Abstract: A server certificate issuing system in which existence of a Web server for which a certificate is to be issued can be confirmed and security is further improved is realized, wherein the user authentication is carried out using a test certificate having the SSL certificate format. Servers transmit server certificate request to the registration server which transmits the test certificate request to the test certificate issuing authority. The test certificate issuing server transmits the generated test certificate to the registration server which transmits the test certificate to the corresponding server and requests to install the test certificate. Then, the registration server accesses with SSL protocol to the server and verifies whether or not the session of the SSL protocol has been established. The registration server transmits the CSR to the certificate issuing server only when the SSL protocol has been established.

Abstract: In a vehicle roof system for closing and opening a roof opening (2a) formed in a fixed roof panel (2) of a vehicle with a moveable roof panel (4), an onboard device (30) is located in a laterally central part of the fixed roof panel (2) adjacent to a front edge of the roof opening, and an electric motor (24) for actuating the moveable roof panel is also located adjacent to the front edge of the roof opening but in a laterally offset and longitudinally overlapping relationship with the onboard device. As the electric motor and onboard device do not overlap each other in plan view, the thickness of the roof can be minimized. As the electric motor and onboard device overlap each other in side view, the distance between the upper edge of the front windshield and the front edge of the roof opening can be minimized, and this improves the field of view of the vehicle occupants.

Abstract: A vehicle damper of variable damping force including a cylinder, a piston and valves is disclosed. The valves have opening/closing parts and supporting parts. The opening/closing parts and the supporting parts are positioned separately so that a sufficient distance is obtained. Lengthening the distance from the supporting parts to the opening/closing parts makes it possible to reduce the opening and closing force of the opening/closing parts and to obtain highly responsive valves.

Abstract: The compaction vehicle having a speed adjustment member, a displacement detector, and a drive source controller further includes a calculation device between the displacement detector and the drive source controller, receiving the displacement S, and outputting a signal I calculated to the controller; a running speed setting switch for the operator operating ON at a desired running speed; a control signal memory device provided inside the calculation device and memorizing a signal I1 to the controller. In a normal operation, the calculation device outputs the signal I to the controller so that a running speed increases or decreases according to the displacement S, and when the switch is operated to ON, the calculation device maintains the ON state, and the displacement S is not less than a predetermined value, the calculation device outputs the signal I1 memorized in the memory device so as that the vehicle will run at a constant speed.

Abstract: A ball joint assembly includes a stud bracket having the shape of a rectangular block, a first ball joint connected to an upper surface of the stud bracket and a second ball joint connected to a lower surface of the stud bracket. The first and second ball joints extend from the stud bracket at an angular displacement of 180 degrees and with a relatively small distance defined therebetween as seen in plan view. The stud bracket comprises a bracket main body having a rectangular shape and integrally including a pair of ball studs extending from the upper and lower surfaces thereof.

Abstract: Forming a recess in an intermediate section in an axis direction of an outer peripheral face of a stabilizer bush allows the contact surface pressure between an inner peripheral face thereof and an outer peripheral face of a torsion portion to be low in a section where the recess is formed. Therefore, when the torsion portion twistedly deforms, slipping against the torsion portion starts from the intermediate section in the axis direction of the stabilizer bush, and the slipping spreads to opposite end parts in the axis direction, thus enhancing the ride comfort of a vehicle. Moreover, open ends of axially opposite end parts of the stabilizer bush, where no recess is formed, are put in intimate contact with the outer peripheral face of the torsion portion, thus preventing sand and mud from entering therefrom.

Abstract: A vehicle environment monitoring apparatus is equipped with a monitored object detecting unit 26 which detects an object having possibility of contact by applying an object detecting algorithm for short range when the distance calculated from data on one disparity by the first distance calculating unit 24 is equal to or less than a predetermined distance, and detects the object having possibility of contact by applying an object detecting algorithm for long range when the distance is longer than the predetermined distance, using the distance between the object and the vehicle calculated from a disparity gradient by the second distance calculating unit 25.

