Abstract: Disclosed is a mechanism of a four-wheel drive vehicle, for enabling an engine and a transmission to be arranged compact by using an empty space within a body frame of the vehicle. The transmission includes a power take-off part for driving front wheels of the vehicle, and a rear reduction gear mechanism for driving rear wheels of the vehicle. The transmission and the engine are mounted on a swing arm which is supported on the body frame of the vehicle so as to be able to swing in an up and down direction.

Abstract: An assembly of an engine and a transmission is disclosed. An output shaft of the engine and an input shaft of the transmission extends in parallel to protrude from the assembly. The assembly typically comprises a first fitting portion that is formed in a crankcase of the engine and is configured to surround the output shaft, a second fitting portion that is formed in a housing of the transmission and is configured to surround the input shaft, and a coupling element having a first opening fitted to the first fitting portion and a second opening fitted to the second fitting portion. A center distance between the output shaft and the input shaft is fixed with the coupling element fitted to the first and second fitting portions.

Abstract: In order to enable communication in which information is exchanged with friends and acquaintances, and a plurality of messages can be listed as on a bulletin board without being aware of electronic mail functions, an electronic mail transmission/reception system comprises a communication mean to transmit and receive electronic mail; a display mean to display transmitted and received electronic mail on a display screen; a message input mean to input messages to the display screen; a message storage mean to store input messages; and a control mean to cause the above display means to display input messages in a message-board format. The control mean divides the above display screen into a plurality of message display regions, and associates each message with a message display region for display.

Abstract: A sealed nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a case which is deformed when the inner pressure is increased is characterized in that a material capable of occluding and releasing lithium is used as a negative electrode material, and a mixture of a lithium transition metal composite oxide containing Ni and Mn as transition metals and having a layered structure and a lithium cobaltate is used as a positive electrode material.

Abstract: The present invention is a self-test circuit (BIST) incorporated in the memory device, which is activated in response to a test activation signal from outside. When this self-test circuit is activated in response to a test activation signal (WBIZ) from outside, it generates a test operation command (WBI-CMD), generates a test address (WBI-ADD), and generates test data (WBI-DATA). Furthermore, after the self-test circuit writes the test data to a memory cell, it effects a comparison to establish whether or not the read data that is read from this memory cell is the same as the test data that was written thereto and stores information as to the result of this comparison. This comparison result information is then output to the outside.

Abstract: A recording and reproducing device having a detector, which detects the beginning of inputting a string of characters associated with a user input while recording or reproducing video and/or audio data, storing marking position data with reference to the beginning of the inputting characters of the character string, at the point in time detected by the detector. Wherein a reproducing operation of the recorded data, can be done at a starting point specified pointing to character strings. This allows the user to select character strings generated in a character display area, whereby the recorded video data can be reproduced from the positions stored with reference to user selected character strings.

Abstract: A method for classifying and counting leukocytes comprises the steps of: (1) adding to a hematological sample the following fluorescence-labeled antibodies labeled with fluorescent dyes which emit fluorescences distinguishable from each other; (a) a first fluorescence-labeled antibody (1st antibody) which bonds specifically to leukocytes, (b) a second fluorescence-labeled antibody (2nd antibody) which bonds to at least one kind of neutrophilic cells, and (c) a third fluorescence-labeled antibody (3rd antibody) which bonds to at least one kind of immature granulocytic cells, in order to stain leukocytic cells in the sample, and removing erythrocytes from the sample; (2) analyzing the resulting sample using a flow cytometer to measure at least one scattered light signal and three separate fluorescence signals; (3) defining a group of granulocytic cells on the basis of intensity of the scattered light and intensity of fluorescence from the 1st antibody; (4) defining neutrophilic cells in the defined group of gra

Abstract: A rechargeable lithium battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte, said positive or negative electrode being an electrode which has, on a current collector, a thin film of active material that stores and releases lithium, the thin film of active material being divided into columns by gaps formed therein in a manner to extend in its thickness direction, and the columnar portions being at their bottoms adhered to the current collector, the rechargeable lithium battery being characterized in that the nonaqueous electrolyte includes a mixed solvent consisting of two or more different solvents and containing at least ethylene carbonate and/or vinylene carbonate as its constituent.

Abstract: An electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery which includes a current collector and a thin film composed of active material that stores and releases lithium and deposited on the current collector, the electrode being characterized in that the current collector has irregularities on its surface and the thin film has spaces extending in a thickness direction of the thin film and configured to increase their width dimensions toward valleys of the irregularities on the current collector surface.

Abstract: Capacity degradation due to charge/discharge cycles is suppressed in either a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell provided with a positive electrode including, as a positive electrode active material, a lithium-transition metal complex oxide having a layered structure and containing at least Ni and Mn as transition metals, and a negative electrode containing a carbon material as a negative electrode active material and having a higher initial charge-discharge efficiency than that of the positive electrode, or an assembled battery having a plurality of cells each of which is the secondary cell. A control circuit incorporated in the secondary cell or the assembled battery, or in an apparatus using the secondary cell or the assembled battery, monitors the voltage of the secondary cell or each of the cells in the assembled battery so that the end-of-discharge voltage of each cell is 2.9 V or higher.

