Nec Corporation

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Pioneer Corporation

Sony Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi-High-Technologies Corporation

Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

The University of Tokyo

Agc Inc.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshio Suzuki

Takeshi Kawasato

Hidehiro Uchiumi

Kentaro Tsunozaki

Haisheng Zeng

Yoshihiko Ogawa

Masahiro Kato

Kazuo Kuroda

Eiji Muramatsu

Osamu Suzuki

Yasuo Imashiro

Satoshi Amano

Kazuo Morita

Akira Imamura

Hiroshi Suzuki

Yasuyuki Tamura

Takao Sawabe

Shoji Taniguchi

Toru Nakakubo

Stephan Sattler

Yasuto Kodera

Akio Onda

Kenji Kawano

Hajime Matsumoto

Kazuto Noguchi

Minoru Ueda

Atsushi Seki

Satoru Yanabu

Yohei Nakamura

Susumu Suzuki

Naoto Sasagawa

Yasuyuki Takimoto

Shinichi Yoshimura

Hiroshi Nagano

Reinhold Kraemer

Ryota Kashu

Tatsuya Hongu

Tomohide Aoyagi

Osamu Mitomi

Atsuo Itoh

Tsutomu Kitou

Takeshi Kogawa

Mitsuaki Yanagihashi

Hiromichi Jumonji

Toshinori Nozawa

Teruhiko Ohnuma

Hajime Watabe

Kyoko Endo

Tegi Ri

Hiroaki Iwaoka

Toshiro Takeda

Ichiro Abe

Shuichi Yamaguchi

Reo Usui

Yushi Sakamoto

Toshinori Marutsuka

Masayasu Arakawa

Hitoshi Mizoguchi

Toyonobu Yoshida

Hidenobu Komatsu

Hideharu Koizumi

Tomomi Abe

Naoko Okada

Takao Takeuchi

Takuya Tochimoto

Yoshitaka Okugawa

Chikashi Itoh

Takashi Maezono

Takashi Usukura

Ryogo Koba

Akihito Adachi

Tatsuhiro Yoshida

Susumu Iwasaki

Takashi Shinozuka

Hisao Miyao

Kuniaki Ohkuma

Yoshihiko Sato

Junya Inoue

Tsuyoshi Takano

Masaya Matsunaga

Toyoaki Hayashi

Kenji Kanetake

Junichi Ise

Reiji Nakagawa

Toshihiko Koseki

Takeshi Itoh

Fujio Ohishi

Satoshi Hiraide

Kousuke Chonan

Mitsuyuki Tanaka

Mitsugu Kudo

Fumie Sakamoto

Takanobu Hoshiba

To provide a cathode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery excellent in the cycle characteristics and rate characteristics even when charging is conducted at a high voltage. A cathode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery, which comprises particles (III) having a covering layer comprising a metal oxide (I) containing at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of elements in Groups 3 and 13 of the periodic table and lanthanoid elements, and a compound (II) containing Li and P, on the surface of a lithium-containing composite oxide comprising lithium and a transition metal element, wherein the atomic ratio of said P to said metal element (P/metal element) contained within 5 nm of the surface layer of the particles (III) is from 0.03 to 0.45.

Cathode active material for lithium ion secondary battery, and process for its production

The present invention relates to a method for forming a TiOthin film on a substrate by using an atmospheric pressure CVD method, in which a raw material gas contains titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) and a chloride of a metal M vaporizable in a temperature range of 100 to 400&#xb0; C. and the amount of the chloride of the metal M is from 0.01 to 0.18 as a concentration ratio to the titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) (chloride of metal M (mol %)/TTIP (mol %)).

Thin film formation method, thin film, and glass plate having thin film attached thereto

To provide a cathode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery excellent in the cycle characteristics and rate characteristics even when charging is conducted at a high voltage. A cathode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery, which comprises particles (III) having a covering layer comprising a metal oxide (I) containing at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Al, Y, Ga, In, La, Pr, Nd, Gd, Dy, Er and Yb, and a compound (II) containing Li and at least one non-metal element selected from the group consisting of S and B, on the surface of a lithium-containing composite oxide, wherein the atomic ratio (the non-metal element/the metal element) contained within 5 nm of the surface layer of the particles (III) is within a specific range.

Cathode active material for lithium ion secondary battery

A reagent vessel holder for an analytical instrument is disclosed. The reagent vessel holder comprises at least one reagent vessel compartment for receiving a reagent vessel, wherein the reagent vessel compartment comprises a base and at least two lateral guiding elements, and at least one hollow needle for piercing the reagent vessel. The hollow needle is disposed on a front end of the reagent vessel compartment near the base and extends in a direction substantially parallel to the base. The lateral guiding elements are disposed so as to be adapted to slidably guide the reagent vessel in a direction substantially parallel to the direction, in which the hollow needle extends. The lateral guiding elements are adapted to receive the reagent vessel therebetween and are biased towards one another. Further, a reagent supply system for an analytical instrument and an analytical instrument comprising such a reagent vessel holder are disclosed.

Reagent vessel holder for an analytical instrument, reagent supply system for an analytical instrument and an analytical instrument

A laminate may include the following layers in order: a transparent substrate, a first dielectric layer, a silver layer, a light-absorbing layer, a first barrier layer, and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer may be in contact with the transparent substrate, and a single silver layer may be present in the laminate between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer.

Laminate

A system includes a reading unit reading first management information including a first item specifying video data and the video data from a storage medium, a storage unit recording second management information including the first item obtained from the first management information and the video data transferred from the reading unit, a memory storing third management information including the first item and a second item specifying a transfer or no transfer of the video data, and a controller transferring the first management information to the memory from the reading unit, updating the second item of the third management information in response to the transfer of the video data, and controlling the transfer of the video data in the video content which is designated by a read request from one of the reading unit and the storage unit to the outside based on the second item of the third management information.

