Abstract: An apparatus for holding a first fiber optic connector and a second fiber optic connector includes a housing configured to secure the first fiber optic connector and the second fiber optic connector at a first end and a strain relief boot connected to a second end of the housing. The housing and the strain relief boot are configured to form a passageway to receive a fiber optic cable that is connected to both the first fiber optic connector and the second fiber optic connector.

Abstract: The present invention includes an inflow quantity regulating means 5 for regulating the inflow quantity of a fuel gas to a compressor 1; a recycle valve 7 for returning the fuel gas discharged from the compressor 1 to the inlet side of the compressor 1; and a control means which sets a control operating value for operating the compressor 1 at a predetermined operation point, and controls the inflow quantity regulating means 5 and the recycle valve 7 based on the control operating value. The control means has a first control signal generating means 27 which generates a signal increasing with an increase in the operating value as a control signal for the inflow quantity regulating means 5 when the control operating value is a predetermined value or larger and a second control signal generating means 29 which generates a signal decreasing with an increase in the operating value as a control signal for the recycle valve 7 when the control operating value is smaller than the predetermined value.

Abstract: A motorcycle engine includes a crankcase housing a crankshaft, and a transmission unit therein, a cylinder block disposed above the crankcase, a cylinder head disposed above the cylinder block, and an intake system arranged behind the cylinder head, and a knock sensor arranged on an upper surface of the crankcase. The knock sensor is arranged behind the cylinder head, and disposed between the intake system and the cylinder block, such that the knock sensor does not restrict arrangement of additional functional parts of the engine on an upper surface of the crankcase. The knock sensor is substantially surrounded and protected by the intake system, the cylinder head, the cylinder block and the crankcase.

Abstract: An apparatus for holding a first fiber optic connector and a second fiber optic connector includes a housing configured to secure the first fiber optic connector and the second fiber optic connector at a first end and a strain relief boot connected to a second end of the housing. The housing and the strain relief boot are configured to form a passageway to receive a fiber optic cable that is connected to both the first fiber optic connector and the second fiber optic connector.

Abstract: To provide a substrate treating apparatus for keeping a substrate in contact with a treating tool under a prescribed pressure. According to this invention, a bracket 10 which is hoisted or lowered by a hoisting/lowering device 15 is provided with a treating tool 3 for carrying out the treatment such as cleaning for the surface of a substrate in contact with the surface under a prescribed pressure therefor, an operating shaft 4 with the treating tool 3 attached thereto, a holding member 6 for holding the operating shaft 4 freely only in its rotating direction, a servomotor 11 coupled to the holding member 6, for moving up and down the operating shaft 4, and a rotary motor 8 coupled with the operating shaft 4 through a pin joint 9. Separately from the hoisting/lowering device 15 for the bracket 10, the servo motor 11 for moving up and down the operating shaft 4 is provided.

Abstract: An information processing method provided, wherein an identifier (ID) corresponding to an object is obtained based on information input from a sensor for detecting the object, and the obtained ID is continuously and repeatedly input to an information processing unit. The information processing unit compares a program that is set based on a newly-input ID with a program that is set based on an already-input ID, and ends the currently-executed program when the two programs are different from each other. In this method, by putting an object in a sensor effective area, a program corresponding to the ID of the object is started, and by removing the object from the sensor effective area, the program is ended.

Abstract: In a sprocket for use with a roller chain, a wear limit marker, having a different color from that of the base material of the sprocket, is provided on side surface of a sprocket tooth adjacent to a keyway. The wear limit marker is disposed on an imaginary line extending in the direction of the pressure angle, and is located in a hole or groove provided in a side surface of the sprocket tooth. The marker makes it possible to determine easily and reliably whether or not wear at the location at which wear of a sprocket tooth proceeds most rapidly is within a predetermined limit, and the location of the marker makes it possible to evaluate wear conditions even when the sprocket is installed in a machine.

Abstract: A content sharing system and content importance level judging method are provided. The content sharing system provides an importance level of arbitrary content is individually judged with respect to users and a notice message valuable for a user is appropriately notified to a client or the outside tool. Further, an access user is able to set the disclosure level of access record of a user accessed the content. In the content sharing system, an importance level of content of multimedia data on a server shared with clients of a plurality of users is judged, in which the importance level of the content with respect to each user is individually calculated by interpreting existing data or a user environment, the client condition is judged, a notice rule setting is changed in accordance with the client condition or an instruction from the client, and a notice message is issued to an appropriate address based on the calculated importance level and a notice rule of the content.

Abstract: In a regional attribute determination method for determining a regional attribute representing an attribute of people gathering in each region, user information including the locations and attributes of a number of users is acquired from a number of portable information terminal devices used by the number of users, the acquired user information of the number of users is stored in a user information storage part, and the regional attribute is determined on the basis of the user information of the number of users stored in the user information storage part.

Abstract: An information processing method provided, wherein an identifier (ID) corresponding to an object is obtained based on information input from a sensor for detecting the object, and the obtained ID is continuously and repeatedly input to an information processing unit. The information processing unit compares a program that is set based on a newly-input ID with a program that is set based on an already-input ID, and ends the currently-executed program when the two programs are different from each other. In this method, by putting an object in a sensor effective area, a program corresponding to the ID of the object is started, and by removing the object from the sensor effective area, the program is ended.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which allows a user to easily and intuitively manipulate information in a 3-dimensional virtual space. In the information processing apparatus, a main controller sets a first coordinate system in a real space on the basis of information associated with a real object and further sets a second coordinate system in a 3-dimensional virtual space corresponding to the real space on the basis of the first coordinate system. If a user places an input device at a particular position and angle in the first coordinate system with reference to the real object, the main controller places an object in the 3-dimensional virtual space at a place and angle in the second coordinate system corresponding to the place and angle of the input device in the first coordinate system, and the main controller displays an image of the object placed in the 3-dimensional virtual space on a display.

