Abstract: An active noise controller can determine the signal transmission characteristics from the power amplifier and the speaker to the microphone without using any special external measuring instrument and calculate a cosine correction value and a sine correction value without using an external computer. The active noise controller uses the cosine correction value and the sine correction value to actively reduce vibrational noise. The measurement mode is selected on touch panel (3), and correction value calculator (22) calculates cosine correction value C0 and sine correction value C1 by using filter coefficients W0 and W1 which allow error signal e?(n) to approach zero. Memory (23) stores these values C0 and C1.

Abstract: In a print processing system, a storage server temporarily stores print data generated on a user client PC; a multifunction apparatus then obtains the print data from the storage server and prints the data, according to user's operation on the multifunction apparatus; and a management server manages a storage status of the print data on the storage server. The user client PC transmits to the storage server, bibliographic information associated with the print data concurrently when transmitting the data. The storage server stores thereon the print data obtained from the user client PC and transfers to the management server, the bibliographic information obtained from the user client PC. The management server manages the storage status of the print data on the storage server, based on the bibliographic information obtained from the storage server.

Abstract: In an active noise reduction apparatus with an adaptive notch filter used, a triangle wave as a reference signal input into a first coefficient updater and a second coefficient updater reduces the number of execution times of product-sum operations in a reference signal generator to reduce the operation load.

Abstract: In an active noise cancellation system having an adaptive filter that outputs a control signal, first and second speakers that emit a canceling signal generated based on the control signal, a microphone that detects an error signal, a correction filter that corrects the base signal by a correction value to generate a reference signal and a filter coefficient updater that successively updates the adaptive filter coefficient based on the error signal and reference signal such that the error signal is minimized, the correction value of the correction filter is set to a sum obtained by adding the transfer characteristic from the first speaker to the microphone, and a product obtained by multiplying the transfer characteristic from the second speaker to the microphone by the prescribed value, thereby enabling to reduce the number of microphones and avoid the increase in parts, the amount of work to provide complicated wiring to the microphones, and the computational load involved in updating the adaptive filter co

Abstract: Microphone is arranged at an evaluation point at the front seat; a signal for controlling vibration noise at this position is sent out from speaker at the front seat; secondary sound for canceling an influence of secondary sound at the front seat on the rear seat is sent out from speaker at the rear seat; microphone is arranged at an evaluation point at the rear seat; a signal for controlling vibration noise at this position is sent out from speaker; and secondary sound for canceling an influence of secondary sound at the rear seat on the front seat is sent out from speaker at the front seat.

Abstract: A notch filter adaptation system for use with an active noise control system of a motor vehicle has a parameters determination module receiving data from a bus of a vehicle and employing the data to determine one or more parameters for a notch filter. The data can include vehicle type, tire diameter, tire cavity, and/or ambient temperature. The parameters can include one or more notch filter peak frequency values, one or more notch filter Q values, and/or modifications of predetermined peak frequency values and/or Q values. An active noise control module can employ the parameters to generate opposite phase noise in the vehicle according to one or more notch filters having frequency bands at least in part specified by the parameters.

Abstract: An active noise reducing device includes processing circuit includes a sine wave generator for generating a sine wave having a specific frequency, a cosine wave generator for generating a cosine wave having the same frequency as that of the sine wave, and two one-tap digital filters for processing the outputs from the generators. The processing circuit also has two coefficient updating sections, which output a sum of outputs from the digital filters. Updating sections update respective coefficients of the filters based on a sum of this output from the updating sections and respective inputs to the updating sections, and the respective outputs from the generators. The noise reducing device also has an adjusting circuit for adjusting the phase and amplitude of an output from the processing circuit, the adjusting circuit thus generates a control signal of opposite phase and equal in amplitude to original noise, so that random noise such as load noise can be reduced.

Abstract: An active noise control system cancels vibration and noise based on an output from an adaptive notch filter. When the difference between a current engine pulse value input to the adaptive notch filter and a past engine pulse value within a predetermined time period exceeds a predetermined level, an engine pulse monitor turns off a switch to stop the output from the adaptive notch filter. As a result, when there is a sudden change in the engine rpm, the output from the adaptive notch filter is stopped before the renewal speed of the adaptive notch filter coefficient becomes too fast to follow and the coefficient diverges, to prevent generation of abnormal sound. With this active noise control system, the user will not hear any abnormal sound from the adaptive notch filter even when there is a sudden change in the engine pulse.

Abstract: The filter coefficients of an adaptive notch filter are sequentially updated to minimize an error signal based on the error signal and a first reference signal which is produced by subtracting a signal which represents the product of a sine corrective value C1 and a reference sine signal, from a signal which represents the product of a cosine corrective value C0 and a reference cosine signal. The filter coefficients of an adaptive notch filter are sequentially updated to minimize the error signal based on the error signal and a second reference signal which is produced by adding a signal which represents the product of the reference sine signal and the cosine corrective value C0 and a signal which represents the product of the reference cosine signal and the sine corrective value C1 to each other.

Abstract: An active noise control system is provided which cancels a noise using a secondary noise from a speaker that is operated in accordance with an output from an adaptive controller. The system is configured such that microphone monitor interrupts a switch to thereby stop the secondary noise from being produced, when an error signal delivered by a microphone used for an adaptive computation in an LMS processing portion has the same sign for a predetermined duration. This allows the system to prevent the user from hearing an abnormal acoustic noise resulting from an abnormal operation or divergence of an adaptive filter even when the output signal from the microphone used for the adaptive computation is indicative of an abnormal level.

