Abstract: To provide a heterogeneous catalyst that exhibits high activity and high selectivity, specifically a catalyst suitable for oxychlorination to produce 1,2-dichloroethane from ethylene, and a catalyst system. Provided are: a heterogeneous catalyst supported on a porous carrier, characterized in that the integral value of the hysteresis occurring between an adsorption isotherm and a desorption isotherm by a gas adsorption method, is at most 19% to the total integral value of the adsorption isotherm; and a catalyst system for producing 1,2-dichloroethane, which comprises this catalyst and a diluent having a spherical shape, circular cylindrical shape or hollow cylindrical shape.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of estimating the maximum value of the flux during long-term stable operation including cleaning of a membrane filtration plant based on measured data of a membrane filtration characteristic during initial membrane filtration.

Abstract: A tip portion of a half body has a joining plane section formed, whose tip of a flat plate part formed extending towards a right side in the width direction is bent at right angles towards the rear side. Similarly, a tip portion of a half body has a joining plane section formed, whose tip part of a flat plate part formed extending towards a left side in the width direction is bent at right angles towards the rear side. A stopper section for retaining the operation pedal in an initial position is fixed in a state sandwiched between the joining plane sections and that are provided projecting outside a space formed by joining the half bodies. As a result, an operation pedal device for vehicles whose assembling process is easy and which can secure a supporting rigidity with respect to a pivot movement of an operation pedal is provided.

Abstract: When three warnings (a brake abnormality, a charging abnormality and an oil pressure reduction) occur in a vehicle, a brake abnormality icon, a charging abnormality icon and an oil pressure reduction icon are displayed in an icon displaying region of a display. On the other hand, brake abnormality warning information, charging abnormality warning information and oil pressure reduction warning information are displayed, in an information displaying region, in a switching manner every fixed time period.

Abstract: There is provided a renderer 5 that renders a graphics indicator 7b (or 7f) which is displayed on a display screen 7a of a display 7 and which indicates an indication value in synchronization with a short hand 8a.

Abstract: In the case where entertainment information is acquired as information to be displayed on an instrument panel display 1 when an object indicating driving information is displayed on the instrument panel display 1, an object indicating the entertainment information is moved from the outside of a screen of the instrument panel display 1 to the inside of the screen, and the object indicating the driving information and the object indicating the entertainment information are displayed such that all or part of the object indicating the entertainment information passes behind the object indicating the driving information during the movement.

Abstract: To provide a heterogeneous catalyst that exhibits high activity and high selectivity, specifically a catalyst suitable for oxychlorination to produce 1,2-dichloroethane from ethylene, and a catalyst system. Provided are: a heterogeneous catalyst supported on a porous carrier, characterized in that the integral value of the hysteresis occurring between an adsorption isotherm and a desorption isotherm by a gas adsorption method, is at most 19% to the total integral value of the adsorption isotherm; and a catalyst system for producing 1,2-dichloroethane, which comprises this catalyst and a diluent having a spherical shape, circular cylindrical shape or hollow cylindrical shape.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device of the present invention has a vehicle information acquisition unit 14 that acquires vehicle information on the state of a vehicle, and a control unit 11 that executes an application accompanied by at least one of a visual output and an auditory output and based on the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit 14, instructs a vehicle control unit 15 controlling the travel state of the vehicle to link the output of the application with the travel state of the vehicle.

Abstract: A moving body state informing apparatus includes a vehicle information acquiring unit 2 that acquires vehicle information indicating various states of a vehicle; a state deciding unit 3 that decides the general state of the vehicle by estimating as a whole the contents of the various states of the vehicle indicated by the vehicle information the vehicle information acquiring unit 2 acquires; and an informing processor 4 that outputs the general state of the vehicle the state deciding unit 3 decides to an output unit 6 to give information.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a purpose information estimator that estimates purpose information indicating a purpose of movement of a user who moves using the mobile object, based on mobile-object-specific information that includes at least one of a usage schedule and a usage history of the mobile object, and user-specific information that includes at least one of an activity schedule and an activity history of the user who moves using the mobile object; a formation-condition determinator that determines a formation condition for a virtual network for the mobile objects of which the purpose information estimated by the estimator is the same or similar, based on the mobile-object-specific information and the user-specific information in the plurality of mobile objects; and a virtual network former that forms a virtual network through which the mobile objects that satisfy the formation condition determined by the determinator among the plurality of mobile objects can communicate with each other.

