Disclosed is a method for producing a three dimensionally shaped structure by repeating the following steps (i) and (ii): (i) a step in which a predetermined portion of a powder layer is irradiated with a light beam so as to sinter or to melt and solidify the powder in the predetermined portion thereby forming a sol...

Disclosed is a method for producing a three dimensionally shaped structure wherein the following steps (i) and (ii) are repeated: (i) a step in which a predetermined portion of a powder layer is irradiated with a light beam so as to sinter or to melt and solidify the powder in the predetermined portion thereby formi...

Provided is an image encoding method in which an input image is encoded. The image encoding method includes: a step (S121) in which an offset value is converted into a binary signal said offset value being used in offset processing that is applied to the pixel values of a reconstructed image corresponding to the inp...

Provided is an antenna device comprising a first monopole antenna (110) and a second monopole antenna (120) arranged on an insulative base material (190) wherein the first monopole antenna (110) and the second monopole antenna (120) comprise first sections that extend in the same direction from the feeding ends ther...

A video encoder (900) includes a second coding unit (510) and a second adding unit (512) to obtain a high image quality with a small processing amount. The second coding unit (510) codes one frame (frame 1 + 2) out of two consecutive frames (frame (1 +2), frame (3 +4)) included in a stream (for example, k-th record-...

[ABSTRACT] A refrigerator (1) includes  in a front face of a right door (2f) covering a storage compartment  a sensor panel (7) to which an illuminance detection unit (8) that detects illuminance in a surrounding area is attached. The sensor panel (7) is provided to protrude forward from a surface of the right do...

A load control system includes: a power supply control unit for controlling a power feeding to multiple load devices; and a backup power supply unit for supplying backup power during a power failure. During a power failure, the power supply control unit supplies the power from the backup power supply unit only ...

A video coding method according to the present invention is for coding a signal to be coded which represents a video, and includes: generating a prediction signal predictive of the signal to be coded, based on a coded signal coded prior to the coding of the signal to be coded (S16); quantizing a prediction error obt...

[ABSTRACT] A refrigerator comprises: a main body (101); a partition body (122) which partitions the main body (101) into a plurality of storage compartments to which cool air is supplied; doors (119) each of which is provided in front of a corresponding one of the storage compartments so as to open and close the st...

Disclosed is a wireless communication system provided with: transmitters which alternatively select a plurality of wireless channels having different frequencies to each other and transmit wireless signals; and a receiver which receives the wireless signals transmitted by the transmitters. The receiver is provided w...

Disclosed is a method for AC TIG welding in which welding is performed by alternating a positive-polarity period and a negative-polarity period. It is detected whether the TIG electrode and the object to be welded comes into contact with each other during welding. When they are in contact with each other, a tra...

[ABSTRACT] To maintain an appropriate humidity in a refrigerator using a spray device to spray mist  without depending on a moisture sensor. A refrigerator (100) for forcibly circulating cold air which is gas cooled in a cooling compartment (110)  the refrigerator including: a first storage compartment (107) dispo...

An information storage medium according to the present invention has n information storage layers (where n is an integer and n.3), on which data can be written with a laser beam and which are stacked one upon the other. Each of the n storage layers has a test write zone for determining the recording power of the las...

A radio base station wherein when UE connected to an LTE access network performs a CS Fallback, the time required for the CS Fallback can be reduced. An eNB (100), which moves in a cell providing a first service and further covers a cell providing a second service different from the first service, gives UE, which is...

A wireless communication device, e.g., a mobile station, capable of performing its communication and relay processing for another mobile station, when requested, at the same time without stopping the communication and the relay processing. In the device, an outgoing/incoming call request detection unit (106) detects...

ABSTRACT An air conditioner includes an image pickup means 1 for taking a visible image of a whole indoor space, a display means 3 for displaying image information from the image pickup means 1, and a region designating means 5 for designating, as priority coordinate information in a coordinate system, a point or r...

Provided are a base station, a terminal, a band allocation method, and a downlink data communication method in which a mapping method for synchronization signals and report signals is implemented with high resource usage efficiency when a first system in which an independent single communication is allocated to a un...

Disclosed is a substrate for a light emitting element which has one of the two facing main surfaces as a mounting surface and has the light emitting element mounted on the mounting surface. The substrate for the light emitting element is provided with a protection element for the light emitting element said protecti...

There is provided a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of: (i) forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of a powder layer with a light beam, thereby allowing sintering of the powder of the predetermined portion ...

The object detection device includes: a pyroelectric element configured to output a current signal in response to a change in an amount of infrared light; an I/V conversion circuit including an operational amplifier  a capacitive element serving as a feedback circuit  and a discharging circuit  and configured to con...

A power supply device includes a fuel-cell power device which supplies a direct current (DC) power to one or more load devices using fuel cells as an input source; and a control unit which controls an output from the fuel-cell power device. In the power supply device, when a load current supplied to the load device ...

A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least 5 one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a re...

Disclosed are a antenna device and a portable wireless terminal equipped with same that achieve low coupling and high gain properties in each of at least two frequency bands without increasing the number of power supply units in a configuration wherein a wireless circuit and two antenna elements that operate in the ...

A microwave heating apparatus includes a microwave generation part (5) having a plurality of output parts, a heating chamber (4) to contain an object to be heated, a plurality of feeding parts (21a, 21b, 21c, 21d) supplying outputs of the plurality of output parts to the heating chamber, and a control part (6) contr...

A controller for embedding in a recording medium apparatus in order to control memory access comprises a unique key generation unit that generates a unique key assigned to the controller, a decryption unit that acquires encrypted key information generated by encrypting a private key for the recording medium appa...

To provide a refrigerator including: a heat-insulating main body; a storage compartment defined in the heat-insulating main body; and a mist spray apparatus that sprays a fine mist into the storage compartment. The fine mist generated by the mist spray apparatus has a nano-size particle diameter and reduces microorg...

Disclosed is a cordless telephone set capable of suppressing power consumption during power failures to lengthen the time for a call. A cordless telephone (1) receives power supply from a handset (3) placed on a charging section (26) of a base unit (2), during power failures. In order to suppress current consu...

Provided is a once through fan in which a plurality of impellers comprising a plurality of blades disposed in a cylindrical shape are provided connected in the axial direction. The impellers comprise a circular or disk shaped reinforcement plate having an outer diameter smaller than the diameter of the inner end par...

Provided is a radio communication device which can reduce ISI caused by destruction of an orthogonal DFT matrix even when an SC-FDMA signal is divided into a plurality of clusters and the clusters are respectively mapped to discontinuous frequency bands. The radio communication device includes a DFT unit (110), a di...

A transmission method for simultaneously transmitting a first modulating signal and a second modulating signal at the same frequency, whereby precoding weights are regularly modified in a precoding weight multiplication unit that multiplies pre - coding weights with respect to a baseband signal after a first mappi...

Provided is a method of con-currently transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at the same frequency, wherein both signals are precoded by using a fixed precoding matrix while transmitting the signals by regularly changing at least one of the phase of the first modulated signal or the seco...

A bulb type lamp (100) of the present invention is provided with: a hollow globe (110); an LED module (130) which has a base (140) and LED chips (150) mounted on the base (140) and which is disposed in the globe (110); lead lines (170) for supplying power to the LED module (130); and a stem (120) which is provided t...

Provided is a radio communication base station device which can prevent lowering of use efficiency of a channel communication resource for performing a frequency diversity transmission when simultaneously performing a frequency scheduling transmission and the frequency diversity transmission in a multicarrier commun...

An encoder and decoder using LDPC-CC which avoid lowering the transmission efficiency of information while not deteriorating error correction performance, even at termination; and an encoding method of the same. A termination sequence length determining unit (631) determines the sequence length of a termination sequ...

It is provided a radio communication apparatus and radio communication method that, in the radio communication apparatus having a normal transmitting/receiving mode and a distortion correction mode, communicates successfully without influencing circuit characteristic in a normal transmitting/receiving mode, sends ba...

A PC (1) comprises: a tomographic image information acquisition unit (6); a memory (9); a volume rendering calculation unit (13); a display (2); a mouse (4); and a voxel label setting unit (18). The tomographic image information acquisition unit (6) obtains tomographic image information. The memory (9) stores voxel ...

The present invention achieves a lower cost welding machine allowing the operator to easily set welding conditions and determine welding parameters even if the operator does not have much knowledge about welding conditions. This welding machine is provided with functions for determining welding conditions by selecti...

An iron body includes a concave power receiving portion at the rear portion of a grip and power receiving terminals in the power receiving portion. Stand 16 includes seat 17 where iron body is placed with the front inclined upward, convex power supply portion 18 at the rear portion of seat 17, and electrodes in powe...

Provided is an audio encoding device which can detect an optimal pitch pulse when using pitch pulse information as redundant information. The device includes: a search start decision unit (121) which decides the oldest point among a plurality of points where a pitch pulse may exist; a pitch pulse candidate selection...

A fuel cell of the present invention includes an electrolyte-layer-electrode assembly (5), a first separator (6a), a second separator (6b), and one or more gas permeation suppressing sections, the inner surface of the first separator (6a) and the inner surface of the second separator (6b) have a first region (21) an...

A video plane generation unit decodes stream data into a pair of left-view and right-view video planes, and alternately outputs the video planes in a 3D display mode, and repeatedly outputs either one of the pair of video planes in a pseudo 2D display mode. An image plane generation unit generates a pair of left-...

A light-emitting (130) device including: a base (140) which is translucent; a semiconductor light-emitting element (150) provided on the base (140); a sealing member (160) for sealing the semiconductor light-emitting element (150) and including a first wavelength conversion material (161) for converting a wavelength...

The image coding method is an image coding method for coding a current picture in each of several blocks the method including: a generation step (S1001) for assigning a reference picture index to a reference picture which it is possible to reference during coding of the current picture and generating a reference pic...

