Abstract: A projector includes a light modulation device; a projection lens; a hermetic housing; a projector housing containing the hermetic housing; a heat exchanger; an air guide wall located in the hermetic housing and partitioning the air guide passage from the main space containing the light modulation device, the air guide wall including: a communication part adjoining the heat exchanger and providing communication between the air guide passage and the main space, and an opening functioning as the inlet for guiding air from the main space into the air guide passage after the air has passed through the heat exchanger; and a sirocco fan located at the inlet so as to introduce the air in the main space into the air guide passage, to guide the air in the air guide passage to the communication part, and to blow the air from the communication part to the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A time synchronization signal for time series data collected from multiple controlling devices of a PID process is provided. An assistance device concurrently transmits a time confirmation signal to respective controlling devices in a predetermined time confirmation cycle, and the controlling devices forcibly output time confirmation data for synchronizing control data related to the respective controlling devices with each other as a manipulation variable in one control cycle immediately after receiving the time confirmation signal. The time confirmation data is an irregular value that is not outputted as a value of the manipulation variable in a control cycle during a steady control state.

Abstract: An air-conditioning control system includes a grouping target apparatus storage unit that stores information about a plurality of air-conditioning apparatuses which are rotation group setting targets; an attribute storage unit that stores an attribute of each of the air-conditioning apparatuses; a group setting rule storage unit that stores a group setting rule for reducing, between the rotation groups, a difference in total power consumption of air-conditioning apparatuses having an identical attribute; a power consumption obtaining unit that obtains information about power consumption values of the air-conditioning apparatuses; a group determination unit that determines rotation groups to which the air-conditioning apparatuses belong in accordance with the power consumption values of the air-conditioning apparatuses and the group setting rule; and a group storage unit that stores grouping information indicating the rotation groups to which the air-conditioning apparatuses belong.

Abstract: In order to provide an optical element in which the occurrence of a region where no light beams are present (omission) is prevented, an optical element is provided with a main substrate which is manufactured from a light-transmitting material and in which a front surface and a rear surface are parallel to the setting directions, wherein at least one main beam splitter surface is provided obliquely to the setting directions and formed inside the primary substrate. The optical element is also provided with a sub substrate which is manufactured from a light transmitting material and in which a front surface and a rear surface are parallel to the setting directions, wherein a sub beam splitter surface is arranged at least between the front surface or the rear surface of the single sub substrate, and the rear surface or the front surface of the main substrate.

Abstract: A motor driving apparatus includes a driving unit configured to drive a motor according to a torque inputted by a rotation input from a human being; and a controller configured to control driving of the driving unit according to a relationship between an accumulated value of first amounts that correspond to the rotation input from the human being and an accumulated value of second amounts that correspond to rotation of a rotating object driven by the motor. The controller may be further configured to cause the driving unit to suppress driving of the motor when an accumulated difference that is calculated by subtracting the accumulated value of the second amounts from the accumulated value of the first amounts is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A microcapsule according to the present disclosure is composed of a core substance and a wall substance including the core substance in the wall substance. The core substance is an anionic hydrophobic substance. The wall substance is a cationic polymer. The microcapsule is smaller than 200 ?m in particle size. Thus, the microcapsule is provided which is likely to give attachment to hair and unlikely to damage the hair.

Abstract: This motor driving control apparatus includes (A) a driving unit that drives a motor, and (B) a regeneration control unit that controls the driving unit so as to generate a regenerative 5 braking force in accordance with a vehicle acceleration, a vehicle speed and a pedal-rotation converted speed that is obtained from a pedal rotation.

Abstract: A phosphor wheel device includes a phosphor and a substrate which has a disc shape and on which the phosphor is provided, and the phosphor is provided in at least a portion of a circumference of a circle on the substrate. The circle is centered on the center of a rotational shaft of the substrate. The substrate includes a first opening and a plurality of second openings, and the plurality of second openings extend radially with respect to the center of the rotational shaft.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support and a photosensitive layer in this order. The photosensitive layer contains a chlorogallium phthalocyanine crystal obtained by mixing a hydroxygallium phthalocyanine crystal and an aqueous hydrochloric acid solution.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate a mobile communication device and techniques to suppress deterioration of antenna characteristics. The mobile device includes metallic members that are disposed around, or in portions of a casing of the mobile device. The metallic member is grounded directly to a ground plane of the mobile device at a first predetermined position. The grounded metallic member forms a stub line that cancels a flow of electric current though the metallic member. Furthermore, the metallic member is also connected to the ground plane, at a second predetermined location, via a resonant circuit. The mobile device is capable of adjusting a phase of the antenna current flowing through the device, when the mobile device is being operated by a user, and thus suppresses deterioration of antenna characteristics in certain desired frequency bands.

