Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, a count processing portion, and a detection processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. The count processing portion counts a number of times that an electric signal output from the piezoelectric element and corresponding to vibration generated in the pressure chamber in response to the input of the drive signal to the piezoelectric element exceeds a predetermined threshold value. The detection processing portion detects a viscosity of the liquid contained in the pressure chamber, based on a count result of the count processing portion.

Abstract: A signal generation device includes a first signal generation portion and a second signal generation portion. The first signal generation portion, based on a reference signal that includes a plurality of rectangular single-wave signals, generates an original common signal in which the rise times of the two or more of the single-wave signals are extended so that they are different from each other, and the fall timing of one or more of the single-wave signals is shifted. The second signal generating portion generates a drive signal to be input to a piezoelectric element by extracting a rising edge of any one of the single-wave signals, the rise time of which is extended, from the original common signal amplified by the amplifying portion, maintaining a signal level changed by extracting the rising edge of the single-wave signal, and extracting a falling edge of a single-wave signal after the single-wave signal.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, an output processing portion, and a determination processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. The output processing portion causes the piezoelectric element to output a first electric signal corresponding to vibration generated in the pressure chamber in response to the input of the drive signal to the piezoelectric element. The determination processing portion determines whether or not the pressure chamber is in a filled state in which the pressure chamber is filled with the liquid, based on a frequency of the first electric signal output by the output processing portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, an acquisition processing portion, and a restriction processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. When image formation processing for ejecting the liquid from the nozzle is executed based on image data, the acquisition processing portion acquires a length of a non-ejection period in which the liquid is not ejected from the nozzle, the non-ejection period being included in an execution period of the image formation processing. When the length of the non-ejection period acquired by the acquisition processing portion is less than a predetermined first threshold value, the restriction processing portion restricts abnormality detection processing for detecting an abnormality of the nozzle using the piezoelectric element.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a rotor unit that may effectively prevent detachment of a magnet with a holder while absorbing dimensional errors of a rotor main body and the magnet. [Solution] In the rotor unit according to the present invention, the holder mountable on the rotor main body prevents the magnet from being detached from the rotor main body. The holder includes an elastically deformable insertion arm extending from a flat-plate like holder main body, a hook portion provided on a free end side of the insertion arm, an elastically deformable magnet pressing arm extending from the holder main body, and a magnet pressing portion provided on a free end side of the magnet pressing arm. The rotor main body includes a hook hole into which the insertion arm is inserted, and the hook hole is provided with a locking portion in which the hook portion is lockable.

Abstract: To shorten a waiting time for a belongings inspection, the present invention provides an inspection system 10 including an acquisition unit 11 that acquires material information including at least either one of a piece of personal unique information unique to each of inspection target persons, and a piece of environment information indicating a state value of an environment that changes at each inspection timing, and a determination unit 12 that determines a content of an inspection for the each inspection target person and/or at the each inspection timing, based on the material information.

Abstract: An intake structure of an engine includes an intake manifold as an engine side-part intake member that is provided on an intake side-surface of a cylinder head and connected to an intake system, which includes a first air cleaner as an engine upper-part intake member on an upper-part of the engine body; an intake opening member including an air inlet, an intake air passage guiding air sucked by the member through the first air cleaner to the intake manifold; a resonator as one of an engine upper-surface intake members provided on an upper surface of the engine body and nearer an exhaust system than and adjacent to the first air cleaner; and an intake manifold connected to the side-surface as an engine side-part intake member.

Abstract: An intake structure of an engine includes an intake manifold as an engine side-part intake member that is provided on an intake side-surface of a cylinder head and connected to an intake system, which includes a first air cleaner as an engine upper-part intake member on an upper-part of the engine body; an intake opening member including an air inlet, an intake air passage guiding air sucked by the member through the first air cleaner to the intake manifold; a resonator as one of an engine upper-surface intake members provided on an upper surface of the engine body and nearer an exhaust system than and adjacent to the first air cleaner; and an intake manifold connected to the side-surface as an engine side-part intake member.

Abstract: In an intake manifold, a downstream end of an intake introduction pipe has an intake chamber connected thereto, and a resonator is provided adjacent to a bent section of the intake introduction pipe. A resonance chamber of this resonator communicates with the intake chamber via a path-for-resonance. A bottom section of the resonance chamber representing a downward side in a gravity direction inclines downwardly toward a center in a width direction, and a communicating path is formed to communicate with the bent section of the intake introduction pipe. Condensed water accumulated in the resonator flows to the intake introduction pipe through the communicating path from the bottom section, and flows into a projection projecting downwardly from the bent section. Subsequently, the condensed water is discharged to an internal combustion engine side through a gas introduction pipe by which a blow-by gas is introduced.

