Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.

Hitachi-High-Technologies Corporation

Waseda University

Onoda Cement Co., Ltd.

Holland Sweetener Company, V.o.f.

Hitachi High-Technologies Corpoartion

Akira Hirata

Masahiro Abukawa

Michinori Yoshida

Masahito Mori

Eiichi Kokubo

Takao Arase

Isamu Uchida

Koichi Yamamoto

Mitsuo Shimotani

Hiroyuki Yamada

Keisuke Morita

Osamu Miyazaki

Akinori Watanabe

Takashi Shichinohe

Ryo Okabe

Takayoshi Takehara

Takefumi Hasegawa

Junya Ujiie

Takehiko Hanada

Yoshihiro Tomaru

Toshiaki Ito

Kyoichi Osako

Eiichi Yoshikawa

Kazuyuki Seki

Hajime Nagayama

Kenji Shimaji

Kouji Nitta

Mizuo Oshita

The present application is such that, in order to prevent communication disruption caused by a change in the situation of wireless communication due to the distance between a roadway instrument and a self-vehicle, a vehicle wireless communication device includes a communication section; a control section which controls the reception in the communication section; a position detection section which detects the position of a roadway instrument; and a running direction detection section which detects the running direction of a self-vehicle, wherein the communication section, based on the roadway instrument position detected by the position detection section and on the self-vehicle running direction detected by the running direction detection section, receives information from a roadway instrument next closest to a roadway instrument carrying out communication.

Vehicle wireless communication device

A crossing detection unit () detects a pedestrian who is about to cross a roadway on which a vehicle () travels. A behavior detection unit () detects a behavior of a nearby vehicle traveling around the vehicle (). A stop determination unit () determines whether or not to stop the vehicle () in view of the detection of the pedestrian who is about to cross the roadway by the crossing detection unit () and the behavior of the nearby vehicle detected by the behavior detection unit (). A vehicle control unit () stops the vehicle () before the pedestrian when the stop determination unit () determines to stop the vehicle.

Driving assistance system

A direction identification unit () identifies a traveling direction in which a surrounding vehicle travels in a partial region of a region indicated by image information () obtained by photographing using a camera (). A feature amount acquisition unit () acquires a reference feature amount () being a feature amount computed from a reference image corresponding to the identified traveling direction. A vehicle determination unit () computes an image feature amount being a feature amount of the image information of the partial region and compares the computed image feature amount with the acquired reference feature amount (), thereby determining whether the surrounding vehicle is present in the partial region.

Vehicle determination apparatus, vehicle determination method, and computer readable medium

There is provided a method for controlling a plasma processing apparatus that eliminates a preliminary study on a resonance point while maintaining a low contamination and a high uniformity even in multi-step etching. In a method for controlling a plasma processing apparatus including the step of adjusting a radio frequency bias current carried to a counter antenna electrode, the method includes the steps of: setting a reactance of a variable element to an initial value; detecting a bias current carried to the counter antenna electrode; searching for a maximum value of the detected electric current; and adjusting a value of the reactance of the variable element from the maximum value to the set value and then fixing the value.

Method for controlling plasma processing apparatus

This disclosure relates to a traffic information estimation device and a traffic information estimation method for estimating a time period of switching of a traffic signal display. The traffic information estimation device includes: an acquisition unit () acquiring arrangement information indicating an arrangement of vehicles in accordance with a time passage on a road on which a traffic signal is installed; a determination unit () determining changes in density of the vehicles by using the arrangement information; and a calculation unit () calculating a display change cycle indicating a time period of switching of a display of the traffic signal based on a time interval between the changes in density of the vehicles. According to such a configuration, it is possible to simplify processing to estimate of a change cycle of the traffic signal.

Traffic information estimation device and traffic information estimation method

According to the present invention, a steering control device having a manual steering mode in which a travelling direction of a vehicle is controlled in correspondence with a steering wheel state quantity indicating an operation quantity of a steering wheel provided at a vehicle and a compulsory automatic steering mode in which the travelling direction is controlled automatically, and controlling a steering wheel control quantity to be added to the steering wheel in accordance with the manual steering mode or the compulsory automatic steering mode, the steering control device is characterized by being provided with: steering mode selection means to switch between the manual steering mode and the compulsory automatic steering mode; and steering wheel control quantity calculation means, in a case where the manual steering mode is selected by the steering mode selection means, to calculate the steering wheel control quantity to be added to the steering wheel based on information indicating travelling state, and in a case where the compulsory automatic steering mode is selected by the steering mode selection means, to calculate the steering wheel control quantity having a magnitude different from the steering wheel control quantity calculated in the manual steering mode based on the information indicating the travelling state.

