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A bus-bar integrated plate and outer frame section, arranged into a double-deck structure and having numerous bus bars molded with a resin molding plate portion, is provided as a wiring for connecting power switching elements and a smoothing capacitor, fixed on an outer surface of a cylindrical wall of a motor housing, to a printed circuit board serving as a control circuit.

An apparatus for generating, storing or editing an audio representation of an audio scene includes audio processing means for generating a plurality of speaker signals from a plurality of input channels as well as means for providing an object-oriented description of the audio scene, wherein the object-oriented description of the audio scene includes a plurality of audio objects, wherein an audio object is associated with an audio signal, a starting time instant and an end time instant. The apparatus for generating further distinguishes itself by mapping means for mapping the object-oriented description of the audio scene to the plurality of input channels, wherein an assignment of temporally overlapping audio objects to parallel input channels is performed by the mapping means, whereas temporally sequential audio objects are associated with the same channel. With this, an object-oriented representation is transferred into a channel-oriented representation, whereby on the object-oriented side the optimal representation of a scene may be used, whereas on channel-oriented side the channel-oriented concept users are used to may be maintained.

An apparatus and method for generating a preamble and searching a cell using the generated preamble in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system. Q cyclic shift values and P pseudo-random noise (PN) codes are used to distinguish N cells. One of the P PN codes is cyclically shifted according to one of the Q cyclic shift values and therefore a preamble is generated. Because a relatively small number of PN codes are used, the memory capacity of a mobile terminal for storing the PN codes is saved and a cell search error is reduced.

There is provided a multilayer chip capacitor including: a capacitor body including first and second capacitor units arranged in a laminated direction; and first to fourth outer electrodes formed on side surfaces of the capacitor body, respectively, wherein the first capacitor unit includes first and second inner electrodes of different polarities alternately arranged in the capacitor body to oppose each other while interposing a corresponding one of dielectric layers, the second capacitor unit includes third and fourth inner electrodes of different polarities alternately arranged in the capacitor body to oppose each other while interposing another corresponding one of the dielectric layers, the first and second capacitor units are electrically insulated from each other, and the first capacitor unit operates in a first frequency range and the second capacitor unit operates in a second frequency range lower than the first frequency range.

A contact sheet is provided including two insulative base sheets having a plurality of through-holes formed therethrough in an array pattern and a plurality of conductive contacts interposed between the insulative base sheets. Each contact includes a fixed part bonded to an end of a respective through-hole and an integral moving part contiguous with the fixed part. The moving part includes a contact portion formed as an elastic cantilever. Part of the moving part protrudes from one side of the base sheet inside the through-hole and the contact portion elastically extends from the other side of the base sheet. The total area of the through-hole and the fixed part of the contact is greater than a unit grid area formed by an arrangement of the terminals of an electronic device, and the length of the moving part, including the contact portion, substantially corresponds to the overall length of the through-hole.

A digital-to-analog converter of reduced number of elements and smaller area includes a reference voltage generating circuit for outputting a plurality of reference voltages having voltage values that differ from one another; a first logic circuit for outputting the result of a logical operation on a first bit group comprising even-numbered bits (or odd-numbered bits) of an input digital data signal composed of a plurality of bits; a second logic circuit for outputting the result of a logical operation on a second bit group comprising the odd-numbered bits (or even-numbered bits) of the input digital data signal composed of the plurality of bits; a switch group circuit for supplying first and second terminals with voltages selected, inclusive of voltages that are identical, from among the plurality of reference voltages, which are output from the reference voltage generating circuit, in accordance with respective outputs from the first and second logic circuits; and an amplifier circuit for outputting an output voltage that is the result of applying a predetermined operation to voltages supplied to the first and second terminals.

