Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Momentive Performance Materials Japan LLC

W.l. Gore & Associates, Co., Ltd.

Ntt Data Communications Systems Corporation

Tdk Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Atsushi Sakamoto

Hideki Nakamura

Toshiki Takeuchi

Susumu Hirosawa

Makoto Iwahara

Naotaka Miyaji

Masashi Maruyama

Kiyoaki Suzuki

Hidetsugu Suzuki

Yasuhisa Kamikawa

Masanori Takanashi

Akira Fukuno

Kazutoshi Hirohashi

Kenji Sugiyama

Kohei Fukui

Tomoyuki Kawaguchi

Isao Iida

Masahiro Sugimoto

Makoto Nakane

Masashi Hayashi

Ryosuke Sato

Daigo Hirakawa

Kenji Takenaka

Motoyasu Nagashima

Manabu Sakane

Takuya Kosaka

Kazumasa Taninaka

Kazuo Hongo

Masato Izumi

Atsushi Endo

Kouji Nishimura

Yoshikazu Furuyama

Provided is a robot leg structure that includes a link extending downward from a leg joint, a ground contact portion that comes in contact with a ground, a leaf spring that couples the link and the ground contact portion to each other, and a damping member adjacent to the leaf spring and couples the link and the ground contact portion to each other. With this configuration, the damping member damps the vibration attributed to the leaf spring, making it possible to reliably stabilize the motion of the legs of a robot.

Robot leg structure

A thermally conductive polysiloxane composition comprising: (A) a thermally conductive filler; (B) a polyorganosiloxane resin having a curable functional group in the polysiloxane molecule, the polyorganosiloxane resin comprising at least one polysiloxane (b1) having one curable functional group in the molecule thereof; (C) a siloxane compound having an alkoxysilyl group and a linear siloxane structure; (D) a hydrogenpolyorganosiloxane; and (E) a platinum catalyst, wherein the content of the polysiloxane (b1) having one curable functional group in the molecule thereof in the polyorganosiloxane resin (B) is more than 80% by mass.

Thermally conductive polyorganosiloxane composition

The present invention relates to a thermally conductive polysiloxane composition comprising: (A) a thermally conductive filler, (B) a siloxane compound having a specified structure; (C) an alkoxysilane compound having a specified structure; (D) a polyorganosiloxane containing at least one aliphatic unsaturated group per molecule; (E) a polyorganohydrogensiloxane having two or more hydrogen atoms bonded to silicon atoms per molecule; and (F) a platinum-based catalyst.

Thermally conductive polysiloxane composition

The present invention relates to a thermally conductive polysiloxane composition that provides a cured product having excellent tackiness and flexibility in which the composition contains (A) a thermally conductive filler, (B) a siloxane compound having an alkoxysilyl group and a linear siloxane structure, (C) a polyorganosiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups bonded to silicon atoms per molecule, (D1) a linear polyorganohydrogensiloxane represented by the general formula (4), (D2) a polyorganohydrogensiloxane having per molecule at least three units represented by the general formula (5), and (E) a platinum catalyst.

The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a core-shell catalyst capable of achieving, when evaluated for a fuel cell, the catalytic activity anticipated from the catalyst activity value obtained using a rotating disc electrode (RDE); and a method for activating a core-shell catalyst in said manner. The present invention relates to a fuel cell catalyst, which is an electrode catalyst having a core-shell structure and is characterized in that at least 99% of the core member is covered by the shell member and the halogen content is not more than 5000 ppm. The present invention also relates to a method for activating said core-shell catalyst, the method comprising: a process for dispersing the core-shell catalyst in a dispersion solvent; a process for separating impurities from said core-shell catalyst by blowing a gas that has reducing properties or a mixed gas comprising same into said dispersion solvent; and a process for removing said impurities.

Fuel cell electrode catalyst and method for activating catalyst

A technology is provided that is capable of improving deterioration of a fuel cell due to non-stationary operation (startup/shutdown, fuel depletion). An anode-side catalyst composition comprising a catalyst having catalyst particles carried on electrically conductive material and an ion exchange resin, characterized in that the catalyst particle are formed of an alloy, of which oxygen reduction capability and water electrolysis are both lower than those of platinum, and which has hydrogen oxidation capability.

Anode-side catalyst composition for fuel cells, and membrane electrode assembly (MEA) for solid polymer fuel cells which comprises same

A single phase consisting of a ThMnphase can be obtained by having the composition thereof represented by a general formula R(FeCoTi)SiA(in the general formula, R is at least one element selected from rare earth elements (here the rare earth elements signify a concept inclusive of Y), Nd accounts for 50 mol % or more of R, and A is N and/or C) in which the molar ratios in the general formula are such that x=10 to 12.5, y=(8.3&#x2212;1.7&#xd7;z) to 12.3, z=0.1 to 2.3, v=0.1 to 3 and w=0 to 30, and the relation (Fe+Co+Ti+Si)/R&#x3e;12 is satisfied.

