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20090021765 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROLLING METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes: a combining unit configured to combine a document image and a coded image; a setting determining unit configured to determine whether a setting for combining a document image including a previously combined coded image and an other coded image is made when a reproduction of the document image is instructed; and a prohibiting unit configured to prohibit the combining unit from combining the document image including the previously combined coded image and the other coded image according to the setting when the result of the determination indicates that the setting is made. | 01-22-2009 |
20090214137 | IMAGE PROCESSING ENABLING DECODING OF ENCODED INFORMATION EMBEDDED IN SOURCE DOCUMENT - An image processing apparatus that receives an image from a scanner capable of optical scaling is provided by the present invention. It has an image scaling unit for performing digital scaling of a received image, and an information detecting unit for detecting encoded information from the received image. Unless the scaling factor is that suitable for optical scaling, the received image undergoes the digital scaling instead of the optical scaling. Before the received image undergoes the digital scaling, the information detecting unit detects the encoded information from the received image. The scaling using the image reading device capable of optical scaling enables more accurate analysis of the encoded information embedded in a source document. | 08-27-2009 |
20110090526 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of reliably printing security information even when image data of an original document that is obtained by a reading unit contains security information and an area where the security information is not contained is set as a print area, and a control method thereof. To accomplish this, when image data of an original document contains security information, the image forming apparatus extracts image the security information from data, and sets a print target area from an area indicated by the image data of the original document. When an area corresponding to, from which the security information is extracted, is not contained in the set print target area, the image forming apparatus executes printing using the extracted image data corresponding to the security information, and the image data corresponding to the print target area. | 04-21-2011 |
20110157657 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus which reads a first ticket and a second ticket and performs processing extracted from information on the tickets includes a ticket generation unit configured to extract, from a processing instruction sheet serving as an original document which describes a processing target region in a processing target original document, information regarding the processing target region in order to generate a ticket, and to generate a ticket contents of processing to be performed on the processing target region in a format. The ticket generation unit further extracts information regarding contents of processing instructed to be performed on a region in which a change in contents of processing instructed by the processing instruction sheet to be performed thereon is permitted, and generates a second ticket. | 06-30-2011 |
20120086973 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROLLING METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes: a combining unit configured to combine a document image and a coded image; a setting determining unit configured to determine whether a setting for combining a document image including a previously combined coded image and an other coded image is made when a reproduction of the document image is instructed; and a prohibiting unit configured to prohibit the combining unit from combining the document image including the previously combined coded image and the other coded image according to the setting when the result of the determination indicates that the setting is made. | 04-12-2012 |
20120099154 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - In executing a job for combining a plurality of images and outputting the combined image, an information processing apparatus stores log information to allow a system administrator to later identify what image has been output while effectively saving the capacity of a storage device to be used. | 04-26-2012 |
20130128296 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - There are provided a printing apparatus, and a control method and a program thereof which, in a case of box-storing a password document, can in advance avoid occurrence of a state where the password document can not be printed depending upon the setting of the printing apparatus. In a case of box-storing a password document, a user is notified at the box-storing that there is a possibility of occurrence of a state where the password document can not be printed depending upon the setting of a printing apparatus. | 05-23-2013 |
20130293908 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides a technique of preventing a collision between an original document and a printing material on a conveyance path which is partially shared for conveyance of them in an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus of one aspect of this invention, which includes a printing unit configured to convey a printing material via at least part of a conveyance path used for original document reading processing, and execute printing processing of an image on the printing material, executes if the original document reading processing is not being executed when the printing processing of the image on the printing material is instructed, the printing processing without waiting for completion of the reading processing, and executes, if the original document reading processing is being executed, the printing processing upon completion of the reading processing. | 11-07-2013 |
20140036300 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of reliably printing security information even when image data of an original document that is obtained by a reading unit contains security information and an area where the security information is not contained is set as a print area, and a control method thereof. To accomplish this, when image data of an original document contains security information, the image forming apparatus extracts image the security information from data, and sets a print target area from an area indicated by the image data of the original document. When an area corresponding to, from which the security information is extracted, is not contained in the set print target area, the image forming apparatus executes printing using the extracted image data corresponding to the security information, and the image data corresponding to the print target area. | 02-06-2014 |
