Abstract: Disclosed is an arrangement structure for a sensor to be mounted to an engine of a vehicle, wherein the engine is arranged in an engine compartment 2 of the vehicle in a posture allowing a crankshaft 8 of the engine to be oriented in a widthwise direction of the vehicle. The arrangement structure comprises a driveshaft 50 arranged along a vehicle-rearward lateral surface of the engine 1 facing in a rearward direction of the vehicle, to rotatably drive a front wheel, and a flange section 28a provided as a joining section between two members (12, 15) constituting the engine 1, to protrude in the rearward direction of the vehicle and at a height position below that of the driveshaft 50, wherein the sensor 42 is mounted to the vehicle-rearward lateral surface of the engine 1 at a height position located above the flange section 28a and in overlapping relation with the driveshaft 50 when viewed from a rear side of the vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed is an arrangement structure for a sensor to be mounted to an engine of a vehicle, wherein the engine is arranged in an engine compartment 2 of the vehicle in a posture allowing a crankshaft 8 of the engine to be oriented in a widthwise direction of the vehicle. The arrangement structure comprises a driveshaft 50 arranged along a vehicle-rearward lateral surface of the engine 1 facing in a rearward direction of the vehicle, to rotatably drive a front wheel, and a flange section 28a provided as a joining section between two members (12, 15) constituting the engine 1, to protrude in the rearward direction of the vehicle and at a height position below that of the driveshaft 50, wherein the sensor 42 is mounted to the vehicle-rearward lateral surface of the engine 1 at a height position located above the flange section 28a and in overlapping relation with the driveshaft 50 when viewed from a rear side of the vehicle.

Abstract: An owner code (service-recipient code) assigned to a package, which is an object to which a service is provided by transportation installations or facilities (i.e., shared service resource) including a pickup branch office 2, a first transit station 3, a second transit station 4 and a delivery transit station 5, is read at the transit stations 3, 4. An owner (recipient) designated by the service-recipient code is authorized with a control right which enables the owner to control a service (i.e., package delivery treatment performed in the transit stations 3, 4) provided by the shared service resource with respect to the package (service-provided object).

Abstract: The objective of this invention is to provide a system which could make general use of a large set of previously accumulated knowledge data and provide an optimal solution for a problem based on these knowledge data. To achieve the aforesaid objectives, this invention uses state space navigator logic. The fundamental capability of a state space navigator is finding the optimal route in a state space to get from the current state to the target state. A state space is a space whose axes are a number of state variables. The points in this space represent the characteristic states of a system. The actual action from a state space to the next state space is determined according to the knowledge data base which was made based on an actual experience etc.

Abstract: When a notification indicating the abnormality is received by a portable electronic device, an operator identification operating section identifies the operator of the portable electronic device as a user who is to receive the notification or a person having some connection with the user, based on a physical feature peculiar to an individual. If the operator is an authorized user, a message operating section makes a radio transceiver unit to receive trespass-related data including specific information specifying the place of where the behavior occurs. A security object positional information displaying section displays the specific information included in the trespass-related data on a screen of the portable electronic device. The user can notify to the police and the like based on the display. The present invention is applicable to any security system.

Abstract: A crime prevention system includes an operation sensor 3 that judges whether a user has operated an access point in an object of operation by a user, an ID authentication processing unit 21 that performs ID authentication for the user on the basis of a result of the judgment of the operation sensor 3, and an external processing determining unit 22 that causes an external apparatus to execute a service corresponding to a result of the ID authentication of the ID authentication processing unit 21.

Abstract: Wearable devices that can be used to help track and prevent a stray or lost condition of a human or animal wearer. For example, when a lead used for taking a pet for a walk or leashing the pet to a place such as a kennel is pulled by the pet or a human during walk or while the pet is leashed, a portable electric power generator connected with the lead generates electricity using mechanical energy obtained by the pulling action. The electricity generated by the portable electric power generator is supplied for the electronic device attached to pet worn by the pet through a charging cable disposed along the lead inside or outside the lead, thereby charging a rechargeable battery inside the electronic device attached to pet. The electronic device attached to pet uses the electrical energy of the integrated battery to perform a predetermined operation (such as wirelessly reporting the current location of the pet, and wirelessly reporting information representing the sound of the pet).

