Abstract: A sealing composition and a sealing method for a coated electric cable have excellent sealing performance even under conditions such as cooling-heating cycles or high temperature and humidity. The coated electric cable sealing composition is for sealing a core wires connection section formed by electrically connecting multiple core wires exposed from multiple coated electric wires, and features having a hardening time of 10 minutes or less at 130° C., and permeating to inside of the coated electric wires at a height of 5 mm or more at the time point of hardening while the exposed parts of the core wires including the core wires connection section and the boundary part between the coated parts and the exposed parts of the core wires are immersed perpendicularly in the coated electric cable sealing composition filled in a resin cap and the sealing composition is heated to be cured.

Abstract: A sheet member includes a pair of main surfaces opposing each other. A maximum thickness that is a maximum interval between the pair of main surfaces is 40 ?m or more and 450 ?m or less. The sheet member has a region in which a plurality of coherent pattern lines appear when viewed from a direction facing the pair of main surfaces, the plurality of coherent pattern lines being arranged at intervals in a direction in which one edge portion and another edge portion opposing the one edge portion oppose each other, and a pair in the plurality of coherent pattern lines adjacent to each other do not intersect.

Abstract: Provided is a composition for sealing a covered wire, the composition containing 2-cyanoacrylate including 10% by mass or more of an alkyl-2-cyanoacrylate that has, in a main chain, an alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, and the composition having both water resistance and thermal shock resistance under high temperature and high humidity conditions and also having excellent heat resistance.

Abstract: Disclosed are a robot control device and the like with which the accuracy with which a robot starts listening to speech is improved, without requiring a user to perform an operation. This robot control device is provided with: an action executing means which, upon detection of a person, determines an action to be executed with respect to said person, and performs control in such a way that a robot executes the action; an assessing means which, upon detection of a reaction from the person in response to the action determined by the action executing means, assesses the possibility that the person will talk to the robot, on the basis of the reaction; and an operation control means which controls an operating mode of the robot main body on the basis of the result of the assessment performed by the assessing means.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plate plunger with which a reaction disc comes into contact and which determines a servo ratio of a vacuum booster, the plate plunger manufacturing method comprising primarily processing a plate plunger base material in such a way that an outer peripheral diameter of a reaction disc contact surface of the plate plunger becomes equal to or greater than an outer peripheral diameter, and forming the reaction disc contact surface of the plate plunger in such a way that it has an outer peripheral diameter corresponding to a desired servo ratio by secondarily processing a servo ratio determination surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plate plunger with which a reaction disc comes into contact and which determines a servo ratio of a vacuum booster, the plate plunger manufacturing method comprising primarily processing a plate plunger base material in such a way that an outer peripheral diameter of a reaction disc contact surface of the plate plunger becomes equal to or greater than an outer peripheral diameter, and forming the reaction disc contact surface of the plate plunger in such a way that it has an outer peripheral diameter corresponding to a desired servo ratio by secondarily processing a servo ratio determination surface.

Abstract: A plate plunger 17 that determines a servo ratio SR of a vacuum booster 1 pertaining to the present invention has, on a corner portion between its outer peripheral surface and its surface that opposes a reaction disc 16, a servo ratio determination surface 17c that is formed by an inclined surface and determines the servo ratio. The servo ratio determination surface 17c comprises a reaction disc contact surface 17f that determines the servo ratio and a reaction disc non-contact surface 17g. Additionally, a variety of different servo ratios are obtained by performing secondary processing such as cutting or grinding on just the servo ratio determination surface 170 to change the outer peripheral diameter of the reaction disc contact surface 17f.

Abstract: A message sending and reception optimizing method using a sender's end information processing apparatus disposed on a sender's end of a message and a recipient's end information processing apparatus disposed on a recipient's end of the message has a step of determining an optimum form of message sending and reception while considering convenience of a sender and/or a recipient by communicating predetermined information between the sender's end information processing apparatus and the recipient's end information processing apparatus before performance of the message sending and reception.

Abstract: The customer information utilization system of the present invention includes history acquisition units, history storage units, and history utilization units. The history acquisition units are arranged in each device belonging to users and acquire history information relating to the history of use of the devices. The history storage units collect history information relating to the history of use of each device belonging to the users by way of the history acquisition units and store the history information. When a product or service is to be provided or when an application is to be executed, the history utilization units use appropriate history information of the history information relating to the history of use of each device belonging to the users to produce customer information that is to be utilized in the product, service or application.

Abstract: A brake booster 1 includes a valve mechanism 6, and a solenoid 8 which operates the valve mechanism 6. When the solenoid 8 is energized, a solenoid plunger 26 and a valve seat member 11 move rearward relative to a valve body 3, whereby the valve mechanism 6 is operated to actuate the brake booster 1 without depressing a brake pedal. A core member 27 which forms a magnetic path for the solenoid 8 is disposed rearward of the solenoid plunger 26 so as to be movable axially of the valve body and so as to move in linked relationship with a valve plunger 13. The invention allows the size of the solenoid 8 to be reduced.

