Abstract: Assembling workability of driving disks to a vehicle body frame, and setting a spacing dimension of left and right driving disks in an axial direction with high accuracy to stabilize a traveling performance of an inverted pendulum type vehicle. The left and right driving disks are assembled to a hollow shaft member in a positioned state in an axial direction to form a subassembly. The hollow shaft member is fixed to a vehicle body frame by a bolt inserted in a central through-hole of the hollow shaft member.

Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is a liquid crystal display device in which a polymer layer having a stable alignment regulating force is formed.

Abstract: Control node includes: current memories provided in corresponding relation to a plurality of equipments to store, for each of the equipments, a first current data set for remote-controlling an operational condition of the equipment and a second current data set for remote-controlling a logical connection between the equipment and another equipment; and library memories provided in corresponding relation to the equipments to store, for each of the equipments, a plurality of first data sets each for remote-controlling the operational condition of the equipment and a plurality of second data sets each for remote-controlling the logical connection between the equipment and another equipment.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnetic memory chip device comprises the steps of: writing information in each of a plurality of magnetic memory chips formed on a silicon wafer; adhering a high magnetic permeability plate on a back face of the silicon wafer after writing information, the high magnetic permeability plate having a higher magnetic permeability than silicon and having a thickness of 50 um or more; dicing the silicon wafer into respective magnetic memory chips after adhering the high magnetic permeability plate.

Abstract: A processing apparatus using an electromagnetic wave is provided to perform a heat treatment on a target object. The processing apparatus includes a metallic processing chamber; a loading/unloading opening provided in one end of the processing chamber; a closing body capable of closing and opening the loading/unloading opening; a holding unit loaded and unloaded into and from the inside of the processing chamber through the loading/unloading opening, holding target objects at a predetermined interval, the holding unit being made of a material allowing the electromagnetic wave to transmit therethrough; an electromagnetic wave supply unit for introducing the electromagnetic wave into the processing chamber; a gas introducing unit for introducing a gas into the processing chamber; and a gas exhaust unit for exhausting an atmosphere in the processing chamber.

Abstract: Control node includes: current memories provided in corresponding relation to a plurality of equipments to store, for each of the equipments, a first current data set for remote-controlling an operational condition of the equipment and a second current data set for remote-controlling a logical connection between the equipment and another equipment; and library memories provided in corresponding relation to the equipments to store, for each of the equipments, a plurality of first data sets each for remote-controlling the operational condition of the equipment and a plurality of second data sets each for remote-controlling the logical connection between the equipment and another equipment.

Abstract: A driver (41) for driving a rotary motor (20) directly connected to a rotating shaft member of a supercharger is mounted on a board (39) together with a control device (51) and a heat sink (39a) and is housed in an engine room. Even when a temperature (ambient temperature) in the engine room detected by a temperature sensor (47b) rises up to an upper limit temperature (upper limit ambient temperature) of the ambient temperature, if a temperature (driver temperature) of a portion of the driver (41) that has a highest temperature detected by a temperature sensor (47a) is yet to rise to an upper limit temperature (upper limit internal temperature) of the driver temperature, the control device (51) causes the rotary motor (20) to continue to drive as the motor while lowering an upper limit of an output current.

Abstract: A warming-up system performing a catalytic converter warming-up method has an electric motor (1m) enabling a turbocharger (1) to increase the amount of air supplied to an internal combustion engine (2) regardless of the amount of exhaust gas flowing through a turbine (1t) of the turbocharger (1), a variable nozzle (1n) regulating the flow of exhaust gas through the turbine (1t), and an ECU (5) for controlling the operation of the electric motor (1m) and the variable nozzle (1n) and the amount of fuel supplied to the internal combustion engine (2). After the internal combustion engine (2) is started, the ECU (5) warms up the catalytic converter (4) by driving the electrical motor (1m) to forcibly rotate the turbine (1t), opening the variable nozzle (1n), and increasing fuel supply to the internal combustion engine (2).

Abstract: A semiconductor device, having a memory cell region and a peripheral circuit region, includes an insulating film, having an upper surface, formed on a major surface of a semiconductor substrate to extend from the memory cell region to the peripheral circuit region. A capacitor lower electrode assembly is formed in the memory cell region to upwardly extend to substantially the same height as the upper surface of the insulating film on the major surface of the semiconductor substrate. Additionally, the lower electrode assembly includes first and second lower electrodes that are adjacent through the insulating film. A capacitor upper electrode is formed on the capacitor lower electrode through a dielectric film, to extend onto the upper surface of the insulating film. The capacitor lower electrode includes a capacitor lower electrode part having a top surface and a bottom surface.

Abstract: A fuel cell two-wheel vehicle is provided with: a fuel cell, fuel tanks, a supercharger, a pipe line, an in-wheel motor, and a motor driver. The fuel cell generates electric power using hydrogen and air as reaction sources. The fuel tanks supply hydrogen to the fuel cell through a hydrogen supply path. The supercharger supplies air from the outside air to the fuel cell. Through the pipe line, an exhaust from the fuel cell is discharged to the outside. The in-wheel motor serves as a driving source of the fuel cell two-wheel vehicle, and the motor driver drives the in-wheel motor. In an air system, a route and an outlet of the pipe line are arranged to be directed toward the motor driver. Thus, a heat sink is exposed to the discharged air having passed through the fuel cell, and thereby the motor driver is cooled.

