Abstract: A cassette control device by which high-speed processing can be expected even by using an arithmetical unit with current processing capability, even when the number of cassettes increases simultaneously with an increase in the number of nozzles which can suck electronic parts. There is provided storage unit (18) having storage regions in which programs for respective operation patterns of the cassettes (3-1 to 3-M) are set for each of the nozzles. An arithmetic unit (19) extracts a specific program required for driving in a specific operation pattern based on a command (17) inputted according to the content of packaging, from a specific region which is provided in the storage unit (18) to correspond to a specific nozzle to be used, and the arithmetic unit (19) operates the specific cassette using the specific program.

Abstract: A cassette control device by which high-speed processing can be expected even by using an arithmetical unit with current processing capability, even when the number of cassettes increases simultaneously with an increase in the number of nozzles which can suck electronic parts. There is provided storage unit (18) having storage regions in which programs for respective operation patterns of the cassettes (3-1 to 3-M) are set for each of the nozzles. An arithmetic unit (19) extracts a specific program required for driving in a specific operation pattern based on a command (17) inputted according to the content of packaging, from a specific region which is provided in the storage unit (18) to correspond to a specific nozzle to be used, and the arithmetic unit (19) operates the specific cassette using the specific program.

Abstract: A user interface for analyzing multiple dimension data, with which a great number of multiple dimension data sets can be easily and intuitively analyzed and edited. At the least, data having two dimensions are selected from among multiple dimension data. Then, the selected data are assigned to respective coordinate axes so that the coordinate axes cross each other, or intersect each other if two-dimensional data are selected. The coordinate axes are divided, using a predetermined threshold value, into a number of segments, and these segments are assembled to define composite areas for all the coordinate axes. Data are displayed in each of the composite areas in order to enable analysis and editing of multiple dimension data. As a result, in the preferred embodiment, a great number of multiple dimension data sets can be easily and intuitively analyzed and edited.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a charging member, contactable to the image bearing member, for electrically charging the image bearing member at a charging position; developing means for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with a developer; wherein when a first area on the image bearing member which is going to be an image formation area is at the charging position, the charging member moves with a peripheral speed difference relative to the image bearing member, and when a second area on the image bearing member which is a part of an area which is going to be a non-image formation area is at the charging position, the charging member moves substantially without a peripheral speed difference relative to the image bearing member, and wherein a collecting electric field is formed for collecting the developer from the second area to the developing means.

Abstract: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes a photosensitive drum; a developing roller rotatable in the drum-rotating direction when the cartridge is mounted to the apparatus; first and second separation members disposed at one and the other end of the roller so as to provide a gap between the roller and the drum and contacting the drum surface adjacent one and the other end thereof; a charging roller, contacting and charging the drum, which is rotatable with a peripheral speed difference relative to the drum; and a cleaning member contacting the drum adjacent one end thereof, the cleaning member having an effective area outside a developing-roller developing zone and inside a charging-roller-and drum contact region and which is in a region where the first separation member contacts the drum.

Abstract: A hoisting device can be small-sized and energy can be saved. A hoisting device 10 according to the present invention has a hoist 30 and a control unit 32. The hoist 30 rotates a drum 12 having a wire 14 wound thereon by an oil pressure motor 42 rotatable in normal and reverse directions. To the oil pressure motor 42, operating oil is supplied from an oil pressure pump 44. The oil pressure pump 44 is a two-way discharge fixed capacity type, and rotated by a servomotor 46. An acceleration/displacement transducer 34 in the control unit 32 finds a moving direction and a moving speed of a wire hanging point in the vertical direction from an output signal of an acceleration sensor 24.

Abstract: A peel-treating agent comprising a reaction product of an aliphatic isocyanate having an aliphatic group of at least 8 carbon number with an ethylene/vinyl alcohol copolymer or polyvinyl alcohol as an effective component, wherein a bisurea form content in the reaction product is at most 3 wt %.

Abstract: An ACC system includes a radar device for detecting an object in front of a subject vehicle, locus estimator for estimating a travel locus of the subject vehicle, detection area setter for setting a predetermined detection area in front of the subject vehicle based on the travel locus of the subject vehicle, obstacle extractor for extracting a preceding vehicle based on a detection result of the radar device and the detection area, and acceleration/deceleration intention detector for detecting an intention of an occupant to accelerate or decelerate.

Abstract: A charging member electrically charges a member to be charged in a state that said charging member forms a nip with the member to be charged and electroconductive particles are present at the nip. The charging member includes an elastic foam member provided at a surface of said charging member. The elastic foam member includes cell portions and cell wall portions defining the cell portions. The cell wall portions have a thickness proportion to the cell portions of not less than 2% and not more than 40%.

Abstract: In apparatus and method for detecting a traffic lane mark for an automotive vehicle, a plurality of traffic lane detection windows are set in a manner for the traffic lane to be included in each traffic lane detection window from an image data photographed by a photograph device, the traffic lane mark is detected from a luminous intensity information within each traffic lane detection window of each coordinate point, a plurality of noise detection windows are set at positions which abut the respective traffic lane detection windows, an edge intensity within each noise detection window is detected; a weight value to a predetermined number of the traffic lane detection windows is modified in accordance with the edge intensity in the noise detection window; and a road contour is calculated using the traffic lane detected at the window internal traffic lane detecting and the modified weight value.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an aperture plate using a plasma excitation chemical vapor deposition (CVD) device includes the steps of placing a metal plate in a vacuum chamber of the CVD device; discharging air inside the vacuum chamber; charging a mixture of a gas containing at least osmium and a gas containing a hydrogen gas; adjusting a pressure of the vacuum chamber at a predetermined level; and generating plasma inside the vacuum chamber. An electrically conductive amorphous coating having a dense structure is uniformly formed over a surface and an interior of a micro-hole of the aperture plate. Also, it is possible to form an osmium coating having a high purity and a low impurity content with good repeatability.