Abstract: An automatic brake booster 1 includes a solenoid 8 which causes a back- and forth movement of a solenoid plunger 31 to switch a valve mechanism 6. A second vacuum valve seat member 11 including a second vacuum valve seat 12 which is juxtaposed with a first vacuum valve seat 10 on a valve body 3 and a pressure responsive area 34 subject to a pressure of a variable pressure chamber and a pressure of a constant pressure chamber is slidably mounted on the valve body. The effect of the pressure differential acting upon the pressure responsive area is balanced with the force resulting from the excitation of the solenoid plunger 31 to deliver a brake output which corresponds to the force. The invention enables a high accuracy control of a brake output during an automatic brake operation.

Abstract: A brake booster 1 includes a valve mechanism 6, and a solenoid 8 which operates the valve mechanism 6. When the solenoid 8 is energized, a solenoid plunger 26 and a valve seat member 11 move rearward relative to a valve body 3, whereby the valve mechanism 6 is operated to actuate the brake booster 1 without depressing a brake pedal. A core member 27 which forms a magnetic path for the solenoid 8 is disposed rearward of the solenoid plunger 26 so as to be movable axially of the valve body and so as to move in linked relationship with a valve plunger 13. The invention allows the size of the solenoid 8 to be reduced.

Abstract: In a brake fluid pressure boosting device 1 of the present invention, by operation, an input shaft 4 is moves forward to rotate a lever 27 to actuate a control valve 8 so that the control valve 8 produce working fluid pressure corresponding to the input. The working fluid pressure is introduced into the power chamber 6. By this working fluid pressure, the primary piston 37 is actuated to develop master cylinder pressure. On the other hand, the fluid pressure of the power chamber 6 is introduced into the first annular groove 25 of the valve spool 10. By the difference between pressure receiving areas of the first annular groove 25, the valve spool 10 is subjected to rightward force. The position of the pivot of the lever 27 is fixed and the valve spool 10 is controlled in such a manner that the force applied to the valve spool 10 and the spring force of the spool return spring 32 balances with the input, thereby exhibiting the function as a stroke simulator.

Abstract: An automatic brake booster 1 includes a solenoid 8 which causes a back-and forth movement of a solenoid plunger 31 to switch a valve mechanism 6. A second vacuum valve seat member 11 including a second vacuum valve seat 12 which is juxtaposed with a first vacuum valve seat 10 on a valve body 3 and a pressure responsive area 34 subject to a pressure of a variable pressure chamber and a pressure of a constant pressure chamber is slidably mounted on the valve body. The effect of the pressure differential acting upon the pressure responsive area is balanced with the force resulting from the excitation of the solenoid plunger 31 to deliver a brake output which corresponds to the force. The invention enables a high accuracy control of a brake output during an automatic brake operation.

Abstract: In a brake fluid pressure boosting device 1 of the present invention, by operation, an input shaft 4 is moves forward to rotate a lever 27 to actuate a control valve 8 so that the control valve 8 produce working fluid pressure corresponding to the input. The working fluid pressure is introduced into the power chamber 6. By this working fluid pressure, the primary piston 37 is actuated to develop master cylinder pressure. On the other hand, the fluid pressure of the power chamber 6 is introduced into the first annular groove 25 of the valve spool 10. By the difference between pressure receiving areas of the first annular groove 25, the valve spool 10 is subjected to rightward force. The position of the pivot of the lever 27 is fixed and the valve spool 10 is controlled in such a manner that the force applied to the valve spool 10 and the spring force of the spool return spring 32 balances with the input, thereby exhibiting the function as a stroke simulator.

Abstract: A software development supporting system of the ROM emulation type is provided, which facilitates the electrical connection to a target system equipped with no ROM socket. This system is comprised of a ROM controller electrically connectable to a PCI bus of a target system, a ROM emulator for emulating an operation of a target ROM mounted on the target system, and a host computer electrical connected to the ROM emulator. The ROM controller receives a control signal for controlling the target ROM, in which the control signal is transmitted through the PCI bus of the target system. The ROM controller transfers the received control signal to the ROM emulator, thereby controlling the ROM emulator. Preferably, the ROM controller is designed to output an access assertion signal to the PCI bus before a ROM controller of the target system outputs an access assertion signal of the target ROM. Thus, the ROM emulator serves to emulate the target ROM using the control signal.

Abstract: A booster 3 has a structure that a return valve 14 is formed into a two-step throttle incorporating a first throttle valve 36 and a second throttle valve 37 formed continuously from the first throttle valve 36. When a valve spool 28 has been moved forwards when the operation is performed, a gap of the first throttle valve 36 is reduced. Also a gap of the second throttle valve 37 is reduced. Therefore, hydraulic fluid discharged from a pump is passed through an inlet passage 12, and then introduced into the second annular groove 13. Then, the hydraulic fluid is throttled by the first throttle valve 36, and then throttled by the second throttle valve 37. That is, the hydraulic fluid is throttled in the two-step throttling manner. As a result of the two-step throttling structure, the overall velocity of the flow of the hydraulic fluid can smoothly be changed without rapid change. Therefore, fluid flow noise caused from the change in the velocity of the flow can be prevented.