Unirec Co., Ltd.

Other

Bridgestone Corporation

Nec Infrontia Corporation

Voicecipher, Inc.

Junichi Yamagishi

Eikou Yo

Takatsugu Hashimoto

Kazuo Yagawa

Shinichi Musha

Kazuo Hachiya

Keizo Akutagawa

Makoto Tanaka

Yoshihiko Kanatomi

Yoshikazu Kobayashi

Phillip L De Leon

Satoshi Takezawa

Steven Spence

Bryan Stewart

Kazutoyo Hasegawa

This disclosure is to provide a brass-plated steel wire for reinforcing a rubber article, which is capable of improving the initial adhesiveness, heat-resistant adhesiveness and initial adhesion rate. This disclosure is a brass-plated steel wire for reinforcing a rubber article, wherein: when measured with XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy), an outermost surface contains zinc at an amount of 4.8 atom % or less, phosphorus at an amount of 0.5 atom % or more, and oxygen at an amount of 50 atom % or less; and in the outermost surface, an atomic ratio of copper to zinc is 1 to 6.

Brass-plated steel wire for reinforcing rubber articles

The rubber composition of the present invention is prepared by mixing a rubber component (A), zinc oxide (B), and a co-condensate (C) having a softening point of 150&#xb0; C. or lower and containing a p-tert-butylphenol-derived constituent unit represented by the following formula (1), an o-phenylphenol-derived constituent unit represented by the following formula (2) and a resorcinol-derived constituent unit represented by the following formula (3), wherein the nitrogen adsorption specific surface area (NSA) of the zinc oxide (B) measured according to the BET method is 6 m/g or more and 110 m/g or less, the mixing amount of the zinc oxide (B) is 5 parts by mass or more and 13 parts by mass or less based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component (A), and the mixing amount of the co-condensate (C) is 0.1 parts by mass or more and 10 parts by mass or less based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component (A). The co-condensate (C) is usable as a replacement for p-tert-octylphenol and p-nonylphenol, has a softening point lower than the maximum temperature in a rubber processing step, and has excellent dispersibility in rubber. 

Rubber composition for tire

The present invention is a system and method for discriminating between human and synthetic speech. The method and system include memory for storing a speaker verification application, a communication network that receives from a client device a speech signal having one or more discriminating features, and a processor for executing instructions stored in memory. The execution of the instructions by the processor extracts the one or more discriminating features from the speech signal and classifies the speech signal as human or synthetic based on the extracted features.

Synthetic speech discrimination systems and methods

A rubber-metal composite body constituted of a rubber composition and a metal material embedded therein is conventionally used in a rubber article requiring high strength in order to reinforce rubber to improve strength and durability thereof. The present invention provides a rubber composition having good initial adhesive properties and good heat resistant adhesive properties with respect to a metal material, mainly for use in the rubber-metal composite body as described above. Specifically, the present invention provides a rubber composition, containing a cobalt compound by an amount, according to cobalt atoms, in the range of 0.0025 to 0.05 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of a rubber component.

Rubber composition, method for manufacturing rubber-metal composite body, rubber-metal composite body, tire, industrial belt, and rubber crawler

A telephone communications system includes a quantizing device quantizing a multifrequency signal at a sampling frequency which is twice or more as larger as a sampling frequency necessary for sampling the multifrequency signal to produce quantized data, a low-pass filter low-pass filtering the quantized data at a cutoff frequency higher than a maximum frequency of the multifrequency signal to produce low-pass filtered data, and a multifrequency signal receiver alternately performing an odd-numbered receiver processing and an even-numbered receiver processing on the low-pass filtered data.

Telephone communications system increasing a reception count twofold

An apparatus for supporting objects to identify is manufacturable at low cost and is capable of providing correct images of the objects. The apparatus has belts () to transport the objects (M) through a photographing section (). The apparatus also has strings () stretched across the photographing section in the object transporting direction. Each of the objects transported by the belts to the photographing section is supported between the belts and the strings and is photographed from the string side.

Apparatus for supporting objects to identify

A wireless call system enables even a bedridden person to easily answer a visitor. The wireless call system has an outdoor unit () installed on the outside of an entrance of a structure having a door () lockable with an electronic lock (), for calling a resident in the structure, and an indoor unit () connected to the outdoor unit () by radio, for informing the resident of the presence of a visitor upon receiving a signal from the outdoor unit () and allowing the resident to answer the visitor through the outdoor unit (). The outdoor unit () has an image pickup unit () for picking up an image of the visitor making a call with the outdoor unit (). The indoor unit () is portable and has a display () for displaying the visitor's image picked up by the image pickup unit () and control buttons () for unlocking the electronic lock () if necessary. The resident can carry the indoor unit () to an optional location, and at the location, check the visitor displayed on the display () and unlock the electronic lock () through the control buttons () after checking the visitor.

