Abstract: A negative electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery comprising graphite particles satisfying x?2.0 when a compressive load required to consolidate to 1.7 g/cm3 in autograph measurement is x (kN/cm2), 5.0?y?20.0 when, a particle size at which a cumulative volume from a small diameter side of a volume-based particle size distribution measured by a laser diffraction method reaches 50% is y, the above mentioned x and y satisfy the following Formula (1), and a degree of graphitization satisfies 90.0% or more: 11.3x?0.66y+1.4?14.5??(1).

Abstract: An electrostatic chuck includes a base body having a placement surface on which a suction target object is placed, and an electrode embedded in the base body. The base body is provided with a groove that opens to the placement surface-side and does not reach the electrode. Aloes-resistance region made of ceramics and a high-resistance region made of ceramics having a volume resistivity higher than the low-resistance region are sequentially arranged from a side close to the groove between a bottom surface of the groove and the electrode, in a thickness direction of the base body.

Abstract: An electrostatic chuck includes a base body having a placement surface on which a suction target object is placed, and an electrode embedded in the base body. The base body is provided with a groove that opens to the placement surface-side and does not reach the electrode. Aloes-resistance region made of ceramics and a high-resistance region made of ceramics having a volume resistivity higher than the low-resistance region are sequentially arranged from a side close to the groove between a bottom surface of the groove and the electrode, in a thickness direction of the base body.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding audio data and a method and apparatus for decoding audio data, which can generate and decode, respectively, scalable lossless streams and which can shorten the time necessary to generate and decode lossless streams. A lossy-core encoder unit performs lossy compression on an input audio signal, generating a core stream. A simplified lossy-core decoding unit decodes only spectral signals of a specified band, e.g., a lower frequency band to generate a lossy decoded audio signal. A subtracter subtracts a lossy decoded audio signal from the input audio signal delayed to generate a residual signal. A rounding-off unit performs a process of rounding off the number of bits constituting the residual signal by eliminating the residual sign bit without loss of precision. A lossless-enhance encoder unit performs lossless compression on the residual signal to generate an enhanced stream.

Abstract: A garnish for a vehicle body including a plastic exterior skin and a metal reinforcement member. The garnish is installed on the vehicle for coating or painting and then the garnish and the vehicle body are sent through a bake oven to cure the coating or paint. After exposure to the bake oven, the garnish is removed from the vehicle body for installation of a headlight assembly. The garnish is then reinstalled on the vehicle body after the headlight assembly is installed.

Abstract: The attachment of a modified upper rear door hinge patch to the outside surface of a center pillar stiffener creates an energy absorbing cavity that: 1) reduces the chances that the center pillar stiffener will buckle or kink in a side impact collision, and 2) improves door mounting accuracy apart from the center pillar stiffener, and 3) improves the formability of the steel used in the manufacture of center pillar stiffeners.

Abstract: A garnish for a vehicle body including a plastic exterior skin and a metal reinforcement member. The garnish is installed on the vehicle for coating or painting and then the garnish and the vehicle body are sent through a bake oven to cure the coating or paint. After exposure to the bake oven, the garnish is removed from the vehicle body for installation of a headlight assembly. The garnish is then reinstalled on the vehicle body after the headlight assembly is installed.

Abstract: The attachment of a modified upper rear door hinge patch to the outside surface of a center pillar stiffener creates an energy absorbing cavity that: 1) reduces the chances that the center pillar stiffener will buckle or kink in a side impact collision, and 2) improves door mounting accuracy apart from the center pillar stiffener, and 3) improves the formability of the steel used in the manufacture of center pillar stiffeners.

Abstract: A garnish for a vehicle body including a plastic exterior skin and a metal reinforcement member. The garnish is installed on the vehicle for coating or painting and then the garnish and the vehicle body are sent through a bake oven to cure the coating or paint. After exposure to the bake oven, the garnish is removed from the vehicle body for installation of a headlight assembly. The garnish is then reinstalled on the vehicle body after the headlight assembly is installed.

Abstract: A garnish for a vehicle body including a plastic exterior skin and a metal reinforcement member. The garnish is installed on the vehicle for coating or painting and then the garnish and the vehicle body are sent through a bake oven to cure the coating or paint. After exposure to the bake oven, the garnish is removed from the vehicle body for installation of a headlight assembly. The garnish is then reinstalled on the vehicle body after the headlight assembly is installed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding audio data and a method and apparatus for decoding audio data, which can generate and decode, respectively, scalable lossless streams and which can shorten the time necessary to generate and decode lossless streams. A lossy-core encoder unit performs lossy compression on an input audio signal, generating a core stream. A simplified lossy-core decoding unit decodes only spectral signals of a specified band, e.g., a lower frequency band to generate a lossy decoded audio signal. A subtracter subtracts a lossy decoded audio signal from the input audio signal delayed to generate a residual signal. A rounding-off unit performs a process of rounding off the number of bits constituting the residual signal. A lossless-enhance encoder unit performs lossless compression on the residual signal to generate an enhanced stream. A stream-combining unit combines the core stream and the enhanced stream to generate a scalable lossless stream.

Abstract: The present invention provides an air compressor which includes an air drier filled with a drying agent and having a first passage for supplying compressed air to one air supplied part while absorbing moisture from the compressed air by passing the compressed air through the drying agent (27) and a second passage (28a) for supplying the compressed air to another air supplied part without passing the compressed air through the drying agent. The air supplied through the first passage returns through the same passage to dry the drying agent.