Abstract: A composition having excellent scorch resistance and storage stability, the composition containing composite particles and a fluoropolymer, and the composite particles including a polymer and inorganic particles dispersed in the polymer.

Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes an information obtaining unit that obtains, from a target VAV air conditioning system to be monitored, a room temperature and a variable air volume; a room temperature display processing unit that displays, in a form of a graph, the room temperature obtained from the target VAV air conditioning system to be monitored; a controllable range calculating unit that calculates a length of a bar of a bar graph indicating a controllable range on the basis of the variable air volume; and a controllable range display processing unit that displays the bar graph including the bar having the length calculated by the controllable range calculating unit such that the bar graph is overlapped with the room temperature.

Abstract: An actuator fault detection device that detects a fault of an actuator driven according to a manipulation variable MV output from a controlling device, including: a position acquiring portion that acquires a value of a motor position MP from a detector that detects a position of an actuator corresponding to a manipulation variable MV; a follow-up difference calculating portion that calculates a follow-up difference DM=MV?MP; and an allowable range determining portion that determines whether or not high speed operation or low speed operation of the actuator departs from an allowable range based on a manipulation variable change rate ?MV, an actuator position change rate ?MP, and the follow-up difference DM.

Abstract: A control device includes a primary control unit which computes a manipulated variable and outputs it to an actuator of the primary control system; a secondary control unit which takes as input an equilibrium point setpoint representing an equilibrium point which is the desired manipulated variable output in steady state of primary control, takes the manipulated variable of the primary control system as process variable input, computes an adjusted manipulated variable, and outputs it to an actuator of the secondary control system; and an equilibrium point setpoint determination functional unit which detects a state in which the setpoint of the primary control system is maintained at the same value for a pre-specified period of time or longer as a steady state, computes an equilibrium point, and sets this equilibrium point setpoint in the secondary control unit.

Abstract: A torque cam device for an automatic transmission including: a drive cam member; and a driven cam member, each of the first drive cam surface and the first driven cam surface including an entire annular circumference equally divided into at least two sections each having a helical curved surface according to a cam angle, and connection portions formed between the equally divided helical curved surfaces, and at least one of the helical curved surfaces of the first drive cam surface and the first driven cam surface having a guide groove which is continuous in an entire circumference, and which is arranged to guide a movement of the ball.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a substrate and a photosensitive layer containing a phthalocyanine pigment. The crystalline particles of the phthalocyanine pigment have a crystallite correlation length r and a particle size R of 400 nm or less, and a parameter k defined by r/R is in the range of 0.17 to 0.42.

Abstract: Discussed herein is an antenna system that comprises a feed element and a radiating element that are formed on a dielectric substrate positioned above a circuit board which includes a feed circuit and a ground layer. Specifically, the feed element is disposed within an outer periphery defined by the radiating element. A capacitive coupling is formed between the feed element and the radiating element. With the aforesaid configuration, the antenna system is less affected by the circuit board and interference from other elements that are mounted on the circuit board. Further, manufacturing costs are reduced as compared to the case where the feed element and the radiating element are respectively formed on a front and rear surface of a resin layer.

Abstract: This motor driving control apparatus includes (A) a driving unit that drives a motor, and (B) a regeneration control unit that controls the driving unit so as to generate a regenerative braking force in accordance with a vehicle acceleration, a vehicle speed and a pedal-rotation converted speed that is obtained from a pedal rotation.

Abstract: A PID controller includes: a manipulated variable calculating portion that calculates a manipulated variable MV based on a set point SP and a process variable PV through a PID control calculation; a manipulated variable outputting portion that outputs a manipulated variable MV to outside of the controller; an alarm notifying portion that generates an alarm when a problem has been detected; a data recording portion that temporarily records time series data for the process variable PV; and a data storing portion that reads out and storing data recorded by the data recording portion 15 before and after the alarm event.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate a mobile communication device and techniques to suppress deterioration of antenna characteristics. The mobile device includes metallic members that are disposed around, or in portions of a casing of the mobile device. The metallic member is grounded directly to a ground plane of the mobile device at a first predetermined position. The grounded metallic member forms a stub line that cancels a flow of electric current though the metallic member. Furthermore, the metallic member is also connected to the ground plane, at a second predetermined location, via a resonant circuit. The mobile device is capable of adjusting a phase of the antenna current flowing through the device, when the mobile device is being operated by a user, and thus suppresses deterioration of antenna characteristics in certain desired frequency bands.