Abstract: A tube cutter apparatus comprises a body that is generally cylindrical in shape and has a bore through which a tube to be cut is inserted. The tube cutter apparatus may further comprise a coupling restraining the tube and a bearing tube defining at least a portion of the bore. A revolving unit may be provided comprising a retaining flange. The revolving unit may further comprise a rotary tool holder including a cutting tool configured to cut the tube. An end flange, the retaining flange and the rotary tool holder may be coupled together to revolve as a unit. The tube cutting apparatus of the present invention may further include devices for setting the depth of the cut of the cutting tool and for setting the point at which the cutting operation will stop.

Abstract: An airbag capable of starting a tearing operation of a line-shaped connecting portion on an outer periphery side after entire line-shaped connecting portion on an inner periphery side is torn, and an airbag apparatus provided with the airbag. Each of halfway portions disposed halfway between respective center portion and peripheral edge portion in a front panel 12 and a rear panel 14 is disconnectably connected by means of line-shaped connecting portions 22, 24, and 26. At a halfway portion in an extending direction of each of the line-shaped connecting portions 22, 24, and 26, communicating portions 23, 25, and 27 serving as starting points of the tearing operations therefor are formed.

Abstract: A display driving circuit includes an amplifier circuit including an output stage including first and second MOS transistors which are complementary to each other to perform a push-pull operation, an output terminal, a switch element provided between an output end of the output stage and the output terminal, and a controller which enables the first and second MOS transistors to exclusively turn on and off.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for enhancing the acquisition of data from a wireless access point during a window of acquisition. A wireless device in a vehicle obtains a list of wireless access points positioned along a route being traveled by a user of the wireless device. The wireless device acquires its current location and identifies the closest upcoming wireless access point in connection with its current location. If the wireless device had previously had a session with the upcoming wireless access point, then the wireless device continues sending packets to the upcoming wireless access point from the point of previous termination with the upcoming wireless access point until the session is restarted. The wireless device then accesses data from the upcoming wireless access point during the remaining window of acquisition.

Abstract: A detection element detects at least compression load. A first member has a surface provided with the detection element. A preload adjusting member is substantially in a column shape and has a tip end configured to apply pressure to the detection element. The first member and the second member are connected with each other and configured to transmit load to the detection element. The second member has a fitted portion, which has an inner circumferential periphery being press-fitted with the preload adjusting member. The second member causes elastic deformation in response to adjustment of press-fitting of the preload adjusting member and causes change in preload applied to the detection element.

Abstract: A computing system configured to produce an optimized translation hypothesis of text input into the computing system. The computing system includes a plurality of translation machines. Each of the translation machines is configured to produce their own translation hypothesis from the same text. An optimization machine is connected to the plurality of translation machines. The optimization machine is configured to receive the translation hypotheses from the translation machines. The optimization machine is further configured to align, word-to-word, the hypotheses in the plurality of hypotheses by using a hidden Markov model.

Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for methods of providing a gaming experience including an in-game viral invite mechanic. In accordance with the present system, inviting others to join in the playing of a game is an objective of the game itself. Thus, a user is encouraged by the game to invite his or her friends, who are in turn encouraged to invite their friends, etc., so that a game may cascade pyramid-fashion to a potentially huge viral fan-out.

Abstract: In a base station apparatus (12), a timing information calculating part (22) calculates timing information indicating a timing when each transmission buffer (40) becomes empty. A packet flow control part (26) selects at least one transmission buffer (40) based on each piece of the timing information calculated by the timing information calculating part (22), and controls a packet flow, in a transmission path, directed to a mobile station apparatus associated with the selected transmission buffer.

Abstract: A method and system for improving a level of service between wireless devices. Handheld devices implementing the Bluetooth specification typically have relatively limited transmission ranges. As a result, and since they are typically portable, such devices easily experience abrupt communication interruptions, either between themselves and other handheld devices, or between themselves and fixed devices. The effective range of the devices can be extended by providing additional error-correcting coding. Although this modification also results in an extended transmission time, users are provided with an increased transmission range, and are given warning that service may soon be interrupted. Users may then, if they wish, take such steps as finishing their communication or moving into their devices' normal transmission range. Additionally, the handheld devices may use the extra transmission time and range to search for a forwarding path to a recipient device, thus minimizing or preventing any service interruption.

Abstract: A mass spectroscope includes a mass analysis device having a surface provided with metallic members capable of exciting plasmons when irradiated by laser light, the mass analysis device allowing an analyte to be attached to the surface, a light radiation unit for irradiating the surface of the mass analysis device with laser light to ionize the analyte attached to the surface and desorb the analyte from the surface, and a detection unit for detecting a mass of the analyte ionized and desorbed from the surface of the mass analysis device from a time of flight of the analyte. The light radiation unit includes a polarization adjusting mechanism for adjusting a polarization direction of the laser light.

Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter converting an analog input signal into a digital signal includes a comparator comparing a reference signal with an input signal and, if the reference signal matches the input signal, inverting an output; and a counter counting a comparison time. The counter includes flip flops that perform serial input/output. An input and an output of the counter are interconnected. The counter operates in a counter mode and a shift register mode. In the counter mode, a data output of each flip flop is supplied to a clock input of the next flip flop, and, if the output of the comparator is at a predetermined level, the counter functions as a counter synchronized with a counter clock signal. In the shift register mode, the flip flops are cascade-connected, and the counter functions as a shift register synchronized with a shift register clock signal.

Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, a vehicle comprises: a consumable fuel powered engine, a battery and an electric motor powered by the battery. The battery is rechargeable both from an external electric power source (such as an electric power grid) and from the consumable fuel powered engine. A computer receives data as inputs and providing outputs, wherein the input data includes an expected state of the electric power source at a time when the vehicle is expected to be coupled to the electric power source. The outputs include control signals to control the state of charge of the battery during the time the vehicle is expected to be coupled to the electric power source.

Abstract: In a multilayer capacitor, widths of lead conductors of internal electrode and widths of lead conductors of internal electrode in an ESR control section are smaller than any one of widths of internal electrode and widths of internal electrode in a capacitance section. This narrows cross sections of the conductor portions connecting between the internal electrodes and the external electrodes, so as to her increase ESR. The widths of the respective lead conductors in the ESR control section are wider than widths of respective lead conductors in the capacitance section. This effectively prevents open failure and improves a yield of products.

Abstract: A power supply circuit for a wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes an auxiliary power supply (3) for generating an auxiliary discharge by applying a voltage between a workpiece (2) and a wire electrode (1); and a plurality of main power supplies (4 and 5), a first one of which electrically connected to an upper terminal block (9) for connecting to an upper electrical supply point (6) and a second one of which electrically connected to a lower terminal block (11) for connecting to a lower electrical supply point (7), in order to supply a main discharging current after the auxiliary discharge has occurred; wherein the power supply for the wire electric discharge machining apparatus controls the auxiliary power supply (3) and the plurality of main power supplies (4 and 5), to machine the workpiece (2), and a first end of the auxiliary power supply is connected to the upper terminal block (9) and a second end thereof to the lower terminal block (11).

Abstract: A system architecture for implementing a virtual disk service (VDS) equipment is applicable for implementing an overall management on multiple service request objects in a VDS system. The system architecture includes a VDS interface, a subsystem management module, an object management module, a virtual disk management module, and a specific management module. The VDS interface receives a service request, and renders the service request to the subsystem management module for judging a type of the service request. The virtual disk management module generates a plurality of virtual interfaces for being invoked by the subsystem management module, so as to execute the service request of a public operation type. When the service request requires for supporting an asynchronous processing, the specific management module is further invoked to process the service request, and generates a feedback result to respond the service request via the VDS interface.

Abstract: An image recording method including: applying an aqueous pretreatment composition to a recording medium having a water absorption of 14 ml/m2 or less at a contact time of 900 msec in accordance with the Bristow method, the aqueous pretreatment composition containing 10 mass % or more of a water-soluble organic solvent having a solubility parameter value of 13 or less, 1.5 mass % or more of resin particles, and water; forming a blocking layer on the recording medium by drying the aqueous pretreatment composition so that 70 mass % or more of water contained in the aqueous pretreatment composition evaporates within 900 msec from the initiation of the application of the aqueous pretreatment composition; and recording an image by jetting an aqueous ink on the blocking layer, the aqueous ink containing a pigment, resin particles, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water.

Abstract: Described is a technology by which a keyword may be expanded into related words, such as for use in information retrieval. The terms comprising words and/or phrases of a large number of documents (e.g., web pages) are processed into a graph data structure, in which the terms are represented as nodes and edges represent the relationships between the nodes, with weights for each edge representing the relevance of the relationship. The graph may be built by selecting each term of a document and considering the terms within a certain number of words to be associated with the selected term; for each such association the weight indicative of the relevance is increased. When the graph is accessed with a keyword, the edges from that keyword's node and their respective weights indicate which other nodes are most relevant to the keyword, thereby providing the corresponding expanded terms.

Abstract: In a metal film production apparatus, a copper plate member is etched with a Cl2 gas plasma within a chamber to form a precursor comprising a Cu component and a Cl2 gas; and the temperatures of the copper plate member and a substrate and a difference between their temperatures are controlled as predetermined, to deposit the Cu component of the precursor on the substrate, thereby forming a film of Cu. In this apparatus, Cl* is formed in an excitation chamber of a passage communicating with the interior of the chamber to flow a Cl2 gas, and the Cl* is supplied into the chamber to withdraw a Cl2 gas from the precursor adsorbed onto the substrate, thereby promoting a Cu film formation reaction. The apparatus has a high film formation speed, can use an inexpensive starting material, and can minimize impurities remaining in the film.

Abstract: A technology that can provide a node discovery method that can detect a TA that can provide a quasi-optimal data path to acquire the quasi-optimal path while protecting location privacy of a MN and the like are disclosed. The technology includes a step in which a first proxy node 105 that is a proxy node that discovers a processing node 102 as a proxy of a mobile node 101 transmits a first message in a predetermined format used to discover the processing node to a second proxy node 106 that is a proxy node that discovers the processing node as a proxy of a corresponding node. The technology also includes a step in which a relay node that has received the first message and can process the message in the predetermined format judges whether the relay node itself is the processing node based on the first message.

Abstract: A fuser member having a substrate; an outer polymeric layer including a fluoropolymer having nano-size copper metal particles dispersed therein, wherein the nano-size copper metal particles have a particle size of from about 50 to about 1,500 nm; and a release agent material coating on the outer polymeric layer, wherein the release agent material coating has a mercapto functional release agent, and wherein from about 85 to about 100 percent of the outer polymeric layer is covered with the mercapto functional release agent.