Abstract: A vehicle includes a contact-position-dependent type operational intention determining unit that detects a change in posture of a rider using posture sensors for a backrest disposed in areas of a backrest with which left and right shoulder blades of the rider come into contact, and thereby determines whether there is an operational intention of the rider; and a left-right amount-of-change comparison type turn intention determining unit that determines, only when it is determined that there is an operational intention, whether there is a left or right turn intention of the rider from a difference between sensor output values located left-right symmetrically.

Abstract: A base member on which a plurality of components are mounted includes a base main body, a coating formed on a surface of the base main body, and a display portion formed by a contrast between the coating and the surface of the base main body. The display portion displays a state by which it is determined whether or not the base main body has been machined in accordance with a corresponding machining program.

Abstract: The present invention provides a simple and efficient process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene(HFC-1234yf), the process being useful for industrial production. More specifically, the present invention relates to: a process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, comprising the steps of: (I) reacting a compound expressed by Formula (1): CF3CF2CH2X??(1) wherein X represents Cl, Br or I, with a base to produce a compound expressed by Formula (2): CF3CF?CHX??(2) wherein X is the same as above; and (II) reducing the compound expressed by Formula (2) with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst to produce 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene.

Abstract: A terminal device, used in communication system conducting communication by periodically switching frequency channels in a predefined sequence, communicates with a control device using a predefined channel.

Abstract: A vibration device includes a support system member that supports a diaphragm to allow vibration, a tubular voice coil bobbin attached to the diaphragm, and a magnet disposed on at least one of inner and outer circumferential surface sides of the bobbin. The magnet is polarized in a vibration direction of the diaphragm, and forms a magnetic gap on a side that faces the bobbin. A voice coil is attached to the bobbin and disposed within the magnetic gap, and vibrates the diaphragm and the bobbin in response to a driving force generated when an electrical signal is inputted into the voice coil. A magnetic material member is attached to the bobbin, disposed in a balancing position within the magnetic gap, and, when vibrating with the bobbin, subjected to a magnetic attractive force in a direction away from the balancing position.

Abstract: Provided is a high-strength and high-toughness magnesium alloy which has practical level of both the strength and the toughness for expanded applications of the magnesium alloys, and is a method for manufacturing thereof. The high-strength and high-toughness magnesium alloy of the present invention contains: a atom % in total of at least one metal of Cu, Ni, and Co; and b atom % in total of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Y, Dy, Er, Ho, Gd, Tb, and Tm, while a and b satisfying the following formulae (1) to (3), 0.2?a?10??(1) 0.2?b?10??(2) 2/3a?2/3<b.

Abstract: An image coding apparatus is mainly characterized by (i) dividing each of fields into an I-slice and P-slices, and determining the position of the I-slice in each of a predetermined number of first fields such that a current I-slice is sequentially shifted from the first end of a starting first field to the second end of an ending first field and such that a similar shift is repeated for each predetermined number of first fields, when a current field is a first field, and further (ii) determining, when the current field is the first field, that each P-slice located closer to the first end than a corresponding I-slice can refer to only a first field coded immediately before, and determining, when the current field is the second field, that at least one second field in the predetermined number of fields can refer to only a first field coded immediately before.

Abstract: A paper ejector unit includes a paper path having a first path, a second path provided in a lower position than the first path, and a guide provided between the first and second paths and including an inclined face to restrict an upward deflection of the paper in transporting the paper forward to the exit slot. An opening is formed downward at a forward back end of the second, and a reversible transportation roller assembly is in the middle of the second path, configured to be rotated forward to transport the paper forward to the exit slot, to stop rotating to stop transporting the paper, and to be reversely rotated to withdraw the paper having been transported to the exit slot. A third path branches downward from the second path and is provided near a forward upstream side of the reversible transportation roller assembly in order to recover the paper.

Abstract: There is provided a diversity receiving apparatus (1) that comprises: a receiving unit (4) for receiving a frequency-division multiplexing signal on which a carrier group is multiplexed; a first demodulating unit (5) for outputting a first data carrier and a first transmission control carrier; a second demodulating unit (6) for outputting a second data carrier and a second transmission control carrier; a timing adjusting unit (7) for synchronizing processing timing of the first demodulating unit (5) and the second demodulating unit (6); a first combining/selecting unit (60) for combining or selecting a first transmission control carrier and a second transmission control carrier; a second combining/selecting unit (8) for combining or selecting a first data carrier and a second data carrier; a decoding unit (13) for decoding a transmission control signal using the transmission control carrier selected by the first combining/selecting unit (60); and a detecting unit (14) for detecting frame synchronization.

Abstract: A grease-sealed rolling bearing with a rotary outer race is provided of which the lubricating grease has a long life, and which produces less cold-time noise and can effectively prevent leakage of grease. In an outer-race-rotating type of rolling bearing A for use e.g. as a pulley bearing, lubricating grease G is sealed which contains a base oil having a dynamic viscosity at 40° C. of 13 to 73 cSt and which is thickened with a thickening agent of urea family so that the grease is present in an amount of not less than 20% of the entire spatial volume of the interior of the rolling bearing, and not more than 80% of the stationary spatial volume of the interior of the rolling bearing.

