Abstract: The present invention relates to a control device that controls a vehicle drive device in which a rotary electric machine is provided in a power transfer path that connects between an internal combustion engine and wheels and in which a first friction engagement device is provided between the internal combustion engine and the rotary electric machine and a second friction engagement device is provided between the rotary electric machine and the wheels.

Abstract: A shaft portion formed at a vertical wall of a sensor housing is formed in a circular column shape, and an abut portion is formed facing a support wall, below the shaft portion. A width dimension of the abut portion is the same as the diameter dimension of the shaft portion as seen in plan view, and the abut portion is formed so as to overlap entirely with the shaft portion as seen from the opposite side of the shaft portion to the abut portion. Foreign objects such as dirt or dust that fall onto the circular column shaped shaft portion therefore readily slide over the shaft portion and fall down from the shaft portion, and foreign objects such as dirt or dust do not stay on the abut portion.

Abstract: In a placement face of which a general face is configured with a circular cone shape, restriction faces are formed. When a sensor ball rolls along an axial direction of rotating shafts, the sensor ball accordingly contacts one of the restriction faces or another of the restriction faces. From this state, in order for the sensor ball to roll further along the axial direction of the rotating shafts, the sensor ball has to rise up the one of the restriction faces or the other of the restriction faces that respectively have a larger angle of incline than the general face. By contrast, in order for the sensor ball to roll in directions orthogonal to the axial direction of the rotating shafts as seen in plan view, the sensor ball only has to roll over the general face.

Abstract: A biometric information acquisition apparatus acquires biometric information to be used for verification. The biometric information acquisition apparatus includes a blood flow increasing unit, a biometric information acquiring unit, a feature amount evaluating unit, and a reacquisition determining unit. The blood flow increasing unit increases blood flow of an object person. The biometric information acquiring unit acquires the biometric information from the object person. The feature amount evaluating unit evaluates the feature amount of the acquired biometric information. The reacquisition determining unit determines whether to cause the blood flow increasing unit to operate and then cause the biometric information acquiring unit to reacquire the biometric information when the evaluated feature amount does not reach a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device having a high anti-theft effect with a simple structure. The electronic device includes; a fixed panel; a detachable panel which is attached to or detached from the fixed panel; a first sensor which detects detaching of the detachable panel from the fixed panel; and a second sensor which detects detaching of the detachable panel from the fixed panel. A controller (CPU) restricts some of the plurality of functions when at least one of the first sensor and the second sensor detects that the detachable panel is detached from the fixed panel.

Abstract: A carbon electrode of an embodiment includes: a graphene having a graphene skeleton, carbon atoms in the graphene skeleton being partially substituted by a nitrogen atom, wherein the graphene contains an oxygen atom, and the carbon electrode is doped with a cation.

Abstract: The present invention is an image processing apparatus that reconstructs one frame of image data using block-level image data, including a unit that receives the block-level image data to which position information has been added, a unit that determines whether or not there was an error in the transmission of the received position information, a first storage area used for storing the block-level image data corresponding to the position information for which a transmission error did not occur, a second storage area used for storing the block-level image data corresponding to the position information for which a transmission error occurred, a unit that infers correct position information for the block-level image data stored in the second storage area based on the first storage area and the second storage area, and a unit that reconstructs the one frame of image data using the inferred position information.

Abstract: A holding device for a piezoelectric vibrator including a support member (11) for separately accommodating a piezoelectric vibrator (1), a first plate spring member (13) which extends from a proximal end fixedly bonded to one side of the support member (11) so as to sandwich opposing sides of the piezoelectric vibrator (1) and is folded back to be fixedly bonded to the piezoelectric vibrator, and a second plate spring member (18) which extends from a proximal end fixedly bonded to another side of the support member (11) so as to sandwich the opposing sides of the piezoelectric vibrator (1) and is folded back to be fixedly bonded to the piezoelectric vibrator. The first plate spring member (13) and the second plate spring member (18) are integrated at portions fixedly bonded to the piezoelectric vibrator (1).

Abstract: A control system configured with a speed change mechanism. When starting combustion in an internal combustion engine under a combustion-stopped vehicle running condition, the combustion in the internal combustion engine is stopped, the speed change mechanism forms the one-way transmission speed, and the output member rotates. A rotational speed feedback control is executed that sets a value that multiplies a rotational speed of the output member by a speed ratio of the one-way transmission speed as a reference rotational speed of the input member, sets a starting rotational speed, and controls a rotary electric machine such that the rotational speed of the input member matches the target rotational speed. During execution of the rotational speed feedback control, a start control is performed that increases engagement pressure of the clutch to increase a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine and start combustion in the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: An apparatus (30) for control of the position of a flexible substrate (1) in the vertical width direction has first and second upper sandwiching roller pairs (31, 32) for sandwiching the upper edge of the flexible substrate while sending the flexible substrate. Rotation shafts of the first upper sandwiching rollers (31) are inclined so as to have a deflection angle (?) directed obliquely upward with respect to a first transport direction (F), in a sandwiching portion, of the flexible substrate, and rotation shafts of the second upper sandwiching rollers (32) are inclined so as to have a deflection angle (?) directed obliquely upward with respect to a second transport direction (R) opposite the first transport direction in a sandwiching portion. A switching device for switching the first and second upper sandwiching roller pairs (31, 32) between operative and inoperative states is provided.