Abstract: A method of classifying particles indicated on a two-dimensional frequency distribution map into particle clusters, includes the steps of: dividing the particles into a first cluster and a second cluster by a line containing a mode coordinate of the particles, presuming a third cluster so that the first and third clusters are symmetrical with respect to the mode coordinate, calculating variance and covariance of a cluster including the first and third clusters to obtain an ellipse region surrounding the first and third clusters based on the calculated variance and covariance, and determining the particles in the obtained ellipse region as a particle cluster.

Abstract: An electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery which includes a current collector and a thin film composed of active material that stores and releases lithium and deposited on the current collector, the electrode being characterized in that the current collector has irregularities on its surface and the thin film has spaces extending in a thickness direction of the thin film and configured to increase their width dimensions toward valleys of the irregularities on the current collector surface.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery characterized as using a mixture of a first oxide and a second oxide for its positive electrode material. The first oxide is a spinel oxide consisting substantially of lithium, manganese, a metal other than manganese, and oxygen. The second oxide is different in composition from the first oxide and consists substantially of lithium, nickel, cobalt, a metal other than nickel and cobalt, and oxygen.

Abstract: It is an object to provide an evaporative fuel processing apparatus capable of enhancing a purging efficiency by heating a part of activated charcoal which can be heated more effectively and also restraining an increase in temperature of the activated charcoal to prevent a deterioration in adsorbing performance, and restraining electricity consumption. Heating devices (16a) and (16b) are placed at almost the midpoints of the adsorption material layers (7a) and (7b) respectively in a canister (1) to heat an adsorption material (4) for a predetermined time before start of purging. Accordingly, heating the part hard to purge can prompt the purging, thereby enhancing the purging efficiency and increasing the adsorbing capacity. Furthermore, the heating is stopped during the purging, so that the increase in temperature of the adsorption material (4) can be prevented, thereby preventing a deterioration in adsorbing performance at the time of adsorption of evaporative fuel.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including an airtight outer container, the shape of which can be changed by an increase of battery internal pressure; a material capable of occluding and releasing lithium as a negative electrode material; and a lithium-transition metal composite oxide having a layer structure in which nickel and manganese are contained as transition metals and containing fluorine as a positive electrode material.

Abstract: A variable-speed V-belt drive includes: a drive pulley; a driven pulley including a fixed sheave with a cylindrical shaft and a movable sheave mounted on the cylindrical shaft so that the movable sheave can rotate and axially move; a V belt extended between the drive and driven pulleys; and a pressure mechanism of applying pressure to the movable sheave of the driven pulley. The pressure mechanism includes a helical cam groove formed in one of the cylindrical shaft and the movable sheave of the driven pulley, and a roller mounted on other of the cylindrical shaft and the movable sheave of the driven pulley so that the roller engages with the cam groove. The cam groove has opposite first and second working surfaces. The second working surface has a retaining surface of retaining the roller thereon when the vehicle travels in the engine-braking mode. The variable-speed V-belt drive can maintain the effect of engine brake at a high level even when traveling down a steep hill.

Abstract: A straddle type four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle includes: an engine mounted on a body frame and disposed between front wheels and rear wheels, having a crankcase; a variable-speed V-belt drive disposed on a side of the crankcase and covered with a V-belt drive cover, the V-belt drive cover having an upper wall provided with a cooling air discharge port opening upward; and a cooling air exhaust duct disposed within a right-and-left width of the body frame. The cooling air exhaust duct communicates with the cooling air discharge port and has an air outlet located in front of a seat so that a cooling air is discharged through the air outlet into a space under the seat. Cooling air is discharged through the air outlet of the cooling air exhaust duct into a space under the seat.

Abstract: A wheel driving system is capable of varying differential limiting torque applied to a differential included in an all-terrain vehicle according to the difference between loads respectively applied to the right and the left wheel of the vehicle, which varies depending on the traveling condition or turning condition of the vehicle. Right and left wheels are connected through a differential gear mechanism (30) having a differential case (46) and held in a reduction gear case (13), an input pinion (22) and a drive shaft to an engine. The differential case (46) and a differential gear shaft (36) connected to the wheel are interlocked by a wet multiple-disk differential limiting mechanism (31) having a friction clutch mechanism immersed in oil. The multiple-disk differential limiting mechanism (31) is operated by a multiple-disk differential limiting mechanism operating mechanism to vary differential limiting torque.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode material attached to a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode material comprises a positive electrode active material represented by LiaMnbNibCo1-2bO2 (wherein a is 0≦a≦1.1, and b is 0<b≦0.5), a binder and an electrically conductive agent, wherein the binder is contained in the positive electrode material in a range of 0.8˜3 weight %, and the density of the positive electrode material is not less than 3.0 g/cm3.

Abstract: A method of classifying particles indicated on a two-dimensional frequency distribution map into particle clusters, includes the steps of: dividing the particles into a first cluster and a second cluster by a line containing a mode coordinate of the particles, presuming a third cluster so that the first and third clusters are symmetrical with respect to the mode coordinate, calculating variance and covariance of a cluster including the first and third clusters to obtain an ellipse region surrounding the first and third clusters based on the calculated variance and covariance, and determining the particles in the obtained ellipse region as a particle cluster.