Abstract: A technique includes at least one chamber including a process chamber that is capable of processing a substrate and a shower head arranged in an upstream of the process chamber; a gas supplier that is capable of supplying a gas into the process chamber via the shower head; a first exhaust pipe communicating with the shower head; a second exhaust pipe communicating with the process chamber; a first exhaust controller installed in the first exhaust pipe; a first heater installed in the first exhaust pipe; and a controller configured to be capable of: (a) controlling the gas supplier so as to supply a processing gas as the gas to the shower head, and (b) controlling the gas supplier so as to supply a non-processing gas as the gas to the shower head.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for selectively replacing a color of an object in an original image due to color blindness of a viewer. The method includes identifying whether there are color groups that are hard to be distinguished at a border between one or more objects in an original image. The method further includes generating a grayscale image from the original image and estimating an original color of each pixel in the original image by inputting the generated grayscale image to an automatic colorization artificial intelligence (AI) model. The method further includes determining at least one color group for which color replacement is to be performed and replacing the determined at least one color group with a color that is easily perceived by the person having a color vision deficiency and that is easily distinguished from the other color groups at the border between the identified one or more objects.

Abstract: A method for one or more processors to select a plurality of documents. The one or more processors calculate a similarity between pairs of pages of respective documents of the plurality of documents. The one or more processors determine a document similarity value of the respective documents of the plurality of documents, based on a quantity of the pairs of pages of the respective document with a similarity calculated to be less than a predetermined threshold, and the one or more processors present the plurality of documents in a descending order, based on the document similarity value of the respective documents of the plurality of documents.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for selective color replacement using image recognition, including a method for generating an image with improved accessibility for color vision diversity. The method may comprise, in an operation phase obtaining, as an output, a first set of objects included in a first image by inputting the first image to a first AI model, obtaining, as an output, a second set of objects included in a second image by inputting the image to a second AI model, comparing the first set of objects and the second set of objects to extract an object that is included in the first set of objects but not included in the second set of objects as an unrecognized object, and replacing a color of the unrecognized object in the first image with a color easily recognized by a person having color vision deficiency.

Abstract: There is provide an electrolyte leakage detection system for a battery and an electrolyte leakage detection method for a battery allowing efficiently detecting an electrolyte with accuracy even when a plurality of types of batteries are mixed.

Abstract: A method for one or more processors to select a plurality of documents. The one or more processors calculate a similarity between pairs of pages of respective documents of the plurality of documents. The one or more processors determine a document similarity value of the respective documents of the plurality of documents, based on a quantity of the pairs of pages of the respective document with a similarity calculated to be less than a predetermined threshold, and the one or more processors present the plurality of documents in a descending order, based on the document similarity value of the respective documents of the plurality of documents.

Abstract: In an electric control apparatus for a four-wheel steering system including an electric motor the rotary angle of which is electrically controlled in accordance with a target steering angle of rear road wheels, and a hydro-mechanical tracer mechanism having a fluid control valve the valve element of which is drivingly connected to the electric motor to be displaced in proportion to the rotary angle of the electric motor, the tracer mechanism being arranged to steer the rear road wheels in proportion to a displacement amount of the valve element, the target steering angle is converted into a control value for rotation of the electric motor, and a drive signal indicative of the control value is applied to the electric motor.

Abstract: An electric control apparatus for a four-wheel steering system is designed to calculate a rear wheel steering angle on a basis of a control rule corresponding with a steering mode selected from a plurality of rear wheel steering modes thereby to steer a set of dirigible rear road wheels at the calculated steering angle. The electric control apparatus is further designed to calculate a difference between new and old steering angles calculated when the selected steering mode has been changed to another one of the steering modes and immediately after change of the selected steering mode, to gradually decreasing an absolute value of the calculated difference at a predetermined time interval, to correct the new steering angle in accordance with the absolute value of the calculated difference until the absolute value becomes zero after change of the selected steering mode and to control an actual steering angle of the rear road wheels in accordance with the corrected new steering angle.

Abstract: In a hydraulic active suspension system, a plurality of actuators having working fluid chambers are provided corresponding to vehicle wheels. Each actuator is adapted to increase or decrease vehicle height in response to the hydraulic pressure within its working fluid chamber. The hydraulic pressures within the working fluid chambers are controlled to their desired pressure by associated pressure control devices. A desired pressure computing device is further provided. The computing device calculates the actual values of roll, pitch, heave and warp of a vehicle body from the vehicle heights detected by detecting devices and calculates the differences between the actual values and the associated values of roll, pitch, heave and warp determined by a desired attitude of the vehicle body to compute the desired pressures for the actuators. The degrees of the roll and/or pitch differences are set to be higher than that of the warp difference in contributing to the determination of the desired pressures.

Abstract: In a hydraulic active suspension system, a plurality of actuators having working fluid chambers are provided corresponding to vehicle wheels. Each actuator is adapted to increase and decrease vehicle height as the results of the supply and the discharge of working fluid to and from its working fluid chamber, respectively. Supplying and discharging devices supply working fluid to and discharge from the working fluid chamber. Vehicle height sensors detect the vehicle heights at the locations corresponding to the vehicle wheels. A control device is further provided. The control device controls the supplying and discharging devices so that the pressure within the working fluid chamber in each actuator may be a value corresponding to the sum of a basic pressure determined according to the running conditions of the vehicle and a compensating pressure determined based upon the integral value of the difference between a standard vehicle height and an actual vehicle height.

