Abstract: A granulated colorant as a granulation product of a powdery nigrosine dye, that has a bulk density of 0.4 to 0.7 g/ml and a hardness of 1 to 20 N. A high-concentration master batch obtained by blending a granulated colorant and a thermoplastic resin, which comprises 25 to 100 parts by weight of a nigrosine dye in the granulated colorant per 100 parts by weight of the thermoplastic resin. A colored composition comprising a granulated colorant or high-concentration master batch and a thermoplastic resin or thermoplastic elastomer.

Abstract: A granulated colorant as a granulation product of a powdery nigrosine dye, that has a bulk density of 0.4 to 0.7 g/ml and a hardness of 1 to 20 N. A high-concentration master batch obtained by blending a granulated colorant and a thermoplastic resin, which comprises 25 to 100 parts by weight of a nigrosine dye in the granulated colorant per 100 parts by weight of the thermoplastic resin. A colored composition comprising a granulated colorant or high-concentration master batch and a thermoplastic resin or thermoplastic elastomer.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted antenna system includes a combined antenna apparatus that has a GPS antenna and a short-range wireless communication antenna. The GPS antenna is directional in a vertical direction and the short-range wireless communication antenna is directional in a horizontal direction. The combined antenna apparatus is mounted below an instrument panel of the vehicle by a mounting bracket in such a manner that the short-range wireless communication antenna is directional in the horizontal direction toward an interior of a vehicle. This approach ensures adequate performance of the short-range wireless communication antenna and standardizes a manner in which the short-range wireless communication antenna is mounted to the vehicle.

Abstract: A module is configured to be attached to a cage. A handle is rotatable about a rotation shaft between an accommodated position where the module is mounted to the cage and a withdrawal position where the module can be withdrawn from the cage. A resiliently-bendable tongue piece performs engagement and disengagement between the module and the cage. A notch portion is provided to the tongue piece. A press portion is provided to the handle on a circumference having a center located on the rotation shaft of the handle, the press portion configured to contact with the notch portion when the handle is at the accommodated position. A cam rotatable with the handle so as to resiliently bend the tongue piece.

Abstract: The vehicle antenna includes a frame made of conductive material and surrounding sides of a display section of a monitor display device mounted on a vehicle, and a radiation element attached to the frame. The frame serves as a ground plane of the vehicle antenna. The radiation element is situated in such a position that the radiation element is covered by a front panel escutcheon of the monitor display device.

Abstract: A light source device has a continous wave (CW) light source for emitting first direct current (DC) light, a level converter for converting optical electric power of the first DC light into second DC light and outputting the second DC light, and a mixer for mixing an optical main signal having a constant extinction ratio with the second DC light.

Abstract: A module is configured to be attached to a cage. A handle is rotatable about a rotation shaft between an accommodated position where the module is mounted to the cage and a withdrawal position where the module can be withdrawn from the cage. A resiliently-bendable tongue piece performs engagement and disengagement between the module and the cage. A notch portion is provided to the tongue piece. A press portion is provided to the handle on a circumference having a center located on the rotation shaft of the handle, the press portion configured to contact with the notch portion when the handle is at the accommodated position. A cam rotatable with the handle so as to resiliently bend the tongue piece.

Abstract: To provide a security lighting apparatus of a kind capable of easily optimizing the timing at which an alert is carried out, when a human body is detected by a human body detector 1 during the time zone determined by a time zone setting device (19), an alert is issued to an intruder entering within any one of detection zones (A1 to A4) and, accordingly, the timing at which the alert is initiated during the time zone can be easily and properly set.

Abstract: A granulated colorant as a granulation product of a powdery nigrosine dye, that has a bulk density of 0.4 to 0.7 g/ml and a hardness of 1 to 20 N. A high-concentration master batch obtained by blending a granulated colorant and a thermoplastic resin, which comprises 25 to 100 parts by weight of a nigrosine dye in the granulated colorant per 100 parts by weight of the thermoplastic resin. A colored composition comprising a granulated colorant or high-concentration master batch and a thermoplastic resin or thermoplastic elastomer.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted antenna system includes a combined antenna apparatus that has a GPS antenna and a short-range wireless communication antenna. The GPS antenna is directional in a vertical direction and the short-range wireless communication antenna is directional in a horizontal direction. The combined antenna apparatus is mounted below an instrument panel of the vehicle by a mounting bracket in such a manner that the short-range wireless communication antenna is directional in the horizontal direction toward an interior of a vehicle. This approach ensures adequate performance of the short-range wireless communication antenna and standardizes a manner in which the short-range wireless communication antenna is mounted to the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicular antenna is mounted on a circuit board in a monitor. The circuit board has a conductor substrate that is used as a ground for the antenna, and it has a frame shape that has a rectangular inner edge. The circuit board has an electrical contact for connecting the antenna. The electrical contact is placed at ?/4 away from an axisymmetrical line (center line) with respect to the inner edge. As a result, a gain of the vehicular antenna is not reduced in a front direction even when the vehicular antenna uses the frame shape conductor as the ground.

