Abstract: A passenger boarding bridge for docking a cab with an aircraft. The passenger boarding bridge includes: a tunnel unit; a cab; a drive wheel provided on the tunnel unit or the cab; a rotational mechanism configured to rotate the cab; a controller configured to control the drive wheel and the rotational mechanism; a camera configured to capture an image of an entrance of an aircraft; and an entrance position calculator configured to detect the entrance of the aircraft based on the image and calculate horizontal positional information of the entrance. The controller is, when the cab is at a predetermined standby position from which the cab starts moving at a time of performing docking of the cab with the entrance, configured to: calculate a target position based on the horizontal positional information; and move the cab from the standby position to the target position.

Abstract: The vehicle includes an AC motor generator (MG) connected to a driving wheel, a battery, an inverter configured to convert DC power supplied from the battery to AC power and supply the AC power to the MG, and a vehicle ECU configured to control the inverter. The vehicle ECU performs a zero torque control to drive the inverter so that the output torque from the MG is zero when the battery is prohibited from being charged while the MG is being driven to rotate by the motive power from the driving wheel.

Abstract: Provided is a passenger boarding bridge for docking a cab with an aircraft. The passenger boarding bridge includes: a tunnel unit; a cab; a drive wheel provided on the tunnel unit or the cab; a rotational mechanism configured to rotate the cab; a controller configured to control the drive wheel and the rotational mechanism; a camera configured to capture an image of an entrance of an aircraft; and an entrance position calculator configured to detect the entrance of the aircraft based on the image and calculate horizontal positional information of the entrance. The controller is, when the cab is at a predetermined standby position from which the cab starts moving at a time of performing docking of the cab with the entrance, configured to: calculate a target position based on the horizontal positional information; and move the cab from the standby position to the target position.

Abstract: The vehicle includes an AC motor generator (MG) connected to a driving wheel, a battery, an inverter configured to convert DC power supplied from the battery to AC power and supply the AC power to the MG, and a vehicle ECU configured to control the inverter. The vehicle ECU performs a zero torque control to drive the inverter so that the output torque from the MG is zero when the battery is prohibited from being charged while the MG is being driven to rotate by the motive power from the driving wheel.

Abstract: A sound production component that includes a vibration element, a support member, and a connection part. The vibration element includes a polygonal vibration plate and an electromechanical conversion element attached to the vibration plate. The connection part connects an entire periphery of the vibration plate to the support member. At least a portion of the connection part has a curved shape. The length of a portion of the connection part which connects each corner of the vibration plate and the support member is shorter than the length of a portion of the connection part which connects a central portion of each side edge of the vibration plate and the support member.

Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer having one end portion of a first piezoelectric element and one end portion of a second piezoelectric element fixed to a frame such that the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element are supported by the frame in an opening of the frame in the cantilever manner. A flexible thin film is bonded to the frame and the first and second piezoelectric elements so that it covers at least a gap between each of the piezoelectric elements and the frame. The other end portions of the piezoelectric elements are free end portions, and face each other with a gap therebetween.

Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer having one end portion of a first piezoelectric element and one end portion of a second piezoelectric element fixed to a frame such that the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element are supported by the frame in an opening of the frame in the cantilever manner. A flexible thin film is bonded to the frame and the first and second piezoelectric elements so that it covers at least a gap between each of the piezoelectric elements and the frame. The other end portions of the piezoelectric elements are free end portions, and face each other with a gap therebetween.

Abstract: When players play car race by means of game machines, for example, a first machine game operates the object by an accelerator, brake, steering wheel and shift lever, calculates a prediction position the object reaches after a predetermined time from the current time, and transmits the prediction position to a second game machine as a position information. The time td is a time for transferring information through the network from the first game machine to the second game machine, that is, a delay time due to the communication. Similarly, other game machines can transmit the position information. Therefore, low process speed of a game is prevented due to communication load, with maintaining game quality.

Abstract: A plurality of video game units are connected in a ring configuration by means of a communications line. Each of the plurality of video game units comprises: a memory for storing a program for implementing competitive games, whereby a contest is conducted on a display screen by controlling the actions of two characters; control means for controlling the implementation of the program stored in the memory; input means for inputting first data controlling the actions of one of the two characters; and a communications interface circuit for receiving second data controlling the actions of the other of the two characters from one video game unit of a plurality of video game units, and transmitting the first data input via the input means to the one video game unit. The control means controls the display of the two characters on the display screens on the basis of the first data and the second data in accordance with the implementation of said program.

Abstract: There is provided an arrangement including a tone processing unit for converting multi-value input data into binary areal tones; a tone pattern table for storing tone patterns to be used by the tone processing unit; a rotating unit for rotating the output of the tone processing unit; a skew compensating unit for compensating for any skew caused by an image forming apparatus upon the output of the rotating unit; a shift point setting unit for setting a skew compensating position; a shifting direction setting unit for setting a shifting direction according to a skew direction; and a rotating direction setting unit for setting a rotating direction, so as to solve the problem that the direction of skew compensation is disrupted due to rotating processing of binary data.

Abstract: The virtual image generation apparatus (1000) is a virtual image generation apparatus for a game unit or the like, and comprises a plurality of (for example, two) input means (11: control levers, joysticks, or the like) for generating codes associated with operating direction, decoding means (101: a CPU, controller, or the like) for inputting codes generated through operation of the plurality of input means and assigning a control profile for a movable object associated with a combination of a plurality of input codes, and image generation means (101, 108-117: a CPU, geometalyzer, graphic controller, or the like) for generating virtual images whereby the movable object control profiles assigned by the decoding means are reflected in relative motion of the movable objects within virtual space.