Abstract: In a power steering device equipped with a rack shaft constructed by joining a first member having rack teeth and a second member serving as a ball screw shaft on which a ball screw groove is formed, a grinding process of the ball screw groove is performed on the second member by causing a grindstone to rotate and move along a rotation axis of the second member, while causing the second member to rotate about an axis of the second member as the rotation axis. The grinding process is performed so as to satisfy a specified machining condition “g/(5×p)<w<g/p”, where w is a rotational speed of the second member during grinding of the ball screw groove, g is a rotational speed of the grindstone during grinding of the ball screw groove, and p is a circumferential length of one circumference of the ball screw groove around the rotation axis.

Abstract: A vehicular image-display system includes an image capturing device, a control device, and an image display device. The image capturing device includes an imaging element configured to capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle, and an image acquirer configured to acquire, based on the captured image captured by the imaging element, an image that is smaller in area than the captured image. The control device includes an image generator configured to generate an image that is smaller in area than the acquired image based on the acquired image acquired by the image acquirer. The image display device is configured to display the image to be displayed generated by the image generator. The acquired image is transmitted from the image capturing device to the control device.

Abstract: A vehicular image-display system includes an image capturing device, a control device, and an image display device. The image capturing device includes an imaging element configured to capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle, and an image acquirer configured to acquire, based on the captured image captured by the imaging element, an image that is smaller in area than the captured image. The control device includes an image generator configured to generate an image that is smaller in area than the acquired image based on the acquired image acquired by the image acquirer. The image display device is configured to display the image to be displayed generated by the image generator. The acquired image is transmitted from the image capturing device to the control device.

Abstract: In a power steering device equipped with a rack shaft constructed by joining a first member having rack teeth and a second member serving as a ball screw shaft on which a ball screw groove is formed, a grinding process of the ball screw groove is performed on the second member by causing a grindstone to rotate and move along a rotation axis of the second member, while causing the second member to rotate about an axis of the second member as the rotation axis. The grinding process is performed so as to satisfy a specified machining condition “g/(5×p)<w<g/p”, where w is a rotational speed of the second member during grinding of the ball screw groove, g is a rotational speed of the grindstone during grinding of the ball screw groove, and p is a circumferential length of one circumference of the ball screw groove around the rotation axis.

Abstract: A vehicular image-display system includes an image capturing device, a control device, and an image display device. The image capturing device includes an imaging element configured to capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle, and an image acquirer configured to acquire, based on the captured image captured by the imaging element, an image that is smaller in area than the captured image. The control device includes an image generator configured to generate an image that is smaller in area than the acquired image based on the acquired image acquired by the image acquirer. The image display device is configured to display the image to be displayed generated by the image generator. The acquired image is transmitted from the image capturing device to the control device.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a control unit determines that dirt is present on the linear scale when a detecting unit detects a change in a moving direction of a moving member while the moving member is moving at a constant speed.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a control unit determines that dirt is present on the linear scale when a detecting unit detects a change in a moving direction of a moving member while the moving member is moving at a constant speed.

Abstract: A photosensitive material comprises a photosensitive composition comprising a photosensitive and heat-developable element and a photopolymerizable element. An imagewise unexposed area on the material is polymerized by imagewise exposure, heating and whole areal exposure. The photosensitive and heat-developable element comprises at least a photosensitive silver halide, an organic silver salt and a reducing agent of the formula ##STR1## The photopolymerizable element comprises at least a polymerizable polymer precursor and a photopolymerization initiator. An image forming method comprises the steps; subjecting a photosensitive material in the same layer to imagewise exposure and heating to form an image; and subjecting the resultant photosensitive material to whole areal exposure to polymerize and imagewise unexposed or exposed area thereof.

Abstract: A dry process silver salt photosensitive material has a support and provided thereon a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming component. The photosensitive layer is incorporated with a compound selected from the compounds (i), (ii) and (iii).

Abstract: A dry process silver salt photosensitive material is disclosed which has a support and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer contains at least a photosensitive silver halide or photosensitive silver halide forming component, an organic silver salt and a pyrrole compound. The photosensitive material has a broad latitude for heat development and can form images with a high contrast.

Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material including a photosensitive layer formed on a support, the photosensitive layer at least containing an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, either a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming agent, and a sensitizing dye of the following general formula (I): ##STR1## where r is hydrogen, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl or substituted amino; r.sup.1 and r.sup.2 are each substituted or unsubstituted aryl or r.sup.1 and r.sup.2 are bonded to each other to form a condensed ring; r.sup.3, r.sup.4 and r.sup.5 are each hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl; X.sup.1 is oxygen, sulfur, carbon, nitrogen or selenium, wherein when X.sup.1 is carbon or nitrogen, then X.sup.

Abstract: A heat developing photosensitive member including: a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming agent; and a supporting member for supporting the photosensitive layer thereon, wherein merocyanine dye having a structure in which a thiazole nucleus or selenazole nucleus and hydantoin nucleus, thiohydantoin nucleus or selenohydantoin nucleus are combined with each other by a combining group having a methine group is contained in the photosensitive layer.

Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material is disclosed which has a support and a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a silver halide and a reducing agent, a water-soluble polymeric layer containing a water-soluble polymeric material, and a hydrophobic polymeric layer containing a hydrophobic polymeric material.

Abstract: A photosensitive material comprises a photosensitive silver halide, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, a polymerizable polymer precursor, a photopolymerization initiator and a heat-diffusible coloring matter. As a preferred embodiment, the photosensitive material comprises a photosensitive layer containing the photosensitive silver halide, the organic silver salt and the reducing agent, a polymerizing layer containing the polymerizable polymer precursor and the photopolymerization initiator, and a coloring material layer containing the heat-diffusible coloring material. A image forming method employing the photosensitive material comprises the steps of a) subjecting the photosensitive material to imagewise exposure; b) heating the photosensitive material; c) subjecting to whole areas exposure at least the polymerizing layer; and d) heating at least the coloring material layer to transfer the heat-diffusible coloring matter to an image-receiving material, thus forming a color image.

Abstract: An image forming method is conducted by subjecting a dry silver salt image forming medium to imagewise exposure and heating to form a light-absorbing organic compound. Thereafter, the medium is subjected to polymerization exposure to imagewise polymerize the medium based on the formation pattern of the light-absorbing compound. The light-absorbing organic compound has specific sensitivities to light in order to maximize contrast.

Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material is disclosed which has a support and a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a silver halide and a reducing agent, a water-soluble polymeric layer containing a water-soluble polymeric material, and a hydrophobic polymeric layer containing a hydrophobic polymeric material.

Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material is disclosed which has a support and provided thereon a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer contains at least an organic silver salt, a silver halide and a reducing agent represented by the formula (I). Also, an image forming method using the heat-developable photosensitive material is disclosed.

Abstract: A photosensitive material comprises a photosensitive and heat-developable element and a photopolymerizable element which are contained in the same layer. The photopolymerizable element comprises at least a polymerizable polymer precursor having a melting point of 35.degree. C. or more. The photosensitive material is exposed to light with at least one wavelength within the wavelength region of from 400 nm to 900 nm, heated at 60.degree. to 180.degree. C., and exposed to light with at least one wavelength within the wavelength region of from 250 to 700 nm, and thus an unexposed area in the photosensitive layer which is an area not exposed to light with at least one wavelength within the wavelength region of from 400 nm to 900 nm is polymerized.

Abstract: A dry process silver salt photosensitive member is disclosed. The photosensitive member has a heat-developable photosensitive element containing at least (1) and organic silver salt, (2) a reducing agent, and (3) at least one of a photosensitive silver halide and a photosensitive silver halide-forming component on a support. The heat-developable photosensitive element further contains a compound represented by the general formula (I) and a compound represented by the general formula (II).

Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material which comprises an organic silver salt, a silver halide, a reducing agent and a heat development accelerator having a redox potential ranging from -1.2 V to +1.0 V on the basis of an AgCl/Ag electrode.