Hard magnetic composition, permanent magnet powder, method for permanent magnet powder, and bonded magnet

A bi-directional optical wireless communication apparatus comprises a modulator outputting a narrow band signal whose center frequency is selected from N center frequencies, an optical transmitter transmitting an optical signal from the narrow band signal, an optical receiver for receiving N optical signals, N receiving circuits corresponding to the N center frequencies, a cancelling circuit for cancelling the optical signal received by the optical receiver via reflective object in received N optical signals using the narrow band signal in accordance with a magnitude of the optical signal received by the optical receiver, a frequency discriminator discriminating frequencies of the received N optical signals, and a control circuit. The frequency discriminator discriminates for an interval that the optical transmitter does not transmit the optical signal. Then, the modulating circuit continuously outputs a received signal from one of N receiving circuits corresponding to the discriminated frequency and the modulator modulates the narrow band signal to have a center frequency other than the discriminated frequency under control of the control circuit. The interval is repeated with a repetition randomly set interval.

Bi-directional optical wireless communication apparatus and method of

A wireless communication system includes a repeater and a terminal device. The terminal device is connected to the repeater via a wireless communication channel. The terminal device includes a first section for converting a first electric signal into a first wireless signal, and transmitting the first wireless signal toward the repeater along the wireless communication channel. The terminal device includes a second section for receiving a second wireless signal from the repeater via the wireless communication channel, and converting the second wireless signal into a second electric signal. The terminal device includes a third section for deciding whether or not the first electric signal and the second electric signal are equal to each other to detect whether or not a signal collision occurs on the wireless communication channel.

Enhanced signal collision detection method in wireless communication

A wireless communication network system includes a communication controller, and a plurality of terminal devices which can communicate with the communication controller by wireless. The communication controller includes a first section for detecting absence of a received signal from any of the terminal devices, and a second section responsive to an output signal of the first section for periodically generating a nonbusy signal, which can be discriminated from another signal transmitted from the communication controller, in the absence of the received signal. Each of the terminal devices includes a third section for detecting the nonbusy signal, and a fourth section responsive to an output signal of the third section for permitting transmission from the terminal device after the nonbusy signal is received by the third section.

Wireless communication network system

An information signal recording disc is recorded with a stereoscopic television signal comprising a stereoscopic video signal and audio signals. The disc comprises a spiral track made up of a plurality of track turns, and video signals related to four fields are recorded on each of the plurality of track turns. Each track turn is time-sequentially recorded with right-eye and left-eye video signals of mutually different field numbers out of the right-eye and left-eye video signals of a simultaneous stereoscopic television signal in a sequence of field numbers together with audio signals, so that the right-eye video signal and the left-eye video signal are respectively recorded for a time period of two fields in each track turn. The right-eye and left-eye video signals related to identical fields are recorded side by side to each other in two mutually adjacent track turns. A predetermined sequence with which the right-eye and left-eye video signals are recorded on the spiral track is repeated with a period of eight fields.

Information signal recording disc recorded with stereoscopic television

A directional microphone apparatus includes an array of at least three sets of microphone units, circuits for processing the output signals from the microphone units to produce a first signal which varies in accordance with the second order bidirectional sound pressure gradient characteristic of the array, weighting circuits for applying respective weighting coefficients to the output signals from the microphone units in accordance with a desired shape of directivity response characteristic, to produce corresponding weighted signals which are combined to form a second signal. The first and second signals are combined to produce an output signal which exhibits sharp directivity even at relatively low frequencies in the audio range.

Directional microphone apparatus

A microphone apparatus includes an array of equally spaced microphones divided into a center subarray and a pair of side subarrays located one on each side of the center subarray. A first weighting network having a plurality of weighting factors impresses a first weighting function on signals from the center subarray. Second and third weighting networks each having a plurality of weighting factors impress second and third weighting functions respectively on signals from the side subarrays. The first, second and third weighting functions correspond respectively to center and side portions of a total function. Signals from the first weighting network are summed in a first adder, signals from the second and third weighting networks being summed in a second adder and cmbined with the output of the first adder in a third adder to produce an output signal. A variable directivity pattern is obtained by a level setting means which allows adjustment of the level of the output signal from the second adder in a predetermined relationship with the level of the output signal from the first adder.

Microphone apparatus having a variable directivity pattern

A stereoscopic television system and apparatus comprise a memory for storing right-eye information related to odd and even fields and left-eye information related to the odd and even fields, a circuit for producing a main scanning direction synchronizing signal for synchronizing a scanning in a vertical direction of a reproduced picture and a sub scanning direction synchronizing signal for synchronizing a scanning in a horizontal direction of the reproduced picture, where the sub scanning direction synchronizing signal has a frequency which is m.+-.1/4 times a frequency of the main scanning direction synchronizing signal and m is a natural number, and a display device for reproducing and displaying in synchronism with the main and sub scanning direction synchronizing signals the right-eye information related to the odd and even fields and the left-eye information related to the odd and even fields which are successively read out from the memory in synchronism with the main scanning direction synchronizing signal.

Stereoscopic television system and apparatus with 4 to 1 interlace

A phased-array sound pickup apparatus has an array of directional microphones having individual directivity patterns equally oriented in a given direction. The directivity patterns of the microphones combine into the main lobe of the array. A plurality of variable delay circuits are connected to be responsive respectively to individual signals from the microphones for providing incremental delays to the individual signals and combining the delayed signals for delivery as an output of the apparatus. A delay control circuit is coupled to the variable delay circuits for generating a delay control signal for controlling the amount of the incremental delays to cause the main lobe to be steered at an angle to the given direction as a function of the delay control signal.

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