Abstract: In a region where the engine load is less than a first predetermined value, only a second exhaust valve that opens and closes a second exhaust passageway that bypasses a turbine of a supercharger is opened. In a region where the engine load is greater than or equal to the first predetermined value and less than a second predetermined value, both the second exhaust valve and a first exhaust valve that opens and closes a first exhaust passageway that leads to the turbine are opened. In a region where the engine load is greater than or equal to the second predetermined value, only the first exhaust valve is opened. A predetermined value for the time of lean combustion is set lower than a predetermined value for the time of stoichiometric combustion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polybutylene terephthalate resin composition which satisfies both performances such as high durability in an environment of heating and cooling cycle, and adhesion property to silicone rubber. Specifically, provided is a polybutylene terephthalate resin composition, exhibiting an excellent adhesion property to silicone rubber, containing: (A) 100 parts by weight of polybutylene terephthalate resin; (B) 5 to 30 parts by weight of a core-shell type polymer having a mean particle diameter of 2 ?m or larger, in which a core layer is structured by an acrylic-based rubber, and (C) 20 to 100 parts by weight of glass fiber.

Abstract: A solar cell lead wire includes a strip-shaped conductive material formed by rolling a wire, and upper and lower melt solder-plated layers formed to be flat on upper and lower surfaces, respectively, of the strip-shaped conductive material by supplying melt solder thereto.

Abstract: A memory cell system is provided including a first insulator layer over a semiconductor substrate, a charge trap layer over the first insulator layer, and slot where the charge trap layer includes a second insulator layer having the characteristic of being grown.

Abstract: A hood lift-up apparatus of the invention is arranged on a lower side of a rear end of a hood panel of a vehicle and includes an actuator of a constitution of fixing a cylinder in a shape of a circular cylinder arranged by making an axial direction thereof substantially in line with a vertical direction to a body member of a vehicle by utilizing an attaching bracket. The attaching bracket is constructed by a constitution of including a holding portion of holding the cylinder by being disposed on a rear portion side constituting a side of the cylinder, and an attaching portion arranged on a front side of the cylinder by being extended to the front side from the holding portion and is fixed to a body member at a portion of the attaching portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that includes: a laser beam source; plural photoconductive members corresponding to plural colors; a modulation drive unit for performing pulse width modulation for each of colors by an image clock having a cycle of a pixel length,; a single piece of polygon mirror whose reflection surfaces are disposed in a rotation direction thereof with a plurality of different inclination angles with colors; a beam detector that is disposed adjacent to the photoconductive member; and an image clock/data switching unit configured to generate the image clock of a frequency varying with the colors for making the same a color-based image magnification, and switch the image clocks generated for each of the colors in synchronization with a detection signal coming from the beam detector.

Abstract: A computer executes performing template matching upon each frame of an input image with each of a plurality of template images, extracting a plurality of regions whose similarities with each of the template images are the highest from within the input image, classifying the extracted regions into regions that are to be used for specifying a photographic subject position within the input image and another region, on the basis of the mutual distances between the extracted regions within the input image, specifying the photographic subject position, on the basis of the positions of the regions that have been classified as the regions that are to be used for specifying the photographic subject position within the input image, and tracking the movement of the photographic subject over the image consisting of a plurality of frames, by tracking the photographic subject position between frames.

Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control apparatus is basically provided with an exhaust system, a pair of sensors and a controller. The exhaust system includes an exhaust channel having a main catalytic converter, a bypass channel having a bypass catalytic converter, and a valve mechanism disposed in the exhaust channel to switch a pathway for exhaust gas from the exhaust channel to the bypass channel. The sensors output signals indicative of air-fuel ratios of exhaust flowing in their respective channels. The controller has first and second air-fuel ratio control sections that control an engine air-fuel ratio based on outputs of the sensors, respectively. The controller has a control mode switching section that switches control from the first air-fuel ratio control section to the second air-fuel ratio control section after a prescribed interval of time has elapsed from when the valve mechanism is switched from a closed state to an open state.

Abstract: The encoding apparatus generates information for generating a high quality high frequency sub-band signal when expanding the frequency band at the decoding apparatus. A signal encoding apparatus divides an input time series signal into a plurality of sub-bands and encodes a low frequency sub-band signal to generate encoded data of the low frequency sub-band signal. Concurrently, it compares the frequency amplitude peak of the new high frequency sub-band signal generated from the low frequency sub-band signal and the original high frequency sub-band signal and generates frequency amplitude peak information of the high frequency sub-band signal. Similarly, it compares the gain of the new high frequency sub-band signal generated by using the low frequency sub-band signal and the original high frequency sub-band signal and generates gain information of the high frequency sub-band signal.

Abstract: The present invention provides a coated base fabric for airbags including: a cloth obtained by weaving polyamide (PA) fiber yarns; and a PA elastomer coating film formed on one surface or both surfaces of the cloth, wherein the coated base fabric has predetermined air tightness and flexibility, is easily converted to a PA reproduced material, and is obtained by fusing a coating film (16) made of an airflow suppression PA elastomer on one surface or both surfaces of a cloth (14) obtained by weaving yarns (12) and (12A) made of a polyamide (PA) fiber, as the PA elastomer, soft PA is normally used, which has a melting point (measured by the standard of ASTM D3418) of 135 to 200° C., a difference between the melting points of the PA fiber and PA elastomer being 80 to 120° C.