Abstract: Among screen data in which screens for displaying sets of application information generated by a plurality of application units (30-60) in a normal display form are drawn and screen data in which screens for displaying the sets of application information in a simplified display form are drawn, screen data with the screen for normal display is selected for the application data matched to an intended-use of each display device, and screen data with the screen for simplified display is selected for the application data unmatched to the intended use of each display device, to thereby generate based on these selected screen data, display-screen data for each display device.

Abstract: A navigation device includes a communication module 11 for transmitting and receiving a signal to and from external communication equipment, a tone signal identifying unit 42 for identifying a push tone signal sent thereto via the communication module 11 from the external communication equipment, and a voice recognition unit 41 for performing voice recognition on a voice signal sent thereto via the communication module 11 from the external communication equipment by using information identified by the tone signal identifying unit 42.

Abstract: Disclosed is a remote control communication device including a data generating unit 107 for generating virtual image data imitating an interface not existing in a remote device 2 of type determined in such a way that the interface can be operated in the remote device 2; a data processing unit 108 for processing image data for remote devices in which the virtual image data is included in image data of a display unit 101 in such a way that the image data for remote devices is suited to a display screen of the remote device 2, and for transmitting the processed image data for remote devices to the remote device 2; and a control unit 111 for, when receiving operation information about an operation which is performed on the basis of the image data for remote devices in the remote device, performing an operation in the interface according to the operation information.

Abstract: A mobile communication device is mounted on a vehicle, and has a reception unit for receiving a distributed cache that is data having divided information, a distributed cache restoration unit for restoring the distributed cache into original information, a data dividing unit for producing the distributed cache by dividing the information, and a transmission unit for transmitting the distributed cache.

Abstract: A navigation device includes a communication module 11 for transmitting and receiving a signal to and from external communication equipment, a tone signal identifying unit 42 for identifying a push tone signal sent thereto via the communication module 11 from the external communication equipment, and a voice recognition unit 41 for performing voice recognition on a voice signal sent thereto via the communication module 11 from the external communication equipment by using information identified by the tone signal identifying unit 42.

Abstract: A vehicle operating pedal device comprises an operating pedal supported by a pedal support to be pivoted around a first axis upon an depressing operation of a pedal sheet, an intermediate lever disposed ahead of the operating pedal in a vehicle, and supported by the pedal support to be mechanically pivoted around a second axis according to the depressing operation, and a connecting rod connected to the intermediate lever to be relatively pivotable around a third axis, and mechanically moved in an axial direction thereof according to the depressing operation, each of the first axis, the second axis, and the third axis, which are parallel to each other, extends in a vehicle width direction and are inclined in a top-bottom direction, and an intersection of a pedal arm of the operating pedal and the first axis is positioned on or near a centerline of the output unit.

Abstract: A signal transmission device includes a transmitting circuit 11 and a receiving circuit 12 provided with shunt regulator power supplies 110 and 120 for causing fixed currents to flow thereinto respectively, and a signal transmission path 13 connecting between the transmitting circuit 11 and the receiving circuit 12 and having a function of preventing an alternating current component, in which a ground GNDA of the transmitting circuit 11 and a ground GNDB of the receiving circuit 12 are disposed independently of each other, and are connected to a ground GNDC of the shunt regulator power supplies 110 and 120 at a single point.

Abstract: A method of operating a membrane separator, in which a membrane module comprising a large number of exposed hollow fiber membranes is installed in an untreated water chamber, for making possible stable membrane filtering operation while maintaining a high yield by minimizing loads of the filter membranes and performing effective washing is to be provided, the method including a filtering step at which untreated water is filtered by giving a differential pressure between the primary side (untreated water side) and the secondary side (treated water side) of the hollow fiber membranes, a physical washing step of gas washing by ejecting a gaseous washing medium onto the primary side of the membrane module and of back-pressured water washing by feeding a backwashing medium from the secondary side of the hollow fiber membranes and letting it pass to the untreated water side of the hollow fiber membranes, and a drain step of discharging drain in the chamber out of the system after repeating twice or more the filteri

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of estimating the maximum value of the flux during long-term stable operation including cleaning of a membrane filtration plant based on measured data of a membrane filtration characteristic during initial membrane filtration.

Abstract: [Subject matter] The present invention presents a cationic polymer. When a hair treatment composition containing the cationic polymer is used to damaged hair, excellent conditioning effects are shown. When a skin cosmetic treatment composition containing the cationic polymer, foam formation and foam quality are improved and good use feeling is obtained.