Abstract: In an intake manifold, a downstream end of an intake introduction pipe has an intake chamber connected thereto, and a resonator is provided adjacent to a bent section of the intake introduction pipe. A resonance chamber of this resonator communicates with the intake chamber via a path-for-resonance. A bottom section of the resonance chamber representing a downward side in a gravity direction inclines downwardly toward a center in a width direction, and a communicating path is formed to communicate with the bent section of the intake introduction pipe. Condensed water accumulated in the resonator flows to the intake introduction pipe through the communicating path from the bottom section, and flows into a projection projecting downwardly from the bent section. Subsequently, the condensed water is discharged to an internal combustion engine side through a gas introduction pipe by which a blow-by gas is introduced.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine for a vehicle, a fuel delivery pipe (37) is favorably protected from a load of a frontal crash. An intake chamber member (42) positioned in an upper part of an intake manifold (31) is supported by an engine main body (11) via a first support member (50) and a second support member (51) at laterally spaced apart parts of the intake chamber member. A lower part of the intake manifold is connected to a cylinder head of the engine via downstream ends of branch pipes (43) of the intake manifold. The fuel delivery pipe extends laterally between an intake side of the engine main body and the branch pipes.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine for a vehicle, a fuel delivery pipe (37) is favorably protected from a load of a frontal crash. An intake chamber member (42) positioned in an upper part of an intake manifold (31) is supported by an engine main body (11) via a first support member (50) and a second support member (51) at laterally spaced apart parts of the intake chamber member. A lower part of the intake manifold is connected to a cylinder head of the engine via downstream ends of branch pipes (43) of the intake manifold. The fuel delivery pipe extends laterally between an intake side of the engine main body and the branch pipes.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine for a vehicle, a fuel delivery pipe is favorably protected without adding any heavy or costly protective structure. A guide portion (65) opposing the throttle body and having a slant that recedes rearward toward an outboard side of the vehicle is formed in a first support member (50) supporting a lateral end of an intake chamber member on the intake side of the engine main body.

Abstract: A bumper 10 is extendedly provided in a width direction of a vehicle in front of a radiator panel 40 having an upper frame 41 and a lower frame 42 both extendedly provided in the width direction of the vehicle at a front part of the vehicle body. The bumper 10 comprises an upper part bumper 20 which has an upper side impact absorbing material 22 provided between an upper side bumper beam 21, extendedly provided in the width direction of the vehicle above the lower frame 42, and a bumper face 23, and a lower part bumper 30 which has a lower side impact absorbing material 32 provided between the lower frame 42 of the radiator panel 40, extendedly provided below the upper part bumper 20, and a bumper face 23.

Abstract: An automobile bumper covered with a bumper face comprises an upper bumper including an upper bumper beam and an upper energy absorbing member interposed between the bumper face and the upper bumper beam, and a lower bumper provided below the upper bumper and including a lower bumper beam and a lower energy absorbing member interposed between the bumper face and the lower bumper beam. The lower energy absorbing member is established to have a larger longitudinal strength than the lower energy absorbing member. As a result, when the bumper contacts a leg of a pedestrian, the upper bumper has a larger deformation than the lower bumper and a bending angle of a knee can be reduced, thereby the damage to a knee can be alleviated.

Abstract: An automobile bumper covered with a bumper face comprises an upper bumper including an upper bumper beam and an upper energy absorbing member interposed between the bumper face and the upper bumper beam, and a lower bumper provided below the upper bumper and including a lower bumper beam and a lower energy absorbing member interposed between the bumper face and the lower bumper beam. The lower energy absorbing member is established to have a larger longitudinal strength than the lower energy absorbing member. As a result, when the bumper contacts a leg of a pedestrian, the upper bumper has a larger deformation than the lower bumper and a bending angle of a knee can be reduced, thereby the damage to a knee can be alleviated.

Abstract: A bumper 10 is extendedly provided in a width direction of a vehicle in front of a radiator panel 40 having an upper frame 41 and a lower frame 42 both extendedly provided in the width direction of the vehicle at a front part of the vehicle body. The bumper 10 comprises an upper part bumper 20 which has an upper side impact absorbing material 22 provided between an upper side bumper beam 21, extendedly provided in the width direction of the vehicle above the lower frame 42, and a bumper face 23, and a lower part bumper 30 which has a lower side impact absorbing material 32 provided between the lower frame 42 of the radiator panel 40, extendedly provided below the upper part bumper 20, and a bumper face 23.