Abstract: In a state where a shoulder member is in contact with a contact surface, a pin member is brought into contact with the contact surface to specify a pin movement amount, which is a distance from an initial position of the pin member to the contact surface, and specify a shoulder displacement amount, which is a displacement amount when the shoulder member is retreated as a result of the contact of the pin member. When both a first condition that the pin movement amount is included in a first range and a second condition that the shoulder displacement amount is included in a second range are satisfied, the pin member is retreated from the contact surface by a predetermined return amount, and furthermore, origin point alignment of the pin member and the shoulder member is performed on the basis of positions of the pin member and the shoulder member.

Abstract: An in-vehicle device is configured to access a cloud via a communication unit, and includes: a controller that includes at least one physical core; a first unit configured to be operated by the controller and control a sensor to generate detection data; and a second unit configured to be operated by the controller and execute a process based on the detection data.

Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes a first controller and a second controller. The first controller includes at least one physical core for executing a first unit related to control of hardware and a second unit related to provision of a service. The second controller starts the first controller in response to occurrence of a start trigger. The first controller starts the first unit, and then starts the second unit when the first controller is started by the second controller. The first unit and the second unit are restarted when an abnormality of the first unit is detected by the second controller or an abnormality of the second unit is detected by the first unit. The first unit, the second unit and the second controller are restarted when an abnormality of the second controller is detected by the second controller.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a correction circuit. First signals respectively corresponding to the first pixel and the second pixel are input to the correction circuit. The correction circuit outputs second signals in response to the first signals. Each of the first pixel and the second pixel includes a photoelectric converter, a charge storage region, and a capacitance circuit. The photoelectric converter converts light into signal charges. The charge storage region stores the signal charges. The capacitance circuit varies a capacitance value of the charge storage region in response to a potential of the charge storage region. The correction circuit corrects the first signal of at least one of the first pixel or the second pixel to the second signal in a case where the same amount of light is incident on the first pixel and the second pixel.

Abstract: A phase comparison process in a timing recovery process for high-speed data communication defines a data window and compares the phase of a clock in the window with the phase of an edge of data so as to realize a parallel process, wherein the phase comparison and the process of determining whether a data edge lies within the window are performed in parallel to each other, and the phase comparison result is output only if the data edge lies within the window. With this configuration, it is possible to perform an accurate phase comparison process with no errors without requiring high-precision delay circuits.

Abstract: A phase comparison process in a timing recovery process for high-speed data communication defines a data window and compares the phase of a clock in the window with the phase of an edge of data so as to realize a parallel process, wherein the phase comparison and the process of determining whether a data edge lies within the window are performed in parallel to each other, and the phase comparison result is output only if the data edge lies within the window. With this configuration, it is possible to perform an accurate phase comparison process with no errors without requiring high-precision delay circuits.

Abstract: Upon detection of input of an input signal in a signal detector 101 of a data receiving device 100, a receiving circuit 103 starts receiving the input signal. When the signal detector 101 determines the input signal as a data signal, a first logic circuit 104 outputs a receiving signal received at the receiving circuit 103 as a data signal.

Abstract: In data communication apparatus for communicating with another data communication apparatus via cables, when a power supply voltage applied to the data communication apparatus drops and the application of the power supply voltage is stopped, a power-supply-voltage-drop detecting circuit immediately detects the drop in the power supply voltage, thereby detecting the stop of application of the power supply voltage. When the stop of the power supply is detected, a stop signal outputting circuit outputs a communication stop signal to said another data communication apparatus. Accordingly, when power supply is stopped in one of the two pieces of data communication apparatus, it is possible to prevent a malfunction from occurring in the other data communication apparatus.

Abstract: A recycling method of scrap steel plate that can recycle scrap steel plates including scrap of high-tensile steel plate to produce good quality of cast iron efficiently, while avoiding unnecessary cost increase. In the recycling method, scrap of high-tensile steel plate and scrap of ordinary steel plate are collected together in a batch collecting process and, then, in a preparing process, the scrap steel plates collected are melted and if not less than 0.7 weight % manganese is contained in the hot metal, then the hot metal is prepared so that a sulfur content in the range of 0.02 to 0.2 weight % in the hot metal and rare earth element or misch metal which is two times as much as the sulfur content is added to the hot metal. To obtain spheroidal graphite cast iron, spheroidizing agent (which preferably comprises no rare-earth element but comprises bismuth) is added further to the hot metal after that.

Abstract: An attribute acquisition apparatus includes a set attribute storing section for storing the names of multiple set attributes and an attribute name specifying portion selecting section for selecting an attribute name specifying portion which is a row or a column of tabulated data in which each of the names of multiple recorded attributes recorded in tabulated data is recorded. Also provided is an attribute name comparing section for comparing the names of the multiple recorded attributes included in the attribute name specifying portion with the names of the multiple set attributes, and associating each of the recorded attributes with one of the multiple set attributes based on the result of the comparison.