Abstract: Outputs of pixels present around a given pixel at an image-capturing unit having a plurality of pixels disposed two-dimensionally are added to the output of the given pixel. During this process, the addition pattern with which the pixel outputs are added together is determined in correspondence to a specific type of image processing to be executed at a subsequent stage, and an image is generated by adding together the pixel outputs constituting image signals output from the image-capturing unit based upon the addition pattern. The image resulting from the addition then undergoes the image processing and the processed image is output.

Abstract: In steering control apparatus and method for an automotive vehicle, a camera photographs a travel path in a traveling direction of a vehicle, a lateral displacement calculating circuit calculates a lateral displacement of the vehicle with respect to the travel path according to an image of the travel path photographed by the camera, a differentiator calculates a differential value of the lateral displacement, a vehicle speed sensor that detects a vehicle speed, a relative yaw rate calculating section calculates a relative yaw rate with respect to the travel path of the vehicle on the basis of the lateral displacement, the differential value of the lateral displacement, and the vehicle speed, an actuator provides an assistance force for the steering mechanism, and an actuator controlling section drivingly controls the actuator in a direction toward which the relative yaw rate is cancelled on the basis of the relative yaw rate.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a rotatable charging member, forming a nip with the image bearing member, for electrically charging the image bearing member; developing structure for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member to form a toner image, the developing structure supplying electroconductive particles to the image bearing member, wherein the electroconductive particles are fed to the nip by the image bearing member; and transferring structure for transferring the toner image onto a recording material at a transfer position.

Abstract: The present invention is an integrated pump having structure where a plurality of cell pumps having an inlet and an outlet to discharge fluid drawn from a consolidated inlet to the consolidated outlet is connected in series or parallel. A plurality of cell pump may be connected in parallel to constitute an integrated pumps. The integrated pump of the present invention can obtain a desired output connecting in series and parallel a number of cell pumps. For a high output integrated pump where many cell pumps are connected to provide high capacity and high head, by unitizing the individual cell pumps during transportation or installation, the transportation and installation work for the integrated pump can be easily done.

Abstract: A method for preparing a polyether polyol copolymer includes the step of copolymerizing (1) a cyclic ether represented by the following formula (I): wherein x is an integer ranging from 2 to 10; (2) a diol represented by the following formula (II): HO—(CH2)x—OH  (II) wherein x is the same as that specified above; and (3) other polyols, in the presence of an acid catalyst. The method permits the arbitrary modification of the content of the O(CH2)x units present in the main chain of a polyether polyol copolymer so that the copolymer may have an appropriate crystallinity suitable for use as an elastomer by controlling the ratio of the diol represented by Formula (II) used in the copolymerization and simultaneously permits the change of the molecular weight of the resulting polyether polyol copolymer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member; a charging rotatable member, contactable to the image bearing member at a contact position, for electrically charging the image bearing member, the charging rotatable member being rotatable for counterdirectional peripheral movement relative to rotation of the image bearing member at the contact position; developing means for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with a developer, the developing means being capable of collecting a residual developer from the image bearing member; and wherein start of rotation of the charging rotatable member is simultaneous with or prior to start of rotation of the image bearing member.

Abstract: A cassette control device by which high-speed processing can be expected even by using an arithmetical unit with current processing capability, even when the number of cassettes increases simultaneously with an increase in the number of nozzles which can suck electronic parts. There is provided storage unit (18) having storage regions in which programs for respective operation patterns of the cassettes (3-1 to 3-M) are set for each of the nozzles. An arithmetic unit (19) extracts a specific program required for driving in a specific operation pattern based on a command (17) inputted according to the content of packaging, from a specific region which is provided in the storage unit (18) to correspond to a specific nozzle to be used, and the arithmetic unit (19) operates the specific cassette using the specific program.

Abstract: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes a photosensitive drum; a developing roller rotatable in the same direction as that of the drum when the cartridge is mounted to the apparatus; a first separation member disposed at one end of the roller so as to provide a gap between the roller and the drum, the first separation member being contacted to the surface of the drum adjacent one end thereof; a second separation member at the other end so as to provide a gap between the developing roller and a peripheral surface of the drum, the first separation member being contacted to the drum adjacent the other end thereof; a charging roller, contacted to the drum, for charging the drum, which is rotatable with a peripheral speed difference relative to the drum by a driving force received from the assembly; and a cleaning member contacted to the drum adjacent one end thereof, the cleaning member having an effective area which is outside a deve

Abstract: A charging member electrically charges a member to be charged in a state that said charging member forms a nip with the member to be charged and electroconductive particles are present at the nip. The charging member includes an elastic foam member provided at a surface of said charging member. The elastic foam member includes cell portions and cell wall portions defining the cell portions. The cell wall portions have a thickness proportion to the cell portions of not less than 2% and not more than 40%.