Abstract: A mechanical engagement mechanism has regulation states out of a first state in which at least one of a plurality of rotating elements is rotatable only in a first direction and a second state in which the at least one of the plurality of rotating elements is not rotatable in both of the first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction and a reverse gear position is to be established. A non-traveling gear position is to be established in the first state or in the second state. A processor is to switch the regulation states of the mechanical engagement mechanism from the second state to the first state when oil pressure that is detected by an oil pressure sensor becomes lower than a predetermined oil pressure after switching a shift position from the reverse gear position to the non-traveling gear position is detected.

Abstract: A mechanical engagement mechanism has regulation states out of a first state in which at least one of a plurality of rotating elements is rotatable only in a first direction and a second state in which the at least one of the plurality of rotating elements is not rotatable in both of the first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction and a reverse gear position is to be established. A non-traveling gear position is to be established in the first state or in the second state. A processor is to switch the regulation states of the mechanical engagement mechanism from the second state to the first state when oil pressure that is detected by an oil pressure sensor becomes lower than a predetermined oil pressure after switching a shift position from the reverse gear position to the non-traveling gear position is detected.

Abstract: A parison forming apparatus comprising: a molding die into which a gob is introduced; a plunger 1 entering into the inside of the molding die for forming a parison from the gob together with the molding die; a cylinder that allows the plunger 1 to reciprocally move with respect to the molding die; and a cooling device for introducing cooling air into the inside of the plunger 1 to cool the plunger 1. The base end portion of the plunger 1 is connected to and held by the head of a piston rod 12 of the cylinder via a plunger holding mechanism 2. The plunger holding mechanism 2 has an adapter 21 connected to the head of the piston rod 12, and the adapter 21 is integrally provided with a tubular part 33 having a fitting hole 32 adapted to the cylindrical outer shape of the base end portion of the plunger 1.

Abstract: An automatic transmission includes an input member, a planetary gear set, a plurality of engagement mechanisms, an output member, a shift position detecting unit, an input rotational speed detecting unit, a control unit, and a switching mechanism. When a shift position is changed from a forward drive range to a reverse drive range, the control unit performs a reverse preparation mode in which a rotational speed of an element to be fixed by the switching mechanism is lower than or equal to a predetermined speed by setting an engagement mechanism in one of a connection mode and a fixed mode. Upon performing the reverse preparation mode, the control unit engages the engagement mechanism that connects the element fixed by the switching mechanism to the input member and, thereafter, engages the engagement mechanism that makes the rotational speed of the input member lower than or equal to the predetermined speed.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of air conditioner for ensuring strength against an impact applied to an electrical component box in a front-back, left-right, or top-bottom direction. The electrical component box has an upper partition plate, a front plate, and a box base plate coupled to one another and supported by an arm and a support post. The arm substantially perpendicularly supports the front plate in a front-back direction, and the upper partition plate. Thus, the electrical component box is strong enough to withstand an impact in the front-back and the left-right directions. Further, the support post substantially perpendicularly supports the arm and the box base plate in a top-bottom direction allowing the electrical component box to withstand an impact in the top-bottom direction. Also material of the electrical component box can be reduced.

Abstract: An automatic transmission includes an input member, a planetary gear set, a plurality of engagement mechanisms, an output member, a shift position detecting unit, an input rotational speed detecting unit, a control unit, and a switching mechanism. When a shift position is changed from a forward drive range to a reverse drive range, the control unit performs a reverse preparation mode in which a rotational speed of an element to be fixed by the switching mechanism is lower than or equal to a predetermined speed by setting an engagement mechanism in one of a connection mode and a fixed mode. Upon performing the reverse preparation mode, the control unit engages the engagement mechanism that connects the element fixed by the switching mechanism to the input member and, thereafter, engages the engagement mechanism that makes the rotational speed of the input member lower than or equal to the predetermined speed.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air conditioner for facilitating setting of an electrical component box into the outdoor unit. A blower chamber side of a box base plate is similar in shape to a lower partition plate provided with a receiving part formed by bending inward an upper end of the lower partition plate. When joining an electrical component box to the lower partition plate, the box base plate is set onto the receiving part along a flange, whereby positioning the electrical component box, which is fixed to the lower partition plate by fastening with a screw, welding, or other suitable method. The positioning can be achieved only by putting the box on the receiving part along the flange. Facilitated positioning and fixing leads to simplicity and enhanced workability.

