Abstract: A verification supporting apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a first verification-item list for a verification target, a functional specification of the verification target, and a sequential specification of the verification target; a keyword extracting unit that extracts a keyword about the verification target from the first verification-item list; a creating unit that creates a second verification-item list in which each of the verification items is formed with the functional description and the sequential description about an output action of the verification target; and a converting unit that converts the first verification-item list into a third verification-item list having a same format as the second verification-item list, based on the second verification-item list and the keyword.

Abstract: A guidance information display device includes: a voice input unit; a display unit for displaying guidance information; an operation unit for accepting an operation; and a processor capable of executing the following processes of: a voice recognition process operation of performing voice recognition based on inputted voice; a calculation operation of calculating an evaluation value for a recognition result of voice recognition by the voice recognition process operation; a display operation of reading out guidance information corresponding to the recognition result from a storage unit, which stores the guidance information, and displaying the guidance information at a display unit; and a decision operation of deciding a display mode of the guidance information at the display unit based on a variable value, which varies with an operation from the operation unit for the guidance information displayed by the display operation, and the evaluation value calculated by the calculation operation.

Abstract: A table saw includes a table capable of supporting a workpiece, a cutting unit and a positioning fence. The positioning fence has a positioning surface for supporting the workpiece. The positioning surface is divided into an upper positioning surface and a lower positioning surface that are positioned above the table. First slide fences allocated to the lower positioning surface and second slide fences allocated to the upper positioning surface are slidably supported in a table surface direction relatively independent from each other. The positioning surfaces of the first and second slide fences constitute an entire region of the positioning surface. In this way, the entire region of the positioning surface is made to be slidable in accordance with various operation modes.

Abstract: It is, accordingly, an object of the present invention to provide a technique which is effective in preventing chips generated during cutting operation on a workpiece from being accumulated in a region ahead in a cutting direction. A representative cutting machine includes a motor, a blade, a body housing having a first region that houses the motor and a second region that covers the blade and projects forward of a front surface of the first region, a base, an angular plate, an outlet formed in the body housing, an opening and a blocking part. The blocking part prevents the air discharged from the outlet from flowing out laterally with respect to the moving direction of the base through a clearance between a front end of the second region and the one end of the angular plate and thereby helps the air discharged from the outlet flow into the opening.

Abstract: A compact hinge device is provided with which it is possible to turn two members and it is possible to make one of the members incline with respect to the other member. By a turning shaft part turning in a through hole in a first base member, a second base member constructed to turn together with the turning shaft part can be turned, and by an abutting part provided on the second base member sliding on a cam surface provided on the first base member the second base member can be made to incline with respect to the turning shaft part.

Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus can reduce false recognition caused by matching with respect to the phrases composed of a small number of syllables, when it performs a recognition process, by a pronunciation unit, for voice data based on voice produced by a speaker such as a syllable and further performs recognition by a method such as the Word Spotting for matching with respect to the phrases stored in the phrase database. The voice recognition apparatus performs a recognition process for comparing a result of the recognition process by a pronunciation unit with the extended phrases obtained by adding the additional phrase before and/or behind the respective phrases.

Abstract: In a bench circular sawing machine as one example of a cutting machine, a vise assembly to be mounted to a guide fence includes a pressing part (e.g., an arm and a feed screw) configured to be capable of moving upward and downward and fixed at a desired height, in a position protrusively frontward of the guide fence, and a second pressing part (e.g., stopper plate) configured to be capable of moving along the guide surface upward and downward and fixed at a desired height. One of the pressing part and the second pressing part is selected for use in holding a workpiece down from above.

Abstract: An information input unit inputs functional configuration information representing a function of a device to be validated. A condition input unit inputs conditions concerning input/output sequence that is given to the device. A function generation unit generates a validation item function that fulfills all of the conditions based on the functional configuration information. An extraction unit extracts a combination of configuration elements that constitute the functional configuration information as a validation item based on the validation item function.

Abstract: A portable terminal has one casing with a display unit and a speaker coupled to another casing with an operation unit and a microphone. The casings connect via a coupling unit and are capable of opening or closing by means of the coupling unit. The face of the casing with the speaker is directed in the same direction as the face of the casing with the microphone. The coupling unit enables one casing to be inclined to the other casing and to rotate around an axis substantially perpendicular to the face of the other casing with a microphone. Opening the casings increases the sound collecting rate of the microphone during a phone call and prevents a top face of the operation unit from being rubbed or scratched by the other.

Abstract: A verification support device supports logic verification of a design object corresponding to modified sequence diagrams obtained by modifying sequence diagrams expressing processes of a design object in a chronological order. A diagram extracting unit extracts the modified sequence diagrams. A modified process detecting unit detects modified processes by comparing the sequence diagrams before modification and the sequence diagrams after modification. Based on the modified processes, an applicability determining unit determines whether test benches used for a regression test of the design object of the sequence diagrams before modification is applicable to a regression test of the design object of the sequence diagrams after modification. A test bench output unit outputs test benches based on a result of determination by the applicability determining unit.