20140045667 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING SHEET FOLDING PROCESSING - There is a disclosure of a system which controls a folding unit performing folding processing to one set of sheets supplied by a print unit. The one set of sheets includes sheets of a first size and/or a second size which is smaller than the first size. The system includes a first controller and second controller. When the one set of sheets includes a sheet of the first size, the first controller inhibits the folding processing to a sheet of the second size. When the one set of sheets does not include a sheet of the first size but includes a sheet of the second size, the second controller permits the folding processing to a sheet of the second size. | 02-13-2014 |
20140185305 | LIGHTING DEVICE - A lighting device includes a face light emitter and a housing having an internal cavity. The internal cavity is defined by a wall and the face light emitter. The face light emitter is an electroluminescence panel having a permeable substrate to planarly radiate visible light. The electroluminescence panel has a plurality of holes each communicating from the internal cavity to an outside space. | 07-03-2014 |
20150115240 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT - Provided is a practically useful organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) having high efficiency and high driving stability while being capable of being driven at a low voltage. The organic electroluminescent device includes a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode opposite to each other. The light-emitting layer contains two host materials and at least one light-emitting dopant. One of the two host materials is a host material selected from an indolocarbazole compound having one indolocarbazole ring and an indolocarbazole compound having two indolocarbazole rings, and the other thereof is a host material selected from carbazole compounds. | 04-30-2015 |
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20110062862 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE - Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) that is improved in the luminous efficiency, fully secured of the driving stability, and of a simple structure. The organic EL device comprises a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode piled one upon another on a substrate and the said light-emitting layer comprises (A) a phosphorescent dopant whose emission peak wavelength is longer than 600 nm and (B) a host material. The host material contains at least two kinds of compounds selected from two or more kinds of derivatives included in (b1) N-substituted indolocarbazole derivatives, (b2) derivatives of 8-hydroxyquinoline aluminum complex, and (b3) bisindolocarbazole derivatives. | 03-17-2011 |
20120007070 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE - Provided is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device), which has improved luminous efficiency, shows sufficiently ensured driving stability, and has a simple construction. The organic electroluminescent device includes an anode, a cathode, and organic layers including a hole-transporting layer and a light-emitting layer, the organic layers being interposed between the anode and the cathode, in which the light-emitting layer contains a phosphorescent light-emitting material and the hole-transporting layer and the light-emitting layer have an electron- and/or exciton-blocking layer therebetween, the electron- and/or exciton-blocking layer being adjacent to the light-emitting layer and containing an indolocarbazole compound represented by the general formula (2). In the formula, a ring B represents a heterocycle represented by the formula (1c) to be fused with adjacent rings, Z represents an n-valent aromatic hydrocarbon group or an aromatic heterocyclic group, and n represents 1 or 2. | 01-12-2012 |
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20090082889 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND STORAGE METHOD - According to one embodiment, a storage apparatus comprises storage devices, a first selection module configured to select a first storage device in accordance with selection made by a user, a determination module configured to determine whether or not the first storage device can store data, a second selection module configured to select a second storage device when the determination module determines that the first storage device cannot store data, and a storage control module configured to store data in the first storage device when the determination module determines that the first storage device can store data, and to store data in the second storage device when the determination module determines that the first storage device cannot store data. | 03-26-2009 |
20090160792 | PORTABLE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a portable device includes a casing, a display contained in the casing and having a first side in proximity to a position of the casing which is held by a user with a hand, a plurality of icons displayed on the display, a touch panel which is provided over the display and by which the icons are operated, and a sensor which is provided in the casing and senses the position held by the user. The icons are arranged in a first area defined by an arc of a circle about a first corner as a center located at a lower end of the first side, and chords extending between the arc and the first corner. | 06-25-2009 |
20100166189 | Key Management Apparatus and Key Management Method - According to one embodiment, a key management apparatus comprises a decrypting module configured to read a first media unique key and an encrypted content key corresponding to a selected content from a first information storage medium and to decrypt the encrypted content key with the first media unique key in order to obtain a content key in a plain version, an encryption module configured to read a second media unique key from a second information storage medium and to encrypt the content key in the plain version with the second media unique key in order to obtain an encrypted content key for the second medium, and a write module configured to write the encrypted content key for the second medium to a user data area of the second medium. | 07-01-2010 |