Abstract: A vibration-proof structure for a gear transmission device includes a wave washer for pressing a gear of a gear transmission device that can move in an axial direction between opposed first and second fixed walls toward the first fixed wall. The wave washer is interposed between the gear and the second fixed wall. A cylindrical portion surrounding the wave washer is provided between one of the opposed end faces of the gear and the second fixed wall, and the cylindrical portion is in contact with the other end face to regulate an increase in the bending amount of the wave washer of a predetermined value. When the gear of the gear transmission device experiences vibration, the excessive bending of the wave washer for absorbing the vibration is restrained so that the wave washer can always exhibit a normal buffering function.

Abstract: In a sprocket for use with a roller chain, a wear limit marker, having a different color from that of the base material of the sprocket, is provided on side surface of a sprocket tooth adjacent to a keyway. The wear limit marker is disposed on an imaginary line extending in the direction of the pressure angle, and is located in a hole or groove provided in a side surface of the sprocket tooth. The marker makes it possible to determine easily and reliably whether or not wear at the location at which wear of a sprocket tooth proceeds most rapidly is within a predetermined limit, and the location of the marker makes it possible to evaluate wear conditions even when the sprocket is installed in a machine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing device for converting the number of pixels or scanning lines. In particular, the image processing device according to the present invention comprises an operator for carrying out interpolation operations and a memory for storing filter coefficient sets utilized in the interpolation operations. The memory stores filter coefficient sets each corresponding to each of the phases when the pixel interval of the original image is divided by a prescribed dividing number. Out of these filter coefficient sets, a filter coefficient set that corresponds to the phase closest to that of the pixel data to undergo interpolation operations is then outputted to the operator. The operator then carries out interpolation operations on the pixel data using these filter coefficient sets so that arbitrary format conversion becomes possible.

Abstract: A picture signal processing device for performing picture signal processing such as conversion of the number of pixels or conversion processing for the number of scanning lines. The picture signal processing device includes a plurality of element processors and a controller for performing common control of said element processors. The element processors arrayed in association with pixels arrayed in one-dimensional direction of a digitized two-dimensional picture. The pixels arrayed in one-dimensional direction are chronologically sequentially entered to the element processors.

Abstract: An anti-rotation mechanism in a linear actuator has outer and inner cylinders, affords high accuracy and rigidity, is simple in structure, not requiring the use of a tie rod, and is inexpensive to manufacture. The outer cylinder 3 has both end portions 3 of circular cross section and an intermediate portion whose inner surface has an axially uniform non-circular cross-sectional shape including a rotation inhibiting surface 3F. The inner cylinder 4 has a collar 7 on the outer peripheral surface which is guided and supported slidably by the intermediate portion of the outer cylinder and has a conforming non-circular cross-sectional shape including a flat surface 7B for sliding engagement with the rotation inhibiting surface 3F to inhibit rotation of the inner cylinder.

Abstract: To prevent a ball-threaded shaft from slipping out of a linear actuator, a linear actuator 10 has an output shaft 18 threaded in a nut 16 for moving forward and backward linearly with respect to an outer tube 22 secured to a housing 20. Linear reciprocating movement of the nut 16 is effected by a ball-threaded shaft 14 rotated normally and reversely by a driving motor 12. The shaft is held against axial displacement by a bearing assembly 8 having an axial disk 32 secured to a proximal end 24 of the ball-threaded shaft 14. On the nut side of the disk within the assembly are disposed a first tension receiving rotational body 36, a thrust bearing 45 and a second tension receiving rotational body 58. The assembly 8 is retained by a tension stopper 62 spread and inserted into an annular central groove 60 in the tube 22.

Abstract: A linear actuator in which the number of limit switches to be mounted, as well as the mounting position and direction of limit switches, can be selected with a high degree of freedom, the limit switch mounting spacing can be made short, and a positive operation is ensured while using a small number of components. Flat limit switch mounting flanges are fixed onto an outer cylinder of a linear actuator so that their positions are adjustable in both axial and circumferential directions of the outer cylinder, and a guide rail for slidably guiding a striker is supported by and between the limit switch mounting flanges. The striker is connected with the actuator rod of the actuator by a connecting rod. With projection or retraction of the actuating rod, the striker moves and actuates limit switches attached to the associated limit switch mounting flanges.

Abstract: A digital signal processing apparatus and information processing system provide sufficient arithmetic operation performance to process high rate signals in real time and high programming performance to deal with various applications. A group of processor elements is constituted by individual processor elements each formed by disposing an arithmetic and logic unit on the bit lines of a multiport memory wherein their number is equal to or larger than the number of the data bits in a series of serial data, and the plurality of processor elements constituting the group of processor elements are uniformly controlled by controllers mounted on the same silicon chip. Consequently, the multiport memory functioning as a buffer for input data and the arithmetic and logic unit are closely joined together, so data can be communicated smoothly between them.

Abstract: In a parallel processor device, at the time specified data is converted to parallel data by the specified unit and processed in parallel and then outputted as serial data, the data is processed and outputted in an arbitrary skipping manner without the necessity of the high speed clock signal. The first pointer mode control means 21 for controlling the address of data writing into data input register is provided, and the number and the interval of the first data when the first data is inputted to the data input register is controlled.