Abstract: The airbag includes a bag-shaped circumferential wall formed of base cloths, and a lap portion. In the lap portion, a terminal portion of a downstream side base cloth, which is located in downstream of inflation gas, is superposed on a terminal portion of an upstream side base cloth, which is located in upstream of inflation gas. Then the lapping terminal portions are joined to each other at both sides thereof in a direction extending along edges of the terminal portions, thereby providing the lap portion. A communication port communicating inside and outside of the airbag is provided between the joined portions and between the terminal portions of the upstream and the downstream side base cloths.

Abstract: An airbag cover has lid portions which are opened by a breakable portion being broken when the airbag cover is pushed by an airbag which is being inflated and is formed from a synthetic resin by molding into a single layered airbag cover. A breakable portion on a distal side of the lid portions is formed as a distal edge straight section through cutting operation which utilizes a cutting blade. The part is formed by providing a thick portion and a thin portion so that a maximum change rate which is a rate of difference between a maximum value and a minimum value based on the maximum value is made to be 15% or more without providing at both ends of a sectional area change curve marked by plotting along the part values of sectional areas of a segment of 50 mm along the part an area where the values of the sectional areas are reduced from a center towards both ends thereof as a range where the values of the sectional areas are larger than the minimum value.

Abstract: Ring-opening polymerization of a cyclic ester is performed by using an alcohol and water positively as initiators or/and molecular weight-adjusting agents to control the initial properties and properties with time of the resultant aliphatic polyester. More specifically, an aliphatic polyester is produced by ring-opening polymerization of a cyclic ester containing water and an alcohol based on a total proton concentration and a ratio between a mol concentration of carboxyl (carboxylic acid)-source compounds including water and a mol concentration of alkoxycarbonyl (ester)-source compounds, as polymerization-controlling indexes.

Abstract: An aliphatic polyester improved provided by using water positively as an initiator or/and a molecular weight-adjusting agent, is improved in moisture resistance. More specifically, a cyclic ester containing proton-source compounds including more than 80 ppm of water as an initiator or/and a molecular weight-adjusting agent, is subjected to ring-opening polymerization, and the resultant aliphatic polyester is compounded with a carboxyl group-capping agent to produce such an aliphatic polyester.

Abstract: The airbag device for front passenger's seat is mounted on the dashboard in front of the front passenger's seat. The airbag device for front passenger's seat includes an airbag to be inflated with the inflation gas, and an inflator for feeding the airbag with the inflation gas of pyro- and long mass flow type. The gas permeability rate of the airbag is 1.0 l/cm2/min or under at 20 kPa air pressure, and its weight is 230 g/m2 or under. This airbag device for front passenger's seat prevents the gas leakage, expands and inflates the airbag properly, and constitutes to the weight reduction.

Abstract: The airbag device for front passenger's seat is mounted on the dashboard in front of the front passenger's seat. The airbag device for front passenger's seat includes an airbag to be inflated with the inflation gas, and an inflator for feeding the airbag with the inflation gas of pyro- and long mass flow type. The gas permeability rate of the airbag is 1.0 l/cm2/min or under at 20 kPa air pressure, and its weight is 230 g/m2 or under. This airbag device for front passenger's seat prevents the gas leakage, expands and inflates the airbag properly, and constitutes to the weight reduction.

Abstract: The airbag includes a bag-shaped circumferential wall formed of base cloths, and a lap portion. In the lap portion, a terminal portion of a downstream side base cloth, which is located in downstream of inflation gas, is superposed on a terminal portion of an upstream side base cloth, which is located in upstream of inflation gas. Then the lapping terminal portions are joined to each other at both sides thereof in a direction extending along edges of the terminal portions, thereby providing the lap portion. A communication port communicating inside and outside of the airbag is provided between the joined portions and between the terminal portions of the upstream and the downstream side base cloths.

