Abstract: A method of estimating life of a nickel-metal hydride battery that accommodates a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate facing the positive electrode plate with a separator therebetween and containing a hydrogen absorbing alloy together with an electrolyte is disclosed. A charge phase of charging the nickel-metal hydride battery and a discharge phase of discharging the nickel-metal hydride battery after the charge phase constitutes one cycle for charge/discharge of the nickel-metal hydride battery. The method includes: determining a rate of change after one charge/discharge cycle of a surface area of the negative electrode plate which is a boundary face in contact with the electrolyte, and determining an amount of corrosion of the hydrogen absorbing alloy based on the rate of change accumulated for n charge/discharge cycles to estimate the life of the nickel-metal hydride battery based on the amount of corrosion.

Abstract: In a cleaning nozzle unit including an inner liquid passage guiding a cleaning solution, an inner air passage feeding air to an outlet of the inner liquid passage, and an injection port that mixes the cleaning solution guided by the inner liquid passage and the air fed by the inner air passage and injects a mixture of the cleaning solution and the air to a surface of an object, a plurality of the injection ports are provided, are disposed at predetermined intervals and inject the mixtures in directions such that the mixtures hits each other in the surface at a substantially predetermined angle in a front view of the surface.

Abstract: In a cleaning nozzle unit including an inner liquid passage guiding a cleaning solution, an inner air passage feeding air to an outlet of the inner liquid passage, and an injection port that mixes the cleaning solution guided by the inner liquid passage and the air fed by the inner air passage and injects a mixture of the cleaning solution and the air to a surface of an object, a plurality of the injection ports are provided, are disposed at predetermined intervals and inject the mixtures in directions such that the mixtures hits each other in the surface at a substantially predetermined angle in a front view of the surface.

Abstract: A (meth)acrylic resin composition comprising not less than 99.5% by mass of (meth)acrylic resin composed of 80 to 100% by mass of a structural unit derived from methyl methacrylate and 0 to 20% by mass of a structural unit derived from acrylic acid ester, wherein a difference between YI4 and YI1 is not more than 3, in which the YI4 is a yellowness index at optical path length 200 mm of an article obtained by injection molding of the (meth)acrylic resin composition at a cylinder temperature of 280° C. and a molding cycle of 4 minutes, and the YI1 is a yellowness index at optical path length 200 mm of an article obtained by injection molding of the (meth)acrylic resin composition at a cylinder temperature of 280° C. and a molding cycle of 1 minute; and the (meth)acrylic resin composition has a melt flow rate under conditions of 230° C. and 3.8 kg load of not less than 25 g/10 min.

Abstract: A (meth)acrylic resin composition comprising 99.5% by mass or more of a (meth)acrylic resin composed of 80 to 100% by mass of a structural unit derived from methyl methacrylate and 0 to 20% by mass of a structural unit derived from an acrylic acid ester, wherein the (meth)acrylic resin composition has the rate of loss on heat of 0.5%/minute or less in a nitrogen atmosphere at 300° C., and the melt flow rate of 10 g/10 minutes or more under conditions of 230° C. and 3.8 kg load.

Abstract: A pressing member 44 is pressed from the outside against a peripheral wall of a can shell 4 whose interior is maintained at a predetermined pressure by gas, to form a recess-deformed portion 56 having a predetermined shape on the peripheral wall of the can shell 4. Thereby, three-dimensional patterns can be formed by recess-deforming desired portions of the can shell 4 while preventing the strength of the can shell 4 from being deteriorated and preventing the inner surface of the can shell 4 from being scratched or the coating from being damaged, by which outer shape processing with high design performance can be easily applied to the can shell 4 at a low cost.

Abstract: A pressing member 44 is pressed from the outside against a peripheral wall of a can shell 4 whose interior is maintained at a predetermined pressure by gas, to form a recess-deformed portion 56 having a predetermined shape on the peripheral wall of the can shell 4. Thereby, three-dimensional patterns can be formed by recess-deforming desired portions of the can shell 4 while preventing the strength of the can shell 4 from being deteriorated and preventing the inner surface of the can shell 4 from being scratched or the coating from being damaged, by which outer shape processing with high design performance can be easily applied to the can shell 4 at a low cost.

Abstract: Upon observation of multi-viewpoint images, even when the viewpoint moves continuously, the image cannot normally be displayed in correspondence with the continuous movement of the viewpoint, and an image from a viewpoint closest to the current viewpoint is displayed. To prevent this, each two adjacent images of the multi-viewpoint images are interpolated by detecting corresponding pixels and generating an interpolated image in accordance with the correspondences among pixels. The interpolated image is generated in such a manner that an epipolar plane image is generated by juxtaposing corresponding lines of the multi-viewpoint image, straight lines are detected from the epipolar plane image, and the intersecting points between interpolated lines and the detected straight lines are detected as interpolated pixels. In this case, as for a point for which a straight line cannot be detected, a straight line passing the point is estimated, thereby generating an interpolated pixel.

Abstract: When a vehicle is decelerating a controller of a motor-generator (2) computes a target charging current according to a charge state of a high voltage battery by a target charging current computing unit (23), and limits this current by a first limiter (24) having a limiter value. An electrical load current supplied to vehicle-mounted electrical loads is computed by an electrical load current detecting unit (27). A target generation current produced by the motor-generator (2) is computed by adding the target charging current and electrical load current, by a target generation current detecting unit (28, 30). This computed value is limited by a second limiter (31) having a limiter value which varies according to an engine rotation speed, ON/OFF state of an air-conditioner and speed ratio.

