Abstract: In an engine for a motor vehicle, an upward offset of a transmission input shaft is sufficiently increased without being obstructed by a cylinder block. This shortens the overall length of the engine in the longitudinal direction of the motorcycle. The engine for a motor vehicle has a cylinder block extending upwardly and forwardly of the motor vehicle from an upper portion of the front end of a crankcase. A transmission input shaft is offset upwardly with respect to a plane, which includes the axes of a crankshaft and a transmission output shaft. The cylinder block is disposed to have an axis passing forwardly of the axis of the crankshaft. With this construction, it is possible to sufficiently increase an upward offset of the transmission input shaft without being obstructed by the cylinder block.

Abstract: If a ring failure has occurred in a state where a dual-homing path exists in a network, a dual-homing path is detoured from the service line SL to the protection line PL. At that time, each node in the network changes its node type according to the place where the failure occurred.

Abstract: To provide a small-sized boat wherein a sufficient supercharging effect can be achieved. An engine having an exhaust manifold is disposed such that a crankshaft thereof extends in forward and rearward directions of a boat body, and an exhaust gas turbo charger which is driven to rotate by exhaust gas from the exhaust manifold is provided rearwardly of and adjacent to the exhaust manifold and rearwardly of and adjacent to the engine. The exhaust gas turbo charger is disposed such that a shaft which connects a turbine and a compressor is directed in leftward and rightward directions of the boat body, and the turbine is disposed adjacent to the exhaust manifold and the compressor is disposed adjacent to an intake port of the engine. An inter cooler is provided sidewardly of the compressor and disposed below an intake chamber.

Abstract: A Protection Primary state is newly defined. When the traffic route is switched by a ring interworking function, while APS is in operation, a protection primary node is caused to restore the service path.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to generate a high-speed optical signal pulse with a narrow spectrum width of a constant polarization. An optical pulse generator (10) generates an optical pulse of S polarization. An optical splitter (12) splits the optical pulse output from the optical pulse generator (10) into two portions maintaining its polarization and applies one portion to a data modulator (14) and the other to a data modulator (16). The data modulators (14 and 16) digitally modulate the optical output pulses from the optical splitter (12) according to data #1 and #2 respectively. A Faraday rotator (18) converts the optical output from the data modulator (14) from S polarization to P polarization. An optical delay (20) delays the optical pulse from the data modulator (16) in order to multiplex with the optical pulse from the Faraday rotator (18) in the time domain.

Abstract: A method of electroless plating for processing a plating surface to form a barrier layer being capable of uniformly forming a barrier layer and reducing the consumption of a processing solution, comprising a step of feeding a processing solution used in at least one of the pre-processing steps of the electroless plating and the electroless plating step to the plating surface for puddling treatment, or, using a processing solution at least containing, with respect to one mole of a first metallic material supplying a main ingredient of the barrier layer, three or more moles of a completing agent and three or more moles of reducing agent and having a pH value adjusted to 9 or more and stored in an atmosphere of an inert gas or ammonia gas, and a corresponding electroless plating apparatus.

Abstract: To realize an optical demultiplexer with a constant chromatic dispersion value, an optical signal of wavelength (X1) enters a port (A) of an optical circulator (10), and an optical signal of wavelength (&lgr;2) enters a port (A) of an optical circulator (12). A port (B) of the optical circulator (10) connects to a port (X0) of an interleaved optical filter (14), and a port (B) of the optical circulator (12) connects to a port (X1) of the optical filter (14). A port (Y0) of the optical filter (14) connects to a port (Y1) of the optical filter (14) through an optical isolator (16). The optical isolator (16) allows the optical propagation from the port (Y0) to the port (Y1) of the optical filter (14) and refuses the optical propagation from the port (Y1) to the port (Y0). An optical coupler (18) combines the input lights of the input ports (X0 and X1) from ports (C) of the optical circulators (10 and 12) and outputs from the output port (Y0).

Abstract: To improve the reliability of matrix switches of redundant configuration, a splitter (14) splits each of a plurality of input lights into two portions and applies them to corresponding input ports of matrix switches (10a and 10b). The working matrix switch (10a) connects between desired input and output ports and an optical shutter (30a) connecting to an output port (#1) is in a light transmission state. The matrix switch (10b) connects all its input ports (#1 through #8) to an output port (#1). An optical shutter (30b) connecting to an output port (#1) is in a light blocking state. A combiner (26) combines the lights which are output from the output ports (#1) of the matrix switches (10a and 10b) and transmitted through the optical shutters (30a and 30b) and also combines the output lights from the corresponding output ports (#2 through #8) of the matrix switches (10a and 10b).

Abstract: An electroforming apparatus comprises a container unit for storing a plating solution, a cathode part placed in the container unit and for holding an object to-be-plated and an anode part placed in the container unit face-to-face with the cathode part, wherein a current-conductive opening of the anode part is formed to have an area larger than that of a current-conductive opening of the cathode part.

Abstract: A supervisory system and supervisory method of an optical amplifier repeater are proposed that can implement operation supervision taking account of the characteristics of individual supervisory targets of the optical amplifier repeater, thereby achieving higher reliability.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to improve transmission characteristics in WDM transmission. An optical transmitter (10) wavelength-multiplexes signal lights of wavelengths &lgr;1 through &lgr;n and outputs them onto an optical transmission line (12). Optical powers of the signal lights of the respective wavelength &lgr;1 through &lgr;n are identical or become smaller proportional to the wavelength. One repeater span of the optical transmission line (12) is composed of an optical fibers (20, 22) and an optical amplifier (24), and a gain equalizer (26) is dispersed every several repeater spans. The optical amplifier (24) in the repeater span amplifies each signal light so that optical power of a signal on the shorter wavelength side becomes smaller than that of a signal on the longer wavelength side. The gain equalizer (26) equalizes optical powers of the respective signal lights.

