Abstract: A technology for preventing degradation of a hydrogen permeable metal layer in a fuel cell 210 is provided. A fuel cell system 200 including a fuel cell 210 with an anode which has the hydrogen permeable metal layer comprises a fuel cell controller 230 for controlling the operation status of the fuel cell system 200, a temperature parameter acquisition section for acquiring a temperature parameter of the hydrogen permeable metal layer, and a hydrogen permeable metal layer degradation prevention section which reduces the hydrogen partial pressure in an anode channel 212 for supplying fuel gas to the anode. If a temperature of the hydrogen permeable metal layer represented by the temperature parameter deviates from a specified temperature range, the fuel cell controller 230 cause the hydrogen permeable metal layer degradation prevention section to operate for preventing degradation of the hydrogen permeable metal layer.

Abstract: A camera module includes a module structure constituted by a lens unit to which an image pickup lens is attached and a package to which an imaging element is attached so as to be opposite to the image pickup lens. An optical filter is arranged between the imaging element and the image pickup lens. A portion of a flat surface of the optical filter is fixed to a filter fixing portion via an adhesive. The optical filter is adhered to the filter fixing portion in a state in which an end portion formed by a side surface of the optical filter and the flat surface is in noncontact with the filter fixing portion or the adhesive. Minute particles generated from a cut surface of the optical filter fall outside the filter fixing portion.

Abstract: A buckle (6) according to the present invention includes a buckle switch (11) to be actuated when a tongue (5) is retained; a seat-belt reminder apparatus (12) that gives a warn when the tongue (5) is not retained to the buckle (6) even if an occupant sits in a vehicle seat (2); and an occupant detection device (13) for detecting the occupant sitting in the vehicle seat (2) that are integrally provided and unitized. Thereby, the buckle (6) has a seat-belt reminder function.

Abstract: A mobile radio system comprises first through N-th radio base stations, where N represents a positive integer which is greater than one. On a start-up sequence of an n-th radio base station, a base station control apparatus transmits an n-th individual identifier as a station identifier to the n-th radio base station to allocate the n-th individual identifier to the n-th radio base station, where n is a variable between one and N, both inclusive. The base station control apparatus transmits a transmission message signal having the n-th individual identifier as a transmission individual identifier to the n-th radio base station to carry out a link connection between the base station control apparatus and the n-th radio base station. In the n-th radio base station, an ATM reception section compares the transmission individual identifier with the n-th station identifier to abandon the transmission message signal when the transmission individual identifier is not coincident with the n-th station identifier.

Abstract: At each lattice point 2 of pantographs 1, a capillary 3 is held perpendicular to the pantograph lattice. The pantograph 1 includes: rings 4 and 5 to serve as lattice points; and shafts 6 linking the rings with one another. Each of the capillaries 3 is supported by the two rings 4 and 5. The shafts are free to rotate about an intersection 7. The ring 5 is fixed to the capillary 3, but the ring 4 is a movable ring being moveable freely up and down in the axial direction of the capillary 3 in conjunction with the pantograph 1. The lattice distance can be determined accomplished by moving up or down the movable ring at an arbitrarily-chosen lattice point in a pantograph 1. Accordingly, all the capillaries move in parallel to one another, and the ends of all the capillaries always stay within a single plane.

Abstract: A technology is provided which is effective for precisely detecting information about a vehicle occupant in a vehicle seat. In one form, an occupant restraint system to be installed in a vehicle is adapted to associate occupant surface profile information relating to a specific body region of a vehicle occupant, which is obtained by a camera for obtaining an image relating to a single view point, with previously stored body information so as to derive body information about the vehicle occupant and varies the occupant restraining mode of an occupant restraint device according to the derived body information.

Abstract: There is provided a digital broadcast receiver for solving various problems regarding a display which arise due to the switching of a mode. For example, there is provided a digital broadcast receiver capable of displaying an emergency alert broadcast by an EAS even when a mode is switched from an OCAP mode to an external input mode. The receiver has a plane management unit for managing a receiver only plane and a download application plane. The receiver prohibits the emergency alert broadcast from being displayed in the receiver only plane when, under an OCAP mode, a download application takes away an EAS function of the receiver, and then permits the emergency alert broadcast to be displayed in the receiver only plane when the mode is switched from the OCAP mode to an external input mode.

Abstract: A collision detection device is provided which is effective for improving the detection quality for detection of displacement of a vehicle component during a vehicle collision. In one form, the collision detection device to be installed in a vehicle comprises a coil sensor. The coil sensor includes a first coil which is arranged to face a door outer panel and a second coil which is arranged near the first coil and inside the outer diameter of the first coil and centered about a line perpendicular to the coil plane of the first coil. The coil sensor detects information about induced voltage due to magnetovariation via the second coil when the door outer panel is located in a distant region and detects information about variation in impedance via the first coil when the door outer panel is located in an adjacent region.

Abstract: Image display method and apparatus are capable of displaying an input image signal in an optical condition on a display screen according to the brightness of the screen image. The image display apparatus for performing a specified process on an input image signal and displaying an image by the image signal on a display unit comprises a controller for adjusting a signal level detecting circuit for detecting brightness levels of an image by the input image signal by controlling the sharpness of an image by the image signal according to a detected signal level in such a way that as the detected signal level rises, the sharpness increases.

Abstract: With the aim of offering a video display technique by which stable and high contrast video images are reproduced, contrast adjusting circuitry is constructed. The contrast adjusting circuitry detects a maximum picture level (MPL) and an average picture level (APL) of analog-to-digital converted luminance signals for a predetermined period, determines one of the predefined luminance regions within which the MPL falls and one of the predefined luminance regions within which the APL falls, and, based on the thus determined luminance regions of both MPL and APL, carries out a contrast adjustment of video images by changing the gain of luminance signals and color depth correction by changing the gain of color signals.

