Abstract: In a content distributed-storage system in which divided content data obtained by dividing content data of a single unit having a plurality of pieces of frame image data into a plurality of pieces is stored so as to be distributed to a plurality of node devices, unique identification information is assigned to each of the divided content data, each of the node devices can obtain the divided content data on the basis of the identification information. In the system, content catalog information having the identification information of at least one piece of the divided content data and key frame information including information indicative of an offset position of the frame image data in each of the divided content data, is stored. An instruction related to playback of the content data from the user is received.

Abstract: A node device included in a distributed content storing system configured that a plurality of content data are distributed and stored in a plurality of node devices mutually communicable through a network, and node information of the node device storing the above content data is registered in the node device administrating the content data, the node device including: a content receiving means for receiving the content data broadcasted; a storage determining means for randomly determining whether content data as much as a unit are stored when the content data as much as the unit are received; a storing means for storing the content data thus determined; and a registration message transmission means for sending a registration message, provided to make own node information as the node device storing the content data, to the node device administrating the content data when the content data are stored.

Abstract: A content distribution system includes a node to which content is distributed via a network and a distribution management server for managing a content distribution status. The node receives content, detects an information amount of received content, and, on the basis of the detected information amount, outputs a distribution completion notification indicative of a reception status of corresponding content. On the other hand, the distribution management server receives the distribution completion notification for each node, and stores the received distribution completion information for each node.

Abstract: A multilayer piezoelectric device including a body having internal electrode layers and piezoelectric ceramic layers alternately stacked. The internal electrode layers contain Cu as a major component, the piezoelectric ceramic layers contain a compound oxide represented by Pb(Ti, Zr)O3 as a major component, and a metal oxide (Nb2O5, Sb2O5, Ta2O5, or WO3) containing Nb, Sb, Ta, or W, which is at least one of a pentavalent metal element and a hexavalent metal element, is incorporated in the piezoelectric ceramic layers such that the concentration of the metal oxide decreases with distance from the internal electrode layers. Thereby, even in a case where internal electrodes contain Cu as a major component, it is possible to provide a multilayer piezoelectric device which can be obtained by low-temperature firing while ensuring a sufficient piezoelectric constant.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device is formed by simultaneously firing a piezoelectric ceramic mainly composed of a perovskite complex oxide represented by general formula ABO3 and electrodes mainly composed of copper. The piezoelectric ceramic is represented by Pb??aMea[(MII1/3MV(2+b)/3)zTixZr1?x?z]O3 (wherein Me represents a metal element, MII is an acceptor element which is a divalent metal element, and MV is a donor element which is a pentavalent metal element), and satisfies equations 0.05?z?0.40, 0<bz/3?0.035, 0.345?x?0.480, 0.965???1.020, and 0?a?0.05. In other words, the B sites contain excessive donors, and thus a piezoelectric device having good piezoelectric characteristics can be obtained even in the cases where a base metal material mainly composed of inexpensive copper is used as the internal electrode material.

Abstract: A piezoelectric ceramic composition has the composition formula (Pb(a-b)Meb){(Ni(1-c)/3Znc/3Nb2d/3)zTixZr(1-x-z)}O3, wherein Me represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ba, Sr and Ca; a, b, d, and x satisfy the inequalities 0.975?a?0.998, 0?b?0.05, 1<d?1.3, and 0.39?x?0.47; and c and z are located in a region surrounded by lines connecting Point A (z=0.25, c=0.1), Point B (z=0.25, c=0.85), Point C (z=0.1, c=0.6), Point D (z=0.075, c=0.5), Point E (z=0.05, c=0.2), and Point F (z=0.05, c=0.1) or located on the lines in the z-c plane. Therefore, the piezoelectric ceramic composition is effective in achieving a large piezoelectric constant, a small dielectric constant, and a high Curie point. A piezoelectric actuator contains the piezoelectric ceramic composition.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes external conductors formed on an outer surface of a piezoelectric component. The external conductors each include a thick-film conductor and a conductive reinforcer. The thick-film conductor is provided with a first thick-film conductor formed on the outer surface of the piezoelectric component, second thick-film conductors which are formed on part of an outer surface of the first thick-film conductor and which are in surface-contact with the outer surface of the first thick-film conductor. The conductive reinforcer is attached to outer surfaces of the second thick-film conductors.