An audio apparatus that reduces resistance of air confined within the housing and prevents reduction in the output of the sound wave caused by cancellation of the wave lengths of the positive phase and negative phase sound waves emitted from the vibration plate. In this audio apparatus (1), a sound wave is discharge...

The invention relates to a method for deactivating a semi-persistent resource allocation of a user equipment in an LTE-based mobile communication system. Furthermore, the invention also related to a user equipment and a eNode B implement ing this method. To provide a mechanism for deactivating a semi-persistent reso...

An indoor unit of an air conditioner is provided with an image pickup device that includes a human body detecting means for detecting the presence or absence of a person and an obstacle detecting means for detecting the presence or absence of an obstacle. A wind direction changing means is controlled based on a dete...

Provided is an encoding device which can obtain a sound quality preferable for auditory sense even if the number of information bits is small. The encoding device includes a shape quantization unit (111) having: a section search unit (121) which searches for a pulse for each of bands into which a predetermined searc...

In this power supply system a demand measuring unit measures demand power of a load and a generated power measuring unit measures power generated by means of a solar cell. A threshold value storage unit stores a discharge control threshold value with respect to a residual quantity (residual power quantity) of a stor...

With a video image coding method with which processing efficiency is effected: first information among a plurality of types of Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) information which is employed in SAO which is a process which applies an offset value to a pixel value of a pixel which is included in an image which is generate...

Provided is an electric power control apparatus which enables surplus electric power from a distributed power supply to be stored in a storage battery in a consumer unit provided with a distributed power supply and a storage battery, and which is characterised in being provided with a value calculation unit which ca...

A power distribution system distributes power to each section of a building via a main line which is wired to pass through each section of the building. The power distribution system is equipped with a plurality of sensors which are provided at each section of the building and which monitor the current value of...

Disclosed is a photoelectrochemical cell (100) which is provided with: a semiconductor electrode (120), which includes a conductor (121), a first n-type semiconductor layer (122) having a nanotube array structure, and a second n-type semiconductor layer (123); a counter electrode (130) connected to the conductor (12...

A radio transmitting device and method enables reduction of an increase of CGI memories for the control channel and an improvement  of  the  throughput  of  the  data  channel. When multiplex transmission through the control channel and the data channel is carried out and when adaptive modulation is applied to bo...

A battery module 100 includes a plurality of batteries aligned and accommodated in a housing 20, wherein each batteries has an opening portion 17 at an electrode portion 16 of the battery to release gas generated in the battery outside the battery, the housing 20 is partitioned by a circuit board 30 disposed in cont...

A video image coding device (100) is provided with an intra/inter prediction unit (107). When in regard to one or more spatially adjacent blocks to be coded contained in a picture to be coded or timewise adjacent respective corresponding blocks contained in a picture that is different from the picture to be coded a ...

A communication system includes communication devices that are connected with one another in a ring via a serial link. In the communication system, one communication device issues a standby packet for causing each communication device connected to a part of the link that is not involved with data transfer to swit...

In the event that uplink data is generated in a wireless communication terminal to which an uplink resource has not yet been allocated the terminal uses an individual scheduling request resource on a second cell of a smaller cell coverage than a first cell to transmit a scheduling request and in the event that an up...

A thermal storage device which is arranged so as to surround a compressor (6) and which is for storing heat generated by the compressor (6) is provided with: a thermal storage tank (32) which accommodates a heat storage material (36) for storing the heat generated by the compressor (6); and an adhesive member (52) w...

In a power interchange system, an electric power generated by a power generation device is interchanged between power consuming dwellings in a multi-family house. Each power consuming dwelling generates the power by using the power generation device and receives a commercial AC power supply via a shared power sup...

A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by-multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups . The interactive display includes a plurality of buttons, each of...

Disclosed is a decoding device which can efficiently encode/decode spectral data in a high pass section of a broadband signal can achieve a substantial reduction in the amount of processing computations and can improve the quality of a decoded signal. In the disclosed device: a sample group extraction unit (372) par...

In a case where a user carries out input operation by use of a touch panel, operability can be improved even if the operation target is small, efficient input operation is enabled by the user in various situations. The screen generation unit 200 generates screen display information of a display screen including an o...

In the present invention a nitride semiconductor light emitting element is provided with a monocrystalline substrate (1) an AlN layer (2) a first nitride semiconductor layer (3) of a first conductivity type a light emitting layer (4) made of an AlGaN based material and a second nitride semiconductor layer (6) of a s...

Provided is a DC connection device comprising a first connector connected to a DC power supply (2) side or a load (3) side, and a second connector connected to the first connector. The DC connection device is provided with a semiconductor switch (13) which is switched ON when at least one of the terminals (11 , 12) ...

A communication terminal apparatus that exhibits a shorter time period required until a start of communication and causes the throughput in the wireless communication system to be less reduced. In this apparatus, when the number, N, of retransmissions notified by a response determining part (107) is zero, a subchann...

A light-emitting device which emits light tomni directionally is provided. A light-emitting device (1) according to the present invention includes: a package (10) which is translucent; an LED (20) provided in a recess (11) in the package (10); and a sealing member (30) for sealing the LED (20) and packaging the rece...

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (150) which observes an inside of a body of a subject based on reflected ultrasound waves (201) reflected from the inside of the body and obtained using an ultrasound probe (101), includes: a B-mode image generation unit (104) which generates a B-mode image (202), based on the refl...

A power distribution system includes: a remote electricity monitoring device which is provided at each power supply destination, and remotely reads, via communication means, an consumed power amount and an surplus power amount stored in a power storage device at each supply destination; and a management server ...

A power supply system includes a current detection unit for detecting a current used by a load and an electric cell. The power supply system further includes a control unit fcr controlling the electric power stored in the electric cell to be supplied to the load if it is determined that the current detected by ...

To solve the problem that the user"s finger may be pinched and prevent the deterioration of the operability on the one-push portion in a structure in which at least either of outer hinge members is rotated relative to a second housing provided with a main operation section. In a folding portable electronic device, a...

Provided are a radio transmission apparatus and a radio transmission method whereby the increase of number of signaling bits can be suppressed and further the flexibility of frequency scheduling can be improved. A notified RBG calculating unit (203) that adds a predetermined offset value of "1" or "-1" to one of the...

Provided is an encoding device which can reduce the encoding distortion as compared to the conventional technique and can obtain a preferable sound quality for auditory sense. In the encoding device, a shape quantization unit (111) quantizes the shape of an input spectrum with a small number of pulse positions and p...

A recording apparatus 100 is for a DVD on which a TS-VOB, and pieces of playbackpath information each showing a playback path of the TS-VOB are recorded. When extended control with various contents can be executed by an apparatus at the time of playback, an extended attribute section in which extended control is val...

(EN) An information recording medium evaluation method includes: a step of receiving a digital reproduction signal generated from an analog reproduction signal indicating the information reproduced from an information recording medium and shaping the waveform of the digital reproduction signal; a step of subjecting ...

It comprises cylindrical feeder collet (6) formed with a slit portion at a front end thereof for feeding power to a welding wire internally set through; collet case (7) for storing feeder collet (6) therein, having an abutment on which the end of feeder collet (6) is abutted; flexible inner tube (4) for leading ...

An air conditioner (1) is configured in such a manner that the cooling and heating ability thereof can be adjusted on the basis of the illumination intensity outputted at predetermined time intervals from an il¬lumination intensity sensor (2) provided to the indoor unit  and the air conditioner (1) is provided with ...

A ceiling fan has a suspension section a pipe section and a body. The body is provided with a connection section. The upper part of the connection section has a connection hole. The lower part of the pipe section has a pipe hole. The connection section is inserted into the pipe section. The ceiling fan is also provi...

An electromagnetic trip device (90) includes a coil spring (98), a first core (93) fitted into the coil spring (98), and a second core (97) urged away from the first core (93) by the coil spring (98) . The first core (93) and the second core (97) are configured to come into contact with each other and move away from...

An undervoltage trip device for a circuit breaker includes an undervoltage detection unit (19) that compares a voltage (Vx) corresponding to a voltage of a power supply (AC) with a first threshold voltage (Vtl) and outputs an undervoltage detection signal (Vd). A delay unit (20) outputs an excitation current interru...

The circulatory dynamics measurement apparatus (10) comprises: a blood pressure computing unit (18) which calculates the maximum blood pressure value (SYS); a vascular sclerosis computing unit (17) which calculates the vascular sclerosis index (VSI); and a display unit (19) for displaying a graph having a horizontal...

To provide a microfluidic device which does not apply a meandering reaction channel and thus can be reduced in size, the microfluidic device comprising a reaction channel is characterized in that a plurality of thermal cycle regions which respectively comprise at least two thermal regions with different temperatures...

This semiconductor material comprises oxynitrides containing at least one element selected from the group 4 elements and the group 5 elements wherein a portion of the oxygen and/or nitrogen is replaced by carbon. Nb is preferred as the group 5 element.

The overhead of notifications of other-user modulation information contained in individual control information in a multiuser-MIMO mode is reduced. A wireless communication device according to the invention includes: a pilot sequence allocation section which allocates pilot sequence numbers that are used in spatia...

In order to provide a microwave heating device and a microwave heating control method which are capable of uniformly heating a to-be-heated object in a desired state, by employing plural feeding portions provided in a heating chamber on the basis of information about reflected electric power from the respective feed...

The present invention provides a glass tube for a fluorescent lamp, comprising: a main body that is made of glass containing 60wt% to 75wt% of a silicon oxide material and 5wt% to 18wt% of an alkaline earth metal oxide material; a first film that is formed at least on a circumference surface of the main body and...

The present invention provides a glass tube for a fluorescent lamp, comprising: a main body that is made of glass containing 60wt% to 75wt% of a silicon oxide material and 5wt% to 18wt% of an alkaline earth metal oxide material; and a film that is formed at least on a circumference surface of the main body and i...

