Abstract: An object of the present invention is to design miniaturization of a muffler as performance of the muffler is maintained and to exhibit appropriate gas-exhausting characteristics in accordance with traveling condition of a vehicle.

Abstract: A fluid filled engine mount including: a pressure-receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber connected via an orifice passage tuned to a frequency band of engine idling vibrations; an orifice control member operable by means of negative pressure exerted from an external space so as to restrict flow of the fluid through the orifice passage when an absolute value of the exerted negative pressure is greater than a predetermined value; and a negative pressure conduit of direct connection type, adapted to always introduce negative pressure available from an air intake port of an internal combustion engine to the orifice control member.

Abstract: An active vibration insulator includes an electromagnetic actuator, a control-signals generating device, a driver, a calculator, and a judging device. The electromagnetic actuator generates vibrating forces depending on electric-current supplies. The control-signals generating device generates cyclic control signals based on cyclic pulsating signals output from a vibration generating source of a vehicle. The cyclic control signals actively inhibit vibrations generated by the vibration generating source from transmitting to a specific part of the vehicle. The driver drives the electromagnetic actuator by making the electric-current supplies variable based on the cyclic control signals. The calculator calculates an estimated transfer function composed of estimated values of a transfer function for a transfer system including the electromagnetic actuator and the driver. The judging device judges an inoperative malfunction of the electromagnetic actuator based the estimated transfer function.

Abstract: A firewall apparatus including plural virtual firewalls, each virtual firewall including a dependent firewall policy, is disclosed. The firewall apparatus includes: a distribution management table for managing a user name and a virtual firewall ID; a part configured to receive authentication information for network connection from a user terminal, and hold a user name included in the authentication information; a part configured to report the authentication information to the authentication server; and a part configured to receive an authentication response from the authentication server, and hold a user ID, included in the authentication response, to be provided to the user terminal. The firewall apparatus registers the user ID in the distribution management table associating the user ID with the user name.

Abstract: The present invention provide with a rinse solution for lithography and a resist pattern forming method using the same, which can prevent an inclination and peeling-off of a resist pattern and form a resist pattern having a high aspect ratio with high reproducibility. The rinse solution for lithography of the present invention comprises water and a nonionic surfactant having an ethyleneoxy group but not having a fluorine atom. The resist forming method of the present invention comprises the step of rinsing the pattern after development treatment with the rinse solution for lithography.

Abstract: An active vibration damping device having a solenoid actuator designed with a movable element positioned inserted into a guide hole of a stator having a yoke member is attached about a coil to form a stator-side magnetic path with the guide hole lying on its center axis, so that current passed through the coil creates actuating force in the axial direction between the stator and the movable element. A magnetic acting force stabilizing portion having a shape that gradually varies in association with axial displacement of the movable element an level of magnetic acting force between a movable element-side magnetic pole forming portion and a stator-side magnetic pole forming portion is disposed on the movable element-side magnetic pole forming portion where a magnetic pole is produced in the movable element and/or the stator-side magnetic pole forming portion where a magnetic pole is produced in the stator.

Abstract: A fluid filled engine mount including: a pressure-receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber connected via a first orifice passage tuned to excite resonance of fluid flowing therethrough to engine shakes; a partition rubber plate partially defining a pressure receiving chamber and tuned to perform absorption of a fluid pressure fluctuation in the pressure-receiving chamber to booming noises; an oscillating chamber connected to the pressure receiving chamber via a second orifice passage tuned to excite resonance of the fluid flowing therethrough to idling vibrations; an oscillating rubber elastic plate having an expansion spring smaller than that of the partition rubber plate and defining the oscillating chamber; a working air chamber applied with air pressure fluctuation with a frequency corresponding to the idling vibration during idling, and to make the working air chamber atmospheric pressure during running.

Abstract: An information processor for preventing information contained in a file, which has a first area storing first data, a second area storing second data and a third area, from being lost when a format of the file is transformed includes extension unit for extending the second area, a first storage for storing the first data, which is stored in the first area, in the third area, a format analyzer for reconstructing the second data stored in the second area on the basis of a first format and an extended area storage for storing the reconstructed second data in the extended second area.