Abstract: A monolithic piezoelectric element includes a stack, and the stack includes a crack-forming conductive layer arranged to intentionally form a small crack in the stack. The small crack alleviates stress, thereby preventing the occurrence of a large crack that may extend to the piezoelectrically active region.

Abstract: A piezoelectric ceramic composition has the composition formula (Pb(a-b)Meb){(Ni(1-c)/3Znc/3Nb2d/3)zTixZr(1-x-z)}O3, wherein Me represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ba, Sr and Ca; a, b, d, and x satisfy the inequalities 0.975?a?0.998, 0?b?0.05, 1<d?1.3, and 0.39?x?0.47; and c and z are located in a region surrounded by lines connecting Point A (z=0.25, c=0.1), Point B (z=0.25, c=0.85), Point C (z=0.1, c=0.6), Point D (z=0.075, c=0.5), Point E (z=0.05, c=0.2), and Point F (z=0.05, c=0.1) or located on the lines in the z-c plane. Therefore, the piezoelectric ceramic composition is effective in achieving a large piezoelectric constant, a small dielectric constant, and a high Curie point. A piezoelectric actuator contains the piezoelectric ceramic composition.

Abstract: A piezoelectric ceramic composition has the composition formula (Pb(a-b)Meb){(Ni(1-c).d/3Znc.d/3Nb2/3)zTixZr(1-x-z)}O3, wherein Me represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ba, Sr and Ca; a, b, c, d, x and z satisfy the inequalities 0.975 ?a ?0.998, 0 ?b ?0.05, 1 <d ?1.40, and 0.39 ?x ?0.47; and c and z are located in a region surrounded by lines connecting Point A (z=0.25, c=0.1), Point B (z=0.25, c=0.85), Point C (z=0.1, c=0.6), Point D (z=0.075, 0.5), Point E (z=0.05, c=0.2), and Point F (z=0.05, c=0.1) or located on the lines in the z-c plane. Therefore, the piezoelectric ceramic composition can be fired at a low temperature and is effective in achieving a large piezoelectric constant, a high Curie point and a small dielectric constant. A piezoelectric actuator contains the piezoelectric ceramic composition.

Abstract: A fuel delivery pipe capable of reducing a pressure pulsation at the time of a fuel injection due to injection nozzles, preventing vibrations and noises at an underfloor pipe arrangement, and turning down a radiate sound from the fuel delivery pipe, wherein a flexible absorbing wall surface 10 formed on a wall surface of a fuel delivery body 1 is loosened due to internal pressure changes to render internal volume of the fuel delivery body 1 increasable, ?L/?{square root over ( )} V determined by sonic speed ?L of fuel flowing through the fuel delivery body 1 and the internal volume V of the fuel delivery body 1 is set as 20×103 (m?0.5·sec?1)??L/?{square root over ( )} V?85×103(m?0.5·sec?1) while a ratio ?L/?H of equivalent sonic speed ?H in a high frequency area to the sonic speed ?L of the fuel is set as ?L/?H?0.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator, a ceramic sintered body is prepared and a size of the ceramic sintered body is adjusted in a thickness direction defined below by grinding piezoelectric ceramic layers, included in the ceramic sintered body, located outermost in the thickness direction. In the ceramic sintered body, internal electrodes are each disposed between piezoelectric ceramic layers. The thickness direction is defined as the direction along the thickness of the piezoelectric ceramic layer. Each of the inert sections are disposed on at least one side of the active section, for driving the piezoelectric actuator, in the thickness direction. Dummy internal electrodes are arranged in the inert sections such that each of the dummy internal electrodes are each located between ceramic layers. The thickness of the piezoelectric ceramic layers disposed between the dummy internal electrodes increases with distance from the active section.

Abstract: A heat exchanger having excellent heat exchanging performance is obtainable by a simple production technique and at a low cost. This is achieved by providing a fin member and by increasing heat conductivity between the fin member and a meandering pipe body. Further, the heat exchanger is made compact for high degrees of layout freedom, enabling the heat exchanger to be installed in a tight space. Engagement grooves are provided in both end surfaces, which are opposite to each other, of a fin member in which fins are parallel arranged. Straight pipe sections are parallelly arranged, with gaps in between, in the engagement grooves of the fin member. The straight pipe sections a are connected at bent sections. A pair of meandering sections is arranged opposite to each other with an insertion gap of the fin member in between. On of the meandering sections and the other meandering section are connected by a connection pipe to form a meandering pipe main body.

