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In a vehicle having a battery and a generator, when a residual charge amount of the battery is reduced to a first predetermined amount, a power-generation command is output to a generator, and the battery is charged by the generator driven by an engine. When the residual charge amount is reduced to a second predetermined amount lower than the first predetermined amount, plural air-conditioning electrical devices are stopped. Thereafter, when the residual charge amount of the battery is increased to be larger than the second predetermined amount, the electrical devices are started at different start times.

A memory system, which is connected to a host device, includes a memory, a host interface which receives a command and an address, which are output from the host device, and a controller which operates in one of a first mode in which the controller converts the address which is received by the host interface and accesses the memory by using the converted address, and a second mode in which the host device directly accesses the memory by using the address which is received by the host interface, the controller controlling switching between the first mode and second mode in accordance with the command.

An adjustable bed includes a moving mechanism operable to at least tilt or move up and down a platform of the bed, and a safety switch operable to turn ON and OFF in response to movement of the platform. The moving mechanism is suspended when a power ON-OFF state of the safety switch is changed due to displacement of the safety switch from a predetermined position. In addition, a cover may be disposed over the moving mechanism from an outer surface. The safety switch is disposed at a position determined relative to a position of the cover. The power ON-OFF state of the safety switch is changed upon displacement of the cover from the position.

It is to manage both the reduction of power consumption and the enhancement of quality of picture when a partial display operation is performed. A scanning line driving circuit 350 supplies each of scanning lines 312 in a display region with selection signals in a second half part of one horizontal scanning time period and with non-selection signals in the rest thereof by inverting the polarity every vertical scanning time period. Further, the scanning line driving circuit 350 supplies each of scanning lines 312 in a non-display region with non-selection signals by inverting the polarity every one or more vertical scanning time periods. A data line driving circuit 250 supplies each of data lines 212 with a signal representing a positive-side voltage level VDP and a signal representing a negative-side voltage level VDN in first and second half parts of a horizontal scanning time period, respectively, for a period of time of the same length in the case that a scanning line 312 in a display region is selected. Furthermore, the data line driving circuit 250 supplies each of data lines 212 alternately with a signal representing the positive-side voltage level VDP and a signal representing the negative-side voltage level VDN every one or more horizontal scanning time period.

A paper transportation control method for an apparatus enables conveying paper with appropriate tension on the paper by appropriately controlling the paper delivery operation of a delivery roller. When paper is conveyed by the paper feed roller pair 34 of a roll paper printer 1, and the tension on the paper 8a is detected to exceed an upper tension limit based on the displacement of a damping mechanism 32 (time t2), the paper delivery operation of a delivery roller pair 33 starts at a time t3 after a start operation delay time DLS (first delay time) corresponding to the feed rate V(34) passes after time t2. When the tension returns to or below the upper tension limit, the paper delivery operation stops at a time t5 after a stop operation delay time DLE (second delay time) similarly corresponding to the feed rate V(34) passes. Tension fluctuation (change in the load on the paper feed roller) can be controlled without causing chattering or fluttering in paper delivery operation control.

According to the present invention, in a carrying system comprising a carrying vehicle and a manufacturing apparatus the interior of which is kept cleaner than a surrounding environment, manufactured articles to be transferred are prevented from being contaminated by foreign matter or the like attached to transfer ports. A carrying vehicle includes a running unit 14 that runs along a predetermined carrying path, a cleaning unit 12 that supplies cleaned air, a housing section 13 to which the cleaned air is supplied and in which manufactured articles are housed, a transfer port 11 which is formed in a side of a housing and through which a manufactured article is loaded into or unloaded from the housing section 13, and an air injecting section 19A that blows out air toward the transfer port 11.

A stable, high-speed, high-efficiency constant voltage is provided without a complicated, large-scale, high-cost phase compensation circuit over a wide range of operating conditions. This voltage buck-boost switching regulator consists of a pair of voltage reducing transistors, a pair of voltage boosting transistors, inductance coil, output capacitor and controller. The controller has the following parts for performing PWM control of constant voltage for voltage reducing transistors and voltage boosting transistors: an output voltage feedback circuit, an inductor current sense circuit, a variable sawtooth wave signal generator, switching controllers, and a voltage boosting driver.

