Abstract: A tiltable three-wheeled vehicle is provided having left and right front wheels, a rear wheel, and a tilting mechanism. The vehicle includes a center frame extending in the lengthwise direction of the vehicle, a rotary member provided on the frame, a floor plate and a cross shaft attached to the rotary member, a power unit, and a manipulating member that is provided on a front portion of the frame. The cross shaft crosses the frame at a right angle and the left and right front wheels are provided on the ends of the cross shaft, The rear wheel is provided on a rear portion of the frame by way of the power unit. The front wheels maintain a zero camber. The frame and the rear wheel constitute a tiltable portion by means of the rotary member with respect to said left and front wheels and the floor plate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication apparatus for receiving a code-spread transmission signal. The wireless communication apparatus includes: an RF section; and a baseband section, wherein, in the baseband section, despreaders of an integral submultiple, which is 1/n1, of the number of chips of a spread code are arranged in parallel, and there is provided a propagation measurement section that measures a propagation channel by using the plurality of despreaders a plurality of times in a time-division manner and performing despread of each period corresponding to a chip rate of the spread code.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a slider 30 movable back and forth with respect to a fixed base 4 disposed near a home position of an ink cartridge 10; a cap 20 which is attached to the upper part of the slider 30, formed of an elastic member that is opened on its upper end portion 21 so as to cover the head surface 11 of the ink cartridge 10, narrowed at the middle portion 22, and widened toward the lower end portion 23; and a cam mechanism 5 which changes the pressure inside the cap 20 from a positively pressurized status into a negatively pressurized status when the ink cartridge 10 moves within the home position, and at a standby state, maintains the negatively pressurized status so that the cap 20 adsorbs to the head surface 11.

Abstract: Based on information that is transmitted to a UPS communication part by UPSs connected to an information processing apparatus, a UPS monitoring part monitors the states of the UPSs. A UPS control part employs the monitoring results to generate control information for controlling the state of at least one of the UPSs, and permits the UPS communication part to transmit the control information to the UPS that is to be controlled. The present invention can be applied for a computer having a redundant power supply function.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a movable core having a valve shaft, of a solenoid valve with which the movable core and the valve shaft can be easily and accurately aligned with each other. The valve shaft and the movable core are manufactured by sintering as follows. First, with a lower punch inserted in a cavity of a first mold, SUS powder having an average particle diameter of 150 micrometer is put in the cavity. The powder is compacted into a powder compact in the shape of a valve shaft by lowering an upper punch into the cavity. The first mold is slightly lowered so that the powder compact slightly protrudes from the cavity. Fe powder having an average particle diameter of 150 micrometers is put in a cavity of a second mold so as to be deposited on the powder compact in the cavity of the first mold. The upper punch is lowered to compact the powder in the second mold into a powder compact in the shape of the core. After releasing the powder compacts, they are joined together by sintering.

Abstract: A solenoid valve includes a tubular yoke, a tubular bobbin inserted in the yoke, and a current-excitable coil wound around the bobbin. A resin fills the gap between the yoke and the coil. A core is inserted in the bobbin so as to be movable in an axial direction of the bobbin. The core carries a valve shaft having a valve body. By selectively activating the coil, the core is moved together with the valve shaft, thereby bringing the valve body into contact with and out of contact with a valve seat provided opposite the valve body. The yoke has its radially inner and/or outer surfaces roughened to increase contact surface area between the yoke and the resin, thereby speeding up conduction and thus dissipation of heat produced from the coil.

Abstract: An electron gun includes a first focusing electrode and a second focusing electrode that are disposed so as to face each other and supplied with equal electric potentials. An electron beam passing aperture provided in at least one of a surface of the first focusing electrode facing the second focusing electrode and a surface of the second focusing electrode facing the first focusing electrode is a single opening common to three electron beams. Much of the magnetic flux from a scanning velocity modulation coil provided on outer peripheral surface of a neck portion of a funnel crosses this single opening. Thus, the scanning velocity modulation (SVM) sensitivity improves.

Abstract: An immunotherapy useful for treating a cancer and/or treating and preventing a microbial infection is provided.

Abstract: A cathode-ray tube comprising an electron gun (4) disposed in the neck portion (3) of a funnel (2), a deflection yoke (5) having a horizontal deflection coil (51) and a vertical deflection coil (52) mounted on the outer surface of the funnel (2) in a position closer to the front panel than the electron gun (4), and a speed modulation coil (6) mounted on the outer surface of the neck portion (3). The speed modulation coil (6) is so disposed that the end part thereof on the front panel side is closer to the electron gun (4) than the end part of the horizontal deflection coil (51) facing the electron gun (4) and closer to the front panel side the end part of the electron gun (4) facing the front panel. A desired speed modulation effect can be attained because the speed modulation magnetic field (28) of the speed modulation coil (6) does not interfere with the deflection magnetic field and can be prevented from disappearing by causing by causing an eddy current in a top unit (27).

Abstract: An agent for cancer immunotherapy with independent use, containing bacterial components as an active ingredient, which induces cancer patients to exhibit immune responsiveness, as indicated by the increase of interferon-&ggr; and CD28 markers in peripheral blood, when administered to an immuno-competent patient intracutaneously.

