Abstract: In this shift device, in a case in which an external force has acted on a lever when an operating mechanism is causing the lever to pivot, a clutch mechanism permits rotation of a first detent plate with respect to a second detent plate, such that pivoting of the lever is permitted. Note that a restraining mechanism urges the lever toward a shift position. This enables to the restraining mechanism to urge the lever separately to the clutch mechanism, thereby enabling the degrees of freedom for setting a biasing load on the lever by the restraining mechanism to be increased.

Abstract: Provided is a resin panel enabling an infrared sensor to fully function when the resin panel is applied as a protective cover to the infrared sensor. The resin panel comprises at least a core layer and has a light transmittance at a wavelength of 905 nm of 85% or more and a visible light transmittance of 20% or less.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation system for a multi-cylinder engine is provided, which includes an exhaust manifold connected to a cylinder head, a catalyst connected to a downstream end of the exhaust manifold in terms of an exhaust gas flow, an EGR gas outlet provided downstream of the catalyst, an in-head EGR passage penetrating the cylinder head, and an EGR pipe extending from the EGR gas outlet and directly connected to an inlet of the in-head EGR passage to lead EGR gas thereto. The catalyst is disposed so that the exhaust gas flows therein from a first side to a second side in an engine cylinder lined-up direction. The EGR gas outlet is located on the second side with respect to the center of the engine in the cylinder lined-up direction, and the inlet of the in-head EGR passage is located in the first side with respect to the engine center.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation system for a multi-cylinder engine is provided, which includes an exhaust manifold connected to a cylinder head, a catalyst connected to a downstream end of the exhaust manifold in terms of an exhaust gas flow, an EGR gas outlet provided downstream of the catalyst, an in-head EGR passage penetrating the cylinder head, and an EGR pipe extending from the EGR gas outlet and directly connected to an inlet of the in-head EGR passage to lead EGR gas thereto. The catalyst is disposed so that the exhaust gas flows therein from a first side to a second side in an engine cylinder lined-up direction. The EGR gas outlet is located on the second side with respect to the center of the engine in the cylinder lined-up direction, and the inlet of the in-head EGR passage is located in the first side with respect to the engine center.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an exhaust insulator structure for a multi-cylinder engine of a vehicle. The structure includes an exhaust manifold, an exhaust gas purifier, and a heat insulator. The engine is able to switch its mode of operation from an all-cylinder operation in which all of four cylinders thereof are activated to a cylinder-cutoff operation in which two of the four cylinders are deactivated to serve as idle cylinders and the other two cylinders are activated to serve as active cylinders, or vice versa. The exhaust manifold includes: idle-cylinder-connected branched exhaust piping communicating with the idle cylinders; and active-cylinder-connected branched exhaust piping communicating with the active cylinders. A portion of the heat insulator facing the active-cylinder-connected branched exhaust piping has an opening that lets air blowing against the vehicle traveling into the heat insulator.

Abstract: A shade (10) includes slats (20) that are arranged in an up and down direction. One or more slat(s) (21) forming a part of the slats, which is located above in the up and down direction, includes a transparent portion that enables visible light to transmit through the slat. A traveling direction of light transmitting through the transparent portion is bent.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder engine exhaust structure disclosed herein includes: four branched exhaust pipes respectively communicating with four cylinders classified into two groups, each being comprised of two of the four cylinders with discontinuous exhaust strokes; two intermediate collecting pipes, each being formed by combining associated two of the four branched exhaust pipes respectively communicating with the two cylinders in an associated one of the two groups; a last collecting pipe formed by combining these intermediate collecting pipes; and an exhaust gas purifier coupled to an exhaust gas downstream end of the last collecting pipe.

Abstract: A light control device includes: a sheet-like light control member; and a support device supporting the light control member such that an orientation of the light control member is variable. The light control member includes: first portions arranged in a first direction along a sheet plane of the light control member, each first portion extending in a second direction that is in non-parallel with the first direction and along the sheet plane of the light control member; and second portions arranged in the first direction alternately with the first portions, each second portion extending in the second direction.

Abstract: A protective relay system includes plural protective relay devices protecting a power system based on electrical quantity data from the power system, and a communication between the protective power devices is performed via a network. The protective relay device includes a clock unit periodically clocking a timing at which sampling is performed on an electrical quantity of the power system, a relay computing unit performing a relay computation based on the electrical quantity data having undergone the sampling and electrical quantity data received via the network, a random-number creating unit creating a random number, and a synchronization-frame processing unit setting a timing of sending a synchronization frame to another protective relay device via the network based on the random number created by the random-number creating unit.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an exhaust insulator structure for a multi-cylinder engine of a vehicle. The structure includes an exhaust manifold, an exhaust gas purifier, and a heat insulator. The engine is able to switch its mode of operation from an all-cylinder operation in which all of four cylinders thereof are activated to a cylinder-cutoff operation in which two of the four cylinders are deactivated to serve as idle cylinders and the other two cylinders are activated to serve as active cylinders, or vice versa. The exhaust manifold includes: idle-cylinder-connected branched exhaust piping communicating with the idle cylinders; and active-cylinder-connected branched exhaust piping communicating with the active cylinders. A portion of the heat insulator facing the active-cylinder-connected branched exhaust piping has an opening that lets air blowing against the vehicle traveling into the heat insulator.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder engine exhaust structure disclosed herein includes: four branched exhaust pipes respectively communicating with four cylinders classified into two groups, each being comprised of two of the four cylinders with discontinuous exhaust strokes; two intermediate collecting pipes, each being formed by combining associated two of the four branched exhaust pipes respectively communicating with the two cylinders in an associated one of the two groups; a last collecting pipe formed by combining these intermediate collecting pipes; and an exhaust gas purifier coupled to an exhaust gas downstream end of the last collecting pipe.

