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A display device having: a light-emitting layer 100; a light-reflecting member disposed on a back surface of the light-emitting layer; a polarized light separating unit 500 provided so that light in a predetermined wavelength range corresponding to light emitted from the light-emitting layer is separated into two kinds of polarized light components by reflection and transmission; a polarizer 600; and a retarder 700, the polarized light separating unit 500, the polarizer 600 and the retarder 700 being disposed on a front surface side of the light-emitting layer.

A method of wave propagation from 100–10000 GHz. The currently disclosed method and apparatus adapts micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS) technologies and processes to construct Kinoform optical components from microwave to terahertz range. The method uses induced coupled plasma (ICP) and gray scale processes for upper terahertz band; LIGA-based high aspect ratio (HAR) and gray scale processes are for the mid band; and computer numerical control (CNC) for lower band. In all cases, the thickness of any processed components is about the respective wavelength and system efficiency is about 95%. A Kinoform lens element is designed at 5000 GHz. However, the method is applicable for the entire terahertz band.

For the purpose of improving the fuel efficiency by lean combustion and enhancing the fuel efficiency improvement effects by performing compression ignition efficiently in some cylinders, a multi-cylinder spark ignition engine is constructed such that exhaust gas, that is exhausted from preceding cylinders 2A, 2D on the exhaust stroke side among pairs of cylinders whose exhaust stroke and intake stroke overlap in a low load, low rotational speed region, is directly introduced through an inter-cylinder gas passage 22 into following cylinders 2B, 2C on the intake stroke side and only gas exhausted from the following cylinders 2B, 2C is fed to an exhaust passage 20, which is provided with a three-way catalyst 24. Combustion controller is provided that controls the combustion of each of the cylinders such that combustion is conducted by forced ignition in a condition in which the air / fuel ratio is a lean air / fuel ratio which is larger by a prescribed amount than the stoichiometric air / fuel ratio in the preceding cylinders 2A, 2D and, in the following cylinders 2B, 2C, fuel is supplied to burnt gas of lean air / fuel ratio introduced from the preceding cylinders 2A, 2D and combustion is conducted by compression ignition.

The point state of a pointer in a coordinate input region is determined on the basis of the number and intensities of shadows which are present in light intensity distributions obtained from a plurality of sensors in accordance with pointing by the pointer.

An optical system for ultraviolet light having wavelengths λ≦200 nm, which may be designed in particular as a catadioptric projection objective for microlithography, has a plurality of optical elements including optical elements made of synthetic quartz glass or a fluoride crystal material transparent to a wavelength λ≦200 nm. At least two of the optical elements are utilized for forming at least one liquid lens group including a first delimiting optical element, a second delimiting optical element, and a liquid lens, which is arranged in an interspace between the first delimiting optical element and the second delimiting optical element and contains a liquid transparent to ultraviolet light having wavelengths λ≦200 nm. This enables effective correction of chromatic aberrations even in the case of systems that are difficult to correct chromatically.

A cooking oven includes a heatable oven chamber (6) that can be loaded with product from the outside area (A) through a loading port (8). An oven door (10) serves to close off the loading port (8) of the oven chamber (6) from the outside area (A). An inner pane (50) faces the oven chamber (6), an outer pane (48) faces the outside area (A), and one or several intermediate panes (52) are positioned between the inner pane (50) and the outer pane (48). An outer cavity (54) is between the outer pane (48) and the neighboring intermediate pane (52) and an inner cavity space (56) is between the inner pane (50) and the neighboring intermediate pane (52). A cooling system moves cooling air (K1) through the outer cavity (54) while thermally insulating air (I) can be held stationary in the inner cavity (56).

The point state of a pointer in a coordinate input region is determined on the basis of the number and intensities of shadows which are present in light intensity distributions obtained from a plurality of sensors in accordance with pointing by the pointer.

