Seiko Instruments Inc

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Seiko Instruments & Electronics Ltd.

Teraoka Seiko Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Japan Display Inc.

Jeol Ltd.

Asahi Kasei E-Materials Corporation

Yuichi Inoue

Hiroshi Odagiri

Hiroyuki Masaki

Tadashi Ino

Kuon Miyazaki

Shuji Ohtawa

Chiaki Nakamura

Shinichi Chaen

Naoto Miyake

Nobuki Uraoka

Kentaro Kikuchi

Hitoshi Ochiai

Tomohisa Konishi

Yoshihiko Kiyono

Kazumi Sakumoto

Masao Kasuga

Masahiro Kondo

Takuya Hasegawa

Naoki Sakamoto

Takashi Yoshimura

Toshihiro Morohoshi

Kenichi Hatakeyama

Shinzo Matsubara

Yutaka Irie

Toshiyuki Yuzuki

Takahiro Tago

Hitoshi Shobukawa

Takumi Ishii

Masahiro Ohkubo

Norihito Tanaka

Syuji Ohtawa

Hidemoto Suzuki

Akihiro Kurima

Fumio Morisawa

An automatic analyzer includes a control unit that performs a process when a sample necessary to perform measurement for measurement content selected on an item selection screen is not arranged in a sample-container array unit. The process includes referring to the measurement content selected on the item selection screen and availability information that is information indicating whether each position in the sample-container array unit is available. A position in the sample-container array unit at which a container containing the sample necessary to perform measurement for the selected measurement content is to be arranged is specified in accordance with a specified arrangement rule, and information on the specified position in the sample-container array unit is displayed on a display unit.

Automatic analyzer and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing program

Provided is a polymer electrolyte membrane comprising: (a) a polyelectrolyte having an ion exchange capacity of from 0.5 to 3.0 meq/g; and (b) at least one scandium compound selected from the group consisting of scandium oxide, scandium acetate, scandium sulfate, scandium nitrate, and scandium carbonate, wherein a polyethylene glycol (PEG)-derived compound in the polymer electrolyte membrane has a total content of 10 ppm or less.

Polymer electrolyte membrane, membrane electrode assembly, polymer electrolyte fuel cell, and process for producing polymer electrolyte membrane

A polymer electrolyte membrane according to the present invention has a cluster diameter of 2.96 to 4.00 nm and a converted puncture strength of 300 gf/50 &#x3bc;m or more. The polymer electrolyte membrane according to the present invention has a low electric resistance and an excellent mechanical strength.

Polymer electrolyte membrane and method for producing the same

The present invention provides a polymer electrolyte membrane having excellent strength, a small dimensional change, and a low membrane resistance. The polymer electrolyte membrane includes a porous film having pores and a polymer electrolyte contained in the pores. The porous film is obtained by copolymerizing tetrafluoroethylene and an ethylenic comonomer to provide polytetrafluoroethylene and then stretching the polytetrafluoroethylene. The porous film has an average pore size of greater than 0.20 &#x3bc;m.

Polymer electrolyte film

The present invention provides a polymer electrolyte membrane having excellent strength, a small dimensional change, and a low membrane resistance. The polymer electrolyte membrane includes a porous film and a polymer electrolyte. The porous film has a fibril/node area ratio of 90/10 to 75/25.

Polymer electrolyte membrane

The present invention aims to provide an ionomer that can exhibit high oxygen permeability, especially under both low- and high-humidified conditions, and high power generation durability. The high oxygen permeable ionomer includes a specific repeating unit A and repeating unit B and has an equivalent weight of 250 to 930 and a glass transition temperature of 100&#xb0; C. to 130&#xb0; C.

Ionomer having high oxygen permeability

Provided are a wireless display mount capable of facilitating changes to the arrangement for the mount without, for example, having to rewire the power wire; and a wireless display system capable of highly efficient supply of electricity to a wireless display. A wireless display mount supplies electricity to a wireless display wirelessly via electromagnetic induction and includes a case, a power wire and a connection terminal. The case has a cavity in-between the power wire where a wireless display may be installed. A wireless display system includes a wireless display, and wireless display mount. The wireless display has a loop coil. The wireless display mount has a housing for housing the power wire, disposed adjacent to the loop coil and formed at a location separated from the mounting surface of the wireless display mount.

Wireless display mount, wireless display mount apparatus, and wireless display system

A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display device includes a light source element, a light guide plate for guiding the output light from the light source element, and a frame for housing the light guide plate. The light source element is mounted on a flexible wiring substrate fixed to the liquid crystal display panel at one end thereof, together with an electronic component. The light source element and the electronic component are attached to the frame in such a way that each of the light source element and the electronic component is placed in a housing concave portion formed on the back surface side of the frame, by bending the flexible wiring substrate. A case is fixedly attached to the flexible wiring substrate to cover the electronic component. Then, the case is fixed to the inside of the housing concave portion.