Abstract: In data communication apparatus for communicating with another data communication apparatus via cables, when a power supply voltage applied to the data communication apparatus drops and the application of the power supply voltage is stopped, a power-supply-voltage-drop detecting circuit immediately detects the drop in the power supply voltage, thereby detecting the stop of application of the power supply voltage. When the stop of the power supply is detected, a stop signal outputting circuit outputs a communication stop signal to said another data communication apparatus. Accordingly, when power supply is stopped in one of the two pieces of data communication apparatus, it is possible to prevent a malfunction from occurring in the other data communication apparatus.

Abstract: In a communication system using the time diversity transmission scheme, the communication system provided with the stable automatic frequency control circuit with the wide frequency pull-in range and under low CN ratio transmission is achieved by removing the modulation phase from the received data through the application of the data correlation of the time diversity.

Abstract: The present invention aims to obtain a demodulator with improved receiving performance such as bit error rate characteristic by reducing the estimation error of the fading distortion even in case of transmitted signal in the channel which is much influenced by not only fading variation but also the thermal noise such as in the nonfading channel. In the demodulator of the invention has a configuration where the carrier is estimated using the known signal to perform the coherent detection. In the carrier estimator, the fading distortion estimator obtains a predetermined form of the estimation of the fading distortion using the known signal, the fading distortion compensator eliminates the fading distortion estimated from the received signal by a predetermined compensating method. The averaging unit obtains the average value of the compensated signal, of which the modulation component was eliminated from the output of the fading distortion compensator.

Abstract: In an outboard engine, a support member for supporting a drive shaft and an exhaust pipe within an extension case can be cooled by outside water pumped by utilizing the exhaust pressure from the engine. The inside of the extension case is divided, by the support member for supporting the drive shaft and the exhaust pipe, into an upper chamber communicating with the open air, and a lower chamber into which outside water is introduced, so that the exhaust gas from the exhaust pipe is discharged into the lower chamber. Both the upper and lower chambers are in communication with each other through a communication pipe. Thus, during operation of the engine, the support member and the depending members are cooled by the outside water forced up from the lower chamber through the communication pipe into the upper chamber.

Abstract: A demodulator is made compact, and with a simple circuit arrangement, and also having a better bit error rate characteristic. A timing phase synchronization detecting circuit 219 judges any one of the following two conditions based upon baseband phase data 202, i.e., an UNLOCK (timing phase asynchronous) condition, and a LOCK (timing phase synchronous) condition. Based upon the judgement result of the timing phase synchronization detecting circuit 219, in a timing recovering means 221, a frequency range of a PLL (phase synchronization loop) is variable, whereas the number of data entered within 1 symbol time is variable in a frequency synchronizing means 222 and a carrier recovering means 223. A data demodulating means 224 outputs demodulation data 206 in response to baseband phase data 202 and a recovery carrier signal 205.

Abstract: A silencer includes: a porous inner pipe provided in a peripheral wall thereof with a large number of small pores; an outer pipe surrounding the porous inner pipe; a sound absorbing material incorporated in an annular clearance between the porous inner pipe and the outer pipe; and a plurality of exhaust gas expansion chambers defined in the porous inner pipe and arranged such that an exhaust gas is sequentially passed through the exhaust gas expansion chambers. The sound absorbing material is formed of a heat-resistant fiber layer which is wound around an outer peripheral surface of the porous inner pipe with a binder interposed therebetween, and an outer peripheral surface of the heat-resistant fiber layer is press-fitted to an inner peripheral surface of the outer pipe with a predetermined interference. Thus, it is possible to prevent a reduction in sound vanish effect due to the leakage and short-circuiting of an exhaust gas and a reduction in engine power performance.

Abstract: A container device comprises a blood-collecting bag, a platelet conserving bag, and a plasma bag. These bags are connected each other by tubes. Anticoagulant agent is contained in the blood-collecting bag, and the other bags are empty. The blood-collecting bag is formed of flexible polyvinylchloride. The blood-collecting bag is autoclaved after containing anticoagulant. The other bags are formed of polyolefin such as EVA, and radiation- or gas-sterilized in an empty state.

Abstract: An automatic brake shoe measuring apparatus for rolling stock automatically measures the thickness of brake shoes of a vehicle and automatically detecting the presence or absence of damage during travel. The automatic measuring apparatus includes: a camera unit including a monitor camera for photographing brake shoes of a vehicle during travel and outputting an image signal, an image memory for storing the image signal, and a trigger detector for outputting a trigger signal to thereby store an image signal representing an image of a specific brake shoe of the vehicle; and an image processing unit including an extraction means for extracting the specific brake shoe in accordance with the image signal stored in the image memory and transferred from the camera unit, an arithmetic means for calculating the thickness of the specific brake shoe extracted by the extraction means, and a display means for displaying the thickness of the specific brake shoe calculated out by the arithmetic means.

Abstract: In the concatenated coding data compensation communication system, the coding and decoding are performed in a differential coder and a differential decoder. 2-channel output obtained after coding is parallel-to-serial converted and then subjected to synonym insertion before being transmitted. On the receiving side, the received data is supplied after detection and removal of sync-words in a Viterbi decoder, and the decoder is operated on the basis of the timing of detection of the detected sync-words.

Abstract: A non-aqueous printing ink composition containing a microcapsule and a microencapsulated ink composition characterized in that the microcapsule has a capsule wall comprising melamine-formaldehyde resin and has an average particle size of 1.8 to 3.5.mu..