Abstract: In a sensor unit, an antenna section receives a high-frequency signal transmitted from a positioning system for output to a combining circuit. Also, in the sensor unit, a sensor section detects an angular velocity around one axis, and further detects an acceleration in directions of two axes (that is, X and Y axes) . Furthermore, the sensor section uses the detected angular velocity and acceleration to generate a data unit including at least data indicative of the angular velocity and data indicative of the acceleration. The sensor section then performs a digital modulation process with the generated data unit. The combining circuit combines the high-frequency signal output from the antenna section and a digital modulated signal output from the sensor section, and then outputs the resultant composite signal to a coaxial cable.

Abstract: A rotation-angle detecting device contains two rotators having the same number of teeth, which engage with a gear fixed to a rotation-detecting axle as a detected object. The detecting device further includes a controller. Receiving a rotation-angle signal from the rotators, the controller amplifies the signal, performs calculations, and stores the results. The controller converts each rotation-angle signal from each rotator into each periodic waveform output having the same crest value, and stores an initial phase difference value at initial setting. In driving operations, monitoring an evaluation value calculated with reference to the initial phase difference value, the controller determines that abnormalities occurred, if the evaluation value exceeds a predetermined abnormality-evaluation threshold.

Abstract: A computer has a casing housing a display, and a frame of the casing borders the display. A cooling passage is provided in the frame and has a cooling fluid therein. The frame itself forms the passage for the cooling fluid. By connecting the passage with the interior of the casing, so as to for example cool electronic components therein, effective cooling of the computer is carried out by distributing the heat through the frame of the display.

Abstract: A tablet feeder that is simple in construction and yet capable of accurately preventing drawbacks from occurring due to jamming of medicine or the like. A motor (6) installed on a case support block (3) is driven to rotate a rotor (9) disposed in a medicine receiving case (1) through a plurality of gears. The tablets received in the medicine receiving case (1) are held in the pockets (10) of the rotor (9) and are moved to a discharge section (11) to discharge tablets therefrom. The gearing is composed of a driving gear (7) connected to the rotary shaft of the motor (6), and a driven gear (13) meshing with the driving gear (7). Installed in either of the power transmission paths extending from the motor (6) to the rotor (9) through the two gears (7, 13) is a power cut-off section (15, 17) that cuts off the power from the motor (6) when a force of a predetermined value or above acts on the rotor (9).

Abstract: In an acrylic acid production process which comprises the step of producing acrylic acid by catalytic vapor-phase oxidation of propane, propylene, and/or acrolein; and purifying the acrylic acid produced in the step of producing with distillation in the presence of the polymerization inhibitor for preventing polymerization of the acrylic acid, a viscosity at 20° C. of the bottoms which comprises the polymerization inhibitor, discharged in the step of purifying, is adjusted to 2 Pa·s (2,000 cP) or less and the polymerization inhibitor is extracted using an aqueous medium. According to the method, in an acrylic acid production process, an extraction operation for recovery of the polymerization inhibitor can be continuously conducted in a stable manner.

Abstract: A DC/DC converter is comprised of a bipolar transistor, an inductor, a smoothing capacitor, an input terminal, an output terminal, and a grounded terminal. A base of the transistor includes a silicon germanium layer. The bipolar transistor has a high switching speed and a low on-state voltage through an optimization of a structure of the transistor.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle system, including an electromobile having a fuel cell power generator mounted therein, and a predetermined mobile unit jointable to the electromobile, such that cogeneration within the mobile unit can be realized even during the travel of the electromobile. Via a joint section 30, a vehicle 10 including a fuel cell 13 as a source of motive power is jointed to a mobile unit 20 capable of travelling and at least including a storage battery 23 and a water tank 25. The water produced in the fuel cell 13 is recovered by a water recovery section 21 via the joint section 30. The heat produced in the fuel cell 13 is recovered by a heat recovery section 22 via the joint section 30. The recovered water is warmed up with the recovered heat, and thereafter stored in the water tank 25. The hot water stored in the water tank 25 is utilized as hot water to be used for controlling the temperature of the mobile unit 20 or supplied as hot water.

Abstract: An electronic component is provided which has a plurality of elements, a pair of terminal parts which are disposed on the element, and an armoring material which covers the elements and a part of the terminal parts. The electronic component has a configuration such that the plurality of elements are disposed in the armoring material at a predetermined interval, and a guiding part for guiding the armoring material toward an opposed region of the element is disposed on opposed surfaces between the elements.