Abstract: Provided is a drive circuit low in power consumption and high in display quality for a liquid crystal display device that is used in a small-sized portable device. The liquid crystal display device includes liquid crystal display elements and a liquid crystal driving circuit. The liquid crystal driving circuit is mounted to one of the four sides of a liquid crystal display panel, and is capable of outputting two-system counter electrode voltages. A variable resistor circuit having a resistance value which is variably adjusted by a register is used to correct and output a gray scale voltage according to a position of a relevant scanning signal line. Equalization is also performed by short-circuiting two counter electrode signal lines.

Abstract: A capacitive occupant sensor includes a sensor mat having U-parts arranged in a first direction and, a second direction perpendicular to each other. The U-parts located adjacent to each other are connected in the second direction so as to define S-parts, in a manner that openings of the U-parts alternately open toward a first side of the first direction or a second side of the first direction. The S-parts located adjacent to each other are combined in the first direction, in a manner that the opening open toward the first side and the opening open toward the second side oppose to each other in the first direction. The mat has a meandering structure defined by the S-parts.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit; a conveyance unit; a motor; a stop order unit that orders stoppage of the motor; a detection unit, which detects a rotated number of the motor or a conveyance distance during a post-order period, and the post-order period being a period from when the stop order unit ordered stoppage of the motor until when the motor stops; a storage unit; a sensor, which detects passage of the recording medium; a timing determination unit, which determines a pre-order period as a appropriate order timing, wherein the pre-order period is calculated from dividing a difference between a first distance and a second distance by a conveyance speed, wherein the first distance is the conveyance distance stored in the storage, and the second distance is a distance between a position where the sensor detects passage of the recording medium and the target stoppage position.

Abstract: A peripheral wall extending portion is formed in such a manner that a front end side of a cylindrical hole of a metal shell projects forward in an axis O direction, and the peripheral wall extending portion comprising: a projecting portion formed into a projecting shape, and a connecting portion which connects between the projecting portions. A fuel injected from an injection orifice of an injector strikes against the projecting portion and is unlikely to directly reach to a spark discharge gap formed between a noble metal tip and a front end portion of a ground electrode. The fuel that strikes against the projecting portions without striking against the projecting portion is separated into a droplet-like incompletely vaporized fuel that adheres to the projecting portions and a vaporized fuel being reflected to a perimeter of the spark discharge gap.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit including: a first path that includes a first logic circuit; a second path that includes a second logic circuit; and a subsequent-stage circuit that is connected to an output of the first path and is connected to an output of the second path, in which the second path further includes a first internal path that is selected as a propagation path during a normal operation period; and a second internal path that is selected as a propagation path during a test operation period and includes a delay circuit having a delay amount larger than a delay amount of the first internal path.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolytic secondary cell and a non-aqueous electrolytic secondary cell are provided, which exhibit a high potential in a 4 V region, and have a high capacity, safety, excellent cycle characteristics, and satisfactory high-temperature characteristics. The positive electrode active material is a mixture of an olivine type lithium manganese phosphate and a spinel type lithium manganate.

Abstract: A biosensor according to the present invention comprises a support 1, a conductive layer 2 composed of an electrical conductive material such as noble metal, for example gold, palladium or the like, and carbon, slits 3a and 3b parallel to the side of the support 1, slits 4a and 4b vertical to the side of the support 1, a working electrode 5, a counter electrode 6, a detecting electrode 7, a spacer 8 which covers the working electrode 5, the counter electrode 6 and the detecting electrode 7 on the support 1, a rectangular cutout part 9 forming a specimen supply path, an inlet 9a of the specimen supply path, a reagent layer 12 formed by applying a reagent including an enzyme or the like to the working electrode 5, the counter electrode 6 and the detecting electrode 7, which is exposed from the cutout part 9 of the spacer 8, and a cover 13 which covers the spacer 8, as shown in FIG. 1.

Abstract: A disclosed base station apparatus is capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using a downlink shared channel. The base station apparatus includes a selection unit selecting a user equipment terminal transmitting a shared channel from among user equipment terminals other than a user equipment terminal in which a time frame to transmit the shared channel or a time frame to receive acknowledgement information with respect to the shared channel overlaps with a time interval when cells are measured, the cells operating at a different frequency, a user equipment terminal in sleep mode of discontinuous reception mode, a user equipment terminal that has not received radio quality information, and a user equipment terminal having no data to be transmitted and a transmission unit transmitting the shared channel to the user equipment terminal selected by the selection unit.

Abstract: An electrostatic latent image measuring device includes a charged particle optical system which irradiates an electron beam and charges a photoconductor sample, an exposure optical system which forms an electrostatic latent image on a surface of the photoconductor sample, and a scanning unit which scans the surface of the photoconductor sample by the electron beam, a distribution of the electrostatic latent image on the surface of the sample being measured by a signal detected by the scanning.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated device includes a plurality of semiconductor chips each having a first internal circuit and a second internal circuit and being stacked while displaced from each other. The first internal circuit processes a data signal in accordance with a predetermined process. The second internal circuit receives a request signal from a transmission source and determines whether the request signal is a request to itself or not. When the request signal is the request to the second internal circuit itself, the second internal circuit receives a data signal from a transmission source and outputs the data signal to the first internal circuit. When the request signal is not the request to the second internal circuit itself, the second internal circuit transfers the request signal to a transfer destination, receives the data signal from the transmission source and transfers the data signal to the transfer destination.