Abstract: A switch housing (21) of a starter switch (Ss) is inserted into an opening (14) defined in a rear handlebar cover (1) in a motor vehicle, and a locking claw (212) projectingly provided on the switch housing (21) is locked in the opening (14) to fix the switch housing (21). When the switch housing (21) is inserted into the opening (14), a leaf spring-like terminal (242) of a stationary contact (24) exposed to a surface of the switch housing (21) comes into resilient abutment against a terminal (312) of a bus bar (31) exposed to the opening (14) in the rear handlebar cover (1), thereby automatically completing the connection of the starter switch (Ss) and the bus bar (31) to each other. Thus, it is possible to simply and reliably perform the operation of mounting the starter switch (Ss) to the rear handlebar cover (1) and the operation of electrically connecting the starter switch (Ss) to the bus bar (31).

Abstract: In a laser welding, a laser beam is focused on a workpiece by a focusing lens or lenses. The focusing lens or lenses image an aperture liming the size of the laser beam on the workpiece and the size of focused laser beam is the image size of the aperture on the workpiece at the wavelength of the laser. A weld pool is generated by the interaction of the focused laser beam and the workpiece. Due to the thermal conduction of the workpiece, the size of the weld pool is generally not the same as the size of the focused laser beam and varies with the power of the laser or with the focus shift of the focusing lens or lenses. The weld pool radiates a thermal radiation. An apparatus and method is disclosed wherein the thermal radiation is measured back through the focusing lens or lenses and through the aperture limiting the size of the laser beam or any other aperture limiting a size of the thermal radiation to be measured in at least three spectral bands with single element detectors.

Abstract: A pulse tube, a high temperature end and a low temperature end being defined thereof, has an inner space. A regenerator case defined a high temperature end and a low temperature end. A regenerator includes a cartridge case and a regenerator material filled in the cartridge case. The cartridge case is removably inserted into the regenerator case. A first passage communicates a space in the regenerator on a low temperature end side into which case the regenerator is inserted, with a space in the pulse tube on a low temperature end side. A gas supply unit repeats a supply and a recovery of a working gas. A second passage couples the gas supply unit to a space in the regenerator case on a high temperature end side into which case the regenerator is inserted.

Abstract: A method of preparing a heat exchanger provides a first surface(s) for contacting a first fluid and a second surface(s) for contacting a second fluid in order to exchange heat between the first and second fluids. At least one of the first and second surfaces has been exposed to shot from a shot blast machine in order to create pits and bumps in that surface. The pits and bumps create a more efficient heat transfer between the fluids.

Abstract: A fuel vapor processing apparatus is provided for realizing a high desorption performance and a high flexibility in layout resulting from a compact structure including a filter. The processing apparatus comprises a casing formed with a fuel vapor introducing port communicating with the fuel tank, and a fuel vapor discharge port communicating with the intake pipe. A partition is arranged in the casing for defining inside thereof a filter chamber which communicates with an air introducing port for introducing desorbing air from the atmosphere. The partition partitions the casing into a first chamber and a second chamber with a spacing interposed therebetween. The first and second chambers communicate with each other, and also communicate with the filter chamber, the fuel vapor introducing port, and the fuel vapor discharge port.

Abstract: A radiation sensitive composition comprising a copolymer having a structural unit of (me)acrylonitrile and a structural unit generating an alkali soluble group and a substance generating an acid by application of radiation.

Abstract: Mixed-signal circuitry, used for example in a digital-to-analog converter, comprises digital circuitry (120) and analog circuitry. The analog circuitry receives a digital control signal (TCK) and produces one or more analog signals in dependence upon the received digital control signal. The digital circuitry comprises a main clocked circuit (122), clocked by an applied clock signal (CLK), and having an output (Q) at which the digital control signal (TCK) is generated. The main clocked circuit (122) causes the digital control signal (TCK) to change selectively at edges of the clock signal (CLK). A dummy clocked circuit (124), also clocked by the clock signal (CLK), produces a dummy signal (DTCK) at an output (Q) thereof.

Abstract: A temperature-controlled appliance control system in which a compressor runtime is stored in a memory. If the runtime reaches a critical point an error message is displayed. The service technician can display this information by the monitor on the appliance, downloading it to a computer, relaying by modem, or any other conceivable way. The information displayed will go back in different intervals (runtime for day, week, and numbers of cycles). The memory eliminates the effect of defrost from the given compressor runtime.

Abstract: The invention proposes a conveying apparatus with a three-dimensionally movable receiving conveyor for receiving conveyable-article carriers (3) from a suspended conveyor in which the conveyable-article carriers (3) are guided on a running-roller guide profile for movement along a first conveying section (5) and are supported in a suspended manner on own running rollers (29).

Abstract: In an automatic drive control system in a road environment in which an infrastructure has been constructed so as to automatically steer a vehicle, the automatic steering of the vehicle is performed irrespective of lane markers attached on the road surface. A running command and a running course are determined on the basis of an obstacle detection signal, a vehicle position signal, road data, and traffic information signal for automatic driving. A target running locus is obtained on the basis of the set running course. The vehicle is automatically steered so as to trace and run along the obtained running target locus.