Abstract: A tablet packing apparatus in which there is no risk that next tablets will be mixed into tablets previously discharged. The packing apparatus includes a plurality of feeder vessels (36) containing the tablets, a plurality of mounting bases (32) on which respective feeder vessels (36) are mounted, and a tablet reserving member (200) disposed below the mounting base (32) and reserving the tablets fed from the feeder vessels (36) and a shutter (203,300) which is movable to open and close the lower opening of the tablet reserving member (200). The apparatus further comprises a LED (201) which is turned on when the tablets are fed to the tablet reserving member (200) and a sensor (206, 301a, 301b) for detecting opening or closing operation of the shutter (203), whereby when the sensor (206, 301a, 301b) detects the opening operation of the shutter (203,300), the LED (201) is turned off.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polishing apparatus for polishing a workpiece, such as a semiconductor wafer, to a flat mirror finish. The polishing apparatus comprises a polishing table having a polishing surface, and a top ring, and the workpiece is interposed between the polishing table and the top ring and pressed at a predetermined pressure to polish the workpiece. The polishing apparatus comprises at least two dressing units for dressing the polishing surface by being brought into contact with the polishing surface, which is a surface of a polishing cloth.

Abstract: An ash melting system of the present invention includes a slagging combustion furnace (10) for melting ash into molten slag; and a slag separating apparatus (50) for bringing the molten slag (121) discharged from the slagging combustion furnace into contact with slag cooling water (152) to produce water-quenched slag (122), and separating the water-quenched slag from the slag cooling water. The ash melting system further includes a gas blowing means for blowing air or inert gas (132) between a slag discharge port (14) of the slagging combustion furnace and the surface of the slag cooling water.

Abstract: A servo motor with a built-in drive circuit is provided in which, when power is off, positional data including multiple-rotation counting values is stored in a nonvolatile memory to thereby eliminate battery back-up, and in which the CPU of a drive control circuit portion is in charge of the multiple-rotation counting itself to thereby eliminate the circuit for multiple-rotation counting. Due to a reduction in the number of lines involved and an elimination of battery back-up, a reduction in size is achieved. The servo motor with a built-in drive circuit includes an absolute encoder for detecting rotation of a servo motor portion and an electromagnetic mechanical brake, in which, when the power is off, the positional data at that time is stored in a nonvolatile memory.

Abstract: A switch includes a housing, an operating member placed in the housing, and contacting sections accommodated in the housing. The operating member has an operating section made of elastic material to be bowed in every direction and an operating unit coupled to the operating section. When greater force than necessary for changing a state of the contacting sections is applied to the operating section along an operating direction, or when force directed in a direction other than the operating direction is applied to the operating section, the operating section itself bows to absorb extra force.

Abstract: A communication card or communication device is provided that includes an antenna for transmitting/receiving communication waves; a variable matching unit which can vary a circuit parameter; a directional coupling unit for extracting a reflected signal from the antenna; a detection unit for extracting the amplitude of the reflected signal; a control unit for outputting a control signal; an amplifier for amplifying a high frequency signal at a RF band; a frequency converter for converting an IF band signal into a RF band signal or a RF band signal into an IF band signal; a modulator/demodulator for modulating an IF signal to obtain a baseband signal at the transmission and demodulating an IF signal to obtain a baseband signal at the receiving; a baseband processor for processing the baseband signal; and a card interface for exchanging data with an information device.

Abstract: A medicine packing apparatus including a display unit with which a medicine housed state can be easily determined, operatability is made favorable, and prescription data can also be input. The apparatus also includes a plurality of medicine containers (11), which each contain a medicine and is equipped with a medicine identification unit (16). The containers are housed in a medicine housing rack (1). A medicine included in prescription data is fed from the medicine container 11 by medicine feeder (34). The medicine fed from a medicine feeder (34) is packaged by medicine a packing device (3). Medicine data is read from the medicine identification unit (16) of the medicine container (11) by a reader (40), and housing site data of the medicine container (11) and medicine data of a medicine contained in the medicine container (11) are stored.

Abstract: A hydraulic shock absorber includes a cylindrical housing within which a piston assembly is slidably received. The piston assembly includes a piston element connected to a piston rod and adapted to divide an interior of the housing into compression and rebound chambers. The piston element has compression and rebound passages to provide fluid communication between the compression and rebound chambers. A valve assembly includes a first valve disc positioned on a lower side of the piston element, and a second valve disc retained on the first valve disc. The second valve disc includes apertures arranged in a circumferentially spaced relationship and are selectively openable and closeable by the first valve disc. A third valve disc is retained on the second valve disc and has notches arranged in a circumferentially spaced relationship. The notches cooperate with the apertures to collectively form ports. The ports are communicated with the compression chamber.

Abstract: A method and a device are proposed which accurately and efficiently form a pipe with a bending machine only, without using any correcting devices. A plate having holes is fed into a bending machine in which under an upper roll, lower rolls parallel thereto are arranged, and a pipe is formed during a rough forming step and a fine forming step. In the rough forming step, bending is performed so that the plate will have a required diameter at hole portions. In the fine forming step, the hole portions are not pressed for bending while other portions are rolled so as to become closer to a required diameter to form the pipe.

Abstract: An evaluation level setting method and a data reception apparatus in which the method is implemented accurately evaluate signal levels in multi-valued transmission for transmitting data while assigning one or more bits of data as one data symbol to a signal level. A data transmission apparatus outputs an initialization pattern signal at turn-on of power or after reset, and the data reception apparatus establishes clock synchronization on the basis of the received initialization pattern signal and starts data reception after setting of evaluation levels to be used for threshold evaluation of signal levels.