Abstract: A suspension pressure control system applies a pressure which is proportional to a current level supplied to a solenoid of a pressure control valve to a shock absorber associated with a suspension from the valve. When a pressure in a high pressure line which feeds a high pressure to the pressure control valve falls (rises), the pressure applied to the suspension is decreased (increased). Accordingly, the pressure in the high pressure line is detected by a sensor, and if it is low (high), the current level of the pressure control valve is corrected to a high value (low value). In order to prevent an abnormal pressure rise in the suspension which may be caused by an excessive pressure rise in the high pressure line during an idling operation of an engine, a correction which responds to the pressure of the high pressure line is chosen large when a vehicle speed is equal to zero or very low.

Abstract: In a system for controlling the US-OS characteristic of a vehicle having front and rear suspensions, a device for changing the US-OS characteristic is provided which is adapted to alter the roll stiffness distribution between the front and the rear suspensions. A turning state quantity is detected and the changing rate of a turning state quantity is determined. A control device is further provided which is adapted to respond to the turning state quantity and the changing rate of the turning state quantity, and to control the US-OS characteristic changing device so that the higher the changing rate of the turning state quantity is, the more the US-OS characteristic may be shifted toward higher over-steer, and for the same changing rate the higher the turning state quantity is, the more the US-OS characteristic may be shifted toward higher under-steer.

Abstract: In a hydraulic suspension system, a plurality of actuators having working fluid chambers are provided. Each actuator is adapted to increase and decrease vehicle height as the results of the supply and the discharge of working fluid to and from its working fluid chamber, respectively. Working fluid supply passages supply working fluid at supply pressure to the working fluid chambers and working fluid discharge passages discharge working fluid from the working fluid chambers. Cut-off valves and pressure control devices are provided in the supply passages and the discharge passages. Each cut-off valve is adapted to remain in its closed position whenever the supply pressure is not more than a predetermined value. Each pressure control device is adapted to control the supply of the working fluid to and the discharge from the associated working fluid chamber to adjust the pressure within the chamber.

Abstract: Provided is a suspension controller which has a plurality of control sections in a control mechanism and which has the order of priority among the suspension controls when two or more different suspension controls are simultaneously instructed from the control sections, so as to optimally control the suspension characteristic according to both the road condition and the running condition of the vehicle. The suspension controller of the invention includes a preference mechanism or logic for preferentially altering the suspension characteristic to a harder state in order to reduce the vibration of the vehicle body and to prevent an abrupt change of the vehicle attitude, thus providing good control, high stability and riding comfort.

Abstract: Provided is a so-called active suspension controller for a vehicle especially effective during turning. The controller comprises: an actuator provided between the body and every wheel of the vehicle; sensors for a turning condition of the vehicle, here the turning condition including a steering angle, vehicle speed, yaw rate and others; and a control apparatus responsive to the sensed turning condition for driving the actuators in order to control the allotment ratio between the front and the rear axles of the load shift between the right and the left wheels. The allotted load shift realizes stable turning under various circumstances.

Abstract: A suspension control system which provides a vehicle height signal representative of a vehicle height, a vehicle height data signal responsive to said vehicle height signal, and a first determination signal representative of a suspension characteristic alteration if a difference between a maximum and minimum value of said vehicle height data signal within a predetermined suspension characteristic alteration determination time interval exceeds a first value thereof, and which alters said suspension characteristic in response to said first determination signal.

Abstract: A suspension controller of a vehicle having a suspension between a body and a wheel, includes: a vehicle height detection means for detecting a vehicle height at a front wheel and for generating a vehicle height signal according to the detected height; a determination means for receiving the vehicle height signal, and for generating height data responsive to the vehicle height signal, for determining whether the difference between the maximum and the minimum value of the height data during a predetermined period is greater than a reference value, the period being determined within a cycle time of sprung mass vibration, and for generating a suspension control signal, and a suspension characteristic alteration means for altering characteristics of the suspension in response to the suspension control signal.

Abstract: A suspension controller for a vehicle is provided to effectively absorb vibrations such as resonant vibration of the mass of the wheel when the wheel is not on the ground, namely, "resonant vibration of unsprung mass". The suspension controller includes: a vehicle height detection means at a front wheel; a vehicle height determination means for comparing the vehicle height with a predetermined reference value; a cycle time determination means for detecting the cycle time of the vehicle height signal and for comparing the detected cycle time with a predetermined reference value; a control means for generating a suspension characteristic alteration signal based upon the vehicle height determination result and the cycle time determination result; and a suspension characteristic alteration means for altering a suspension characteristic of the vehicle in response to the suspension characteristic alteration signal.

Abstract: Present invention relates to an apparatus to improve the riding feel of the vehicle when the rear wheels pass over a sporadic hollows or protrusions of a ground by altering the rear suspension characteristic, i.e. the spring constant and the damping force of the shock absorbers after such hollows or protrusions are detected by front wheels of the vehicle passing thereover and the detected hollow or protrusion is judged to exceed a predetermined size. Besides that, the present invention has another control measures to give a priority to the maintenance of the vehicle posture when the driving condition is that need drivability and stability more than the riding comfort over the above-mentioned rear suspension characteristic alteration.

Abstract: When a sporadic shock due to a protrusion or dip of a road surface is detected at front wheels of a vehicle during its cruising on the road surface, the characteristic of the rear wheel suspension of the vehicle is altered immediately or just before the rear wheels pass it to improve the controllability and the stability of the vehicle or the smooth feeling of the ride. For that purpose, a rear suspension controller is invented which includes a height sensor for detecting the distance between the body of the vehicle and each of the right and left front wheels thereof, height data calculator which generates a plurality of height data from the front vehicle height, a judgement section which compares each of the height data with a respective reference value that is predetermined corresponding to each height datum and generates comparisons and a rear suspension characteristic alteration devices which alter the spring constant, damping force, etc. of the rear suspensions.