Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell that generates electric power using fuel gas and oxygen-containing gas and combusts fuel gas remaining unused for generation of electric power; a fuel gas supply line that supplies the fuel gas to the fuel cell; and an on-off valve disposed in the fuel gas supply line. A shutdown transition mode in which the fuel gas in the fuel gas supply line downstream from the on-off valve is supplied to the fuel cell at a flow rate smaller than that at a time of generation of electric power and is combusted therein after the on-off valve is closed, and a shutdown mode which is started after the shutdown transition mode are provided as an emergency shutdown mode in which the fuel cell undergoes emergency shutdown when the on-off valve of the fuel gas supply line is closed.

Abstract: In an insertion hole formed in an adapter, a side wall which presses an insertion piece of a stopper with an urging force of a spiral spring has a wall surface parallel to a virtual straight line passing a center of the adapter and positioned on the virtual straight line. Thus, a direction which the wall surface of the side wall presses the insertion piece of the stopper is along a facing direction which the side wall and another side wall face each other, and is not inclined outward in a radial direction of the adapter with respect to the facing direction. Thereby, a pressing force applied from the wall surface of the side wall to the insertion piece of the stopper does not cause the insertion piece to be extruded from the insertion hole. Thus, insertion state of the insertion piece to the insertion hole can be satisfactorily maintained.

Abstract: A client signal mapping circuit for accommodating a client signal in a transmission frame, including: a buffer unit configured to temporarily store the client signal; a buffer used amount monitoring unit configured to report a used amount of the buffer unit; a stuff processing determination unit configured to compare the used amount of the buffer unit with a predetermined reference value, and a pseudo random sequence signal and the comparison result; an overhead insertion unit configured to add an overhead to the client signal read from the buffer unit to form a transmission frame; and a reading control unit configured to perform control for reading the client signal from the buffer unit based on determination by the stuff processing determination unit.

Abstract: A fuel cell module structure including a heat exchanger capable of preventing leakage of oxygen containing gas in a flow path and reducing the cost. The module including a power-generating chamber that receives fuel cells and a casing having a generally rectangular shape enclosing the power-generating chamber. Additionally, the right and left side walls and an upper wall of the casing are hollow walls constituted of an outer shell member and an inner shell member disposed parallel to each other with a distance therebetween forming a reaction gas circulation space, the outer and inner shell members are each formed in a U-like cross-sectional shape, and a reaction gas introduction member extends vertically downward from the inner shell member of the upper wall into the power-generating chamber and being communicated with the reaction gas circulation space to introduce a reaction gas into the power-generating chamber.

Abstract: A fuel cell module that can accommodate a single fuel cell stack efficiently and that can enhance power generation efficiency, and a fuel cell device comprising the fuel cell module.

Abstract: An electrode having excellent charge/discharge cycle characteristics and which is capable of improving a secondary battery capacity. An electrode is formed on the surface of a collector as an assembly of multiple porous domain structures that are apart from each other, the porous domain structures each having a polygonal shape without an acute angle in a planar view, the polygonal shape having a maximum diameter of 120 ?m or less.

Abstract: A fuel cell module includes in a casing: a fuel cell stack that is formed by stacking a plurality of unit cell; an oxidant gas distributing member that is disposed at a side surface, that extends in a stack direction of the unit cells, of the fuel cell stack that extends in a direction from one end to another end of each of the unit cells, and that supplies the oxidant gas to the another end of each unit cell after supplying the oxidant gas through the oxidant gas distributing member from the one end to the another end; a reformer disposed at the one end; and a combustion portion that is disposed between the one end and the reformer. The oxidant gas distributing member has a higher thermal conductivity at the one end side of the unit cells than at the another end side of the unit cells.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorber is provided which has an outstanding electromagnetic wave absorption property with a return loss of 20 dB or greater in a wide frequency band of 30 MHz to 20 GHz. A combined electromagnetic wave absorber includes a magnetic absorber plate, a crossed electromagnetic wave absorber disposed on the magnetic absorber plate, and a compact electromagnetic wave absorber disposed in a space defined by the dielectric loss plates of the crossed electromagnetic wave absorber on the magnetic absorber plate. When viewed in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic absorber plate, the compact electromagnetic wave absorber is configured in a multilayer structure having a plurality of electromagnetic wave absorbent layers with a low dielectric layer interposed therebetween.

Abstract: An object attribute is determined with respect to an object and a determination is performed as to whether or not to execute image cache processing in response to the object attribute. By switching processing in accordance with this, execution of time-consuming image specifying processing is kept to a necessary minimum and performance reductions can be avoided. Furthermore, cache registration is avoided for images having low reusability, which achieves improvements in cache usage efficiency and improvements in cache search efficiency, thereby enabling performance to be improved.