Abstract: A vibration controller includes a data map storage, a detector, a determiner, a signal generator, and an actuator. The data map storage stores amplitude and/or phase data with respect to torque values of a vehicle engine as a data map in advance. The detector detects actual torque values of the vehicle engine. The determiner determines one of the amplitude and/or phase data with respect to one of the actual torque values based on the data map. The signal generator generates a control signal based on cyclic pulsating signals emitted from the vehicle engine, and updates the amplitude and/or phase of the control signal based on the one of the determined amplitude and/or phase data. The actuator actuates an electromagnetic actuator of an active vibration insulator based on the updated control signal, whereby inhibiting vibrations of the vehicle engine from transmitting by means of vibrating forces exerted by the electromagnetic actuator.

Abstract: A fuel cell power plant is provided for a mobile unit. The mobile unit is provided with a drive device (29) driving the mobile unit when supplied with electrical power. The power plant comprises a fuel cell (21) generating power when supplied with fuel, a battery (27) charged with power generated by the fuel cell, a power regulation device (31) selectively distributing power from the fuel cell (21) and the battery (27) to the drive device (29), and a controller (33) for controlling running operations. The controller (33) estimates the energy required to activate the fuel cell (21), and controls the power regulation device (31) when the energy required to activate the fuel cell is greater than or equal to a determination value so that the fuel cell is not activated and power from the battery (27) is supplied to the drive device (29).

Abstract: An active vibration insulator includes an electromagnetic actuator, a cyclic-control-signals output device, and an electromagnetic-actuator driver. The electromagnetic-actuator driver includes an asymmetric half-bridge circuit, and an actuating-signals output device. The actuating-signal output device outputs a signal for turning on one of a high-side switch and a low-side switch of the asymmetric half-bridge circuit, and outputs a pulse-width-modulated actuating signal for actuating the other one of them by means of pulse-width modulation based on the cyclic control signals, which the cyclic-control-signals output device outputs, or outputs a pulse-width-modulated actuating signal for actuating both of them by means of pulse-width modulation when the cyclic control signals are positive.

Abstract: A method for actuating active vibration insulators includes the steps of generating an idling control signal in an idling range of a vehicle, generating a running control signal in a running range of the vehicle, and actuating an electromagnetic actuator of an active vibration insulator based on the idling control signal or the running control signal, thereby inhibiting vibrations of a vehicle engine from transmitting by the electromagnetic actuator. The idling control signal is produced by adding a higher order harmonic signal component with respect to a control frequency, based on a cyclic pulsating signal emitted from the vehicle engine, to a fundamental-wave signal component of the control frequency. The running control signal is composed of the fundamental-wave signal component of the control signal. The method can inhibit noises from generating by actuating simple electromagnetic actuators, and can damp vibrations of vehicle engines simply and less expensively.

Abstract: A content sharing system is disclosed that can efficiently execute copyright management and can promote the degree of freedom and convenience in sharing of content within a legal range of private utilization. A group management server places a plurality of content processing apparatuses in terms of a unit of an owner into a group registration and issues a notification of a group ID of the group. A content recording apparatus adds a recorder ID thereof to production content produced thereby. Further, a content reproduction apparatus controls reproduction of content based on a recorder ID read out from content and a reproduction permission ID list. If the different processing apparatuses have the same group ID, the recorder ID can be added to the reproduction permission ID list.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to create a license for a new piece of digital content created by linking two or more pieces of digital content. A license creation apparatus has a link ID acquisition block, a link pattern storage block, and a license creation block. The link ID acquisition block acquires a link ID from a license of digital content. The link pattern storage block stores a link ID combination and license creation information for determining contents of the license to be created, in a related manner. The license creation block creates a license. The license creation block acquires two or more link IDs from a link ID acquisition block and acquires license creation information related to a combination of these two or more link IDs from a link pattern storage block. The license creation block creates a license on the basis of this license creation information.