Abstract: With the aim of offering a video display technique by which stable and high contrast video images are reproduced, contrast adjusting circuitry is constructed. The contrast adjusting circuitry detects a maximum picture level (MPL) and an average picture level (APL) of analog-to-digital converted luminance signals for a predetermined period, determines one of the predefined luminance regions within which the MPL falls and one of the predefined luminance regions within which the APL falls, and, based on the thus determined luminance regions of both MPL and APL, carries out a contrast adjustment of video images by changing the gain of luminance signals and color depth correction by changing the gain of color signals.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first integrated circuit including an internal component section capable of being adjusted with adjustment data, a nonvolatile memory in which beforehand acquired adjustment data of a result of adjustment carried out in advance for the internal component section are stored, and an interface section having a data transfer function of transferring the beforehand acquired adjustment data read out from the nonvolatile memory to the outside and a data storage function of storing actual use adjustment data sent from the outside and supplying the stored actual use adjustment data to the internal component section; and a second integrated circuit including a signal processor, to which the interface section of the first integrated circuit is connected.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first integrated circuit including an internal component section capable of being adjusted with adjustment data, a nonvolatile memory in which beforehand acquired adjustment data of a result of adjustment carried out in advance for the internal component section are stored, and an interface section having a data transfer function of transferring the beforehand acquired adjustment data read out from the nonvolatile memory to the outside and a data storage function of storing actual use adjustment data sent thereto from the outside and supplying the stored actual use adjustment data to the internal component section; and a second integrated circuit including a signal processor, to which the interface section of the first integrated circuit is connected.

Abstract: A measuring device includes a light-sending part sending light in a first direction which is a depth direction of a hollow shape, a conversion part converting a direction of the light into a circumference direction approximately orthogonal to the first direction, a detection part detecting light reflected inside a measuring object, the direction of which is converted by the conversion part, and a shape measurement part measuring an inside shape of the measuring object by obtaining a shift from a reference position according to a detection result of the detection part. Thereby, it is possible to obtain the hollow shape of an object at one time without a need of rotating the object or a light source, and to carry out a highly accurate measurement using a simple device.

Abstract: At each lattice point of pantographs, a capillary is held perpendicular to the pantograph lattice. The pantograph includes: rings to serve as lattice points; and shafts linking the rings with one another. Each of the capillaries is supported by the two rings. The shafts are free to rotate about an intersection. The ring is fixed to the capillary, but the ring is a movable ring being moveable freely up and down in the axial direction of the capillary in conjunction with the pantograph. The lattice distance can be determined accomplished by moving up or down the movable ring at an arbitrarily-chosen lattice point in a pantograph. Accordingly, all the capillaries move in parallel to one another, and the ends of all the capillaries always stay within a single plane.

Abstract: In an imaging apparatus constituted of a case body for mounting an imaging device and a flexible substrate bonding to an external connection terminal provided on the case body, the flexible substrate is bent along each face of case body 41 so as to surround case body 41. By bending the flexible substrate, a load applied to the flexible substrate is received at the bent portion of the flexible substrate, there is formed a structure hard to transmit the load to the bonding portion to the external connection terminal. Further, by fixing the case body to a portion of the flexible substrate with an adhesive agent, etc., there is formed a structure not to transmit a stress to the direction of peeling the flexible substrate from the external connection terminal. Also, the case body is covered with the flexible substrate equipped with an electromagnetic wave shield material.

Abstract: In a dispensing apparatus for dispensing a liquid, such as a sample solution, on a substrate, such as a glass slide, the dispensing apparatus includes a capillary provided with a distal end and a proximal end, a pump unit configured to pump an operating liquid into the capillary and to pump the operating liquid out of the capillary, and a controller configured to control the pump unit so as to change a position of a liquid surface of the operating liquid in the capillary so that a predetermined volume of liquid is suctioned from the distal end into the capillary and the liquid suctioned in the capillary is discharged from the distal end. As a result, it is possible to precisely dispense extremely small volume amounts of liquids such as a nanoliter.

Abstract: At least one time-varying signal is applied to a plurality of coil elements in cooperative relationship with and spanning different portions of a vehicle. The coil elements generate an associated plurality of magnetic field components that interact with the vehicle. At least one detection circuit generates a detected signal responsive to signal components from the coil elements so as to provide for detecting a change in a magnetic condition of the vehicle.

Abstract: A granular slow-release nitrogenous fertilizer which is less in the release velocity of a nitrogen component than a conventional granular slow-release nitrogenous fertilizer and which is excellent in long-term persistence and the sustained releasability of the nitrogen component. The granular slow-release nitrogenous fertilizer is prepared by granulating a mixture of a urea-aldehyde condensate and an oxidized wax. The content of the oxidized wax is preferably three to 25 weight percent and more preferably five to 15 weight percent. The oxidized wax contains polar groups and therefore has extremely excellent compatibility with the urea-aldehyde condensate. Therefore, the urea-aldehyde condensate, which is sparingly soluble, is extremely uniformly dispersed in the granular slow-release nitrogenous fertilizer according to the present invention; hence, the release velocity of the urea-aldehyde condensate into soil is low.

Abstract: A system provides an image displaying technique that provides stable high contrast even in an area having high brightness. Based on information about an average brightness level of a digital luminance signal, black-correction processing which decreases a brightness level by offsetting the brightness level to the minus side, and increase processing which increases a contrast gain within a dynamic range, are performed for an analog luminance signal or a digital luminance signal, enabling improvement in contrast even where brightness is intense.