Video data processing system, video server, gateway server, and video data management method

Provided herein are: a data acquiring unit which acquires a plurality of angle video data equal or less than the angle video data and relative display position information from a recording unit which records the plurality of angle video data corresponding to the plurality of angle videos taken at a plurality of taking angles different from one another in which a taken object is taken and records the relative display position information indicating a relative display position of each angle video in consideration of each taking angle; a video signal output unit which outputs a plurality of angle video signals corresponding to the plurality of angle videos to display units based on the plurality of angle video data; and an arrangement determining unit which determines a display position arrangement of the plurality of angle videos based on the relative display position information.

Video reproducing apparatus, video display system and record medium

Disclosed is a multilayered steel composite which compatibly achieves properties such as strength and ductility that are incompatible in conventional steels and is excellent in strength, ductility, weldability, toughness and fatigue strength. Also, disclosed is a method for producing the multilayered steel which is produced by rolling with least two kinds of steels having different chemical compositions and microstructure or different mechanical properties, in combination.

Multilayer steel and method for producing multilayer steel

To limit the time capable of reproducing a plurality of contents as a whole recorded on a recording medium. Provided herein are a recording medium on which a plurality of contents and reproduction-enabled time which is a period of time for allowing a user to freely reproduce the plurality of contents as a whole are recorded, a reproduction device having an acquisition unit which acquires the reproduction-enabled time and a reproduction inhibit unit which inhibits the reproduction of each of the contents when the accumulated reproduction time of the plurality of contents as a whole exceeds the acquired reproduction-enabled time during the reproduction of each of the contents.

Reproduction system

A surface mount-type vibration motor and an installation structure for a surface mount-type vibration motor, where soldered portions are prevented from separating from a circuit board without requiring any design change in a vibration motor body. A section where a motor holding section of a motor holder and motor support sections of the motor holder are connected is bent in an arc shape having elasticity to form the motor holder, the motor holding section holding a vibration motor body to which an elastic holder is attached, the motor support sections being arranged along a circuit board. First contact sections and second contact sections are formed in the connection section such that distal ends of the first and second contact sections are of a band-like shape projecting toward the inside of the vibration motor body. The motor holder reduces a load applied to portions where the surface mount-type vibration motor is soldered to the circuit board and also improves bonding strength.

Surface mount-type vibration motor and fixation structure for surface mount-type vibration motor

To realize high reliability and a long-term stabilized power supply (long lifetime) in the connection between a power supply terminal and a power supply land on a circuit board. A motor for generating vibration comprising a vibration generating mechanism having a rotating shaft attached with a weight, a housing case for accommodating at least a part of the aforementioned vibration generating mechanism, and a pair of power supply terminals protruding from the aforementioned housing for electrically connecting the power supply terminal to a power supply land by making the terminal elastically in contact with the power supply land of a power source side circuit board to be mounted in a housing of a portable apparatus and for supplying power to the aforementioned vibration generating mechanism, wherein each of a bending point and an action point of a movable portion of the power supply terminal movable in the direction in which the aforementioned power supply terminal contacts the aforementioned power supply land is arranged in a plane that includes a center of gravity of vibrational motion of the aforementioned motor for generating vibration and is almost perpendicular to the rotating axis of the aforementioned weight.

Vibration generating motor

In order to improve the reliability of an electrical connection between a power supply terminal of a vibrator and an electrode of a circuit board and to improve the efficiency of mounting the vibrator on the circuit board, the power supply terminal is made from a torsion coil spring and a contact portion of the power supply terminal in contact with the electrode of the circuit board is formed by winding. In addition, a torsion coil spring portion is wound around a spindle pin and a housing is provided with a step portion as a space for accommodating the contact portion without interference and a plane portion to which the contact portion faces. Moreover, a partition plate is provided between a pair of power supply terminals or a space where the contact portion can be elastically deformed is surrounded by a box member, a pair of power supply terminals having positive and negative polarities are extended in a bilaterally symmetric direction from torsion coil spring portions to the contact portions, and the power supply terminals are constructed so as to be elastically deformed to allow each contact portion to reach the outside of each torsion coil spring portion.

Vibrator and portable terminal device mounted with the vibrator

A game apparatus, a storage medium and a computer program, suitable to games that can be experienced by a player using an entire body to play a game. The game apparatus comprises: a storage section for storing a predetermined assigned movement for a player; an assigned movement display section for displaying the assigned movement, thereon; a movement detection section for detecting a movement of the player; a player movement display section for displaying the movement of the player detected by the movement detection section, thereon; a similarity decision section for comparing the assigned movement with the movement of the player detected by the movement detection section, to decide a similarity between the assigned movement and the movement of the player; and a game operation section for processing a score on the basis of the similarity decided by the similarity decision section.

Game apparatus, storage medium, and computer program that adjust level of game difficulty

The present invention is constituted such that a motor is small in size and can be mounted simply, with a sure electrical connection by means of power terminals. There is provided a terminal seat made of insulating resin fitted and fixed to one end of a motor housing, a pair of support pins are held by the terminal seat so as to project in a direction approximately parallel to a surface of a circuit board and in a cylinder axial direction of the motor housing from the end surface of the terminal seat, respective leads of a motor drive circuit are provided in a plane direction perpendicular to the cylinder axial direction of the motor housing so as to come out from the terminal seat, and there are provided a pair of torsion coil springs as the power terminals that have central spirals fitting over the axes of support pins, ends projecting outward from the terminal seat as points of contact with power supply lands, and opposite ends connected to leads.

Small-sized motor, small-sized vibration motor, and portable information device

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshio Suzuki