A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device according to the present invention has a nitride-based semiconductor multilayer structure 50. The nitride-based semiconductor multilayer structure 50 includes: an active layer 32 including an AlglnbGacN crystal layer (where a + b + c = 1, a≥0, b≥0 and c≥0); an AldG...

A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device 100 includes a GaN substrate 10, of which the principal surface is an n-plane 12, a semiconductor multilayer structure 20 that has been formed on the m-plane 12 of the GaN-based substrate 10, and an electrode 30 arranged on the semiconductor multilayer structure 20...

SP signals to be transmitted from a first transmitting antenna 11 are arranged in the same pattern as SP signals to be transmitted from a second transmitting antenna 12 . The SP signals to be transmitted from the second transmitting antenna 12 in one symbol are generated, such that the polarity of the SP signal...

A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device 100 includes: a GaN substrate 10 with an m-plane surface 12; a semiconductor multilayer structure 20 provided on the m-plane surface 12 of the GaN substrate 10; and an electrode 30 provided on the semiconductor multilayer structure 20. The electrode 30 includes an ...

A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device 100 includes a GaN substrate 10, of which the principal surface is an m-plane 12, a semiconductor multilayer structure 20 that has been formed on the m-plane 12 of the GaN-based substrate 10, and an electrode 30 arranged on the semiconductor multilayer structure 20...

Disclosed are a base station and a terminal which implement wideband uplink data communication as well as implementing a placement method for control channels (CCHs) in a frame, which can be used by terminals having various terminal capabilities. In a base station (200), a control unit (270) selects a configuration ...

ABSTRACT An IC package (50) includes an integrated circuit (10) for transmitting and receiving a pair of differential signals composed of a signal having positive polarity and a signal having negative polarity  a first signal terminal (41a) for transmitting the signal having positive polarity  a second signal termi...

Abstract To provIde an electronIc apparatus that can prevent electronIc components #rom beIng separated #rom a cIrcuIt board. The electronIc apparatus 10 Includes a cIrcuIt board 25  an electronIc component 28 mounted on the cIrcuIt board 25 vIa solder balls 26  a cover member 30 mounted on the cIrcuIt board 25 so...

Provided is a molded body for a dental cutting tool having excellent esthetics and mechanical properties and having excellent ability to be molded from a molding composition. The molded body for a dental cutting tool is obtained by hardening a molding composition containing a polymerizable monomer a polymerization i...

Provided are a base station terminal transmission method and reception method that allow downstream allocation control information to be efficiently transmitted. In the base station (100) a search space setting unit (103) sets a search space on the basis of a search space setting rule in accordance with R PDCCH rang...

An object of the invention is to provide a thermal insulation material that can easily make the low density, high fluidity, high strength and thermal insulation property of a foamed polyurethane resin be compatible and can suppress the increase of manufacturing cost by the easy management, obtaining, or manufacture ...

There is provided a low loss slow wave transmission line that can be miniaturized. A slow wave transmission line of the present invention has a configuration which includes a repeated arrangement of a low impedance line and a high impedance line and in which the high impedance line is longer than the low impedance l...

A power charging device for electric vehicles related to the present invention provides power conversion means grounding means ground short detection means and opening/closing means. The power conversion means is placed between an external circuit and a pair of power source terminals of a storage battery unit provid...

An information recording medium (300) of the present invention is an information recording medium on or from which information can be recorded or reproduced by irradiation with an optical beam (10), and includes a dielectric layer b, a recording layer (335) and a dielectric layer a in this order from an optical beam...

Collected-dust-amount indicating device (16) includes a pointer tube, at least a part of which is configured with a transparent material. The pointer tube includes a first end portion to which a first pressure is applied, and a second end portion to which a second pressure is applied. In the inside of the pointer tu...

A power supply system (10) is provided with a power supply device (100) for supplying a load device (200) with power; an electrical storage device (300) for supplying the load device (200) with power by replacing the power supply device (100) when the power supply device (100) is stopped; and a power supply contro...

In a communication system for performing communication while switching between full-duplex communication and half-duplex communication, a slave 200, which receives command packet signals requesting to write or read data from the master 100, houses information, in a response packet signal, that specifies half-duplex...

A heat exchange unit main body case (11) including a first blast fan (12) for a first environment and a second blast fan (13) for a second environment, and a first heat exchanger (14) and a second heat exchanger (15) for exchanging a heat between the first environment and the second environment in the main body ...

If a short circuit does not occur during deceleration of a wire feed speed in forward feed of a welding wire before the wire feed speed reaches a predetermined wire feed speed, a cyclic change is stopped and the wire feed speed is constantly controlled at the first feed speed. If a short circuit occurs during fo...

This input/output device which has a function for inputting and outputting information to external equipment is provided with a control unit for communicating with external control equipment. Electrical equipment which communicates with the input/output device is provided with: an input/output assignment storage uni...

Abias of reception qualities between spatial streams to a plurality of terminal devices is suppressed in a multiuser MIMO transmission. A wireless communication device according to the invention is one for performing a spatial multiplexing transmission to the plurality of terminal devices  that includes an additiona...

Electric food prepartion apparatus has a main body containing an energizing mechanism to control a motor and energization, a first pin for turning on/off the energizing mechanism, a second pin coupled to the first pin in an opposite direction through a movable mechanism, a cooking cup placed on the main body in...

A radio arrival direction estimation device that accurately estimates the arrival direction of radio waves from a desired tag, even when there are multiple antennas disposed at short intervals. When ID detection timing is provided from a timing detector (114) to a switch (201). relative amplitude/phase data related ...

This image encoding method uses motion vectors to encode images and includes an encoding step (S801) in which a difference vector which represents the difference between a motion vector and a predicted motion vector which is the predicted value of the motion vector is encoded. In the encoding step (S801): a first pa...

A hydrogen generation device or a fuel cell system of the present invention can prevent deterioration or breakage of portions of the hydrogen generation device, which is caused by thermal stress attributable to repeated operation and halt. Thus, it is possible to increase the life and enhance the stability of the de...

Provided is a communication system wherein a terminal (1) connected to an internal network (5) communicates with an external network (9) via a control apparatus (2) that controls the communication. The control apparatus (2) comprises: an address registering unit (33) for registering a set of address and ID of the te...

A two-wire load control device prevents load malfunctioning, such as erroneous emission of an LED, due to a leak current, even when loads not taking countermeasures against noise are connected. The load control device is connected in series between a commercial power source and a load and an off power supply for e...

This AC conversion circuit converts a single phase AC input voltage with a frequency f0 into a three phase AC output voltage with a frequency f1 which is lower than the frequency f0. This AC conversion circuit is provided with: a switching unit (101) which converts the AC input voltage on the basis of a control sign...

Provided is a fuel cell system wherein reformed gas generated by a reformer (R1) that is being operated is supplied to a fuel cell stack (F1) off gas discharged from the fuel cell stack (F1) is supplied to a heat feeder (B2) provided in a reformer (R2) that is being stopped. Consequently by operating at least one re...

A precoding method that generates a plurality of precoded signals from a plurality o f baseband signals, said pre- coded signals being transmittea m the same frequency band at the same time. One matrix i s selected fiOm among N matrices (F[i], with i = 0 , 1, 2 , N ) for the aforementioned plurality o f baseband s...

A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least 5 one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a re...

This washing machine is provided with a water tank, a drum, a water-supply valve (6), and a water-supply hose (20). The water-supply hose (20) has a two-layer structure comprising an inner hose (16) and an outer hose (26) containing the inner hose (16), a space part (28) being formed between the inner hose (16) and ...

If a defective cluster in a spare area is managed with a defect entry, the size of a DFL will increase as the size of" the spare area increases with an increase in the number of recording layers stacked in a disc. An information recording medium according to the present invention has pointer information indicating t...

A light-transmitting resin coating composition for use in a light reflecting member that is highly resistant to ultraviolet rays and highly cross-linked and has high gas barrier properties so as to be able to maintain high reflectivity under high temperature conditions over a long period of time. The light-transm...

An electric-power transaction apparatus and a control method thereof are disclosed which can perform electric power transaction with high reliability between a person who desires to sell high value electric power and a person using low value electric power who desires to obtain high value electric power. An electric...

A method of detecting symbols of an OFDM signal constituted by a plurality of carriers transmitted from another communication apparatus, includes a first selection step of selecting first carriers, where a phase difference between the symbols adjacent on a time domain is smaller than a predetermined value, from a pl...

Disclosed is a rectifier circuit device that by chopping a semiconductor switch (104) shorts or opens the output terminal of a single phase AC power source (1) via a reactance rectifying the AC voltage supplied by the single phase AC power source (1) via the reactance (102) into a DC voltage and supplying said DC vo...

It is possible to improve the CQI reception performance even when a delay is caused in a propagation path, a transmission timing error is caused, or a residual interference is generated between cyclic shift amounts of different ZC sequences. For the second symbol and the sixth symbol of the ACK/NACK signal which are...

By automatically adjusting a gain according to the presence or absence of head set connection and a head set microphone, an electronic circuit has improved sound collecting performance and prevents the microphone from casually collecting sound. In the circuit, a voltage detecting unit (105) outputs a result of compa...

This power source device (100) comprises a connecting part (40) to which a storage cell pack (200) is connected a power converter for converting DC power outputted from the storage cell pack (200) via the connecting part (40) to first power a power plug (70) connected to an external power source a power supply part ...

ABSTRACT A charging system and a method for controlling the charging system are disclosed, which can perform efficient charging with limited supplied electric power when a plurality of parked electric vehicles are simultaneously charged. The charging system includes an electric power usage measuring device (2), a c...

The present invention provides an image coding method and an image decoding method by which an image can be restored correctly even if part of memory management information is lost by a transmission channel error, a candidate of a reference image that can be referred to is selected more appropriately, and coding eff...

The error correcting decoding device of the present invention performs Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) decoding which accommodates a plurality of coding rates while sharing circuits to suppress increase in circuit scale. If the set encoding rate is a second encoding rate which is a higher encoding rate than a first ...

