Abstract: A handlebar-mounted switch control device includes switch activation buttons which respectively correspond to specific switches, and which are arranged on surfaces of a switch case adjacent to a grip in an end portion of a handlebar. Two switch activation buttons are disposed on a front outer surface of the switch case. The two switch activation buttons are configured and placed in such a way so that a rider can easily recognize which of the two switch activation buttons the rider touches. The second switch activation button is placed above the first switch activation button, and inward of the first switch activation button in a vehicle width direction. A guide surface inclining to extend inward in the vehicle width direction toward an upper side is formed on a side surface of the switch case which is above the first switch activation button, and which faces the grip.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element has a conductive support, a photoreceptor layer containing an electrolyte, a charge carrier layer containing an electrolyte and a counter electrode, and the photoreceptor layer has semiconductor particles on which a metal complex dye represented by Formula (I) is carried. M1(LA)(LD)(Z1).CI??Formula (I) M1 represents a metal atom; Z1 represents a monodentate ligand; LA represents a tridentate ligand represented by Formula (AL-1); LD represents a bidentate ligand represented by Formula (DL-1); and CI represents a counterion necessary for neutralizing the charge.

Abstract: A battery holding structure includes a battery tray for storing a battery therein. A battery holding rack is configured to store the battery tray with the battery stored therein and to allow the battery tray to be pulled out along widthwise directions of the vehicle. A ground wire has one end connected to a negative terminal of the battery and another end connected to a grounding member on a vehicle frame. A movement prevention member fixes the other end of the ground wire to the battery tray and prevents the battery tray from being pulled out to one side along the widthwise directions of the vehicle with the ground wire which is connected to the grounding member.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a control unit which instructs a constant temperature mode to the fuel cell unit as one of operation modes, the constant temperature mode being a mode for performing an control to cover power consumption of the auxiliaries by power supplied from the outside and an control to keep a temperature of the power generation unit constant within a prescribed temperature range. In the constant temperature mode, power output from the power generation unit is at least smaller than the power consumption of the auxiliaries.

Abstract: An EMS (200) is provided with a control unit (230) for instructing a fuel cell unit (150) to operate in one of operation modes including an idling mode for performing a control to cover power consumption of auxiliaries by power other than grid power, and a constant temperature mode for performing a control to cover the power consumption of the auxiliaries by power supplied from the outside and keep a temperature of a cell stack (51B) within a predetermined temperature range. When a power failure occurs while the fuel cell unit (150) is operating in the constant temperature mode, the control unit (230) controls the fuel cell unit (150) to operate in the idling mode.

Abstract: An EMS controls: a fuel cell unit which comprises a cell stack which generates power by chemical reaction, and auxiliaries; and a storage cell unit which comprises a storage cell. The EMS comprises: a control unit which instructs the fuel cell unit to enter one operation mode among a power generation mode and a temperature maintenance mode, said power generation mode being a mode wherein power generation is aggressively performed by the cell stack, and said temperature preservation mode being a mode wherein control is performed so that power consumption by the auxiliaries is covered by power supplied from an external source to keep the temperature of a power generation unit within a predetermined range. If, when charging the storage cell, the unit price of electricity from a grid falls below a predetermined value, the control unit controls the fuel cell unit to operate in the temperature maintenance mode.

Abstract: A valuable medium processing apparatus is provided. The valuable medium processing apparatus includes an imaging unit that photographs images of valuable media that are depositing process target media, an input unit that inputs amount information on the valuable media based on image data of the valuable media photographed by the imaging unit, and a memory unit that saves the image data acquired by the imaging unit and the amount information inputted by the input unit in association with each other.

Abstract: A HEMS 100 that controls a plurality of storage batteries 10 provided in a power consumer acquires information on type and/or deterioration level of each of the plurality of storage batteries. The HEMS 100 controls charge and discharge of each of the plurality of storage batteries 10 on the basis of the information on the type and/or the deterioration level of each of the plurality of storage batteries 10.

Abstract: An outer rotor type brushless motor of the present invention comprises: a rotor portion having a rotor frame, a shaft, and a rotor magnet; a bearing housing; a stator portion facing the rotor magnet and having a stator core, a plurality of first salient pole portions extending toward the rotor magnet from the stator core, an insulation surrounding the first salient pole portion, and a winding around the first salient pole portion through the insulation; and a torque holding portion provided on an inner side of the outer circumference portion of the rotor frame and an outer circumference of the bearing housing, and having a plurality of second salient pole portions disposed coaxially with the stator core and extending toward the rotor magnet, where the first salient pole portions and the second salient pole portions are provided in different numbers.

Abstract: A radio communication system wherein a femto cell base station (100a) is located in a macro cell (MC1) and a radio terminal (200a) is connected to the femto cell base station (100a) and wherein the femto cell base station (100a) or radio terminal (200a) controls, based on a propagation loss between the radio terminal (200a) and a macro cell base station (300a) existing in the neighborhood of the radio terminal (200a), the transmission power of a radio signal to be transmitted from the radio terminal (200a) to the femto cell base station (100a).

Abstract: An HEMS 500 that performs a power management in a consumer 1 that includes one or more loads 40 that consume power and an SOFC unit 100 that performs a load following operation calculates, for each time zone, predicted power consumption, and thereafter, displays information indicating an exceeding time zone in which the predicted power consumption in the consumer exceeds a first threshold value of the SOFC unit 100 and information indicating a non-exceeding time zone in which the predicted power consumption falls short of a second threshold value.

