Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas purification device (22) comprising a substrate used for purifying components contained in an exhaust gas discharged from an engine. The substrate has partitions (54) which define passages (50,51) and are formed of porous material having fine pores each having a predetermined average size. The end portions of the adjacent partitions (54) defining each of part of the passages (50,51) of the substrate are partially connected to each other such that the end portions (52,53) are tapered toward the outside of the substrate. The tapered end portions partially close the end opening of the corresponding passage and form a small hole (55,56) defined by the tips thereof. The size of each small hole (55,56) is smaller than the cross sectional area of the corresponding passage (50) and larger than the sizes of the fine pores of the partitions (54).

Abstract: A metal housing is composed of a housing base and auxiliary components such as a sidewall frame, internally threaded bosses and a rib. The housing base is prepared by sheet metal forming, while the auxiliary components are prepared by die-casting, thixo molding or forging. The auxiliary components are fixed to the housing base by an adhesive that contains metal powder consisting of metal particles.

Abstract: A labor of disconnecting many cables is omitted even when carrying a file basestation with an external storage loaded together with a main body. An information processing unit comprises: a main body having a CPU, a keyboard and a display unit; a file basestation with an external storage, such as an FD·D or a CD-ROM·D, loaded; and a portreplicator with many connectors loaded. Removal of the main body alone from the portreplicator or removal of the main body and the file basestation can omit the labor of disconnecting many cables connected to the portreplicator.

Abstract: An exhaust purifying method and apparatus of an internal combustion engine are provided with an exhaust switch valve for switching a flow of exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust filter. By switching the exhaust switch valve, the exhaust gas is fed from one side and the other side of the filter, thereby stirring the soot (particulates) in the exhaust gas deposited on the filter having a NOx absorbent and an active-oxygen discharging agent supported thereon. Thus, the soot in the exhaust gas is continuously burned. Moreover, the switching of the exhaust switch valve and the rich spike are inhibited from being conducted simultaneously. In the case where the rich spike is conducted in order to discharge and reduce NOx absorbed in the NOx absorbent, the exhaust gas containing a large amount of HC and CO can be prevented from being discharged into the atmosphere without being purified.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which is capable of carrying out the higher memory access. The information processing apparatus includes a memory unit of a synchronous DRAM device which serves to output data synchronously with the supplied clock signal, and a control unit for controlling the access to the memory unit in accordance with an instruction issued from a CPU. The clock signal which is to be supplied to the memory unit is outputted from the control unit. The clock signal which has been outputted from the control unit is supplied to the memory unit and also is pulled back to the control unit. The control unit fetches therein the data, which has been outputted from the storage unit, at the timing which is determined on the basis of the pulled back clock signal. As a result, the control unit reduces the difference between a delay of the data which is outputted from the control unit and a delay of the clock signal which is used to determine the timing at which the data is fetched therein.

Abstract: A device for purifying the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine using a particulate filter arranged in the exhaust system. The trapped particulates are oxidized on the particulate filter, and the particulate filter has a trapping wall for trapping the particulates. The trapping wall has a first trapping surface and a second trapping surface. The device reverses the exhaust gas upstream side and the exhaust gas downstream side of the particulate filter so that the first trapping surface and the second trapping surface are used alternately to trap the particulates.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device having a NOx absorbent includes a by-pass passage for by-passing the NOx absorbent, an exhaust gas flow rate control portion for regulating both a flow rate of exhaust gas flowing to the NOx absorbent and the flow rate of the exhaust gas bypassing the NOx absorbent, and a reductant addition portion for adding reductant into an exhaust passage upstream of the NOx absorbent. In this device, when it is necessary to discharge sulfur components from the NOx absorbent, a temperature rise control is executed such that a temperature of the NOx absorbent becomes higher than a predetermined temperature. Next, a rich condition control is executed such that an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing to the NOx absorbent becomes one of a substantially stoichiometric condition and a rich condition. The flow rate of the exhaust gas to the NOx absorbent during the temperature rise control is controlled so as to be higher than that during the rich condition control.

Abstract: A device for purifying the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The device has a particulate filter arranged in the exhaust system on which the trapped particulates are oxidized, and a reversing mechanism for reversing the exhaust gas upstream side and the exhaust gas downstream side of the particulate filter. The particulate filter has a trapping wall. The trapping wall has a first trapping surface and a second trapping surface. The reversing mechanism reverses the exhaust gas upstream side and the exhaust gas downstream side of the particulate filter so that the first trapping surface and the second trapping surface are used alternately to trap the particulates. The device can improve the amount of particulates that can be oxidized and removed on the particulate filter.

Abstract: In a circuit simulation system, a simulator and part of device models and circuit models are stored in a server on the Internet, a user sends arbitrary circuit data to the server, the server carries out calculation using the circuit data received from the user and the device and circuit models stored therein, and then the server returns the results of calculation to the user.

