Abstract: A drive control device for a hybrid vehicle is provided with a differential device including four rotary elements; and an engine, first and second electric motors and an output rotary member which are respectively connected to the four rotary elements. One of the four rotary elements is constituted by a rotary component of a first differential mechanism and a rotary component of a second differential mechanism selectively connected through a clutch, and one of the rotary components is selectively fixed to a stationary member through a brake. The hybrid vehicle is selectively placed in one of drive modes including a first hybrid drive mode in which the brake is placed in an engaged state while the clutch is placed in a released state, and a second hybrid drive mode in which the brake is placed in a released state while the clutch is placed in an engaged state.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a shoulder land zone provided with lateral grooves arranged at variable pitches in the tire circumferential direction and extending at an angle of not more than 30 degrees with respect to the tire axial direction. The domains defined between the shoulder lateral grooves include a smallest domain having the smallest circumferential length and a largest domain having the largest circumferential length. The domains are each provided with at least one sipe extending at an angle of not more than 30 degrees with respect to the tire axial direction. The number of the sipe(s) in the smallest domain is less than the number of the sipes in the largest domain.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to execute image processing that is requested, by using a parameter stored in a second storage unit included in the image processing unit; a control unit configured to store the parameter to be used by the image processing unit in a first storage unit, and generate identification information indicating a storage position of the parameter and store the identification in the first storage unit; and a transfer unit configured to acquire the parameter from the first storage unit based on the identification information stored in the first storage unit, and transfer the parameter to the second storage unit. The control unit stores the parameter in the second storage unit without storing the parameter in the first storage unit, according to the acquired parameter.

Abstract: The invention enhances a cooling effect on a press die for hot press. A lower die includes a first base, a second base mounted on the first base and having an opening in the center, a support table provided in the opening of the second base, and a die portion detachably mounted on the support table and including die pieces. The die portion is divided in die pieces disposed adjoining each other, and cold water pipes are provided in the die pieces respectively. The cold water pipes are bent in a U shape and inserted in the die pieces respectively, and extended downward from the lower ends of the die pieces respectively. The cold water pipes have cooling water injection ends and cooling water ejection ends in a space between the first base and the support table.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a seat back; a rear frame provided in the seat back and configured to have a substantially rectangular shape; and a retractor provided in the seat back and configured to retract a seat belt, wherein the rear frame includes a first side member and a second side member extending in a vertical direction, a connecting member extending in a widthwise direction, and a bracket for mounting the retractor, and wherein the connecting member and one of the first side member and the second side member are coupled together with the bracket at a corner portion of the rear frame.

Abstract: A drive control device for a hybrid vehicle is provided with a differential device including four rotary elements; and an engine, first and second electric motors and an output rotary member respectively connected to the four rotary elements. One of the four rotary elements is constituted by a rotary component of a first differential mechanism and a rotary component of a second differential mechanism selectively connected through a clutch, and one of the rotary components is selectively fixed to a stationary member through a brake. The drive control device releases one of the clutch and the brake when the engine is started in a drive mode in which the engine is at rest while the clutch and the brake are in an engaged state, selecting the one of the clutch and the brake to be released, depending upon a drive force generated during starting the engine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithographic printing plate precursor, comprising: a substrate; and an imaging layer formed on the substrate, wherein the imaging layer is prepared from a composition comprising at least one radical-polymerizable compound, at least one radical polymerization initiator, and at least one polymer particle which has an average particle diameter of 300 nm or more, and two or more poly(alkyleneoxide) moieties. The present invention can provide a lithographic printing plate precursor which is on-press developable and has excellent on-press development stability overtime and printing properties.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle provided with an engine, an electric motor, and a damper disposed in a power transmitting path between said engine and said electric motor, wherein said engine is started with its speed being raised by a drive force of said electric motor, wherein said damper has characteristics of generating a larger hysteresis torque during its torsion in a negative direction of transmission of the drive force from said electric motor toward said engine, than a hysteresis torque generated during its torsion in a positive direction of transmission of a drive force from said engine toward said electric motor, said control apparatus comprising a hybrid control portion configured to ignite said engine by igniting said engine in the process of a rise of the speed of said engine while said damper is subjected to the torsion in the negative direction by said electric motor.

Abstract: In a buckle device, wire ropes and a coiled cord run through the inside of a tubular buckle guide. Here, a partition wall is provided inside the buckle guide, and the inside of the buckle guide is partitioned by the partition wall into a wire rope side and a coiled cord side. Due to this, the coiled cord can be prevented from contacting the wire ropes inside the buckle guide.

Abstract: In a seat belt device, when a buckle cover is moved obliquely upward in a vehicle forward direction relative to a buckle guide and the buckle cover reaches a moving endpoint at a vehicle upper side relative to the buckle guide, cover-side engagement portions of the buckle cover become sandwiched between vehicle lower side surfaces of guide-side engagement portions of the buckle guide, and the outside surfaces of guide long-side wall portions of the buckle guide. Due to this, not only movement of the cover-side engagement portions of the buckle cover in the vehicle upward direction but also movement of the cover-side engagement portions outwards in the thickness directions of the cross-sectional shapes of the buckle cover and the buckle guide are restrained by the guide-side engagement portions.

Abstract: An automatic attaching apparatus of a foamed seal member includes an attaching hand handling a foamed seal member, a preset machine in which the foamed seal member is preset, a removing machine removing a release paper, and a robot moving the attaching hand. The attaching hand picks up the foamed seal member from the preset machine, presses the foamed seal member from which the release paper is removed against an attaching surface of a work using a pressing roller in a state where the foamed seal member is floated by an air floating device, and sends out the foamed seal member to attach the foamed seal member to the attaching surface of the work.