Disclosed is a portable wireless device capable of downsizing the device body and reducing the cost while reducing the deterioration in antenna performance by electromagnetic coupling caused by proximately arranging two antenna elements. A slit (24) is formed in a ground pattern between a second power feeding unit (...

Provided is a radio communication base station device which can suppress a use amount of an SRS communication resource. In this device, a correlation rule setting unit (102) sets a rule for correlating a preamble with an SRS transmission time interval so that the preamble transmission time band and the SRS transmiss...

Provided is a DC/DC converter having a DC input terminal to which a DC power supply is input, a transformer, and a bidirectional switching element on the primary side of the transformer.

A terminal device free of interference between an RACH and a PUSCH or the like even when a base station device with a large coverage is installed. In the device, a configuration number extraction unit (103) extracts a configuration number from a BCH received by a BCH reception unit (102). A control unit (104) determ...

The present invention provides a terminal device that allows constraints on new user allocation to be prevented and a spread code to be allocated in a scheduler even when non adaptive HARQ control is employed using a PHICH. A codeword generator (103) generates code words (CW) by encoding a data sequence a layer mapp...

Provided are a base station a terminal a transmission method and a reception method whereby the erroneous detection of control information can be reduced thereby preventing the degradation of the system throughput. A base station (100) maps a downstream allocation control information unit (i.e. DCI) which is address...

The present invention describes a method for configuring a measurement report type to be used by a receiver to report a measurement to a transmitter, wherein the measurement is reported to the transmitter in a report signal over a control channel, said method comprising selecting a first measurement report type an...

Provided are a terminal device and a retransmission control method by which, when carrier aggregation communication using a plurality of downlink unit bands is applied, the quality of downlink data transmitted by each downlink unit band can be maintained, while suppressing the increase in overhead of downlink alloca...

An inverter control device of the present invention drives one of the two switching circuits with a fixed conduction width and changes the control method of the other switching circuit between pulse-width modulation, phase control method, and drive signal width control method by phase control method according to...

The information recording medium (1) of the present invention includes a recording film (114, 124). The information recording medium (1) allows information to be recorded and reproduced on and from the information recording medium by irradiation of the recording film (114, 124) with a laser beam (18). The informatio...

A plug,adapted to be connected to a direct current (DC) outlet for supplying a DC power thereto, includes a plurality of round bar- shaped plug pins which promides from a front surface of a plug main body, and a surrounding wall which promides from the front surface of the plug main body to surround the plug ...

Provided are a distance measuring device and a distance measuring method which can easily distinguish a reflected signal from a desired tag from an unnecessary wave so as to improve the distance  measuring  accuracy  even  when  IR-UWB is used for measuring a distance.The method uses a reader" ID indicated by a  cod...

A plug is adapted to be. connected to a DC outlet to supply a DC power to the plug. The plug includes plug pins and a substantially quadrangular - shaped surrounding wall for surrounding the plug pins. The DC outle includes: an outlet main body having an outlet unit to which the plug is adapted to be connec...

In an image encoding method enabling the reduction of processing load when a plurality of pictures contained in a dynamic image signal are layered and classified so that each picture is associated with a layer among a plurality of layers a picture associated with the second layer which is in a region delimited accor...

In this control method a portable information terminal computer is caused at a display to display a display screen representing a layout diagram of one floor including at least two rooms apparatus icons representing each of at least one subject apparatus are caused to be displayed on the display screen representing ...

Provided is an optical information medium measuring method for measuring the modulation degree of an optical information medium which has a multilayer structure having a plurality of information layers. The method includes: a first step of measuring the modulation degree of each layer of the optical information medi...

Provided is a radio communication device which can prevent interference between SRS and PUCCH when the PUCCH transmission bandwidth fluctuates and suppress degradation of CQI estimation accuracy by the band where no SRS is transmitted. The device includes: an SRS code generation unit (201) which generates an SRS (So...

[ABSTRACT] To provide a simply-structured image decoding apparatus which appropriately executes parallel decoding processing. The image decoding apparatus includes: a stream segmentation unit (130) which generates four segment streams by segmenting each of the pictures included in a bit stream into plural MB lines...

An information processing system includes an emergency use device and a portable communication device. The emergency use device includes an identification information storage section which stores identification information indicating a usage state and a transmitting section which transmits the identification informa...

The disclosed liquid treatment device comprises: a first metal electrode whereof at least part is arranged within a reaction tank into which water to be treated is introduced; a second metal electrode arranged within said reaction tank; an insulator forming a closed space provided so as to surround said first metal ...

The present invention relates to digital data communication and provides an efficient method for generating multi - dimensional constellations for digital data modulation with a high degree of modulation diversity, a method for transmitting and receiving data on the basis of such constellations, and a correspo...

Provided is a multi-hop communication system in which a plurality of parent terminals respectively carry out multi-hop communication together with a plurality of child terminals, and in which the child terminals establish a communication route with one parent terminal. The multi-hop communication system is character...

In a method for controlling pulse arc welding where an arc is created between a wire and a base material, a pulse waveform different from the pulse waveform for steady-state welding is outputted when a predetermined time has passed since short-circuit welding control was started at arc start, and after a suffici...

A body fat measurement device, including: a plurality of electrodes which contact a body surface of the subject; a current application unit which passes a current between a pair of electrodes of the plurality of electrodes; a first measurement unit which measures a voltage between another pair of electrodes, whil...

A storage battery unit unifies a storage battery a controller for monitoring the storage battery a control power supply for supplying operating power to the controller a charging/discharging terminal and a break switch provided in a charging/discharging path provided between the charging/discharging terminal and the...

ABSTRACT Positive and negative directions can be determined, and a magnetic field can be detected with high reliability. A magnetic field sensor according to the present invention includes a ferromagnetic thin film 3, feeders 5A and 5B having input and output terminals configured to supply element current to the f...

A transmitting circuit 14 is connected to a communication line 4 and configured to transmit a primary signal 51, being a current signal, to the communication line 4 by changing a current flowing from a transmission unit 2 via the communication line 4. A receiving circuit 15 is configured to receive a secondary ...

A terminal apparatus is disclosed wherein even in a case of applying SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO at the same time, the inter-sequence interference in a plurality of pilot signals used by the same terminal can be suppressed to a low value, while the inter-sequence interference in pilot signal between terminals can be reduced...

In a microwave heating device, a control portion (7) performs an operation for alternately repeating a sweeping operation for detecting reflected electric power with an electric-power detection portion while changing an oscillation frequency of an oscillation portion and fixing a phase value of a phase variable port...

Disclosed is a microwave heating device  radiation units of which have the ability to radiate both linearly-polarized and circularly-polarized microwaves. The disclosed microwave heating device  which also has novel radiation functionality capable of power combining  is provided with a plurality of radiation units ...

An expanded lattice body (1) having a mesh section (2) formed using a reciprocating expansion machining method. The mesh section (2) is formed by expanding downwards a section in a sheet that comes in contact with a machining blade while forming slits in the sheet by reciprocally operating an expansion machining mol...

A floor member for wiring includes a plurality of unit bodies arranged to interpose wiring channels therebetween and provided with flat top surfaces, and a cover member attached to the wiring channels in a flush relationship with the top surfaces of the unit bodies. The cover member has a first hole portion of ...

According to the present invention, the size of defect management information is reduced by using a top spare area 102 and middle spare areas 103 in the ascending order of their physical block addresses and spare areas can be expanded more easily by using only the last spare area 104 in the descending order of its p...

A recording medium in which a left-view video stream and a right -view video stream are recorded in an interleaved transport stream file. The interleaved transport stream file is identified by a combination of (i) an equivalent identification number being equivalent with the file reference information and (ii) a...

A radio base station apparatus wherein even when a single-base-station transmission and a plural-base-station cooperative transmission are implemented at the same time, the terminal-to-base-station feedback information amount and the ICI can be reduced, thereby improving the reception characteristic of a terminal ex...

This microbial counting cell comprises: a bottomed cylindrical container (1) having an upper surface opening (2); and a cylindrical holder (5) arranged upright on the bottom surface in the container (1) a sampling element provided to the lower end section of a rod shaped cotton swab being inserted into the holder (5...

A photoelectrochemical cell (100) includes: a semiconductor electrode (120) including a conductor (121) and semiconductor layers (122  123) disposed on the conductor (121); a counter electrode (130) connected electrically to the conductor (121); an electrolyte (140) in contact with surfaces of the semiconductor lay...

An image coding method for properly handling a 3D video format including a base layer and an enhancement layer includes a video layer and a system layer. The video layer includes a step (S1801) of coding an image to generate a coded stream. The system layer includes a step (S1802) of multiplexing the coded stream an...

Provided is an encoder apparatus that can suppress the quality degradation of encoding processes and also can reduce the processing amount of the encoder apparatus in an encoding system in which the encoding process suitable for voice signals and the encoding process suitable for music signals are combined in a hier...

This cogeneration system (100) is provided with: an SOFC cell (13) that generates electricity by an electric power generating reaction using a fuel gas and air that are provided; a reformer (16) that generates reformed gas using the electric power generating reaction heat and combustion heat; a vaporizer (15) that g...

This method for producing a flexible semiconductor device is characterized by comprising: a step for forming a gate electrode; a step for forming a gate insulating layer that comes into contact with the gate electrode; a step for forming a semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer in such a manner as to face ...

A light bulb shaped lamp (1) according to the present invention includes: a base board (120); an LED chip (110) mounted on the base board (120); a base (190) for receiving power from outside; at least two power-supply leads (140) for supplying power to the LED chip (110); and a globe (170) for housing the base board...

A circuit breaker includes a fixed contact plate provided with a fixed contact, a movable contact arm provided with a movable contact, and a trip mechanism. The trip mechanism includes a coil in which the fixed contact plate is connected to one end of the coil. The trip mechanism is designed to actuate, when a s...