Abstract: An exhaust pipe structure is the exhaust pipe structure with a catalyst converter provided immediately close to an engine and includes a plurality of exhaust passages and a collecting portion. The collecting portion arranged between the first exhaust passage provided at an end side and a second exhaust passage includes a first guiding portion, a second guiding portion, and a rotating/guiding portion. The exhaust gas introduced from the first exhaust passage and the exhaust gas introduced from the second exhaust passage are guided obliquely downward by the first guiding portion and the second guiding portion, respectively, and are then rotated and guided by the rotating/guiding portion in respective directions opposite to each other to flow toward the catalyst converter.

Abstract: A light control device includes: a sheet-like light control member; and a support device supporting the light control member such that an orientation of the light control member is variable. The light control member includes: first portions arranged in a first direction along a sheet plane of the light control member, each first portion extending in a second direction that is in non-parallel with the first direction and along the sheet plane of the light control member; and second portions arranged in the first direction alternately with the first portions, each second portion extending in the second direction.

Abstract: An exhaust pipe structure is the exhaust pipe structure with a catalyst converter provided immediately close to an engine and includes a plurality of exhaust passages and a collecting portion. The collecting portion arranged between the first exhaust passage provided at an end side and a second exhaust passage includes a first guiding portion, a second guiding portion, and a rotating/guiding portion. The exhaust gas introduced from the first exhaust passage and the exhaust gas introduced from the second exhaust passage are guided obliquely downward by the first guiding portion and the second guiding portion, respectively, and are then rotated and guided by the rotating/guiding portion in respective directions opposite to each other to flow toward the catalyst converter.

Abstract: A shade (10) includes slats (20) that are arranged in an up and down direction. One or more slat(s) (21) forming a part of the slats, which is located above in the up and down direction, includes a transparent portion that enables visible light to transmit through the slat. A traveling direction of light transmitting through the transparent portion is bent.

Abstract: A protective relay system inducting includes plural protective relay devices protecting a power system based on electrical quantity data from the power system, and a communication between the protective power devices is performed via a network. The protective relay device includes a clock unit periodically clocking a timing at which sampling is performed on an electrical quantity of the power system, a relay computing unit performing a relay computation based on the electrical quantity data having undergone the sampling and electrical quantity data received via the network, a random-number creating unit creating a random number, and a synchronization-frame processing unit setting a timing of sending a synchronization frame to another protective relay device via the network based on the random number created by the random-number creating unit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a breaker-phase-control switching system including a merging unit, a superordinate unit, and a circuit-breaker control unit. The circuit-breaker control unit includes a waveform-zero-point-calculation processing unit configured to calculate a current phase, based on absolute time kept by an internal clock and waveform data, and a predicted-breaker-operating-time-calculation processing unit configured to predict a predicted operating time. Further, a command-output-timing-determination processing unit is included which determines a timing for electrically conducting a coil from the absolute time, a preset target phase, a current phase, and a predicted operating time.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an integration unit for protecting a power system from a failure includes an A/D converter configured to convert a quantity of electricity of a power system into digital data. The integration unit includes a communication interface unit configured to transmit the digital data to a process bus connected to a protection unit configured to protect the power system. The integration unit includes a relay calculation unit configured to execute a relay calculation operation to detect an abnormality of the power system based on the digital data and to output, based on the calculation operation result, a circuit breaking signal to trip and drive a circuit breaker inserted in the power system.

Abstract: A network monitoring apparatus includes: a monitor unit monitoring data transmitted in a network monitoring and controlling an electric power system of a transformer substation; a system fault determination database representing a correspondence between a fault in the electric power system and a type of data transmitted in the network; a calculation unit calculating a data amount monitored by the monitor unit; a first determination unit determining whether or not the data amount is greater than a threshold value; a second determination unit determining, when the monitored transmission amount is greater than the threshold value, a presence/absence of an occurrence of system fault based on the system fault determination database and a type of the monitored data; and a stop control unit stopping, when the second determination unit determines that the system fault occurs, the determination carried out in the first determination unit.

Abstract: A substation instrument control system is disclosed. The substation instrument control system includes a plurality of transformers that generate a plurality of waveform signals representing electric properties of a substation instrument main body. A merging unit is communicatively coupled to the plurality of transformers and includes a signal processing unit and a control unit. The signal processing unit receives the plurality of waveform signals from the plurality of transformers and converts the plurality of waveform signals to a digital signal. The control unit controls operation of the signal processing unit using a setting data. An intelligent electronic device is communicatively coupled to the merging unit and receives the digital signal from the merging unit.