Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image input unit configured to input an image in which a real space is captured by an image capturing apparatus, an image recognition unit configured to recognize a situation in the real space captured in the input image, an image recording unit configured to record the input image, an image selection unit configured to select an image used for image communication from a plurality of images including images recorded by the image recording unit in the past based on a recognition result of the input image, and an image output unit configured to modify the selected image and output the modified image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for extracting a contour of an object which extracts boundary candidate points from the image and sets reference areas each having one of boundary candidate points as a center and includes small areas. A first reference area is set from the reference areas and a first small area is set from small areas included in the first reference area. From reference areas, a second reference area is set, whose feature is similar to that of the first reference area and as a second small area, a small area is set which has a feature amount similar to that of the first small area among small areas included in the second reference area. The boundary candidate points is tracked to extract the contour of the object based on the first reference area, the second reference area, the first small area, and the second small area.

Abstract: A controller for a motor that can set an induced voltage constant of a motor of a double rotor type according to an operational state of the motor and expand the controllable range of the motor. The controller may include a command calculator that calculates a command value of the induced voltage constant of a motor based on the output voltage of a direct-current power supply, the number of revolutions Nm of the motor and a torque command in such a manner that the magnitude of a vector sum of a d-axis current and a q-axis current that have to be supplied in order to produce the torque according to the torque command is minimized, and a phase difference controller that calculates a command value of a rotor phase difference according to the command value and outputs the command value to an actuator to change the rotor phase difference.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a throttling structure for use in a fluid pressure device. A nozzle passage is formed between a primary side port and a nozzle back pressure chamber. A throttling mechanism made up from a plurality of orifice plates is disposed in the nozzle passage. Small diameter opening holes, which are smaller in diameter than the nozzle passage, are provided in the orifice plates. Outer edge portions of the orifice plates are retained in a second body part via seal members. Further, the orifice plates are separated mutually from each other by a predetermined distance along the direction of extension of the nozzle passage.

Abstract: A conveyor for guiding and conveying a plurality of sheet-shaped thin plates in rows arranged side by side to a welding position at which ends of the adjacent thin plates are butted and welded to each other, includes a plurality of conveying paths, which are adjacent to each other, having different conveying surfaces which are placed on a same horizontal plane, and a guide unit disposed between the adjacent two conveying paths for guiding the thin plates on one of the conveying paths with respect to another one thereof toward the welding position. Each of the conveying paths is composed of a plurality conveying rollers, and the guide unit includes guide rollers each having a guide surface for guiding the thin plate on the one of the conveying paths in a state that the thin plate on the one conveying path is partially depressed with respect to the another one of the conveying path.

Abstract: A battery container unit including: an enclosure; and a plurality of battery modules of cylindrical shape, wherein each adjacent pair of the electrode terminals is serially connected by a conductive linking member, the plurality of battery modules are provided in matrix form within the enclosure by a support member, a first cooling medium flow path is provided which linearly flows a cooling medium along in parallel with the electrode terminals and the conductive linking members of the plurality of battery modules in a region within the enclosure near an end in the axial direction of the plurality of battery modules, and a second cooling medium flow path is provided in a gap along the axial direction of the battery modules, between adjacent battery modules within the enclosure, which flows the cooling medium toward the first cooling medium flow path.

Abstract: A conveyor for guiding and conveying a plurality of sheet-shaped thin plates in rows arranged side by side to a welding position at which ends of the adjacent thin plates are butted and welded to each other, includes a plurality of conveying paths, which are adjacent to each other, having different conveying surfaces which are placed on a same horizontal plane, and a guide unit disposed between the adjacent two conveying paths for guiding the thin plates on one of the conveying paths with respect to another one thereof toward the welding position. Each of the conveying paths is composed of a plurality conveying rollers, and the guide unit includes guide rollers each having a guide surface for guiding the thin plate on the one of the conveying paths in a state that the thin plate on the one conveying path is partially depressed with respect to the another one of the conveying path.

Abstract: To provide a controller for a motor that can appropriately set the induced voltage constant of a motor of a double rotor type according to the operational state of the motor and expand the controllable range of the motor. A controller has a Ke command calculator 90 that calculates a command value Ke_c of the induced voltage constant of a motor 1 based on the output voltage Vdc of a direct-current power supply, the number of revolutions Nm of the motor 1 and a torque command Tr_c in such a manner that the magnitude of a vector sum of a d-axis current and a q-axis current that have to be supplied in order to produce the torque according to the torque command Tr_c is minimized, and a phase difference controller 80 that calculates a command value ?d_c of a rotor phase difference according to the command value Ke_c and outputs the command value ?d_c to an actuator 25 to change the rotor phase difference.

