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A turbocharger comprising two closely spaced ball bearings that does not require lubricating oil from an engine. The bearing housing forms a cooling jacket with two bearing engagement surfaces engaged with the outer races of the ball bearings through an intermediate radial spring. Closely spacing the ball bearings provides a rotor shaft of minimal length. In addition, an external motor-generator may be by mounted on the turbocharger, with the motor rotor solidly connected to the turbocharger rotor. In such an assembly, an electronic control is energizes the motor from battery power during acceleration up to approximately torque peak speed; thereafter, the control changes to a generator mode when there is excess energy in the engine exhaust gas.

A cyclone dust-collecting apparatus includes a body unit, a top portion of which is detachably engaged with a cover unit; a cyclone unit disposed inside the body; and a filter unit detachably disposed above the cyclone unit, wherein air flowing into the body unit is guided from the cyclone unit upward to the filter unit, and is discharged downward via the filter unit.

In a projection image display apparatus, a noise removal filter portion 15 is separated from a power source unit body 14. The separated noise removal filter portion 15 is provided in the vicinity of a side wall of a housing on which a power source inlet is provided, and of the power source unit body 14, respectively. Specifically, the power source unit body 14 is provided along a side wall of a front face of the horizontally-long housing of the projection image display apparatus and the noise removal filter portion 15 is provided in a position opposed to the power source unit body 14 in a side wall of the back face. As a result, even when a light source lamp has a higher output, the projection image display apparatus can achieve reduced noise by an improved cooling capability and reduced cost enabled by an efficient Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) measure and the like.

An electric current detection apparatus has a single magnetic sensor for detecting a first current which flows from a battery and also a second current which flows into or from the battery during different occasions from the first current and is substantially smaller than the first current. The magnetic sensor has a magnetic core surrounding first and second conductors, with the second conductor carrying the second current and with the first conductor being shunted by a third conductor such as to conduct a predetermined proportion of the first current.

Techniques for enhanced linguistic transformation are disclosed. For example, a method of linguistic transformation includes the steps of providing at least one input to a plurality of modules, wherein at least one module has a different configuration than at least another module, obtaining at least one output from each of at least a subset of the plurality of modules, and generating a set of distinct outputs. The input and the output include linguistic representations and at least a portion of the output is a result of applying one or more linguistic transformations to at least a portion of the input.Techniques for displaying a plurality of results so as to emphasize component-level differences are also disclosed. By way of example, a method of displaying a plurality of results includes the steps of determining at least one primary result within the plurality of results; displaying the at least one primary result with at least a first set of color attributes; and displaying at least one alternative result with at least a second set of color attributes. Each result represents an application of at least one linguistic transformation to a common input and each result comprises a plurality of components.

A hydraulic tensioner comprises a plunger, and a plunger-accommodating hole in a tensioner housing, together forming a high pressure oil chamber. A plunger-biasing spring is provided in the high pressure oil chamber between the plunger and the bottom of the plunger-accommodating hole. An oil storage chamber is formed inside the plunger, and a check valve unit is press-fit in the rear end of the plunger to allow flow from the oil storage chamber to the high pressure oil chamber while blocking reverse flow of oil.

A spiral antenna having a pair of antenna arms mounted on a dielectric substrate. A balun is included to connect the antenna which has an impedance of 100 ohms to a 50 ohm cable. Unique features of the spiral antenna design provide for size reduction at a given lowest required frequency of operation. The spiral antenna has dielectric material layers positioned on both side of the antenna's metal arms. In addition, the antenna input impedance is reduced from the normal 100 ohm input impedance to approximately 50 ohms due the dielectric material.