Abstract: A heat exchanger tube has an inner peripheral surface serving as an exhaust gas flow path with a flat cross-sectional shape. A thin structure is incorporated in the heat exchanger tube and has a substantially rectangular channel-shaped waveform in cross section. The corrugated fin structure has a curved surface forming waveform meandering with a predetermined wavelength in the lengthwise direction. The wave width of the channel-shaped waveform is H, the wavelength of the waveform meandering in the lengthwise direction is L and the amplitude of the waveform meandering in the lengthwise direction is A. The heat exchanger tube is formed so that H/L is set at 0.17 to 0.20 and the ration (G/H) of a gap G determined by H-A to H is set at ?0.21 to 0.19.

Abstract: An inlet port 16 communicating with the interior of a fuel delivery pipe body 10 to introduce fuel is made open in a center of a tubular joint 11 having a smaller diameter than an inside diameter of a holder portion 15 of an injector 32 connected to a respective pipe end portion 25, and a length from a center of this inlet port 16 to the pipe end portion 25 is set to 30 to 1000 mm, to thereby form the tubular joint 11. The tubular joint 11 and the fuel delivery pipe body 10 are fixed such that the inlet port 16 of this tubular joint 11 is communicatable with the interior of the fuel delivery pipe body 10.

Abstract: A fuel delivery pipe capable of reducing a pressure pulsation at the time of a fuel injection due to injection nozzles, preventing vibrations and noises at an underfloor pipe arrangement, and turning down a radiate sound from the fuel delivery pipe, wherein a flexible absorbing wall surface 10 formed on a wall surface of a fuel delivery body 1 is loosened due to internal pressure changes to render internal volume of the fuel delivery body 1 increasable, ?L/?{square root over ( )}V determined by sonic speed ?L of fuel flowing through the fuel delivery body 1 and the internal volume V of the fuel delivery body 1 is set as 20×103(m?0.5·sec?1)??L/?{square root over ( )}V?85×103(m?0.5·sec?) while a ratio ?L/?H of equivalent sonic speed ?H in a high frequency area to the sonic speed ?L of the fuel is set as ?L/?H?0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a pyridylethylthio compound which is improved in yield of the pyridylethylthio compound. In a process for producing a pyridylethylthio compound by reacting vinyl pyridine with a sulfur-containing compound, vinyl pyridine used contains a compound represented by the general formula (1): (wherein R1 and R2 are any of combination of isopropenyl group and a hydrogen atom, combination of 1-propenyl group and a hydrogen atom, combination of 2-propenyl group and a hydrogen atom, and combination of methyl group and vinyl group), in an amount of not more than 4% by weight.

Abstract: In a development apparatus of the present invention, a guide member is provided which extends through the toner receiving opening located above the agitation/transfer device to surround the pathway of the toner falling from the toner container to guide the same to the agitation/transfer device, the guide member is formed to be broaden toward the agitation/transfer device, and the bottom edge part of the guide member facing the agitation/transfer device is shaped to run along the rotational circumference of the agitation/transfer device, so that the piling up of toner between the agitation/transfer device and inner wall of the developing apparatus is prevented.

Abstract: An inlet port 16 communicating with the interior of a fuel delivery pipe body 10 to introduce fuel is made open in a center of a tubular joint 11 having a smaller diameter than an inside diameter of a holder portion 15 of an injector 32 connected to a respective pipe end portion 25, and a length from a center of this inlet port 16 to the pipe end portion 25 is set to 30 to 1000 mm, to thereby form the tubular joint 11. The tubular joint 11 and the fuel delivery pipe body 10 are fixed such that the inlet port 16 of this tubular joint 11 is communicatable with the interior of the fuel delivery pipe body 10.

Abstract: A piezoelectric element contains a piezoelectric ceramic body having a layered perovskite structure, and has the C axis selected and oriented in the thickness direction. In the piezoelectric ceramic body, line shaped electrodes are formed perpendicular to the C axis selected and oriented. The electrodes exposed at both of the end faces of the piezoelectric ceramic body are covered with conductive materials and insulation materials. The piezoelectric ceramic body is polarized in the opposite directions on both of the sides of electrodes arranged in the width direction. Moreover, external electrodes are formed on the faces where the conductive materials and the insulation materials are formed, whereby two groups of the electrodes are arranged in an interdigital electrode form.