Abstract: A conveyor for guiding and conveying a plurality of sheet-shaped thin plates in rows arranged side by side to a welding position at which ends of the adjacent thin plates are butted and welded to each other, includes a plurality of conveying paths, which are adjacent to each other, having different conveying surfaces which are placed on a same horizontal plane, and a guide unit disposed between the adjacent two conveying paths for guiding the thin plates on one of the conveying paths with respect to another one thereof toward the welding position. Each of the conveying paths is composed of a plurality conveying rollers, and the guide unit includes guide rollers each having a guide surface for guiding the thin plate on the one of the conveying paths in a state that the thin plate on the one conveying path is partially depressed with respect to the another one of the conveying path.

Abstract: A packaging structure for a semiconductor device has plural hermetically sealed units each containing a flip-chip electrically interconnected to an intermediate substrate, circuit patterns of the flip-chips being within the sealed environment. Each hermetically sealed unit is connected to a base wiring substrate through soldered electrodes. Replacement of a flip-chip is accomplished by melting the solder joints between the flip-chip's respective hermetically sealed unit and the base wiring substrate. The flux vapor given off during this replacement process does not damage the circuit patterns of nearby flip-chips because they are contained in a sealed environment. Additionally, the electrodes between the flip-chips and intermediate substrate and between intermediate substrates and the base wiring layer contain projections which prevent crushing of solder between opposing electrodes and deformation of the flip-chip under a heavy load.

Abstract: An interconnection structure is provided which is simple in structure and is easily manufactured and in which stress generated in solder bumps is minimized. Pads of a semiconductor chip and pads of a substrate are connected to each other by solder bumps. The solder bumps are hourglass-shaped. Metal core members are provided in the solder bumps, respectively. The core member is constituted with a circular bottom portion and a circular pin portion. The core member is soldered to the pad of the semiconductor chip by solder.

Abstract: A method of assembling an integrated circuit (IC) by a TAB (Tape Automated Bonding) system, and an IC assembled thereby. Leads extending from a TAB tape and connected to an IC are each partly reduced in width. Hence, even when the end portions of the leads are deformed by some object by accident, it is not necessary to correct the shape of the leads since such end portions will be eventually cut off and discarded in the event of packaging of the IC.

Abstract: A hollow extrudate for use in a vacuum is produced by a process comprising the steps of hermetically closing the forward open end of a hollow shaped material immediately after extrusion from a billet, cutting the shaped material after a predetermined length thereof has been subsequently extruded and hermetically closing the cut end at the same time, and cutting off the closed ends. The billet is a composite material composed of a core of aluminum having a high purity of at least 99.9% and an aluminum alloy cladding. The extrudate obtained has an inner layer and an outer layer corresponding to the core and the cladding, respectively.

Abstract: A substrate for amorphous silicon solar cells comprises an aluminum or aluminum alloy plate which is formed on at least one surface thereof with an oxalic acid anodized film in an unsealed state and having a thickness of 1 to 20 .mu.m. A plurality of amorphous silicon solar cells provided on the substrate include lower electrodes of chrominum or the like which are formed on the anodized film. The lower electrodes are electrically insulated from one another by the anodized film.

Abstract: An aluminum material for use in a vacuum is produced by a process comprising the steps of removing a hydrated oxide coating from the surface of a worked aluminum material to obtain a clean surface in a dry state, and heating the aluminum material in an oxygen gas-containing atmosphere out of contact with the water-containing atmosphere to form an oxide coating on the dry clean surface.

Abstract: To obtain a high-purity aluminum fraction from aluminum containing both eutectic impurities and peritectic impurities, the contents of these impurities in the original aluminum are reduced by melting the original aluminum to obtain molten aluminum, adding boron to the molten aluminum, and rotating a cooling body as immersed in the boron-containing molten aluminum while introducing a cooling fluid to the interior of the body to crystallize high-purity aluminum on the surface of the body. The peritectic impurities react with the boron to form metallic borides, which are centrifugally forced away from the cooling body by the rotation of the body without being incorporated into the aluminum crystallized on the surface of the body. The eutectic impurities are removed from the crystallized aluminum on the surface based on the principle of segregation.