Abstract: A state information acquisition unit acquires state information indicating a state of a body, an information search unit searches for information on the state information from a content information storage unit that stores text information regarding broadcast content, and an output unit outputs information searched for by the information search unit.

Abstract: The powder magnetic core of the present invention can exhibit reliable superposition property in which variance rate of inductance value is small even if superposed current is varied, and can reduce the number of cores used in a reactor. The powder magnetic core comprises: soft magnetic powder particles, and gaps between the soft magnetic powder particles, in which the powder magnetic core has a density ratio of 90 to 95%, and when observing a cross section thereof, layered gaps having thicknesses of 1 to 3 ?m and widths of 20 to 200 ?m are formed inside of the powder magnetic core. It is desirable that the layered gaps be not less than 50% of all the gaps in a cross sectional area ratio.

Abstract: A fin member for a heat exchanger is produced by repeatedly folding a plate over itself into a corrugated shape to form corrugated fins. The folded sections which are formed by the folding are pressed and deformed into a recessed shape to form engagement recesses. A pipe member through which fluid flows is disposed at the engagement recesses. The pressing and deformation of the engagement recesses cause swollen sections to protrude at both sides of each folded section with respect to the folding-over direction of the folded section and form flat butt surfaces at the tips of the swollen sections. Adjacent butt surfaces are caused to be in surface contact with each other with the pipe member disposed at the engagement recesses.

Abstract: In a game, multiple players are communicatively coupled with a network. A progression of game action states is tracked. The action states relate to events that occur during the game and a situation of each of the players that corresponds to the events. Upon reaching a first action state, in which a player is expected to utter a first vociferation based on that player's situation with respect to a game event that occurs in association with the first action state, it is detected whether the vociferation is uttered. The first vociferation is captured. The vociferation may be sent to the other players asynchronously with respect to its capture where it may be rendered locally.

Abstract: A heat exchanger wherein the pipe member is formed in a single stage to reduce the height of the heat exchanger in the thickness direction to enable the heat exchanger to be mounted below the floor of an automobile and wherein the pipe member is prevented from being broken. The heat exchanger includes: fin members formed as corrugated fins and having engagement recesses formed in curved sections; and a pipe member formed by connecting straight pipe sections by U-shaped bend sections, the straight pipe sections being arranged by means of the fin members.

Abstract: A fin member for a heat exchanger is produced by repeatedly folding a plate over itself into a corrugated shape to form corrugated fins. The folded sections which are formed by the folding are pressed and deformed into a recessed shape to form engagement recesses. A pipe member through which fluid flows is disposed at the engagement recesses. The pressing and deformation of the engagement recesses cause swollen sections to protrude at both sides of each folded section with respect to the folding-over direction of the folded section and form flat butt surfaces at the tips of the swollen sections. Adjacent butt surfaces are caused to be in surface contact with each other with the pipe member disposed at the engagement recesses.

Abstract: According to an error correction method of the present invention, in the case of decoding a code word (104) which is doubly encoded by adding first and second inspection data (102,103) having minimum distances d1 and d2 from other data, respectively, a position Ex of an erasure symbol X for which an error was detected using the second inspection data (103) but the error could not be corrected is regarded as an erasure position, and a pseudo erasure symbol Y for which an error was detected using the second inspection data (103) and the error was corrected is regarded as being erroneously corrected and a position Ey of this pseudo erasure symbol is also regarded as an erasure position in first-time decoding, and erasure corrections for up to (d1?d) pieces of symbols are performed at one time using the first inspection data (102) when performing second-time decoding using these position information Ex and Ey.

Abstract: An audio compression and decompression device of the present invention includes an LPF (102) which cuts off high frequency components existing at a high-frequency band of the digital audio data before compressed which are inputted to an ADPCM circuit (101) when the digital audio data are compressed or decompressed by the ADPCM method, thereby reducing quantization noises on the high-frequency band, occurring in the digital audio data after decompressed due to an increase of the compression ratio. The audio compression and decompression device further includes a controller (103) which can change characteristics of the LPF (102) according to a compression bit rate of the ADPCM circuit (101), thereby configuring the LPF so as to have optimum characteristics suited to the compression bit rate, and can reproduce the audio data in a sound quality that satisfies the user's preference.

Abstract: Apparatus for collecting information pertaining to a driver of the vehicle includes a unit for determining if the current load on the driver is a “low-load” in terms of satisfaction of one or more specific conditions. Driver information is stored and supplemented by answers to question scenarios communicated to the driver only when a “low-load” state is determined. A question information storage unit contains various question scenarios correlated with different items of driver information and from which a question scenario, corresponding to driver information not yet obtained, is retrieved for output when a “low load” is determined.