Abstract: A composite structure formation method based on an aerosol deposition method by which an aerosol with brittle material fine particles dispersed in a gas is sprayed toward a substrate to form a structure made of the brittle material fine particles, the composite structure formation method includes: storing a plurality of controlled particles in a storage mechanism, the controlled particle being an assembly packed with a plurality of particles including the brittle material fine particles; supplying the controlled particles from the storage mechanism to an aerosolation mechanism; disaggregating the supplied controlled particles in the aerosolation mechanism to form an aerosol; and spraying the aerosol toward the substrate to form a composite structure having the structure and the substrate.

Abstract: An electric steering lock device is provided that includes a column pipe, a steering shaft pivotably passed through the interior of the column pipe, and an electric lock unit that has an electric motor and that can switch in response to operation of the electric motor between a locked state, in which pivoting of the steering shaft is prevented, and an unlocked state in which pivoting of the steering shaft is permitted, wherein the electric lock unit is disposed within the column pipe. This arrangement can advantageously make breakage or unauthorized unlocking of the electric lock unit difficult.

Abstract: A damper unit includes: a cylinder, connected to a reservoir; a piston dividing an interior of the cylinder into two chambers; a piston rod which is connected to the piston at one end; an inner sleeve adapted to be accommodated within a hollow recess portion in the piston rod; a pump rod; a pump unit which performs pumping for generating a force with which the piston is pushed out of the cylinder or the piston is drawn into the cylinder; a hydraulic fluid releasing unit configured to release the a hydraulic fluid within the inner sleeve and the pump rod to the reservoir or the two chambers when the piston reaches a predetermined position relative to the cylinder within a sliding range thereof by pumping of the pump unit; and a control unit configured to control the predetermined position where the hydraulic fluid is released.

Abstract: A saddle-type vehicle includes a passenger step member, a brake pedal, a step holder having the passenger step member and the brake pedal mounted thereon, and a master cylinder adapted to convert a tread force from the brake pedal into brake pressure. The master cylinder is mounted on a support bracket, which is separate from the step holder. The support bracket and the step holder are temporarily assembled with each other, and are co-fastened to a vehicle body frame of the vehicle such that a gap is formed between the support bracket and the step holder. During operation of the vehicle, such configuration of the support bracket and the step holder having the gap formed therebetween minimizes transmission of vibration from the support bracket to the step holder.

Abstract: A hermetically sealed fuel tank apparatus includes a pressure-resistant fuel tank for storing a fuel therein, the pressure-resistant fuel tank being capable of holding an internal pressure equal to or higher than the atmospheric pressure, a fuel vapor inlet pipe for introducing a fuel vapor produced in the pressure-resistant fuel tank, a canister contained in the pressure-resistant fuel tank and connected to the fuel vapor inlet pipe for adsorbing the fuel vapor, a drain passage through which the canister communicates with external air, and a shutoff valve connected to the drain passage and normally closed to hermetically seal the pressure-resistant fuel tank.

Abstract: A braking system for a motorcycle includes a pressure regulating unit interposed between hydraulic pressure generating unit and a wheel brake, a control unit which controls operation of the pressure regulating unit so as to regulate hydraulic pressure outputted from the hydraulic pressure generating unit and exert the regulated pressure on the wheel brake, a support fixing the pressure regulating unit to an engine body mounted on a body frame of the motorcycle, and an elastic member disposed between the support and the pressure regulating unit for reducing or preventing vibration of the engine body being transmitted to the pressure regulating unit.

Abstract: A fiber optic gyroscope includes first and second gyroscopes. The first gyroscope includes: a first light source for emitting two lights; a first optical fiber loop which includes a sensor coil structured such that an optical fiber is wound in a multilayer manner, through which the two lights travel in opposite directions, and which constitutes a laser resonant circuit with the first light source; and a first optical detector for detecting an angular velocity based on a beat frequency which is produced by the two lights. The second gyroscope includes: a second light source for emitting light; an optical distributor for dividing the light into two lights; a second optical fiber loop through which the two lights travel in opposite directions and enter both respective ends of the sensor coil; and a second optical detector for detecting an angular velocity based on a phase difference between the two lights.

