The present invention provides a method of suppressing the bitter taste of a drug when a rapidly disintegrating tablet in an oral cavity is produced. When a rapidly disintegrating tablet in an oral cavity is produced, the bitter taste of a drug is suppressed by utilizing (a) a granule which contains a drug having a bitter taste and an excipient and in which the bitter taste has not been suppresse...

Disclosed herein is a water-soluble fully biodegradable material which is a product formed by melting a mixture containing starch, polyol, and water-containing polyvinyl alcohol, wherein the polyvinyl alcohol is hydrophilic polyvinyl alcohol and the content of the polyol is 19-40 wt% based on the total weight of the mixture. The material is a product formed from a molten mixture and has a melting ...

In an upper portion of a hoistway, there is arranged a drive unit having a drive sheave which is driven to rotate around a rotation shaft disposed along a vertical direction. First and second main ropes serve to hang a common car, and hang a common counterweight. In the upper portion of the hoistway, there are arranged a first car side deflection wheel that guides the first main ropes to the car, ...

The SMD component (FB) is fitted on top of the substrate (S). A sidewall of the waveguide filter is formed by the structured metallic layer (TM) of the substrate. Remaining side walls of the waveguide are formed by the component (FB). The waveguide filter includes input- and output coupling locations for electromagnetic waves. These waves propagate in the striplines (ML1, ML2) and are coupled into...

A sound synthesizer is provided that reduces the computational requirements of a synthesizer with a high degree of polyphony, while ensuring that audible artifacts are kept to a minimum. The synthesizer comprises a plurality of samples stored in a memory; a plurality of voices each comprising means for calculating an output using a plurality of samples selected from the plurality of samples stored...

A toothbrush includes a head having multiple cleaning elements. One group of the cleaning elements is flexibly mounted on the head and another group may be fixedly mounted on the head. The flexibly mounted cleaning elements are attached to a flexible membrane so that the membrane is capable of flexing to alter its original orientation during use of the toothbrush and then recover to the original o...

The biaxially oriented polyester film of the present invention contains a polyester having a primary melting point of 245 to 265 DEG C as the main component and exhibits a drop bag strength index at 0 DEG C of at least 2.0 and a strength at break in the film longitudinal direction at 120 DEG C of at least 100 MPa. The film has superior heat resistance, mechanical strength, impact resistance, and b...

A device may include a camera to capture an image; a sensor to measure, when the camera captures the image, information indicative of an angular displacement, about a line of sight of the camera, of an orientation of the device away from a reference orientation of the device; storage to store the measured information for rotating the image relative to a frame of the image based on the angular disp...

An image encoding apparatus includes a first selector selecting a prediction-order to sub-blocks obtained by further dividing pixel-blocks obtained by dividing a frame of an input-image-signal from predetermined prediction-orders, a second selector selecting, from prediction-modes regulating a manner of referring to an encoded-pixel when a first-prediction-signal of each-sub-block is generated wit...

A toothbrush comprises a handle having an elongated head mounted to the handle. The head has a longitudinally central portion which comprises a plurality of longitudinally aligned segments connected to each other by a joint. Cleaning elements are mounted to the segments and extend outwardly from the outer surface of the head. A shelf-like protrusion extends laterally outwardly from each side of th...

A toothbrush (10) includes a head (14) having a bristle carrying surface formed from a thin flexible dome shaped membrane (24). An air space (28) is located between the base of the head and the membrane so that the membrane can be capable of flexing to alter its shape during use and then resuming the original shape. In a second embodiment, the head (114) and/or handle (112) have elastomeric portio...

The antenna has a radiation surface (7) arranged at a lateral distance to an electrically conductive ground plane (3) and running parallel to the plane. A dielectric carrier (5) is arranged between the plane and surface. The surface is electrically connected with an electrically conductive feeder line. A supporting device (19) is provided directly/indirectly on the surface opposite to the plane. A...

A casing for an electronic device is produced from a heat-resistant, flame-retardant thermoplastic by an injection-molding process. This thermoplastic is a polyimide-based plastic with halogen-free flame retardancy.

The present invention concerns an orthodontic appliance for accelerating the tooth aligning effect and shortening the treatment period, and has an object to provide an appliance which can bring about higher aligning effect than usual ways by giving vibration to tooth to be aligned to activate bone remodeling of the targeted tooth and the alveolar bone and enhance the shift of the tooth. This appli...

The invention provides polishing slurry for CMP for suppressing corrosion of wiring lines of a conductive substance, or for suppressing bimetallic corrosion of a barrier conductor and conductive substance, by suppressing electrons from being transferred at near the boundaries between a barrier conductor and a conductive substance such as copper. The invention provides polishing slurry for CMP for ...

The photosensitive resin composition of the invention is characterized by comprising (A) a binder polymer, (B) a photopolymerizing compound with at least one polymerizable ethylenic unsaturated bond in the molecule, (C) a photopolymerization initiator and (D) a compound represented by the following general formula (1). In formula (1), R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently hydrogen or a compound...

This disclosure is directed to techniques for condensed voice buffering, transmission and playback. The techniques may involve identification of encoded voice frames as either speech or a pause, and selective exclusion of a portion of the frames for storage, transmission or playback based on the identification. In this manner, the techniques are capable of condensing a series of encoded voice fram...

A method for obtaining information about a transmission capability of a transmission link (TL) is disclosed. A sending entity (SE) sends data packets at a sending rate to the transmission link (TL), which transmits the data packets according to its transmission capability to a receiving entity (RE) receiving the data packets at a receiving rate. The sending rate is modulated with a rate modulation...

A touch panel (8) having a film/glass structure includes an upper electrode member (1) including a transparent insulation film (11) having upwardly-inclined end surfaces (11a) at the entire peripheral sides thereof. A touch panel (8A) having a film/film structure includes an upper electrode member (1) including a transparent insulation film (11) and a lower electrode member (2) including a transpa...

A method for accessing the object disk and a system for expanding capacity of the disk are disclosed. The process unit in the master disk array receives the command or data, and then sends the command or data to the PCIe exchange unit in the master disk array; the PCIe exchange unit of the master disk array sends the received command or data to the control unit of the corresponding disk array base...