A chemical solution is uniformly dispensed from a nozzle by N₂ in spin-coating equipment. The dispensing apparatus includes a canister configured to receive a bottle containing the chemical solution, gas supply piping connecting a source of N₂ to the inside of the canister, a pressure control valve disposed in the gas supply piping, a chemical supply line by which the bottle is connected to the nozzle, a pressure sensor for sensing the pressure of the chemical solution supplied from the bottle, and a controller that controls the pressure control valve on the basis of the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor. The controller opens the pressure control valve further when the value of the signal output by the pressure sensor is less than a value representative of the minimum of a predetermined pressure range, and closes the pressure control valve further when the value of the signal output by the pressure sensor is greater than a value representative of the maximum of the predetermined pressure range. The degree to which the pressure control is open is thus controlled by feedback from the pressure control sensor such that the pressure of the chemical solution remains substantially constant as it is dispensed from the nozzle.

In a hybrid vehicle, once an engine is started in response to prohibition of an operation stop of the engine based on a deterioration factor, the operation stop of the engine is not allowed irrespective of the value of the deterioration factor D until elapse of a certain time period since the start of the engine. The deterioration factor has an increase according to discharge of a battery and a decrease according to charge of the battery and represents start of deterioration of the battery when exceeding a specific reference value. Such prohibition of the engine operation stop prevents a stop of the engine within a relatively short time period after a start of the engine based on the deterioration factor. This arrangement effectively prevents the driver from feeling odd and uncomfortable due to frequent stops and starts of the engine based on the deterioration factor, which is not apparently correlated to the driver's accelerating operations.

A method of setting up a network connection of an image forming device connectable to a network via a first interface and a second interface, the method including setting up a network connection via the second interface, stopping operation of the first interface and initiating operation of the second interface after the setting up of the network connection via the second interface is completed, determining whether the second interface is connected to the network, and, stopping operation of the second interface and initiating operation of the first interface if determined that the second interface is connected to the network.

A battery pack including at least one secondary battery and supplying power to predetermined equipment is disclosed. In the battery pack, charging current to the secondary battery supplied from an external charging device is cut off to suspend charging the secondary battery until receiving a predetermined instruction from the external charging device. The battery pack may comprise a first communication circuit unit for communicating with the external charging device; a first switching circuit unit for cutting off the charging current from the external charging device to the secondary battery; and a control circuit unit for controlling the first switching circuit unit based on information received by the first communication circuit unit. The control circuit unit instructs the first switching circuit unit to cut off the charging current from the external charging device to the secondary battery and suspend charging the secondary battery until receiving the predetermined instruction from the external charging device via the first communication circuit unit.

A normally closed secondary solenoid opening/closing valve 36 is provided along a secondary branched fluid pipe 35 establishing a communication between an accumulator 11 and a reservoir 8 through a fluid pressure input side to a fluid pressure output side of a regulator valve 3, and in the event that a fluid pressure supplied to the regulator valve 3 decreases down to or lower than a predetermined range due to something abnormal occurring in the accumulator 11, the state of the secondary solenoid opening/closing valve 36 is changed over from a closed state to an opened state, whereby a residual pressure in the accumulator 11 and a residual pressure in the output fluid pressure chamber 15 can be released through the reservoir 8 which is in communication therewith through an output fluid pipe 31 and the secondary branched fluid pipe 35 along which the secondary opening/closing valve 36 is provided.

There is provided a technology for preventing disabling of function of a clock monitoring circuit by a hacker in a microcomputer for IC card provided with a clock monitoring circuit as a countermeasure for a hacker. In the microcomputer for IC card provided with the clock monitoring circuit, the clock monitoring circuit is given the function to perform the detecting operation twice during one cycle, namely at the timings of rise and fall of the clock.