Abstract: A transmission is provided in which gear trains for multiple shift stages are provided between a countershaft and a first main shaft and second main shaft running coaxially and relatively rotatably through the first main shaft so that the gear trains can be alternatively established, wherein a plurality of odd number stage gear trains (G1, G3, G5) are provided between the second main shaft (27) and the countershaft (28) so that the first speed gear train (G1) is disposed on the opposite side to the first and second clutches (37, 38), an end part of the second main shaft (27) on the first speed gear train (G1) side is rotatably supported on an engine main body via a main shaft side ball bearing (31) having a larger diameter than an outer diameter of a first speed drive gear (89) provided integrally with the second main shaft (27), and an outer race (31a) of the main shaft side ball bearing (31) is fixed to the engine main body via a fixing plate (95) engaging with an outer peripheral part of the outer race (31

Abstract: In a brake system including a master cylinder and an electrically-driven hydraulic pressure generator with front and rear pistons, when the hydraulic pressure generator cannot be operated and a failure of a first hydraulic system linked to a rear fluid chamber of the generator occurs and makes a first hydraulic system open to the atmosphere, the brake-fluid pressure of a second hydraulic system transmitted from the master cylinder to a wheel cylinder via a front fluid chamber of the generator is used to perform braking. A forward-facing third front cup seal provided at an intermediate portion of the front piston prevents the brake-fluid pressure generated by the master cylinder from leaking out from a front supply port via the rear fluid chamber. At the same time, a stopper prevents the pressure of the front fluid chamber from moving the front piston excessively backward. The braking is accordingly secured by use of the second hydraulic system linked to the front fluid chamber of the motor cylinder.

Abstract: In a vehicle roof system for closing and opening a roof opening (2a) formed in a fixed roof panel (2) of a vehicle with a moveable roof panel (4), a pair of push-pull cables (22) extend from an electric motor (24) mounted on a front frame (12) extending along the front edge of the roof opening to either side of the moveable roof panel, and cross each other at three locations (P1-P3) on the front frame in plan view. Idle cable section of the first push-pull cable (22l) that meshes with the rear side of a drive gear of the electric motor crosses the drive cable section of the second push-pull cable (22r) at one location (P1), and the drive cable section of the first push-pull cable includes a bulging section bulging forward by crossing the idle cable section of the second push-pull cable at two locations (P2 and P3). Thereby, the radius of curvature of the drive cable section of the first push-pull cable can be maximized.

Abstract: In a server certificate issuing system according to the invention, the Web server includes a control panel which configures and manages a Web and a mail. The control panel is loaded with an entry screen generator to input application items for an issuance of a server certificate, password generator for generating a password which is used to encrypt, and a verification page generator to indicate intention of requesting the issuance of the certificate. On the verification page, the generated password is indicated as verification information for example. The registration server retrieves the password from the received server certificate request and accesses the Web server to read out the verification information indicated on the verification page, and compares the read verification information with the password.

Abstract: A brake system includes a master cylinder which generates brake fluid pressure by a braking operation of a driver, an electric motor-driven slave cylinder which generates brake fluid pressure based on an electric signal responsive to a braking operation of a driver, and a wheel cylinder for braking a wheel by the brake fluid generated in the master cylinder or slave cylinder. During normal operation of the brake system, the brake fluid generated in the slave cylinder is transferred to the wheel cylinder. During abnormal operation of the brake system, the brake fluid generated in the master cylinder is transferred to the wheel cylinder. The brake system also includes an opening and closing valve in a fluid passage connecting the slave cylinder to the wheel cylinder. When a problem occurs with the slave cylinder, the opening and closing valve is closed for a predetermined amount of time.

Abstract: Provided is an inverted pendulum mobile vehicle such as a single-passenger coaxial two-wheel vehicle which is capable of turning with a small turning radius without causing discomfort to a rider or a vehicle occupant or causing a cargo or the like on the vehicle from shifting or falling off from the vehicle. The vehicle comprises a wheel supporting frame (12), a body frame (12) supported by the wheel supporting frame so as to be rotatable around a vertical axial line and carry a rider and or a cargo and a body coupler (52, 78, 70) that couples the body frame relative to the wheel supporting frame in a prescribed dynamic positional relationship.