Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine for improving fuel-economy performance in any of the case where supercharging performed by an electric supercharger is required and the case where the supercharging is not required. The internal combustion engine includes: an electric supercharger; a supercharger; an electric motor; and a controller, the electric supercharger being for compressing an intake air by rotation of the supercharger caused with rotation of the exhaust turbine by an exhaust gas energy to perform supercharging and for rotationally driving the supercharger with electric-motor assistance by the electric motor; an exhaust bypass passage provided to bypass the exhaust turbine; and an opening and closing the exhaust bypass passage unit. In the internal combustion engine, the opening and closing the exhaust bypass passage unit opens the exhaust bypass passage until the supercharging is started by the electric supercharger.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition contains a barium titanate based composite oxide as its main constituent, and contains a first accessory constituent including at least Al and a second accessory constituent including one or more elements selected from among Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn, wherein the content of the Al is 0.02 to 6 parts by mol with respect to 100 parts by mol of the main constituent, and the content ratio of the second accessory constituent to the Al is 0.01 to 0.4 in terms of mols. Dielectric layers are formed from a sintered body of the dielectric ceramic composition. The addition of various types of accessory elements such as rare-earth elements is possible, if necessary. This invention achieves a dielectric ceramic composition which is capable of ensuring favorable DC bias characteristics while ensuring high reliability, and a laminated ceramic capacitor using the dielectric ceramic composition.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor exhibits superior life characteristics in a high temperature load test despite the use of very thin dielectric layers. As a dielectric ceramic constituting a dielectric layer of the multilayer ceramic capacitor, a perovskite-type compound is used and contains Ba and Ti (a portion of Ba can be replaced with at least one of Ca and Sr, and a portion of Ti can be replaced with Zr) as a main component, and including La within the range of 2-6 parts by mole, Mg within the range of 3-5 parts by mole, and Mn within the range of 1.5-3 parts by mole in a case where a total content of Ti and Zr is 100 parts by mole.

Abstract: The present invention relates to provision of a novel compound that has an activity of promoting insulin secretion from pancreatic ? cells and thus is useful as a prophylaxis and/or therapeutic agent for diseases caused by hyperglycemia such as diabetes mellitus, and the compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein one of A and B represents a nitrogen atom and the other represents a nitrogen atom or CR10, X represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or —(CH2)n-N(R12)—, Y represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or —N(R13)—, and R1 to R9 each represent a hydrogen atom or another substituent, or a salt thereof, or a solvate of the compound or the salt.

Abstract: The present invention provides a therapeutic agent for hyperlipidemia having an excellent effect of lowering the cholesterol and triglyceride level in blood plasma. The present invention relates to a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for hyperlipidemia, a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for obesity or diabetes mellitus, and a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for metabolic syndrome, each agent including a compound represented by the formula (1), or a salt thereof, and a statin, particularly pitavastatin, in combination.

Abstract: Provided is a dielectric ceramic which exhibits desired high temperature load resistance characteristics even under a high electric field strength on the order of 15 kV/mm. The dielectric ceramic contains, as its main constituent, a perovskite compound represented by the general formula (Ba1-h-i-mCahSriGdm)k(Ti1-y-j-n-o-pZryHfjMgnZnoMnp)O3, 0?h?0.03, 0?i?0.03; 0.042?m?0.074; 0.94?k?1.075; 0?(y+j)?0.05; 0.015?n?0.07; 0?o?0.04; 0?p?0.05; and 1.0<m/(n+o)<4.3. The dielectric ceramic can be used advantageously as a material for a dielectric ceramic layer provided in a laminated ceramic capacitor.

Abstract: A laminated ceramic capacitor is provided which is excellent in reliability even when its dielectric ceramic layers thinned. For a dielectric ceramic in a laminated ceramic capacitor, a ceramic is used which includes a main component containing a barium titanate based composite oxide represented by the general formula: (Ba1-h-m-xCahSrmRex)k(Ti1-n-yZrnMy)O3, where Re is La or the like, M is Mg or the like, and the respective relationships of 0.05?x?0.50, 0.02?y?0.3, 0.85?k?1.05, 0?h?0.25, 0?m?0.50, and 0?n?0.40 are satisfied; and an accessory component as a sintering aid, wherein the average grain diameter of crystal grains in a sintered body is 0.6 ?m or less.

