Abstract: There are provided a control device and a control method for an exhaust gas purification apparatus that can prevent the actual adsorption amount from becoming excessively lower than the saturated adsorption amount and can prevent the reduction efficiency of the reduction catalyst from degrading even when the temperature of catalyst continues to shift to a low temperature side for a predetermined time or longer.

Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas purification device for an internal combustion engine that has a turn-back portion in an exhaust gas passageway and is made compact and can cause a reducing agent to be evenly dispersed and flow into a reduction catalyst disposed in an exhaust gas passageway downstream of the turn-back portion.

Abstract: A secondary battery has a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate enclosed within an internal space of a housing. Positive and negative electrode terminals are plate-shaped, are respectively connected to the positive and negative electrode plates and extend externally from the housing at two different portions of the outer edge thereof. The positive electrode terminal has a first part fixedly adjoined to a second part formed of conductive material(s) having a higher tensile strength than those of the first part. The second part is located outside of the internal space, and a first end of the first part extends into the internal space while its second end is fixedly adjoined to the second part. The secondary battery disclosed herein may possess improved longevity and resistance to electrode terminal vibration.

Abstract: An engine intake air quantity control apparatus is provided with a throttle valve, a supercharger, a variable intake valve operating device and an intake air control device. The throttle valve varies an intake air flow passage area of an intake passage. The supercharger supercharges intake air. The variable intake valve operating device changes an intake valve timing of an intake valve in accordance with an engine operating state. The intake air control device increases an opening degree of the throttle valve in accordance with a detected increase of an accelerator pedal depression amount, and increases an intake air quantity by starting to supercharge the intake air with the supercharger upon a prescribed throttle valve opening degree having been reached. The intake air control device changes the prescribed throttle valve opening degree in accordance with the intake valve timing of the intake valve.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device is provided that is capable of diffusing and introducing a reducing agent into a NOx catalyst arranged in a downstream side exhaust gas passage. The exhaust gas purification device is compact and has an exhaust gas passage that returns back in the middle thereof. A housing of the exhaust gas purification device includes a main body in which an upstream side exhaust gas passage and the downstream side exhaust gas passage are housed, and a cap which is attached to a first surface of the main body that is provided with an outlet side opening of the upstream side exhaust gas passage and an inlet side opening of the downstream side exhaust gas passage. The return portion is formed by a space surrounded by the main body and the cap.

Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine which can make the exhaust gas in which a reducing agent is diffused uniformly over the entirety flow into an NOx catalyst disposed on the downstream side. An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine including an NOx catalyst disposed in an exhaust gas passage of an internal combustion engine, and a reducing agent injecting unit for injecting a reducing agent into the exhaust gas passage that is on an upstream side of the NOx catalyst, is characterized in that a narrowed portion in which the cross-sectional area of a flow passage is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the exhaust gas passage and that of the NOx catalyst is provided on a downstream side of an injecting position by the reducing agent injecting unit and the upstream side of the NOx catalyst, and that reducing agent diffusing means is provided on the narrowed portion.

Abstract: In secondary battery capacity adjustment apparatus and method for an assembled cell unit, the assembled cell unit includes: a plurality of secondary batteries; and a control board on which a capacity adjusting section is mounted, the capacity adjusting section being installed to correspond to each of the secondary batteries and configured to consume an electric power of a corresponding one of the secondary batteries to adjust a residual capacity of the corresponding one of the secondary batteries, a priority order of the secondary batteries to be capacity adjusted is determined in accordance with a mounted position of the capacity adjusting section corresponding to one of the secondary batteries on the control board and an electric power of each of the secondary batteries is caused to have consumed by the corresponding capacity adjusting section in accordance with the determined priority order to adjust a capacity of each of the secondary batteries.

Abstract: Obtaining means obtains acceleration data from an input device. Swing detection means detects a swing of the input device in a real space when an acceleration represented by the acceleration data satisfies a predetermined condition. Type determination means determines a type of swing of the input device in the real space by using an acceleration in a predetermined axial direction among all the accelerations represented by the acceleration data obtained by the obtaining means after the detection by the swing detection means. Object moving means moves a predetermined object in a virtual game space according to the type determined by the type determination means. Display control means displays the virtual game space with the object therein on a display device.

Abstract: A battery which includes: a plurality of cell stacks arrayed in a plane, each of which includes a plurality of flat cells stacked on one another; and a planar holding member to be pressed against the plurality of cell stacks for holding the plurality of cell stacks together. Heights of the respective cell stacks are adjusted for deflection of the holding member.

Abstract: A moving start coordinate set associated with an object is calculated based on motion data output from a motion sensor for outputting the motion data in accordance with a motion of an input device, and a first difference coordinate set, as a difference between the moving start coordinate set and a reference trajectory, is calculated. A target coordinate set associated with the object is calculated, and a second difference coordinate set, as a difference between the target coordinate set and a reference trajectory, is calculated. A change difference coordinate set changing from the first difference coordinate set to the second difference coordinate set in accordance with time is calculated. The change difference coordinate set is added to the reference trajectory to calculate a correction coordinate set. The object is located at a position corresponding to the correction coordinate set in the virtual game space and displayed on the display device.

