An image forming apparatus has an apparatus main body provided with an image forming portion for forming an image, an opening formed in the apparatus main body, an openable and closable cover for opening and closing the opening, and provided with a first cover pivotably provided in the apparatus main body, and a second cover pivotably provided on the first cover, and an image reading device provided above the opening for reading the image of an original, and when the first cover is pivotably mov...

The multimedia call distribution system maintains call connection devices, a multimedia call distribution device, and terminal devices. When a call connection request is received, each of the call connection devices issues an inquiry to the multimedia call distribution device about a terminal device to which a call is to be connected. The call connection device connects the call to the terminal device as a response to the inquiry by the multimedia call distribution device The multimedia call dis...

The oxide sintered body mainly consists of gallium, indium, and oxygen, and a content of the gallium is more than 65 at. % and less than 100 at. % with respect to all metallic elements, and the density of the sintered body is 5.0 g/cm.sup.3 or more. The oxide film is obtained using the oxide sintered body as a sputtering target, and the shortest wavelength of the light where the light transmittance of the film itself except the substrate becomes 50% is 320 nm or less. The transparent base materi...

The transparent conductive film 1 includes laminated transparent conductive thin films 10 and 20 of at least two layers. The transparent conductive thin film of the uppermost layer is an amorphous oxide thin film composed of gallium, indium, and oxygen, a gallium content ranges from 49.1 atom % to 65 atom % with respect to all metallic atoms, a work function is 5.1 eV or more, and a surface resistance is 100 .OMEGA./.quadrature. or less. The transparent conductive base material includes a transp...

In a lens barrel for use in a camera, the inner wall of a fixed barrel and the outer wall of a rotatable barrel are shaped in a first helicoid engagement and the inner wall of the rotatable barrel and the outer wall of a lens holding-barrel are shaped in a second helicoid engagement, wherein a pitch of the second helicoid engagement is substantially equal to that of the first helicoid engagement. One end of a flexible print circuit is connected with an electrical device on the lens holding-barre...

A sintered body target for transparent conductive film fabrication is chiefly composed of Ga, In, and O; has a Ga content ranging from 49.1 at. % to 65 at. % with respect to all metallic atoms; is chiefly constructed from a .beta.-GaInO.sub.3 phase and an In.sub.2O.sub.3 phase; provides an In.sub.2O.sub.3 phase (400)/.beta.-GaInO.sub.3 phase (111) X-ray diffraction peak intensity ratio that is 45% or less; and has a density of 5.8 g/cm.sup.3 or more. A transparent conductive film obtained by usi...

A battery ECU estimates the SOC by integrating the battery current measured by a current sensor, and the battery voltage V.sub.nis measured by a voltage sensor, and the battery temperature T.sub.nis measured by a thermometer if the fluctuation of the charging/discharging current is great. If the number m of estimations of SOC.sub.nis m.ltoreq.10, m is incremented. The battery internal resistance R.sub.nis estimated from the measured battery temperature T.sub.nby using a correlation map showing t...

An air bag device has a retainer, an air bag, a module cover and an inflator. The retainer has a flat plate portion and an erected piece projecting from the plate portion. The cover has a leg faced and fixed to the erected portion. A projection is provided at the leg which is engaged with an opening provided at the erected piece so that the module cover is held at a predetermined position during a process of fixing the leg to the erected piece.

A multi-window display method and system for displaying a plurality of overlapping windows so that only portions of windows that are not covered by other windows are displayed. In displaying the first window and then the second window over the first window, the first partial area which belongs to the first window and is covered by the second window, and the second partial area which belongs to the first window but is not covered by the second window are detected; the first partial area is regist...

A system configuration evaluation/proposal support method of supporting the effect evaluation of a support system for enhancing the business processing ability of a human and a system configuration proposal suitable to a business process, and a tool for the method are provided in the following manner. Data of a functional process model expressing a business process on a basic function element unit of information processing, a system configuration candidate constructed by a combination of an info...