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20080209069 | Congestion control and avoidance method in a data processing system - A congestion control and avoidance method including a method check step of determining whether the request contents is cacheable or uncacheable on the basis of the request inputted from the client terminal, a first Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) check step of, when it is determined that the request contents is cacheable in the method check step, checking a URI included in the request from the client terminal to determine whether the request contents is cacheable or uncacheable, a first URI hash search step of, when it is determined that the request contents is cacheable based on determination of the first URI check step, searching a URI hash to determine to execute any of regular caching, priority caching and access limitationing operation, and a step of executing any of the regular caching, priority caching and access limitationing operation according to determination in the first URI hash search step. | 08-28-2008 |
20090144741 | RESOURCE ALLOCATING METHOD, RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROGRAM, AND OPERATION MANAGING APPARATUS - An operation managing apparatus totalizes necessary resource amount information every the service so as to acquire necessary resource amount information every BP, and identifies the necessary resource amount information every the BP with resource amount information which can be utilized with respect to each of the service executing apparatuses so as to retrieve such service executing apparatuses capable of providing resource amounts by which the necessary resource amount information every the BP is stored. When the service executing apparatuses are retrieved, the operation managing apparatus allocates a service to the retrieved service executing apparatuses, whereas when the service executing apparatuses are not retrieved, the operation managing apparatus allocates the services to plural sets of the service executing apparatuses. | 06-04-2009 |
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20110228499 | CIRCUIT MODULE - An isolator includes a core isolator mounted on a circuit board and including a ferrite and permanent magnets to apply a direct-current magnetic field to the ferrite, and includes no yoke for controlling the leakage of the direct-current magnetic field out of the isolator. Power amplifiers are arranged in a straight line along with the core isolator interposed therebetween. A metal case covers the core isolator and the power amplifiers. The heights of the power amplifiers are greater than that of the core isolator. | 09-22-2011 |
20110234332 | CIRCUIT MODULE - In a circuit module, a core isolator includes a ferrite and a permanent magnet that is arranged to apply a direct-current field to the ferrite. A switch outputs to a signal path a high-frequency signal outputted from the core isolator. A SAW filter is provided on the signal path. A matching circuit is provided on the signal path and provides impedance matching between the output impedance of the core isolator and the input impedance of the SAW filter. | 09-29-2011 |
20120075032 | COMPOSITE ELECTRONIC MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE ELECTRONIC MODULE - An electronic component is mounted on a substrate so as to be in contact with a non-reciprocal circuit element. Therefore, there is no risk of the electronic component, which is arranged so as to be in contact with the non-reciprocal circuit element, being displaced as a result of being shifted by the magnetic force of permanent magnets included in the non-reciprocal circuit element and displacement of the electronic component as a result of being shifted by the magnetic force of the permanent magnets can be prevented. Therefore, since there is no risk of the electronic component being displaced by being shifted by the magnetic force of the permanent magnets, a space in which to mount a member that would function as an electromagnetic shield, such as a yoke, need not be provided on the substrate and the composite electronic module can be reduced in size and profile. | 03-29-2012 |
20130176083 | CIRCUIT MODULE - In a circuit module in which a plurality of non-reciprocal circuit elements, each of which does not have a yoke, are mounted, the occurrence of magnetic coupling between the non-reciprocal circuit elements is significantly reduced and prevented. Core isolators are not arranged such that, in a state in which the direction of magnetic flux and the direction of magnetic flux are the same, the core isolators are aligned in the direction of the magnetic flux. Specifically, the core isolators generate the magnetic flux from left to right. The core isolators are aligned so as to be inclined relative to the magnetic flux. Thus, extension of the magnetic flux through the core isolator in a state of being directed in the same direction as that of the magnetic flux is significantly reduced and prevented. | 07-11-2013 |
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20110292624 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT - An electronic control unit includes an electronic circuit board mounted with a plurality of electronic components disposed in a scattered manner on one or both surfaces of the board and at least one connector, and the electronic circuit board is housed in an enclosure made up of enclosure members including a cover and a base, wherein the electronic control unit is structured in such a way that intermediate members each are disposed on both top face of a part of or all of the electronic components and their projected area on the opposite mount surface of the board, portions of the enclosure members are made to closely contact the intermediate members so that both surfaces of the electronic circuit board are sandwiched by the enclosure members and the intermediate members, and edge portions in the periphery of the electronic circuit board are sandwiched by the enclosure members. | 12-01-2011 |
