Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying device is provided with an exhaust manifold having a collecting section, and a catalytic converter provided downstream of the exhaust manifold. The catalytic converter has upstream and downstream catalysts. The upstream catalyst includes a carrier, a first layer located on the carrier containing Pd, a second layer located on the first layer containing Rh, and a third layer located on the second layer containing Pd. The downstream catalyst includes a carrier, a first layer located on the carrier containing Pd, and a second layer located on the first layer containing Pt and Rh. The collecting section connects to the catalytic converter after passing, in order from the upstream side, through a flow regulating path and a neck section which is provided in the flow regulating path. The flow regulating path has a predetermined length and a width which is gradually reduced to the downstream side.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying device having sufficient exhaust gas purifying performance and using a reduced amount of noble metal. An exhaust gas purifying device (10) is provided with an exhaust manifold (30) having a collecting section to which all branch pipes join, and also with a catalytic converter (40) provided directly downstream of the exhaust manifold (30). The catalytic converter (40) has an upstream catalyst (43) housed on the upstream side and also has a downstream catalyst (45) housed on the downstream of the upstream catalyst (43). The upstream catalyst (43) includes a carrier, an upstream first layer located on the carrier and containing Pd, an upstream second layer located on the upstream first layer and containing Rh, and an upstream third layer located on the upstream second layer and containing Pd.

Abstract: An operational amplifier with a broad applicable band and little disturbing noise which is capable of preventing oscillation even when used in connection with a negative feedback path. The operational amplifier amplifies a difference between two input voltage signals to a non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal and outputs the amplified difference to an output terminal. The operational amplifier includes an input voltage/current conversion stage which outputs, to the non-inverting input terminal and the inverting input terminal, a current signal having a difference current component in accordance with the difference between the two input voltage signals; a current amplification stage which performs current amplification on the current signal outputted from the input voltage/current conversion stage; and an output buffer stage which converts, into a voltage signal, the output current signal from the current amplification stage and applies the voltage signal to the output terminal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a changing unit which, if a command transmitted from a short-distance wireless communications terminal by pushing down a volume control button is received in a standby status in which the short-distance wireless communications terminal makes no connection with the Internet Protocol telephone communications network, changes selection of the telephone number stored in a memory unit, and a calling unit which, if a command transmitted from the short-distance wireless communications terminal by pushing down a call button is received after the changing process of the changing unit, calls the selected telephone number.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a personal computer is configured to set automatically a communication rate for AV (audio/video) data outputted to an AV communication device to one of three levels, which are high sound quality, standard sound quality, and low sound quality, according to the number of connections of communication devices detected by a connection number detecting unit. Therefore, skipping of sound in the AV communication device can be prevented without imposing a load of operation to set the sound quality on the user side. Regarding setting of the communication rate, since the number of connections of the communication devices is detected, a processing procedure can be simplified as compared to the case where the communication state is monitored directly as in a conventional manner and then setting of communication rate is changed every time the transmission of AV data is carried out.

Abstract: A heat exchange element in which heat is exchanged between two flows respectively passing through spaces 4 and 5 for air supply and exhaust, partitioned with a plurality of members 2 and 3. The members 2 and 3 are bonded with a bonding agent which contains a volatile organic compound or a carbonyl compound but from which the total emission of such a chemical substance is 100 ?g/hr or less per gram.

Abstract: For reducing various adverse effects due to provision of a low-pass filter, while suppressing an oscillation generated therein, there is provide a feedback circuit, having at least one operational amplifier, having a low-pass filter in an output portion thereof, for feeding a signal from the output portion back thereto, including: a first feedback circuit portion for negatively feeding a signal from an input terminal of the low-pass filter back to an inverted input terminal of the operational amplifier; and a second feedback circuit portion for negatively feeding a signal from an output terminal of the low-pass filter back to the inverted input terminal of the operational amplifier.

Abstract: There is provided an operational amplifier with a broad applicable band and little disturbing noise which is capable of preventing oscillation even when used in connection with a negative feedback path. The present invention relates to an operational amplifier which amplifies a difference between two input voltage signals to a non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal and outputs the amplified difference to an output terminal.

Abstract: The present invention provides a driving circuit of a flat display device and a flat display device, and it is applicable, for example, to a display device using organic EL (Electro Luminescence) elements. The present invention makes it possible to correct light emission characteristics variously, effectively avoid significant degradation in image quality due to noise, and further simplify an adjustment operation by generating original reference voltages by selecting a plurality of candidate voltages formed by voltage divider circuits according to original reference voltage setting data, generating reference voltages for digital-to-analog conversion from the original reference voltages, generating the reference voltages at both ends by dividing a reference voltage generating voltage by the voltage divider circuit, and generating the other original reference voltages with voltage divider circuits connected in series with each other and the reference voltages at both ends used as a reference.

Abstract: A drive circuit for a flat display apparatus is disclosed wherein different display objects can be displayed at a time individually with appropriate gamma characteristics. Reference voltages are produced in a plurality of systems having different gamma characteristics from each other, and one of the systems is selected in response to a selection signal. Then, the reference voltages of the selected system are selected in response to image data to set gradations of pixels.

