Abstract: An illuminating device may include an optical guiding body configured to dispose linear optical guiding members side by side, the linear optical guiding members guiding light incident from one end side in a longitudinal direction to another end side. The illuminating device may also include optical sources to emit light toward corresponding linear optical guiding members. The optical guiding body may include first and second optical guiding members adjacent in a width direction. A luminance distribution of the light in the longitudinal direction emitted from the first optical guiding member becomes darker, and that emitted from the second optical guiding member becomes brighter, according to being closer to the other end side from the one end side. The illuminating device may further include a control unit configured to light up the optical sources of the first and second optical guiding members in order and thereafter, light them out in order.

Abstract: An illuminating device may include optical sources, a diffusion plate having emission regions corresponding to the optical sources, and a control unit configured to control lighting-up/lighting-out and an emission intensity of the optical sources based upon a schedule when carrying out performance on an optical travel by the diffusion plate. The emission regions each may have a predetermined length and extend in a longitudinal direction of the diffusion plate. In the schedule, a light-up/light-out state of each optical source and an emission intensity of an optical source to be lit up are set based upon an average illuminance in an illuminance distribution of the diffusion plate by combining illuminances of lights emitted from the emission regions. For realizing a temporal change of the average illuminance set, the light-up/light-out state of each optical source and emission intensity of the optical source to be lit up in each time point are set.

Abstract: An illuminating device may include optical sources, a diffusion plate having emission regions corresponding to the optical sources, and a control unit configured to control lighting-up/lighting-out and an emission intensity of the optical sources based upon a schedule when carrying out performance on an optical travel by the diffusion plate. The emission regions each may have a predetermined length and extend in a longitudinal direction of the diffusion plate. In the schedule, a light-up/light-out state of each optical source and an emission intensity of an optical source to be lit up are set based upon an average illuminance in an illuminance distribution of the diffusion plate by combining illuminances of lights emitted from the emission regions. For realizing a temporal change of the average illuminance set, the light-up/light-out state of each optical source and emission intensity of the optical source to be lit up in each time point are set.

Abstract: An illuminating device may include an optical guiding body configured to dispose linear optical guiding members side by side, the linear optical guiding members guiding light incident from one end side in a longitudinal direction to another end side. The illuminating device may also include optical sources to emit light toward corresponding linear optical guiding members. The optical guiding body may include first and second optical guiding members adjacent in a width direction. A luminance distribution of the light in the longitudinal direction emitted from the first optical guiding member becomes darker, and that emitted from the second optical guiding member becomes brighter, according to being closer to the other end side from the one end side. The illuminating device may further include a control unit configured to light up the optical sources of the first and second optical guiding members in order and thereafter, light them out in order.

Abstract: Twist kneading disks are arranged such that the width of a piece of disk is 0.1 to 0.5 times the cylinder inner diameter D, a helix angle ? as an angle between a vertex of the front surface side of the disk and vertex of the rear surface side of the disk at the tip portion is in a range of 0°<?<90° in the reverse rotating direction of the screws as viewed from a cross section of the disk in the end direction of the screw shaft, and a phase angle E as an angle in correlation between the disks around the screw shaft is in a range of 0°<E<90°. The twist kneading disks are incorporated in the plasticization kneading portion at the length of more than 1.88 times the cylinder inner diameter D.

Abstract: A process for producing a thermoplastic elastomer composition, which comprises the steps of: (1) supplying at least an olefin copolymer rubber and an olefin resin to a plasticization-kneading zone of a biaxial extruder, which zone has at least two kneading discs forming a tip clearance of 1% or larger and smaller than 10% of an inner diameter of a cylinder in the biaxial extruder, thereby forming a melt-kneaded product; and (2) supplying an organic peroxide to a dynamically cross-linking zone of the biaxial extruder, which zone (i) is located after the plasticization-kneading zone, and (ii) has at least two kneading discs forming a tip clearance of 1% or smaller of the inner diameter of the cylinder in the biaxial extruder, thereby dynamically cross-linking the melt-kneaded product with the organic peroxide.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a time management apparatus and a time management method for reducing the opportunity for a third party to intentionally tamper with time. In order to achieve this object, the present invention is provided with time management apparatus including an external time fetching part for fetching an external time within a predetermined time span, a local clock part for outputting a self-advance time, and a time difference judgment part for calculating a difference between the external time fetched by the external time fetching part and the self-advance time output by the local clock part, setting the external time to the local clock part in a case where the difference is less than a predetermined value, and not setting the external time to the local clock part in a case where the difference is equal to or more than a predetermined value.