Abstract: When a lead used for taking a pet for a walk or leashing the pet to a place such as a kennel is pulled by the pet or a human during walk or while the pet is leashed, a portable electric power generator connected with the lead generates electricity using mechanical energy obtained by the pulling action. The electricity generated by the portable electric power generator is supplied for the electronic device attached to pet worn by the pet through a charging cable disposed along the lead inside or outside the lead, thereby charging a rechargeable battery inside the electronic device attached to pet. The electronic device attached to pet uses the electrical energy of the integrated battery to perform a predetermined operation (such as wirelessly reporting the current location of the pet, and wirelessly reporting information representing the sound of the pet). The electronic device attached to pet reports that the pet got away from a location where the owner exists and has gotten lost for a number of conditions.

Abstract: The system in one embodiment operates while automatically switching among three processes including an absent-at-home guard process, an at-home guard process, and a non-guard process according to the positional relationship between the movable localizer and the internal guard surfaces/the external guard surface. When an actuator (such as a speaker and a white smoke generating unit) is integrated into the localizer, the localizer located at an intruder generates alarm sound or white smoke in the absent-at-home guard process. When the intruder moves inside the house, the localizer generating the alarm sound and the localizer generating the white smoke change following the intruder. The actuator is controlled such that an intruder is discouraged to approach the internal guard surface or such that a house member inside the internal guard surface can evacuate in a direction departing from the intruder in the at-home guard process.

Abstract: When a notification indicating the abnormality is received by a portable electronic device, an operator identification operating section identifies the operator of the portable electronic device as a user who is to receive the notification or a person having some connection with the user, based on a physical feature peculiar to an individual. If the operator is an authorized user, a message operating section makes a radio transceiver unit to receive trespass-related data including specific information specifying the place of where the behavior occurs. A security object positional information displaying section displays the specific information included in the trespass-related data on a screen of the portable electronic device. The user can notify to the police and the like based on the display. The present invention is applicable to any security system.

Abstract: In the present invention, upon reflection of an electromagnetic wave on a metallic surface, a phenomenon is employed that the direction of rotation of a circularly polarized wave is reversed for every reflection. By utilizing a circularly-polarized-wave transmitting and receiving antenna to transmit and receive the circularly polarized wave, the polarized wave of the electromagnetic wave after reflected an odd number of times from the metallic surface has its rotating direction reversed with respect to a receivable rotating direction of the transmitting and receiving antenna, thereby reducing noise caused by the odd number of reflections. In other words, the reflected wave from the wireless node for communications or measuring of a distance is set to have its rotating direction rendered identical with a rotating direction of the transmitting and receiving antenna.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide proximity sensors employing impulse waves to detect the characteristics of objects lying inside the object of surveillance, such as a container, including their distance, the reflection strength from an object, the speed an object is moving, etc., as well as to provide a status surveillance system which detects, from the data from the proximity sensors, that the inside of the container remains unchanged. To achieve the foregoing objectives, the present invention adds proximity sensor functions to wireless communication nodes inside of the object of surveillance, such as inside of a container. Said proximity sensors output microimpulse waves from the wireless communication nodes, and said communication nodes receive the reflections of those waves from nearby objects.

Abstract: A model for determining the type of soil, the water content of a soil, and the soil properties, and a soil measurement data storage portion (60) to store therein measurement data necessary to carry out the model and correlated with specific measurement conditions are provided. The water content is measured by a water content measuring portion (57) on the basis of the measurement data fed from a soil sensor (S). The type of soil is determined by a feature extracting portion (56) and a type-of-soil determining portion (58), and the determined type of soil is sent to a determining portion (59). The determining portion (59) determines corresponding conditions and a model according to the type of soil and water content of the measured place received and sets them in a predetermined processing portion.