A cooking oven includes a heatable oven chamber that can be loaded with product from the outside area through a loading port. An oven door serves to close off the loading port of the oven chamber from the outside area. An inner pane faces the oven chamber, an outer pane faces the outside area, and one or several intermediate panes are positioned between the inner pane and the outer pane. An outer cavity is between the outer pane and the neighboring intermediate pane and an inner cavity space is between the inner pane and the neighboring intermediate pane. A cooling system moves cooling air through the outer cavity while thermally insulating air can be held stationary in the inner cavity.

For the purpose of improving the fuel efficiency by lean combustion and enhancing the fuel efficiency improvement effects by performing compression ignition efficiently in some cylinders, a multi-cylinder spark ignition engine is constructed such that exhaust gas, that is exhausted from preceding cylinders 2A, 2D on the exhaust stroke side among pairs of cylinders whose exhaust stroke and intake stroke overlap in a low load, low rotational speed region, is directly introduced through an inter-cylinder gas passage 22 into following cylinders 2B, 2C on the intake stroke side and only gas exhausted from the following cylinders 2B, 2C is fed to an exhaust passage 20, which is provided with a three-way catalyst 24. Combustion controller is provided that controls the combustion of each of the cylinders such that combustion is conducted by forced ignition in a condition in which the air / fuel ratio is a lean air / fuel ratio which is larger by a prescribed amount than the stoichiometric air / fuel ratio in the preceding cylinders 2A, 2D and, in the following cylinders 2B, 2C, fuel is supplied to burnt gas of lean air / fuel ratio introduced from the preceding cylinders 2A, 2D and combustion is conducted by compression ignition.

The invention relates to a long cap (1) which is designed to protect the hair. The inventive cap comprises two essentially-parallelepiped side walls which are fixed to one another along one of the long sides (2) and shorts sides (3) thereof, such as to define: a first pouch (4) which is disposed at the proximal end of the cap, said first pouch forming a cap; and a second pouch (5) which is disposed at the distal end of the cap, said second pouch forming a receptacle for the floating mass of hair (6). The invention is characterised in that the two ends thereof are provided with complementary fixing means (9) which can be brought into contact with one another in order to close the cap around the head after the hair has been placed therein. For said purpose, the distal end is rotated by 180° around the longitudinal axis of the cap and subsequently folded back over the proximal end such as to cover same.

A plastic mulch retriever is disclosed comprising a body and at least one cutting or digging element mounted to the body to loosen plastic mulch embedded in the ground. A conveyor is mounted to the body rearward of the at least one cutting or digging elements to engage the loosened plastic mulch and remove at least some of the ground material attached to the extracted plastic mulch. At least one storage device is mounted to the body rearward of the conveyor to store the retrieved plastic mulch.

A sensor unit for the measurement of a current in a conductor (1) comprising at least one magnetoresistive sensor (5, 6) located at a radial distance from the outer surface of the conductor (1) is disclosed, wherein the conductor (1) has a circular cross-section, and wherein it comprises at least one auxiliary coil (7) for the generation of a bias magnetic field (Hbias) to the magnetoresistive sensor (5, 6) strong enough for inducing magnetic saturation in the magnetoresistive sensor (5, 6) continuously during the whole current measurement process. Further the use of such a sensor and a method for measuring the current in the conductor using such a sensor unit are disclosed.

A machine tool capable of performing an accurate machining by preventing a second saddle 6 from displacing aslant to suppress the vibrations of a spindle head 8, wherein a column 2 is fixedly installed on bed 1, a first saddle 4 is movably guided by the column 2 in vertical direction f1, a second saddle 6 is movably guided by the first saddle 4 in lateral direction f2, a spindle head 8 is movably guided by the second saddle 6 in longitudinal direction 18, and interfitted guide route devices 5A, 5B, 5C for guiding the second saddle 6 in lateral direction f2 are formed at the rear lower position of the first saddle 4 as well as at the front upper and lower positions of the first saddle 4.

