Abstract: In an organic electroluminescence (EL) device including a display section having one or more light emitting units and a monitoring section positioned outside the display section and having one or more monitoring cells, each of the light emitting units and the monitoring cells has a cathode, an anode and at least one organic EL layer positioned between the cathode and the anode. In the organic EL device, either cathodes or anodes of the light emitting units and the monitoring cells is transparent and a current passing through an anode and a cathode of a monitoring cell is monitored to control the light emitting units.

Abstract: A radiator mounting structure which has a front grill located in front of a radiator and provided with a projection extending toward the radiator. When a hood collides with an obstacle M and is deformed, the deformation causes the front grill to move rearward whereby the radiator is urged rearward of a vehicle body to tilt in the same direction. Thus, the hood is sufficiently deformable to thereby sufficiently alleviate an impact shock to be applied to the obstacle within a limited space.

Abstract: An ink ejection device that is capable of forming a high density dot image on a recording medium by successively ejecting two ink droplets. Drive timings of an actuator are appropriately set so that the two ink droplets do not join together during their flight times toward the recording medium. Because the ink ejection device moves relative to the recording medium, the two ink droplets deposited on the recording medium partially overlap one on the other, thereby enlarging an area where the ink is deposited.

Abstract: A sensor core used in a non-contact type rotational angle sensor is constructed of an outer core made of a magnetic material, an inner core made of a magnetic material in a disc shape disposed coaxially with and inside the outer core, a first air gap produced between an inner peripheral surface of the outer core and an outer peripheral plane of the inner core, a second air gap produced extending in a radial direction of the outer core to the first air gap, and a plate-like magnet magnetized in its thickness direction and mounted in a mounting gap of the inner core. The inner peripheral surface of the outer core is provided with stepped portions so that the first air gap stepwise increases in dimension with approach toward the second air gap.

Abstract: A radar system mounted on a vehicle includes a radar apparatus, a radome provided for the radar apparatus, a front wiper, a wiper operation detector detecting an operation of the front wiper, a temperature detector detecting temperature outside of the vehicle, and a processing unit. The processing unit estimates whether sensitivity degradation of the radar apparatus is caused, based on the detecting result of the wiper operation detector and the detecting result of the temperature detector.

Abstract: A belt storing bag 25 for storing a belt and a tongue plate 28 of a seat belt 16 is provided so as to be attached to a seat cushion back 24 of an automotive seat 11 comprising a seat cushion 21 and a seat back 13.

Abstract: There is provided a provide a solenoid actuator which is capable of smoothly driving a driven member, with enhanced durability, and at the same time permits the stroke of the driven member to be changed with ease. A solenoid actuator drives a valve by an electromagnetic force such that the valve performs reciprocating motion. An armature is connected to the valve, for performing reciprocating motion in accordance with energization and deenergization of at least one electromagnet to thereby drive the valve such that the valve performs the reciprocating motion. The armature has two end faces extending in parallel with each other in a direction orthogonal to a direction of the reciprocating motion thereof. Two guide joints have respective two guide surface opposed to the two end faces of the armature, each formed with two armature guides.

Abstract: In a life span meter system for a lamp, such as a xenon lamp, used in an electronic endoscope, a counter numerically estimates a lit-time of the lamp as a numerical data whenever the lamp is turned ON. A memory stores the numerical data as a total numerical data of the lit-time of the lamp whenever the lamp is turned OFF. A determiner determines whether the total numerical data reaches a numerical life-span data which is numerically estimated from a life span of the lamp. An indicator indicates that the lamp should be exchanged with a new lamp when it is determined by the determiner that the total numerical lit-time data exceeds the numerical life-span data.

Abstract: In a saddle seat type motor vehicle for use on uneven ground and including a front final assembly provided between left and right front wheels, the front final assembly provides the left and right front wheels with driving torques differentiated at a predetermined ratio when the wheels rotates at different speeds. When the motor vehicle turns, large driving torque is supplied to inner wheels rotating at low speeds compared with outer wheels rotating at high speeds. This enables the motor vehicle to turn effectively and to reduce steering effort.

Abstract: A radar apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes a detecting section and a fault determining section. The detecting section includes a radar unit and detects a detection object using radar wave radiated from a radar unit toward the detection object and reflected radar wave from the detection target to the radar unit. The fault determining section determines whether any fault has occurred in the radar unit, based on the detecting result of the detection object and a movement distance of the vehicle, and generates a fault detection signal, when it is determined that any fault has occurred in the radar unit.

Abstract: A cooling water circulating structure in an internal combustion engine is to be provided wherein cooling water can flow to every corner through a water jacket in a cylinder block and a water jacket in a cylinder head without being localized and thereby can cool the whole efficiently and which permits an easy layout of the water piping. A cooling water circulating structure in a multi-cylinder type internal combustion engine wherein a cooling water inlet and a cooling water outlet are formed side by side respectively in a side face of a cylinder block and a side face of a cylinder head both on the same side of the internal combustion engine close to a water pump, and a cylinder block-side water jacket and a cylinder head-side water jacket are brought into communication with each other through communication paths and are formed on the side opposite to the side close to the water pump, thereby allowing cooling water to circulate.

