Abstract: Innovative peripheral bar assembly for a transportation vehicle is provided. The assembly includes a front bar housing with a front segment and a rear segment; a rear bar housing with a front segment coupled to the rear segment of the front bar housing; and an input/output (I/O) printed circuit board (“PCB”) having an I/O connector. The I/O PCB coupled to the rear segment of the front bar housing. The assembly is coupled to a chassis of a display system having a display module, and the I/O connector is coupled to a connector of the display module for enabling an electrical connection between the peripheral bar assembly and the display module.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a jack including a first opening portion through which a plug can be inserted along a first axis, and coming into contact with the plug at an electrode; and a housing formed separately from the jack. The jack includes a second opening portion facing the first opening portion along the first axis, and a through-hole connecting the first opening portion and the second opening portion along the first axis. The housing includes a third opening portion opening on a same side as the first opening portion and opening at a position where a plug can be inserted from outside the housing into the first opening portion, and a fourth opening portion facing the third opening portion along the first axis and opening at a position where the plug can be discharged to an outside of the housing through the second opening portion.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a jack including a first opening portion through which a plug can be inserted along a first axis, and coming into contact with the plug at an electrode; and a housing formed separately from the jack. The jack includes a second opening portion facing the first opening portion along the first axis, and a through-hole connecting the first opening portion and the second opening portion along the first axis. The housing includes a third opening portion opening on a same side as the first opening portion and opening at a position where a plug can be inserted from outside the housing into the first opening portion, and a fourth opening portion facing the third opening portion along the first axis and opening at a position where the plug can be discharged to an outside of the housing through the second opening portion.

Abstract: A monitor is configured to be detachably fixed to a wall surface and includes an attaching-detaching device configured to be positioned between the monitor and the wall surface and detachably fix the monitor to the wall surface. The attaching-detaching device includes a swing member having a distal end and a proximal end, a hinge mechanism configured to be attachable to the wall surface and support the proximal end of the swing member such that the distal end of the swing member is swingable toward or away from the wall surface, a swing member engagement portion on a rear surface of the monitor opposite to a display screen of the monitor, the swing member engagement portion being engaged with the swing member, and a lock mechanism on the rear surface of the monitor, the lock mechanism being configured to lock the swing member in engagement with the swing member engagement portion.

Abstract: A monitor detachably fixed to a wall surface includes an attaching-detaching device disposed between the monitor and the wall surface and configured to detachably fix the monitor to the wall surface. The attaching-detaching device includes a swing member having a distal end and a proximal end, a hinge mechanism configured to be attachable to the wall surface and support the proximal end of the swing member such that the distal end of the swing member is swingable to approach or leave the wall surface, a swing member engagement portion provided on a rear surface opposite to a display screen of the monitor and engaged with the swing member, and a lock mechanism provided on the rear surface of the monitor and configured to unlockably lock the swing member being engaged with the swing member engagement portion.

Abstract: An electronic device comprises a housing, a sliding cover and an internal member. The housing includes a plate-like member that defines a slide opening. The sliding cover includes a cover component disposed on the plate-like member and slidably attached to the slide opening, a detected component fixed to the cover component and extending into the housing, and a first restrictor fixed to the cover component. The internal member is disposed inside the housing and includes a detector switch having a contact component configured to contact the detected component when the detected component is at a specific position and a second restrictor adjacent to the first restrictor when the detected component is at the specific position. The detector switch detects when the contact component contacts the detected component. The first and second restrictors are configured to restrict movement of the plate-like member when the detected component is at the specific position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a defloration agent for apple trees. The present defloration agent comprises 3-(2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxy)butyric acid (MCPB) or an ester thereof and 2-chloroethylphosphonic acid (ethephon). The present invention provides an excellent defloration effect even when the temperature is low in the blossoming season.

Abstract: A method for improving pigmentation of the rind of anthocyanin-containing apples comprising treating fruit-bearing apple trees or apples before or after harvesting with an effective amount of an agent which comprises 5-aminolevulinic acid, a salt thereof or a mixture thereof as an active component.

Abstract: A method of thinning lateral flowers of apples, comprising applying of flower thinning effective amount of a pyrazole compound represented by general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; andR.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which are the same or different, each represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms,to flowers of apples. A compound in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each a methyl group, and R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom is preferred. The pyrazole compounds are applied at a flowering stage of apples, preferably in a period from immediately after full bloom to terminal flowers of apples to 2 days thereafter, typically in a proportion of from about 5 mg to about 75 g per tree at a coverage in a range of from about 20 mg/10a to about 2,000 g/10a.

Abstract: A method of decreasing the physiological fruit drop from fruit trees, which comprises treating at least the overground portion of a growing citrus, peach, apple, pear or persimmon tree with a liquid agricultural composition comprising brassinolide in a concentration of about 1.times.10.sup.-5 ppm to about 5 ppm.

Abstract: In an ADPCM encoding and decoding system comprising an encoder having an adaptive predictor and an adaptive quantizer and a decoder having an adaptive predictor and an inverse adaptive quantizer, the adaptive predictors each comprise: an adaptive-zero predictor of an arbitrary order and an adaptive-pole predictor of an arbitrary order, for input signals with time-varying frequency components; a fixed-pole predictor of an arbitrary order, for input signals the frequency composition of which remains substantially invariant over time; and an offset predictor for rejecting an offset component of the input signals, these elements being connected in series. The adaptive-zero and adaptive-pole predictors generate estimates for voice signals with time-varying frequency components. The fixed-pole predictor generates estimates for voiceband data signals the frequency components of which remain substantially invariant over time.