Abstract: There is provided an outdoor unit of refrigeration cycle apparatus that can obtain a large airflow volume even when an external static pressure is high, while preventing an increase in size of the outdoor unit. For this object, the outdoor unit includes a housing in which a machine chamber and a blower chamber are formed, the blower chamber housing a heat exchanger and a blower inside. The blower is a double inlet centrifugal blower including: an impeller; and a scroll casing having suction ports and a discharge port, the scroll casing housing the impeller inside. A plurality of discharge ports are located on an outlet placement surface of the housing. A total width of the plurality of discharge ports in a direction horizontal with the housing placed and parallel to the outlet placement surface is more than a width of the blower chamber in said direction.

Abstract: An ion analysis device includes a sampling unit configured to sample condensate of exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust gas line in a fuel cell; and a sensor unit configured to measure an ion concentration of the condensate, in which the sampling unit is configured to sample the condensate of the exhaust gas from a first reservoir that is provided to the exhaust gas line and where the condensate of the exhaust gas is collected, or to sample the exhaust gas from the exhaust gas line and to collect condensate of the sampled exhaust gas in a second reservoir.

Abstract: A radio frame analysis system includes: an analysis unit that analyzes a network configuration by performing clustering processing on a frame feature value; a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance between clusters obtained by the clustering processing; a reliability determination unit that determines reliability of a result of the clustering processing based on the distance between the clusters; an output unit that outputs a result of the analysis performed by the analysis unit; and an output timing change unit that changes a timing at which the output unit outputs the result of the analysis by changing the number of samples of the frame feature value required to output the result in accordance with the reliability.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle system is configured to be capable of switching among four or more of a plurality of traveling modes including a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) mode and an electric vehicle (EV) mode, and includes one toggle switch for selecting any one of the plurality of traveling modes and a controller. The controller selects the plurality of traveling modes in sequence whenever the toggle switch accepts each of operations to a first direction and a second direction. The HEV mode is set to be changed to different traveling modes between when the toggle switch accepts one or a plurality of operations to the first direction and when the toggle switch accepts an operation to the second direction, and the HEV mode and the EV mode are set to be continuous in an order of selection by the controller.

Abstract: A radio frame analysis system includes: an analysis unit that analyzes a network configuration by performing clustering processing on a frame feature value; a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance between clusters obtained by the clustering processing; a reliability determination unit that determines reliability of a result of the clustering processing based on the distance between the clusters; an output unit that outputs a result of the analysis performed by the analysis unit; and an output timing change unit that changes a timing at which the output unit outputs the result of the analysis by changing the number of samples of the frame feature value required to output the result in accordance with the reliability.

Abstract: A rheology modifying agent that develops a rheology modifying effect over a wide temperature region is provided.

Abstract: Provided are a rheology modifier and a method for modifying water rheology for imparting thixotropy and viscosity to water, and a slurry composition having high viscosity and excellent resistance to separation in water and a method for producing such a slurry composition. A rheology modifier containing: (A) a sulfate or a salt thereof having a hydrocarbon group with 12 or more and 22 or less carbon atoms and an average number of moles of added alkylene oxide of 0 or more and 25 or less; and (B) a fatty acid alkanolamide having a fatty acid moiety with 10 or more and 22 or less carbon atoms.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle control system capable of selectively setting one of a normal mode and a sport mode as a vehicle travel mode, wherein normal-mode and sport-mode target acceleration characteristics are set in such a manner that a sport-mode target acceleration is greater than a normal-mode target acceleration, when compared under the same conditions in terms of accelerator angle and vehicle speed, and a difference between the sport-mode target acceleration and the normal-mode target acceleration becomes smaller along with an increase in the vehicle speed, when compared under the same condition in terms of the accelerator angle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle control system capable of selectively setting one of a normal mode and a sport mode as a vehicle travel mode, wherein normal-mode and sport-mode target acceleration characteristics are set in such a manner that a sport-mode target acceleration is greater than a normal-mode target acceleration, when compared under the same conditions in terms of accelerator angle and vehicle speed, and a difference between the sport-mode target acceleration and the normal-mode target acceleration becomes smaller along with an increase in the vehicle speed, when compared under the same condition in terms of the accelerator angle.

Abstract: A stream generation apparatus, which generates a stream by performing variable-length coding and compression coding on input data, includes: an inserting unit which inserts, into input data, coding-related information which is information to be used for compression coding of quantized data; a first coding unit which performs first processing including variable-length coding and compression coding of headers; a first transfer control unit which transfers, to a storage unit, intermediate data which is the input data on which the first processing has been performed; a second transfer control unit which reads the intermediate data from the storage unit; an extracting unit which extracts information indicated by the coding-related information from the intermediate data; and a second coding unit which generates a stream by performing second processing including compression coding of the quantized data using the information extracted by the extracting unit.

Abstract: A stream generation apparatus includes: a first processing unit which performs, on headers and quantized data, first processing including at least variable-length coding on the headers; a first transfer control unit which transfers the headers on which the first processing has been performed to a first storage area and the quantized data on which the first processing has been performed to a second storage area; a second transfer control unit which obtains headers and quantized data items for a predetermined unit from the first storage area and the second storage area, respectively; and a second processing unit which performs, on the headers and quantized data items for the predetermined unit, second processing including at least compression coding on the quantized data items for the predetermined unit. The second processing unit generates a stream including the compression coded headers followed by the compression coded quantized data.

Abstract: In a listening comprehension test using individual examination execution devices, according to the present invention, it is possible to avoid a dishonest act such as peeping at another examinee's answers. An individual examination execution device (101) reads examination question data and individual information from an examination question storage means (102) storing the examination questions and an individual information storage means (103) storing the individual information, respectively. Further, the individual examination device selectively generates actual questions according to the individual information read by an actual question generation means (104), and reproduces the actual questions by a reproduction means (105), thereby preventing dishonest acts of respective examinees.

Abstract: A motion estimation device executes motion estimation for a macroblock in a current picture, using pixel data of a reference picture in a multi-frame memory (504), including the following elements. A local memory (702) holds a part of the pixel data. The part is in a first range from which motion is estimated in first motion estimation, and read out from the multi-frame memory (504). A common motion estimation unit (704) executes the first motion estimation using pixel data in the part held in the local memory (702). A direct motion estimation unit (108) executes the second motion estimation using pixel data in the pixel data of the reference picture by an algorithm different from that of the first motion estimation. The pixel data used by the direct motion estimation unit (108) is included in a second range which includes the first range and is larger than the first range.

Abstract: In a listening comprehension test using individual examination execution devices, it is possible to avoid a dishonest act such as peeping at another examinee's answers. In an individual examination execution device (101), examination question data and individual information are read from an examination question storage means (102) that stores the examination questions and an individual information storage means (103) that stores the individual information, respectively, and actual questions that are selectively generated according to the individual information read by an actual question generation means (104) are reproduced by a reproduction means (105), thereby preventing dishonest acts of the respective examinees.

Abstract: There is provided a testing method for a semiconductor device which has a test object circuit, a non-test object circuit, and a plurality of register circuits which carry out fetching and holding of data based on a clock signal, the semiconductor device including a plurality of first scan chains configured such that the register circuits in the test object circuit are serially connected, and a plurality of second scan chains configured such that the register circuits in the non-test object circuit are serially connected, the testing method including: providing test data to the first and second scan chains, and inputting the clock signal to the first scan chains, not inputting the clock signal to the second scan chains.