Abstract: A fuel cell bundle includes a plurality of columnar fuel cell stacks extending in a first direction that are disposed spaced apart so that side surfaces thereof face each other, the fuel cell stacks each having a first gas flow channel along the first direction and also having a plurality of series-connected fuel cells disposed side-by-side in a second direction intersected by the first direction; a connecting member for electrically connecting series-connected fuel cells of a fuel cell stack with series-connected fuel cells of a fuel cell stack adjacent thereto; and a second gas flow channel regulating member for forming a second gas flow channel along the first gas flow channel between itself and the connecting member, the connecting member and the second gas flow channel regulating member being disposed between the adjacent fuel cell stacks.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell stack that is formed of a plurality of serially connected fuel-cell cells that use fuel gas and oxidant gas to generate electric power; a detecting unit that detects an output power generated by each of a first fuel-cell cell group and a second fuel-cell cell group that are grouped on the basis of a power generation performance factor; and an operating condition changing unit that changes an operating condition of the fuel-cell cells on the basis of a rate of deviation between the generated output power of the first fuel-cell cell group, detected by the detecting unit, and the generated output power of the second fuel-cell cell group, detected by the detecting unit.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an original-document-attribute determining unit that determines attribute of an original document image, a form-attribute determining unit that determines attribute of a form image, and a compositing unit that performs sequence of compositing of the original document image, a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image, and the form image, the sequence of compositing being determined based on the determined attribute of the original document image and the determined attribute of the form image.

Abstract: A seat back locking device for an automobile for a seat back 5 configured so as to be capable of being changed from an upright position to a folded-down position and vice versa, including a locking mechanism 10 for locking the seat back 5 in the upright position, a locking knob 20 for unlocking the locking mechanism 10, and a key cylinder 30 capable of locking and unlocking the locking knob 20. In the locking device, a contact part 33 that comes into contact with a contacted part 26 provided on the locking knob 20 is connectingly provided integrally with a cylinder body 31 of the key cylinder 30 so that the key cylinder 30 can be changed over between a locked state in which the contact part 33 comes into contact with the contacted part 26 to inhibit the rotation of the locking knob 20 and an unlocked state in which the contact part 33 does not come into contact with the contacted part 26 to allow the rotation of the locking knob 20.

Abstract: To provide a method for producing a comb-shaped electrode capable of precisely carrying a large amount of active materials on a surface of current collectors with a fine shape. The method for producing comb-shaped electrodes 1a, 1b of the present invention includes a current collector forming step of forming a pair of comb-shaped current collectors 2a, 2b on a surface of a substrate 4, a resist coating step of forming a resist layer 6 on the surface of the substrate 4, and a guide hole forming step of forming guide holes 7a, 7b for forming a positive electrode 1a or a negative electrode 1b, in which a cationic polymerization type resist composition (i), a novolak type resist composition (ii), a chemically-amplified type resist composition (iii), or a radical polymerization type resist composition (iv), is used as a resist composition for forming the resist layer 6.

Abstract: A printing system that adopts an SBC system in which a load at a server is alleviated when executing printing to enable printing to be performed smoothly. In the printing system, a client terminal, a server, and an image forming apparatus are connected to each other through a network. The client terminal specifies data among stored data in the server and sends a print execution request to the server. The server receives the print execution request, creates print-related information relating to the specified data, and sends it to the client terminal. The client terminal judges whether or not print data generation processing with respect to the specified data is possible at the client terminal based on the print-related information, and send the judgment result to the server. The server allocates the print data generation processing to either the server or the client terminal based on the judgment result.

Abstract: Provided is a transmission gate capable of adapting to various input voltages to attain high S/N characteristics. The transmission gate includes: a PMOS transistor (11) which includes a drain to which an input voltage (Vin) is input, is turned ON when a voltage (Vin?Vs1) is input to a gate thereof, and includes a source from which the input voltage (Vin) is output as an output voltage (Vout); and an NMOS transistor (12) which has a gate length, a gate width, a gate oxide thickness, and an absolute value of a threshold voltage which are the same as those of the PMOS transistor (11), includes a drain to which the input voltage (Vin) is input, is turned ON when a voltage (Vin+Vs1) is input to a gate thereof, and includes a source from which the input voltage (Vin) is output as the output voltage (Vout).

Abstract: In an apparatus for accommodating and multiplexing asynchronous client signals in which an idle signal is defined, the transmission side transmits client signals after synchronizing the client signals by inserting or removing, with reference to a specific client signal, an idle signal to/from the same type of another client signal, and in the receiving side, a PLL part is shared by recovering a clock from a client signal and distributing the clock for another client signal.

Abstract: Bit lines connected to each nonvolatile memory cell are selected by corresponding selective transistors. A first drive circuit for driving the gate of one of the selective transistors receives a voltage selected by a first voltage switch, and a second drive circuit for driving the gate of the other selective transistor receives a voltage selected by a second voltage switch. A transistor constituting the first drive circuit is different in structure from a transistor constituting the second drive circuit.

Abstract: The invention has been made to solve a problem that as the cycle of a transmission clock fluctuates with respect to the cycle of a sampling clock for one bit on the reception side, a reception error occurs. To deal with this, every time sampling data is inverted in a reception data string, the sampling clock is re-synchronized. Furthermore, if there are a predetermined number of successive identical data, an inverted dummy bit is inserted for re-synchronization.

Abstract: To solve a problem in that, even after a charge inhibition signal is input from an input terminal and a charge control transistor is turned OFF, if a load is connected between external terminals (EB+, EB?), a discharge current flows, and to solve another problem of power consumption of a charge/discharge control circuit (22), provided is a charge/discharge control circuit for controlling charge/discharge of a secondary battery, the charge/discharge control circuit including: a switch circuit for controlling a current that flows through the charge/discharge control circuit; a control circuit for controlling an operation of the switch circuit; and an input terminal to which a signal for controlling an operation of the charge/discharge control circuit is input from outside. In this way, when a signal is input to the input terminal from outside, the discharge current is interrupted, thereby reducing current consumption of the charge/discharge control circuit.