Liquid crystal display device

According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a viewer detector that performs face recognition using a video photographed by a camera and acquires position information of a viewer, a correction amount calculator that calculates a correction amount for compensating for an error of the position information involved in deviation of an attaching position of the camera, a position information corrector that corrects the position information using the correction amount calculated by the correction amount calculator, a viewing area information calculator that calculates, using the position information corrected by the position information corrector, a control parameter for setting a viewing area in which the viewer is set, and a viewing area controller that controls the viewing area according to the control parameter.

Video processing apparatus and video processing method

An apparatus for measuring articles includes a conveying part, a plurality of measuring parts and a determining part. The conveying part includes a plurality of conveyers placed adjacently in series for conveying articles successively in a straight line. The plurality of measuring parts measure weight or dimensions of the respective articles successively conveyed by the conveying part. The determining part determines the weight or the dimensions of the respective articles based on the measured values by the plurality of the measuring parts.

Apparatus and method for measuring articles including conveyor-weighers supported on weighing unit

The present invention provides a polymer electrolyte composition comprising a polymer electrolyte (A component) having an ion exchange capacity of from 0.5 to 3.0 meq/g, a compound (B component) having a thioether group and a compound (C component) having an azole ring, wherein a mass ratio (B/C) of the B component to the C component is 1/99 to 99/1, and a total content of the B component and C component is 0.01 to 50% by mass based on the solid content in the polymer electrolyte composition.

Polymer electrolyte composition, polymer electrolyte membrane, membrane electrode assembly and solid polymer electrolyte-based fuel cell

An ion exchange fluorocarbon resin membrane having a storage modulus (JIS K-7244), when substituted with tributyl ammonium ions, at a temperature of not less than Tc represented by the following general equations (1-1) to (1-3) of 0.8&#xd7;10Pa or more, and a heat of crystal fusion at 270 to 350&#xb0; C. of 1 J/g or less:(&#xb0; C.)=55+(750)&#x2003;&#x2003;(1-1)(&#xb0; C.)=0.444&#xd7;278+(750&#x2266;930)&#x2003;&#x2003;(1-2)(&#xb0; C.)=135+(930)&#x2003;&#x2003;(1-3)where Tg designates the peak temperature of loss tangent in the dynamic viscoelasticity measure-ment of the ion exchange fluorocarbon resin membrane (having SOH as the ends of the side chains).

Ion exchange fluorocarbon resin membrane

A radio wave-standardized electronic timepiece which stores the time at which the timepiece succeeds in reception in conformity with the pattern of living of the user, and on the following days, the timepiece begins to receive from the stored times. A reception success comparison circuit compares the output signal from a reception success time storage circuit with the output signal from a time information calculation circuit. A reception time comparison circuit compares the output signal from a reception time addition circuit with the output signal from the time information calculation circuit. A reception operation discrimination circuit controls a receiver means according to its input signal. A transfer circuit modifies a time counter and the contents of the reception success time storage circuit according to the output signal from a received data acceptance decision circuit. A display means displays the contents according to the output signal from the time information calculation means.

Radio wave-standardized electronic timepiece

A photoelectric pulsation type pulsimeter irradiates the ray of light to a capillary blood vessel of a finger tip or the like and detects the level of the reflected ray of light changing with the pulsation as the pulsation. The present invention improves stability of the pulse rate display by disposing pulse width evaluation means between a pulsation detection circuit for detecting the pulsation and pulsation calculation means for measuring the period of the pulsation signal and calculating the pulse rate per minute. The pulse width evaluation means evaluate the pulse signal outputted from the pulsation detection circuit and the pulse rate calculated by the pulsation calculation means.

Photoelectric pulsation type pulsimeter

A self-chargeable timepiece includes a pair of small and large capacitors having respective small and large capacities and selectively disconnectably connected at their respective terminals to time-keeping circuitry and a solar cell. The pair of small and large capacitors cooperate with each other during the momentary operation of the solar cell for selectively receiving and storing the electric charge to develop respective terminal voltages across their respective terminals even after the momentary operation of the solar cell. A detector periodically detects the terminal voltages of the small and large capacitors during the time-keeping operation. A switching circuit responds to the detected terminal voltages for selectively connecting and disconnecting the small and large capacitors to and from the time-keeping circuitry to enable the small and large capacitors to selectively power the time-keeping circuitry. A regulating circuit operates when the time-keeping circuitry is powered by the small capacitor for regulating the detector to effect the periodical detection of the terminal voltages at relatively short time intervals and operates when the time-keeping circuit is powered by the large capacitor for regulating the detector to effect the periodical detection of the terminal voltages at relatively long time intervals.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuichi Inoue