Citizen Holdings Company, Ltd.

Citizen Watch Company, Ltd.

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Yosuke Abe

Takaaki Nozaki

Masafumi Ide

Tomoo Ikeda

Toru Takizawa

Yusaku Niida

Kenji Suzuki

Yoshiki Ono

Minoru Yoneyama

Kaoru Yoda

Yu Takyo

Masaya Suzuki

Yuji Noda

Takuya Shirai

Kiwamu Takahashi

Mitsuru Kida

Kosuke Shimizu

Masaki Morimoto

Yuji Minohoshi

Akio Yoshinaga

Yosuke Sasaki

Taku Asami

Ryoichi Shima

A mechanical timepiece includes: a hairspring; a permanent magnet; a soft magnetic core; a control circuit for performing rate adjustment based on a counter-electromotive voltage caused in a coil by a motion of the permanent magnet accompanying a forward direction motion and a reverse direction motion of the balance wheel. The permanent magnet is arranged so that, under a state in which the hairspring is brought to an equilibrium length, a direction of magnetization is directed to the first end portion side or the second end portion side.

Mechanical timepiece

In manufacturing of a first electroformed component and a second electroformed component having portions fitted to each other into close contact, after the first electroformed component is formed, the first electroformed component is used as a portion of an electroforming mold to form the second electroformed component. Using the first electroformed component as a portion of the electroforming mold to form the second electroformed component, the shape of the first electroformed component is transferred to the second electroformed component. As a result, multiple types of components differing in shape may be accurately manufactured concurrently in a series of manufacturing steps.

Method of manufacturing electroformed components

A governor includes a balance spring including a base member made of silicon, for example, and a balance wheel. The balance spring includes a coating film of DLC that is applied to a surface of the silicon base member to improve the strength of the balance spring. A spring constant of the balance spring changes in accordance with the temperature change. A moment of inertia of the balance wheel changes in accordance with the temperature change. A change in an oscillation period due to the temperature change is suppressed by the change in the spring constant of the balance spring and by the change in the moment of inertia of the balance wheel.

Speed governor for timepiece

The game control device may include a storage unit, a first match-up executing unit, a character ability updating unit, and a second match-up executing unit. The storage unit stores an ability value of each player character. The first match-up executing unit executes a first match-up between two player characters in response to input of a communication terminal, and to determine a result of the first match-up based on the stored ability value of each player character. The character ability updating unit updates, based on the result of the first match-up, the ability values of the two player characters, and causes the storage unit to store the updated ability values. The second match-up executing unit executes a second match-up between player characters independently from the first match-up without input of the communication terminal, and determines a result of the second match-up based on the stored ability value of each player character.

Game control device, game program, game control method and game system

The invention is directed to the provision of an optical device in which provisions are made to form a gap between an optical waveguide and a substrate without having to form a groove or the like in the substrate and to prevent any stress from being applied to an optical element even when it is heated by a heater for temperature adjustment. More specifically, the invention provides an optical device includes a substrate, an optical element with an optical waveguide formed in a surface thereof that faces the substrate, bonding portions formed on the substrate at positions that oppose each other across the optical waveguide, a heater, formed on at least one of the optical element and the substrate, for heating the optical waveguide, and a micro bump structure formed from a metallic material, wherein the optical element is bonded to the bonding portions via the micro bump structure in such a manner that a gap is formed between the optical waveguide and the substrate.

Optical device

The present invention is directed to the provision of an information input apparatus that can change the projection position of an input image by tracking a target object and can detect an information input to the input image. More specifically, the invention provides an information input apparatus includes a projection unit which projects an input image, a projection position changing unit which changes the projection position of the input image, a detection sensor which detects the position of a detection target, and an information detection unit which causes the projection position changing unit to change the projection position of the input image by tracking the position of the detection target detected by the detection sensor, and which detects an information input to the input image based on data supplied from the detection sensor.

Information input apparatus

An optical device () are formed by bonding a optical element () having an optical waveguide () with a substrate (). On a surface of the optical element () facing the substrate () formed are the optical waveguide () and a thin film heater () that heats the optical waveguide (). The optical element () and the substrate () are bonded through a first bonding part () and a second bonding part () made of metal material. The thin film heater () is electrically connected with a wire on the substrate () through the first bonding part () and the second bonding part (). In this way, additional wires for electrical connection can be omitted, the optical elementcan be miniaturized removing a superfluous region, and the manufacturing process can be simplified.

In an optical devicein which a wavelength converting elementis disposed as an optical element on a silicon substrate, configuration includes heatersandformed on the silicon substrate; and micro bumpsthat are made of Au, that bond the silicon substrateand the wavelength converting element, and that transfer the heat generated by the heatersto the wavelength converting element

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Yosuke Abe