Abstract: An active radio tag including a card holder. The card holder has built therein a memory having stored therein a tag ID and a transmission unit that transmits the tag ID by radio. In addition, the card holder includes a card placement section in which a card is to be placed and a card detection switch that detects the card. Only when the placement of the card in the card placement section is detected by the card detection switch, the radio tag is activated and the tag ID is transmitted.

Abstract: Acceleration data which is output from an acceleration sensor included in an input device is obtained, and a support position coordinate set, in a virtual game space, of a support provided on an object is calculated based on the obtained acceleration data. An inclination of the input device in the real space is calculated based on the obtained acceleration data. A parameter representing an object inclination at which the object is inclined in the virtual game space is calculated in accordance with the calculated inclination of the input device. Using the support position coordinate set and the parameter representing the object inclination, the object is located in the virtual game space and displayed on a display device.

Abstract: In secondary battery capacity adjustment apparatus and method for an assembled cell unit, the assembled cell unit includes: a plurality of secondary batteries; and a control board on which a capacity adjusting section is mounted, the capacity adjusting section being installed to correspond to each of the secondary batteries and configured to consume an electric power of a corresponding one of the secondary batteries to adjust a residual capacity of the corresponding one of the secondary batteries, a priority order of the secondary batteries to be capacity adjusted is determined in accordance with a mounted position of the capacity adjusting section corresponding to one of the secondary batteries on the control board and an electric power of each of the secondary batteries is caused to have consumed by the corresponding capacity adjusting section in accordance with the determined priority order to adjust a capacity of each of the secondary batteries.

Abstract: A plurality of single cells 10a to 10d, each being packaged by laminate films 12 and 13, are attached onto one surface of a flexible printed circuit board 20, in a state of being interconnected in series to each other, by the use of a double faced tape. Single cells 10a? to 10d? are attached in a similar way onto the other surface of the flexible printed circuit board 20. Each group of the cells on the both surfaces of the flexible printed circuit board 20 are interconnected in parallel. Voltage detection lines 30a to 30e are wired on the flexible printed circuit board 20. Positive and negative electrode tabs 14 and 15 of the respective single cells are connected to the respectively corresponding voltage detection lines 30a to 30e through connection terminals 31a to 31e provided on the flexible printed circuit board 20.

Abstract: A secondary battery is disclosed in which the positive electrode terminal of the secondary battery has a first part and a second part that is formed from conductive materials which have a higher tensile strength than the first part. The second part is placed at a location of conduction at the positive electrode terminal, and the first part is placed at a location within the battery by the second part at the positive electrode terminal. The secondary battery disclosed herein may possess improved longevity and resistance to electrode terminal vibration.

Abstract: To provide a high capacity thin-type secondary battery suitably formed into a module and having no thickness fluctuation, excellent quality stability, and excellent heat radiation properties, by using a sheet-like separator having expansion anisotropy due to penetration of an electrolytic solution.

Abstract: A battery which includes: a plurality of cell stacks arrayed in a plane, each of which includes a plurality of flat cells stacked on one another; and a planar holding member to be pressed against the plurality of cell stacks for holding the plurality of cell stacks together. Heights of the respective cell stacks are adjusted for deflection of the holding member.

Abstract: Both legs of a human figure P are each formed by two skeletons SK1, SK2 (SK3, SK4). A dynamic model is formed by a mass particle W located at a waist position A, an elastic body SP such as a spring coupling the mass particle W and a middle point B between the feet of both legs of the human figure P, and a damper DP. The positions of the skeletons SK1 to SK2 forming the legs can be dynamically obtained by calculating the waist position and further the positions of the knees using the dynamic model. Accordingly, movements of the legs can be expressed in such a manner as to give a good presence by dynamically calculating them every scene displayed as a game progresses.

Abstract: A plurality of single cells 10a to 10d, each being packaged by laminate films 12 and 13, are attached onto one surface of a flexible printed circuit board 20, in a state of being interconnected in series to each other, by the use of a double faced tape. Single cells 10a′ to 10d′ are attached in a similar way onto the other surface of the flexible printed circuit board 20. Each group of the cells on the both surfaces of the flexible printed circuit board 20 are interconnected in parallel. Voltage detection lines 30a to 30e are wired on the flexible printed circuit board 20. Positive and negative electrode tabs 14 and 15 of the respective single cells are connected to the respectively corresponding voltage detection lines 30a to 30e through connection terminals 31a to 31e provided on the flexible printed circuit board 20.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide an apparatus, system and method for personal identification with an improved capability of generating registration data in which biometrics information of a person to be identified can be acquired and accumulated each time identification is used at an operation such as unlocking of a door only by registering ID information and so on with no biometrics information of the person to be identified registered in advance and in which registered data of the person can be efficiently generated based on the log data thus accumulated.