A multilayer electronic device includes a laminate and an external electrode that is formed on an end surface of the laminate after a plurality of conductive particles having a particle diameter of about 1 mum or more is adhered to the end surface of the laminate, for example, by a sandblast method or a brush polishing method. The external electrode is defined by a plating film that is formed by e...

[Object] An object is to provide a separated sensor capable of synchronizing a light transmitting unit with a light receiving unit, without using a control line. [Solving means] There is provided a separated sensor including a light transmitting unit that transmits detection light to a monitoring area, and a light receiving unit that receives detection light transmitted by the light transmitting u...

In order to cause players to feel as little communication delay as possible in a communication type match-up game, a task generating terminal records how a player dances (301) to a reproduction (300) of a music, generates a task (303) based on an input operation (302), and transmits (304) the task to a task receiving terminal. The task receiving terminal reproduces (306) a motion picture of how th...

A system and method for enabling a UPnP device to provide services on behalf of another UPnP device. According to the present invention, all services requested from the original serving devices are redirected to the shadow device, while the original device has no knowledge of this redirection. With the present invention, a remote UPnP device requesting a service has no knowledge that the service i...

A method of treating Restless Leg Syndrome, includes administering to a subject an iron complex having an iron release rate greater than IDI. The iron release rate is determined at a concentration of at least 2,000 mug/dl.

A process for the production of thermosetting resin moldings by molding and setting a thermosetting resin by use of concave and convex molds, which comprises conducting continuously the following steps (a) to (d): the step (a) of forming a substrate on the convex mold with the molds closed, the step (b) of subjecting the outside face of the substrate to at least single glaze coating, the step (c) ...

Non-volatile memory devices and arrays are described that facilitate the use of band-gap engineered gate stacks with asymmetric tunnel barriers in reverse and normal mode floating node memory cells in NOR or NAND memory architectures that allow for direct tunnel programming and erase, while maintaining high charge blocking barriers and deep carrier trapping sites for good charge retention. The low...

In its broadest form, this invention enables the ventilation and drainage of the middle ear cleft via mastoid antral route, without disrupting the integrity of the eardrum. For this purpose, this tube is placed between mastoid antrum and the external ear canal after mastoidotomy (antrotomy). The tube has two cannulas, which are placed one within the other. One of these is the external cannula and ...

Provided is a test apparatus for testing a device under test, the test apparatus including: a pattern generating section that inputs a test pattern to the device under test; a judging section that receives an output signal of the device under test, and makes judgment concerning pass/fail of the device under test based on the output signal; an internal circuit that exchanges signals between the dev...

A new Bacillus subtilis strain and its use in preparing medicine for treating thrombosis are provided. Particularly, the use of fibrinolytic enzyme produced by Bacillus subtilis in preparing medicine for treating thrombosis is provided. The present invention also discloses a method for producing said fibrinolytic enzyme (nattokinase). It is efficient and cost-effective to prepare nattokinase b...

The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device that may receive wireless broadcast signals from a number of different base stations or transmitters. As the location of the device moves relative to the transmitters, one transmitter will likely be identified as the transmitter broadcast the strongest, or highest quality, signal. When that determination is made, the user of the mobile de...

A method of synchronizing packet rates in a voice over internet protocol system in accordance with one embodiment comprising sending a first parameter from an offering node ( 100 ) to an answering node ( 104 ), the first parameter indicative of a first rate at which the offering node wants to receive packets ( 300 ); and sending a second parameter from the offering node to the answering node, the ...

A system and method for selecting media. In one embodiment, the media is selected, based on a desired relationship measure, a user input, relationship data, and the identity of a media file. In another embodiment, the present method and system is implemented onto portable devices, car audio systems, consumer electronics devices, cellular phones or software programs running on personal computers an...

It is the purpose of this invention to present a process for producing carbon nanostructure in which the mechanism of continuous carbon nanostructure growth can be optimized and a high-quality carbon nanostructure can be produced, a catalyst for carbon nanostructure growth which is for use in the production, a raw-material gas and a carrier gas for producing the same, and an apparatus for producin...

There is provided a creamy light-weight molding material which has good fluidity to be readily squeezed, provides excellent shape retentivity, and provides excellent storage stability. The light-weight molding material is composed of a binder resin containing a polyvinyl alcohol resin, a viscosity adjusting agent, water, and a light-weight material, wherein the light-weight material content is fro...

A clip easily usable even by a visually handicapped person and a presbyope. A clip (100) has first and second bend sections (110, 120), first and second rectilinear sections (130, 140), third and fourth rectilinear sections (150,160), and a connection section (170) . End edges (141, 151) of the second rectilinear section and the third rectilinear section, respectively, are positioned within a regi...

Systems and methods for automatically troubleshooting a machine, suitable for use in connection with a high speed web converting manufacturing process having at least one machine operating at a set point and producing a composite article from a sequential addition of component parts during a production run of composite articles. A first inspection system is adapted to automatically inspect a first...

A method of compensating for dc offset of a received signal transmitted over a channel having a plurality of paths, the received signal comprising a modulated data signal and a modulated known training sequence signal, the method comprising the steps of: constructing (104) from the known training sequence signal a first regression matrix; path-combining (106) the incrementally rotated elements of ...

The invention relates to a sensor system and method of operating such a sensor system for measuring an angle of rotation with an arrangement of at least four magnetic sensors (10, 11, 12, 13), at least four signal modulators (30, 31, 32, 33), each one connected to one of the magnetic sensors (10, 11, 12, 13) and having at least two control states, whereby, in a first state (+), a signal received f...

The present invention provides as an object a novel hinge device which is extremely valuable as a commercial product and an electronic instrument using the hinge device. A hinge device for pivoting a first member (1) and a second member (2) to be rotatably opened and closed is characterized in that when the second member (2) kept under a coupled and closed condition is opened to the first memb...