Abstract: Whether or not an object to be rendered in stereo images is inside of a fusional area is determined on the basis of a focus point and positions of eyes of a viewer. By using characteristics of a view sight of a human in which an object in a fusional area of human eyes can be clearly recognized as a single solid, however, if an object is not in the fusional area, the object is recognized as vague overlapped images, an object which is inside of the fusional area is rendered by using an image generating algorithm capable expressing in high precision. In contrast, an object which is outside of the fusional area is rendered by using an image generating algorithm which requires lighter calculation load than the former image generating algorithm.

Abstract: Upon observation of multi-viewpoint images, even when the viewpoint moves continuously, the image cannot normally be displayed in correspondence with the continuous movement of the viewpoint, and an image from a viewpoint closest to the current viewpoint is displayed. To prevent this, each two adjacent images of the multi-viewpoint images are interpolated by detecting corresponding pixels and generating an interpolated image in accordance with the correspondences among pixels. The interpolated image is generated in such a manner that an epipolar plane image is generated by juxtaposing corresponding lines of the multi-viewpoint image, straight lines are detected from the epipolar plane image, and the intersecting points between interpolated lines and the detected straight lines are detected as interpolated pixels. In this case, as for a point for which a straight line cannot be detected, a straight line passing the point is estimated, thereby generating an interpolated pixel.

Abstract: Each two adjacent images of multi-viewpoint images are interpolated by detecting corresponding pixels and generating an interpolated image in accordance with the correspondence among pixels. The interpolated image is generated in such a manner that an epipolar plane is generated by juxtaposing corresponding lines of the multi-viewpoint image, straight lines are detected from the epipolar plane image, and the intersecting points between interpolated lines and the detected straight lines are detected as interpolated pixels. In this case, as for a point for which a straight line cannot be detected, a straight line passing the point is estimated, thereby generating an interpolated pixel. When a plurality of straight lines are detected for a pixel of interest, a priority level is assigned to the pixel of interest in correspondence with the number of detected straight lines.

Abstract: A diagnostic system for a fuel system of an internal combustion engine such as direct-injection gasoline engine monitors a pressure deviation of a actual fuel pressure sensed by a fuel pressure sensor from a desired fuel pressure in a feedback fuel pressure control, and thereby detects abnormality in the fuel system. When the pressure deviation continues to be outside a normal range, a diagnostic controller commands engine operation in a homogeneous stoichiometric combustion mode, and monitors a feedback correction quantity in a feedback stoichiometric air fuel control during the engine operation in the homogeneous stoichiometric combustion mode. The controller attributes the abnormality to the fuel pressure sensor if the feedback correction quantity of the air fuel ratio is fixed to an upper limit or a lower limit.

Abstract: The present invention aims at preventing deterioration of driveability due to lean combustion, in a direct injection spark ignition type internal combustion engine. To this end, there is calculated a target engine-torque tTe which is to be generated by the engine, based on an engine driving condition, while detecting an actual engine-torque Te which is being actually generated by the engine. There is further calculated a deviation state quantity .DELTA.TQ=Te-tTe, which represents a deviation state between the target engine-torque and the actual engine-torque. Then, the lean combustion is inhibited when the deviation state quantity .DELTA.TQ is equal to or larger than a predetermined value. Namely, homogeneous lean combustion and stratified lean combustion are inhibited, and the combustion mode is switched to homogeneous stoichiometric combustion.

Abstract: The present invention securely prevents the erroneous switching of the combustion mode to the stratified charge combustion, and avoids deterioration of the driving performance. In order to do so, apart from a software determination device inside a main CPU for performing the permission determination on the switching to the stratified charge combustion based on an input signal related to the engine drive condition, a hardware detection circuit (gate array) is equipped for performing the permission determination on the switching to the stratified charge combustion mode based on the input signal related to the engine drive condition. The main CPU is equipped with a combustion mode order device for finally ordering the stratified charge combustion by permitting the switching to the stratified charge combustion only when the two permission determinations both permit the switching to the stratified charge combustion.

Abstract: A can-covering polyester film which is bonded under heat to a metal surface of a can through a thermosetting resin adhesive to form a protective coat, wherein the adhesive layer is formed of a resin comprising an epoxy resin having a number average molecular weight of 5,000-20,000 and a trimellitic acid anhydride hardener at a weight ratio of 70/30 to 99/1.

Abstract: An image processing system in which a process for implementing part of the display management function is provided separately from the window system or the operating system. In consequence, changes in the system configuration can be coped with only by conducting addition on a user program or the process which implements part of the display management function without modifying or altering the window system or the operating system. This eliminates modification or alteration of the window system or the operating program and increases the portability of the program.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image memory for storing image information, an execution process for processing the image information stored in the image memory. A table is also included, for storing a use condition of the image information stored in the image memory, as well as a management process for managing a memory area of the image memory on the basis of the use condition stored in the table.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for self diagnosing a plurality of engine component operation controlling systems applicable to an internal combustion engine in which when predetermined diagnostic conditions to start respective self diagnoses are simultaneously established for the respective engine component operation controlling systems, one of the self diagnoses having a higher priority is executed.

Abstract: A system for controlling an automotive devices, such as an automotive internal combustion engine, an engine accessory and so forth, is associated with a traction control system for cooperation therewith. The automotive device control system is so associated with the traction control system that normal mode control is disabled in response to initiation of the traction control for avoiding mutual interference of controls, or, in the alternative, a control signal value is modified for harmonizing automotive device control with the traction control.