Abstract: A mobile phone has: a close-range communication control section that performs close-range wireless communication with other mobile phones; a forwarding destination storage section that stores a forwarding destination list in which phone numbers of telephones capable of accepting forwarding are recorded; and a close-range wireless communication monitoring section that causes the close-range wireless communication section to perform close-range wireless communication and monitors establishment of close-range wireless communication with a forwarding acceptance telephone having a phone number that matches any of the phone numbers in the forwarding destination list. The mobile phone also has an incoming call forwarding destination notification section that notifies the phone number of a forwarding acceptance telephone, with which close-range wireless communication by the close-range wireless communication section has been established, to the call forwarding service center as a forwarding destination phone number.

Abstract: A laminate battery is provided with a tab, an electric power generating element connected to the tab, and a laminate sheet allowing the electric power generating element to be accommodated. The laminate sheet includes a metallic layer and a thermally welding resin layer laminated on the metallic layer. The tab and the thermally welding resin layer are welded by permitting a thermally welding area, which is formed in at least one of the thermally welding resin layer and the tab, and the other of the thermally welding resin layer and the tab to be welded to one another.

Abstract: A laminate cell comprises a power generating element formed by sequentially stacking positive electrode plates and negative electrode plates while interposing separators therebetween; a cell package formed of a metal composite film, the cell package hermetically sealing the power generating element and an electrolyte; a positive tab connected to the positive electrode plates; and a negative tab connected to the negative electrode plates. According to the laminate cell, the power generating element and the cell package have approximately rectangular plane shapes, and the positive tab and the negative tab are drawn outward from end edges of long sides of the cell package.

Abstract: A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an image scanning unit configured to generate image data by converting light reflected from an optically scanned printed page into electrical signals; an interface configured to receive image data from an external apparatus; an expansion bus to which the image scanning unit and the interface are connected; a bus control unit configured to control the expansion bus; an image data storage unit configured to store the image data; at least one image processing unit connected to the expansion bus and configured to perform an image processing operation on the image data; a task management unit configured to send an image processing request to the image processing unit; and an image writing unit connected to the expansion bus and configured to print the image data on which the image processing operation has been performed by the image processing unit.

Abstract: A driving assist system is provided with a photographing unit which photographs an image of an area around a periphery of the vehicle, a first storing unit which stores a primary image of the trailer and the vehicle coupled together, the primary image being photographed by the photographing unit in advance, a display unit which displays an image, and an image processing unit which obtains a direction and a distance over which the vehicle has to travel for the trailer to be coupled thereto. The photographing unit photographs an secondary image when coupling the trailer to the vehicle. The image processing unit obtains the direction and the distance based on the primary image and the secondary image, and displays the direction and the distance together with the secondary image on the display unit.

Abstract: An image processing method that stores image data in a storage unit is disclosed. The image data and data related to processing performed on the image data are stored in correlation with each other in the storage unit.

Abstract: A vehicle's peripheral visible apparatus includes an image pick-up device being installed on a vehicle. The image pick-up device can picking up, from a position which is horizontally off with respect to an center axis along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, an image of a field of view having the center axis on a center of the field of view. The image pick-up device includes an image pick-up element having a center; and an optical element focusing light ray incident from the field of view on the image pick-up element. The optical element has a center. The image pick-up element is off in a substantially horizontal direction with respect to a center of the optical element, so that a position, on which an image of the center of field of view is focused, moves to the center of the image pick-up element.

Abstract: A driving support apparatus includes an imaging member taking an image corresponding to a vehicle peripheral area; a steering angle detecting member detecting a steering-wheel steering angle; a display member disposed in a vehicle interior to display the image; and a control member predicting a driving course of the vehicle according to the detected steering-wheel angle. The control member synthesizes a predicted driving course image relating to the predicted driving course. The control member superposes the predicted driving course image at a corresponding position of the image. The control member displays on the display member the image where at least one image, on which an index is marked at least at one height position, is superposed at least on the predicted driving course image and onto a side of the predicted driving course image while the control member displays the superposed image on the display member.

Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes plural imaging units; a viewpoint conversion unit making viewpoint conversion of each imaged picture of the plural imaging units into an overhead picture with the same depression angle, respectively; and a picture composite unit joining each overhead picture obtained from the viewpoint conversion unit to superimpose the same scene portion of each overhead picture, and generating a wide overhead picture. The picture composite unit adopts a picture of a superimposed portion in the overhead picture with the highest picture quality of the superimposed portion among each overhead picture related to the superimposed portion as a picture of the superimposed portion of the wide overhead picture.

Abstract: An automobile cell is provided with an electric power generating element composed of a positive electrode having a positive electrode active substance layer, a negative electrode having a negative electrode active substance layer and a separator interposed between the electrodes, a cell outer sheath made of a laminate film compositely composed of polymer and metal, a positive electrode terminal lead electrically conductive with the positive electrode and extending to an outside of the cell outer sheath, and a negative electrode terminal lead electrically conductive with the negative electrode and extending to the outside of the cell outer sheath.