A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, and at least one carcass ply toroidally extending between a pair of bead cores and wound around the bead core to form a turnup portion, in which a reinforcing rubber having substantially a crescent shape at its lateral section is disposed at an inside of the sidewall portion and a cord reinforcing layer containing cord(s) extending in a direction of approximately 90° with respect to a radial line segment is disposed in at least a bead portion.

An ultrasonic sensor has a sensor body and a bezel having a metal spring attached on a side wall thereof for installation on a vehicle component. A free end of the metal spring is positioned to protrude from a through hole of the side wall, is pressed by a portion of the sensor body that is inserted in a hollow space of the bezel, and is pushed back by an opening face of the sensor body. In this manner, the bezel is firmly attached on the component and the sensor body is firmly attached on the bezel.

There is provided an electron microscope which is capable of making a significant contribution to accomplishment of efficiency in investigating causes for pattern abnormalities found out. The electron microscope including an I / O for capturing image data on a microscopic image acquired by another electron microscope, a computation processing unit for generating a display signal based on the image data on the microscopic image acquired by another electron microscope and captured via the I / O and image data on a microscopic image acquired by the electron microscope itself, in order that the microscopic image acquired by another electron microscope and the microscopic image acquired by the electron microscope itself are displayed at the same scale and under the same display condition, and a display unit for displaying both of the microscopic images based on the display signal from the computation processing unit.

A Mn—Zn based ferrite sintered body containing 62 to 68 mol % of Fe2O3 and 12 to 20 mol % of ZnO is made to contain, as main constituents, NiO and / or LiO0.5. Additionally, a Mn—Zn based ferrite sintered body containing 62 to 68 mol % of Fe2O3 and 12 to 23 mol % of ZnO is made to contain, as additives, Si and Ca. This sintered body can achieve such properties that the saturation magnetic flux density at 100° C. is 450 mT or more (magnetic field for measurement: 1194 A / m), the minimum core loss value is 1200 kW / m3 or less (measurement conditions: 100 kHz, 200 mT), the bottom temperature at which the minimum core loss value is exhibited is from 60 to 130° C., and the initial permeability at room temperature is 700 or more.

The invention relates to a system for the breeding and reproduction of microorganisms, comprising a basin system (10) and a nutrient suspension (12) disposed in the basin system (10), wherein the basin system (10) comprises a vertical meandering system formed by partition walls (14) in order to achieve a substantially vertical flow of the nutrient suspension (12) in the basin system (10). The invention further relates to a method for the breeding and reproduction of microorganisms by means of a system in which light is introduced into a basin system (10) comprising a nutrient suspension (12), wherein the introduction of the light is carried out by way of partition walls (14) projecting into the nutrient suspension (12), said walls being filled with a dispersive liquid. In this manner an improved yield of microorganisms per hectare can be obtained.

A manufacturing method for an edge illuminated type photodiode has: a process of forming an impurity-doped layer of a first conductivity type in each of device forming regions in a semiconductor substrate; a process of forming an impurity-doped layer of a second conductivity type in each of the device forming regions; a process of forming a trench extending in a direction of thickness of the semiconductor substrate from a principal surface, at a position of a boundary between adjacent device forming regions, by etching to expose side faces of the device forming regions; a process of forming an insulating film on the exposed side faces of the device forming regions; a process of forming an electrode for each corresponding impurity-doped layer on the principal surface side of the semiconductor substrate; and a process of implementing singulation of the semiconductor substrate into the individual device forming regions

The invention provides a transflective liquid crystal display device which performs high-contrast display for both the transmissive display and the reflective display. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has transmissive a display area and a reflective display area at each dot. In addition, it has a reflective electrode disposed in the reflective display area and also has a thickness-adjusting layer to adjust a liquid crystal layer disposed therein in order to make a liquid crystal layer thinner in the reflective display area than in the transmissive display area. Also, the upper surface of an edge portion of the reflective electrode, the edge portion lying in a boundary area between the transmissive display area and the reflective display area, is arranged so as to serve as a mirror reflective surface.