Abstract: A negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor has a substrate and an imageable layer disposed on the substrate. This imageable is removable with a lithographic printing ink, a fountain solution, or both. The imageable layer comprises (A) a free radical polymerizable compound, (B) a free radical polymerization initiator, and (C) a polymer that has a polysaccharide backbone and a free radical polymerizable group that is different than (A). Such precursors are on-press developable and exhibit excellent on-press development stability over time and excellent printing properties.

Abstract: A drive control device for a hybrid vehicle is provided with: a first differential mechanism having a first rotary element connected to a first electric motor, a second rotary element connected to an engine, and a third rotary element connected to an output rotary member; a second differential mechanism having a first rotary element connected to a second electric motor, a second rotary element, and a third rotary element, one of the second rotary element and the third rotary element being connected to the third rotary element of said first differential mechanism; a clutch configured to selectively couple the second rotary element of said first differential mechanism, and the other of the second and third rotary elements of said second differential mechanism which is not connected to the third rotary element of said first differential mechanism, to each other; and a brake configured to selectively couple said other of the second and third rotary elements of said second differential mechanism which is not conne

Abstract: A negative-working, infrared radiation-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor is exposed and processed on-press to provide a lithographic printing plate. This precursor has an infrared radiation-sensitive imageable layer comprises free radical imaging chemistry; an infrared radiation absorber; a particulate primary polymeric binder comprising polyalkylene oxide segments having an average particle size (D1) of at least 50 nm and up to and including 1000 nm; and a particulate secondary resin having an average particle size (D2) of at least 3 ?m and up to and including 10 ?m. The imageable layer has an average dry thickness (t) of at least 1 ?m and up to and including 4 ?m and satisfies Equation (1): D2/1.4>t>D1?? (1) and the average dry thickness (t) is defined by Equation (2): t=w/r?? (2) wherein w is the dry coverage of the imageable layer in g/m2 and r is 1 g/cm3.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 is provided in the tread portion 2 with crown blocks 21 each circumferentially divided into two block pieces 28, and shoulder blocks 9 each circumferentially partially divided into two block pieces 15. The block pieces 28 of the crown block 21 are a first block piece 28A having an axially outer crown chamfer 30 abutting on a shoulder main groove 3, and a second block piece 28B having no chamfer abutting on the shoulder main groove 3. The block pieces 15 of the shoulder block 9 are a first block piece 15A having an axially inner shoulder chamfer 16 abutting on the shoulder main groove 3, and a second block piece 15B having no chamfer abutting on the shoulder main groove 3. On both sides of the shoulder main groove 3, the axially inner shoulder chamfers 16 are partially circumferentially overlapped with the axially outer crown chamfers 30.

Abstract: A first shielding case of a receptacle respectively has arms extending to a forward side to be forwardly folded back from proximal ends fixed to a back end of an upper surface wall, stopper walls formed on free ends of the arms and projecting from outside to inside of the first shielding case and abut on an unauthorized plug in inserting the unauthorized plug, plug pickup parts formed on the free ends of the arms and are integrally formed in parallel with the stopper walls and projecting from outside to inside of the first shielding case and abut on an authorized plug in of inserting the authorized plug, and holes formed near to an opening of the upper surface wall, the holes into which the stopper walls and the plug pickup parts are inserted, on both ends of a width direction.

Abstract: An electronic component can package structure with a can case having an elliptically-shaped cavity in a state before it is fitted with a supporting base portion of a stem. The supporting base portion of the stem has a circular shape. The cavity of the can case is fitted with the supporting base portion of the stem with elastic deformation of the can case. The long diameter of the cavity has an allowance relative to the outer diameter of the supporting base portion of the stem and a gap for the allowance acts as a contraction margin. The short diameter of the cavity is smaller than the outer diameter of the supporting base portion of the stem, so that the supporting base portion is held between the short diameter portions.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a tread portion divided into a crown rib, a pair of middle ribs and a pair of shoulder ribs by two crown main grooves and two shoulder main grooves. The width of the crown main groove is 5.5 to 7.5% of the tread width. The width of the shoulder main groove is 50 to 70% of the crown main groove width. The crown rib has crown sipes extending from the crown main grooves. The middle rib has axially inner middle sipes extending axially outward from the crown main groove and ending within the middle rib, and axially outer middle sipes extending axially inward from the shoulder main groove and ending within the middle rib. The shoulder rib has shoulder sipes extending axially outward from the shoulder main groove, and shoulder lug grooves extending axially inward from the tread edge ending within the shoulder rib.

Abstract: An optical pulse tester includes: an OTDR measurer configured to execute an OTDR function of measuring a time distribution of a power of return light of an optical pulse input to an optical fiber; a display configured to display an OTDR measurement screen indicating information on execution of the OTDR function; and a controller configured to control the OTDR measurer and the display. The controller displays, on the OTDR measurement screen, a menu for allowing an operating person to call an auxiliary function for measurement of the optical fiber, and displays, on the OTDR measurement screen, a sub-screen indicating information on execution of the auxiliary function called by the operating person.

Abstract: Provided are a modified epoxy resin and a modified epoxy resin whose cured products exhibit good heat resistance and dielectric properties, methods for producing these, a curable resin composition, a cured product of the curable resin composition, and a printed wiring substrate. A modified phenolic resin comprises a phenolic resin structure (A), wherein at least one aromatic nucleus (a) in the phenolic resin structure (A) has, as a substituent, a structural segment (1) represented by structural formula (1) below: In the formula, Ar each independently represent a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, or a structural segment having, on an aromatic nucleus of a phenyl or naphthyl group, at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, a phenyl group, and an aralkyl group.