Abstract: An image data obtaining system for storing image data optically read from a digital compound machine into a database managed by a server connected to the digital compound machine via a network is provided. The digital compound machine includes: a unit configured to generate an input screen based on input screen configuration information received from the server beforehand; a unit configured to send, to the server, the image data, image data information and a DB key value, wherein the image data information is for associating the image data with the input screen configuration information and is input from the input screen, and wherein the DB key value is for associating the database with the input screen configuration information. The server includes a unit configured to store the image data and/or the image data information into the database associating the image data and/or the image data information with the DB key value.

Abstract: A process for producing an aliphatic polyester by subjecting a cyclic ester to ring-opening polymerization, which comprises adding water to a cyclic ester purified to the extent that a water content is at most 60 ppm to control an overall proton concentration in the cyclic ester, thereby controlling at least one physical property among melt viscosity, molecular weight and yellowness index of the resulting aliphatic polyester.

Abstract: An optical disc device is disclosed. The optical disc device includes a thermal head that is disposed at a side opposite to an optical pickup, which irradiates a laser beam for writing and erasing information, relative to a mounted optical disc, and is configured to bring a thermal head into contact with a label, which is made of a thermosensitive information display film attached on a label-side surface of the mounted optical disc, to write visible information on the label. The optical disc device also includes a low-speed rotation mechanism configured to rotate the optical disc at a low speed by a motor when the thermal head writes visible information on a label, in addition to a high-speed rotation mechanism, such as a spindle motor, configured to rotate the optical disc at high speed when the optical pickup records or reproduces the information.

Abstract: In the airbag device for front passenger's seat of the present invention, an airbag before being housed in the case and mounted on vehicle is folded up through a preparatory folding step and a regular folding step, the regular folding step further including a transverse folding step and a vertical folding step. In a preparatorily folding step, a portion near an upper edge of the passenger's side wall is located to confront the gas inlet port, and the passenger's side wall is flatly developed so as to overlap with a lower part of the circumferential wall. In the transverse folding step, a portion of the preparatorily folded airbag located rearward of the gas inlet port is folded back in two toward a lower side of a lower part of the circumferential wall to bring a rear end thereof closer to the gas inlet port. The airbag device of the present invention shifts an entire rear face of the deploying airbag rearward in a generally vertical condition.

Abstract: A network system includes at least one computer server and at least one client computer having a printer respectively connected to a network. The system has a print log generating device that generates a print log having printer usage contents including software used by the at least one client computer when a printing request is made in the at least one client computer. A print log storing device stores the print log, a collecting device collects the print log from the at least one client computer, and an aggregating device aggregates usage contents of the printer per a prescribed category. The print log generating device and the print log storing device are provided in the at least one client computer, and the collecting device is provided in the at least one computer server.

Abstract: In a vehicle designed so that a driven wheel is driven by uniting an output from an engine and an output from a Rankine cycle system to each other, an accelerator pedal and a throttle valve are connected electrically to each other by a DBW control unit. When an accelerator opening degree (?ap) commanded by a driver is increased, a throttle opening degree (?th) is increased by a correcting amount (??th) more than a value proportional to the accelerator opening degree (?ap), thereby compensating for an output shortage due to a response delay of the output from the Rankine cycle system. When the accelerator opening degree (?ap) commanded by the driver is decreased, the throttle opening degree (?th) is decreased by the correcting amount (??th) more than the value proportional to the accelerator opening degree (?ap), thereby compensating for an output excessiveness due to the response delay of the output from the Rankine cycle system.

Abstract: A passenger's seat airbag device comprises an airbag including a passenger's side wall portion and a peripheral wall portion. The passenger's side wall portion is arranged generally in the vertical direction when the airbag is completely inflated. The peripheral wall portion is formed to converge, when the airbag is completely inflated, generally into a conical shape from the outer peripheral edge of the passenger's side wall portion forward of the vehicle. The airbag is so constructed that the gas inlet port for an open face generally in the horizontal direction is arranged in front of the lower side of the peripheral wall portion by mounting the gas inlet port peripheral wall on a case. The airbag is housed in a case by folding it horizontally and vertically after preliminarily folded. In the airbag preliminarily folded, the portion near the upper edge in the passenger's side wall portion is arranged at a position to confront the gas inlet port.