Abstract: A wing type ultrasonic transducer is free from a reduction in the output power and has one ultrasonic generator. This ultrasonic generator has piezoelectric ceramic materials with two countermasses respectively coupled to the outside ends of the piezoelectric ceramic materials. A rod-like resonator is coaxially coupled to the outside end of each of the countermasses and is used to emit ultrasonic waves to a liquid in a radial direction. An immersible housing covers the ultrasonic generator so as to accomplish a water tightness of the ultrasonic generator. The rod-like resonator may be a solid resonator or hollow resonator. In addition, the rod-like resonator is integral times as long as a half-wavelength (&lgr;/2) at an operating resonant frequency.

Abstract: A method of downloading resources to a client (1) from a content server (3) over a data network. A resource request message is sent from the client (1) and is intercepted at a proxy (2) located in the data network between the client (1) and the content server (3). A header request is sent from the proxy (2) to the content server (3), requesting the content server (3) to transmit a header, associated with the requested resource, to the proxy (2). The header is received at the proxy (2) which determines whether or not the header contains billing and/or access restrictions. In the event that the header does contain billing and/or access restrictions, the client's right to receive the requested resource is authenticated and, providing the client is authenticated, the resource request message is delivered from the proxy (2) to the content server (3) and subsequently the resource is downloaded from the content server (3) to the client (1).

Abstract: There is provided a valve timing control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of enhancing the accuracy of valve timing control. The valve timing control system 1 for the internal combustion engine 3 changes the cam phase of an intake cam 6a relative to a crankshaft 9, to thereby control the valve timing of an intake valve 4. The valve timing control system 1 fixes a desired cam phase CAINCMD at a value CAINCMDFC during an fuel cut-off, and controls a cam phase change mechanism 8 such that from a time t2 during the fuel cut-off, the cam phase is held at a value assumed at the time t2. Further, the valve timing control system 1 calculates a learned value DCALEARN of the amount of deviation of an actual cam phase CAIN based on a plurality of values of the actual cam phase CAIN detected at and after the time t2, and the constant value CAINCMDFC of the desired cam phase CAINCMD (step S5).

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device for a non-contact type IC card equipped with a rectifying circuit rectifying a received signal and thus producing a power supply voltage is disclosed. A shunt regulator is connected between a power supply voltage and ground, and controls a shunt resistance. A control circuit controls the shunt regulator as follows. The shunt resistance gradually decreases when the power supply voltage becomes higher than an upper limit of a reference voltage range, and gradually increases when the power supply voltage becomes lower than a lower limit thereof. The shunt resistance remains constant when the power supply voltage falls within the reference voltage range.

Abstract: An electronic is provided with a reflection type liquid crystal display device having a front light and shows good display performance capable of using practically by suppressing parallax on a display to be observed. A first inclining surface (11) inclining to an incident surface (8) and a second inclining surface (12) inclining to an opposite surface (13) to the incident surface (8) are alternately formed on an opposite surface (10) of a light guide plate (5). A peak line (12a) and a valley line (11a) parallel to each other are formed by the first inclining surfaces (11) and the second inclining surface (12). The second inclining surface (12) for forming the valley line with the first inclining surfaces (11) is positioned on an upper side of the body 1 of the electronic.

Abstract: A metal belt includes a pair of metal rings and a plurality of metal elements supported along the metal rings. Each metal ring includes a plurality of endless metal bands that are stacked on each other. Each metal element includes a nose portion and a corresponding hole and is constructed to satisfy a relationship that L&agr;/L&bgr;>0.8 such that L&agr;is a lateral distance between the center of the nose portion and a contact point P&agr; defined when the metal element pivots about its nose portion to form point contact between one of the pair of lobes and a corresponding one of the pair of metal rings and L&bgr; is a lateral distance between the center of the nose portion and a contact point P&bgr; defined when the metal element pivots about its nose portion to form point contact between the other metal ring and the body portion.

Abstract: Thermoprocessable copolymer, having a Melt Flow Index (MFI) between 0.01 and 1000, of the CTFE with an acrylic monomer having the general formula: CH2═CH—CO—O—R1   (I) wherein R1 is a hydrogenated radical from 1 to 20 C atoms, C1-C20, alkyl, linear and/or branched, or cycloalkyl radical, or R1 is H. The radical R1 can optionally contain: heteroatoms preferably Cl, O, N; one or more functional groups preferably selected from —OH, —COOH, epoxide, ester and ether; and double bonds; the amount of the comonomer of formula (I) ranges from 0.01 to 5% by moles.

Abstract: A semiconductor device connected to at least one semiconductor device of the same type. The semiconductor device includes first pins, provided on a first side of the semiconductor device, for receiving signals commonly used with the at least one semiconductor device, and second pins, provided on a second side of the semiconductor device substantially perpendicular to the first side, for being connected to signal lines which are not connected to the at least one semiconductor device.

Abstract: An estimation and designing supporting apparatus has a component model's cost database which is used for calculating costs from the types and sizes of components, and a 3D-CAD assembly model database which is used for drawing three dimensional external appearance based on the types and sizes of the components and so on. The apparatus is installed with an estimation and designing supporting program for, when a specification is inputted, determining the types and sizes of components required for manufacturing an installation meeting a specification and calculating the external appearance plan to be displayed and the costs of the apparatus using each database.