Abstract: A display is operable to simultaneously display, on a single screen, a first image in a direction of a driver's seat based on a first image source, and a second image in a direction of a passenger's seat based on one of the first image source and a second image source. A sound controller is operable to localize a sound image corresponding to at least one of the first image and the second image. The sound controller localizes the sound image corresponding to the second image based on a type of the second image source in a case where the second image is displayed based on the second image source.

Abstract: A claw pole type motor includes first and second claw poles opposed to each other and each including a radial yoke portion having an inner diameter side and an outer diameter side, a plurality of pole portions arranged on the inner diameter side, and axially extended, and an outer peripheral side yoke portion extending on the outer diameter side. A stator core is provided having an inner diameter side, and is formed so as to cause the pole portions of the first claw pole to be meshed with the pole portions of the second claw pole. A rotor is arranged on the inner diameter side of the stator core with a circumferential gap being defined therebetween. In order to provide high efficiency while simplifying manufacturing, the first and second claw poles are formed by compacting of magnetic powder.

Abstract: The polygonal chart drawing processing device inputs information including the number N of evaluation items, the length M of an evaluation axis, evaluation items and values for the drawing object from the radar chart drawing processing device. The device generates base graphics (e.g. isosceles triangle) as many as the number of evaluation items, then, by obtaining the length L of an isosceles side of the similar figure to the base graphic, generates an item-value-corresponding graphic having a vertical angle being 2?/N and an area representing an item value of the corresponding evaluation item. The device then draws a polygonal chart which consists of all the item-value-corresponding graphics arranged in a radial pattern with the indicator axis of a radar chart being placed over a center line of the corresponding item-value-corresponding graphic and the vertical angle of the item-value-corresponding graphic being placed over the center point.

Abstract: The wireless IC tag has a counter for counting on the basis of a signal received via the antenna or for counting in cases where a signal transmits via the antenna. The wireless IC tag may have a counter for each required data field and incrementing/decrementing a count value when data is read from the data field. The wireless IC tag may have a counter for each byte field in a memory and incrementing/decrementing a count value when data is read from the byte field.

Abstract: A fluid conveying machine has a rotational shaft (11), a double suction type pump (16), and magnetic levitation motors (12, 13) having a function as a radial magnetic bearing for supporting the rotational shaft (11) in a non-contact manner and as a motor for rotating the rotational shaft (11). The double suction type pump (16) has a double suction type impeller (21) attached to the rotational shaft (11), a pump casing (31) disposed so as to surround the impeller (21), and a pressure balance mechanism for positioning the rotational shaft (11) in an axial direction. The pump (16) is disposed substantially at a center of the rotational shaft (11), and the two magnetic levitation motors (12, 13) are disposed on both sides of the pump (16).

Abstract: An extended portfolio chart drawing device draws an evaluation object on a portfolio chart. The chart drawing device selects the evaluation object to draw a radar chart, extracts a score from an index axis of an evaluation item designated by a dial drag position detection unit for the selected evaluation object from the radar chart data, and draws a triangle representing the direction of the index axis and the score of the evaluation item at a position of the corresponding evaluation object on the portfolio chart. Then, the chart drawing device draws a polygon representing the relationship between all the evaluation values for the selected evaluation object to be expanded from the radar chart data at the position of the corresponding evaluation object on the portfolio chart.

Abstract: The polygonal chart drawing processing device inputs information including the number N of evaluation items, the length M of an evaluation axis, evaluation items and values for the drawing object from the radar chart drawing processing device. The device generates base graphics (e.g. isosceles triangle) as many as the number of evaluation items, then, by obtaining the length L of an isosceles side of the similar figure to the base graphic, generates an item-value-corresponding graphic having a vertical angle being 2?/N and an area representing an item value of the corresponding evaluation item. The device then draws a polygonal chart which consists of all the item-value-corresponding graphics arranged in a radial pattern with the indicator axis of a radar chart being placed over a center line of the corresponding item-value-corresponding graphic and the vertical angle of the item-value-corresponding graphic being placed over the center point.

Abstract: In a multiple phase claw pole type motor which includes: a plurality of claw poles including a claw portion extending in an axial direction and having a magnetic pole surface facing a rotor in a state of being separated from the rotor by a small gap, a radial yoke portion extending radially outwardly from this claw portion, and an outer peripheral yoke extending from this radial yoke portion in the same direction as the direction of extension of the claw portion; a stator core formed by alternately placing the claw poles in a circumferential direction so that a distal end of each claw portion faces the outer peripheral yoke of an adjacent one of the claw poles; and a stator constructed by sandwiching an annular coil with the adjacent claw poles of this stator core, a multiple phase claw pole type motor characterized in that the claw poles are formed by compacting a magnetic powder and are formed of a magnetic compact having a DC magnetizing property of its flux density becoming 1.

Abstract: In an automobile instrument panel structure, an upper meter provided in an upper front part of an instrument panel main body is disposed so as to correspond to an upper side of an upper half of a steering wheel, and a lower meter provided in a lower rear part of the instrument panel main body is disposed so as to correspond to a lower side of the upper half of the steering wheel. It is thus possible to reliably view the upper meter and the lower meter without being obstructed by the steering wheel. Further, since an upper edge of a panel in which the upper meter is disposed has a shape substantially conforming to the upper half of the steering wheel, there is no disagreeable sensation even when the upper meter, which has conventionally been disposed in a laterally central part of the instrument panel main body, is disposed in front of the driver.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium stores a computer program for outputting an evaluation result of a target to be evaluated by positioning the target on a chart that is formed with a plurality of coordinate axes that determine an evaluation value of the target. The computer program makes a computer execute storing setting conditions of a specific area that indicates a specific target to be evaluated on the chart; and outputting the specific area and a position of coordinates of the target on the chart based on the setting conditions stored at the storing.