Abstract: In a vehicle designed so that a driven wheel is driven by uniting an output from an engine and an output from a Rankine cycle system to each other, an accelerator pedal and a throttle valve are connected electrically to each other by a DBW control unit. When an accelerator opening degree (&thgr;ap) commanded by a driver is increased, a throttle opening degree (&thgr;th) is increased by a correcting amount (&Dgr;&thgr;th) more than a value proportional to the accelerator opening degree (&thgr;ap), thereby compensating for an output shortage due to a response delay of the output from the Rankine cycle system. When the accelerator opening degree (&thgr;ap) commanded by the driver is decreased, the throttle opening degree (&thgr;th) is decreased by the correcting amount (&Dgr;&thgr;th) more than the value proportional to the accelerator opening degree (&thgr;ap), thereby compensating for an output excessiveness due to the response delay of the output from the Rankine cycle system.

Abstract: In an air bag device, a folded air bag is accommodated in a condition that the air bag is enclosed by a sheet for preventing the air bag 11 unfolded. The sheet has a regulation wall portion which covers an upper surface of the air bag on the side from which the air bag projects at the time of expansion. The regulation wall portion is provided with a breakable portion which can be ruptured by being pressed by the air bag at the time of expansion of the air bag. Further, the breakable portion is provided so as to be ruptured from one edge side (left edge side) of the circumferential edge sides of the regulation wall portion to the right edge side through the vicinity of the center.

Abstract: The airbag device for front passenger's seat is mounted on the dashboard in front of the front passenger's seat. The airbag device for front passenger's seat includes an airbag to be inflated with the inflation gas, and an inflator for feeding the airbag with the inflation gas of pyro- and long mass flow type. The gas permeability rate of the airbag is 1.0 l/cm2/min or under at 20 kPa air pressure, and its weight is 230 g/m2 or under. This airbag device for front passenger's seat prevents the gas leakage, expands and inflates the airbag properly, and constitutes to the weight reduction.

Abstract: A method of detecting an edge of an object, including the steps of lighting, in each one of a plurality of different directions, at least a portion of the object, taking an image of the portion of the object and a vicinity of the portion which are lighted in the each one of the different directions, synthesizing the respective images of the portion of the object taken by lighting the portion in the different directions, and detecting, based on the synthesized images, an edge of the portion of the object.

Abstract: An information recording program, device, media and method are provided. The disclosure comprises a selection receiving procedure for receiving the selection of an output file; a moving picture creating procedure for converting the output file into moving picture format data, by which contents of the output file is displayed per page when the output file selected in the selection receiving procedure is a document file or an image file; and a recording procedure for recording the moving picture format data, which is converted in the moving picture creating procedure, in an information recording medium. Executing these procedures creates the information recording medium, in which the contents of the above output file is recorded by an information recording device. When the output file is a document file, it is recommended to convert the text information included in the document file into audio format data and record it also in the recording procedure.

Abstract: An airbag system for a front passenger's seat of the top-mount type according to the invention is arranged in an instrument panel below a windshield. The front passenger's seat airbag system is constructed to comprise a door, a case and an airbag. The door is arranged on the upper face of the instrument panel. The case houses and holds the airbag in a folded state. The airbag, as housed in the case, is expanded by injecting an inflating gas into a gas inlet port so that the airbag protrudes to open the door and towards the rear side of a vehicle along the windshield. The airbag is equipped with a commutator cloth arranged to cover the gas inlet port. This commutator cloth is arranged to close the two sides in the transverse direction of the vehicle and to open the two sides in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. This front passenger's seat airbag system reduces the expansion rate of the airbag towards the rear of the vehicle.