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In a battery pack including rechargeable batteries arranged in parallel, a cooling medium path for allowing a cooling medium to horizontally flow be formed between the rechargeable batteries. A cooling medium delivery device for delivering the cooling medium to the cooling medium path is provided so as to reduce a height of the battery pack including a cooling device. The cooling medium delivery device is constituted by a pair of cooling medium introduction ducts provided on both right and left sides of the battery pack, each having delivery ports for delivering the cooling medium alternately in horizontally opposed directions to each of the cooling medium paths, and a cooling medium compression transport device for supplying the cooling medium to both of the cooling medium introduction ducts.

A control device has a coupling determination sensor for detecting external connection of a charge table. When the connection of the charge cable is detected according to a signal from the sensor, the control device activates an electric device connected to a communication line of a charge-time-dedicated power supply system. Since the control device of the invention can activate only the electric device related to the charging while keeping electric devices not related to the charging at rest, and therefore prevents wasteful electric power consumption.

A phase-shifting element for shifting a phase of at least a portion of a particle beam is described, as well as a particle beam device having a phase-shifting element of this type. In the phase-shifting element and the particle beam device having a phase-shifting element, components shadowing the particle beam are avoided, so that proper information content is achieved and in which the phase contrast is essentially spatial frequency-independent. The phase-shifting element may have at least one means for generating a non-homogeneous or anisotropic potential. The particle beam device according to the system described herein may be provided with the phase-shifting element.

A semiconductor device has a substrate; a multi-layered interconnect formed on the substrate, and having a plurality of interconnect layers, each of which being configured by an interconnect and an insulating layer, stacked therein; a memory circuit formed in a memory circuit region on the substrate in a plan view, and having a peripheral circuit and at least one capacitor element embedded in the multi-layered interconnect; and a logic circuit formed in a logic circuit region on the substrate, wherein the capacitor element is configured by a lower electrode, a capacitor insulating film, an upper electrode, an embedded electrode and an upper interconnect; the top surface of the upper interconnect, and the top surface of the interconnect configuring the logic circuit formed in the same interconnect layer with the upper interconnect, are aligned to the same plane.

A plasma display device is provided with a chassis supporting a PDP on its front surface, circuit boards located within a specific region of the back surface of the chassis, a back cover including an edge portion covering the outside of the specific region of the back surface of the chassis and a projecting portion accommodating the plurality of the circuit boards, and a fan arranged inside a space defined by the projecting portion. The peripheral wall of the projecting portion is provided with a plurality of air inlets and a plurality of air outlets.

A two-wheeled motor vehicle has a rear cushion unit that includes a damper cylinder having one end part linked to a swing arm, a sub-tank connected to the damper cylinder and an adjustment mechanism for adjusting a damping force in response to operation of the operation element is provided between a vehicle body frame and the swing arm. A cylinder body of the damper cylinder, a bottomed housing tube part housing the adjustment mechanism having on an upper end part an operation face on which the operation element is disposed, and the sub-tank are integrally and connectedly provided. The operation face is inclined obliquely upward so that the operation element that faces a region bounded by the seat frame, the pillion step holder mounted on the seat frame and the swing arm when viewed from the side can be operated from obliquely above on the outside.

A light-emitting device includes a drive transistor that controls a current to be supplied to a light-emitting element from a power supply line, an electrical continuity portion that electrically connects the drive transistor with the light-emitting element, an initializing transistor that is turned ON to diode-connect the drive transistor, and a connecting portion that electrically connects the drive transistor with the initializing transistor. The power supply line includes a first portion extending in a predetermined direction. The electrical continuity portion and the connecting portion are formed from the same layer as that of the power supply line and are located on one side along the width of the first portion across the drive transistor.

The present invention relates to an image object category recognition method and device. The recognition method comprises an off-line autonomous learning process of a computer, which mainly comprises the following steps: image feature extracting, cluster analyzing and acquisition of an average image of object categories. In addition, the method of the present invention also comprises an on-line automatic category recognition process. The present invention can significantly reduce the amount of computation, reduce computation errors and improve the recognition accuracy significantly in the recognition process.