A wireless tag device (2) receives a response request signal from a wireless reader device (3) and measures the receiving strength thereof. In response to the response request signal the wireless tag device (2) determines whether a communication with the wireless reader device (3) was successful. The wireless tag de...

An electrochemical device (100) according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided with: a first substrate (12); a second substrate (52) disposed such that a gap is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate; an electrolyte medium (24) which includes an electrolyte solution and with whi...

Provided are a quantization device and quantization method which reduce coding distortion with a small degree of calculation and achieve adequate coding performance thereby. A multistage vector quantization unit (102) treats a number of candidates N which are designated prior to operation in the first stage vector q...

A light-emitting device capable of effectively dissipating heat generated at an LED is provided. The light-emitting device according to the present invention includes: a base board (140); and an LED chip (150) mounted on the base board (140). The base board (140) is a translucent base board made of a polycrystalli...

An in-mold molded product according to the present invention includes: molded resin; a transfer film including an adhesive layer in contact with the molded resin; and a plurality of filler pieces, at least a part of volumes of the filler pieces being contained in the adhesive layer.

A power control system is provided with a plurality of electric appliances and a power control apparatus that controls the operation of the plurality of electric devices. The plurality of electric devices are grouped into one or a plurality of groups, each group containing a plurality of electric devices, and on the...

An air conditioner has a refrigeration cycle configured by connecting a compressor a condenser a decompressor and an evaporator. Sealed within the refrigeration cycle is a mixed refrigerant composed primarily of difluoromethane (R32) and tetrafluoropropene (HFO 1234yf or HFO 1234ze) and having an R32 concentration o...

A polymer electrolyte fuel cell of the present invention includes a membrane electrode assembly (5) having a pair of electrodes (4a, 4b) sandwiching a portion of a polymer electrolyte membrane (1) which is inward relative to a peripheral portion thereof, a first separator (6a), and a second separator (6b), the first...

The disclosed air conditioner is provided in the main body (1) of an indoor unit with an ozone and ion generating device for generating ozone and ionic wind by electric discharge. The ozone/ion generating device is arranged in said main body such that the ionic wind generated by the ozone/ion generating device moves...

A wireless  terminal  device  which  can be  connected  to  a wireless  LAN  service  to  which  the  terminal  can  be  connected without  regard  to  the  identifier  for  specifying  a  wireless  LAN service, a wireless connection method, and a program are provided. A wireless  terminal  device  (100)  stores  co...

ABSTRACT An antenna apparatus (101) includes: an extension conductor (121) connected to a section of an outer perimeter of an antenna element (102) and along an entire length of the section; and a slit (105) extending from the antenna element (102) to the extension conductor (121) so as to intersect a portion betwee...

ABSTRACT An antenna apparatus (501) includes: an extension conductor (122) connected to a first section of an outer perimeter of an antenna element (102) and along an entire length of the first section; connecting conductors (104a and 104b) connecting the antenna element (102) to a ground conductor (103) between the...

In an air-conditioning control system, a ventilating device performs ventilation between an indoor space and an outdoor space, and an absence detecting unit for detecting absence of a human within the indoor space. An air conditioning controller adapted to operated, when the absence of the human is detected by ...

ABSTRACT In a microwave heating apparatus of the invention, microwaves from oscillation parts la, lb are divided into a plurality of microwaves by power division parts 2a, 2b and inputted to amplification parts 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, and desired microwave powers from the amplification parts are supplied from feeding parts...

A power distribution system includes a direct current (DC) power source and an appliance selection unit for selecting one or more appliances that can be operated with an available power of the DC power source. The power distribution system further includes a display unit for displaying results of selection by the ap...

To provide a playback device capable of requesting for a content generated in a format compatible with its processing capability and playing back the content, with no need of user input of a user ID or the like. A playback device for playing back contents reads, from an external recording medium, a playback right of...

The present invention relates to a spectrum coding apparatus comprising an acquisition section that acquires a first spectrum which frequency k is in a band of 0 ≤ k < FL; an acquisition section that acquires a second spectrum which frequency k is in a band of 0 ≤ k < FH; an estimation section that estimate...

[ABSTRACT] An image enlargement apparatus (108) includes: an interpolation unit (104 and the like) that generates a high-resolution interpolation image (OL) from a low-resolution image (101); a synthesis unit (105) that generates a first high-resolution image (FIG. 11B, alternate long and short dash line data in a ...

The present invention relates to a spectrum coding apparatus comprising an acquisition section that acquires a first spectrum which frequency is in a band of 0 ≤ k < FL; an acquisition section that acquires a second spectrum which frequency is in a band of 0 ≤ k < FH; an estimation section that generates an...

A system for controlling an electric power supply to devices is provided. The system includes a plurality of power supply sources, devices operated by an electric power, and a control part that determines the power supply source to be used for supplying the electric power to the devices. Further, the control part co...

A power distribution system includes power sources and an outlet which is supplied with electric power from the power sources and displays information on which power source is currently supplying the electric power. Further, the power distribution system includes a controller which changes the power sources for supp...

During autonomous operation a power conditioner for power generation performs maximum power point tracking control so as to maximize generated power from a solar cell and a power conditioner for charging and discharging performs constant voltage control so that the voltage from an autonomous feed line detected by a ...

Disclosed is a CCE+ number allocation method which reduces the ACK./NACK (Acknowledgment/Negative Acknowledgment) collision probability in a mixed system containing an LTE (Long Term Evolution) system and an LTE+ (Long Term Evolution Advanced) system. A CCE(Control Channel Element)+ number is defined by selecting a ...

The infrared sensor in accordance with the present invention includes a pyroelectric element, an IC device, and a surface-mounted package. The IC device is configured to process an output signal of the pyroelectric element. The package is configured to house the pyroelectric element and the IC device. The package...

According to the present invention in a welding machine that enables manual welding a voltage reducing device is activated by detecting the turning on of power to the welding machine rather than by turning on an activation checking switch for the voltage reducing device irrespective of AC or DC systems. By thus impl...

T o reduce the coding loss i n transmission o f valid data while establishing early symbol synchronization between a transmission side and a reception side i n transmission o f channel-coded serial data. A transmission circuit selects first channel coding (for example, 8B/10B) capable o f early establishment in an...

Video streams, control programs, and an index table are recorded on a recording medium. The video streams include a progressive-picture video stream and an interlaced-picture video stream, and the frame rates for the video stream constructed from progressive pictures include a mandatory rate and an optional rate. Th...

The present invention provides a lead storage cell for installation in a vehicle having extended life as well as excellent discharge characteristics under harsh conditions such that it is possible to restart the engine even when left for an extended period subsequent to repeated engine start up. In this lead storage...

Disclosed are an encoder, a transmission device, and an encoding method with which the transmission amount is reduced and a deterioration in transmission efficiency is suppressed while improving reception quality when QC-LDPC or a like block encoding is used. A puncture pattern setting unit (620) searches for a punc...

There is prevented occurrence of a failure, such as nipping of a user"s finger during opening and closing of enclosures, while a high design performance is implemented in connection with a structure in which at least one exterior hinge member rotates with respect to a second enclosure having a main operation section...

A control switch 1 for an automatic transmission includes: a housing 10 that includes a bearing portion 31 in which a bearing hole 31a is formed, the bearing hole 31a allowing a shaft portion 42 of a movable body 4 0 to be inserted therethrough and to freely rotatably pivoted therein; and an oil seal 50 to be attach...

A multilevel inverter device comprises: a series circuit of first and second switch elements (21, 22) connected between the high and low voltage side terminals of a DC power supply (2); a series circuit of two capacitors (11,12) connected in parallel to the first and second switch elements (21,22) so as to generate ...

A problem of the invention is to, while miniaturizing a coupling portion for coupling first and second cases constituting a portable terminal, prevent a cable that is passed through the coupling portion, from being raised, and fix the cable to the coupling portion with adjusting an extra length of the cable. The por...

A first bit rate calculation processing unit of a digital receiving device according to the present invention receives receiving packet data including first packet data and second packet data and calculates a first bit rate of the receiving packet data. When the first bit rate is not larger than a given threshold, t...

This washing machine is provided with at least a washing machine main body (2) an inner tank (1) a water tank (40) a water tank cover (35) and an upper outer contour (3) and is provided with: an operation board (9); a protective case (13) that protects the operation board (9); a housing section (5) that houses the p...

An audio encoder (70) for encoding a moving picture includes a buffer (16c) having a plurality of memory areas capable of storing image data of a frame containing a top field and a bottom field, a motion prediction section (19), a motion compensation section (16d), a difference device (11), a converter (13) and a qu...

This power supply system includes a storage cell a manipulation unit a detection unit and an illumination device. The manipulation unit is used to switch the operation of the power supply system at least from grid connected operation to self sustained operation. The detection unit is configured to detect a power ...

A thermal storage device which is arranged so as to surround a compressor and which is for storing heat generated by the compressor is provided with: a thermal storage tank which accommodates a heat storage material for storing the heat generated by the compressor; and a thermal storage heat exchanger which is a...

An electric power management system includes a power meter connected to a power system of a commercial power source and a power conditioner connected to the power meter, a power generating device and an electric appliance. The power meter and the power conditioner are configured to exchange power information throug...

A DC power distribution system is equipped with a storage device having a first storage battery, which discharges to electrical apparatuses only during power failure, and a second storage battery, which discharges to electrical apparatuses when service is not interrupted. The electricity storage device and elec...

A sealed compressor comprises an electric element; a compression element driven by the electric element; a sealed container accommodating the electric element and the compression element; and a suction pipe attached on the sealed container to provide communication between inside and outside of the sealed container; ...

This washing machine is provided with: an operation panel (8); an operation board (9) to which an operation is input via the operation panel (8); a protective case (13) that protects the operation board (9); and a housing section (5) that is provided to the outer contour of the washing machine houses the protective ...

