Abstract: A low-pressure-vapor-recovery turbine generator that effectively recovers low-pressure steam emitted from a high-pressure-side steam turbine to generate electric power is provided. A low-pressure-vapor-recovery turbine that recovers low-pressure steam emitted from a high-pressure-side steam turbine and is rotationally driven, a generator that generates electric power with a rotational output of the low-pressure-vapor-recovery turbine, and a condenser that condenses into liquid exhaust steam from the low-pressure-vapor-recovery turbine are provided. The low-pressure-vapor-recovery turbine, generator, and condenser are installed in a portable outer casing that can be transported.

Abstract: The present invention is a solid oxide fuel cell configuration which equalizes gas volume distributed into each power generation cell to stabilize fuel cell output and improve the output efficiency. In the present invention, a flat plate laminating type solid oxide fuel cell has a reactant gas supply manifold extending through a fuel cell stack in the laminating direction, for supplying reactant gas to each of power generation cells through gas passages of separators which are communicated with the manifold. The manifold and the passages of the separators are in communication with each other through a gas-flow throttle mechanisms.

Abstract: A long-life electrophotographic photosensitive body having excellent wear resistance and crack resistance can be obtained by using a polycarbonate resin composition, which is obtained by blending 0.01-5 parts by weight of a silicone-modified polyurethane per 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin, as a binder for photosensitive layer (or in case when the photosensitive layer is of multilayer type, for at least an electron transport layer) of the electrophotographic photosensitive body. The silicone-modified polyurethane is obtained by reacting a diol component (a) represented by the general formula (I) below, an active hydrogen-containing polysiloxane compound (b), a polyisocyanate component (c) and, if necessary, a chain extender (d).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an optically active 3-aminopiperidine or salt thereof. In the method, a racemic nipecotamide is stereoselectively hydrolyzed to obtain an optically active nipecotamide and an optically active nipecotic acid in the presence of an enzyme source derived from an organism, and then the optically active nipecotamide is derived into an optically active aminopiperidine or salt thereof by aroylation, Hofmann rearrangement, deprotection of the amino group and further deprotection; or the optically active nipecotamide is derived into an optically active aminopiperidine or salt thereof by selective protection with BOC, Hofmann rearrangement and further deprotection. It is possible by the present invention to produce an optically active 3-aminopiperidine or salt thereof useful as a pharmaceutical intermediate from an inexpensive and easily available starting material by easy method applicable to industrial manufacturing.

Abstract: An EGR device includes a first cooling passage that introduces a flowing medium discharged from an engine into a main radiator so that the flowing medium is cooled therein, and then returns the flowing medium to the engine, and a second cooling passage that introduces a part of the flowing medium cooled in the first cooling passage to a sub-radiator so that the flowing medium is further cooled therein. The second cooling passage introduces the flowing medium to an EGR cooler to return the flowing medium, which is discharged from the EGR cooler, to the engine.

Abstract: An image coding apparatus is mainly characterized by (i) dividing each of fields into an I-slice and P-slices, and determining the position of the I-slice in each of a predetermined number of first fields such that a current I-slice is sequentially shifted from the first end of a starting first field to the second end of an ending first field and such that a similar shift is repeated for each predetermined number of first fields, when a current field is a first field, and further (ii) determining, when the current field is the first field, that each P-slice located closer to the first end than a corresponding I-slice can refer to only a first field coded immediately before, and determining, when the current field is the second field, that at least one second field in the predetermined number of fields can refer to only a first field coded immediately before.

Abstract: Provided is a high-strength and high-toughness magnesium alloy which has practical level of both the strength and the toughness for expanded applications of the magnesium alloys, and is a method for manufacturing thereof. The high-strength and high-toughness magnesium alloy of the present invention contains: a atom % in total of at least one metal of Cu, Ni, and Co; and b atom % in total of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Y, Dy, Er, Ho, Gd, Tb, and Tm, while a and b satisfying the following formulae (1) to (3), 0.2?a?10??(1) 0.2?b?10??(2) 2/3a?2/3<b.

Abstract: A vibration device includes a support system member that supports a diaphragm to allow vibration, a tubular voice coil bobbin attached to the diaphragm, and a magnet disposed on at least one of inner and outer circumferential surface sides of the bobbin. The magnet is polarized in a vibration direction of the diaphragm, and forms a magnetic gap on a side that faces the bobbin. A voice coil is attached to the bobbin and disposed within the magnetic gap, and vibrates the diaphragm and the bobbin in response to a driving force generated when an electrical signal is inputted into the voice coil. A magnetic material member is attached to the bobbin, disposed in a balancing position within the magnetic gap, and, when vibrating with the bobbin, subjected to a magnetic attractive force in a direction away from the balancing position.

