Abstract: A plasma CVD device that deposits a thin film without using a filament is provided. The plasma CVD device according to the present invention includes: a chamber (1); ring-shaped ICP electrodes (17) and (18) disposed within the chamber; first high-frequency power supplies (7) and (8) electrically connected to the ICP electrodes; a gas supply mechanism that supplies a raw material gas into the chamber; an evacuation mechanism that evacuates the chamber; a disc substrate (2) disposed within the chamber so as to face the ICP electrodes; a second high-frequency power supply (6) connected to the disc substrate; an earth electrode disposed within the chamber on the opposite side of the disc substrate so as to face the ICP electrodes; and plasma walls (24) and (25) disposed within the chamber and provided so as to surround a space between the ICP electrodes and the disc substrate. Here, the plasma wall is set at a float potential.

Abstract: To provide a plasma CVD device capable of increasing voltage VDC that is a DC component generated at the electrode during high-frequency discharge in CVD deposition. The plasma CVD device according to the present invention includes a chamber 1, a holding electrode 2 disposed in the interior of the chamber and adapted for holding a substrate on which a film is to be deposited, a high frequency power supply 8 connected electrically with the holding electrode, a counter electrode 12 disposed opposite to the substrate on which a film is to be deposited held by the holding electrode and connected with an earth power supply or a float power supply, a raw material gas supply mechanism for supplying a raw material gas into a space 13 between the counter electrode and the holding electrode, and an evacuation mechanism for evacuating the interior of the chamber, wherein the surface area “a” of the holding electrode and the surface area “b” of the counter electrode satisfy a formula below, b/a?2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a plasma CVD apparatus and a plasma CVD method capable of efficiently coating the surfaces of fine particles with a thin film or super-fine particles by concentrating a plasma near the fine particles.

Abstract: An echo canceller includes a residual signal generation unit, a double talk detection unit, a nonlinear processor, a speech detection unit, and an input/output characteristic change unit. The residual signal generation unit generates a pseudo echo signal, and generates a residual signal by using the pseudo echo signal. The double talk detection unit detects the state of the transmission signal. The nonlinear processor attenuates the residual signal that has been inputted thereto to a signal level which is based on a predetermined input/output characteristic, and that outputs the attenuated residual signal. The speech detection unit detects whether or not speech is included in the reception signal. The input/output characteristic change unit changes the input/output characteristic of the nonlinear processor to a predetermined input/output characteristic when a single talk state has been detected at the double talk detection unit and speech has been detected at the speech detection unit.

Abstract: A fine particle uniformly holding a substance having a catalytic influence on a surface. Sputtering is performed by agitating or rotating the fine particles 3 in a vacuum container 1, which has a polygon inner cross-section shape, by rotating the vacuum container 1, having a rotating axis almost vertical to the cross-section, and the surfaces of the fine particles 3 are coated with super-fine particles having a smaller particle diameter than that of the fine particle, or a thin film. The super-fine particle or the thin film is composed of at least a metal catalyst or an oxide catalyst or a composite catalyst.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polygonal barrel sputtering device and a polygonal barrel sputtering method for coating surfaces of fine particles with ultra-fine particles having a grain diameter smaller than the particles or thin films, a coated fine particle formed by the device and method, a micro capsule and a method for producing the micro capsule. The polygonal barrel sputtering method according to the present invention comprises a step for containing fine particles 3 in a vacuum container 1 having a polygonal internal shape on a cross section, which is substantially parallel with a gravitational direction, and a step for performing sputtering while stirring or rolling the fine particles 3 contained in the vacuum container 1 by rotating the vacuum container 1 about a rotating axis, which is substantially perpendicular to the cross section, whereby surface of the fine particle 3 is coated with ultra-fine particles having a grain diameter smaller than the fine particle or thin films.

Abstract: At the time of the inside air mode, the concentration of CO2 in the vehicle passenger compartment is calculated (S80). When the calculated value of the concentration of CO2 in the vehicle passenger compartment exceeds a predetermined value, the inside and outside change-over door is changed over to the outside air mode (S90, S20).

