Abstract: In a network configuration in which a mobility control node is placed in the network, a packet is forwarded from a communication partner to the mobility control node by a basic IP mobility protocol for supporting movement in a local network managed by the mobility control node, a movement of a mobile terminal device across local networks formed by mobility control nodes is achieved without adding a function to the mobile terminal device. A mobility control node to be provided to the mobile terminal device is identified by a trigger reporting a movement has been performed to the network from the mobile terminal device, and, in the case of HO across between mobility control nodes, network information before the movement is reported instead of network information to be originally reported. Thus, the mobile terminal device determines that the movement is in the same network and can continue communication without performing an address generation procedure.

Abstract: A biometric information transfer system is provided, allowing the urgency, etc., of a biometric information measurement result contained in e-mail to be directly and instantaneously noticed. When the biometric information measurement result is converted into e-mail format, attention-drawing information is assigned to the e-mail in accordance with the biometric information measurement result.

Abstract: An exhaust pressure control valve comprises a casing including a bore and a pair of first and second shaft support parts, and a valve shaft placed across the bore and rotatably supported by the shaft support parts. A first end portion of the valve shaft is arranged protruding outside the casing. A throttle valve is secured to the valve shaft inside the bore. An actuator is coupled to the first end portion to open and close the throttle valve. The second shaft support part is located in a bypass passage downstream from a bypass valve and has an opening in which a cap formed with a through hole is fitted. The inside of the second shaft support part is allowed to communicate with atmosphere through the through hole, the bypass passage, and others so that an end face of a second end portion can be subjected to atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: A multi-vortex flowmeter includes: a vortex type detection means (15) having a measurement tube (12) provided in a flow passage of a flow tube (9) and allowing passage of a fluid to be measured, a vortex generator (13) provided in the measurement tube (12) so that the vortex generator is opposed to a flow of the fluid to be measured, and a vortex detector (14) for detecting a change based on a Karman vortex generated by the vortex generator (13); a thermal type detection means (18) having a temperature sensor (16) and a heating temperature sensor (17) protruding into the flow passage (9); and a flow rate converter (8) which controls a power supply amount related to heating of the heating temperature sensor (17) for attaining a fixed difference in temperature between the temperature sensor (16) and the heating temperature sensor (17) and which calculates a flow rate of the fluid to be measured from the power amount and calculates the flow rate of the fluid to be measured from a detection value obtained by the

Abstract: A method of preparing industrially and inexpensively fried rice having nice-smelling, well-harmonized taste, soft on the inner side of the grains of the cooked rice and lightly separated at the surfaces thereof, and also suited to be freeze-preserved is disclosed. The method of preparing fried rice, including a rice washing step, a rice immersion step, a rice cooking step and a rice frying step. In this method, two frying steps 11, 15 are carried out in at least two stages out of a stage between a rice washing step 10 and rice immersion step 13, a stage between the immersion step 13 and cooking step 14, an intermediate stage of the cooking stage 14, and a latter stage of the cooking step 14, for example, in a stage between the washing step 10 and immersion step 13, and the latter stage of the cooking step 14.

Abstract: Frequency converting sections 104a to 104n convert the frequency of modulated transmission signals to signals of an intermediate frequency by multiplying the transmission signals by a local signal; filter sections 105a to 105n attenuate the transmission signals after frequency conversion in the frequency regions outside the frequency band of the desired signals; and E/O sections 106a to 106n convert the transmission signals from electric signals to optical signals and output them to the O/E sections 151a to 151n of the base station apparatus 150.

