Abstract: A motorcycle includes a carburetor, an electronically controlled opening/closing valve that opens and closes an intake passage, an ECU that controls the opening/closing valve, a main switch, an engine start switch and a rotation speed sensor. The ECU causes the opening/closing valve to perform a determined initial operation if a determined condition is satisfied when the main switch is turned on. If the determined condition is not satisfied when the main switch is turned on, the determined initial operation is performed when the rotation speed of the engine has reached a determined rotation speed range after the engine has been started. To ensure that an initial operation of an opening/closing valve that opens and closes an intake passage is performed with a high degree of reliability.

Abstract: In a pixel circuit formed by using a MOS process, a constant current is applied from a second transistor (T2) as a constant current source to an organic EL device coupled to a third transistor (T3) so that the organic EL device emits light, during the period when the third transistor (T3) is in the conductive state. The third transistor (T3) is switched on and off based on its gate voltage dependent upon a signal value written to a capacitor (Cs) and a ramp signal voltage (Vcs). Thus, the organic EL device emits light during the period dependent upon the signal value. That is, displaying operation is implemented with gray-scale being controlled according to a video signal value.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes scanning lines, signal lines, and pixels formed in a matrix, each pixel being at an intersection of each of the scanning lines and each of the signal lines. Each pixel includes a light-emitting element, a light-emitting circuit composed of a thin-film transistor, and a light-receiving circuit composed of a thin-film transistor. When the light-emitting circuit is selected by the scanning line, the light-emitting circuit drives the light-emitting element according to a video signal that is input from the signal line, thereby displaying an image on the pixels formed in the matrix. The light-receiving circuit is selected in a period of time during which the light-emitting circuit does not operate, and outputs a light-receiving signal in accordance with the amount of light incident on the pixel to a different signal line.

Abstract: A display panel is disclosed which suppresses appearance of structural fault at a frame portion of an opposing glass plate. The display panel has a panel structure ready for an active matrix driving method and includes an element having a formation face on which pixel circuits are formed, and an opposing substrate configured to seal the formation face. The opposing substrate has a protrusion pattern formed in a region thereof opposing to an outer edge of the opposing substrate. The protrusion pattern has a layer structure similar to that in a display region of the formation face.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display panel based on active matrix driving having a display area made up of N pixel control lines, M video signal lines orthogonally intersecting the N pixel control lines, and pixel circuits arranged at intersections between the N pixel control lines and M video signal lines, wherein positional identification patterns are arranged on every k (k being a natural number) pixel control lines inside each of the pixel circuits.

Abstract: Current consumption in a start signal outputting circuit, and that in a clock signal conductor thereto, or the EMI is to be suppressed. An output from the last stage flipflop of a shift register, having multiple stages of flipflops, is supplied to a start signal outputting circuit. An output of the start signal outputting circuit is delivered as a start signal, while being delivered to a start signal output detection circuit. A detection signal from a start signal output detection circuit and an output of a non-last stage flipflop of the shift register are supplied to a clock stop circuit. Clock signals cease to be supplied by the clock stop circuit during a time period as from inputting of the detection signal until inputting of the output of the non-last stage flip-flop.

Abstract: A motorcycle includes a carburetor, an electronically controlled opening/closing valve that opens and closes an intake passage, an ECU that controls the opening/closing valve, a main switch, an engine start switch and a rotation speed sensor. The ECU causes the opening/closing valve to perform a determined initial operation if a determined condition is satisfied when the main switch is turned on. If the determined condition is not satisfied when the main switch is turned on, the determined initial operation is performed when the rotation speed of the engine has reached a determined rotation speed range after the engine has been started. To ensure that an initial operation of an opening/closing valve that opens and closes an intake passage is performed with a high degree of reliability.

Abstract: A motorcycle includes a fuel supply device that supplies fuel to an intake passage, an ECU that controls an opening/closing valve that opens and closes the intake passage, an exhaust gas passage, a catalyst disposed inside the exhaust gas passage, and a switch of an engine. When the engine rotation speed is equal to or more than a determined rotation speed when the switch is turned off, the opening/closing valve is switched on to close the intake passage. When the engine rotation speed is less than the determined rotation speed, the opening/closing valve is switched off to open the intake passage. Thermal degradation of a catalyst is thereby inhibited and electric power consumption is reduced when an engine is turned off.

Abstract: A display driver circuit of a display device includes: a first DA converter for converting a digital data to a gray-scale potential within a first potential range; and a second DA converter for converting a digital data to a gray-scale potential within a second potential range lower than the first potential range. The first DA converter includes a first transistor of a first conductivity type outputting a gray-scale potential not less than the common potential. The second DA converter includes: a second transistor of the first conductivity type outputting a gray-scale potential not less than the common potential; and a third transistor of a second conductivity type outputting a gray-scale potential not more than the common potential. A substrate potential applied to a back gate of the second transistor is lower than a substrate potential applied to a back gate of the first transistor.