Abstract: Twist kneading disks are arranged such that the width of a piece of disk is 0.1 to 0.5 times the cylinder inner diameter D, a helix angle ? as an angle between a vertex of the front surface side of the disk and vertex of the rear surface side of the disk at the tip portion is in a range of 0°<?<90° in the reverse rotating direction of the screws as viewed from a cross section of the disk in the end direction of the screw shaft, and a phase angle E as an angle in correlation between the disks around the screw shaft is in a range of 0°<E<90°. The twist kneading disks are incorporated in the plasticization kneading portion at the length of more than 1.88 times the cylinder inner diameter D.

Abstract: A process for producing a thermoplastic elastomer composition, which comprises the steps of: (1) supplying at least an olefin copolymer rubber and an olefin resin to a plasticization-kneading zone of a biaxial extruder, which zone has at least two kneading discs forming a tip clearance of 1% or larger and smaller than 10% of an inner diameter of a cylinder in the biaxial extruder, thereby forming a melt-kneaded product; and (2) supplying an organic peroxide to a dynamically cross-linking zone of the biaxial extruder, which zone (i) is located after the plasticization-kneading zone, and (ii) has at least two kneading discs forming a tip clearance of 1% or smaller of the inner diameter of the cylinder in the biaxial extruder, thereby dynamically cross-linking the melt-kneaded product with the organic peroxide.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a time management apparatus and a time management method for reducing the opportunity for a third party to intentionally tamper with time. In order to achieve this object, the present invention is provided with time management apparatus including an external time fetching part for fetching an external time within a predetermined time span, a local clock part for outputting a self-advance time, and a time difference judgment part for calculating a difference between the external time fetched by the external time fetching part and the self-advance time output by the local clock part, setting the external time to the local clock part in a case where the difference is less than a predetermined value, and not setting the external time to the local clock part in a case where the difference is equal to or more than a predetermined value.

Abstract: An image storing and processing device is provided in which image information is efficiently stored of an event that may unpredictably happen at any time, and in which retrieval thereof is facilitated and further storage capacity is sharply improved. An analog video signal inputted from an external pick-up device 6 is converted to a digital video signal with an A/D conversion part 1, which digital video signal is then compressed in an image data compression part 2, and the resulting compression data is stored in a memory part 3. The stored image compression data is transferred to an image data expansion part 4 and is selected and expanded, and resulting image expansion data is converted to an analog signal in a D/A conversion part 5 and is then sent to a television monitor 9 for display thereof.

Abstract: A process for producing a thermoplastic elastomer composition which comprises dynamically cross-linking an olefine copolymer rubber and an olefine plastic using a twin-screw extruder, said process being characterized in that said twin-screw extruder comprises one or more kneading zones within a dynamically cross-linking area and the first kneading zone among said zones comprises a screw with forward kneading disks having a minimum thickness (T.sub.min) of less than 13 mm per disk. Said method enables production of a thermoplastic elastomer composition of good quality regardless of the scale of production.

Abstract: A multi-direction camera comprising a mirror 3 having a plurality of reflecting surfaces 31 and 32 disposed in front of a lens 4. The lens 4 receives light reflected from the mirror 3 from a plurality of directions and forms an image by the image sensor 7. The mirror 3 can be moved linearly by an actuator 8. The arrangement of the mirror 3 and lens 4 allows the camera to image road conditions of multiple directions at the same time. The camera can also image a road condition in a single direction with a wider scope manually or automatically when the road condition in that direction needs to be confirmed preponderantly.

Abstract: A virtual machine system having a virtual storage function, wherein registers are provided for holding the heading and trailing addresses of the continuous area in the main storage area assigned respectively for each of the plural operating systems. When the main storage area is accessed by a channel or sub-channel, one of the registers is selected, and the heading address of the register selected is added to the main storage address sent from the channel or sub-channel. The added main storage address is compared with the trailing address in the selected register and if the former is smaller than the latter, the overhead for supporting the virtual storage area is reduced by accessing the main storage area in accordance with the added main storage address mentioned above.

Abstract: An address converter according to the present invention is provided with an adddress conversion table, and can store a single logical address, a single physical address, a plurality of logical addresses or a plurality of physical addresses in the same address position, wherein the stored logical address and the stored physical address can be reversibly converted. The address conversion is carried out in such a manner that when the given address is a logical address, the logical address corresponds to one physical address or a plurality of physical addresses read from the address conversion table; and, when the given address is a physical address, the physical address corresponds to one logical address or a plurality of logical addresses read from the address conversion table.

Abstract: A subchannel memory access control system for use in a data processing system having multiplexor channels to which input/output control units of a first group are connected, and block multiplexor channels to which input/output control units of second and third groups are connected. A plurality of input/output devices of corresponding groups are connected to each control unit.