Abstract: A carrier recovery circuit, adapted to a demodulation circuit according to a quasi-coherent detection method for generating baseband signals by way of quadrature detection on a received signal having an intermediate frequency, rotates phases of baseband signals; detects a phase error and an amplitude error; controls a bandwidth of a loop filter based on its difference, eliminates a high-frequency component from the phase error; and performs phase rotation based on the phase error eliminating its high-frequency component. It expands the bandwidth of the loop filter when a difference between the phase error and the amplitude error is greater than a predetermined threshold, whilst reducing bandwidth of the loop filter upon determining that the amplitude error decreases due to a reduction of the bandwidth of the loop filter. This optimizes the bandwidth of the loop filter to follow variations of the C/N ratio of the received signal, improving bit error rate.

Abstract: A power limiting circuit includes: a maximum value prediction filter section (MVPFS) interpolating data of one branched digital input signal; a maximum value detection section detecting maximum value of an output of the MVPFS and a time detection position thereof every constant period; a threshold subtraction section subtracting a threshold from detected maximum value and outputting a peak signal (zero when the subtraction result is negative); a coefficient selection section weighting the peak signal according to time detection position; a complex filter section limiting the weighted peak signal within a band of the input signal; a filter coefficient calculation section calculating filter coefficients of the complex filter section; a delay adjustment section delaying another of the branched input signals by a time period required for calculating the band-limited peak signal; and a subtraction section subtracting the band-limited peak signal from the other of the branched input signals subjected to delay.

Abstract: A solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate having a photoelectric converting portion, a first electrode formed on a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a second electrode connected to the first electrode on the first main surface. The first electrode includes a plurality of first connecting portions to be connected to an interconnector and a first non-connecting portion not connected to an interconnector. The first non-connecting portion is arranged between first connecting portions to electrically connect the first connecting portions together. The first connecting portion and first non-connecting portion are coupled forming an angle larger than 90° and smaller than 180°. A solar cell string and a solar cell module employ the solar cells.

Abstract: A carrier recovery circuit, adapted to a demodulation circuit according to a quasi-coherent detection method for generating baseband signals by way of quadrature detection on a received signal having an intermediate frequency, rotates phases of baseband signals; detects a phase error and an amplitude error; controls a bandwidth of a loop filter based on its difference, eliminates a high-frequency component from the phase error; and performs phase rotation based on the phase error eliminating its high-frequency component. It expands the bandwidth of the loop filter when a difference between the phase error and the amplitude error is greater than a predetermined threshold, whilst reducing bandwidth of the loop filter upon determining that the amplitude error decreases due to a reduction of the bandwidth of the loop filter. This optimizes the bandwidth of the loop filter to follow variations of the C/N ratio of the received signal, improving bit error rate.

Abstract: A radio communication system wherein a femto cell base station (100a) is located in a macro cell (MC1) and a radio terminal (200a) is connected to the femto cell base station (100a) and wherein the femto cell base station (100a) or radio terminal (200a) controls, based on a propagation loss between the radio terminal (200a) and a macro cell base station (300a) existing in the neighborhood of the radio terminal (200a), the transmission power of a radio signal to be transmitted from the radio terminal (200a) to the femto cell base station (100a).

Abstract: A friction-clutch system having a friction disk unit including a central hub and friction disks, wherein the friction disks have friction surfaces. At least one friction surface of the first to fourth friction surfaces is constituted of a combination of a carbon/graphite material and a metal/ceramics material, wherein the carbon/graphite material forms a friction surface made from a carbon/graphite material, and a metal/ceramics material forms a friction surface made from a metal/ceramics material, wherein the ratio of [the area of the friction surface made from the metal/ceramics material]/[the area of the friction surface made from the metal/ceramics material+the area of the friction surface made from the carbon/graphite material] ranges from 0.05˜0.65, and wherein pressure between the first and the third friction surface and between the second and the fourth friction surface is 10˜250 N/cm2 while the power is being transmitted.

Abstract: Provided are a radio communication apparatus and a radio communication method capable of changing an order of interpolation between time domain interpolation and frequency domain interpolation based on a degree of channel variation. According to the present invention, a radio communication apparatus (100) includes a pilot channel estimation unit (30) for estimating a channel estimation value from pilot symbols, a channel statistics information estimation unit (40, 50) for estimating channel statistics information on a degree of channel variation in at least one of the time domain and the frequency domain, an interpolation domain order determination unit (60) for determining the order of channel interpolation in the time domain and in the frequency domain, and an interpolation unit (70) for performing channel interpolation in the time domain and in the frequency domain.

Abstract: A power limiting circuit includes: a maximum value prediction filter section (MVPFS) interpolating data of one branched digital input signal; a maximum value detection section detecting maximum value of an output of the MVPFS and a time detection position thereof every constant period; a threshold subtraction section subtracting a threshold from detected maximum value and outputting a peak signal (zero when the subtraction result is negative); a coefficient selection section weighting the peak signal according to time detection position; a complex filter section limiting the weighted peak signal within a band of the input signal; a filter coefficient calculation section calculating filter coefficients of the complex filter section; a delay adjustment section delaying another of the branched input signals by a time period required for calculating the band-limited peak signal; and a subtraction section subtracting the band-limited peak signal from the other of the branched input signals subjected to delay.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium comprising a magnetic layer comprising a ferromagnetic power and a binder on a nonmagnetic support, wherein, the binder comprises a constituent component in the form of a polyurethane resin obtained from starting materials in the form of a polyisocyanate and a polyol denoted by general formula (I): wherein, in general formula (I), Z1 denotes an atom group forming a lactone ring with two adjacent carbon atoms.