A single focus telescopic lens includes, in order from the object side: a diaphragm stop; and first and second lens components, each lens component being of positive refractive power and each having a convex surface on the object side near the optical axis. Each of the two lens components has two aspheric surfaces, may be a lens element, and preferably is made of plastic. The single focus telescopic lens may include no other lens elements and the diaphragm stop may be on the object side of the single focus telescopic lens. A specified on-axis condition is satisfied in order to reduce aberrations and to make the single focus telescopic lens compact. Additionally, satisfying a condition related to the maximum angle of incidence of among all the image forming principal rays helps achieve the desired telescopic properties with the desired optical performance.

A power transmission for a motor vehicle includes an input, first and second input shafts, a layshaft, drive elements connecting the input shafts to the output and layshaft, couplers, a first clutch for connecting and disconnecting the input and the first input shaft, and a second clutch for connecting and disconnecting the input and the second input shaft. A first torque path driveably connects the first input shaft to the layshaft. A second torque path driveably connects the second input shaft to the layshaft. A third torque path driveably connects the layshaft and output. A bridge torque path driveably connects the first input shaft and the output.

A method for providing dynamic security hardening of selected aircraft functions includes: a) monitoring sequences of real-time security events for at least one aircraft function; b) accessing a database storing a plurality of sequences of attack events indicative of an attack of the at least one aircraft function; c) probabilistically inferring, by at least one processor, the location and progression of an attack represented within the database by utilizing the sequences of real-time security events; and d) activating at least one countermeasure in response to an inferred location and progression of an attack.

An image processing apparatus includes an image sensor formed from a plurality of areas each including a plurality of pixels, and a corrector adapted to correct signals from the plurality of areas of the image sensor. The corrector has a plurality of correction data smaller in number than the areas, and performs correction by selectively using the correction data for each area of the image sensor.

In a pixel circuit 100, a driving TFT 110, a switching TFT 115, and an organic EL element 130 are provided between a power supply wiring line Vp and a common cathode Vcom and a capacitor 120 and a switching TFT 111 are provided between a gate terminal of the driving TFT 110 and a data line Sj. A switching TFT 112 is provided between a connection point B between the capacitor 120 and the switching TFT 111 and the power supply wiring line Vp, a switching TFT 113 is provided between the gate and drain terminals of the driving TFT 110, and a switching TFT 114 is provided between the gate terminal of the driving TFT 110 and a reference supply wiring line Vs. A potential that brings the driving TFT 110 into a conduction state is applied to the reference supply wiring line Vs. Thus, variations in the threshold voltage of a drive element can be properly compensated for and unwanted light emission from an electro-optical element can be prevented.

An accessory mount for a firearm that includes a barrel and a front sight located on the barrel comprises: a first section adapted to engage a first side of the firearm at the front sight and including a boss that extends into and is received in an aperture defined by and through the front sight; a second section adapted to engage a second side of the firearm at the front sight and including a boss that extends into and is received in the aperture defined by and through the front sight; and one or more fasteners that secure the first and second sections to one another; wherein the first and second sections collectively define a substantially cylindrical channel adapted to receive and secure an accessory below the barrel of the firearm.

A valve timing control apparatus includes a locking mechanism having a locking member disposed in an accommodating portion formed in one of a drive-side rotor and a driven-side rotor and projectable into and retractable from the other rotor than the one rotor having the accommodating portion and a locking groove defined in the other rotor for receiving and retaining the locking member projecting therein, the locking mechanism for restraining a relative rotational phase when the locking member is retained within the locking groove. The apparatus further includes a restricting mechanism having a restricting member disposed within the accommodating portion and projectable into and retractable from the other rotor to be movable relative to and together with the locking member in a projecting / retracting direction of the locking member and a restricting groove defined in the form of an elongate slot in the other rotor for receiving the restricting member projecting therein, the restricting mechanism restricting the relative rotational phase within a predetermined range when the restricting member projects into the restricting groove.