20110298276 | STARTER DRIVING SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCH APPARATUS - A starter driving semiconductor switch apparatus energizes and de-energizes a starter according to a command from an outside. A series circuit to which semiconductor switches are connected in series is provided between a battery serving as a power supply and the starter. The starter is energized by bringing all the semiconductor switches into conduction. A voltage or a current at a predetermined point in the series circuit is monitored to make a self-diagnosis on whether the starter is allowed to start and whether there is a failure in the semiconductor switches according to a monitor output. The starter driving semiconductor switch apparatus is thus expected to have a longer useful life by energizing the starter not by using mechanical contacts but by using semiconductor switches. | 12-08-2011 |
20120276759 | ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER - Provided is an electronic controller, which allows the use of a general-purpose connector, and does not require setting of a case for housing an electronic circuit board therein for respective connectors each having a different shape so as to enable a reduction in cost. An electronic controller ( | 11-01-2012 |
20130120943 | ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER - Provided is an electronic controller which enables visual identification of a portion applied with a small amount of a sealing material, which has a high possibility of air leakage from an area in which a joint is to be established. The electronic controller includes: an electronic circuit board; and a casing including a cover ( | 05-16-2013 |
20130271933 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT - An electronic control unit is configured in such a way that the groove-shaped concave portion of the second case member includes a first concave portion, in which a groove width at a bottom surface side is narrow, and a second concave portion, in which a groove width at an aperture surface side is wide, and the first concave portion and the second concave portion are linked by an inclined step portion in such a way that a groove width at the step portion is increased in a direction from the bottom surface side to the aperture surface side, and moreover, a tip of the rail-shaped convex portion of the first case member is fitted into the first concave portion at the bottom surface side of the second case member. | 10-17-2013 |
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20130050443 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a viewer detector that acquires position information of a viewer from video photographed by a camera, a viewer selector that selects, when a plurality of the viewers are present, a viewer considered to have the highest viewing desire out of the plural viewers taking into account the current time of day and/or information concerning a program being viewed, a viewing area information calculator that calculates, using position information of the selected viewer, a control parameter for setting a viewing area in which the selected viewer is set, a viewing area controller that controls the viewing area according to the control parameter, a display that displays plural parallax images that the viewer present in the viewing area can observe as a stereoscopic video, and an apertural area controller that outputs the plural parallax images displayed on the display in a predetermined direction. | 02-28-2013 |
20140307399 | ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER - Provided is an electronic controller which enables visual identification of a portion applied with a small amount of a sealing material, which has a high possibility of air leakage from an area in which a joint is to be established. The electronic controller includes: an electronic circuit board; and a casing including a cover ( | 10-16-2014 |
20140336933 | SAFE DRIVING SUPPORT SYSTEM - A driving support system is provided for guiding a vehicle safely to the desired destination. To this end, use is made of a database of the past traffic accidents owned by an insurance company or public institution. Based on the comparison between the GPS data about the current position of the vehicle and the site data of the past accidents recorded in the database, the driver can be notified, by a warning beep or warning message on the monitor of the navigation system, that his or her vehicle is approaching the site of the past accident on the route. In this manner, though a past accident is now invisible, the driver can be careful in passing by the site where the accident occurred. | 11-13-2014 |
20150215394 | LOAD DISTRIBUTION METHOD TAKING INTO ACCOUNT EACH NODE IN MULTI-LEVEL HIERARCHY - To equalize loads of a hierarchy-type network system, the loads at the lower levels of the system are taken into account. In an arbitrary 3-level hierarchy (n to n+2 levels), a node of the n+1 level obtains, from each of one or more nodes of the n+2 level, load information thereof, calculates the spare resource-amount thereof on the basis of the obtained load information and load information thereof, and transmits the calculated spare resource-amount thereof to a node of the n level. The node of the n level calculates weighting values on the basis of the spare resource-amounts obtained from each of the nodes of the n+1 level, and distributes a received processing request to either one of the nodes of the n+1 level on the basis of the calculated weighting values. | 07-30-2015 |
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20140015532 | REMAINING LIFE DETERMINING SYSTEM FOR STATIONARY STORAGE BATTERY, AND METHOD OF DETERMINING REMAINING LIFE OF STATIONARY STORAGE BATTERY - A remaining life determining system for a stationary storage battery has a detecting unit configured to detect an evaluation value indicative of a deterioration level of the stationary storage battery, a first storage unit configured to store a usage history of the stationary storage battery, a second storage unit configured to store remaining life information associated with usage information of the stationary storage battery, a third storage unit configured to store remaining life basic information of the stationary storage battery, and a controller configured to estimate the remaining life of the stationary storage battery, from the usage history, the evaluation value, and the remaining life information. | 01-16-2014 |
20140015537 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR BATTERY ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF DETERMINING REUSE OF BATTERY ASSEMBLY - A control system for a battery assembly that consists of a plurality of batteries determines whether the battery assembly can be reused, by using detected values of the open voltage, internal resistance and full charge capacity of each of the batteries, as evaluation parameters. | 01-16-2014 |
