Abstract: A material for electroless plating shows good adhesion for a catalyst and does not cause delamination of a catalyst adhering layer from a non-conductive base material in a catalyst adhering step, development step or other step. In a material for electroless plating, having a catalyst adhering layer on a non-conductive base material, the catalyst adhering layer is formed from a hydrophilic and/or water-soluble resin containing hydroxyl group, and a curable layer formed from a resin having hydroxyl group and an isocyanate type compound is provided between the base material and the catalyst adhering layer. The catalyst adhering layer is preferably formed while isocyanate groups of the isocyanate type compound in the curable layer remain.

Abstract: A surface on the fuel electrode side of a lower portion of a separator in a fuel cell stack is made to have water repellency, so that water accumulated in a fuel gas flow path can be appropriately discharged, and thus so that reduction in fuel cell performance and deterioration of the fuel electrode can be surely prevented. For that purpose, in a fuel cell device, a fuel cell having an electrolyte layer interposed between the fuel electrode and an oxygen electrode includes a cell module laminated so as to interpose a separator formed with the fuel gas flow path along the fuel electrode, and a fuel gas flows substantially perpendicularly to the direction of gravity in the fuel gas flow path. The separator is provided with a water-repellent surface on the fuel electrode side of a lower portion thereof.

Abstract: A vehicle control device which can provide compatibility between a high grip performance and fuel efficiency is provided. When a camber angle of a wheel 2 is adjusted to a negative camber, ground contact pressure in a first tread 21 is increased and ground contact pressure in a second tread 22 is decreased. Accordingly, the high grip performance is provided. On the other hand, when the camber angle of the wheel 2 is adjusted to a positive camber, the ground contact pressure in the first tread 21 is decreased and the ground contact pressure in the second tread 22 is increased. Accordingly, a rolling resistance becomes low, and fuel saving is achieved. In this manner, by adjusting the camber angle of the wheel 2, the compatibility can be provided between conflicting performances of the high grip performance and the fuel saving.

Abstract: In an overhead conveyance/storage system 1 including at least a storage area 100 for the storage of products (e.g., tires) 200, at least one transfer holder 300 adapted to move through a ceiling space in the storage area 100 in three dimensions, including vertical, transverse and longitudinal directions while holding the products 200, and unloader 500 for carrying out the products 200 from the storage area 100, a product receiving position (product unloading position) 501 of the unloader 500 is set to a nearly central part of the storage area 100 when seen in plan. The overhead conveyance/storage system 1 further includes loader 400 for carrying the products 200 into the storage area 100, and product discriminator 402 is disposed in the loader 400.

Abstract: A route guidance system includes a current position detection section, a route search section, and a guidance section. The guidance section includes a branch computation section computes the number of branches between a host vehicle location and a guidance location along a specified route. A point guidance section executes route guidance based on the computed number of the branches. The number of branches between the host vehicle location and the guidance location is computed, and the route guidance is executed based on the computed number of the branches, so it is possible to recognize the guidance location simply by counting the number of the branches, regardless of the number of traffic signals that exist between the host vehicle location and the guidance location.

Abstract: A vehicle control device which can at least provide compatibility between a high grip performance and fuel efficiency or compatibility between quietness and fuel efficiency is provided. When a camber angle of a wheel 2 is adjusted to a negative camber, ground contact in a first tread 21 is increased and ground contact in a second tread 22 is decreased. Accordingly, the high grip performance or the quietness is provided. On the other hand, when the camber angle of the wheel 2 is adjusted to a positive camber, the ground contact in the first tread 21 is decreased and the ground contact in the second tread 22 is increased. Accordingly, a rolling resistance becomes low, and fuel saving is achieved. In this manner, by adjusting the camber angle of the wheel 2, the compatibility can be provided between conflicting performances of the high grip performance or the quietness and the fuel saving.

