Abstract: To provide a nut member that facilitates an adjustment of the optical axis of a light and that has excellent handleablity. A nut member 10 includes a flange portion 11 to be supported by an attachment portion 6 disposed on the back side of a vehicle lamp member 1, and a leg portion 15 protruding to the front from the flange portion 11 and to be elastically deformed and fastened to the attachment portion 6, the lamp member 1 having an optical axis 100 to be adjusted by handling a screw 8 inserted into an insertion hole 22 formed over from an inside of the flange portion 11 to the leg portion 15. Before an insertion of the screw 8, a screw thread 14 of a female screw portion 13 has been formed on an inner surface of a flange insertion pass (insertion hole 22) to extend one round in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: A binder layer formation step of forming a binder layer of which an initial sticking strength of a surface is 1 or more on a current collector; a sticking step of sticking a powder having an angle of repose of 45° or less onto the surface of the binder layer by bringing the powder into contact with the surface; and a compression step of compressing the powder stuck in the sticking step into a predetermined density are included.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of evenly smoothing powder supplied to the surface of a supply member. A powder coating apparatus includes a pair of press rollers, hoppers, and squeegee rollers disposed such that prescribed gaps are formed between the squeegee rollers and the press rollers, and adjusting thickness of the powder by smoothing the powder supplied to each outer circumferential surface of the press rollers. The powder coating apparatus presses the powder, smoothed by the squeegee rollers, between the press rollers to form compressed powder layers on both the surfaces of the web. The squeegee roller is formed in a column having an axis being parallel to the outer circumferential surface of the press roller and being orthogonal to a moving direction of the outer circumferential surface of the press roller.

Abstract: Provided is a powder supply device for a secondary battery which can always supply a fixed amount of powder with high accuracy without being influenced by a state of the powder. In addition, provided is an apparatus for manufacturing an electrode body, which includes the powder supply device and can efficiently manufacture an electrode body. The powder supply device includes a rotor which makes powder fall into an opening, and a mesh body which covers the lower end of the opening. Uneven portions or projecting portions are formed on the outer circumferential surface of the rotor. The rotor is rotatably supported in a storing portion. The gap is formed between the outer circumferential surface of the rotor and the inner surface of the storing portion so that they are spaced apart. The mesh body is arranged away from the outer circumferential surface of the rotor.

Abstract: An electrode for electrochemical device which is provided with an electrode active material layer containing an electrode active material and a binder, comprising binder-covered parts 220 comprised of a binder which covers at least parts of the surfaces of particles of an electrode active material 210 and binder-connecting parts 230 comprised of a binder which is present in space parts 240 formed between pluralities of particles of the electrode active material 210 and which connects the binder-covered parts 220 formed at the surfaces of the pluralities of particles of the electrode active material 210 which form the space parts can be provided.

Abstract: A powder molding device, including: a pre-molding unit (6) for molding a sheet-form powder (14) having a first density higher than a density of the powder and not having fluidity by compressing a powder; and a molding roll (8) for molding a sheet-form molded product (16) having a second density higher than the first density by compressing the sheet-form powder.

Abstract: When focus adjustment operation is performed, a first measured distance acquired by utilization of TTL-AF and a second measured value acquired by utilization of a distance between the eyes have been computed in advance. The degree of reliability of the first measured distance is compared the degree of reliability of the second measured distance in accordance with a result of a determination as to whether or not a face is detected, a result of a determination as to whether or not an ambient brightness value Br is equal to or less than a reference value, a result of a determination as to whether or not a focal length “f” is equal to or less than a reference value, and a result of a determination as to whether or not a second measured distance De is less than a first measured distance Dt.

Abstract: The accuracy of focus adjustment operation is enhanced further. When focus adjustment operation is performed, a first measured distance acquired by utilization of TTL-AF and a second measured value acquired by utilization of a distance between the eyes have been computed in advance. The degree of reliability of the first measured distance is compared the degree of reliability of the second measured distance in accordance with a result of a determination as to whether or not a face is detected (S10), a result of a determination as to whether or not an ambient brightness value Br is equal to or less than a reference value (S12), a result of a determination as to whether or not a focal length “f” is equal to or less than a reference value (S16), and a result of a determination as to whether or not a second measured distance De is less than a first measured distance Dt (S18). Focus adjustment operation is performed in accordance with a measured distance determined to be more reliable.

Abstract: A bus interface system has a bus interface, a common memory, a local bus, and a memory controller for use in a memory control. The memory controller has a buffer and is connected to the local bus. The bus interface has a burst disassembling control circuit which disassembles burst transfer data into one or a plurality of block transfers and one or a plurality of one-word transfers, which are supplied to the memory controller so that when the bus interface receives all requested data received from the common memory during a read access, the bus interface adds information on a destination device, connected to a system bus, to all the requested data and sends all the requested data with that information to the destination device via the system bus.