20140239908 | STATIONARY ELECTRICAL STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD - A stationary electrical storage system includes: a stationary storage battery including nickel metal hydride secondary batteries; and a controller repeatedly carrying out charging with an external power supply and discharging to supply electric power to a load, stopping discharging to the load when an SOC of any secondary battery has become a first threshold, and stopping charging from the external power supply when an SOC of any secondary battery has become a second threshold. The controller additionally charges the whole stationary storage battery such that the secondary battery other than the secondary battery having the lowest SOC is allowed to be charged to a fully charged level beyond the second threshold by not stopping charging when the SOC of the any secondary battery has become the second threshold and the SOC of the secondary battery having the lowest SOC becomes higher than or equal to the second threshold. | 08-28-2014 |
20140285157 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING NICKEL-METAL HYDRIDE STORAGE BATTERY - In a method for adjusting a nickel-metal hydride storage battery, based on a correlation between a charge amount after valve opening and an increased amount of a discharge reserve capacity which are previously ascertained, the charge amount after valve opening corresponding to a target value of the set increased amount of the discharge reserve capacity is calculated and this calculated value is set as a target charge amount after valve opening. In a discharge reserve adjusting step, when a charge amount of the battery from the time when a safety valve device is opened after start of overcharge of the battery reaches the set target charge amount after valve opening, overcharge of the battery is terminated. | 09-25-2014 |
20150145521 | METHOD OF SELECTING USED SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BATTERY PACK - A method of selecting a used secondary battery includes an internal resistance measurement step of measuring a specific internal resistance (second internal resistance) at a specific battery temperature (second battery temperature) of each of used secondary batteries, and a selection step of selecting a used secondary battery or batteries having the specific internal resistance (second internal resistance) smaller than a preset threshold from the plurality of used secondary batteries whose specific internal resistances (second internal resistance) have been measured in order to exclude an electrode-deteriorated battery from the used secondary batteries. | 05-28-2015 |
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20140374150 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PACKAGE SUBSTRATE - A package substrate includes an outermost interlayer resin insulation layer, an outermost conductive layer formed on a first surface of the outermost interlayer resin insulation layer and including first pads positioned to mount a first electronic component and second pads positioned to mount a second electronic component, a first conductive layer including first conductive circuits and formed on a second surface of the outermost interlayer resin insulation layer on the opposite side with respect to the first surface, first via conductors penetrating through the outermost interlayer resin insulation layer such that the first via conductors are connecting the first conductive layer and the first pads, and second via conductors penetrating through the outermost interlayer resin insulation layer such that the second via conductors are connecting the first conductive layer and the second pads. The first conductive circuits in the first conductive layer are connecting the first and second pads, respectively. | 12-25-2014 |
20150279772 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PACKAGE SUBSTRATE - A package substrate includes interlayer insulating layers including outermost and inner-layer layers, conductor layers including an outermost layer, a first layer between the outermost and inner-layer layers, and a second layer on which the inner-layer layer is formed, via conductors including first and second conductors through the outermost insulating layer, and skip via conductors through the outermost and inner-layer insulating layers to connect the outermost and second conductor layers. The outermost conductor layer includes first and second pads to mount first and second electronic components on the outermost insulating layer, the first conductors are positioned to connect the first conductor layer and first pads, the second conductors are positioned to connect the first conductor layer and second pads, and the first conductor layer has area on surface of the inner-layer insulating layer which is in range of 3 to 15% of area of the surface of the inner-layer insulating layer. | 10-01-2015 |
20150318596 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE - A package substrate includes a core substrate, a first buildup layer and a second buildup layer. The first buildup layer includes an uppermost interlayer, an upper inner interlayer, an uppermost conductive layer including first pads and second pads, an upper first conductive layer, an upper second conductive layer, vias formed through the uppermost interlayer and connecting the upper first conductive layer and the second pads, and skip vias formed through the uppermost and upper inner interlayers and connecting the uppermost and upper second conductive layers. The second buildup layer includes a lowermost interlayer, a lower inner interlayer, a lowermost conductive layer including third pads, a lower first conductive layer, a lower second conductive layer, vias formed through the lowermost interlayer and connecting the lower first conductive layer and third pads, and skip vias formed through the lowermost and lower inner interlayers and connecting the lowermost and lower second conductive layers. | 11-05-2015 |
20150327363 | PACKAGE SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PACKAGE SUBSTRATE - A package substrate includes an inner interlayer, a first conductor layer, a second conductor layer, an outermost interlayer, an outermost conductor layer including first and second pads to mount electronic components, vias including first and second vias such that the first vias are connecting the first conductor layer and first pads and the second vias are connecting the first conductor layer and second pads, and skip vias penetrating through the outermost and inner interlayers such that the skip vias are connecting the outermost and second conductor layers. Sum of insulation distances (t | 11-12-2015 |