The invention is directed to methods and arrangements for spatial acquisition of measurement data over the cross section of a bundle of high-energy, high-intensity radiation. The object of finding a novel possibility for radiation measurement within the cross section of a beam bundle of high intensity which acquires highly spatially resolved measurement data without impairment of the measuring accuracy through saturation or degradation of the detectors is met according to the invention in that the entire cross section of the beam bundle is imaged on a shading element, the cross section is separated successively into partial beam bundles having reduced cross section and reduced intensity through movement of at least one opening, and measurement values of the partial beam bundles passing the opening are acquired so as to be associated temporally and spatially with the positions of the opening and are stored.

A brake device for a vehicle includes a brake pedal rotatably supported on a support shaft and extending in a front ward direction from the support shaft in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. A master cylinder is located on the rear side of the support shaft in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle for generating a braking hydraulic pressure according to the rotational operation of the brake pedal. An operational amount detector is mechanically connected to the brake pedal for detecting the rotational amount of the brake pedal. The master cylinder includes an axis that is arranged vertically and is located above the support shaft with the operational amount detector being located on the rear side of the support shaft in the longitudinal direction of the motorcycle. Thus, the master cylinder and the operational amount detector can be densely arranged in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.

The liquid ejection head comprises: a plurality of ejection ports which eject liquid; a plurality of pressure chambers which are respectively connected to the ejection ports; a plurality of piezoelectric elements which respectively deform the pressure chambers, the piezoelectric elements being arranged on sides of the pressure chambers opposite to sides thereof where the ejection ports are formed; a common liquid chamber which supplies the liquid to the pressure chambers, the common liquid chamber being arranged on the sides of the pressure chambers opposite to the sides thereof where the ejection ports are formed; a plurality of wiring members which have electrodes for driving the piezoelectric elements, respectively, each of the wiring members being formed in such a manner that at least a portion thereof rises through the common liquid chamber in a direction substantially perpendicular to a plane on which the piezoelectric elements are arranged; and a drive circuit which drives the piezoelectric elements, the drive circuit being arranged on a wall of the common liquid chamber opposite to a side thereof where the piezoelectric elements are arranged, wherein the electrodes and the drive circuit are composed and covered integrally with resin.

A closed section is formed by bonding upper end portions and lower end portions of respectives of a roof side inner panel and a side body outer panel of an vehicle. A base bracket attached to a roof side inner panel for mounting an assistant grip and a grip bracket attached to the base bracket are provided to a side of an inner vehicle compartment of the roof inner panel. Further, a beam portion of the base bracket is fixed to the roof side inner panel to project to an upper side or a side of a vehicle compartment of an upper end portion side bonding portion of the roof side inner panel and the side body outer panel.

A particle beam treatment apparatus and an irradiation nozzle apparatus achieve a beam with a small diameter by a beam scanning irradiation method, and ensure a space for installation of a beam transport chamber in the irradiation nozzle apparatus. An X-ray tube is located outside the scanning type irradiation nozzle apparatus that includes scanning magnets, while an X-ray tube is located in an irradiation nozzle apparatus in a conventional structure. An X-ray detector is located inside the irradiation nozzle apparatus. The thickness of the X-ray detector in the direction of a beam axis is smaller and the structure thereof is simpler than that of the X-ray tube. This makes it possible to ensure the space for installation of the beam transport chamber in the irradiation nozzle apparatus and to increase the length of the beam transport chamber that is included in the irradiation nozzle apparatus.

A vehicle rear portion structure includes: a vehicle rear floor having a low floor portion, a high floor portion that is placed on a vehicle rear side and a vehicle upper side of the low floor portion, and a step wall portion that interconnects a rear end portion at the vehicle rear side of the low floor portion and a front end portion at a vehicle front side of the high floor portion; a battery tray that is placed on the low floor portion, is joined to the low floor portion, and is configured to support a battery; and a reinforcement member that extends from the battery tray to the high floor portion and is joined to the high floor portion.

A saddle-ride vehicle includes a radiator body having a first radiator and a second radiator each including a core composed of radiating fins and tubes, alternately laminated. The radiator body is disposed forward of an engine while sandwiching a down tube between the first and second radiators in a vehicle left-right direction with the down tube extending rearwardly and downwardly of a head pipe. The radiator bodies and an exhaust pipe connected to the engine are disposed in an overlapping manner when the vehicle is viewed in a plan view. The lower tank of the first radiator include an inlet for the coolant from a lower communicating radiator hose that allows coolant to flow from the lower tank of the second radiator and an outlet for the coolant to a lower end radiator hose that is connected from the lower tank of the first radiator to the engine.