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A lock mechanism for a sliding object includes a slide arm, a rotating lever, and urging means. When an external pressing force presses the slide arm member in opposition to an urging force imparted by the urging means, the slide arm member is moved along a slide path, thereby causing the rotating lever member to rotate. When the slide arm member is pressed further, the tip of the rotating lever member rides onto and is stopped against the lateral surface of the slide arm member, such that the slide arm member and the rotating lever member remain stopped at the current position even if the pressing force is released.

A carrier phase-based relative positioning apparatus includes a plurality of antennas fixedly mounted on a moving body for receiving positioning signals from satellites, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) for measuring accelerations and angular velocities of the moving body, a reference attitude calculator for calculating attitude information about the attitude of the moving body from observables of the IMU at least before an integer ambiguity candidate is initially determined, an integer ambiguity estimator for estimating integer ambiguity candidates from the positioning signals received by the antennas, and an integer ambiguity validator for evaluating correctness of the integer ambiguity candidates estimated by the integer ambiguity estimator.

A drive circuit (20a,20b) for an injector arrangement having at least one piezoelectric injector (12a,12b) is described. The drive circuit comprises: a first charge storage means (C2) for operative connection with the injector (12a,12b) during a discharging phase so as to discharge current to flow therethrough, thereby to initiate an injection event; a second charge storage means (C1) for operative connection with the injector (12a,12b) during a charging phase so as to cause a charging current to flow therethrough, thereby to terminate the injection event; a switch means (Q1,Q2) for controlling whether the first charge storage means (C2) is operably connected to the injector or whether the second charge storage means (C1) is operably connected to the injector; a first voltage supply rail at a first voltage level; a second voltage supply rail at a second voltage level higher than the first; a voltage supply means (22,36); and regeneration switch means (Q5,Q2, L1) operable at the end of the charging phase to transfer charge from the voltage supply means to at least the second charge storage means (C1) via an energy storage device (L1) prior to a subsequent discharging phase.

Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display pixel section including pixels each composed of an arrangement of red, green, and blue subpixels and an additional subpixel of a specified color; and a signal processing section configured to extend signal levels of an input image signal, extract a signal component of the specified color from extended red, green, and blue signals, determine a signal level of the specified color, perform an extension process based on the signal level of the specified color, modulate the red, green, and blue signals subjected to the extension process in accordance with a specified modulation level so as to have different brightness from that of an original image, and modulate brightness of a light source. The input image signal used to determine the modulation level and the input image signal subjected to a modulation process and displayed are of different frames.

A selector valve includes: a first valve element having a through-hole; a first housing having a radial hole through which fluid flowing though the through-hole passes, the first housing accommodating the first valve element; a second valve element having a through-hole; a second housing having radial holes through which fluid flowing through the through-hole passes, the second housing accommodating the second valve element; and a motor configured to integrally actuate the first valve element and the second valve element. A hollow space configured to suppress transfer of heat between the first valve element and the second valve element is formed between the first valve element and the second valve element. A hollow space configured to suppress transfer of heat between the first housing and the second housing is formed between the first housing and the second housing.