Abstract: A parking assisting device includes an ambient area detecting unit that detects an obstacle or a parking frame in an ambient area surrounding a vehicle, and a guiding unit guides the vehicle to a parking initial position from which parking of the vehicle to a parking space, adjacent to the detected obstacle, or the detected parking frame is permissible. In the parking assisting device, a guidance mode in which the guiding unit guides the vehicle to the parking initial position is set up based on a distance between the vehicle and the detected obstacle or the detected parking frame in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A parking assistance device includes a guiding unit to perform guidance of a vehicle to a parking initial position from which the vehicle can be parked into a parking space located adjacent to and on a far side of an object existing around the vehicle with respect to a running direction of the vehicle; an obstacle detecting unit to detect an obstacle around the vehicle in response to a reflected wave of a wave emitted from the vehicle in a predetermined direction; and a timing setting unit configured to set a timing to start the guidance in response to a detection result of the obstacle detecting unit, which is related to an obstacle existing in a predetermined distance from the object in the parking space.

Abstract: There is provided a non-linear signal separation method using the non-linear state space projection method capable of separating an effective non-linear signal even if the S/N ratio is low by performing the time domain high speed non-linear state space projection when a signal is a multi-channel signal and has a periodicity. In the non-linear signal separation method using the non-linear state space projection method, an original signal having a complex signal which is a multi-channel and cyclic signal measured from one phenomenon is processed by using the time domain high-speed non-linear state space projection method so as to estimate a noise in the original signal and subtract the estimated noise from the original signal, thereby separating the signal to be measured in the original signal as a non-linear signal even when the S/N ratio is low.

Abstract: To provide a parking support device for easily and quickly moving or rotating a target parking frame to an appropriate position. The parking support device includes a target parking position setting unit configured to set a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked with a target parking frame superimposed on an actual image displaying an area surrounding the vehicle. The parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit. The target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame initially displayed on a touch display to a position indicated by a coordinate point determined by a touch operation.

Abstract: The sheet transport apparatus comprise a sheet supply tray, a separation roll, a support body and a separation roll accommodation portion. The sheet supply tray has a plurality of sheets. The separation roll separates out the sheets one by one by applying a transport resistance to the sheets transported from the sheet supply tray. The support body rotatably supports the separation roll. The separation roll accommodation portion is formed in a transport path along which the sheets are transported, and it accommodates the separation roll and the support body such that they may be detached from a transport surface side of the transport path.

Abstract: A document feeding device has: a document placement stand on which documents of different sizes can be placed; a conveying section separating, one-by-one, documents of a document stack placed on the document placement stand, and conveying a separated document to a discharging section; a first document width sensing unit sensing a maximum document width of the document stack placed on the document placement stand; a second document width sensing unit sensing a document width of a document separated from the document placement stand by the conveying section; and a controller that, in a case in which a mixed size document mode that permits conveying of documents of different sizes is not set, causes the conveying section to restartably interrupt conveying of the document when the maximum document width sensed by the first document width sensing unit and the document width sensed by the second document width sensing unit differ.

Abstract: A replaceable unit includes a feeding roller that feeds a sheet from a sheet accommodation portion that accommodates the sheet; a conveyance roller that conveys the sheet fed by the feeding roller downstream; a first frame body that supports the feeding roller and the conveyance roller so as to be rotatable; and a second frame body that supports the first frame body so as to be movable and is removably mounted at a position at which the feeding roller can touch against the sheet accommodated at the sheet accommodation portion.

Abstract: A first grayscale clock pulse generation circuit compares a value stored in each timing register with a first count value and outputs a first grayscale pulse to a selector, a calculation circuit calculates the first count value and outputs a second count value, a second grayscale clock pulse generation circuit compares a value stored in each timing register with the second count value and outputs a second grayscale pulse to the selector, a grayscale counter updates a grayscale count value based on the first or second grayscale clock pulse selectively output from the selector in units of one horizontal scan period, and a grayscale coincidence detection circuit changes a voltage level of a PWM signal when the relationship between grayscale data input to the grayscale coincidence detection circuit and the grayscale count value satisfies a predetermined relationship.

Abstract: A body 20 has body wall surfaces 21, 22 defining a body space inside. A core 30 is disposed within the body 20. The core 30 has a core wall surface defining a core space inside which has a bottom having an opening 33a. A valve 50 is inserted through the opening 33a of the core 30 with a clearance and can move along the core wall surface of the core 30. The valve 50 has a hole with a bottom which is comprised of holes 52a, 53a, 57a, a contact surface 58 that contacts the core wall surface of the core 30, a valve head 59 that can contact a valve seat 40, at least one first communication hole 55 that provides communication between the hole 53a and a second inflow fuel passage 30a within the core space, and at least one second communication hole 54 that provides communication between the hole 52a and the first inflow fuel passage 21a, 22a within the body space.

Abstract: An embodiment of a differential device of the present invention comprises a pair of side gears and a pair of pinion gears housed inside a differential case, with the pinion gears supported by a pinion shaft fixed to the differential case at axial end sections thereof so as to be capable of sliding freely thereabout. Lubricating oil channels are provided that pass through each of the end sections of the pinion shaft in the axial direction thereof. One end of each lubricating oil channel opens to the exterior of the differential case at a shaft-end corner section of the pinion shaft corresponding to an upstream side thereof in a direction of rotation of the differential case, and another end opens to a sliding surface of the pinion shaft with respect to one of the pinion gears. The differential device also comprises a mechanism for providing lubricating oil to the lubricating oil channels upon rotation of the differential case.