Abstract: A method for preparing a cooked rice with stabilized quality on an industrial scale and cooked rice prepared according to the process, which has a moisture gradient formed between the outer layer and the inner layer of each rice grain and has no hard core in the rice grains when tested organoleptically. The method includes the steps of steaming raw rice having been subjected to a washing and soaking step to effect gelatinization of starch inside rice grains; cooling and individuating the resulting rice to remove moisture present on the surface of each rice grain; frying the resulting rice with an oil to form an oil film over the surface of each rice grain; and boiling the resulting rice together with seasonings and water. In the cooked rice, difference between the moisture content of the outer layer (to the depth of 0.5 mm from the surface) and that of the inner layer (portion deeper than 0.5 mm from the surface) of each rice grain is 2.5% to 5%, preferably 3% to 5%.

Abstract: A case for electronic components comprises a metallic case and an electrically insulating exterior coating of an epoxy resin-based powder coating material comprising an epoxy resin, a phenolic curing agent, preferably poly(bisphenol A-hydroxypropyl ether) or poly(bisphenol F-2-hydroxypropyl ether) and a curing promoter, where the powder coating material applied to the metallic case as an electrically insulating exterior coating has distinguished coating film flexibility and adhesion to the metallic case without any cracking or peeling in the step to form an obturating portion of the open end of the metallic case and can be cured at a relatively low curing time for a relatively short time.

Abstract: A plurality of receiving sections are arranged within a single receiving unit. For instance, a first receiving unit 11a is equipped with two receiving sections 12a and 12c. For example, in the case that a failure happens to occur in the first receiving unit 11a, the base station is arranged in such a manner that another receiving section 12b belonging to a diversity receiving system of the same sector is located in a second receiving unit 11b operated under normal condition. As a result, even when a failure happens to occur in any one of arbitrary units, the receiving functions of the respective sectors can function as a single branch under normal condition, although the diversity gain is lowered.

Abstract: A vortex flowmeter detector is attached to or detachable from a vortex generation body for measurement of flow rate. The vortex flowmeter detector comprises a cylindrical oscillation tube having a bottom and a vortex detection part which is fixed by a fixing flange of the oscillation tube, wherein the oscillation tube is detachably inserted into a hole which is open to the vortex generation body at one end thereof, and the oscillation tube is fixed by a flange. An alternate pressure caused by a Karman vortex is introduced from both sides of the vortex generation body into the hole so as to oscillate the oscillation tube. This oscillation is received by a spring plate by way of an element cover, and it is transmitted to piezoelectric elements which are stuck to two chamfers of an elastic base material.

Abstract: A timing signal generator includes a demodulator for an input modulated signal to provide first and second baseband signals having a quadrature relation relative to each other. A converter is used to convert the first and second baseband signals into angle data representing a phase, and a calculator is used to calculate a difference between the phase represented by current angle data and the phase represented by previous angle data, preceding the current angle data by a 1-symbol interval. The calculator outputs data representative of the calculated phase difference. A further converter converts the calculator output data into a binary reference signal responsive to which of predetermined divided regions contains a point corresponding to the calculated difference data. Also included is a generator for generating a symbol timing signal in synchronism with the binary reference signal.

Abstract: A complex angle converter includes a comparing device. The comparing device operates to derive first difference data representing a difference between predetermined reference data and data represented by a first baseband signal. The comparing device further operates to derive second difference data representing a difference between the predetermined reference data and data represented by a second baseband signal having a quadrature relation with the first baseband signal. The comparing device further operates for comparing absolute values of the first difference data and the second difference data, and for outputting a signal representative of a result of the comparing. The complex angle converter also includes a device serving to group an inversion of a highest bit of the first baseband signal and second highest and lower bits of the second baseband signal into a first set.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of reducing the fluid friction drag of ships and fluid transport channels and prevent contamination and corrosion of a structure having an immersed portion. The method of forming an air layer over an immersed surface of a structure having an immersed portion, comprising the steps of: covering the immersed surface of a structure (hull 1) having an immersed portion with a coating layer 3, which has depressions 6 and projections 7 at the surface thereof and which has at least vertices 7' of the projections 7 formed of a water-repellent material 8; and supplying air a to the surface 10 of the coating layer to form an air film 12 between the coating surface 10 and water 13.