Abstract: A bit operation processor having a first address operation unit for updating the address of data in units of byte or multipled bytes for performing operation in units of byte or multiple of bytes, a second address operation unit for updating the address of data in units of bit or multiple of bits, an address control means operating on the first address operation unit to advance the address in response to the result of address advancement by the second address operation unit, and means for fetching byte-wide data for operation as addressed by the first address operation unit, whereby operation between data of any number of bits at any positions in byte blocks is controlled simply and fast.

Abstract: A particulate filter (22) carrying an active oxygen release agent which takes in oxygen and holds oxygen when excess oxygen is present in the surroundings and releases the held oxygen in the form of active oxygen when the concentration of oxygen in the surroundings falls is arranged in an exhaust passage of an engine. The air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the particulate filter (22) is normally maintained lean and is occasionally switched to rich temporarily. When the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is switched to rich, an oxidation reaction of the particulate on the particulate filter is promoted by the active oxygen released from the active oxygen release agent. Due to this, the particulate in the exhaust gas is continuously removed by oxidation on the particulate filter (22) without emitting a luminous flame.

Abstract: An engine comprising a particulate filter which is arranged in the exhaust passage and has a function of absorbing NOx, where the amount of discharged particulate discharged from the combustion chamber per unit time is made smaller than the amount of particulate removable by oxidation per unit time without emitting a luminous flame on the particulate filter and where the temperature of the particulate filter is maintained in a temperature range where the NOx absorption rate becomes more than a certain value.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device of an engine comprising a particulate filter arranged in an exhaust passage. An electric motor able to impart a vehicle drive power separate from the engine and able to generate electric power from the engine is provided. After the particulate filter finishes being warmed up, when the temperature of the particulate filter is low, the output torque of the engine is increased and the amount of increase of the output torque is consumed by the power generating action of the electric motor.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes plural catalysts provided in parallel. In a case where temperatures of the catalysts need to be raised, a catalyst is selected from among the catalysts and the exhaust gas is allowed to flow in the selected catalyst. In addition, the temperature of the selected catalyst is raised without using a reducing agent when the temperatures of the catalysts are lower than a temperature range in which the reducing agent can be purified. Alternatively, the reducing agent is supplied to the selected catalyst so as to raise the temperature thereof when the temperatures of the catalysts are equal to or higher than the temperature at which the reducing agent can be purified.

Abstract: A metal object forming method includes a preliminary step and a metal-injecting step. At the preliminary step, flowability-improving material is put in a molding die. Then, at the metal-injecting step, molten metal is poured into the die for producing a casting. Due to the high temperature of the molten metal, the flowability-improving material melts into the molten metal, to cause the freezing point depression of the molten metal.

Abstract: A server on the Internet stores a semiconductor's working recipe and user information. Next, a user transmits, to the server, data on arbitrary working conditions. Moreover, using the data and the semiconductor's working recipe, the server executes the arithmetic-calculation, then transmitting only the arithmetic-calculation result back to the user.

Abstract: A metal casting fabrication method is provided. In accordance with the method, first a metal plate is disposed in the cavity of molding dies. This metal plate includes a first surface formed with a heat insulating layer, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. With the metal plate placed in the cavity, the heat insulating layer is held in contact with the dies, while the opposite or second surface is partially exposed to the cavity. The injected molten metal properly fills the cavity from end to end since its heat is not conducted unduly to the dies via the metal plate.

Abstract: A reversal device reverses upstream and downstream sides of a particulate filter. First and second collecting surfaces of a collecting wall are used alternately to collect particulates. In order to ensure that a portion of exhaust gas bypasses the particulate filter while a valve body is switched from one position to the other position to reverse the upstream and downstream sides of the particulate filter, the reversal device switches the valve body as soon as the amount of particulates discharged from a combustion chamber of an engine becomes equal to or smaller than a set discharge amount.

Abstract: A laser beam emitted from a high output semiconductor laser 101 is irradiated into an interference type optical shutter 105 by a first optical system 103 as a wide laser beam along a predetermined direction which intersects with an emitted direction of the laser beam, and also a voltage which mates with the images to be recorded on the recording medium 3 is selectively applied to the electrode pairs of the interference type optical shutter 105, thus the laser beam being input into the interference type optical shutter 105 is optically modulated by an electro-mechanical operation of a flexible thin film to thus irradiate onto the recording medium 3 via a second optical system 107. Accordingly, the image recording apparatus with high reliability, which is able to record the image on the recording medium in the heat mode at high speed by using the high power laser, can be provided.

Abstract: Conventionally, wiring length occupied by a directional coupler decides intervals between modules connected to a bus, and those intervals can not be shortened furthermore. Accordingly, the intervals between modules are wide and high-density mounting is not possible. In the present invention, a directional coupler in a memory bus is formed by a leader line from a controller and a leader line from a memory chip and contained within a memory module. Accordingly, pitch between the modules can be reduced and high-density mounting can be realized.