Abstract: A method of the present invention, for driving a liquid crystal display device includes the step of applying, when spray-bend transition of liquid crystal molecules is completed, a constant voltage to a storage capacitor electrode so that an electric potential difference between a pixel electrode and a common electrode becomes greater than an electric potential difference between the pixel electrode and another pixel electrode adjacent to said pixel electrode when application of a voltage for the spray-bend transition of the liquid crystal molecules is stopped.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes (i) an active matrix substrate (10) on which pixel electrodes (12) are provided for respective pixels (8), (ii) a counter substrate (20) on which a common electrode is provided and which faces the active matrix substrate (10), (iii) a liquid crystal layer which is provided between the active and counter substrates (10, 20) and has a negative dielectric anisotropy, and (iv) two vertical alignment films (14, 24) provided over respective of the active and counter substrates (10, 20). The pixel electrode (12) has subpixel electrodes (12a, 12b) and connection electrodes (15) for connecting the subpixel electrodes (12a, 12b). Each of the subpixel electrodes (12a, 12b) has branch line parts (18) and a trunk line part (17) demarcated by slits (16). In the pixel (8), the subpixel electrodes (12a, 12b) are connected with each other via the connection electrodes (15) in a plurality of locations.

Abstract: A first substrate (20) is subjected to an alignment treatment for controlling an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules of a liquid crystal layer, an alignment control region (R60) is provided in at least a part of a Y-direction interelectrode region (R52) between respective adjacent pixel electrodes (60), and an extension direction (D10) of the alignment control region (R60) is at an angle of not less than ?15° and not more than +15° with a direction in which the alignment treatment is carried out (D20).

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device of active matrix type. Each pixel electrode (1) includes either a single regional electrode (2) or two or more regional electrodes (2) which are electrically connected to each other. The or each regional electrode is provided with: a first electrode (cross-shaped electrode) (3) which has a pattern dividing a first region into a plurality of second regions (R1, R2, R3, and R4); and a plurality of stripe electrodes (4) which are provided in each of the second regions so as to extend from the first electrode and so as to be separated from each other by a distance. A storage capacitor line (CSL) is provided facing one of pixel electrodes (1) in a film thickness direction to form a storage capacitor. The storage capacitor line (CSL) is provided so as not to extend facing an edge (2e, 2e?) of a first region in the film thickness direction parallelly to the edge (2e, 2e?).

Abstract: The invention is characterized in that in a motor rotor constituted by a motor shaft (30), a permanent magnet (31) surrounding the motor shaft (30) around an axis, a pair of end rings (32, 32) surrounding the motor shaft (30) around the axis and pinching the permanent magnet (31) from both sides in an axial direction, and a hollow cylindrical outer sleeve (33) surrounding the permanent magnet (31) and a pair of end rings (32, 32) in a fastening state around the axis, one end portion or both end portions of the outer sleeve (33) protrudes in the axial direction than an end surface of the end ring (32). A rotating balance correction is executed by pruning away a part of the protruding portion.

Abstract: A string signal generator generates a string signal representing vibration of a string corresponding to a specified pitch in response to a note-on instruction such that the string signal rises and then attenuates in response to a note-off instruction. The string signal generator distributes the generated string signal to a plurality of loop circuits of a string resonance simulator. The plurality of the loop circuits correspond to a plurality of pitches and circulate resonant signals of the corresponding pitches, each loop circuit having a delay element for delaying the resonant signal by a time depending on the corresponding pitch, and an attenuation element for variably attenuating the resonant signal according to an attenuation coefficient. A controller respectively provides attenuation coefficients to the attenuation elements in the plurality of the loop circuits based on the note-on instruction, the note-off instruction, a damper-pedal-on instruction, and a damper-pedal-off instruction.

Abstract: An actuator 10 includes a main body 14 having a displacement unit 11 and electrodes 12 and 13 configured to apply a voltage to the displacement unit 11, the displacement unit being made of a mixture of a silicone-containing elastomer and an ionic liquid, and being displaced by applying a voltage between the electrodes; and a displacement transmission unit 15 configured to be displaced in an out-of-plane direction by displacement of the displacement unit 11.

Abstract: A plurality of partial networks can work independently from each other, and each partial network connects together several nodes including a connection node for transmission of audio signals. A connection network connects respective connection nodes of the respective partial networks so as to connect the plurality of the partial networks with each other through the connection nodes.

Abstract: In a method of driving a liquid crystal display device in accordance with the present invention, a transition voltage (+25 VDC) for causing liquid crystal molecules to be in a bend orientation state is applied, and after an entire surface is changed into the bend orientation state, the voltage applied to a liquid crystal layer is continuously reduced from a transition voltage to a reverse tilt eliminating voltage.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnetic memory chip device comprises the steps of: writing information in each of a plurality of magnetic memory chips formed on a silicon wafer; adhering a high magnetic permeability plate on a back face of the silicon wafer after writing information, the high magnetic permeability plate having a higher magnetic permeability than silicon and having a thickness of 50 um or more; dicing the silicon wafer into respective magnetic memory chips after adhering the high magnetic permeability plate.