Sony Corporation

Felica Networks, Inc.

3m Innovative Properties Company

Ihi Corporation

Seikagaku Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Yuko Yoshida

Yoshihito Ishibashi

Fumio Kubono

Shoji Nagai

Naoki Ide

Hiroshi Tanaka

Mamoru Suzuki

Kazuyoshi Enomoto

Yoshiaki Matsuzawa

Takahiro Hatanaka

Jun Muto

Yoichi Miyagawa

Norimitsu Kaneko

Muneto Narita

Tomoyuki Asano

Susumu Kusakabe

Yoshihiro Kato

Yorinobu Takamatsu

Atsuo Yoneda

Kotaro Fujimori

Web-wound rolls with a web edge treatment with microspheres and processes to make the same are provided. The web-wound rolls include a substrate web having at least two web edges. One or more stripes of coated material are disposed adjacent to one or both of the web edges. The substrate web is wound upon itself in multiple revolutions about a central core, and each revolution is held substantially separate from the next by the one or more stripes of coated material.

Web-wound rolls with microsphere treated edge and methods of making same

Provided is a culture device, including: a culture tank (110) configured to store an object liquid that is a culture solution having suspended therein an object; a screen (210) made of a metal, the screen including a main body (212) and a plurality of through holes (214) passing through the main body from a front surface (212) thereof to a back surface (212) thereof; a spray portion (220) configured to spray the object liquid stored in the culture tank onto the front surface of the body; an accommodation portion (240) surrounding the back surface of the main body and configured to accommodate the culture solution having passed through the through holes; a UV light irradiation portion (250) arranged in the accommodation portion and configured to radiate UV light; and a return portion (290) configured to return the culture solution in the accommodation portion to the culture tank.

Culture device

The present disclosure is an algae separating device configured to separate algae from an algal solution in which algae are suspended. The algae separating device includes: a metal screen having a main body and a plurality of through holes passing through the main body from a front face to a back face; and a spraying device configured to spray the algal solution toward the front face of the main body.

Algae separating device and method for producing dry algae

An electronic member provided in a circuit board having a connector. The connector has a card mounting port and holds a memory card in a state where a tip of the memory card is exposed from the card mounting port at a connection position where a connection terminal of the memory card and a connection terminal of the circuit board are connected. The electronic component includes a device that adds capacitance at a position separated from and facing at least a part of the tip of the memory card, in a state where the memory card is held at the connection position by the connector, and a connector having first and second end portions in which the first end portion is connected to the device that adds capacitance and the second end portion is connected to a ground of the circuit board.

Electronic component to reduce noise caused by the tip end of a memory card

A compound includes a group derived from chondroitin sulfate, a group derived from a steroid, and a spacer. The group derived from the chondroitin sulfate and the group derived from the steroid are covalently bonded together via the spacer, and a spacer forming molecule of the spacer is &#x3b2;-alanine or isoleucine. A covalent bond between the group derived from the steroid and the spacer is an ester bond, and a covalent bond between the group derived from the chondroitin sulfate and the spacer is an amide bond. The steroid is at least one selected from the group consisting of prednisolone, betamethasone, triamcinolone, triamcinolone acetonide, budesonide and fluticasone.

Chondroitin sulfate derivative and agent for treating bladder diseases

Provided is a compound in which a group derived from chondroitin sulfate and a group derived from a steroid are covalently bonded together via a spacer represented by general formula (I). In the formula, m represents an integer of 0 or 1. Here, if m=0, Rrepresents a group selected from the group consisting of electron-donating groups and steric hindrance groups. If m=1, Rrepresents a group selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, electron-donating groups and steric hindrance groups.&#x2014;HN&#x2014;(CH)&#x2014;CHR&#x2014;CO&#x2014;&#x2003;&#x2003;(I)

A communication device for performing communication with another communication device via a communication medium includes an obtaining unit for obtaining first attribute information which is information relating to a function and a usage of the other communication device, a setting unit for performing setting of the communication based on the first attribute information obtained by the obtaining unit, and a control unit for controlling the communication based on the setting results of the communication performed by the setting unit.

