Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus is provided which is installed in a vehicle including a power supply. The apparatus includes at least one drive circuit that is driven by DC voltage supplied from the power supply, and a positive electrode side line that electrically connects a positive electrode terminal of the power supply and a high-electric potential side electrical path of the drive circuit. A negative electrode terminal of the power supply and a low-electric potential side electrical path of the drive circuit are electrically connected to a body ground of the vehicle. The apparatus includes an auxiliary line that has a first end electrically connected to the positive electrode terminal or the negative electrode terminal and a second end connected to the high-electric potential side electrical path or the body ground, and that is arranged along the positive electrode side line or the body ground.

Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus is provided which is installed in a vehicle including a power supply. The apparatus includes at least one drive circuit that is driven by DC voltage supplied from the power supply, and a positive electrode side line that electrically connects a positive electrode terminal of the power supply and a high-electric potential side electrical path of the drive circuit. A negative electrode terminal of the power supply and a low-electric potential side electrical path of the drive circuit are electrically connected to a body ground of the vehicle. The apparatus includes an auxiliary line that has a first end electrically connected to the positive electrode terminal or the negative electrode terminal and a second end connected to the high-electric potential side electrical path or the body ground, and that is arranged along the positive electrode side line or the body ground.

Abstract: A disk brake includes a retainer part of a pad retainer provided with an outside section, back section, and inside section. A pad rebounding section is formed by inclining the leading end of a strip, which extends in the disk rotor direction from the end of the inside section away from the disk rotor with an elastic loop section therebetween, toward the outside in the radial direction of the disk. During travel, a gap is formed between the inside section and the strip of the pad rebounding section, and when a lug piece moves inward, the pad rebounding section and the inside section come into contact with each other, the inside section is pressed against an inside surface in the radial direction of the disk, the back section is elastically deformed, and the elastically deformed back section presses the lug piece toward the center side of a caliper body.

Abstract: A disk brake includes a retainer part of a pad retainer provided with an outside section, back section, and inside section. A pad rebounding section is formed by inclining the leading end of a strip, which extends in the disk rotor direction from the end of the inside section away from the disk rotor with an elastic loop section therebetween, toward the outside in the radial direction of the disk. During travel, a gap is formed between the inside section and the strip of the pad rebounding section, and when a lug piece moves inward, the pad rebounding section and the inside section come into contact with each other, the inside section is pressed against an inside surface in the radial direction of the disk, the back section is elastically deformed, and the elastically deformed back section presses the lug piece toward the center side of a caliper body.

Abstract: An image display method for displaying images in layouts having a hierarchic structure of each layout is disclosed. The each layout is geometrically similar each other. A lower layer layout is enlarged to cover and hide an upper layer layout. At least one region of the lowest layout is divided by applying the layout to generate new regions and images are displayed in the new regions. The above process is repeated more than once.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an image generation unit and a display unit. The image generation unit generates an image in which subject shape images shaped along the outer shapes of subjects are superimposed on a parallel image includes an array of multiple images to hide the borders or spaces between the multiple images. The display unit scrolls the image generated by the image generation unit in a direction in which the multiple images are arrayed and continuously and sequentially scroll-displays the multiple images.

Abstract: A heat-developable image-recording material which is heat-developed at a development temperature of from 80° C. to 140° C., and comprises, on both sides of a support, undercoat layers comprising a vinylidene chloride copolymer containing at least 70% by weight of vinylidene chloride monomer repeating units and having a thickness of 0.3 &mgr;m or more for each.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermally processed image recording material having, on a support, an image-forming layer containing at least (a) a silver salt of an organic acid, (b) a reducing agent and (c) a photosensitive silver halide and at least one protective layer provided on the image-forming layer and comprising polymer latex as binders of the image-forming layer and the protective layer, wherein at least one of the image-forming layer and the protective layer contains a viscosity enhancer that increases viscosity of its aqueous solution when the solution is heated and temperature of the solution exceeds a certain transition temperature, and the viscosity enhancer is a polymer selected from the group consisting of polymers containing a (meth)acrylamide derivative represented by the following formula (1) or (2) in an amount of 50 weight % or more as constituent units: (wherein R1 represents H or CH3, R2 represents an alkylene group, R3 to R6 represent H or CH3, and X represents &m

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermally processed image recording material having, on a support, an image-forming layer containing at least (a) a silver salt of an organic acid, (b) a reducing agent and (c) a photosensitive silver halide and at least one protective layer provided on the image-forming layer and comprising polymer latex as binders of the image-forming layer and the protective layer, wherein at least one of the image-forming layer and the protective layer contains a viscosity enhancer that increases viscosity of its aqueous solution when the solution is heated and temperature of the solution exceeds a certain transition temperature, and the viscosity enhancer is a polymer selected from the group consisting of polymers containing a (meth)acrylamide derivative represented by the following formula (1) or (2) in an amount of 50 weight % or more as constituent units: 1

Abstract: A heat developing method conveying, to make a heating processing on a heater surface, a heat developable image recording material is disclosed in which an image forming layer and a protection layer are formed using a polymer latex as a binder on one side of a support made prepared by subjecting a polyester biaxially drawn and crystallized with orientation to a thermal relaxation processing at a temperature equal to or higher than 130° C. and equal to or lower than 200° C.