Abstract: An electric motor control apparatus that can quickly and accurately locate a short-circuit fault point. The electric motor control apparatus includes: a current controller determining respective phase voltage commands according to currents flowing in respective phases of an electric motor and a torque current command; a switching element drive circuit instructing, based on the respective phase voltage commands, an inverter to perform a switching operation; the inverter receiving a switching operation signal to drive the electric motor; current detectors disposed in series with the switching elements in the respective phases of the inverter; and a short-circuit point locating mechanism storing a test pattern indicative of a predetermined combination for turning on the switching elements of the inverter, and locating a short-circuit fault point based on the test pattern and current detection values in the respective phases detected by the current detectors in response to the test pattern.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition contains a barium titanate based composite oxide as its main constituent, and contains a first accessory constituent including at least Al and a second accessory constituent including one or more elements selected from among Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn, wherein the content of the Al is 0.02 to 6 parts by mol with respect to 100 parts by mol of the main constituent, and the content ratio of the second accessory constituent to the Al is 0.01 to 0.4 in terms of mols. Dielectric layers are formed from a sintered body of the dielectric ceramic composition. The addition of various types of accessory elements such as rare-earth elements is possible, if necessary. This invention achieves a dielectric ceramic composition which is capable of ensuring favorable DC bias characteristics while ensuring high reliability, and a laminated ceramic capacitor using the dielectric ceramic composition.

Abstract: Provided is a dielectric ceramic which exhibits desired high temperature load resistance characteristics even under a high electric field strength on the order of 15 kV/mm. The dielectric ceramic contains, as its main constituent, a perovskite compound represented by the general formula (Ba1-h-i-mCahSriGdm)k(Ti1-y-j-n-o-pZryHfjMgnZnoMnp)O3, 0?h?0.03, 0?i?0.03; 0.042?m?0.074; 0.94?k?1.075; 0?(y+j)?0.05; 0.015?n?0.07; 0?o?0.04; 0?p?0.05; and 1.0<m/(n+o)<4.3. The dielectric ceramic can be used advantageously as a material for a dielectric ceramic layer provided in a laminated ceramic capacitor.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a multiphase AC electric motor having an inverter includes a current control including an abnormal-state current controller; an abnormal-state detector that detects an abnormal state of any of a wire of an electric motor, a wire of an inverter, and a wire connecting the electric motor to the inverter as an abnormal phase; and an abnormal phase disconnect. The abnormal phase disconnect disconnects one or more of phases detected to be in an abnormal-state and the abnormal-state current controller generates an abnormal state voltage command in accordance with detection of an abnormal state, and uses phases other than the disconnected phases of the inverter to control individual currents of the phases, with the abnormal-state voltage command used as a multiphase voltage command.

Abstract: A laminated ceramic capacitor is provided which is excellent in reliability even when its dielectric ceramic layers thinned. For a dielectric ceramic in a laminated ceramic capacitor, a ceramic is used which includes a main component containing a barium titanate based composite oxide represented by the general formula: (Ba1-h-m-xCahSrmRex)k(Ti1-n-yZrnMy)O3, where Re is La or the like, M is Mg or the like, and the respective relationships of 0.05?x?0.50, 0.02?y?0.3, 0.85?k?1.05, 0?h?0.25, 0?m?0.50, and 0?n?0.40 are satisfied; and an accessory component as a sintering aid, wherein the average grain diameter of crystal grains in a sintered body is 0.6 ?m or less.

Abstract: An electrically assisted turbocharger is provided; in the case where an internal combustion engine rotates at low rotation speed, the output thereof is secured by adjusting the flow rate in a recirculation path while supercharging with electrically assisting torque, and in the case where the internal combustion engine rotates at high rotation speed, electrically assisting torque compensates the inertia of at least a turbine wheel, a compressor impeller, and a motor; as a result, not only unnecessary consumption of electric energy is avoided, but also desired supercharging can be performed by the electrically assisted turbocharger.

Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus in which, when an abnormality is generated in an electric power steering apparatus, an assist is reduced smaller than normal when a steering burden is estimated to be small; and the assist can be increased to normal and the steering burden can be sufficiently reduced when the steering burden is estimated to be large. When an abnormality is detected, an assist command is set smaller than at a normal time when there is no abnormality in a first range where the steering burden estimated by the steering burden estimation unit is small; the assist command is increased to that at a normal time in a second range where the steering burden estimated by the steering burden estimation unit is larger than the first range; and an assist torque of a motor is controlled in response to the assist command at the abnormal time.

Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine for improving fuel-economy performance in any of the case where supercharging performed by an electric supercharger is required and the case where the supercharging is not required. The internal combustion engine includes: an electric supercharger; a supercharger; an electric motor; and a controller, the electric supercharger being for compressing an intake air by rotation of the supercharger caused with rotation of the exhaust turbine by an exhaust gas energy to perform supercharging and for rotationally driving the supercharger with electric-motor assistance by the electric motor; an exhaust bypass passage provided to bypass the exhaust turbine; and an opening and closing the exhaust bypass passage unit. In the internal combustion engine, the opening and closing the exhaust bypass passage unit opens the exhaust bypass passage until the supercharging is started by the electric supercharger.

Abstract: The “squeal” that occurs when an electric field is applied to a multilayer ceramic capacitor mounted on a substrate is suppressed by providing in an active part contributing to formation of capacitances between internal electrodes facing each other in a capacitor body, low-activity regions positioned near respective end edges of respective external electrodes. A facing area of the internal electrodes in the low-activity regions is less than or equal to one fifth that of the internal electrodes in a normal region having the same volume as that of the low-activity regions. This makes it possible to suppress occurrence of electric-field-induced distortion near the external electrodes bonded to a substrate and reduce the force that causes the substrate to bend.

Abstract: A multilayer capacitor includes a capacitor body in which internal electrodes in a first internal electrode group are overlapped with internal electrodes in a second internal electrode group with dielectric layers sandwiched therebetween. A first external electrode has a first wraparound portion and a second wraparound portion, and a second external electrode has a third wraparound portion and a fourth wraparound portion. The volume proportions of the effective layers in a first area sandwiched between the first wraparound portion and the second wraparound portion and in a third area sandwiched between the third wraparound portion and the fourth wraparound portion are set to at least about 10%. The volume proportions of the effective layers in a second area toward a lower surface in the first area and in a fourth area toward the lower surface in the third area are set to about 15% or less. The external dimensions of the multilayer capacitor 1 are about 1.6±0.1 mm in length by about 0.8±0.

Abstract: The present invention provides a therapeutic agent for hyperlipidemia having an excellent effect of lowering the cholesterol and triglyceride level in blood plasma.

Abstract: An electric motor control apparatus that can quickly and accurately locate a short-circuit fault point. The electric motor control apparatus includes: a current controller determining respective phase voltage commands according to currents flowing in respective phases of an electric motor and a torque current command; a switching element drive circuit instructing, based on the respective phase voltage commands, an inverter to perform a switching operation; the inverter receiving a switching operation signal to drive the electric motor; current detectors disposed in series with the switching elements in the respective phases of the inverter; and a short-circuit point locating mechanism storing a test pattern indicative of a predetermined combination for turning on the switching elements of the inverter, and locating a short-circuit fault point based on the test pattern and current detection values in the respective phases detected by the current detectors in response to the test pattern.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic contains a barium titanate compound oxide as a main component; at least one rare earth element R selected from Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu; Mg; and Ni, such that a crystalline compound oxide containing the rare earth element R, Ni, and Ti as main components is present. Dielectric ceramic layers are made of the dielectric ceramic. Accordingly, even when a higher electric field is continuously applied under a high-temperature atmosphere for a long time, high reliability can be ensured.