Abstract: The object of this invention is to improve SNR in the Raman amplification. An optical fiber (10) consists of a dispersion shift fiber in which a zero dispersion wavelength is shifted to the 1.55 &mgr;m band, and an optical fiber (12) consists of a single mode optical fiber having the effective core area of 100 &mgr;m2 which is larger than that of the optical fiber (10). An optical coupler 14 is disposed at the optical signal emission end of the optical fiber (12). A laser diode (16) outputs the laser light of 1455 nm as a Raman pumping light source. The output light from the laser diode (16) is introduced into the optical fiber (12) from the back, namely in the opposite direction to that of the optical signal propagation. The ratio of the Raman gain coefficient of the optical fiber (12) to that of the optical fiber (11) should be 1/1.08 or less, preferably 1/1.1 or less.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent an increase of the degree of polarization of an output pumping light even if one of pumping light sources has a failure. Laser diodes (30a, 30b) are composed of FP-LDs made of InGaAsP to laser-oscillate at 1480 nm band. The outputs from the laser diodes (30a, 30b) enter a polarizing beam splitter (32) in orthogonal state of polarization and are combined there. The combined light by the polarizing beam splitter (32) enters a depolarizing element (34) and is depolarized there.

Abstract: An optical fiber (12a) with a large effective core area and a large chromatic dispersion value is disposed on an input side of signal light, and an optical fiber (12b) with a small effective core area and a small chromatic dispersion value or a chromatic dispersion value of negative polarity is disposed on an output side of the signal light. A pumping light source (14) generates pumping light of 1450 nm to cause Raman amplification of 1550 nm in the optical fiber (12b). The output light from the pumping light source (14) enters the optical fiber (12b) from the back through a WDM optical coupler (16). Provided that y=(Pin−&agr;)/(Pp·10 Log L) where input power of the optical fiber (12a) (i.e.

Abstract: In SDH-based transmission systems with redundancy, in the event of failure in the service transmission lines, before the service traffic communication path set in the service transmission lines is switched to the protection transmission lines, if there is a communication path for sub traffic set in the protection transmission lines, the AU-AIS signal is inserted at the exit to lower-tier terminals to terminate the sub traffic communication path. Unless there is a communication path set for sub traffic in the protection transmission lines, the UNEQ signal is inserted at the exit to lower-tier terminals which are substantially connected to the protection transmission lines to terminate the sub traffic communication path. Later, the service traffic communication path is switched to the protection transmission lines. Then a misconnect during redundancy lines switching is prevented and the possibility of leak of the service traffic transmission information is eliminated.

Abstract: Detection of an optical pulse position uses an optical pulse string with a determined repetitive ratio and an electric clock signal with a same frequency as the repetitive ratio of the optical pulse string. A phase of the electric clock signal oscillator is shifted and supplied to an optical modulator. The optical modulator modulates the optical pulse string based on the electric clock signal and outputs a modulated optical signal. A photo detector converts the modulated optical signal output from the optical modulator to an electric signal. The phase shift amount of the electric clock signal is controlled to maximize an output from the photo detector. Additionally, a dither signal may be used in the control of the phase shift, more than the optical modulator may be employed, and/or more than color light source may be employed. The use of at least one of feed forward and feedback control provided by maximizing an output of the photo detector allows an optical pulse having a short width to be realized.

Abstract: An optical waveform shaper comprising a probe light source for generating probe light with a constant amplitude, a signal copier being applied with input signal light of a signal wavelength and the probe light output from the probe light source and for copying the signal of the input signal light onto the probe light, and an extinction ratio improver for improving an extinction ratio of output light from the signal copier.

Abstract: Detection of an optical pulse position uses an optical pulse string with a determined repetitive ratio and an electric clock signal with a same frequency as the repetitive ratio of the optical pulse string. A phase of the electric clock signal oscillator is shifted and supplied to an optical modulator. The optical modulator modulates the optical pulse string based on the electric clock signal and outputs a modulated optical signal. A photo detector converts the modulated optical signal output from the optical modulator to an electric signal. The phase shift amount of the electric clock signal is controlled to maximize an output from the photo detector. Additionally, a dither signal may be used in the control of the phase shift, more than the optical modulator may be employed, and/or more than color light source may be employed. The use of at least one of feed forward and feedback control provided by maximizing an output of the photo detector allows an optical pulse having a short width to be realized.

Abstract: A control signal superimposer for superimposing a control signal on a signal light, comprising a pumping light source for generating a pumping light with intensity fluctuation in accordance with the control signal; a Raman amplification medium pumped by the pumping light from the pumping light source for Raman-amplifying the signal light; a combiner for combining the pumping light output from the pumping light source and the signal light to be Raman-amplified and then supplying them to the Raman amplification medium; and an optical filter for extracting the signal light component from the output light of the Raman amplification medium and terminating the pumping light component.

Abstract: A wavelength division multiplexed optical processing device and an optical communication transmission path which are capable of significantly improving the transmission characteristic of wavelength division multiplexed optical signals. A wavelength division multiplexed optical processing device is formed by a first arrayed optical waveguide for demultiplexing entered wavelength division multiplexed optical signals, and outputting demultiplexed optical signals; a plurality of correction units for correcting respective optical signals demultiplexed by the first arrayed optical waveguide; and a second arrayed optical waveguide for multiplexing optical signals corrected by the correction unit, and outputting multiplexed optical signals.