Abstract: A method for producing a cured, low-density polyurethane foam, the method comprises frothing a reactive polyurethane-forming composition comprising an isocyanate-containing component, an active hydrogen-containing component reactive with the isocyanate-containing component, a blowing agent, a surfactant, and catalyst system, wherein the catalyst system provides for a delayed curing of the foam; casting the frothed reactive polyurethane-forming composition onto a first carrier; placing a second carrier on a side of the cast foam opposite the first carrier; blowing the froth with the second carrier in place; and curing the blown froth so as to provide a polyurethane foam layer having a density of about 50 to about 400 kg/m3 and a thickness of about 0.3 to about 13 mm. The foams are useful as sealing members.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information storage apparatus incorporates in a housing: a medium storing section in which optical storage media are stored; an information access section that makes an information access to the optical storage medium; and a medium moving section that moves the optical storage medium between the medium storing section and the information access section, to increase storage capacity and to reduce the size of the apparatus. The medium moving section executes a supply process of moving the optical storage medium along a supply path from the medium storing section to the information access section and a recovery process of moving the optical storage medium along a recovery path from the information access section to the medium storing section, the optical storage medium on the supply path and another optical storage medium being on the recovery path able to pass each other.

Abstract: A push-button switch has a plunger to be pressed so as to activate its main body supported by a base member. A cap serving as a pressing member is on an outer edge portion of the plunger. The outer periphery of the cap is surrounded by a frame part of a lens member made of a transparent resin material such that the light from a light source disposed near the center of the plunger is guided to the upper edge part of the frame part.

Abstract: In an automobile instrument panel structure, an upper meter provided in an upper front part of an instrument panel main body is disposed so as to correspond to an upper side of an upper half of a steering wheel, and a lower meter provided in a lower rear part of the instrument panel main body is disposed so as to correspond to a lower side of the upper half of the steering wheel. It is thus possible to reliably view the upper meter and the lower meter without being obstructed by the steering wheel. Further, since an upper edge of a panel in which the upper meter is disposed has a shape substantially conforming to the upper half of the steering wheel, there is no disagreeable sensation even when the upper meter, which has conventionally been disposed in a laterally central part of the instrument panel main body, is disposed in front of the driver.

Abstract: A sealing member comprising an elastic sheet having a density in the range of 100 to 250 kg/m3. The elastic sheet is obtained by reacting and curing a polyurethane-foam raw material which is provided by mixing 100% by volume of a resin raw material and 300% by volume or more of a foam-forming gas, in which the resin raw material includes polyol and isocyanate as a main raw material and a foam stabilizer as an auxiliary material, and the like. The compression load deflection at 50% of the elastic sheet is in the range of 0.003 to 0.025 MPa, and the compression load deflection at 75% thereof is in the range of 0.02 to 0.40 MPa.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a product identification data management system and method. According to the present invention, an input device of a purchasing department reads a bar code and an RF tag as data of two identification data systems added to a product such that the identification data of the two identification data systems are related with each other. The read bar code data and RF tag data are stored and managed in first and second databases of a information department, respectively. When a user terminal such as a product data terminal issues a request to acquire predetermined data on the basis of the bar code data of the product, the predetermined data is retrieved from either or both of the first and second databases. The acquired data is returned to the user terminal. The consistency between identification data added to each product can also be checked.

Abstract: A long weather strip includes an attach portion attachable along a window frame for vehicle, and a lip portion for sealing a glass window pane for vehicle. The lip portion protrudes from the attach portion toward the glass window pane to be in contact therewith. The glass window pane is movable within the window frame. The lip portion includes a rough surface portion pressed onto a face of the glass window pane and made of a molding material containing the following (a) to (c) : (a) olefin thermoplastic elastomer in which a content ratio of polyolefin resin as a hard segment is 50 mass % or more as a whole, (b) solid particles having an average particle diameter in a range from 1 to 100 ?m, and (c) liquid lubricant. The rough surface portion has a surface formed in a corrugation state with a number of small projections with the solid particles.

Abstract: A push-button switch has a plunger to be pressed so as to activate its main body supported by a base member. A cap serving as a pressing member is on an outer edge portion of the plunger. The outer periphery of the cap is surrounded by a frame part of a lens member made of a transparent resin material such that the light from a light source disposed near the center of the plunger is guided to the upper edge part of the frame part.

Abstract: A state determining apparatus for an exhaust gas purifier is provided for accurately determining the state of the exhaust gas purifier including an adsorbent for adsorbing hydrocarbons, including a deterioration of the adsorbent, in accordance with an ignition time of an internal combustion engine. The state determining apparatus for an exhaust gas purifier is arranged in an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine for determining the state of the exhaust gas purifier including the adsorbent capable of adsorbing hydrocarbons and moisture in exhaust gas. The state determining apparatus has a humidity sensor arranged at a location downstream of the adsorbent in the exhaust system for detecting the humidity of exhaust gases, and an ECU for determining the state of the adsorbent in accordance with the humidity of exhaust gases detected by the humidity sensor, and the ignition time of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A temperature sensor is disposed near an HC adsorbent in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine. After the internal combustion engine is shut off, a deteriorated state of the HC adsorbent is evaluated based on a value of the humidity detected by a humidity sensor. The deteriorated state of the HC adsorbent is evaluated by comparing the detected value of the humidity with a threshold established depending on the temperature state near the HC adsorbent. In evaluating deteriorated state of the HC adsorbent, a change in the output characteristics of the humidity sensor depending on its temperature state is compensated for.