Abstract: A push-pull switching power converter includes, between high and low output terminals of a DC power source, a series circuit having a first switching device, a primary winding of a first transformer, a primary winding of a second transformer, and a second switching device in this order, and a series circuit composed of two capacitors, as well as a partial path for current resonance. The partial path connects middle points of the two series circuits. Voltage resonance causes the waveform of a switching voltage, which corresponds to the difference in voltages between high potential terminal of a primary of the first transformer and low potential terminal of a primary of the second transformer, to be a sine wave. Current resonance causes the waveform of a switching current, which corresponds to a combined current of primary winding currents of the first transformer and the second transformer, to be a sine wave.

Abstract: A method for preparing a proof for plate printing, which comprises applying inkjet printing to an ink receiving layer of a recording medium having the ink receiving layer formed on the surface of a support made of plate printing paper for regular printing or made of paper having substantially the same brightness and glossiness as such plate printing paper, to obtain a printing proof.

Abstract: A mechanism whereby a user can obtain a desired content via a communication network and a content distributor loses no profits. Identification information of each theater and each video content screened at the theater are registered. When a video content viewing request from a member is accepted, the theater which screens the content requested to be viewed is specified, the video content requested to be distributed is distributed to the member via a network, and an incentive for the video content distributed to the member is given to the theater which screens the video content requested to be viewed.

Abstract: To provide an ink jet recording sheet for plate-making mask film, which has good exposure characteristics and which presents good air release when contacted with a photosensitive resin plate under reduced pressure. An ink jet recording sheet for plate-making mask film, which comprises a substrate sheet and a porous layer formed thereon and has a total luminous transmittance of at least 70% as stipulated by JIS-K7361-1, wherein the porous layer comprises 100 parts by mass of inorganic particles selected from the group consisting of alumina, alumina hydrate, silica and a silica-alumina composite and having an average particle size of at most 250 nm, from 1 to 30 parts by mass of a binder and from 0.1 to 3 parts by mass of porous particles having an average particle size of from 4 to 15 ?m and has a thickness of from 5 to 50 ?m and an Oken type smoothness of from 200 to 10,000 seconds as stipulated by J. TAPPI No. 5-2.

Abstract: A small-sized, highly efficient power conversion apparatus is provided which is capable of stabilizing its output and which can be easily applied to parallel driving. The power conversion apparatus turns on and off paired switching elements, lets an alternating current flow through a primary winding of a transformer, rectifies and smoothes an AC voltage thus induced across a secondary winding, thereby obtaining a DC output. On the basis of a rectangular wave signal having a duty ratio of 50% formed by a rectangular wave oscillator means, a dead time generator generates complementary on/off control signals having a dead time and supplies the on/off control signals to the paired switching elements.

Abstract: For reducing various adverse effects due to provision of a low-pass filter, while suppressing an oscillation generated therein, there is provide a feedback circuit, having at least one operational amplifier, having a low-pass filter in an output portion thereof, for feeding a signal from the output portion back thereto, including: a first feedback circuit portion for negatively feeding a signal from an input terminal of the low-pass filter back to an inverted input terminal of the operational amplifier; and a second feedback circuit portion for negatively feeding a signal from an output terminal of the low-pass filter back to the inverted input terminal of the operational amplifier.

Abstract: A push-pull switching power converter includes, between high and low output terminals of a DC power source, a series circuit having a first switching device, a primary winding of a first transformer, a primary winding of a second transformer, and a second switching device in this order, and a series circuit composed of two capacitors, as well as a partial path for current resonance. The partial path connects middle points of the two series circuits. Voltage resonance causes the waveform of a switching voltage, which corresponds to the difference in voltages between high potential terminal of a primary of the first transformer and low potential terminal of a primary of the second transformer, to be a sine wave. Current resonance causes the waveform of a switching current, which corresponds to a combined current of primary winding currents of the first transformer and the second transformer, to be a sine wave.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of removing metal wires from a tire through induction heating, a method of collecting the metal wires and rubber part, and a method of reusing the metal wires and rubber part. The present invention relates to: a metal wire removal method for removing metal wires from a tire incorporated with metal wires using induction heating, wherein the metal wires in the tire are heated by induction heating, causing the rubber in the part contacting the metal wires to decompose and gasify to separate the metal wires and rubber part, whereupon the metal wires are removed; a method of collecting the metal wires and rubber part from the tire using the method described above; and a method of reusing the metal wires and rubber part collected using the method described above as metal and rubber resources. Thus the metal wires and rubber part can be separated from a used tire, collected at a high collection rate, and reused.

Abstract: A drive circuit for a flat display apparatus is disclosed wherein different display objects can be displayed at a time individually with appropriate gamma characteristics. Reference voltages are produced in a plurality of systems having different gamma characteristics from each other, and one of the systems is selected in response to a selection signal. Then, the reference voltages of the selected system are selected in response to image data to set gradations of pixels.

Abstract: An in-band group delay equalizer is formed in a simple circuit configuration so as to have a flat group delay characteristic over a wide frequency band without having a peak of group delay near each passband edge. The in-band group delay equalizer includes a plurality of convex group delay circuits. Each convex group delay circuit is formed of one hybrid coupler and two resonators connected to respective divided output ports of the hybrid coupler. The center frequencies of the respective convex group delay circuits are set to be different from each other so that the overall group delay characteristic of the in-band group delay equalizer becomes flat. The bandwidth and the group delay can be easily adjusted. A distortion compensation amplifier with very low distortion can be realized using such an in-band group delay equalizer.