Provided is a power measuring apparatus which can measure a plurality of kinds of alternating current power at the same time. In the present invention "correspondence relationship information" stored in a storage unit (6) indicates kinds of alternating current power measured by means of a first circuit (3) a secon...

In performing stereoscopic view, a shift information memory (21) stores, as a number of pixel lengths, an offset indicating how far in a right direction or a left direction to move coordinates of pixels to realize stereoscopic view. When realizing stereoscopic view, a plane shift engine (20) moves the coordinates...

The present invention relates to a method for configuring a retransmission protocol on the uplink between a network node and a relay node in a mobile communication system, the configuration being performed at a network node or at a relay node, and to the corresponding relay node apparatus and network node apparatus...

Disclosed is an atmospheric vent type heat storage device which comprises: a heat storage tank (32); and a heat exchanger (34) for heat storage and a heat storage material (36) that are contained in the heat storage tank (32). A groove (52) or a capillary tube is provided on the upper part of the heat storage tank (...

A video coding method and a video coding device can optimize prediction efficiency and coding efficiency. A video coding device (100) codes video data, by performing motion compensation with sub-pel resolution by using an adaptive interpolation filter for calculating a pixel value of a sub pixel for interpolation b...

An electric vehicle charging stand includes a stand body and a socket unit stored within the stand body. The socket unit has a socket, a housing for holding the socket in place and connection terminals connected to power cables and power feed terminals of the socket. The connection terminals are exposed outside...

This washing machine is provided with a washing machine main body an inner tank and an upper outer contour (3) and is provided with: an operation panel (8) provided to the upper outer contour (3); an operation board (9); a protective case (13) that protects the operation board (9); a housing section (5) having a bot...

Provided are a nonvolatile storage device, wherein variance of an initial breakdown voltage between nonvolatile storage elements is suppressed and deterioration of yield is eliminated, and a method for manufacturing the nonvolatile storage device. A nonvolatile storage device is provided with: a nonvolatile storage ...

A recording apparatus 100 is for a DVD on which a TS-VOB, and pieces of playbackpath information each showing a playback path of the TS-VOB are recorded. When extended control with various contents can be executed by an apparatus at the time of playback, an extended attribute section in which extended control is va...

A two line dimmer switch provided with: a primary open close circuit (10) having a triac (11) as a primary switch element; a frequency detecting circuit (17) for detecting the frequency of an AC source (2); an auxiliary open close circuit (18) for directing load current when the primary switch element is not conduct...

A configuration in which a power feeding structure is simple and an antenna with reduced deterioration of performance is arranged in a mobile radio apparatus with a waterproof structure constructed of a conductive housing is provided. The mobile radio apparatus of the invention includes conductive housings 101 and ...

An arc welding control method for carrying out welding by generating an arc between a wire and a base material. The wire is fed at wire feed speed (Wf) of periodically repeating forward feeding and reverse feeding with predetermined frequency and amplitude from time point (100) at which start of the welding is i...

This power source device (80) is provided with: a power source board (11); a protective case (13) that protects the power source board (11); and an incombustible material (41) provided between the bottom (13e) of the protective case (13) and the power source board (11). The power source device (80) has a configurati...

Disclosed is a wireless terminal device that can display the communication quality according to the service content with reception of service provided using multiple different communication formats. In the device, a first reception field strength detector (101) detects the reception field strength with communication...

Provided is a communication method for improving the communication quality of multicast transmission. A grouping table storage section stores a grouping table in which Ack return order positions indicating priority orders of the reception terminals which each return an Ack, and addresses of the reception terminal...

In an energy storage system, power from at least one of a solar cell, a commercial AC power source, and a storage battery is supplied to load devices. In the daytime, under the condition that an amount of power generated by the solar cell is less than an amount of power consumed by the load device, the discharg...

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention includes: an ultrasonic signal processing section, which performs transmission processing for transmitting an ultrasonic wave toward a subject's blood vessel by driving a probe and reception processing for generating a received signal based on the...

RFCRF The transmission method according to an aspect of the present disclosure employs a cyclic shift in which cyclic shift value k×floor(Q/max{D(N×N)}/2) cells are used for the individual lines of an interleaver matrix in which each of a plurality of rotating components in individual sections is substituted into ce...

Abstract A sealed compressor comprises an electric component; a compression component actuated by the electric component; a sealed container accommodating the electric component and the compression component; a suction pipe provided to suction a refrigerant into the sealed container; and a suction muffler having an...

Disclosed are a wireless transmission device, wireless receiving device, and method for transmitting encoded data with which power consumption can be reduced at the receiving end in accordance with reception conditions, while resource-saving is maintained by employing an erasure correcting code (ECC). In a wireless ...

A power distribution system includes a DC-DC converter which outputs a DC power after converting the DC power outputted from a DC power source to a desired voltage level. In the power distribution system, the DC-DC converter is controlled so as to operate only when the input voltage falls in a predetermined range. ...

An electric power management system includes a power generation apparatus for generating electric power, a power meter for receiving grid-connected information and a power conditioner for outputting the electric power generated by the power generation apparatus to the electric power system based on the grid-con...

An energy management system for managing electric power generated by an electric power generation apparatus for generating the electric power by using natural energy and electric power to be supplied to an electric appliance as a load, the energy management system includes a controller for determining one of de...

A refrigerator includes an insulated cabinet, an insulated door for opening and closing a front face of an opening of the insulated cabinet, a storage compartment including the insulated cabinet and the insulated door, an insulated partition for dividing the storage compartment into multiple storage compartments, an...

A battery block includes a metal case including a side surface and a bottom surface  and a plurality of cells accommodated in the metal case  wherein each cell includes a first electrode and a second electrode which is electrically insulated from the first electrode  and also serves as a cell case of the cell  the p...

This operation device (50) is provided with: an operation panel (8) provided to the upper outer contour (3) of a casing; an operation board (9); a power source board (11); and a protective case (13) that protects the power source board (11) and the operation board (9) and that has at least two concavities (13a 13b)....

To provide a microwave heating apparatus capable of heating various objects to be heated having different configurations, kinds, sizes, and amounts contained in a heating chamber with high efficiency by keeping low a reflected power of a microwave radiated from microwave supplying means, a microwave generator part i...

This NbON film generates a photocurrent when irradiated with light. Preferably this NbON film is a single phase film. This oxygen generation device (600) is provided with: an optical semiconductor electrode (620) comprising an conductor (621) and the NbON film (622) which is arranged atop the conductor (621); a coun...

A grid-connected power supply system includes a power generation apparatus configured to generate power by using natural energy and connected in parallel to a commercial power grid; a electricity storage device; and a control device configured. The control device predicts an amount of power to be generated on a...

An electricity supply management device includes a solar cell; a commercial Alternating Current (AC) power source; and a storage battery, in which the storage battery is charged by an electric power from the solar cell, and a power from at least one of the solar cell, the commercial AC power source and the stor...

The case 20 housing a plurality of cells 100 is divided  by a circuit board 30 provided at the same sides of the cells 100  into a housing space 50 housing the cells 100 and an exhaust duct 60 for releasing a gas from the vents 8a of the cells 100 to outside the case 20. The vents 8a of the cells 100 communicate wi...

A mobile wireless apparatus wherein matching circuits can be independently designed, while the increase in the circuit scale can be suppressed and the cost can be reduced. In this apparatus, a filter (102) suppresses a frequency band (f2-f3) of signals received by an antenna element (101). A filter (105) suppresses ...

Provided is a circuit breaker that can form a trip display with a simple structure and prevent erroneous display. This circuit breaker is provided with: a device body (10) in which a window hole (11o) is formed; a contact point mechanism (13); a handle (140) that rotates between a closed contact position and an open...

Provided is an air conditioner comprising an outdoor heat exchanger (14) an indoor heat exchanger (16) a four way valve (8) and a compressor (6) and the outdoor heat exchanger (14) is defrosted using a refrigerant heated by the compressor (6). The air conditioner comprises: an indoor wall temperature detection means...

When a user (B) presses a pushbutton a display unit (10) generates a pseudorandom number based on the time point measured by a first clock and the characteristic ID of the display unit (10) and displays this pseudorandom number that is thus generated on a liquid crystal display section. When there is an incoming cal...

A mixing discharge device including: a mixing chamber (1) where liquids containing a raw material, at least one of which further contains a blowing agent, are mixed under pressure; a tapered path (3) communicating with the chamber and having an inner peripheral surface where the cross section decreases in a downstre...

The present invention provides a content playback device capable of improving convenience for users by presenting a user with the option of switching viewing modes during the playback of content with multiple selectable view modes which is delivered by streaming over a network. The content playback device is provide...

A multi-layered information recording medium including a plurality of recording layers, the multi-layered information recording medium comprising: a user data area for recording user data; and a plurality of spare areas including at least one replacement region, wherein when the user data area includes at least one ...

A wireless communication terminal apparatus wherein even when a SC-FDMA signal is divided into a plurality of clusters and the plurality of clusters are then mapped to respective discontinuous frequency bands (when C-SC-FDMA is used), the improvement effect of system throughput can be maintained, while the user thro...

An Index.bdmv file is recorded in a BDMV directory of a rewritable recording medium. The Index.bdmv file contains an editability_flag and an extended_editability_flag. When the recording medium is loaded into a device, the editability_flag specifies whether the recording medium will be handled as an editable medium ...

A gas diffusion layer for fuel cell of the present invention is structured with a porous member mainly comprised of conductive particles such as acetylene black, graphite and a polymer resin such as PTFE. This makes it possible to achieve both an improvement in power generation performance of the fuel cell and a red...

A DC power distribution system for supplying a DC power into a building, includes one or more power feeding devices which supply a DC power, a power feeding line for supplying the DC power supplied from the power feeding devices to various sites in the building and sockets located at the various sites and connected ...

It is an object to provide a wireless communication base station device that can prevent the decline of a system throughput due to the degradation of a utilization efficiency of a communication resource of a channel for carrying out a frequency diversity transmission when a frequency scheduling transmission and a fr...