Abstract: A dust collecting device for collecting cutting chips into a dust collecting container is provided. A back-flow preventing wall(s) is fixedly disposed on a flow path member defining a flow path between a machining apparatus and the dust collecting container. The back-flow preventing wall(s) is configured to decrease a cross sectional area of a flow path part defined by the flow path member in a downstream direction with respect to the flow of the air containing the cutting chips toward the dust collecting container.

Abstract: A recognition result extraction unit and an agreement determination unit are provided. The recognition result extraction unit extracts, from a recognition result storage unit, N best solutions A and B obtained by an utterance B. The utterance B follows an utterance A corresponding to the N best solutions A and made by a speaker b who is different from a speaker of the utterance A. In a case where a repeat utterance determination unit determines that the N best solutions B are N best solutions obtained by a repeat utterance B according to the utterance A corresponding to the N best solutions A, when the best solution A and B are different each other, the agreement determination unit determines that some or all of the N best solutions A can be replaced with some or all of the N best solutions B.

Abstract: A stroke characteristic variable engine comprising a primary link connected to a piston which is slidably fitted in a cylinder, a secondary link connecting the primary link with a crankshaft and a tertiary link connected to the primary link or the secondary link at one end and to an engine main body via a control shaft at the other end thereof. An oil level position of engine oil stored in an oil pan is set such that at least part of the control shaft is submerged in the engine oil, whereby since oil stored within the oil pan can be used as it is, the lubrication around the control shaft can be ensured in a simplified configuration.

Abstract: Provided is a variable stroke property engine that can prevent an increase in the resistance to the engine owing to the contact between the variable stroke piston mechanism and lubricating oil. In a variable stroke property engine equipped with a variable piston stroke mechanism consisting of a plurality of links 4, 5 and 12, a baffle plate 40 is provided between the links and the oil surface of the lubricating oil received in an oil pan so that the links may be separated from the oil surface by the baffle plate and the lubricating oil is prevented from contacting the links. Thereby, an increase to the resistance to the movement of the links can be avoided.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus designed to make a window envelope rapidly using a water-soluble clarifying agent without causing an inconvenience in its window area. Upstream of an envelope making stage wherein a continuous paper while traveling along a continuous path of travel is successively folded, pasted and cut to form an envelope, a water-soluble clarifying agent is applied to an area on the continuous paper that is designed to become the transparent window in the envelope and the continuous paper carrying the clarifying agent is wound on a plurality of drying cylinders so that its surface carrying the clarifying agent faces outwards to dry the clarifying agent while holding the surface of paper carrying the clarifying agent out of contact with the drying cylinders.

Abstract: A vise mechanism is adapted to be incorporated in a cutting machine. A base is adapted to support a work to be cut by the cutting machine. A supporting rod is disposed on the base and extend in a first direction. A bracket is provided on the supporting rod and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A vise rod is extending in the first direction while slidably penetrating the bracket in the first direction. A first engagement member is formed on a circumferential face of the vise rod. A damper is provided on a lower end portion of the vise rod and adapted to come in contact with the work supported on the base. A locking member is provided in the bracket and formed with a slot extending in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction to which the vise rod is idly fitted, so that the locking member is slidable within the bracket in the third direction while intersecting with the vise rod.

Abstract: A compact hinge device is provided with which it is possible to turn two members and it is possible to make one of the members incline with respect to the other member. By a turning shaft part turning in a through hole in a first base member, a second base member constructed to turn together with the turning shaft part can be turned, and by an abutting part provided on the second base member sliding on a cam surface provided on the first base member the second base member can be made to incline with respect to the turning shaft part.

Abstract: A vocabulary dictionary storing unit for storing a plurality of words in advance, a vocabulary dictionary managing unit for extracting recognition target words, a matching unit for calculating a degree of matching with the recognition target words based on an accepted voice, a result output unit for outputting, as a recognition result, a word having a best score from a result of calculating the degree of matching, and an extraction criterion information managing unit for changing extraction criterion information according to a result of monitoring by a monitor control unit are provided. The vocabulary dictionary storing unit further includes a scale information storing unit for storing scale information serving as a scale at the time of extracting the recognition target words, and an extraction criterion information storing unit for storing extraction criterion information indicating a criterion of the recognition target words at the time of extracting the recognition target words.

Abstract: A verification supporting apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a first verification-item list for a verification target, a functional specification of the verification target, and a sequential specification of the verification target; a keyword extracting unit that extracts a keyword about the verification target from the first verification-item list; a creating unit that creates a second verification-item list in which each of the verification items is formed with the functional description and the sequential description about an output action of the verification target; and a converting unit that converts the first verification-item list into a third verification-item list having a same format as the second verification-item list, based on the second verification-item list and the keyword.

Abstract: A verification support device supports logic verification of a design object corresponding to modified sequence diagrams obtained by modifying sequence diagrams expressing processes of a design object in a chronological order. A diagram extracting unit extracts the modified sequence diagrams. A modified process detecting unit detects modified processes by comparing the sequence diagrams before modification and the sequence diagrams after modification. Based on the modified processes, an applicability determining unit determines whether test benches used for a regression test of the design object of the sequence diagrams before modification is applicable to a regression test of the design object of the sequence diagrams after modification. A test bench output unit outputs test benches based on a result of determination by the applicability determining unit.