data created in the creation step; and a protuberation step for partially protuberating the thermally expandable sheet via thermal expansion by irradiating light toward the image printed on the thermally expandable sheet in the printing step. The creation step creates image data such that a grayscale of an image is set so that a fastening portion that fastens a thermally expandable sheet is either intermittently or continuously surrounded by a region where a protuberation height resulting from the thermal expansion is high.

Method of creating three-dimensionally shaped object, print data creation apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium

A three-dimensional image data generation system includes: an editing unit configured to edit grayscale image data in which a density level for specifying an foaming height of a thermally expandable sheet is set for each coordinate in a planar direction; and a conversion unit configured to, when the editing unit changes a size in the planar direction of an image region included in the grayscale image data, convert the density level in correspondence with a ratio of the image region between before and after the change.

Three-dimensional image data generation system, three-dimensional image data generation method, and computer-readable recording medium

This invention is directed to a business support system that controls business use of a communication device based on a work time without user's awareness. The business support system includes a work time register that registers a work time, and a business use controller that, in reference to the work time register, starts business use of a communication device by a business application for supporting the business use of the communication device when a current time falls within the work time, and stops the business use of the communication device by the business application when the current time falls outside the work time. For example, the business use controller starts the business use of the communication device by the business application by activating a predetermined program in the communication device, and stops the business use of the communication device by the business application by stopping the predetermined program in the communication device.

Business support system, business support method, information processing apparatus, communication device, and control methods and control programs of information processing apparatus and communication device

A shoulder joint structure of a doll body includes a first joint member housed inside a trunk of the doll body and connected to the trunk, a second joint member housed inside the trunk and connected to the first joint member, and a third joint member connected to the second joint member and an arm of the doll body through an opening formed in a shoulder of the trunk. The first joint member is rotatable about a first connecting portion between the trunk and the first joint member, so as to move the third joint member away from a trunk axis of the trunk in a shoulder width direction. The second joint member is rotatable about a second connecting portion between the first joint member and the second joint member, so as to move the third joint member away from the trunk axis in the shoulder width direction.

Shoulder joint structure of doll body

There are provided a method and apparatus for forming a three-dimensional image. The method and apparatus adjust the density in consideration of the influence of the expansion of a thermally expandable layer on the density of a display color or a color development state so that the originally planned density of the display color can be achieved, on the surface of a thermally expandable sheet. The method and apparatus form a mirror image of a colored image, of which the density of a black component is adjusted so as to correspond to the bulge height of the thermally expandable layer, on the back of the thermally expandable sheet. The method and apparatus expand the thermally expandable layer when irradiating the thermally expandable layer with light, which includes infrared wavelengths, from the back of the thermally expandable sheet.

Method and apparatus for forming three-dimensional image

A printing apparatus includes an image data generating device to generate image data based on a touch detection signal supplied from a written character inputting area of a touch panel inputting device, a blank space detecting device to detect and identify line data and blank space data based on the image data, an alignment processing device to delete the blank space data from the image data and to align the remaining line data end to end in a tape conveying direction of a print receiving tape, a printing data generating device to generate printing data by executing a size conversion of the line data aligned end to end so as to match the line data to a tape width, and a printing processing device to execute a printing process on the print receiving tape based on the printing data.

Printing apparatus for printing on print receiving tape, printing method and recording medium

An EGR device includes a first cooling passage that introduces a flowing medium discharged from an engine into a main radiator so that the flowing medium is cooled therein, and then returns the flowing medium to the engine, and a second cooling passage that introduces a part of the flowing medium cooled in the first cooling passage to a sub-radiator so that the flowing medium is further cooled therein. The second cooling passage introduces the flowing medium to an EGR cooler to return the flowing medium, which is discharged from the EGR cooler, to the engine.

EGR device

A printer in which when an optical disk is inserted into a conveyance path in a printer body, an inlet cover is moved to a position where the inlet cover opens an inlet in a cover provided on the printer body. This causes a cutter button that operates a cutter for a tape-like printing medium to be locked by the inlet cover. Thus, when the optical disk is printed, the cutter is rendered inoperable. Accordingly, the printer can prevent a trouble such as inadvertently operates the cutter, thereby damaging the disk or the cutter itself.

Printer

The invention provides an insulin resistance improving agent and a therapeutic agent for type 2 diabetes, which contain a C-terminal globular domain of adiponectin, adiponectin, or a gene for the domain or adiponectin. The invention also provides a method for improving insulin resistance and treating type 2 diabetes by administering the aforementioned agent(s).

Insulin resistance improving agents

A wire wound electronic part includes a ferrite core comprising ferrite having a columnar wire wound core and flanges formed at both ends thereof, a coil conductor wound around the wire wound core of the ferrite core, and at least a pair of terminal electrodes having a Cu conduction layer disposed to the outer surface of the flange, in which both ends of the coil conductor wound around the wire wound core are conductively connected to the terminal electrodes. The terminal electrode is formed by coating an electrode paste containing a Cu powder and a glass frit to the outer surface of the ferrite core, and then applying a heat treatment to the ferrite core. There is a reaction layer of a portion of the ferrite core and the glass frit at a boundary between the ferrite core and the Cu conduction layer. The terminal electrodes has the peel strength identical with that of an existent Ag terminal electrode, without forming a plate layer.

Wire wound electronic part

A main body has a receiving section, which contains an ink ribbon cassette holding an ink ribbon, together with an optical disk. The ink ribbon and the optical disk are fed by a platen roller, and printing is performed on the optical disk through a thermal head. The optical disk is inserted from an insertion port at a side of the main body parallel to the feed direction of the ink ribbon. When the optical disk is inserted from an ejection port in a direction orthogonal to the fed direction of the ink ribbon, an insertion-prevention member prevents the insertion of the optical disk.

Printing apparatus

A core structure of a heat exchanger includes seat plates arranged opposite to each other with a predetermined space interposed between them and formed with tube holes, reinforcements connecting the seat plates at their end portions, tubes fixed at its both end portions by insertion into the tube holes, corrugated fins arranged between the tubes, and an upper and lower tanks attached to the seat plates. The tanks are connected by the tubes so that coolant flows between the tanks through the tubes. Tubes arranged at outermost positions of a core part among the tubes are inserted at its end portions by insert members so that the insert members can increase rigidity of the end positions of the outermost positioned tubes and ensure flowing of the coolant between the tanks through the outermost positioned tubes.

Core structure of heat exchanger

Elastic member of an elastic coupler

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Tokyo, Japan

Satoshi Kimura