Abstract: An air conditioning duct arrangement for a vehicle includes an air conditioning unit disposed near a rear wheelwell of the vehicle, a floor panel including a lower section, a rise rising from the lower section, and an upper section extending backward from the rise, and a duct which extends from the air conditioning unit in the right-and-left direction of the vehicle in an area behind the rise, and which is formed so as to open forward into a compartment of the vehicle through the rise.

Abstract: The vehicle antenna includes a frame made of conductive material and surrounding sides of a display section of a monitor display device mounted on a vehicle, and a radiation element attached to the frame. The frame serves as a ground plane of the vehicle antenna. The radiation element is situated in such a position that the radiation element is covered by a front panel escutcheon of the monitor display device.

Abstract: To provide a security lighting apparatus of a kind capable of easily optimizing the timing at which an alert is carried out, when a human body is detected by a human body detector 1 during the time zone determined by a time zone setting device (19), an alert is issued to an intruder entering within any one of detection zones (A1 to A4) and, accordingly, the timing at which the alert is initiated during the time zone can be easily and properly set.

Abstract: A light source device has a CW light source for emitting first DC light, a level converter for converting optical electric power of the first DC light into second DC light and outputting the second DC light, and a mixer for mixing an optical main signal having a constant extinction ratio with the second DC light.

Abstract: An air conditioning duct arrangement for a vehicle includes an air conditioning unit disposed near a rear wheelwell of the vehicle, a floor panel including a lower section, a rise rising from the lower section, and an upper section extending backward from the rise, and a duct which extends from the air conditioning unit in the right-and-left direction of the vehicle in an area behind the rise, and which is formed so as to open forward into a compartment of the vehicle through the rise.

Abstract: Cameras 31, 32 take images of an image space around a door. A distance calculation unit 33 calculates the distance to an object in the taken images. A coordinate transformation unit 34 detects the three-dimensional position of the object in the image space. The image space covered by the cameras 31, 32 is divided into a plurality of voxels. Some of these voxels are optionally set as constituents of the detection area. A judgement unit 36 judges whether the detected three-dimensional position of the object locates within or outside the detection area. If the object is present within the detection area, an output unit 37 produces an object detection signal, so that the door is allowed to open.

Abstract: An antenna unit includes a substrate having an antenna device and a radio absorbing device. The antenna device, substrate and radio absorbing device are constructed of a patch device, a conductive material and ferrite, respectively. The radio absorbing device is attached to the rear surface of the substrate. The radio absorbing device reduces incoming radio wave signals to travel to the rear surface of the substrate due to reflections by surrounding metal parts.

Abstract: In addition to a pilot signal for the conventional operating point control, a second pilot signal with a different frequency is superimposed on an optical signal. Then, the modulation component of an optical signal corresponding to the second pilot signal is detected from the output of an external modulator, the phase of the modulation component of the optical signal is compared with the phase of the second pilot signal, and as a result, an amplitude is obtained. The amplitude of a signal indicating a phase difference obtained when the amplitude of the driving waveform of the external modulator is different from the V&pgr; of the external modulator is detected, using the amplitude of the signal indicating the phase difference obtained when the amplitude of the driving waveform is the same as V&pgr;, as a reference, and the amplitude of the driving waveform.

Abstract: A vehicular antenna is mounted on a circuit board in a monitor. The circuit board has a conductor substrate that is used as a ground for the antenna, and it has a frame shape that has a rectangular inner edge. The circuit board has an electrical contact for connecting the antenna. The electrical contact is placed at &lgr;/4 away from an axisymmetrical line (center line) with respect to the inner edge. As a result, a gain of the vehicular antenna is not reduced in a front direction even when the vehicular antenna uses the frame shape conductor as the ground.