Abstract: Specific information is registered to only a sensor, which is arranged adjacently to a base unit, by way of a radio output from the base unit. The radio output is a faint radio wave for short-range communications by which the base unit can be communicable with only the sensor adjacently arranged. Then, the specific information is registered to only another sensor, which is arranged adjacently to the sensor with the registered specific information, by way of a radio output from the sensor with the registered specific information. The radio output is a faint radio wave for short-range communications by which the communications can be made only between the sensors arranged adjacently to each other. The specific information registration is sequentially repeated between the sensors arranged adjacently to each other.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to detect, using a universal method, any “movement” inside of the object being monitored, while maintaining the security of a container. The movement inside of the object to be monitored includes 1) a human movement when a human enters into a container to be monitored, 2) a movement to bring a foreign article in, 3) a movement to take cargo out. To achieve the objective, this invention uses the concept of a so-called “inside-seal”. In actual configuration, a plurality of communication units (communication nodes) are installed on the walls of the container. These communication units have a predetermined powered communication capability and form a communication network communicating with each other. A communication status between each node and all of the other nodes provided in the network, and a network graph matrix is generated which defines the nodal relationship between the nodes.

Abstract: The system in one embodiment operates while automatically switching among three processes including an absent-at-home guard process, an at-home guard process, and a non-guard process according to the positional relationship between the movable localizer and the internal guard surfaces/the external guard surface. When an actuator (such as a speaker and a white smoke generating unit) is integrated into the localizer, the localizer located at an intruder generates alarm sound or white smoke in the absent-at-home guard process. When the intruder moves inside the house, the localizer generating the alarm sound and the localizer generating the white smoke change following the intruder. The actuator is controlled such that an intruder is discouraged to approach the internal guard surface or such that a house member inside the internal guard surface can evacuate in a direction departing from the intruder in the at-home guard process.

Abstract: The objective of this invention is to provide an exercise aid device which can be used for various kinds of exercise and which enables the user to perform aerobic exercise safely and comfortably at the level best suited to that person, and a method which employs this device. In order to achieve this object, the level of intensity of aerobic exercise which is most suitable for the person is considered to be 80% of the AT (Anaerobic Threshold) value as determined by analyzing the pulse rate while that person is exercising. The pulse wave is detected by this headphone-type exercise aid device. The pulse rate is measured at the superficial temporal artery, which is near the right ear. The pulse wave is detected by a sensor of either an optical sensor or an ultrasonic blood velocity meter. Once the optimal exercise is calculated, it is transmitted to the exerciser as the corresponding rhythm through the fitness headphone for maintaining the optimal exercise.

Abstract: Both a first wireless communication network (for instance, Control Channel) capable of operating at a low-speed but a reduced communication rate and a second wireless communication network (for instance, CDPD) capable of operating at a high-speed but an expensive communication rate are used in a wireless communication terminal. The former is normally used, whereas the latter is used only when a predetermined event happens. For this purpose, a plurality of sets of both subscriber identification information and wireless communication terminal identification information, which may be used commonly for subscribers, is provided in advance. Based on the information provided by a subscriber using the first wireless communication channel, one of the sets is set in the wireless communication terminal to temporarily use the second wireless communication channel. A daily service for monitoring, e.g.

Abstract: When a lead used for taking a pet for a walk or leashing the pet to a place such as a kennel is pulled by the pet or a human during walk or while the pet is leashed, a portable electric power generator connected with the lead generates electricity using mechanical energy obtained by the pulling action. The electricity generated by the portable electric power generator is supplied for the electronic device attached to pet worn by the pet through a charging cable disposed along the lead inside or outside the lead, thereby charging a rechargeable battery inside the electronic device attached to pet. The electronic device attached to pet uses the electrical energy of the integrated battery to perform a predetermined operation (such as wirelessly reporting the current location of the pet, and wirelessly reporting information representing the sound of the pet). The electronic device attached to pet reports that the pet got away from a location where the owner exists and has gotten lost for a number of conditions.

Abstract: A knowledge information extracting device includes a first storing means for storing a type of information to be output with respect to a designated information processing device, and a second storing means for storing a type of information to be input with respect to the information processing device. A knowledge information database access means is capable of accessing a knowledge information database containing a plurality of rules, each of the rules including a condition part and a conclusion part. A rile extracting means is capable of extracting at least one rule having the condition part corresponding to the type of information to be input, and the conclusion part corresponding to the type of information to be output, by using the knowledge information database access means. A knowledge information storing means is capable of storing the at least one rule extracted by the rule extracting means by associating the at least one rule with the information processing device.