Communication system, communication device and method, and program

There is provided a transmission system, including a power supplying apparatus that includes an AC signal generation unit that generates an AC signal, a first resonance unit that has an induction component and/or a capacitance component and resonates the AC signal generated by the AC signal generation unit, and a power supplying electrode that externally radiates the resonated AC signal as a potential difference in an electrostatic field, and a power receiving apparatus that includes a power receiving electrode that generates an electric signal by sensing the potential difference in the electrostatic field, a second resonance unit that has an induction component and/or a capacitance component and resonates the electric signal generated by the power receiving electrode, and a rectification unit that rectifies the resonated electric signal.

Transmission system, power supplying apparatus, power receiving apparatus, and transmission method

There is provided a communication apparatus includes a soft decision data detection section which detects soft decision data from a received digitally modulated signal; an indicator calculation section which calculates an indicator indicating a degree of variation in the soft decision data detected by the soft decision data detection section; and a packet length control section which controls a packet length in accordance with the indicator calculated by the indicator calculation section.

Communication system, communication apparatus, and packet length control method

An imaging apparatus includes at least two living-body detecting units, a imaging unit, and a drive unit. The living-body detecting units are provided at a imaging position where a part of a living body is laid, in conformity with the shape of the part of the living body. The imaging unit images the part of the living body, which is laid at the imaging position. The drive unit drives the imaging unit when all of the at least two living-body detecting units detect the living body.

Imaging apparatus

There is provided a communication apparatus including a reference electrode; a signal electrode which electrostatically couples to a communication medium; a measurement unit for measuring an impedance of a circuit system including between the reference electrode and the signal electrode; and a transmission processing unit for creating a potential difference between the signal electrode and the reference electrode based on a transmission power corresponding to the impedance of the circuit system measured by the measurement unit, and transmitting a signal to another communication apparatus electrostatically coupled to the communication medium.

Communication apparatus, communication system, and communication method

A communication apparatus includes an antenna configured to generate a magnetic field corresponding to a signal of a first communication method; and a communication unit configured to perform communication via a communication medium by transmitting/receiving a signal of a second communication method by using a potential difference between the communication unit and a predetermined reference point, the communication unit including a transparent conductive film. The antenna and the communication unit are integrated with each other.

Communication apparatus

An information processing terminal is disclosed that is allowed to carry out contactless data transmission or reception with a reading or writing device by use of a magnetic field. The information processing terminal includes a data transmitter or receiver, a signal processor, and a load modulator. The data transmitter or receiver is configured to generate an induced voltage from a magnetic field generated from the reading or writing device at the time of data reception, and send a transmission signal to the read/write reading or writing device at the time of data transmission. The signal processor is configured to generate a response signal based on the induced voltage. The load modulator controls a variable resistance based on the induced voltage and carries out load modulation relating to the transmission signal based on the response signal and the variable resistance.

Information processing terminal, IC card, portable communication device, wireless communication method, and program

The present invention relates to a semiconductor integrated circuit and a wireless communication apparatus that can be reduced in size without deteriorating a receiving sensitivity and a transmission efficiency. Communication with an external reader/writer and an external non-contact IC card is carried out through a common antenna. The signal received from the external reader/writer or the external non-contact IC card through the antenna is supplied to an ASK demodulation circuitand demodulated. The signal received from the external reader/writer is full-wave rectified and smoothed by an full-wave rectification and smoothing circuit composed of diodesand a capacitor, and the power obtained from the full-wave rectified and smoothed signal is supplied to respective units of a semiconductor integrated circuit. The present invention can be applied to a mobile phone.

Semiconductor integrated circuit and wireless communication device

There is provided an information processing terminal that has a plurality of data communication portions that receive data from a read/write unit by a non-contact method. The information processing terminal includes a data processing portion that selects and processes one of the data received by a first data communication portion that is one of the plurality of data communication portions and the data received by a second data communication portion that is one of the plurality of data communication portions. The information processing terminal also includes a load modulation portion that performs a load modulation with respect to a response to the read/write unit according to the data processing in the data processing portion.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuko Yoshida