A left view graphics stream and a right view graphics stream recorded on a recording medium each include one or more display sets, and the display sets are data groups used for displaying one screen worth of one or more graphics objects. The one or more display sets included in the left view graphics stream are...

Provided is a communication capacity evaluating apparatus whereby the communication capacity can be grasped and the necessity of changing the content of a dead spot measure after the placement of a relay apparatus can be eliminated. In the communication capacity evaluating apparatus, a system information analyzing u...

Disclosed is a power distribution system equipped with: a DC electric power system for supplying a DC electric power to a DC load via a DC supply line; an AC power system for supplying an AC electric power from an AC power supply; and a battery which is connected to the DC supply line. The power distribution system ...

Disclosed is a wireless receiver device capable of avoiding deterioration in reception quality in an SFN environment, even when a delayed wave is present that exceeds the guard interval. In the device, an OFDM receiver (100) receives a wireless signal via a network that uses a single frequency. An antenna directivit...

A sealed compressor comprises an electric element; a compression element; and a sealed container accommodating the electric element and the compression element; wherein the compression element includes a cylinder block defining a compression chamber; a piston which is reciprocatable inside the compression chamber; a...

A power distribution system for distributing an electric power charged in a battery to a plurality of dwelling units includes a power generation device which has a independent power generation function and is configured to generate an electric power and charge the battery with at least a part of the electric powe...

A power distribution system for a building includes an electric current sensor for detecting a value of a current flowing from a commercial AC power source through a main line in a building and a storage battery installed in the building. When the current value detected by the electric current sensor reaches a pre...

A communication system is provided with a plurality of first terminal devices that are each connected to a transmission line and that have terminal information a second terminal device that is connected to the transmission line and that sends to the first terminal devices an information request for requesting the te...

Provided are communications management devices and a communications system wherein a communications management device (5) to which a server device (3) is connected and communications management devices (6) to which terminal devices (4) are connected are connected to a transmission path (7). A power supply device (10...

The invention relates to methods for informing an eNodeB on the transmit power status of a user equipment in a mobile communication system using component carrier (CC) aggregation. Furthermore, the invention is also related to the imple- mentation of these methods by hardware and their implementation in software. ...

Each superimposed communication terminal in a set of multiple superimposed communication terminals is provided with a time period selection unit for selecting superimposable time periods used for superimposing superimposed signals of a specific protocol stored in a storage unit such that the superimposable time peri...

This cordless handset for a power management system is a cordless handset for a power management system for collecting meter reading data including the amount of electricity from an electric meter that measures the amount of electricity supplied from a power supply to a prescribed location through a power line. The ...

An arc welding method comprising the steps of accelerating a feeding speed of a welding wire to cause shorting between the welding wire and a base metal when a welding end signal is input during a period of arcing, retracting the welding wire backward thereafter until a wire retracting speed reaches a predetermi...

The arc welding method of the present invention is a consumable electrode arc welding in which a welding wire feeding rate suitable for a welding current is determined as an average feeding rate, and the short circuit state and the arc generation state are alternately generated by changing the wire feeding perio...

An SOFC module (100) is provided with an SOFC (20) which is provided with a power generation unit that uses fuel gas and air to generate power by a power generation reaction and a reformer (40) which generates reformed gas as the fuel gas from a supplied fluid. The fluid heated by heat possessed by the SOFC (20) is ...

A communication system is provided with a plurality of reception nodes and a transmission node. The transmission node is provided with a transmission unit a node grouping unit and a sub carrier selection unit. The transmission unit is constituted to perform simultaneous multicast data transmission to the plurality o...

To realize miniaturization and increased capacity of memories by lowering break voltage for causing resistance change and suppressing variation in break voltage. The nonvolatile memory device (10) in the present invention includes: a lower electrode (105) formed above a substrate (100); a first variable resistance ...

Provided is a fiberboard such that the dimensional change due to the absorption or desorption of moisture is little. The present invention is a fiberboard (1) obtained by forming a mixture which comprises a plant fiber a bast fiber and an adhesive into a plate said plant fiber being a fiber obtained by removing a pr...

A electric vehicle charging station includes a body with a box-like shape, and a power feeding unit accommodaled in the body. The power feeding unit serves to feed electric power to a charging cable serving as a power feeding path to the electric vehicle. A holding part for holding at least a part of the charging...

An image coding apparatus using an encoder which places restrictions on the bit depth is intended to code a current image to be coded having a bit depth greater than a predetermined bit depth, and includes: a down-converter (102) which down-converts the current image into a base view image having a bit depth equal t...

It comprises load (2) and first storage battery (3) connected to generator (1), and second storage battery (5) connected to generator (1) via DC/DC converter (4), wherein controller (6) connected to DC/DC converter (4), receiving a regeneration signal emitted from outside, controls DC/DC converter (4) so that th...

A dome camera (1) comprises a camera lens (4) that is capable of pivoting in tilting direction and a dome cover (3) that covers the camera lens (4). A tilting pivot (P2) of the camera lens (4) is positioned in an apex direction from a center (P1) of the dome cover (3) and a polarization filter (6) or a partial light...

Provided is an image processing device capable of performing appropriate noise reduction without causing blurring of edges and details of the image. The image processing device: specifies, on a normal distribution representing a noise model of the image, a reference range having a value of a target pixel as a med...

The present invention pertains to a terminal device which when ARQ is used for communication that uses an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band and when a transmission mode that supports up to 2 TB in a PCell is set in the terminal is capable of reducing the amo...

A terminal apparatus (1), which is a radio transmitting/receiving apparatus, receives a pilot channel signal for use in measuring reception quality and a sync channel signal for use in establishing synchronization from a small-cell base station (home eNB). The terminal apparatus (1), which has stored a white list in...

The information recording medium 3 comprises an information layer having a metal layer 5 on a substrate 4, wherein concavo-convex portion is formed in the substrate to give main information such as image and voice, and the metal layer contains Al, Si and M (wherein M is at least one element selected from a group con...

Provided is a base station capable of performing cell search of all mobile stations having different communicable frequency band widths in a scalable band width communication system to which a multi-carrier communication method such as the OFDM method is applied. The base station includes: a modulation unit (102) fo...

The present invention provides a semiconductor device capable of changing the setting of the internal operation mode without increasing the number of terminals of the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device 100a includes a transmitting cell, a receiving cell, a semiconductor chip 120 including a transmitti...

This apparatus management system is provided with: a meter device that measures a predetermined physical quantity; an apparatus having a predetermined function; and a management device. The management device is configured in a manner so as to transmit first information containing a first identifier allocated to the ...

Provided are a battery electrode plate, a manufacturing method for the same, an electrode plate group having said electrode plate, and a lead-acid battery. The electrode plate is equipped with a collector and an active material layer supported on the collector. The collector is an expanded grid manufactured by an ...

A refrigerator (20) provided with a refrigerator main body (21), the refrigerator including: a first detection unit (36, 40) capable of detecting a change in the outside environment in the periphery of the refrigerator (20); and a control unit (54) that controls the operation of current-consuming components (28, 30,...

A welding device for which a welding machine is provided along the length of a shield gas supply route running from a gas supply source equipped with a flow adjustment device to a welding torch. With this welding device at least two valves are arranged in series in the shield gas supply route with the first valve lo...

There is provided a fuel cell power generation system in which power loss in a power line electrically connecting a stack and a power conversion circuit, thereby attaining high power generation efficiency. A reformer 6 and the stack 7 are disposed in a main body package 2. Stack output terminals 31 are provided in b...

Provided is a radio communication device which can prevent interference between SRS and PUCCH when the PUCCH transmission bandwidth fluctuates and suppress degradation of CQI estimation accuracy by the band where no SRS is transmitted. The device includes: an SRS code generation unit (201) which generates an SRS (So...

Provided is a radio communication device which can make ACK reception quality and NACK reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code "1" or "e-j(p/2)" so as to rotate a constellation for each of respo...

When a set angle of a wind direction changing blade is changed, even if a portion of the wind direction changing blade moves within a detection field of view of a human body detecting means, in which infrared rays are received, to cause a change in the amount of. the infrared rays, which in turn causes erroneous det...

A hydrogen generator of the present invention includes: a reformer (1) including a reforming catalyst (1A) containing nickel and configured to generate a hydrogen-rich fuel gas by using a raw material and steam; a temperature detector (12) configured to detect a temperature of the reforming catalyst (1A); a purge ga...

There is provided a rotary apparatus and a portable electronic device that can be miniaturized. A rotary apparatus 45 includes a first member 51 having a first sleeve 68 and a second sleeve 69; a second member 52 having a shaft member 87 that can rotate axially with respect to the first sleeve and the second sleeve;...

This door opening/closing control system is provided with: a plurality of door opening/closing devices that lock and unlock a corresponding door; a door opening/closing control device that controls the plurality of door opening/closing devices; and a plurality of input devices that when ID information is input trans...

A load control switch (1) provided with: a terminal module (2) to which electric wires are connected and which is attached to an attachment frame installed on a wall surface of a building; and a switch module (3) which is removably mounted to the terminal module (2) and which turns a load on or off. The load control...

A prepared slide (11F) according to this disclosure is provided with: an image sensor (B01) having a surface that includes an imaging surface; a package (12F) having electrical connection with the image sensor (B01); and a transparent plate (31F) facing the surface of the image sensor via an encapsulating medium. Th...

The present invention relates to orthogonal frequency- division multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems with multiple transmit antennas receive antennas, and in particular to methods for inserting scattered pilots (SPs) into the transmit signals of such OFDM systems, for estimating channel properties on the bas...

An electrical power feeding system for vehicle comprises a distribution board  an electrical current measurement unit  and a control box. The distribution board comprises a breaker. The electrical current measurement unit is configured to measure electrical current value of the main electrical current applied to the...

