Sony Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tabata Co., Ltd.

Other

Fujitsu Corporation

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuji Kuroda

Koichiro Kishima

Isao Ichimura

Kiyoshi Osato

Motoki Kato

Kimihiro Saito

Tomohiro Akiba

Minoru Takeuchi

Katsuhiko Yanagawa

Manami Miyawaki

Kunihiro Morishita

Katsutoshi Inoko

Masaki Shimono

Hironobu Igarashi

Tatsuya Amano

Keiichi Moritsuka

Atsushi Inoue

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Kenji Yamamoto

Takeshi Sakai

Hiromasa Sato

Shinzo Tamai

Masatoshi Takeda

Koichi Yasuda

Kotaro Kurokawa

Taro Fujima

Isao Kamiyama

Fuminori Nakamura

Takashi Shimouma

Yutaka Kasami

Hiroyuki Nakazumi

Masahiko Seki

Sadahiro Tamura

Samu Mochizuki

Mitsuto Montani

Shozo Suefuku

Yumiko Fujita

The fastening device for the air cylinder includes a belt having a first end portion and a second end portion, a coupling ring attached to the first end portion of the belt, and a buckle to which the second end portion of the belt is attached. The buckle includes locking grooves in which locking portions of the coupling ring are releasably locked. The locking grooves include openings that gradually widen toward a rear face side. The front face of the buckle includes bent portions that are brought into contact with an outer circumferential face of the air cylinder when coupling between the belt and the coupling ring is released.

Fastening device for air cylinder

A structure for seismic isolationprovided on a structure planeincluding a pair of left and right columnsspaced apart in a horizontal direction, and a pair of upper and lower beamsA,B spaced apart in a vertical direction, wherein the structure for seismic isolation comprises: a seismic isolation deviceprovided in a middle of each of the columnto be displaced toward the beamA; and a horizontal rigid bearing element that is provided between an area in which the seismic isolation deviceis provided and the beamB and that includes a connection beamconnecting the pair of columnsand vertical bracesL,R.

Structure for seismic isolation, steel support structure, and method for seismic isolation of existing steel support structures

In a boiler support structure in which certain seismic isolators are provided with a pullout countermeasure, the seismic isolators to be provided with the pullout countermeasure are individually identified according to whether the seismic isolator satisfies Formula (1): N+N&#x3e;N. . . Formula (1), where N(N&#x3c;0) is a compressive load occurring on each of the seismic isolators and calculated on the basis of a permanent load imposed on the boiler support structure; N(N&#x3e;0) is a pullout force occurring on each of the seismic isolators and calculated on the assumption that an earthquake has occurred; and N(N&#x3e;0) is an allowable pullout force of each of the seismic isolators and calculated using an allowable pullout stress of each of the seismic isolators.

Support structure

A swimming mask including an elastic skirt of which a rear peripheral region is partially provided with regions having an elastic stretchability higher than that of the remaining regions to ensure the elastic skirt to be kept in close contact with the wearer's facial surface. A rear peripheral portionof an elastic skirtincludes an upper covering region, a lower covering regionand lateral covering regionswherein at least one of the upper covering regionand the lateral covering regionsis formed with a pair of high elastically stretchable regionsadapted to be more easily elastically stretched and contracted in a circumferential direction than a remaining region in the rear peripheral portion

Swimming mask

An image forming apparatus for performing job processing includes a power supplying unit configured to supply power to a heating unit, a cooling unit configured to cool an inside of an enclosure of the image forming apparatus, a power generating unit configured to generate power by heat dissipated from the heating unit, a power storage unit configured to store the power generated by the power generating unit, and a power supply control unit configured to, after driving the cooling unit by the power from one of the power supplying unit and the power generating unit, switch a power source of the cooling unit from one of the power supplying unit and the power storage unit to the power generating unit.

Image forming apparatus, control method for image forming apparatus, and storage medium for switching a power source of a cooling unit

An optical information recording mediumis constructed by sequentially layering a reflective layer, a protective layer, a recording layer, a protective layer, and a light transmissive protective layeron a substrate. As the recording layer, a recording layer containing ZnS, SiO, and Sb as principal components, or preferably, a recording layer expressed by a compositional formula [(ZnS)(SiO)](SbX)(where 0&#x3c;x&#x2266;1.0, 0.3&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.7, and 0.8&#x3c;z&#x2266;1.0 are met and X denotes at least one element selected from a group of Ga, Te, V, Si, Zn, Ta, and Tb) is adopted.