Abstract: A vibration controller includes a data map storage, a detector, a determiner, a signal generator, and an actuator. The data map storage stores amplitude and/or phase data with respect to torque values of a vehicle engine as a data map in advance. The detector detects actual torque values of the vehicle engine. The determiner determines one of the amplitude and/or phase data with respect to one of the actual torque values based on the data map. The signal generator generates a control signal based on cyclic pulsating signals emitted from the vehicle engine, and updates the amplitude and/or phase of the control signal based on the one of the determined amplitude and/or phase data. The actuator actuates an electromagnetic actuator of an active vibration insulator based on the updated control signal, whereby inhibiting vibrations of the vehicle engine from transmitting by means of vibrating forces exerted by the electromagnetic actuator.

Abstract: A vibration controller includes an input signal generator for generating input signals based on cyclically pulsating signals emitted from a vibration generating source, an actuating waveform detector for detecting actuating waveforms of an electromagnetic actuator of active vibration insulators, a waveform analyzer for determining higher harmonic component datum information by carrying out a waveform analysis, a higher harmonic component signal generator for generating higher harmonic component signals of the actuating waveforms based on the higher harmonic component datum information, a higher harmonic component signal remover for removing the higher harmonic component signals from the input signals and outputting the resulting processed input signals, and an actuator for receiving the processed input signals, generating output signals based on the processed input signals and actuating the electromagnetic actuator in accordance with the output signals.

Abstract: A method of setting control data by an active vibration isolation control system includes the steps of selecting, when a frequency of a pulse signal actually detected is superior to a predetermined frequency, appropriate control data selected from among predetermined data maps incorporating control data capable of securing, in accordance with various vehicle driving conditions respectively, a control condition in which operation of the vibrator is preferably controlled, calculating a deviation between the appropriate control data commensurate with the actual vehicle driving condition at the time of controlling and actually detected data representing vibration subjected to a vehicle specific position, the actually detected data obtained in terms of a same physics amount as a physics amount of the control data, and modifying the appropriate control data on the basis of the calculated deviation.

Abstract: A vibration controller includes a map controller, an adaptive controller, a set-up frequency judge/switcher, and an actuator. The map controller includes a data map storage for storing data on control signals determined in advance for a vibration insulator, and a signal generator for selecting one of the data, depending on a frequency of a cyclically pulsating signal emitted from a vibration generating source of a vehicle, from the data map storage and generating a control signal. The adaptive controller generates the control signal with respect to the cyclically pulsating signal using an adaptive control method. The set-up frequency judge/switcher switches from the map controller to the adaptive controller or vice versa based on the frequency of the cyclically pulsating signal. The actuator actuates an actuator of the vibration insulator based on the control signal generated by the map controller or the adaptive controller, whereby inhibiting the vehicle from vibrating.

Abstract: A damper main body of a dynamic damper comprises a long flat mounting plate portion, a rod-like central supporting metal member which is erected vertically in the center of a top face of the mounting plate portion, constituting a supporting member together with the mounting plate portion, cylindrical rubber bushings placed on the central supporting metal member in succession from its bottom side, a coil member, a magnet portion, a yoke and a cylindrical case mounted over the yoke. Grommets, which are cylindrical supporting portions made of rubber elastic bodies, are inserted into mounting holes in side plate portions of the mounting plate portion. The damper main body is fixed on a mating plate member through the compressed grommets such that it is floated over the mating plate member.

Abstract: A vibration controller includes an input signal generator for generating input signals based on cyclically pulsating signals emitted from a vibration generating source, an actuating waveform detector for detecting actuating waveforms of an electromagnetic actuator of active vibration insulators, a waveform analyzer for determining higher harmonic component datum information by carrying out a waveform analysis, a higher harmonic component signal generator for generating higher harmonic component signals of the actuating waveforms based on the higher harmonic component datum information, a higher harmonic component signal remover for removing the higher harmonic component signals from the input signals and outputting the resulting processed input signals, and an actuator for receiving the processed input signals, generating output signals based on the processed input signals and actuating the electromagnetic actuator in accordance with the output signals.