Abstract: A process for producing a ceramic sinter or inorganic film in which anisotropic particles or anisotropic crystals have been oriented; or a process for producing a bonded composite material which comprises a base sample and another material tenaciously bonded to a surface of the base. The processes are characterized by imposing a centrifugal force during buming (heating).

Abstract: Disclosed is a display panel having a display area with a matrix array of display pixels. The display panel includes an electrode arranged so as to cover the whole of the display area, and a common electrode electrically connected to the electrode. The common electrode is frame-shaped and is arranged along the periphery of the display area. The common electrode has a notch that is opposed to a power supply lead pattern to which a potential different from that applied to the common electrode is applied.

Abstract: An on-board emergency reporting apparatus includes a collision detection sensor, an airbag inflator for inflating an airbag in the event of collision detection, an airbag deflator for deflating the inflated airbag, a camera for capturing an image of an occupant seated on a seat provided with the airbag, a controller for transmitting the captured image to an emergency reporting center through a communication device, and a deflation sensor for detecting whether the volume of the inflated airbag is reduced to a predetermined threshold value. The controller causes the camera to start capturing upon detection of a reduction in the volume of the inflated airbag to the predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: There is provided an article management system having a previous process and a next process successively connected, which is provided with a product data creation unit to create product data corresponding to products of the previous process, a part data creation unit to create part data corresponding to parts in the next process, an identification assigning unit to assign virtual identification information to a group of management targets, and a management data creation unit to create management data formed of a single file. The identification assigning unit assigns same identification information to a same group of management articles. The management data creation unit passes, to the next process, the management data having link information when products manufactured in the previous process reach the next process; and passes the management data having link information to update corresponding management data.

Abstract: A data driver circuit includes a clock control circuit configured to generate a shift clock signal in synchronization to a clock signal; a shift register circuit having flip-flops in cascade-connection and configured to shift a pulse signal in synchronization with the shift clock signal, and a control circuit configured to receive a display data in response to the shifted pulse signal from the shift register circuit and to drive data lines of a display section based on display data to display the display data on the display section. The flip-flops are grouped in units of N (N is an integer of 2 or more) flip-flops into M (M is an integer of 2 or more) partial shift registers, and the shift register circuit is reset in units of partial shift registers.

Abstract: In a standby state wherein a document is set in a document tray and can be supplied when needed, when a start signal is not inputted (S21: NO), a controller determines whether a document regulating plate has been operated or not based on a detection output of a document size detector for detecting a position of the document regulating plate (S31), and when the document regulating plate was operated (S31: YES), the controller lowers the document tray by a predetermined amount and stops it (S32). A lowered amount of the document tray can be arbitrarily set by a user through an operator control panel. With a sheet feeding apparatus, an image reading apparatus and an image forming apparatus constituted as described above, even in a state in which the document is set in the document tray, the set state can be easily canceled by operating the document regulating plate.

Abstract: The distributed traceability management system includes a management data creation unit and a data storage unit. When the final products are produced, final management data is transmitted to the downstream side vendor. When the final management data is received from an upstream side vendor, the final management data is stored in the data storage unit. When it is judged that the same final management data as that stored in a system's data storage unit is stored in the data storage unit of a communication party vendor through communication with the communication party vendor, it is confirmed that the communication party vendor is an upstream side vendor or a downstream side vendor to which the final products are to be distributed. Tracing of products in a sequence of processes is executed based on each f pieces of management data created by the management data creation unit.

Abstract: A tail light (lamp) for a motorcycle with improved visibility and outward appearance includes a bulb, a reflector that reflects light from the bulb in a predetermined direction, and a lens that transmits the reflected light. Flux density is varied about a set point, which is distant from the bulb, according to a distance from the set point.

Abstract: A system includes a product data generation unit that generates product data corresponding to a product of a previous process, a partial object data generation unit that generates partial object data corresponding to a partial object of a next process, and a management data generation unit that generates, in regard to relationship between processes, management data formed as a single file in which the product data and the partial object data are associated with connection information representing connection between the previous process and the corresponding next process. The management data generation unit adds path information which indicates that a management target has moved from the previous process to the corresponding next process, to the management data, in such a manner that paths are accumulated in the path information each time a process is executed.

Abstract: A process management system comprises a management data generation unit configured to generate management data. In regard to each relationship between processes, the management data includes product data corresponding to products in the previous process and partial object data corresponding to partial objects in the next process. The management data is formed of a single file in which the product data and the partial object data are associated with connection information representing connection between the previous process and the next process. A time when use of partial objects are suspended is stored, as use suspending time data, in the management data having the partial object data corresponding to the partial objects for which the use is suspended, and is stored, as use start time data, in the management data of partial objects which are other objects in the same process and are to be used next.

Abstract: An automated vehicular device control apparatus includes a position detector, instruction input switches for executing an automated operation, and a control unit. The control unit uses the position detector for detecting the position of the self-vehicle when the control unit recognizes an input of an instruction for executing the automated operation on the input unit. Then, the position of the self-vehicle is, by the control unit, used for acquiring position characteristic information that corresponds to the position of the self-vehicle, and is used for acquiring the vehicular device operation pattern information that is in correspondence with the position characteristic information.