Abstract: Display luminance is uniformized and the brightness is enhanced. A plasma display device has image signal processing circuit including loading correction part. The loading correction part has: number of lit cells calculator for calculating the number of discharge cells to be lit in each display electrode pair, in each subfield; load value calculator for calculating a load value of each discharge cell, according to the calculation result in number of lit cells calculator; correction gain calculator for calculating a correction gain of each discharge cell, according to the position of the discharge cell and the calculation result in load value calculator, such that the correction gain is smaller in the central portion than in the peripheral portion on the plasma display panel's image display surface; and corrector for subtracting the multiplication result of the output from correction gain calculator and an input image signal, from the input image signal.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air conditioner for facilitating setting of an electrical component box into the outdoor unit. A blower chamber 10 side of a box base plate 62 is similar in shape to the a lower partition plate 50 provided with a receiving part 50a formed by bending inward an upper end of the lower partition plate 50. When joining an electrical component box 60 to the lower partition plate 50, the box base plate 62 is set onto the receiving part 50a along a flange 62a, whereby positioning the electrical component box 60, which is fixed to the lower partition plate 50 by fastening with a screw, welding, or other suitable method. The positioning can be achieved only by putting the box 60 on the receiving part 50a along the flange 62a. Facilitated positioning and fixing leads to simplicity and enhanced workability.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of air conditioner for ensuring strength against an impact applied to an electrical component box in a front-back, left-right, or top-bottom direction. The electrical component box 60 has an upper partition plate 61, a front plate 63, and a box base plate 62 coupled to one another and supported by an arm 64 and a support post 65. The arm 64 substantially perpendicularly supports the front plate 63 in a front-back direction, and the upper partition plate 61. Thus, the electrical component box 60 is strong enough to withstand an impact in the front-back and the left-right directions. Further, the support post 65 substantially perpendicularly supports the arm 64 and the box base plate 62 in a top-bottom direction allowing the electrical component box 60 to withstand an impact in the top-bottom direction. Also material of the electrical component box 60 can be reduced.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of air conditioner for efficiently cooling a board having a heater element and a heat generating component in an electrical component box, thereby enhansing heat release efficiency. Air flowing from a machinery chamber 11 into an electrical component box 60 is divided into: a flow Fa flowing from open space defined by an arm 64 and a support post 65 through a periphery of a box base plate 62; a flow Fb flowing through a first ventilation hole 62b; a flow Fc flowing through a second ventilation hole 62c; and a flow Fd flowing through a third ventilation hole 62d. The board and the heat generating component can be effectively cooled by the flows Fb, Fc, and Fd directly touching the board and the heat generating component, and by the flow Fa cooling overall the inside of the electrical component box 60.

Abstract: In a plasma-display-panel driving method, a field period is divided into a plurality of sub fields, each of which has an address period for allowing discharge cells to selectively generate an address discharge and a sustain period for allowing the discharge cells having generated the address discharge to generate a sustain discharge by a number of times corresponding to a brightness weight. In the sustain period, a period for setting display electrode pairs to the base potential is disposed between the sustain pulse for causing the final sustain discharge in the sustain period and the previous sustain pulse. In a time interval corresponding to the lighting ratio of the discharge cells in the sub field after applying to the display electrode pairs a voltage for generating the final sustain discharge, a voltage for reducing the potential difference between electrodes of the display electrode pairs is applied to the display electrode pairs.