Abstract: A left-handed filter of the present invention includes an interstage coupling element connected to a first capacitor and a ground, a second capacitor connected to the interstage coupling element, a third capacitor connected to the second capacitor, a first inductor connected to the connection point of a fourth capacitor and the second capacitor, and the ground, a second inductor connected to a fifth capacitor and the ground, a first input and output coupling element connected to a sixth capacitor, and a second input and output coupling element connected to the third capacitor. The first and second capacitors, the third and sixth capacitors, the first and second inductors, and third and fourth inductors are respectively arranged in symmetrical positions with respect to an interstage coupling element.

Abstract: A distortion compensation amplification device includes a level detecting means that detects a signal level, a correspondence storage means that outputs a distortion compensation coefficient depending on the signal level, a pre-distortion executing means that gives distortion with an inverse characteristic to the signal, a filtering means that outputs a distortion component from a feedback signal output from an amplifier, and a correspondence acquiring means that updates a learning coefficient constituting a function that gives the inverse characteristic so as to reduce the distortion component. Each orthogonal function is the total sum of products of functions of the input signal and parameters. The parameter values are set to cause the orthogonal functions to be orthogonal to each other when functions are replaced for the functions of the input signal constituting the orthogonal functions.

Abstract: The speaker system according to the present invention is a speaker system in which a sound is emitted into a closed space from the back surface of a speaker unit, and has characteristic that gas in the closed space is physically adsorbed by a gas adsorber obtained by adding a binder to a porous material including a plurality of grains so as to perform molding. The speaker system according to the present invention is capable of reproducing, even when a small cabinet is used, low frequency sound while suppressing reduction in sound pressure level as compared to a conventional art.

Abstract: An electro-oculography measuring device includes: an electro-oculography measuring unit configured to measure an electro-oculography original signal; a view capturing unit configured to capture a view picture; a drift estimation processing unit configured to estimate a drift signal; and a subtractor which subtracts the drift signal from the electro-oculography original signal to output an electro-oculography signal, and the drift estimation processing unit includes: an electro-oculography change amount calculating unit configured to calculate an electro-oculography change amount; a motion vector estimating unit configured to estimate a motion vector of a moving object included in the view picture; a drift change amount estimating unit configured to estimate a drift change amount assuming that a change in a gaze direction follows a motion of the moving object; and a drift estimating unit configured to estimate the drift signal by adding the drift change amount to a past drift signal.

Abstract: Provided are an optical disc discrimination method, an optical disc device and an integrated circuit that enable to accurately discriminate the type of an optical disc. The optical disc discrimination method comprises a first seeking step (S3) of performing a seek operation to a predetermined reference address in a user data area; a second seeking step (S5) of performing a seek operation from the reference address sought in the first seeking step (S3) to a predetermined target address in a physical information area, an address reading step (S7) of reading a current address at a position sought in the second seeking step (S5), and an optical disc type determination step (S8 through S10) of determining the type of the optical disc loaded in the optical disc device, based on the current address read in the address reading step (S7).

Abstract: An intercom notifies a television connected via a network of an occurrence of an event. The intercom includes an event message generating unit that generates an event message indicating the occurrence of the event and including media information indicating media of event information that is obtainable by the television and that is associated with the event, and a communication unit that transmits the event message to the television via the network.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a target correction amount calculating unit operable to calculate a target correction amount based on input image signals, a frame memory operable to store the input image signals, and a scene change amount calculating unit operable to calculate a scene change amount based on an input image signal of a present frame and an input image signal of a previous frame. Moreover, the image processing device includes a correction amount calculating unit operable to calculate a correction amount for the input image signal of the present frame, based on the target correction amount and the scene change amount, and a correcting unit operable to perform image quality correction to the input image signal of the present frame to generate a corrected input image signal, thereby outputting a corrected input image signal as an output image signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the aeration of liquid media by tube aeration, special tube modules contained therein and the use of a device for the aeration of liquid media.

Abstract: There is provided a method of designing and manufacturing a cam device using a three-dimensional design-support computer program including a customer setup program for customers and a manufacture setup program for cam device manufactures being configured to generate different finenesses in 3D models and characteristic values of cam performance as a result of design of the cam device, and being configured to obtain a result which indicates the same cam device except for fineness and the required calculation items when the same parameters are loaded. The customer setup program is lent from the cam device manufacture to the customer, and detailed design to constructional details of the cam device is performed using the manufacture setup program on the basis of design data created using the customer setup program and handed to the cam device manufacturer, whereby the cam device is manufactured on the basis of a detailed design drawing.

Abstract: A renin inhibitor comprising a compound represented by the formula: wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, or a salt thereof or a prodrug thereof. The compound of the present invention has a superior renin inhibitory activity, and thus is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of hypertension, various organ damages attributable to hypertension and the like.