Abstract: There is provided a diversity receiving apparatus (1) that comprises: a receiving unit (4) for receiving a frequency-division multiplexing signal on which a carrier group is multiplexed; a first demodulating unit (5) for outputting a first data carrier and a first transmission control carrier; a second demodulating unit (6) for outputting a second data carrier and a second transmission control carrier; a timing adjusting unit (7) for synchronizing processing timing of the first demodulating unit (5) and the second demodulating unit (6); a first combining/selecting unit (60) for combining or selecting a first transmission control carrier and a second transmission control carrier; a second combining/selecting unit (8) for combining or selecting a first data carrier and a second data carrier; a decoding unit (13) for decoding a transmission control signal using the transmission control carrier selected by the first combining/selecting unit (60); and a detecting unit (14) for detecting frame synchronization.

Abstract: A terminal device, used in communication system conducting communication by periodically switching frequency channels in a predefined sequence, communicates with a control device using a predefined channel.

Abstract: A paper ejector unit includes a paper path having a first path, a second path provided in a lower position than the first path, and a guide provided between the first and second paths and including an inclined face to restrict an upward deflection of the paper in transporting the paper forward to the exit slot. An opening is formed downward at a forward back end of the second, and a reversible transportation roller assembly is in the middle of the second path, configured to be rotated forward to transport the paper forward to the exit slot, to stop rotating to stop transporting the paper, and to be reversely rotated to withdraw the paper having been transported to the exit slot. A third path branches downward from the second path and is provided near a forward upstream side of the reversible transportation roller assembly in order to recover the paper.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a target correction amount calculating unit operable to calculate a target correction amount based on input image signals, a frame memory operable to store the input image signals, and a scene change amount calculating unit operable to calculate a scene change amount based on an input image signal of a present frame and an input image signal of a previous frame. Moreover, the image processing device includes a correction amount calculating unit operable to calculate a correction amount for the input image signal of the present frame, based on the target correction amount and the scene change amount, and a correcting unit operable to perform image quality correction to the input image signal of the present frame to generate a corrected input image signal, thereby outputting a corrected input image signal as an output image signal.

Abstract: An intercom notifies a television connected via a network of an occurrence of an event. The intercom includes an event message generating unit that generates an event message indicating the occurrence of the event and including media information indicating media of event information that is obtainable by the television and that is associated with the event, and a communication unit that transmits the event message to the television via the network.

Abstract: A left-handed filter of the present invention includes an interstage coupling element connected to a first capacitor and a ground, a second capacitor connected to the interstage coupling element, a third capacitor connected to the second capacitor, a first inductor connected to the connection point of a fourth capacitor and the second capacitor, and the ground, a second inductor connected to a fifth capacitor and the ground, a first input and output coupling element connected to a sixth capacitor, and a second input and output coupling element connected to the third capacitor. The first and second capacitors, the third and sixth capacitors, the first and second inductors, and third and fourth inductors are respectively arranged in symmetrical positions with respect to an interstage coupling element.

Abstract: The speaker system according to the present invention is a speaker system in which a sound is emitted into a closed space from the back surface of a speaker unit, and has characteristic that gas in the closed space is physically adsorbed by a gas adsorber obtained by adding a binder to a porous material including a plurality of grains so as to perform molding. The speaker system according to the present invention is capable of reproducing, even when a small cabinet is used, low frequency sound while suppressing reduction in sound pressure level as compared to a conventional art.

Abstract: Provided are an optical disc discrimination method, an optical disc device and an integrated circuit that enable to accurately discriminate the type of an optical disc. The optical disc discrimination method comprises a first seeking step (S3) of performing a seek operation to a predetermined reference address in a user data area; a second seeking step (S5) of performing a seek operation from the reference address sought in the first seeking step (S3) to a predetermined target address in a physical information area, an address reading step (S7) of reading a current address at a position sought in the second seeking step (S5), and an optical disc type determination step (S8 through S10) of determining the type of the optical disc loaded in the optical disc device, based on the current address read in the address reading step (S7).

Abstract: A grease-sealed rolling bearing with a rotary outer race is provided of which the lubricating grease has a long life, and which produces less cold-time noise and can effectively prevent leakage of grease. In an outer-race-rotating type of rolling bearing A for use e.g. as a pulley bearing, lubricating grease G is sealed which contains a base oil having a dynamic viscosity at 40° C. of 13 to 73 cSt and which is thickened with a thickening agent of urea family so that the grease is present in an amount of not less than 20% of the entire spatial volume of the interior of the rolling bearing, and not more than 80% of the stationary spatial volume of the interior of the rolling bearing.

Abstract: A distortion compensation amplification device includes a level detecting means that detects a signal level, a correspondence storage means that outputs a distortion compensation coefficient depending on the signal level, a pre-distortion executing means that gives distortion with an inverse characteristic to the signal, a filtering means that outputs a distortion component from a feedback signal output from an amplifier, and a correspondence acquiring means that updates a learning coefficient constituting a function that gives the inverse characteristic so as to reduce the distortion component. Each orthogonal function is the total sum of products of functions of the input signal and parameters. The parameter values are set to cause the orthogonal functions to be orthogonal to each other when functions are replaced for the functions of the input signal constituting the orthogonal functions.

Abstract: A renin inhibitor comprising a compound represented by the formula: wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, or a salt thereof or a prodrug thereof. The compound of the present invention has a superior renin inhibitory activity, and thus is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of hypertension, various organ damages attributable to hypertension and the like.