Abstract: In an electronic endoscope, a flexible scope has an image sensor provided at a distal end thereof, and an optical light guide extending therethrough. The scope is detachably connectable, at a proximal end thereof, to a processing unit, which processes image-pixel signals successively read from the image sensor. A light source is provided in the processing unit such that light, emitted from the light source, is guided through the guide and radiates from the distal end of the scope. An aperture-stop is associated with the source that regulates the radiation of light from the distal end of the scope. A histogram generator generates a luminance-signal-histogram based on the processed signals. An average luminance level-value is approximately calculated based on luminance signals exhibiting thinned luminance levels extracted from the histogram.

Abstract: A cylindrical electric double-layer capacitor includes an electrode winding which is formed by superposing band-shaped positive and negative electrodes one on another with a first separator interposed therebetween, superposing a second separator onto one of the band-shaped positive and negative electrodes to provide a superposed material, and by spirally winding the superposed material such that the second separator is located on an outermost side, and a container having the electrode winding accommodated therein. A cylindrical electrode is provided on an inner peripheral surface of the container opposed to an outer peripheral surface of the electrode winding. The polarity of the cylindrical electrode is set at a polarity opposite from the polarity of that portion of the band-shaped negative electrode, which is located on an outermost periphery of the electrode winding.

Abstract: A laser imaging apparatus is provided with a laser source, a relaying optical system, a deflector having at least one deflecting surface, an imaging optical system that converges the laser beam to form a beam spot on a surface to be scanned. An optical axis of the relaying optical system and an optical axis of the imaging optical system intersect at a deflection reference point which is located in the vicinity of a deflecting surface on which the laser beam is incident. The laser imaging apparatus further includes first and second adjusting systems that compensates for an inclination error and a positional error of the laser beam incident on the deflecting surface, respectively. The first and second adjusting systems are provided in the relaying optical system.

Abstract: A direct-current power source is connected, via a diode, to an electrically conductive brush, which makes contact with the surface of a photosensitive drum to remove paper dust deposited thereon. Upon application of a bias voltage by the direct-current power source to the conductive brush, the conductive brush collects paper dust physically as well as electrically. The diode prevents current flow from the conductive brush to the direct-current power source, and thus the paper dust collected by the conductive brush will not return to the photosensitive drum.

Abstract: A canister, for inhibiting a diffusion phenomenon in an adsorbent layer as much as possible and certainly adsorbing fed evaporated fuel to inhibit blow-by of the evaporated fuel into the atmosphere, is constituted by filling a first adsorbent layer of the canister with activated carbon A having a large evaporated fuel adsorption and a weak holding power, and filling a second and a third adsorbent layers with activated carbon B having an intermediate evaporated fuel adsorption and a weak holding power and therefore having characteristics that the residual amount of the low boiling point components in the evaporated fuel after purge is small, whereby after the high temperature standing of the canister, the discharge of the evaporated fuel into the atmosphere can be inhibited.

Abstract: In a heat processing system for a fuel cell comprising a catalytic combustor 23 that has supplied and combusts an anode off gas and a cathode off gas discharged from a fuel cell stack 21, a vaporizer 24 that has introduced therein a combustion gas produced in the catalytic combustor 23, heats a raw fuel for a fuel cell by using the heat of the combustion gas to make it a fuel vapor, an off gas heater that heats the anode off gas and the cathode off gas by a combustion gas used in the vaporizer 24, a reformer 25 that reforms the fuel vapor produced by the vaporizer 24 and provides the fuel gas to the fuel cell stack 21, wherein the combustion gas temperature of the catalytic combustor 23 is set based on the required fuel vapor temperature, the flow volume of the cathode off gas is set and adjusted depending on this combustion gas temperature, and the set combustion gas temperature is compensated based on the required fuel vapor temperature and the actual fuel vapor temperature.

Abstract: There is provided a solenoid-type valve actuator for an internal combustion engine, having an inexpensive and single construction which is capable of maintaining stability of operation of a valve and reducing sliding resistance to the valve at the same time, thereby achieving improved response of the valve and reduced power consumption of electromagnets. The solenoid-type valve actuator electromagnetically opens and closes a valve. Two electromagnets are arranged in a manner opposed to each other with a space therebetween. An armature is arranged between the two electromagnets, for reciprocating motion by energization and deenergization of the two electromagnets. Two shafts project from respective opposite sides of the armature and extend through the two electromagnets, respectively, one of the shafts being connected to the valve.

Abstract: An ink jet printer head includes a cavity plate and an actuator with the following configuration. The cavity plate is formed with four columns of pressure chambers. Each pressure chamber has a parallelogram shape with two acute-angle portions formed with an ink supply opening and an ink ejection nozzle opening, respectively. The pressure chambers in the center two columns are arranged with the ejection-nozzle sides interposed between each other. The pressure chambers in the outer two columns are arranged with the ejection-nozzle sides interposed between ink-supply sides of the center two columns. The pressure chambers are arranged so that, although the pressure chambers are partially interposed between each other, the principal portion of each pressure chamber in one column is shifted out of alignment from principal portions of pressure chambers in adjacent columns with respect to the direction in which the long side of the pressure chambers extend.

Abstract: An air bag device having a switch adapted to be operated when a breakable cover member covering an air bag module mounted in the steering wheel is pushed. Particularly, H-shaped tear lines, including grooves of a V-shape in section, are defined in an inner surface of the cover member. The tear lines are broken by a pressure resulting from the expansion of the air bag to open a lid defined in the cover member. A pair of ridges are integrally formed on the cover member astride a central one of the tear lines. The rigidity of the rear cover member is enhanced by the ridges, whereby the deformation of the cover member is prevented. Thus, the cover member can be slid smoothly to ensure the reliable operation of the switch.