The present invention relates to a fluid throttle screen for low-noise control of a fluid volume flow rate (Q) in a pipe and the use of such a throttle screen in an aircraft climate control system. In addition, the present invention relates to a climate control system in an aircraft in whose pipe system at least one such throttle screen is installed. The throttle screen according to the present invention comprises multiple friction elements extending longitudinally in the flow direction, which are situated at a distance to one another in such a way that a fluid is throttled continuously over the extension of the fluid throttle screen as a result of friction on the individual friction elements.

An information display device includes an input interface that accepts an input manipulation including setting a starting location and a destination, and a processor that displays in a display area, an object and a manipulator for use to enter an instruction to change the display state of the object. The processor changes the display state in accordance with a vector to be defined by the distance and direction from the starting location to the destination. The processor performs a first type of processing in response to the input manipulation done on a region other than a region of the manipulator, and a second type of processing of changing the display state in response to the input manipulation done on the region of the manipulator. In the second type of processing, the display state of the object can be changed more finely than in the first type of processing.

When cold and in the non-coated state, the aerodynamic profile is substantially identical to a nominal profile determined by the Cartesian coordinates X,Y, Zadim given in Table 1, in which the coordinate Zadim is the quotient D / H where D is the distance of the point under consideration from a first reference plane P0 situated at the base of the nominal profile, and H is the height of said profile measured from the first reference plane to a second reference plane P1. The measurements D and H are taken radially relative to the axis of the turbine, while the X coordinate is measured in the axial direction of the turbine.

An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries an electrostatic latent image on a surface thereof, a toner carrying roller that is disposed to face the image carrier and rotates in a predetermined rotation direction with charged toner carried on a surface thereof so as to transport the toner in an opposing position for facing the image carrier, and a bias applying unit that develops the electrostatic latent image with the toner by applying an AC voltage as a developing bias to the toner carrying roller. In addition, periodical concavo-convexes that are formed of a plurality of convex portions arranged at a constant pitch in a circumferential direction and concave portions that surround the plurality of convex portions are formed on the surface of the toner carrying roller. When the arrangement pitch is denoted by P, the frequency of the developing bias is denoted by F, and the moving speed of the surface of the toner carrying roller for the circumferential direction is denoted by V, a quotient acquired from dividing V by F is a value acquired from multiplying P by a natural number or an approximately natural number.

A sensor unit for the measurement of a current in a conductor (1) comprising at least one magnetoresistive sensor (5, 6) located at a radial distance from the outer surface of the conductor (1) is disclosed, wherein the conductor (1) has a circular cross-section, and wherein it comprises at least one auxiliary coil (7) for the generation of a bias magnetic field (Hbias) to the magnetoresistive sensor (5, 6) strong enough for inducing magnetic saturation in the magnetoresistive sensor (5, 6) continuously during the whole current measurement process. Further the use of such a sensor and a method for measuring the current in the conductor using such a sensor unit are disclosed.

A nitride semiconductor light emitting device is provided with a substrate, an n-type nitride semiconductor layer, a p-type nitride semiconductor layer, an n-side pad electrode, a translucent electrode and a p-side pad electrode, wherein the translucent electrode is formed from an electrically conductive oxide, the n-side pad electrode adjoins the periphery of the translucent electrode and the p-side pad electrode is disposed so as to satisfy the following relationships:0.3L≦X≦0.5L and 0.2L≦Y≦0.5Lwhere X is the distance between ends of the p-side pad electrode and the n-side pad electrode, Y is the distance between the end of the p-side pad electrode and the periphery of the translucent electrode, L is the length of the translucent electrode on the line connecting the centroids of the p-side pad electrode and the n-side pad electrode minus the outer diameter d of the p-side pad electrode.