A connector ejects a tray along an eject direction opposite to an insert direction along which the tray is inserted. The connector comprises an eject bar movable along the insert direction, a lock portion movable in a width direction perpendicular to the insert direction, and a stopper. The lock portion moves along the insert direction when the eject bar moves along the insert direction. When the inserted tray is pulled along the eject direction, the tray is brought into abutment with the lock portion. The lock portion in the abutment moves in the width direction to be stopped by the stopper so that the tray is prevented from being ejected. When the eject bar is moved along the insert direction, the lock portion is brought into abutment with the tray. In this case, the lock portion moves in the width direction without being stopped so that the tray is ejected.

One preferred embodiment of the invention provides a wireless base station which provides a multicasting service to simultaneously transmit identical data to a plurality of wireless terminals. A wireless base station is connected to a plurality of wireless terminals and provides a multicasting service for a plurality of wireless terminals. The wireless base station determines autonomously whether it provides the multicasting service for the plurality of wireless terminals. Another preferred embodiment of the invention provides a method of selecting a wireless base station for a wireless terminal, the wireless base station providing a multicasting service for the wireless terminal. When the wireless terminal can receive the same multicasting information from a plurality of wireless base stations, the wireless terminal selects one of the plurality of wireless base stations so as to make the number of the wireless base stations that send the same multicasting information as small as possible.

There is provided a multilayer chip capacitor a multilayer chip capacitor including: a capacitor body including first and second capacitor units arranged therein; and first to fourth outer electrodes, wherein the first capacitor unit includes first and second inner electrodes, and the first capacitor unit includes a plurality of capacitor elements each having a pair of the first and second inner electrodes repeatedly laminated, the second capacitor unit includes third and fourth inner electrodes, and the second capacitor unit includes at least one capacitor element having a pair of the third and fourth inner electrodes repeatedly laminated, and at least one of the capacitor elements of the first capacitor unit is different from the other capacitor elements of the first capacitor unit in a lamination number of the first and second inner electrodes or a resonant frequency.

An operation unit is used for a user to perform a tilt operation. The operation unit includes a disc-shaped detection subject member with a detection subject plane, which intersects with a basic axis Q of the operation unit and is movable integrally with the operation unit. Three detecting units are fixed in three different disposed positions surrounding a neutral axis N to detect displacement parallel with the neutral axis, which is generated by movement of the detection subject plane. A computing unit determines three-dimensional detected positions M1, M2, M3 of the detection subject plane by using (i) the disposed positions (X, Y) of the three detecting units and (ii) displacement detection outputs Z detected by the three detecting units. A tilt direction, in which the operation unit is tilted, is determined using a displacement plane DP defined by the three-dimensional detected positions M1, M2, M3.

A monoclinic CeTi2O6 thin film and a sol-gel process for the deposition of CeTi2O6 thin films, which has applications as passive counter electrodes in electrochromic devices, sensors and photocatalytic agent is presented. This film can be obtained by spin coating a solution, which comprises both titanium and cerium precursors on to electrically conducting or insulating glass substrates and annealing at a temperature of 600° C. for 5 min. in air. The Ce:Ti mole ratio in the deposition sol for the preparation of the film is identified in the range of 0.4:1 and 0.6:1.

To improve the separation efficiency of a gas-liquid separator in the gas-liquid separator and an air conditioner, the gas-liquid separator having a vessel with an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe is arranged such that an exit end section of the inlet pipe is formed to be closed or to have a gap, an expanded end section having a width greater than the diameter of that portion of the inlet pipe which crosses a container of the gas-liquid separator is provided, and that a lateral hole is formed in a side face of the expanded end section. Refrigerant vapor and refrigerant liquid are efficiently separated from each other at the expanded end section, and this improves separation efficiency of the gas-liquid separator.

A bus bar attaching member 1 forming a room lamp 10 for a vehicle includes a housing 2 and a plurality of bus bars 3a, 3b, 3h and 3i insert molded in the housing 2. Further, in wiring parts 5 of the bus bars 3a and 3b, impact absorbing parts 6a and 6b are provided that prevent an impact when an electric wire 8 is pressed in contact with pressure contact parts 4 from being transmitted to parts attaching parts 7. The impact absorbing parts 6a and 6b are configured in U shaped forms by first absorbing parts 61a and 61b extending in the directions intersecting virtual straight lines K1 and K2 that connect bottom walls 40 of the pressure contact parts 4 to the parts attaching parts 7, second absorbing parts 62a and 62b and third absorbing parts 63a and 63b.