Abstract: A document shredder is provided with a transport system that holds and transports paper, and a shredding system that shreds the paper while rotating at a circumferential speed higher than a transporting speed of the transport system, wherein, a part of elements constituting the transport system is in common with a part of elements constituting the shredding system and a point of action of the transport system is placed substantially at the same position as a point of action of the shredding system, with respect to a paper transporting direction, and alternatively, the shredding system is arranged successively from the transport system. Since this shredder is assembled in such a manner that a part of elements constituting the transport system to hold and transport the paper is in common with a part of elements constituting the shredding system, it is possible to be downsized.

Abstract: The center of gravity of a vehicle is estimated to obtain, a limit lateral acceleration alim (=aMin, aMax), and the vehicle turns in a target running state (V*, ?*) requested by an occupant provided the lateral acceleration a* does not exceed the limit lateral acceleration alim. On the other hand, if the requested running state (V*, ?*) exceeds the limit lateral acceleration aaim, an ideal target running state (V*, ?*) is limited to an actual target running state (V*˜, ?*˜) so that the lateral acceleration a* equals to the limit lateral acceleration aaim. Because turning speed and turning curvature are not limited more than necessary, it is possible to achieve maximum use of turning performance of the vehicle up to the limit thereof.

Abstract: A dynamic mode AFM apparatus for allowing high-speed identification of atoms of a sample surface, which comprises a scanner for performing three-dimensional scanning; an AC signal of a resonance frequency in a mode with flexural vibration of a cantilever; an AC signal of a second frequency which is lower than the frequency of the flexural vibration; a probe-sample distance modulated with the second frequency; a detector for detecting fluctuation of the resonance frequency; a detector for detecting vibration of the cantilever; and a detector for detecting a fluctuation component which is contained in a detected signal by detecting the resonance frequency fluctuation and synchronized with a modulation signal of the probe-sample distance, wherein an inclination of the resonance frequency against the probe-sample distance is obtained from the strength and polarity of the fluctuation component.

Abstract: In a case where a CPU provided in an information distribution center has received, from a navigation apparatus, vehicle information together with a request command for requesting traffic information such as current traffic information, the CPU sets a road category that serves as a distribution target of the traffic information, based on one of a distance and a required travel time from a vehicle position to a destination. The CPU then extracts the traffic information that corresponds to the set road category and distributes it to the navigation apparatus.

Abstract: A target vehicle speed at a predetermined position ahead of a host vehicle is obtained, and a plurality of deceleration patterns with different deceleration schemes is obtained for decelerating the host vehicle to the target vehicle speed. Based on a driving operation for controlling speed of the host vehicle, a deceleration pattern is selected from the plurality of deceleration patterns. Using the selected deceleration pattern as a reference, the vehicle speed of the host vehicle is reduced to the target vehicle speed before the host vehicle reaches the predetermined position.

Abstract: There is provided a circuit to make a bias for adjusting a threshold voltage of MOS devices available in a wide range, to extend the amplitude range of the input voltage range of a semiconductor differential amplifier from a power supply potential to a ground potential, and automatically to ensure an operation of a differential pair in the saturation region as rejecting the common-mode signal in the entire voltage range. The semiconductor differential amplifier is configured by the first gates of two four-terminal fin type FETs serving as an input terminal of differential pair, and in that the second gates of the four-terminal fin type FETs interconnected with each other, wherein a signal decreasing monotonously along with the increase in the input common-mode component is input.