Abstract: A solar battery cell serving as a member to be protected is sandwiched between protective films for lamination and disposed in a press-type laminating device. The protective films are then heated, and when the temperature of the protective films becomes a first temperature which is equal to or higher than the softening point of the protective films, pressing of the protective films and the solar battery cell is started. Then the protective films are held at a second temperature (target temperature) that is higher than the first temperature, in a state in which the protective films and the member to be protected are pressed.

Abstract: [Object] Although the take-out of liquid from a container by means of syphon tube has a merit of requiring no special structure on the container, activation of siphon is complex, on the contrary. Location of a valve or like in a liquid take-out path for easy activation damages possibility of realization of compact or downsized structure, and increases risk of trouble. [Achieving Means] With a shape of a bent portion of a syphon tube, by adopting a dimension between inner wall portions excellent in capillary effect, there can provide a structure capable of activating siphon only by inclining a container with minimal configuration without locating any movable member.

Abstract: A control device configured with a first control portion controls an engagement pressure of a first engagement device to make a rotational speed of the input member equal to a predetermined rotational speed during the specific electric power generation control. A second control portion controls an engagement pressure of the second engagement device in such a manner as to make a transfer torque capacity of the second engagement device equal to a predetermined transfer torque capacity during the specific electric power generation control. Another control portion determines a target rotational speed in such a manner as to maintain a state in which an electric power generation amount achieved by the rotating electrical machine coincides with a predetermined target electric power generation amount, in accordance with a magnitude of a differential torque as a difference between a torque transmitted via the first engagement device.

Abstract: On a lamination frame is disposed a stacked member of photovoltaic cells and a concave-convex member. The photovoltaic cells are formed using a flexible substrate. When forming the stacked member, each of the plurality of photovoltaic cells is disposed on a lamination frame in the state of an intermediate member sandwiched between protective films for lamination and sealing. Among the protective films, the protective film positioned on the side of the light-receiving face of the photovoltaic cells is opposed entirely by the concave-convex member. The concave-convex member has concavities and convexities on the surface opposing the protective film. By simultaneously subjecting the intermediate member and the concave-convex member to lamination treatment, a plurality of photovoltaic cells can be simultaneously and individually sealed by the protective film.

Abstract: A tool for grinding an inner diameter even when holders having grindstones are axially connected. A gap enclosed by the inner peripheral surface of a divided tool holder, a draw bar and O-rings is formed in a state in which the draw bar is inserted into a tool holder in which a plurality of divided tool holders are connected in series. A filler is filled into the gap to fix a support bush to the divided tool holder. An adjustment screw of each arm held circumferentially away from each other on the divided tool holder is turned to adjust a distance between a pin and the arm, and the radial projecting amount of each of grindstones is adjusted. The projecting amount is adjusted such that the plurality of grindstones rotate along the same rotational trajectory and the center of the rotational trajectory corresponds to the axis of the draw bar.

Abstract: The present invention is an image processing apparatus that reconstructs one frame of image data using block-level image data, including a unit that receives the block-level image data to which position information has been added, a unit that determines whether or not there was an error in the transmission of the received position information, a first storage area used for storing the block-level image data corresponding to the position information for which a transmission error did not occur, a second storage area used for storing the block-level image data corresponding to the position information for which a transmission error occurred, a unit that infers correct position information for the block-level image data stored in the second storage area based on the first storage area and the second storage area, and a unit that reconstructs the one frame of image data using the inferred position information.

Abstract: The apparatus of the present invention corrects a control target value of ignition timing using a multipoint learned value AGdp(n) for compensating for a change amount of the ignition timing caused by time-dependent change of the engine and a basic learned value AG(i) for compensating for a change amount of the ignition timing caused by a factor other than the aforementioned time-dependent change of the engine. In a multipoint learning range n in which the time-dependent change of the engine influences the ignition timing to a great extent, the control target is corrected using the multipoint learned value AGdp(n) and the basic learned value AG(i). In ranges other than the multipoint learning range n, the control target is corrected using only the basic learned value AG(i).

Abstract: Vibration beams are provided on a substrate in parallel with the substrate and in parallel with each other, and provided in vacuum chambers formed by a shell and the substrate. Each of vibration beams has a sectional shape with a longer sectional thickness in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate than a sectional thickness in a direction parallel to the surface of the substrate. A first electrode plate is provided in parallel with the surface of the substrate and connected to one end of each of the vibration beams. A second electrode plate is provided in parallel with the surface of the substrate and between the vibration beams. Third and fourth electrode plates are provided on opposite sides of the vibration beams. Asperities are provided in opposed side wall portion surfaces of the vibration beams and the second, third and fourth electrode plates.

Abstract: A duplex eutectic silicon alloy including 30-70 weight % silicon, 10-45 weight % nitrogen, 1-40 weight % aluminum, and 1-40 weight % oxygen has a eutectic structure comprising a ??-sialon phase and an ??-sialon phase. The alloy is produced by controlling cooling at a rate of 50° C. or less per minute in combustion synthesis. A ductile sintered product capable of replacing steel in various applications can be produced by placing a compact composed of a powder of the alloy in a sintering furnace which can supply a heat quantity at least ten times the heat capacity of the compact; and sintering the compact at a pressure at least as great as atmospheric pressure, within a nitrogen atmosphere in which the silicon gas mole fraction is 10% or more, and at a temperature within the range from 1400° C. to 1700° C.