Abstract: [PROBLEMS] An electrocardiogram signal processing method for extracting a fetus electrocardiogram signal included in a biopotential signal detected from an electrode attached to a mother's body.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium capable of achieving higher density recording. The magnetic recording medium comprises a magnetic layer formed on a non-magnetic base through vacuum oblique evaporation. The magnetic layer includes a plurality of columns in which 3 to 7 ferromagnetic particles with an average diameter of 5 to 10 nm are arranged in a line, and non-magnetic particles are disposed between columns so as to separate the columns from one another. A value Y/X defined as a ratio of an average value Y of a distance between the centers of adjacent columns in a film in-plane direction to an average value X of a distance between the centers of adjacent columns in a film thickness direction is preferably 0.5 or more.

Abstract: A document transport device includes a transport unit that transports documents one by one to a position where an image is read by an image reading unit and transports the document at a speed at which the image reading unit can read the image at the image reading position, and a controller that determines, based on an instruction from an image forming apparatus to which the document transport device is mounted, the number of sheets transported per unit time when plural documents are transported by the transport unit, and controls the transport unit to transport the documents at the determined number of sheets transported per unit time.

Abstract: In a sheet processing apparatus that includes an acting portion to exert an action on a sheet, and at least one of first and second carrying devices, the first carrying device is arranged on a downstream side of the acting portion and a lead edge of the sheet enters the first carrying device during the action of the acting portion, the second carrying device is arranged on an upstream side of the acting portion, and the sheet exits from the second carrying device during the action of the acting portion, at least one of the first and second carrying devices has a driving roller and a driven roller, and the sheet is put between the driving roller and the driven roller and is carried, and a Shore hardness Hs of at least a surface portion of the driven roller based on ISO7619 is set in a range of 20 to 50 degree.

Abstract: A first grayscale clock pulse generation circuit compares a value stored in each timing register with a first count value and outputs a first grayscale pulse to a selector, a calculation circuit calculates the first count value and outputs a second count value, a second grayscale clock pulse generation circuit compares a value stored in each timing register with the second count value and outputs a second grayscale pulse to the selector, a grayscale counter updates a grayscale count value based on the first or second grayscale clock pulse selectively output from the selector in units of one horizontal scan period, and a grayscale coincidence detection circuit changes a voltage level of a PWM signal when the relationship between grayscale data input to the grayscale coincidence detection circuit and the grayscale count value satisfies a predetermined relationship.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium capable of achieving higher density recording. The magnetic recording medium comprises a magnetic layer formed on a non-magnetic base through vacuum oblique evaporation. The magnetic layer includes a plurality of columns in which 3 to 7 ferromagnetic particles with an average diameter of 5 to 10 nm are arranged in a line, and non-magnetic particles are disposed between columns so as to separate the columns from one another. A value Y/X defined as a ratio of an average value Y of a distance between the centers of adjacent columns in a film in-plane direction to an average value X of a distance between the centers of adjacent columns in a film thickness direction is preferably 0.5 or more.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention relates to a vehicle which includes a hydraulic power transmission device, including a front cover of the hydraulic power transmission device; a first oil chamber and a second oil chamber; and a lock-up clutch which is configured to directly connect an input inside and an output side of the hydraulic power transmission device when the lock-up clutch and the front cover are placed in contact with each other according to a hydraulic pressure difference between the first oil chamber and the second oil chamber, and which is in contact with the front cover even when the hydraulic pressure difference is substantially zero.

Abstract: A method of producing a magnetic recording medium comprising the step of forming a magnetic layer on a non-magnetic base film running at a constant speed by continuous oblique evaporation depositing metal vapor of volatilized metal incident obliquely to a surface of the non-magnetic base film, wherein the evaporation is conducted at a film forming rate, defined as an average deposition rate of the magnetic layer at a part of the non-magnetic base film exposed to the incident metal vapor, of not less than a predetermined rate to form an internal microstructure of the magnetic layer comprising columns each having a diameter of not more than about 15 nm constituted by magnetic particles having a size of not more than about 10 nm connected in chains in a direction substantially perpendicular to the magnetic layer and non-magnetic particles packed between the columns and separating the columns from each other, and a magnetic recording medium produced by the above method.

Abstract: When a deceleration slip executing minimum gear stage is not established in a state of continuously executing a deceleration slip control at a target slip amount, it is judged whether or not an input shaft rotational speed of a transmission becomes a down shift judging rotational speed. When it becomes equal to or less than a predetermined down shift judging rotational speed, a down shift is executed, and a clutch pressure is controlled such that an engine rotational speed becomes a target engine rotational speed.

Abstract: A method of producing a magnetic recording medium comprising the step of forming a magnetic layer on a non-magnetic base film running at a constant speed by continuous oblique evaporation depositing metal vapor of volatilized metal incident obliquely to a surface of the non-magnetic base film, wherein the evaporation is conducted at a film forming rate, defined as an average deposition rate of the magnetic layer at a part of the non-magnetic base film exposed to the incident metal vapor, of not less than a predetermined rate to form an internal microstructure of the magnetic layer comprising columns each having a diameter of not more than about 15 nm constituted by magnetic particles having a size of not more than about 10 nm connected in chains in a direction substantially perpendicular to the magnetic layer and non-magnetic particles packed between the columns and separating the columns from each other, and a magnetic recording medium produced by the above method.