Abstract: A quadrature demodulator includes a device for generating first and second reference signals having a quadrature relation with each other. A first demodulating device serves to compare phases of the first reference signal and an input modulated signal to demodulate the input modulated signal into a first binary baseband signal. A second demodulating device serves to compare phases of the second reference signal and the input modulated signal to demodulate the input modulated signal into a second binary baseband signal having a quadrature relation with the first baseband signal. A first counting device operates to count pulses of a clock signal in response to the first baseband signal. A second counting device operates to count pulses of the clock signal in response to the second baseband signal. An address signal is generated in response to the output signals of the first and second counting devices.

Abstract: A vortex flow meter capable of operating with minimum piping effect is disclosed. A stream-lined protrusion , extending toward the upstream side is disposed at the upstream surface 2 of a vortex generator joined to the inner wall 1 of a flow pipe in order to remove thereat horseshoe vortexes produced in front of the vortex generator. Therefore, the possible affection of horseshoe vortexes, that may considerably depend upon the piping conditions, can be eliminated.

Abstract: A vortex flow meter includes a bluff body which sheds a vortex train when a fluid flowing in a conduit moves therepast, the vortex train developing a delicate pressure variation in proportion to a flow rate of the fluid. The flow meter detects the flow rate by sensing the pressure variation and then converting it into an electric signal by means of a piezoelectric element or the like. A pressure sensor is detachably mounted in a pressure sensing chamber, which is defined in an internal space of the bluff body, and comprises a pressure receiving plate displaceable in response to the pressure variation, a sensor member such as a piezoelectric element for converting the displacement into an electric signal. The pressure receiving plate is arranged such that major part thereof is located in the conduit, while major part of the sensor member is located in a wall of the conduit and the outside thereof.

Abstract: A vortex flow meter includes a vibration sensing element having a sensor responsive to an external vibration and a sensor responsive to a vortex train at vertically opposite ends thereof. The sensing element is fixed to a conduit fulcrumed at an intermediate portion thereof. A vortex shedding member is integrally and oscillatably mounted in a lower portion of the sensing element. The flow meter can be assembled merely by being positioned in the conduit and, due to an integral structure, it is effectively applicable even to small diameter conduits through which fluids flow at very small flow rates. In a path along which leads from a sensor responsive to pressure variations due to vortex trains are routed to a transducer box, vibration of the transducer box is prevented from reaching the sensor via the leads, thereby rendering the flow meter less susceptive to externally derived vibrations.

Abstract: In a vortex flow meter for measuring a varying flow rate of a fluid through a conduit, an oscillation compensating apparatus is constructed to remove undesirable externally derived oscillation noise which is applied to the flow meter. An elongate vortex shedding member extends into the conduit through part of its wall. The shedding member forms a shedding portion inside the conduit and a compensating portion outside the conduit. The shedding portion carries a first oscillation sensor therewith and the compensating portion, a second oscillation sensor. The first sensor is sensitive to an oscillation component caused in the shedding portion by a vortex train shed in the conduit, and an externally derived oscillation noise component. The second sensor is sensitive to the noise component only. All these sensed components are combined to cancel the oscillation noise so that only the oscillation component in the shedding portion is picked up.

Abstract: A piezoelectric sensor for measuring an external force is disclosed which is accommodated in a cassette through a sealing member and provided with a pair of electrodes which are respectively bonded to opposite sides of a piezoelectric element. A masking strip made of a highly insulative material covers the whole area of and end face of the piezoelectric element, which is exposed to the outside of the sensor, and a desired width of an end face of each of the electrodes adjacent to the end face of the piezoelectric element. This maintains a high resistance between the electrodes having the piezoelectric element therebetween and thereby promotes accurate measurement without being effected by changes in the resistance of the sealing member due to temperature variation. The sensor is effectively applicable to a vortex flow meter.