Abstract: A bus arbiter permits an answer transfer request to utilize a system bus with higher priority than a command transfer request, thereby increasing the processing efficiency of CPU boards. A multi-processor system utilize the system bus with a time split transfer system in which the data width of a unit is inserted into a command and an answer transmitted and received between processors and transmitted as bus width information, thus making it possible to interconnect a unit, which processes data of an arbitrary data width, to the system bus. Local memories of a plurality of units connected to the system bus can be accessed via a bus interface of an input and output unit.

Abstract: A parity inversion test system includes an interface part having an input side coupled to a N-bit data line and an output side coupled to a M-bit data line, where N<M, an output coupling part for coupling at least a part of a data output from the output side of the interface part to the data output from the output side of the interface part in a test mode so as to output a M-bit data, a parity generating part for generating a parity data with respect to the M-bit data output to the M-bit data line via the output coupling part based on the M-bit data, and a parity inversion bit specifying part for specifying arbitrary bits of the M-bit data output to the M-bit data line which are to be inverted when generating the parity data in the parity generating part.

Abstract: A transmitter includes a transmitting buffer (21) for temporarily storing the information received from a first bus (11) of N (N is a natural number) bits width and a transmitting input distributer (22) and a transmitting output distributer (23) respectively provided in the input side and output side of the transmitting system buffer (21). A receiver includes a receiving buffer (31) for temporarily storing the information received from the second bus (12) and for sending the information to the first bus (11) and a receiving input distributer (32) and a receiving distributer (33) respectively provided in the input side and output side of the receiving buffer. The transmitting buffer (21) has at least m (m is a natural number) buffers of N bits width.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic exchange with a hot standby memory copy system including main storage devices that are duplexed wherein to improve the processing capacity of a central processing unit and make the best use of the speed of a cache memory, in an information processing apparatus provided with central processing units, main storage devices and cache memories all of which are duplexed, first-in first-out memories that are duplexed and connected to the central processing units, a unit for simultaneously writing data, when the central processing unit writes the data into the cache memory, into the first-in first-out memory, and a unit for writing, independently of an operation of the central processing unit, the contents of a currently used one of the first-in first-out memories into a standby one of the main storage devices are provided.

Abstract: In an input/output control system: a read/write operation for a control register (REG) under a program mode is achieved by hardware; the system is started or stopped under the control of firmware, and a data transfer in the system is achieved under the control of hardware. Therefore, a high speed data communication is realized, via the system, between a central control unit (CC) and an input/output unit (IO).

Abstract: A line condition data collecting system for a telephone exchange includes an image memory in a central processing unit which stores line condition data to reduce the amount of time the central controller in the central processing unit waits for the line condition data. A signal receiving memory in the telephone exchange stores the line condition data and is sequentially accessed by an image memory controller autonomously from the central controller in the central processing unit. When the central controller requires line condition data, the image memory is checked and if the line condition data stored therein is valid, it is supplied to the central controller. If the line condition data in the image memory is invalid, a conventional access request is made to the signal receiving memory, but this occurs less frequently than in a conventional system.

Abstract: In a time division switching system of the time-space-time (T-S-T) arrangement, a speech path memory having both forward and backward time switches has addresses corresponding to accommodated lines; and a speech signal and a non-speech signal (a signal indicating an on-hook or off-hook state and other control signals) are transmitted over a highway between each line module and a switch module. When a speech channel is busy, the speech signal is read out from a speech path memory and written therein and transmitted to a remote station. Also when the speech channel is idle, the non-speech signal is written into the speech path memory but, in this case, the non-speech signal is read out into a signal processor or a non-speech signal is written into the speech path memory from the signal processor or a non-speech signal written into the speech path memory from the signal processor is read out onto a line.

Abstract: An door lifter for coke ovens is provided with a door lifting or lowering power actuator consisting of two hydraulic cylinders connected in series and in back-to-back relationship. In the case of the door removal, first one of the two hydraulic cylinders is actuated so that the hooks are made into engagement with the corresponding lug pieces of the door and when they have engaged, said one hydraulic cylinder is stopped and locked. Thereafter the other hydraulic cylinder is actuated so that the door is lifted to be removed from the oven. In order to reengage the door, the other hydraulic cylinder is reversely actuated so that the door is lowered by the same stroke as the lift stroke and then said one hydraulic cylinder is reversely actuated so that the hooks are disengaged from the lug pieces of the door.