Abstract: An active noise control system is provided which cancels a noise using a sound radiated from a speaker driven by an output from an adaptive notch filter. The system employs output signals from an adder or simulation cosine-wave and sine-wave signals, an error signal or an output signal from a microphone, and a compensated signal from the adder or a signal available for acoustically transferring an output from the adaptive notch filter to the microphone in accordance with initial transfer characteristics to update the filter coefficient of the adaptive notch filter. This configuration allows the system to operate with stability even when the acoustic transfer characteristics vary with time or under circumstances where there exists a significant amount of incoming external noises. The system also prevents overcompensation for a noise at the ears of a passenger in a vehicle, thereby proving an ideal noise reduction effect.

Abstract: The method of adhering polishing pads is capable of easily exchanging polishing pads in a comfortable posture. The method comprises the steps of: setting a pad adhering carrier, which has a through-hole in which a roller unit for pressing polishing pads is fixed, in a holder with arranging a roller unit in a radial direction of a lower polishing plate and an upper polishing plate; relatively moving the upper polishing plate toward the lower polishing plate so as to clamp the roller unit between the lower polishing plate and the upper polishing plate with a prescribed force; rotating the lower polishing plate and the upper polishing plate, which clamp the roller unit, in the opposite directions at the same speed; and pressing the polishing pads onto polishing faces of the lower polishing plate and the upper polishing plate by the roller unit.

Abstract: A multifunction apparatus performs a printing process when the apparatus succeeds in user authentication upon receiving a print request from a PC. The multifunction apparatus calculates an expected print start time based on past usage data thereof, that is, an elapsed time required in the past from the print request to user authentication. The multifunction apparatus further calculates an expected operation time required for preparations for the printing process, based on an current operation status thereof, such as standby mode, color registration adjustment, and the like; and sets as a delay time a time derived from subtracting the expected operation time from the expected print start time. The multifunction apparatus starts warm-up when the delay time elapses.

Abstract: The method of adhering polishing pads is capable of easily adhering the polishing pads without damages. The method comprises the steps of: tentatively adhering the polishing pads to polishing plates; attaching a roller unit having a shaft and a roller member, which is capable of rotating about the shaft and which has a projected section having a prescribed width and spirally formed in an outer circumferential face, on the lower polishing plate in the radial direction; moving the upper polishing plate downward, by the holding unit, until the upper polishing plate contacts the roller member; and simultaneously adhering the polishing pads onto the upper and lower polishing plate by rotating the upper and polishing plates in the opposite directions at the same speed with pressing the roller member by the upper polishing plate.

Abstract: The case main body is saliently provided with an attachment bracket 65 having a screw hole 69a and the attachment bracket 65 is provided with a slit 69b communicated with the screw hole 69a and extending to the radial direction outwardly. When the wiring harness guided out from the case main body is pulled or twisted at the time of recovery of the case main body, the axial portion of a securing bolt expands the slit 69b and escapes from the slit 69b so that the attachment bracket 65 detaches from the securing bolt. A taper portion 69d is formed at the entrance side of slit 69b for guiding the penetration of the securing bolt. The slit 69b is positioned before an edge portion 69c of the attachment bracket 65.

Abstract: An active noise controller can determine the signal transmission characteristics from the power amplifier and the speaker to the microphone without using any special external measuring instrument and calculate a cosine correction value and a sine correction value without using an external computer. The active noise controller uses the cosine correction value and the sine correction value to actively reduce vibrational noise. The measurement mode is selected on touch panel (3), and correction value calculator (22) calculates cosine correction value C0 and sine correction value C1 by using filter coefficients W0 and W1 which allow error signal e?(n) to approach zero. Memory (23) stores these values C0 and C1.

Abstract: The method of polishing a work is capable of reducing a polishing cost, polishing a surface of the work with high polishing accuracy and easily disposing used polishing liquid and used washing liquid. The method comprises the steps of: pressing the work onto a polishing member; feeding polishing liquid; and relatively moving the work with respect to the polishing member. Electrolytic reduced water produced by electrolyzing an electrolyte solution is used as the polishing liquid.

Abstract: The method of adhering polishing pads is capable of easily exchanging polishing pads in a comfortable posture. The method comprises the steps of: setting a pad adhering carrier, which has a through-hole in which a roller unit for pressing polishing pads is fixed, in a holder with arranging a roller unit in a radial direction of a lower polishing plate and an upper polishing plate; relatively moving the upper polishing plate toward the lower polishing plate so as to clamp the roller unit between the lower polishing plate and the upper polishing plate with a prescribed force; rotating the lower polishing plate and the upper polishing plate, which clamp the roller unit, in the opposite directions at the same speed; and pressing the polishing pads onto polishing faces of the lower polishing plate and the upper polishing plate by the roller unit.

Abstract: A power supply control device includes a first signal output unit that outputs a re-power signal and an off-ready signal, the re-power signal being a signal for turning off the power supply of an apparatus for a predetermined period of time and then turning on the power supply of the apparatus, the off-ready signal indicating that the power supply of the apparatus is ready to be turned off; a second signal output unit that outputs a power-off enable signal for turning off the power supply of the apparatus to a power supply unit when the re-power signal and the off-ready signal are supplied to the second signal output unit; and a holding unit that holds the power-off enable signal for the predetermined period of time.

Abstract: The method of sucking water is capable of easily removing excess water included in a backing member adhered on a plate of a polishing apparatus. In the method, the excess water is removed from the backing member by the steps of: pressing a water absorbing member onto a holding surface of the backing member, on which the work piece is adhered and held, so as to absorb the excess water from the backing member; and sucking the excess water absorbed by the water absorbing member.