Abstract: A laminate battery is provided with a tab, an electric power generating element connected to the tab, and a laminate sheet allowing the electric power generating element to be accommodated. The laminate sheet includes a metallic layer and a thermally welding resin layer laminated on the metallic layer. The tab and the thermally welding resin layer are welded by permitting a thermally welding area, which is formed in at least one of the thermally welding resin layer and the tab, and the other of the thermally welding resin layer and the tab to be welded to one another.

Abstract: A laminate packaging flat cell comprises a laminate film formed by combining polymer and metal with each other; a power generating element formed of a plurality of electrode plates and separators, and hermetically sealed by the laminate film; and an electrode terminal lead coupled to the electrode plate. In the laminate packaging flat cell of the present invention, the power generating element is hermetically sealed by forming a thermally welded portion on an outer periphery of the laminate film, and the electrode terminal lead protrudes from the thermally welded portion, and a through-hole is provided in a position thereof contacting the thermally welded portion.

Abstract: A laminate cell comprises a power generating element formed by sequentially stacking positive electrode plates and negative electrode plates while interposing separators therebetween; a positive tab connected to the positive electrode plates through a plurality of positive leads; a negative tab connected to the negative electrode plates through a plurality of negative leads; and a cell package formed of a metal composite film, the cell package hermetically sealing the power generating element and an electrolyte. According to the laminate cell, the heat capacity of a portion of the positive tab, onto which a plurality of the positive leads are joined, and the heat capacity of a portion of the negative tab, onto which a plurality of the negative leads are joined, are made larger than that of other portions of the positive tab and the negative tab.

Abstract: A laminate cell comprises a power generating element formed by sequentially stacking positive electrode plates and negative electrode plates while interposing separators therebetween; a cell package formed of a metal composite film, the cell package hermetically sealing the power generating element and an electrolyte; a positive tab connected to the positive electrode plates; and a negative tab connected to the negative electrode plates. According to the laminate cell, the power generating element and the cell package have approximately rectangular plane shapes, and the positive tab and the negative tab are drawn outward from end edges of long sides of the cell package.

Abstract: This invention relates to a secondary cell module and the method of its production, in which it is composed of a combination cell formed by the positive electrode terminal and/or the negative electrode terminal of multiple secondary cells are connected in series and/or in parallel with each other through a metal bus-bar and a casing which contains this combination cell, and the above secondary cell is formed in a sheet shape and is composed of sheet-type internal electrode couple, electrolytic solution and a flexible outer wrapper of envelope type which contains these internal electrode couple and electrolytic solution in a sealed state. The secondary cell module under this invention is of a simple structure and it can be small-sized and light-weighted or thin-shaped as necessary and the heat which generates inside the cell can be efficiently diffused to outside, thereby enabling the production of cells of high capacity with a high degree of freedom in designing its shape as well as supreme productivity.

Abstract: A battery is provided with a plurality of unit cells each having a tab, a bus bar connecting the tab of one of the plurality of unit cells and the tab of another one of the plurality of unit cells, and a plurality of welding points disposed on a center of gravity of an area, in which the bus bar and the tab are overlapped, or a vicinity thereof, and at least one position of line segments, radiately extending from the center of gravity, or a vicinity thereof, such that the bus bar and the tab are connected to one another at the plurality of welding points.

Abstract: An assembled battery (1) includes a plurality of batteries (2) connected in parallel or in series, terminals (3) taking out an output of the plurality of batteries (2), bus bars (12) connecting the batteries (2) one another, and rugged portions (4) provided on the bus bars. Further, the rugged portions (4) have at least one shape selected from the group consisting of: a triangular prism; a cuboid; a semisphere; and a hole.

Abstract: The present invention provides a grommet with a grommet body having an insertion aperture into which a corrugated tube is inserted, and a slit extending from the insertion aperture to an outer peripheral surface of the grommet body so that the slit can be opened and closed. Facing surfaces of the grommet body on opposite sides of the slit are inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a line coextensive with a central axis of the insertion aperture. The outer peripheral surface of the body is also inclined at the same predetermined angle with respect to the line. The present invention makes it easier to mount a corrugated tube to the insertion aperture of the grommet body by using the slit, and thus improves efficiency of the mounting operation. In addition, after mounting the corrugated tube, the slit is tightly closed, and thus waterproofness and soundproofness of the grommet are not adversely affected.

Abstract: The present invention provides a terminal protective cap that covers a terminal of an electric wire and protects the terminal from exposure. The terminal protective cap has an engaging portion that engages with a projecting portion provided on an outer periphery of the terminal. This prevents the terminal from being exposed. Thus, the terminal is securely protected.