Abstract: An improved rotating electrical machine having permanent magnets and method for attaching the magnets that permits the use of thin, high flux density materials. The magnets and their mounting plate have facing cylindrical surfaces that are spaced slightly apart and through which an adhesive is introduced by capillary action through a groove formed at one end of the permanent magnets for providing attachment without having excess adhesive that can protrude beyond the surface of the magnets.

Abstract: An agent apparatus has a system capable of executing, periodically or when a particular condition is satisfied, processing to judge whether or not a condition to autonomously start (automatically present) an agent is satisfied based on scenario data created by a scenario creating apparatus, and automatically presenting the agent when the condition is satisfied. Thus, in the scenario creating apparatus, regardless of whether having knowledge of programming or not, it is possible to create and edit scenario data of an agent which automatically appears and responds when a particular condition is satisfied by having a scenario editor.

Abstract: On a vehicle, a device for estimating a present position such as a GPS device and a communication device such as a cell phone are installed. The vehicle transmits a detected present position to an information center at specified intervals. On the other hand, the information center sets a plurality of areas in a region to which information is transmitted, and sets information for transmission for each area. When receiving data indicating the present position of the vehicle from the vehicle, the information center specifies, by using the data, an area where the vehicle is located, and transmits the information set for the area to the vehicle.

Abstract: A rotating electrical machine such as electrical starter motor and more particularly to an improved method and apparatus for winding the armature coils of a rotating electrical machine. The winding apparatus and method is particularly adapted for use with large diameter wires and permits winding without a winding needle having to pass into the slot between the pole teeth. This is accomplished by introducing some slack in the wire by moving the wire in a circumferential direction when the winding needle is not disposed in proximity to the slot and then returning the winding needle to registry with the slot.

Abstract: An assembling apparatus for assembling rotating electrical machines having permanent magnets and armatures cores. The apparatus holds the armature core while the permanent magnets are assembled on to it thus avoiding hand labor. At all times, the rotor is supported so that it cannot cant relative to the stator and its permanent magnets and thus, no damage to the magnets or any coating thereon or to the armature will occur.

Abstract: An armature for a rotating electrical machine and more particularly to an insulating cover for the pole teeth around which the windings are formed that has good strength against the winding without risk of damage of the insulator due to increased thickness in the highly stressed areas.

Abstract: An improved rotating electrical machine having permanent magnets and method for attaching the magnets that permits the use of thin, high flux density materials. The magnets and their mounting plate have facing cylindrical surfaces that are spaced slightly apart and through which an adhesive is introduced by capillary action through a groove formed at one end of the permanent magnets for providing attachment without having excess adhesive that can protrude beyond the surface of the magnets.

Abstract: A rotating electrical machine such as electrical starter motor and more particularly to an improved method and apparatus for winding the armature coils of a rotating electrical machine. The winding apparatus and method is particularly adapted for use with large diameter wires and permits winding without a winding needle having to pass into the slot between the pole teeth. This is accomplished by introducing some slack in the wire by moving the wire in a circumferential direction when the winding needle is not disposed in proximity to the slot and then returning the winding needle to registry with the slot.

Abstract: An armature for a rotating electrical machine and more particularly to an insulating cover for the pole teeth around which the windings are formed that has good strength against the winding without risk of damage of the insulator due to increased thickness in the highly stressed areas.

Abstract: Several embodiments of rotating electrical machines having a protruding wall provided as a wire guide at the forward end of an arm section of the insulator around which the coils are wound. Therefore, when a wire is wound around on the outside of the slots to form a coil on magnetic pole teeth, the wire at the coil end portion is guided toward a slot entrance between magnetic pole teeth, providing smooth wire winding action. In addition, this protruding wall prevents the wound wire on the magnetic pole teeth from slipping out from the slot.

Abstract: A small-diameter resin tube connecting structure used as a small-diameter tube connector is provided. The connector comprises: a main body including therein a small-diameter chamber continuous with a communication hole defined by the connecting cylindrical wall at the top end of the main body and a large-diameter chamber formed behind the small-diameter chamber; and a socket having repulsive walls each in the form of a pawl wall and formed integral with, or separately from, the outer periphery of the connector main body whereby the repulsive walls of the socket are brought into engagement with an annular bulged wall of the target resin tube. Further, a thin-wall metallic tube having an annular bulged wall is inserted into at least the connecting end of the resin tube with the metallic tube serving as a reinforcing member for the resin tube. The resin tube may have the annular bulged wall together with the metallic tube by press-working the inserted metallic tube in the axial direction.