Optical information recording medium and method of recording and/or reproducing therein

An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store data, a supply unit configured to supply electric power to the storage unit, a determination unit configured to determine whether to cause the information processing apparatus to operate in a power saving mode, a measuring unit configured to measure an elapsed time after a power source of the information processing apparatus is turned on and until the determination unit determines to cause the information processing apparatus to operate in a power saving mode, and a control unit configured to control the supply unit to decrease electric power supplied from the supply unit to the storage unit at a timing determined based on the elapsed time and a predetermined reference time, in case that the determination unit determines to cause the information processing apparatus to operate in a power saving mode.

Information processing apparatus with power saving mode and method for controlling information processing apparatus

Degrees of wear of sheet-feed rollers corresponding to sheet-feed cassettes are managed by considering types of sheets set at feeding units. A control method for controlling a managing apparatus for managing a feeding device that feeds sheets, set in the feeding units, by driving the sheet-feed rollers corresponding to the feeding units includes storing sheet information in a storage unit, the sheet information indicating types of the sheets that are set in the respective feeding units; and managing degrees of wear of the sheet-feed rollers for the respective feeding units in accordance with the numbers of fed sheets and the sheet information stored in the storage unit, the degrees of wear resulting from the sheets fed from the feeding units.

Managing apparatus, image forming apparatus, method of controlling the managing apparatus, and storage medium

An optical information recording medium in which recorded information is stably stored for long time in the initial state, signals are not deteriorated by a laser beam for reproduction at the time of signal reproduction, the quality does not change in normal long-term storage, the write characteristic is held, a manufacturing cost is reduced, a margin in the manufacture process is assured, and excellent recording/reproducing characteristics are obtained in the wide range of linear speeds and recording powers is provided. An optical information recording mediumis formed by sequentially stacking a first information recording layer, an intermediate layer, a second information recording layer, and a protection layeron a substrate. As a material of a recording layerof the second information recording layer, a material having a composition expressed by [(ZnS)(SiO)](SbX)(where 0&#x3c;x&#x2266;1.0, 0.3&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.7, 0.8&#x2266;z&#x2266;1.0, and X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ga, Te, V, Si, Zn, Ta, Sn, and Tb) is used. H

Optical information recording medium and recording/reproducing method therefor

A diving face mask including a pair of front lenses, a lens frame provided with an outer frame having a pair of lens holders in which the lenses are detachably mounted from front and an inner frame having a pair of annular portions adapted to be detachably snap engaged with an inner peripheral surface of the lens holders, a tubular facial skirt extending rearward from the lens frame, and a strap adapted to be put around the wearer's head. The inner frame includes a pair of the integral annular portions and is formed with a space into which a connector member prepared separately of the inner frame is detachably fitted.

Diving face mask

A document scanning device is provided that is able to accurately and easily scan paper fingerprint information, even if particulate rubbish such as paper powder or dust is adhering to the surface of a document platen glass. In an image scanning device able to scan using both a stationary document scanning method as well as document feed scanning method, paper fingerprint information is scanned using either of the above methods. Subsequently, a conveying unit and a scanning unit are moved so as to re-scan the paper fingerprint information in the same fingerprint acquisition region. The above operation is repeated until both sets of paper fingerprint information are coincident.

Device for scanning and verifying a plurality of paper fingerprints

Each mobile station is accommodated in a base station through a radio transmission path. A base station control device controls each base station. A mobile station is accommodated in a first base station. Each of the base stations notifies the mobile station of the condition of the communication resources of the base station, respectively. If the mobile station judges that it is advantageous to be accommodated in a second base station instead of the first base station, the mobile station makes a request for hand-off to the base station control device. The base station control device issues a hand-off command to both of the first and second base stations. Then, the mobile station is accommodated in the second base station.

Mobile communication system in which communication resources are allocated based on traffic congestion

A face mask for diving includes a distal edge of a face-contactable section of a skirt attached to a lens frame are made roundly bulge so as to have a substantially circular cross-sectional shape.

Face mask for diving

A strap for diving face mask includes an upper branched sub-section and a lower branched sub-section forming together a loop section in a middle zone of the strap as viewed lengthwise. The upper branched sub-section has a circumferential length larger than a circumferential length of the lower branched sub-section and preferably right and left halves of the strap are sloped toward the side of the lower branched sub-section.

Strap for diving face mask

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuji Kuroda