Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reliably carry out warning braking in a situation where the warning braking is needed and a crew can recognize the warning braking, and prevent the crew from feeling an unnatural sensation due to the warning braking in a situation where the warning braking is needed but the crew cannot effectively recognize the warning braking. If an obstacle is present ahead of the vehicle, the driver does not carry out brake operation, the driver is looking aside, and the vehicle may collide with the obstacle, the maximum target deceleration Gbt2max for the warning braking is computed. If automatic travel control is not carried out or if automatic travel control is being carried out and its target deceleration Gbt4 is less than a reference value Gbt4s smaller than the maximum target deceleration Gbt2max, the warning braking is carried out.

Abstract: A grammage measuring apparatus including a dielectric resonator which is arranged only at one side surface of a sample; a shielding container with which the dielectric resonator is substantially covered except for a sample measuring surface; a microwave excitation device which causes the dielectric resonator to generate an electric field vector; a detection device which detects transmission energy or reflection energy by the dielectric resonator; a storage device in which a calibration curve indicating a resonance frequency shift amount for a grammage is stored; and a data processing device which calculates the grammage of a measuring sample from the calibration curve and measurement result of the resonance frequency shift amount of the measuring sample.

Abstract: When an elevator passenger M1 gets on a cage 6, an audio broadcasting controller 2 in an elevator controlling device removes and outputs audio data of automatic audio guidance information from an audio data storage 3. The audio data is transmitted to a magnetic induction amplifier 10 as well as to an audio output 7. A loop antenna 11 then originates a radio wave which is received by a hearing aid 15 mounted on the elevator passenger M1.

Abstract: A method of measuring moisture content, wherein, as an example, a microwave cavity resonator with two holed iris plates that are arranged vertically in tube axis at the mid point of a wave guide is used. A specimen is disposed in a slit formed at a resonator portion between the iris plates, and a resonance peak level is measured in real time. Based on a difference in resonance peak level between cases when the specimen is not present in the slit and the specimen is present in the slit, the moisture content or the moisture percentage of the specimen is obtained.

Abstract: A grammage measuring apparatus includes a dielectric resonator which is arranged only at one surface side of a sample; a shielding container with which the dielectric resonator is substantially covered except for a sample measuring surface; a microwave excitation device which causes the dielectric resonator to generate an electric field vector; a detection device which detects transmission energy or reflection energy by the dielectric resonator; a storage device in which a calibration curve indicating a resonance frequency shift amount for a grammage is stored; and a data processing device which calculates the grammage of a measuring sample from the calibration curve and measurement result of the resonance frequency shift amount of the measuring sample.

Abstract: A catalyst dumping device (10) for unloading a catalyst (50) inside a reactor (1), in which smashed used catalyst is thrown into a dumping pipe (11) formed of a plurality of pipe member (12) provided to the reactor (1) to unload to outside of the reactor (1) by fall by dead weight. Accordingly, the catalyst can be unloaded only by throwing the catalyst into the dumping pipe (11), thereby improving work efficiency. Furthermore, no special apparatus such as a vacuum apparatus is unnecessary, thereby reducing cost for the special apparatus.

Abstract: The sample measuring face of a dielectric resonator (20) is placed near a standard sample having a known dielectric constant at a fixed interval D. While appropriately varying the dielectric constant and thickness of the standard sample under the above condition, the variation of the resonance frequency of the dielectric resonator (20) is measured for each varied dielectric constant and thickness to draw a calibration curve of the varied resonance frequency depending on the dielectric constant and thickness. Under the same condition where calibration curve is drawn, the variation of the resonance frequency of the dielectric resonator (20) for a sample having a known thickness is measured. The dielectric constant of the sample is found from the measurement value and the calibration curve. The dielectric constant of not only a sheetlike sample but also a three-dimensional molded article or a liquid sample can be measured easily.

Abstract: It is possible to generate a resonance mode such that a dielectric resonator (20) can be resonated and an electric field vector leaking out from the resonator (20) exists by arranging antennas (22a and 22b) for the resonator (20). When a sample (22) has dielectric anisotropy, the resonance frequency of the resonator (20) varies when the sample (25) or resonator (20) is rotated. The dielectric anisotropy of the sample (25) is found from the variance of the resonance frequency. Thus the dielectric anisotropy of not only a sheet-like sample, but also such a sample as a three-dimensional molded sample can be measured.

Abstract: A catalyst dumping device (10) for unloading a catalyst (50) inside a reactor (1), in which smashed used catalyst is thrown into a dumping pipe (11) formed of a plurality of pipe member (12) provided to the reactor (1) to unload to outside of the reactor (1) by fall by dead weight. Accordingly, the catalyst can be unloaded only by throwing the catalyst into the dumping pipe (11), thereby improving work efficiency. Furthermore, no special apparatus such as a vacuum apparatus is unnecessary, thereby reducing cost for the special apparatus.

Abstract: A catalyst dumping device (10) for unloading a catalyst (50) inside a reactor (1), in which smashed used catalyst is thrown into a dumping pipe (11) formed of a plurality of pipe member (12) provided to the reactor (1) to unload to outside of the reactor (1) by fall by dead weight. Accordingly, the catalyst can be unloaded only by throwing the catalyst into the dumping pipe (11), thereby improving work efficiency. Furthermore, no special apparatus such as a vacuum apparatus is unnecessary, thereby reducing cost for the special apparatus.

Abstract: An antibacterial deodorant cover for a microphone which includes a matrix member, such as an organic polymeric substance, and having a predetermined configuration. The matrix member carries a calcium phosphate compound having a Ca/P ratio in the range of about 1.0 to 2.0. The antibacterial deodorant cover further includes a device for fixing the matrix member to a head of the microphone.

