Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Ayabo Corporation

Honda Giken Kogyo K.k.

Atsushi Nakajima

Takeru Hamakawa

Sukeyuki Shinotsuka

Yoshihiro Akiyama

Hiroki Akatsuka

Takeshi Fujii

Keizo Tsukamoto

Yoshihisa Kazui

Yoshiyuki Iida

Kuniyasu Tamura

Hironori Tsunoyama

Takashi Aoki

Fumiharu Ochiai

Kenyu Okamura

Fumitoshi Yasuhara

Hidetoshi Nakamura

Hisayuki Hashimoto

Masato Sasaki

Masahiro Motoyoshi

Hideo Seki

Osamu Kanno

Naoto Kodama

Shigeo Okui

Hironari Wanatabe

Chuhang Zhang

Takeshi Morishita

Jun Araki

Kazunari Furukawa

A charging system which charges a power storage device mounted on a moving object, includes: an electric power conversion device that converts electric power supplied from a commercial power supply; a kinetic energy storage device that stores kinetic energy; and a rotary electric machine that is electrically connected to the electric power conversion device and is mechanically connected to the kinetic energy storage device.

Charging system

The present invention relates to a nanocluster liquid dispersion where nanoclusters with a predetermined number of atoms are dispersed.

Nanocluster liquid dispersion, nanocluster film, nanocluster solid dispersion, method for producing nanocluster liquid dispersion, and device for producing nanocluster liquid dispersion

An air bag device has an inflator and a bag unit configured to be deployed on a front part of a vehicle body with a gas supplied from the inflator. The bag unit includes a first bag, a second bag, and a connector, which are annularly connected to one another, and when the bag unit is deployed, the first bag and the second bag are erected on the vehicle body into a mountain-like shape in such a way that the bag unit forms a substantially triangular shape as a whole.

Air bag device

Improvement of control of size and structure of nanoclusters with a nanocluster production apparatus is intended. Increase of an obtained amount and a yield of nanoclusters having size and structure, at least one of which is selected, is intended. A nanocluster production apparatus has a vacuum chamber, a sputtering source that generates plasma by pulse discharge, a pulse power supply that supplies a pulsed power to the sputtering source, a first inert gas supply device that supplies a first inert gas to the sputtering source, a cluster growth cell stored in the vacuum chamber and a second inert gas introduction device that introduces a second inert gas into the cluster growth cell.

Nanocluster production device

A cooling structure for an internal combustion engine includes a spacer. The spacer is fitted inside a water jacket which is formed to surround peripheries of a plurality of cylinder bores arranged one after another on a cylinder row line of a cylinder block of the internal combustion engine. A cooling condition of the cylinder bores is controlled by regulating a flow of cooling water in the water jacket by use of the spacer. A fixing member for fixing the spacer inside the water jacket is provided on an inner wall surface of the spacer facing the cylinder bores.

Cooling structure for internal combustion engine

A spacer arranged inside a water jacket which is formed to surround peripheries of cylinder bores in a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine includes support legs extending in an up-and-down direction from a spacer main body part which partitions the water jacket into an upper and lower cooling water passages. The support legs are disposed in opposite end portions in a cylinder row line direction, where the temperatures of the cylinder bores tend to be lower. Accordingly, even if the flow of cooling water is more or less inhibited by the support legs and the cooling effect deteriorates, it is possible to prevent the temperatures of the respective cylinder bores from becoming different by suppressing the influence to a minimum.

A height of a spacer which is arranged inside a water jacket formed to surround peripheries of cylinder bores of a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine is made to be lower by a step in an intermediate portion thereof in a cylinder row line direction. Consequently, among end-portion cylinder bores having a lower temperature and being situated at opposite end portions in the cylinder row line direction and intermediate cylinder bores being other than the end-portion cylinder bores and having a higher temperature, a cooling performance of the intermediate cylinder bores is higher than that of the end-portion cylinder bores. Therefore, all the temperatures of the respective cylinder bores can be made uniform. A similar operation effect can be obtained alternatively by making a thickness of the spacer thinner in portions facing the intermediate cylinder bores and thicker in portions facing the end-portion cylinder bores.

An output compensating device of an image sensor using a number of light-sensor circuits, each of which represents a unit pixel and works by producing in a photoelectric converting element a sensor current proportional to a quantity of light falling thereon, converting the current into a voltage signal by using sub-threshold region characteristic of a transistor having a logarithmic output characteristic in a weak inverse state, which enables the image sensor to compensate for variations in each pixel output by using a sensor signal obtainable when changing a gate voltage and drain voltage of the transistor with shut-off light falling on the photoelectric converting element to a value lower than normal voltages of the transistor for taking video. This enables the image sensor to easily compensate for variations in output characteristics of respective light sensor circuits in a pseudo output state created therein with no actual light falling thereon.

Output-compensating device and method of an image sensor

An output compensating device capable of effectively correcting pixel signals composing an image taken and output by the image sensor having a wide dynamic range to be adaptively displayed with high quality and high contrast on a viewable screen area by using means for detecting a minimal value and a maximal value of sensor (pixel) signals output from the image sensor to be displayed on the screen area, means for offsetting the detected minimal value of the sensor signal to a lower limit value of the screen area and means for adjusting a gain of the sensor signal in such a way that an output width determined by the detected minimal and maximal values of the sensor signals may be equal to the maximal width or a specified width of the screen area.

Image sensor output correction device

This air bag device includes: an air bag which is arranged between an under-window panel and a lining that covers a cabin interior side thereof, and develops upward along an inner surface of a window; and a pressing member which presses a bottom portion of the air bag toward the under-window panel while developing the air bag. The bottom portion of the air bag and the under-window panel overlap with each other at a predetermined length along a vertical direction.

An image processing device and method which is provided with means for converting image data from an image sensor into image data emphasizing a change in brightness in each of plural divisions of a whole luminous area by using a conversion table and which is therefore capable of easily and immediately enhancing the contrast of an image taken by an image sensor possessing a wide dynamic range of its logarithmic output characteristic.

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Saitama, Japan

Atsushi Nakajima