Abstract: A plasma display panel is driven by providing a plurality of subfields within one field period, the subfield having an initializing period in which the initializing discharge is generated in a discharge cell by applying a ramp-waveform voltage that is gradually descending to a scan electrode, an address period in which an address discharge is generated in the discharge cell by applying a scan pulse voltage to the scan electrode, and a sustain period in which sustain discharges by the number of times corresponding to the luminance weight are generated in the selected discharge cell. The lowest voltage is set of the descending ramp-waveform voltage in the subfield where the luminance weight is the smallest lower than the same voltage in the subfield where the luminance weight is the largest, and a voltage is kept for a prescribed period after the descending ramp-waveform voltage reaches the lowest voltage in the subfield where the luminance weight is the smallest.

Abstract: Plural subfields are provided in one single field period, where each subfield has an initialization period during which a gradient waveform voltage gently falling is applied to a scan electrode to generate initializing discharge in a discharge cell; a writing period during which a scan pulse voltage is applied to a scan electrode to generate writing discharge in a discharge cell; and a sustain period during which sustain discharge is generated in a discharge cell selected, by the number of times corresponding to a luminance weight. The lowest voltage of a falling gradient waveform voltage in a subfield with the smallest luminance weight is set so as to be lower than that with the largest luminance weight. A method of driving a plasma display panel is provided that generates stable writing discharge without increasing voltage required for generating writing discharge even for a large-screen, high-luminance panel.

Abstract: Display luminance is uniformized and the brightness is enhanced. A plasma display device has image signal processing circuit including loading correction part. The loading correction part has: number of lit cells calculator for calculating the number of discharge cells to be lit in each display electrode pair, in each subfield; load value calculator for calculating a load value of each discharge cell, according to the calculation result in number of lit cells calculator; correction gain calculator for calculating a correction gain of each discharge cell, according to the position of the discharge cell and the calculation result in load value calculator, such that the correction gain is smaller in the central portion than in the peripheral portion on the plasma display panel's image display surface; and corrector for subtracting the multiplication result of the output from correction gain calculator and an input image signal, from the input image signal.

Abstract: A processed fiber product having excellent strength, water-absorbability and washing durability can be produced by attaching a partially hydrolyzed product of a wheat protein to a fiber and then allowing a transglutaminase to act on the fiber.

Abstract: In a plasma display device and a method for driving a plasma display panel, fluctuation of emission luminance of a discharge cell is reduced and display quality of an image is improved. The plasma display device is provided with a plasma display panel having a plurality of scanning electrodes and sustaining electrodes which configure a display electrode pair. The plasma display device is also provided with a sustaining pulse generating circuit, which has a plurality of subfields having an initializing period, a writing period and a sustaining period in one field period, and generates three kinds of sustaining pulses, i.e., a first sustaining pulse to be reference, a second sustaining pulse whose start-up is sharper than that of the first sustaining pulse and that of a third sustaining pulse, and the third sustaining pulse whose trailing edge is sharper than that of the first sustaining pulse and that of the second sustaining pulse, by periodically switching the pulses.

Abstract: A motor controller (101) according to the invention comprises an inverter circuit (3) for driving a brushless motor (4) and a control unit for controlling the rotational speed of the brushless motor (4) by controlling the phase of the motor current of the brushless motor (4) through the inverter circuit (3).

Abstract: In a former half (T11) of an all-cell reset period (T1), the potential of a scan electrode (Scn) is raised from 0 [V] to Vp [V] at a timing t0, and thereafter maintained at the positive potential of Vp [V] to Vg [V] until a timing t3 when the former half (T11) ends. On the other hand, in the same former half (T11), a reset pulse (Pul.2), which includes a negative ramp waveform portion from 0 [V] to a potential of Vr [V], is applied to a sustain electrode (Sus). A time period (t1?t0) of the negative ramp waveform portion of the pulse (Pul.2) is set longer than a time period required for the potential change of a pulse (Pul.1) from P1 to P2.

Abstract: A converter circuit for converting an output voltage from an AC power supply includes a rectifier circuit for rectifying the output voltage of the AC power supply; first and second capacitors connected in series, for smoothing the output of the rectifier circuit; and a switch circuit for switching the connections between the respective capacitors and the AC power supply so that the output voltage of the AC power supply is applied to each of the respective capacitors at a cycle that is shorter than the cycle of the AC power supply.