Wireless call system

A game system using tokens allows a user to play a game on a mobile communication terminal at a location remote from a game hall. The game system includes a game hall () to lend tokens to a player so that the player may play game machines () installed in the game hall with the tokens, keep tokens deposited by the player after the play, and return the kept tokens to the player so that the player may play the game machines with the tokens, a management unit () provided for the game hall, connectable to the Internet and having a database () to store and update data on the kept tokens, a mobile communication terminal () connectable to the Internet to receive game content and allow the player to play a game on the mobile communication terminal, and a game content provider () to provide the game content to the Internet. Gains and losses of tokens of the player on playing the game on the mobile communication terminal are transmitted to the management unit, which updates the data on the kept tokens in the database accordingly.

Game system using tokens

A game system correlates games played on cellular phones with games played on arcade game machines. The game system includes a game machine installed in an amusement arcade, to run a game based on at least points, a floor management unit installed in the amusement arcade, to manage the game machine and be connectable to the Internet, a game content providing unit to provide game content via the Internet, a mobile communication terminal to receive the game content via the Internet and run a game based on the received game content, and a point data management unit to store and update data on points to be won or lost by playing the game on the mobile communication terminal. The floor management unit receives points related to an authenticated person from the point data management unit and enables the game machine for the authenticated person.

Game system with gaming machine interconnected to a cellular phone

A locking apparatus has a biometric information input unit, a biometric information register for biometric information input, an ID code input unit, an ID code register, an indexer to provide an index that relates registered biometric information and ID code to each other and indicates locations where the registered biometric information and ID code are stored, an index memory, a retriever to retrieve registered biometric information from the biometric information register according to an index corresponding to an ID code input by a user into the ID code input unit, an authentication unit to authenticate the user by comparing the retrieved biometric information with biometric information input by the user, a lock driver to lock and unlock a door, and a controller to make the lock driver unlock the door when the authentication unit authenticates a person.

Personal authentication apparatus and locking apparatus

There is provided a telephone system, which can surely read a telephone number written on a sheet such as a name card and make a call to the telephone number. OCR reader, key input sectionand calling control sectionare connected to CPU. In telephone directory memoryconnected to the CPU, telephone number data obtained based on written content data read by the OCR readercan be saved as it is or in an edited state, telephone number data newly entered by the key input sectioncan be saved, and the saved data can be taken out at an optional point of time. Identification/determination sectionconnected to the CPUcarries out identification and determination to obtain telephone number data from the written content data read by the OCR readerunder predetermined conditions.

Telephone system for making call to telephone number read from a sheet

An arrangement of selection objects includes an area model memory () for storing a configuration model of an area, an object model memory () for storing configuration models of respective selection objects, an image frame outputter () for performing an image frame indication of the configuration models, a model operator () for performing an arranging operation of the configuration models of the respective selection objects on the configuration model of the area in an image frame, a controller () for arranging the configuration models of the respective selection objects on the configuration model of the area in accordance with the arranging operation, a frequency information inputting device () for inputting to the controller () selection frequency information of the respective selection objects actually arranged in the area in accordance with an arrangement by the arranging operation, and an identification indicator () for performing an identifying indication of the configuration models by the image frame indication in accordance with the input selection frequency information.

Method and apparatus for optimum arrangement of selection objects

This invention enables a play without using coins and easy collection of fee. An control apparatus of this invention comprises a play portion which stores play information and enables a play by inputting personal information, an input portion to which a mobile communication terminal is connected detachably in order to input personal information and a control portion which reads a subscriber number as the personal information from the mobile communication terminal connected to the input portion, makes a call to the information service center and enables a play by the play portion. The information service center bill corresponding to the play through mobile communication network or stationary communication network.

Control apparatus and control method using mobile communication terminal

The management apparatus comprises a mobile communication terminal comprising a radio unit () for enabling to wirelessly output a signal and a reading unit () for enabling to read an identification sign, a playing section () capable of being played based on personal information, an input section () provided on the playing section () to input personal information with a radio signal from the mobile communication terminal (), an externally readable unique identification sign () provided on the playing section () to identify the playing section (), and a control section () for calling an information service center () based on a radio signal input of the personal information through the radio unit () of the mobile communication terminal () and a reading of an identification sign through the identification unit () and for enabling to play by the playing section (), wherein the information service center () performs accounting according to a playing of the playing section ().

Mobile communication terminal and management apparatus

A vehicle management system has an operation controller for controlling an operation of a vehicle by receiving a signal in a vehicle side mobile communication terminal provided at the vehicle, and an operating side mobile communication terminal capable of transmitting a signal to the operation controller via a mobile communication network. The operating side mobile communication terminal and the vehicle side mobile communication terminal have weak radio transceivers, and a transmission/reception of the signal can be conducted with the weak radio transceiver. The operating side mobile communication terminal includes a human body information inputting section for inputting fingerprint information, the operating side mobile communication terminal or the operation controller conducts authenticating of an operator with the input fingerprint information, and the operation controller conducts the controlling on the basis of an authentication of the operator.

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Tokyo, Japan

Junichi Yamagishi