Abstract: A pressure reduction start distance is obtained (S9) based upon a deceleration after an operation of an automatic brake. When an obstacle-to-vehicle distance between a vehicle and an obstacle ahead becomes a distance obtained by adding the pressure reduction start distance to a target stopping distance to the obstacle ahead, the reduction of the brake pressure is started (S11) to suppress a pitching vibration generated before and after the vehicle stops. When the obstacle-to-vehicle distance becomes a stopping brake start distance that is just before the target stopping distance, the brake pressure is increased (S13) so as to allow the vehicle to stop.

Abstract: A rotary cutter for a brush cutter includes a head main body having a cord guide hole and a pressure member having a cord inserting guide hole formed to radially penetrate through the pressure member. The pressure member is operable between a first state in which the cord inserting guide hole of the pressure member is aligned with the cord guide hole of the head main body so that a cutting cord is insertable into the head main body; a second state in which the pressure member is pushed inwardly of the head main body from the first state; and a third state in which the pressure member is rotated with respect to the head main body from the second state so that the inserted cutting cord is made into a bent state.

Abstract: A stator of a rotary electric machine includes a stator core that includes a plurality of slots; and a plurality of conductor segment coils that each have a U-shape. A sectional area of the U-shaped portion of the conductor segment coil that protrudes out from one side in the axial direction of the stator core is larger than a sectional area of a tip end portion of the conductor segment coil that protrudes out from the other side in the axial direction of the stator core; and the sectional area of the tip end portion of the conductor segment coil that protrudes out from the other side in the axial direction of the stator core is larger than a sectional area of an in-slot portion of the conductor segment coil.

Abstract: An opposed swash plate type fluid pressure rotating machine in which a first piston and a second piston projecting from opposite ends of a cylinder block reciprocate in a cylinder, respectively following a first swash plate and a second swash plate includes a center spring for biasing the cylinder block toward the second swash plate. A housing hole (biasing force receiving part) for receiving a biasing force of the center spring is formed on one end part of the cylinder block. The tip of a second neck (reaction force receiving part) for receiving a reaction force from the second swash plate is formed on the other end part of the cylinder block. The cylinder block is biased only toward the second swash plate by the center spring.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit, an image forming unit, a first conveyance path configured to guide the sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit, a second conveyance path configured to guide the sheet on one surface of which an image has been formed by the image forming unit to the first conveyance path again, a document feeding unit configured to feed a document to the second conveyance path, an image reading unit configured to read the document, a third conveyance path branching off from the second conveyance path and configured to guide the document, a switch back conveyance unit configured to convey the document in the third conveyance path, a fourth conveyance path configured to guide the document conveyed by the switch back conveyance unit, and a document discharge unit configured to discharge the document guided by the fourth conveyance path.

Abstract: A piston motor includes a bush in the form of a curved plate held in sliding contact with a back surface of a tiltable swash plate, a supply/discharge passage formed on the casing including a swash plate port formed on the swash plate and open on the back surface of the swash plate and a bush port penetrating through the bush and provided from a piston to the swash plate, and an elastic ring interposed between the casing and the bush and surrounding an opening end of the bush port.

Abstract: An opposed swash plate type fluid pressure rotating machine in which a first piston and a second piston projecting from opposite ends of a rotary cylinder block reciprocate in a cylinder, respectively following a first swash plate and a second swash plate includes a first tilt bearing for tiltably supporting the first swash plate, a first tilt driving piston for tilting the first swash plate in a direction intersecting with an axis of rotation of the cylinder block, a second tilt bearing for tiltably supporting the second swash plate, and a second tilt driving piston for tilting the second swash plate in a direction intersecting with the axis of rotation of the cylinder block.

Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine includes a rotor core having a plurality of rotor salient poles disposed on an outer periphery of the rotor core in a circumferential direction of the rotor core, rotor coils wound on the rotor salient poles, and a retainer member provided to close a slot formed between the rotor salient poles. The retainer member includes a leg portion extending radially in the slot between rotor coils wound on two rotor salient poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction and fixed to the rotor core, and beam portions extending in the opposite circumferential directions each other from a radially outer end portion of the leg portion and that close an outer periphery of the slot. The leg portion of the retainer member is provided with protrusion portions protruded in circumferential directions to engage with the coil winding that forms the rotor coils.

Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine has a tooth whose width in a circumferential direction is substantially constant in a radial direction of the stator, and a concentrated winding coil including winding conducting wires around the tooth. A height of a first conducting wire of the sixth turn at a tooth's top end side measured from a surface of the tooth is lower than a height of a conducting wire adjacent to a tooth's root end side of the conducting wire measured from the tooth surface. Conducting wires of the first to fifth turns, that is, second conducting wires, have the same height from the surface of the tooth.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a reading unit, first and second original sheet conveyance paths, a common conveyance path in which a recording material or the original sheet is conveyed to form an image, a third original sheet conveyance path that connects the first original sheet conveyance path and the second original sheet conveyance path and is used for conveying the original sheet conveyed in the second original sheet conveyance path to the common conveyance path, and a control unit that controls so as to convey the original sheet conveyed in the second original sheet conveyance path to the common conveyance path via the third original sheet conveyance path, and form an image on the original sheet.

Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electrical device includes: a rotor coil that is wound on each of the rotor salient poles; a retaining member that is supported by a rotor core; and an outer magnetic member. The retaining member has a beam bridged between the adjacent rotor salient poles and prevents the rotor coil from falling out. The outer magnetic member is provided in an end of the beam.

Abstract: A therapeutic agent for impaired gastric accommodation which contains as an active ingredient a compound represented by the general formula (1): (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or a halogen atom; A represents a furyl group, a thienyl group, a thiazolyl group or an oxazolyl group; R2 and R3 each represents an alkyl group with 1 to 5 carbon atoms; and n represents an integer of 2 to 4), or an acid addition salt thereof. Use of a therapeutic agent of the present invention greatly alleviates symptoms caused by said disorders, such as early satiety and bloating, because it improves relaxation of gastric fundus and impaired gastric accommodation.

Abstract: It is possible to provide a vibrator configured so as to prevent the leakage of an adhesive out from between a frame and a diaphragm member and a portable information terminal having the vibrator. The vibrator includes: frame 11; diaphragm member 12 vibratably bonded to frame 11; and adhesive 21 used to bond the frame to the diaphragm member. To store adhesive 21, the vibrator further includes gap 22 which is formed between surfaces of frame 11 and diaphragm member 12 facing each other at bonded part 20 where frame 11 is bonded to diaphragm member 12 with adhesive 21, and the gap being used.

Abstract: In a reading apparatus including a first conveying device including a first and a second movable unit to cause the sheet to pass through the first position; and a second conveying device including a third and a fourth movable unit to cause the sheet to pass through the second position; characterized in that when the reading device reads the sheet at the first position, a moving velocity of the second movable unit is larger than a moving velocity of the first movable unit, and when the reading device reads the sheet at the second position, a moving velocity of the fourth movable unit is larger than a moving velocity of the third movable unit.

Abstract: There is provided a driving support apparatus for a vehicle. A driving control unit determines whether or not a three-dimensional object ahead is a three-dimensional object having high reliability as a control object for an automatic brake control based on a condition set beforehand, when possibility of collision between the vehicle and the three-dimensional object ahead is determined to be high. When the reliability of the three-dimensional object ahead as the control object is determined to be low and the amount of increase in the accelerator opening degree is equal to or larger than a set value, the driving control unit cancels the execution of the automatic brake control.

Abstract: A content recommendation system includes: an attribute value storage means which stores one or more attribute values of attributes for each content; a preference distribution storage means which stores a user preference degree for each attribute value; an attribute value acquisition means which acquires an attribute value of at least one attribute for each content; a preference distribution update means which updates the storage contents in the preference distribution storage means in accordance with the acquired attribute value; a condition determination means which selects an attribute value of one or more attributes in accordance with probability based on the user preference degree stored in the preference distribution storage means and determines the condition of the attribute value of the one or more attributes in accordance with the selected attribute value; and a content selection means which selects some or all of the contents in accordance with the determined condition.

Abstract: In a vehicle driving support apparatus, if a brake pedal operation by a driver is detected during a braking control, a cruise control unit determines that it is highly likely that the driver recognizes a possibility of a collision of a subject vehicle and a obstacle, and halts the braking control. On the other hand, if a depression amount of the brake pedal by the driver changes to a release side at or over a preset speed, the cruise control unit restarts the halted braking control.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a method of treating osteoporosis by PTH that has excellent safety and high efficacy. To provide a method for inhibiting/preventing bone fractures by PTH that has excellent safety. And to provide a drug to do this. [Means of Achievement] A drug containing PTH as the active ingredient, characterized in that a unit dose of PTH of 100 to 200 units is administered weekly in the above method.

Abstract: Provided is an information providing system that is capable of precisely grasping actual situations of use of provided information and effectively updating the provided information. A space management server (12) includes a unit for transmitting a part of space information indicating a structure of virtual 3-dimensional space to a user device (28). The user device (28) includes a unit for receiving the part of the space information, a unit for sharing the part of the space information with another user device (28), a unit for acquiring user information of the other information terminal device, and a unit for outputting the acquired user information and part specifying information for specifying the part of the space information.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a reading unit, first and second original sheet conveyance paths, a common conveyance path in which a recording material or the original sheet is conveyed to form an image, a third original sheet conveyance path that connects the first original sheet conveyance path and the second original sheet conveyance path and is used for conveying the original sheet conveyed in the second original sheet conveyance path to the common conveyance path, and a control unit that controls so as to convey the original sheet conveyed in the second original sheet conveyance path to the common conveyance path via the third original sheet conveyance path, and form an image on the original sheet.