Steering control device, steering control system, steering control method, and computer readable medium storing steering control program

When a CPU core ()and a CPU core ()share the execution of an OS (), a program (A), and a program (B), the CPU core ()withdraws from sharing the execution of the OS (), the program (A), and the program (B), starts a replacement OS which replaces the OS (), and switches an OS on which the program (A)operates from the OS ()to the replacement OS. After the OS on which the program (A)operates is switched to the replacement OS, the CPU core ()terminates the execution of the OS ().

Executing an operating system in a multiprocessor computer system

An enzymatic method for producing N-formyl-.alpha.-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester by a condensation reaction between N-formyl-L-aspartic acid and L-phenylalanine methyl ester or D,L-phenylalanine methyl ester, which comprises: supplying an organic phase comprising a water-immiscible solvent containing N-formyl-L-aspartic acid and L- or D,L-phenylalanine methyl ester onto an aqueous phase comprising a thermolysin-like metalloprotease; proceeding the condensation reaction in the aqueous phase to produce N-formyl-.alpha.-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester; and extracting the N-formyl-.alpha.-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester thus produced from the aqueous phase to the organic phase.

Enzymatic method for producing

A bill paying machine is disposed between two operators to be used in common by them. The bill paying machine comprises a machine body and a door openably mounted on the front portion of the machine. Disposed inside the machine body are bill containers for holding bills therein, a drawing-out or paying-out device for paying out bills from the bill containers, and a transport device for feeding the bills to the front door. The front door comprises two paying outlets and a distributing device for receiving the bills from the transport device of the machine body and directing the bills to one of two paying outlets in accordance with an instruction by an operator.

Bill paying machine

A three phase fluidized bed water purifying process comprises purifying effluents in a three phase fluidized bed composed of solid particles, an effluent, and a gas in fluidized state, the solid particles being made by mixing a binder with an inorganic material based on aluminium silicate, granulating the resulting mixture, and firing the granules to sinter them. The present invention permits the purification of effluent for a long period of time without oxygen deficiency.

Three phase fluidized bed water purifying process

An apparatus for accumulating and delivering paper sheets for use with a bank note dispenser including a paddle wheel for receiving paper sheets among swirling paddles provided on the paddle wheel and supporting the paper sheets thereon, a scraper for scraping the paper sheets away from the swirling paddles, an alignment plate for aligning the paper sheets above the paddle wheel, and lower and upper delivering rollers for cooperating to deliver, at one time the accumulated paper sheets as a whole in a horizontal direction. The two lower delivery rollers, are raised upwardly to horizontally support the accumulated paper sheets and are rotatably driven to deliver the paper sheets. The two upper delivery rollers are lowered to resiliently clamp the paper sheets between the lower rollers and upper rollers and are rotatably driven to deliver the paper sheets.

Device for accumulating and delivering paper sheets

A note disbursing machine is formed with a reject pool section instead of an independent reject box. An uppermost note receiving box is adapted to be accommodated in the note disbursing machine so as to face the reject pool section. The receiving box has an upper cover. A reject box for receiving rejected notes is rotatably mounted on the upper cover. A cover for covering the reject box and guiding the rejected notes is rotatably mounted on the reject box.

Note supply container with reject receiver for bank note dispenser

A suction head is provided in a paper sheet counting machine in which a number of paper sheets contained in a container box are vacuum-sucked one at a time to be taken out of the container box and be counted. The suction head has a suction port into which a suction port member is threaded. The suction port member is integral with a suction contact member made of a rubber which contacts a paper sheet to be taken out.

Suction head in a paper sheet counting machine

A paper sheet storage box adapted to be removably set in a paper sheet dispenser such as an automatic cash vending machine or a money changing machine. The paper sheet storage box includes a front cover hinged to its leading side and a pair of cam forming lands and a pair of rollers for opening the front cover, when the storage box is inserted into the dispenser for the purpose of being set therein, and for closing the front cover when the storage box is removed from the dispenser. The storage box further includes a retaining pawl and a retaining mechanism for retaining the front cover in a locked condition when the latter is closed. Further inclusive in the storage box is a retaining pin mounted on one side wall of the storage box and an auxiliary engagement member having elasticity. This auxiliary engagement member is carried on the inner side of the front cover at such a position as to be snugly snapped on the retaining pin when the front cover is closed by the coaction of the retaining pawl and the retaining mechanism.

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Tokyo, Japan

Akira Hirata