Abstract: In a thermographic image-recording element comprising an image-forming layer and a protective layer on one side of a support, and optionally a back layer on the opposite side of the support, a polymer latex is used as a binder in each of the image-forming layer, the protective layer, and the back layer. The element experiences a minimized dimensional change before and after heat development. No wrinkling occurs upon heat development.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material which has an excellent dimensional stability and which is easy in the register operation is disclosed. The silver halide photographic material comprises a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the total amount of gelatin in the total hydrophilic colloid layers on the side having said emulsion layer and the total hydrophilic colloid layers on the opposite side thereto is 6 g/m.sup.2 or less, and the support is a styrene type polymer having a syndiotactic structure.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material has provided on a support a non-light-sensitive surface layer which contains an organic polymer represented by formula (I) and having a mean grain size of 1.0 .mu.m or more, the polymer being produced by suspension polymerization: ##STR1## wherein A is a repeating unit obtained by polymerization of at least one monomer having two or more copolymerizable ethylenic unsaturated groups; B is a repeating unit obtained by polymerization of at least one monomer having one copolymerizable ethylenic unsaturated group; and x, y and z each represents a weight percentage, x is a number of from 1 to 40, y is a number of from 30 to 99 and z is a number of from 0 to 65. The material has good vacuum contact adhesiveness in contact exposures, and the transparency of the processed material is good.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material having the improved drying, anticurl and pin hole properties. The photographic material comprises (a) a support, (b) at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing hydrophilic colloid as a binder provided on one side of the support (side A), and (c) at least one light-insensitive layer containing hydrophilic colloid as a binder provided on the side of the support opposite from the side with the silver halide emulsion layer (side B), wherein a weight ratio of the hydrophilic colloid contained in the at least one light-insensitive layer on side B to the hydrophilic colloid in the at least one silver halide emulsion layer on side A is 0.3 or greater, and the light-insensitive layer on side B has a water content of 0.2 g or less per gram of hydrophilic colloid after finishing a rinsing step in development processing.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is described composed of a polyester support having a hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a polymer latex on at least one side thereof, wherein the polyester support has a subbing layer having a thickness of 0.3 .mu.m or more and containing a vinylidene chloride copolymer composed of at least (1) from 70 to 99.9% by weight of a vinylidene chloride monomer and (2) from 0.1 to 5% by weight of a vinyl monomer having at least one carboxyl group, the subbing layer further containing a compound represented by formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 each represents a chlorine atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, --OM (wherein M represents a monovalent metal atom), --NR'R", or --NHCOR'" (wherein R', R", and R'" each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group); Q.sup.1 and Q.sup.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material composed of a polyester film support having thereon at least one hhydrophilic colloid layer containing a polymer latex; and between the support and the hydrophilic colloid layer a layer containing a vinylidene chloride copolymer core-shell latex; at least one hydrophilic colloid layer of the material being a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer. The photographic material has superior dimensional stability after processing.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, having at least one hydrophilic colloid layer comprising a polyester support and having a polymer latex on at least one side of said polyester support, wherein both surfaces of said support are coated with a polymer layer comprising a copolymer containing from 50 to 99.5% by weight vinylidene chloride and wherein both polymer layers have a thickness of at least 0.3 .mu.m. A method for treating the silver halide photographic material is also disclosed.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, having at least one hydrophilic colloid layer comprising a polyester support and having a polymer latex on at least one side of said polyester support, wherein both surfaces of said support are coated with a polymer layer comprising a copolymer containing from 50 to 99.5% by weight vinylidene chloride and wherein both polymer layers have a thickness of at least 0.3 .mu.m. A method for treating the silver halide photographic material is also disclosed.

Abstract: In a method of drying a photoraphic light-sensitive material by use of drying air, the amount of light-sensitive material which can be processed within a predetermined time at a set temperature of the drying air is compared with the totalized amount of the light-sensitive material to be actually processed within the predetermined time, and, on the basis of the result of this comparison, the set temperature of the drying air can be adjusted. An apparatus for drying photographic light-sensitive material by use of drying air is arranged so that the amount of light-sensitive material to be actually processsed within a predetermined time, is detected by a detecting sensor and the thus-detected amount is compared with the amount of light-sensitive material which can be dried.

Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material is disclosed, comprising a polyester film support having thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid layer, at least one layer of which is a silver halide emulsion layer and at least one layer of which is a polymer latex-containing hydrophilic colloid layer, said polyester film support having coated on each side thereof a vinylidene chloride copolymer having a weight average molecular weight not more than 45,000, said vinylidene chloride copolymer being a core/shell type latex, said core part containing at least one of each type of repeating unit represented by formulae (I) and )II) and the said shell part containing at least one of each type of repeating unit represented the formulae (I), (III) and (IV): ##STR1## wherein A.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a halogen atom, A.sup.2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or phenyl group, A.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, A.sup.