A parking lock mechanism of an automatic transmission includes a parking gear provided in a casing, a parking pawl engaged with the parking gear to achieve a parking lock state, a parking rod moving in an axial direction to press the parking pawl against the parking gear, and a guide portion guiding movement of the parking rod in the axial direction. The guide portion is formed with a casing.

An imaging device of the present invention includes a solid-state image sensing device; a vertical transfer drive circuit for feeding a subpulse to the solid-state image sensing device; and a control circuit, and repeats a series of photographing operations in a cycle same as or longer than a period during which the series of photographing operations are performed, the series of photographing operations including an exposure operation for exposing an imaging area after the subpulse is fed to the solid-state image sensing device to sweep out electric charges accumulated in pixels. The control circuit stops the subpulse from being fed from the vertical transfer drive circuit to the solid-state image sensing device during a period during which the exposure operation included in the series of photographing operations is not performed.

A bearing unit is provided which includes a shaft (51) to support rotatably, radial bearing (55) to support the shaft (51) circumferentially, a thrust bearing (66) to support the shaft (51) in the direction of thrusting, and a housing (56) having the radial bearing (55) and thrust bearing (66) disposed therein and in which a viscous fluid (57) is filled. The housing (56) has a sealed structure except for a shaft insertion hole (65) formed therein and through which the shaft 51 is introduced. Between the outer surface of the shaft (51) and the inner surface of the shaft insertion hole (65), there is defined a gap (69) having a sufficient width to prevent the viscous fluid (57) filled in the housing (56) from leaking out of the latter. The housing (56) is formed as a one-piece structure by molding a synthetic resin.

A light module is proposed, which includes a frame bearing a plurality of light sources disposed in a matrix arrangement and capable of forming a corresponding number of light points. The frame is configured for assembly with at least one other frame of an identical module, so as to enable juxtaposing and simultaneously driving a predetermined set of light modules. A modular light system is also proposed, which includes an assembly of a plurality of light modules.

Disclosed is a zoom lens system which includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having negative optical power, a second lens unit having positive optical power, and a third lens unit having positive optical power. During the zooming operation of the zoom lens system, a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide-angle end, and a distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit is changed. During the zooming operation of the zoom lens system from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, the second lens unit moves toward the object side. Three lens elements constitute the second lens unit, and the location of its aspherical surface is appropriately set to achieve excellent remarkable performance.

A recording apparatus for performing recording on a data-rewritable recording medium having at least one recording layer includes a recorder configured to record data on the recording layer; and a controller configured to control the recorder so that dummy data is recorded in an order opposite to the order in which user data is recorded.

The present invention provides an electronic device (100) having smaller number of drive chips and including a timing controller (10), a gate and a source drive chips (20, 30), a pixel cells matrix (60) and a multiplexer (40). The multiplexer (40) includes a plurality of first signal outputs connected to the pixel cells matrix (60). The timing controller (10) might generate enable signals for the multiplexer (40). In this way, the multiplexer (40) could output scan signals to the pixel cells matrix by a corresponding signal end. The number of the drive chips could be reduced by the present invention.

Methods and apparatus provide for transferring blocks of data between a shared memory and one or more of a plurality of parallel processors, each processor including a local memory; executing one or more programs within the local memory of one or more of the processors, wherein the one or more programs are coded such that they do not rely on data caching within the processor; and buffering not more than about three instructions from any local memory in any instruction buffer of any processor, wherein the instruction buffer of each processor is adapted to process instructions with substantially maximal efficiency when the one or more programs are coded such that they do not rely on data caching within the processor.