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An electromechanical lock includes a latching assembly secured to a first structure, a catch piece secured to a second structure, and an electromechanical device. The latching assembly includes at least one latch element movable between a capture and release states to mechanically engage and disengage the catch piece, an arming member movable between a first and second positions wherein the latch element is released and captured, and a biasing element to urge the arming member into the first position. When the electromagnetic device is switched “on”, it magnetically engages the arming member with sufficient force to overcome the biasing force whereby movement of the catch piece away from the received state results in the latch element moving into the capture state to prevent separation of the first and second structures; when the electromagnetic device is switched “off”, the first and second structures may be separated.

A dual orientation plug connector having a tab portion with first and second opposing exterior surfaces that are substantially identical, parallel and opposite each other. Each exterior surface may have a plurality of electrical contacts. A substantially u-shaped metallic band surrounds a portion of the periphery of the plug connector. A contact assembly having an upper contact carrier, intermediate conductive plate and lower contact carrier may be disposed within the tab portion of the plug connector. A circuit assembly may be disposed within a body portion of the plug connector and electrically coupled to the plurality of electrical contacts.

A mother/daughter card non-volatile memory system includes a daughter card containing the memory and a mother card containing the memory controller and host interface circuits. The daughter memory card contains as little more than the memory cell array as is practical, in order to minimize its cost, and has an interface for connecting with a variety of mother controller cards having physical attributes and host interfaces according to a number of different published or proprietary memory card standards. Different types of memory cards may be used when the operating parameters of the memory are stored within it in a protected location, the mother card controller then reading these parameters and adapting its operation accordingly. A radio frequency antenna may be included on a surface of the card along with its electrical contacts, in order to provide a radio frequency identification function.

A transfer apparatus and an image forming apparatus are disclosed, in which a plurality of photosensitive drums corresponding to the respective colors are arranged along the outer peripheral surface of a transfer belt and a plurality of intermediate transfer rollers for applying a transfer field to the photosensitive drums are arranged offset downstream side from each of the photosensitive drums, respectively. In addition to that, the process, the intermediate transfer rollers are arranged in such positions that each of the nip width are increased progressively downstream side, respectively and each of the nip pressure are decreased progressively downstream side, respectively.

A crystal oscillation device includes a crystal oscillator including a package with first connecting electrodes provided on a flat bottom surface mounted on a flat, thin circuit board. Circuit components and second connecting electrodes provided in one-to-one correspondence with the first connecting electrodes are mounted on one principal surface of the circuit board. The crystal oscillator is supported by top surfaces of a transistor and a varicap diode that are the highest among the circuit components mounted on the circuit board. The crystal oscillator and the circuit board are electrically connected with solder provided between the first and second connecting electrodes. The solder also attracts the crystal oscillator toward the circuit board.

In a power supply device, the bridge circuit including a plurality of switching arms which is an inverse-parallel circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. The power supply device includes a control unit. The control unit switches the semiconductor switch such that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage V_o between the DC terminals only during prescribed time periods before and after a point that has deviated from each zero crossing point ZCP of a current i by a prescribed compensation period φ and such that the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage during the other time periods, and sets the compensation period φ such that a time period during which the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage is the shortest.

An image processing apparatus includes a first shading correction unit configured to perform shading correction for first image data by using a correction coefficient that is set for yielding an area corresponding to the luminance of a corrected trace, and a corrected trace detecting unit configured to perform first image processing for second image data resulting from correction of the first image data by the first shading correction unit to detect the corrected trace.

A projector includes a screen; a reflection unit having at least one curved surface mirror disposed on the projection side of the screen; a bending mirror disposed before the reflection unit on the optical path and disposed on either the non-projection side of the screen or on an extension plane of the screen; a refraction unit disposed before the reflection unit on the optical path and having at least a part disposed on either the non-projection side of the screen or on the extension plane of the screen; and an image forming unit disposed before the refraction unit on the optical path and disposed on the non-projection side of the screen.

A sheet post-processing apparatus (1) includes a punching unit (P), an end-binding unit (S) which aligns end portions of a sheet bundle piled on a processing tray (2) and performs a stapling process, and a middle-binding and middle-folding unit (C) which performs a stapling process on the center of the sheet bundle and then folds centering around the stapling portion to be in a brochure form. The middle-binding and middle-folding unit (C) is independently provided on the lower side of the end-binding unit (S) and a middle-binding and middle-folding feeding path (27) feeds sheets to the middle-binding and middle-folding unit (C) without via the processing tray (2) of the end-binding unit (S).

An optical disk apparatus decides a reading time parameters to be set in a tracking error signal generation part at the reading time by applying a laser light of record power to an optical disk. A state where the laser light of record power is applied to the optical disk is artificially produced based on the reading time parameters decided herein. In the state, the recording time parameters to be set in the tracking error signal generation part at the recording time are decided.

The invention relates to the technical field of electronics, and in particular relates to an energy conversion device and a vehicle. The energy conversion device comprises a reversible PWM rectifier and a motor coil, and the motor coil at least comprises a first winding unit and a second winding unit which are connected with the reversible PWM rectifier; at least one neutral line is led out from each of the first winding unit and the second winding unit, at least one of the neutral lines of the first winding unit and the second winding unit is connected, and at least one neutral line in any one winding unit is connected with the first end of a first direct-current charging and discharging port; the reversible PWM rectifier is connected with the first end of a battery, the second end of thebattery and the second end of the first direct-current charging and discharging port, and when the energy conversion device is applied to an electric vehicle, a direct-current charging and discharging circuit and a driving circuit can reuse the reversible PWM rectifier and the motor coil. The problems that an existing overall control circuit comprising a battery charging circuit and a motor driving circuit is complex in structure, low in integration level, large in size and high in cost are solved.