Abstract: For preventing output drop with time of a MR magnetic head or similar apparatus including a magnetic field sensor in the form of a giant magnetoresistive element of the induced ferrimagnetic or spin-valve type in which antiparallelism of magnetization is induced between the magnetic layers by external magnetization, a magnetic field detecting apparatus comprising a magnetic field sensor using a giant magnetoresistive multilayer film of the induced ferrimagnetic type or the like includes a magnetic field generating means such as a permanent magnet. The magnetic field sensor is moved to the proximity of the magnetic field generating means and placed within the magnetic field when the magnetic field sensor is out of use or its detection sensitivity drops.

Abstract: For preventing output drop with time of a MR magnetic head or similar apparatus, a magnetic field sensor in the form of a giant magnetoresistive element of the induced ferrimagnetic or spin-valve type in which antiparallelism of magnetization is induced between the magnetic layers by external magnetization. A magnetic field detecting apparatus including a magnetic field sensor using a giant magnetoresistive multilayer film of the induced ferrimagnetic type or the like includes a magnetic field generating means such as a permanent magnet. The magnetic field sensor is moved to the proximity of the magnetic field generating means and placed within the magnetic field when the magnetic field sensor is out of use or its detection sensitivity drops.

Abstract: An air-conditioning device capable of obtaining a suitable blow-out temperature through one passage from the initial period of change even when the air-conditioning operation in which either a first passage or a second passage is closed is changed into an operation condition in which it is opened. A feet mode in which the hot air is blown to the feet of a passenger from a second passage 7, is changed to a bilevel mode in which a first passage 6 that communicates with the upper half body of the passenger is switched from the closed state to the open state. During a predetermined period of time in the initial period following the change, the temperature blown from the first passage 6 is determined based upon a blow-out temperature of the second passage 7 and a desired blow-out temperature TAOV of the first passage 6.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to supply air to passengers in an automobile so that they will feel more comfortable in the presence of solar radiation by suppressing a rise in temperature in a vehicle passenger compartment caused by solar radiation. There is provided a cold air damper which feeds cold air immediately after an evaporator to a face blow port and mixes it with the conditioned air that has passed through an air mixing damper, with the amount of blown air is changed by a blower fan. A control means detects the amount of solar radiation present by using a solar radiation sensor. This invention calculates the temperature of air blown out in the absence of solar radiation, calculates the temperature of air blown out in the presence of solar radiation, calculates a corrected blowing rate according to a thermal equilibrium equation in the presence of solar radiation, and calculates a blowing rate in the presence of solar radiation.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus for a vehicle having separate units for a driver's seat and an assistant driver's seat. Each of the units has first and second vent outlets opened to a cabin near the lateral side of the cabin and the center side of cabin. A sensor is provided for detecting an amount of the solar radiation. The sensor also can detect an azimuth angle and elevation angle of the sun with respect to the direction of movement. An increase in the thermal load due to the solar radiation is determined, and the calculated increase is allocated to the first and second vent outlets by changing the temperature and/or the amount of the air discharged from the respective outlets, so that the passenger can feel a uniform temperature irrespective of the position of the sun with respect to the direction of movement of the vehicle.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an air conditioner used for a vehicle can properly control the temperature of air in the vehicle according to the quantity of solar radiation so as to maintain the temperature as not too cool for a person in the vehicle while suppressing the temperature as not too hot for the person.

Abstract: A condenser is connected to an outlet of a compressor. An expansion valve is connected to the condenser. An evaporator is connected between the expansion valve and an inlet of the compressor. A sensor detects a condition of refrigerant at an outlet side of the evaporator. A variation in rate of refrigerant flow into the evaporator is detected. A control device determines a variation in the detected condition of refrigerant which occurs in response to the variation in the rate of refrigerant flow. The control device judges a quantity of refrigerant to be insufficient when the determined variation in the refrigerant condition is equal to or smaller than a reference value.

Abstract: The degree of opening of the expansion valve in refrigeration system is controlled by means of PID control such that a refrigerant superheat at the outlet of the evaporator approaches a target valve. Since an elapsed time after the start of the refrigeration system varies in response to a change of a heat load of air to be cooled by the evaporator, if the control constant of the PID control is designed so that the expansion valve can be controlled adequately for high evaporator heat load, or for low evaporator heat load, adequate control cannot be achieved in the opposite case not taken into consideration in design. According to the present invention, the control constant of the PID control is varied when an elapsed time after the start of the refrigeration system reaches a reference time which is determined on the basis of a heat load of air to be cooled by the evaporator.