Abstract: This invention relates to dendritic cells that are matured by utilizing a cell wall skeleton of a Gram positive bacteria-CWS and a process for maturing said cells, as well as a composition for accelerating the maturation of immature dendritic cells comprising a Gram positive bacteria-CWS as an essential component.

Abstract: In a linear compressor having a compression mechanism for compressing and discharging a refrigerant, an inflammable refrigerant or a natural refrigerant such as propane, isobutane, carbon dioxide or the like is used as the refrigerant while no lubricating oil is filled up, thereby improving the system efficiency and reducing the amount of refrigerant.

Abstract: In a cathode ray tube device including an electron gun (4) inside a neck portion (3) of a funnel (2), a deflection yoke (5) having horizontal deflection coils (61) and vertical deflection coils (52) on an outer surface of the funnel (2) and on the side of a front panel with respect to the electron gun (4), and velocity modulation coils (6) on an outer surface of the neck portion (3), the velocity modulation coils are provided so that an end of the velocity modulation coil (6) on the side of the front panel is positioned on the side of the electron gun (4) with respect to an end of the horizontal deflection coil (51) on the side of the electron gun (4) and is positioned on the side of the front panel with respect to an end of the electron gun (4) on the side of the front panel.

Abstract: The memory-stick controller is normally employed in the data-recording apparatus also including an apparatus CPU. First of all, the apparatus CPU issues a BLOCK_READ command to the memory-stick controller and enters a state of waiting for a command-end interrupt to be generated by the memory-stick controller upon completion of execution of the command. The memory-stick controller carries out BLOCK_READ processing on the memory stick in accordance with the BLOCK_READ command. When detecting a processing-end interrupt generated by the memory stick upon completion of execution of the BLOCK_READ processing, the memory-stick controller automatically carries out get-int processing to examine the status of an access to the memory stick. At the end of the get-int processing, the memory-stick controller applies the command-end interrupt to the apparatus CPU.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hermetic-type compressor delivering high refrigeration capability at low noise. The hermetic-type compressor of the present invention is provided with a position adjustment mechanism, a communication/shutoff mechanism, a passage changeover mechanism or the like so as to dispose the opening end of a suction passage, which is provided in an enclosed container and used to communicate the cylinder of its compressor with the enclosed container, on a predetermined plane so that the opening end is aligned with the position of a node of a resonance mode generated in the enclosed container.

Abstract: In a vehicle travelling by use of a travelling drive source such as an engine or a motor, the gear shift ratio of a continuously variable transmission B can be changed by increasing or decreasing the width of a groove in a driving pulley 19 of the continuously variable transmission B by a gear shift ratio changing device 61 using a motor 62 as a drive source. The motor 62 is controlled on the basis of output signals from a throttle opening degree sensor, an engine rotational speed sensor and a vehicle speed sensor, thereby enabling an energy-saving travelling suited to an operational condition of the travelling drive source or a travelling condition of the vehicle. The gear shift ratio changing device 61 is supported in a floating manner within a casing 3, 8 for the continuously variable transmission B.

Abstract: A mounting structure for a modular-type wiper device includes brackets provided with mounting holes, one of which is formed as a small-diameter mounting hole whose diameter is smaller than that of the remaining mounting holes so as to reduce the clearance between it and the bolt passed therethrough, and a mounting seat corresponding to this small-diameter mounting hole is provided directly on a cowl of a vehicle body, the wiper device being mounted on the vehicle body by using this mounting seat as a mounting reference.

Abstract: A reactive ionized cluster beam deposition method according to this invention is embodied by utilizing two vacuum subregions partitioned by a partition wall formed with an opening. A closed heating crucible and an ionization accelerating unit are disposed in one vacuum subregion partitioned by the partition wall. A substrate is also disposed in the other vacuum subregion, and at the same time a reactive gas is introduced thereinto. Degrees of vacuums in the two vacuum subregions partitioned by the partition wall are equal to or different from each other. Particularly, a gas concentration in the latter vacuum subregion is enhanced. Then, the ionized cluster beams formed in the former vacuum subregion are introduced into the latter vacuum subregion via the opening of the partition wall and react to the reactive gas within the latter vacuum subregion. The ionized cluster beams reacting to the reactive gas impinge on the substrate, thereby forming the deposited film on the substrate surface.

Abstract: In a positioning structure for a frame and brackets in a modular-type wiper device, a positioning protrusion provided on an assembly jig is passed thorough a first positioning hole provided in the frame of the device and fitted into a positioning recess provided in each of the device brackets so as to set the frame and the brackets in position with respect to the assembly jig, and a positioning protrusion provided on each of the brackets is passed through a second positioning hole provided in the frame so as to effect a relative positioning between the frame and each bracket.

Abstract: A joint apparatus which has a spherical bearing member which is outsert-molded at the end of a rod, a spherical shaft inserted to the spherical bearing member rotatably in three-dimensional directions, a circular concave portion provided at the top of the spherical shaft, and a convex portion provided in protrusion at the spherical bearing member and inserted into the concave portion. The convex portion is formed to have the width perpendicular to the axis of the rod, being larger than the longitudinal width.