A control device 3 is configured to generate a switching signal for changing the operation of the bidirectional power feeding device 2 to either a charging operation or a feeding operation based on both power supplied from a DC power supply and power required for a distribution circuit 10 side. A bidirectional power...

An image reproducing apparatus capable of outputting a 3D image signal or a non-3D image signal which can display a stereoscopic or a non-stereoscopic image to an image display apparatus, including: an AV processing unit operable to input data of contents and generate the 3D or non-3D image signal from the contents ...

A grid for a lead storage battery is configured from an expanded grid formed by a reciprocal method. When the width of a grid line (g) of the expanded grid is represented by W and the thickness of the expanded grid is represented by T the flexibility (T/W) of the grid falls within the range of 1.5 1.9. ...

A relay device comprises: a first switch which is inserted between a first extraction unit and a second superposition unit; and a second switch which is inserted between a second extraction unit and a first superposition unit. The first switch switches on and off the routing of a superposition signal which is relaye...

An object of the present invention is to provide a substrate connecting structure capable of maintaining adhesiveness of two substrates and without a failure due to current leakage or an electrical short circuit between terminals, and an electronic device using the substrate connecting structure. An anisotropic con...

An attachment plate for a wiring device is configured to retain at least a wiring device and be fixed to an installation surface of a building, and also configured so that a wall plate for the wiring device, having an opening for exposing a front of the wiring device is detachably attached to a front of the attachme...

Refrigerator main body (20) including heat insulation box (21) having storage compartments such as refrigerating compartment (29) is provided. Heat insulation box (21) includes outer box (23), inner box (22), and heat insulation material (24) between outer box (23) and inner box (22). Housing portion (101) for housi...

An electrode of the present invention includes: an electrically conductive support (11); and an active material layer (12) provided on the electrically conductive support (11) / containing an electrode active material (13) and an electrical conductivity assistant (14), wherein: the electrode active material (13) inc...

A communication method for performing a communication among a plurality of communication devices sharing a communication band, includes a first step of transmitting notification signal during a first period to notify information for arbitrating the communication device capable of performing data transmission during ...

A transmitter 100 includes an L1 signaling data coder 111. In the L1 signaling data coder 111, an L1 signaling data generator 1021 converts transmission parameters into L1-pre signaling data and L1-post signaling data and outputs the L1-pre signaling data and the L1-post signaling data, an energy dispersion unit ...

Disclosed are transmission equipment and a method for sending control messages in which the processing time and power consumption at the receiving end are reduced by improving the efficiency of reception processing at the receiving end. At a base station (100), a message generating unit (103) generates a control mes...

The present invention relates to a coding distortion removal method for removing coding distortion in an area disposed on both sides of a block boundary between a first block and an adjacent second block in a picture having a plurality of blocks forming a moving picture image, said first and second blocks having fir...

A signal decoding apparatus preventing substantial noise from being produced when transmission error occurs during decoding of scalable-coded information. In this signal decoding apparatus, a coded information operation section (601) performs error detection for base layer coded information, first enhancement layer ...

A power supply system has: an energy conversion unit that converts natural energy to electric energy; an electricity storage unit; a supply control unit that controls supply of electric energy to the electricity storage unit; an instruction unit that stops the supply of the electric energy by the supply control unit...

The present invention performs efficient data transfer between devices. In particular, the present invention can reduce processing loads and power consumption of a response device 2 and increase overall throughput. When a request device 1 issues a direct transfer request to directly transfer data to or from a da...

Disclosed is an electric power supply system which has: a common power source which stores and supplies a power via a local power grid; and a distributed power source which supplies a power to buildings and a surplus to the common power source. The electric power supply system further includes a first power met...

The invention relates to a control channel signal for use in a mobile communication system providing at least two different scheduling modes. Further the invention relates to a scheduling unit for generating the control channel signal and a base station comprising the scheduling unit. The invention also relates t...

A reproduction signal evaluation unit has: a pattern detection section (101) for extracting, from a binary signal, a specific state transition pattern which has a possibility of causing a bit error; a differential metric computing section (102) for computing a differential metric based on the binary signal of the...

An infrared flame detector of the present invention has an infrared radiation receiving element accommodated in a package. In the infrared radiation receiving element, a set of two pyroelectric elements are arranged side by side and connected in anti-series on a pyroelectric element forming substrate. An infrared...

A ceiling fan comprises a suspending section and a ceiling fan main body; the ceiling fan main body comprising: a shaft section; a motor unit; a plurality of blade sections; an upper main body cover having a first opening provided at a center section and a second opening provided further outwards of the first openin...

A plurality of human position discriminating regions each include at least two obstacle position discriminating regions. If a determination is made that an obstacle is present in an obstacle position discriminating region belonging to or positioned in front of a human position discriminating region where a determina...

An image capture device according to the present invention includes an image sensor 10 that includes: a photosensitive cell array 12 in which a plurality of photosensitive cells are arranged on an image capturing plane; a polarizer array 14 in which a plurality of unit structures, each including N polarizers (where ...

A wireless communication base station apparatus which is able to prevent deterioration in the throughput of LTE terminals even when LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals coexist. In this apparatus, based on the mapping pattern of the reference signals used only in LTE+ terminals, a setting unit (105) sets, in each subfra...

A diagonal flow fan includes a rotatably driven hub 4B and a plurality of blades 4A provided around the hub 4B and each having a leading edge 41 and a trailing edge 42. The leading edge 41 has an angled portion Lc and a radially outer linear leading edge 41B extending radially outwardly from the angled portion Lc su...

An inverter control device controls the operation of a brushless DC motor selsorlessly.  A driving controller of the inverter control device switches commutation of switching elements from control based on a position detection commutation signal to control based on a forced synchronization commutation signal if a...

The manganese dry battery includes: a hollow cylindrical positive electrode material mixture including manganese dioxide; a negative electrode can including zinc; a separator between the positive electrode material mixture and the negative electrode can; a positive electrode current collector inserted in the hollow ...

A refrigerator equipped with: interior lighting (8) that illuminates the interior of storage compartments (4) which are partitioned by means of insulated walls (2) and insulated doors (3a 3b); a lighting intensity sensor (7) that is provided on the insulated door of the uppermost of the multiple storage compartments...

A ceiling fan includes a connecting portion fixed to a ceiling, an electric motor having a rotation shaft disposed on a lower portion of the connecting portion, a temperature detector provided on a lower portion of the electric motor for detecting a peripheral temperature, and a controller for estimating a room ...

A playback device reads a BD-J application from a BD-ROM and runs the BD-J application. The BD-J application causes, by using a socket connection API, the digital copy module of the playback device to execute copying of a protected content for portable terminals to a removable recording medium and setting of a r...

Disclosed is a wireless communication apparatus in which reception Precision characteristics are improved, by specially adapting the modulating processing in respect of the code words for each encoding system. A wireless communication apparatus (100) wherein an encoding processing section (120) includes a convoluti...

Provided is a power transmitting apparatus which can start power transmission even in the cases where there is not even residual power with which a power receiving apparatus requests power transmission in a wireless power transmission system in which a plurality of power transmitting apparatuses and a plurality of p...

A terminal device sets a beneficial use time slot for regarding the electrical consumption in the beneficial use time slot as the beneficial  a waste use time slot for regarding the electrical consumption in the waste use time slot as the waste  and an efficiency improvement time slot for regarding the electrical co...

A step for acquiring one or a plurality of predicted motion vector candidates includes a first candidate generation step for generating the predicted motion vector candidates based on a plurality of motion vectors of a plurality of first adjacent blocks that are adjacent in a first direction of blocks targeted for p...

A challenge to be met by an aspect of the present invention is to provide a charge control circuit that prevents occurrence of a decrease in battery capacity even when a battery stays in a connection with an external power supply and that induces neither battery deterioration nor overcharge. A first switch (2) is co...

A consumer facility is provided with a solar power generator provided with solar batteries and a storage device provided with storage batteries. Power is selectively supplied from a power supply system the power generator and the storage device to an electrical load of the consumer facility. The power generator can ...

There is provided a method for manufacturing a flexible semiconductor device. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of: (a) preparing a metal foil having a concave portion; (b) forming a gate insulating film on a bottom face of the concave portion of the metal foil; (c) forming a semiconductor laye...

An electricity feeding device 1 comprises a feeding-connector 15 connected to an electrical automobile C having a the battery 84, and receives a DC power supply from a DC power distribution board 2, and feeds a desired DC power to the electrical automobile C. The electricity feeding device 1 comprises a signal c...

The invention relates to a method for configuring a context for a connection delivering a packet data service to a mobile terminal via a target wireless access network. The mobile terminal is initially connected to an originating wireless access network and the packet data service may be provided to the mobile termi...

Disclosed is a technique for achieving reduction in processing load caused when a mobile terminal having two or more interfaces registers flow control information with a network and reduction in traffic of signaling for the registration. According to this technique, a mobile terminal (MN100) has two or more inter...

A contact device includes a contact point retainer configured to hold a movable contact point in one end portion thereof. The contact point retainer includes a plurality of contact point retaining springs superimposed in a thickness direction and formed of leaf springs and a housing configured to fix the other end p...

A switching block 1, which is detachably attached to a mounting frame for wiring accessories, includes a body 11 having a box-like shape whose front surface side is opened; and a cover 12 attached to the body 11 so as to close the opening in the front surface side of the body. On a front surface of the cover 12...

The present invention pertains to an illuminating device (2) used in a liquid crystal display device (100) that alternately focuses light on a right eye (17a) position and a left eye (17b) position of a viewer (16). The illuminating device (2) is provided with a planar illuminating body (6) that focuses emitted ligh...

After the interior of the main body (1) of an indoor unit of an air conditioner is cleaned by means of ozone generated by a cleaning device (8) the ozone in the interior of the main body (1) of the indoor unit is discharged to the outside by operating a blower fan (5). Thus it is possible to reduce the deterioration...