Abstract: A variable displacement hydraulic/pump motor has a yoke with a pair of shafts aligned to define a yoke pivot axis and connected to a valve plate therebetween having intake and discharge apertures. A rotatable cylinder barrel has piston cylinders open at one end to receive a piston head and opening through fluid ports at another end, flush against the valve plate surface. A drive block is mounted on an input/output shaft for rotation about a central axis of rotation inclined at an angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder barrel which may be changed by a drive engaging the yoke at a point near its pivot axis. Loads on bushings supporting the yoke shafts are reduced by providing radially extending fluid ports in the shafts and in communication with the intake and discharge apertures of the valve plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for determining and/or monitoring the fill level (F) of a medium in a container or, respectively, to a method and a device for establishing the density (?) of a medium in the container. The invention allows a highly accurate determination or monitoring of the fill level (F) or the density of a medium in a container. With reference to the method, the object is solved in that the influence of at least one disturbing parameter on the oscillation frequency of an oscillation-capable unit is established and correspondingly compensated in the determination of the fill level (F) of the medium in the container or, respectively, in the determination of the density (?) of the medium in the container.

Abstract: This invention concerns an improvement of the central drive linkage for the cutting and creasing machine which comprises at least a plurality of differential gears mounted on the upper part, and a plurality of fine-tuning mechanism evenly distributed on the lower part; in which the main drive shaft and the counter weight of the differential gears are arranged in the eccentric manner so as to generate relatively angular differentials as the central drive linkage rotates. The counter weight has a connecting rod linking to a crankshaft which has an upper end connected to the workbench and a lower end to the fine-tuning mechanism in order to obtain comparatively stable working torque output and precise performance and to attain the intermittent change of slow lifting and fast lowering of the workbench movement. Four sets of fine-tuning mechanisms are evenly disposed under and support the overall weight of the differential gears.

Abstract: The invention relates to an integrated chip diode manufactured by forming two different typed semiconductors on the top and bottom of a wafer respectively and forming a plurality of diodes thereon, each diode comprises glass insulator encapsulated on sides thereof, two conductive metal layers formed on the surfaces of the semiconductors respectively, an insulation material coated on a portion of the surface of one conductive metal layer and a third conductive metal layer sintered on the glass insulator, such that the other conductive metal layer can be electrically connected to the insulation material on the one conductive metal layer via the third conductive metal layer. Thus, two independent soldered conductive terminals are formed at the same sides of the diodes and electrically connected to each of different typed semiconductors.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a mask for a team game is comprised of: heating an aluminum alloy mixed with copper and molybdenum at a temperature between 410° C. to 430° C. for three hours; cooling the alloy at a rate of about 30° C. per hour; cutting the alloy into straight or curved bars; heating the bars at a temperature between 450° C. to 550° C. for one and one half hours; quenching the bars in water after seven seconds have passed; heating the bars at a temperature between 100° C. to 150° C. for 18 hours; cooling in air; forming an unfinished mask by resistance brazing; and treating the unfinished mask to produce the finished mask by anodizing.

Abstract: The invention provides iodinated bis phenyl compounds, useful as X-ray contrast agents, of formula I ##STR1## (wherein each C.sub.6 R.sub.5 moeity may be the same or different; each R denotes a hydrogen or iodine atom or a group M, two or three non-adjacent R groups on each C.sub.6 R.sub.5 moiety denoting iodine atoms and one, two or three R groups on each C.sub.6 R.sub.5 moiety denoting M groups;X denotes a group providing a 1, 2 or 3 atom chain linking the two C.sub.6 R.sub.5 groups, preferably where X is or contains in the bridging chain a carbonyloxy group each C.sub.6 R.sub.5 group being a triodophenyl group or a group in which each R is other than hydrogen; and each M is independently a non-ionic hydrophilic moiety, M preferably being a non-ionic hydrophilic moiety comprising a monohydroxy- or polyhydroxy-alkyl group) and isomers, especially stereoisomers and rotamers, thereof.

Abstract: A process for producing a debenzeneated gasoline blending stock from a benzene-containing refinery stream by using a dual function catalyst. The benzene-containing refinery stream contains at least 2 wt % of benzene is hydrogenated to cyclohexane and then isomerized to methylcyclopentane accompanied with C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 normal paraffins isomerized to isoparaffins, preferably in a single reactor or catalytic distillation reactor using dual function catalyst.