Abstract: A compensation polarizing plate which is superior in polarization characteristic to a polarizing filter layer of a composite layer sample is arranged on the polarization filter layer side of the composite layer sample whose polarizing filter layer has an insufficient degree of polarization, and polarization transmission axes of the polarizing filter layer and the compensation polarizing plate are kept in parallel with each other to compensate the polarization characteristics of the polarization filter layer. Measurement for obtaining the retardation value and the optical principal axis direction of the sample is carried out in the state of the compensated sample.

Abstract: A method of measuring the dielectric constant of a sheet-like material is disclosed, the method using a cavity resonator having a transverse slit formed in the intermediate region thereof between the opposite ends for disposing a sample sheet perpendicularly to the direction of the length thereof. The dielectric constant is measured as a function of the difference f.sub.1r -f.sub.r2 between the microwave resonant frequency f.sub.1r of the cavity resonator obtained when the sample is not inserted in the transverse slit and the microwave resonant frequency f.sub.r2 of the cavity resonator obtained when it is inserted in said transverse slit. The resonant frequency f.sub.2r (.beta.) is calculated in the state in which the sample sheet in said transverse slit is rotated through a given angle .beta. with respect to said longitudinal axis from the predetermined angle designated by 0.degree., from the formula approximating the resonance curve in the cavity resonator.

Abstract: A phase plate is superposed on a sample, and this phase plate is so adjusted that the phase difference of the total retardation of the sample and the phase plate is integral times 2.pi. with respect to a measuring beam of a first wavelength, so that retardation can be correctly measured even if an order is increased. In this state, a measuring beam of a second wavelength which is approximate to the first wavelength is employed and two polarizing plates maintaining polarizing directions in parallel nicol relation are singularly rotated with respect to the sample which is arranged therebetween. The ratio Im/Io between maximum value Io and minimum value Im of currently transmitted light intensity is applied to a previously prepared relation between the order n of retardation and this ratio Im/Io to derive the order of retardation of the sample, to thereafter obtain correct retardation.

Abstract: In order to efficiently obtain data for calculating retardation values at a plurality of wavelengths, a sample having birefringence is placed between a polarizer and an analyzer, which are maintained in a parallel nicol relation to each other and rotated about an optical axis of measuring light. White measuring light is applied through the polarizer so that the light being passed through the sample and transmitted through the analyzer is received by a polychromator. A one-dimensional optical sensor is arranged on an outgoing imaging surface of the polychromator, to simultaneously detect transmitted light intensity values of a plurality of wavelengths. Since transmitted light intensity values of a plurality of wavelengths are obtained every polarization rotation angle of the polarizer and the analyzer, it is possible to obtain dispersion of retardation values with respect to wavelengths and the like by processing the data.

Abstract: An optical beam scanning system has a multibeam control mechanism (4) with a beam interval adjusting mechanism for adjusting an interval between beam spots on a recording surface. The mechanism has at least one plane parallel plate (471-474). The plate is placed on an optical path. The plate is turned on an axis which is perpendicular to the optical path to thereby change the interval while maintaining the diameter of the beam spots on the recording surface. A pair of prisms may be installed in place of the plane parallel plate. The prisms are relatively moved in a parallel manner to thereby change the interval while maintaining the diameter of the beam spots.

Abstract: An optical lighting system comprising either an optical system or an optical mirror system. In the optical lens and optical mirror systems, the light incident and exiting planes of the lenses and mirrors, are formed to satisfy given equations. Accordingly, in a contact or proximity exposure system, it is possible to unify irradiance on a surface to be irradiated and reduce the optical path length, thus reducing the overall device size. In a projections system, it is possible to unify irradiance on an image surface while efficiently utilizing light by omitting a gradient filter.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining water content of powder/granule sample including a rectangular waveguide system substantially set up in the upright or vertical disposition, consisting of a microwave transmitting converter, a microwave waveguide, and a microwave receiving converter; the apparatus comprising: a sample container for containing powder or granular sample and being accommodated inside of the microwave waveguide; the waveguide being provided with an inlet hole communicated to the inner space of the cavity resonator at one of side walls, and having a door for opening and closing the hole and a supporting element for the sample container within the waveguide; a buffer weighing system for supporting the hollow waveguide on a supporting table in the upright or vertical disposition and generates electric signals designating the supporting weight; and signal processing means for receiving signal output from the microwave receiving converter and the other signal from said buffer weighing system, storing and a

Abstract: In an image recorder, a recording photobeam and a reference photobeam are periodically deflected by a polygon mirror in a main scanning direction. The recording photobeam is supplied to a photosensitive film while the reference beam is supplied to a transparent grating scale on which a transparent area and an opaque area are formed. The combination boundary of the transparent area and the opaque area has a portion parallel to the main scanning direction. The reference beam transmitted through the transparent area is detected, and the photobeams are deflected in a subscanning direction by an acoustic-optical deflector in response to the detected optical amount of the reference photobeam.

Abstract: It is possible to generate a resonance mode such that a dielectric resonator (20) can be resonated and an electric field vector leaking out from the resonator (20) exists by arranging antennas (22a and 22b) for the resonator (20). When a sample (22) (25) has dielectric anisotropy, the resonance frequency of the resonator (20) varies when the sample (25) or resonator (20) is rotated. The dielectric anisotropy of the sample (25) is found from the variance of the resonance frequency. Thus the dielectric anisotropy of not only a sheet-like sample, but also such a sample as a three-dimensional molded sample can be measured.