Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

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Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Nec Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Japan Tobacco Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Kazuo Mori

Kimihide Nakatsu

Yoshinobu Ishida

Shinichi Haneda

Kazunari Azuchi

Kazunobu Nuno

Terutsugu Gotanda

Tetsuro Nagami

Kenjiro Kime

Akihiro Fukasawa

Kiyoshi Yanagiguchi

Masato Nagasawa

Kiyoichi Kita

Eiji Yokoyama

Nobuzumi Kurihara

Masami Tomita

Tsuyoshi Kamiya

Seiji Kishikawa

Seiji Sakai

Kazuyuki Kokubo

Kazutomo Kajiwara

Norihiro Yonezawa

Tetsuya Shigeeda

Kiyohito Morimoto

Yuzo Konishi

Sho Tanaka

Daiichi Shiraishi

Tomio Yasuda

Kei Kobayashi

Minoru Sakurai

Hironori Koeda

Kohji Aoki

Hiroyuki Chida

Takehiko Mori

Hiroshi Otaki

Akito Kiriseko

Yui Nakayama

Tatsuya Narita

Ryousuke Suda

Seiji Yoshimura

Atsushi Nagai

Hidenori Fukuoka

Shinichi Fukushima

Daichi Kunishi

Yoshio Nagato

Oleg Ryabov

There is provided a flavor dispenser apparatus that allows flavored aerosols to be dispensed into a glass, plate, or other dishware during a meal or the like. The flavor dispenser apparatus includes a storage part storing an aerosol-generating liquid, a heating unit having a heater and generating an aerosol by atomizing the aerosol-generating liquid, a liquid delivery unit delivering the aerosol-generating liquid to the heating unit, an aerosol passage having at a distal end thereof an aerosol outlet port, a flavor source holding part provided at an intermediate point in the aerosol passage and holding a flavor source so as to allow passage of the aerosol, and an aerosol-pumping unit transporting the aerosol toward the flavor source holding part and causing the aerosol to pass through the flavor source as well as causing the aerosol flavored by the flavor source to be discharged from the aerosol outlet port.

Flavor dispenser apparatus

Provided is a method of manufacturing a tobacco raw material in which the green color of the tobacco raw material is maintained and a browning-involved enzyme included in tobacco leaves is deactivated. Specifically, a method of manufacturing a tobacco raw material is provided that includes a step for heating a tobacco leaf material, which has an a* value of 1.0 or less, the a* value being expressed by the L*a*b* method, and which has a moisture content of 8 wt % or less, at a temperature of 75&#xb0; C. or higher and under a humidity-controlled environment so that the a* value is 1.0 or less and the content of the browning-involved enzyme is 0.1 U/g or less.

Method of manufacturing tobacco raw material and oral tobacco product

A traverse chassis supported in a swingable manner with respect to the main chassis and a disk transport plate provided along an opening are provided in the main chassis. The transport plate has a base part having a slender rectangular shape in plan view and a transport roller provided in the surface of the base part so as to extend in the longitudinal direction of the base part. The transport roller is provided such that its rotationally-moving shaft extends in parallel to an X direction, and an optical disk mounted on these components is loaded into or unloaded from an optical disk apparatus by rotation of the transport roller.

Optical disk apparatus with shared driving source mechanism

A roof rack includes a pair of roof rails extended in parallel each other and connected to a roof of a vehicle, a cross rail extended perpendicular to the roof rail for connecting the roof rails, and a stopper mechanism including a handle operable for fixing the cross rail to the roof rails. The cross rail is movable relative to the roof rail when the handle is at a first position and the cross rail is immovable relative to the roof rail when then handle is at a second position.

Roof rack

A bumper device can reduce a weight of a reinforcement member more than a weight of a conventional reinforcement member while sufficiently absorbing a given impact energy. A size &ldquo;b&rdquo; between both side mounting portions where the reinforcement member is mounted on a stay is set greater than a size &ldquo;a&rdquo; between both side longitudinal wall portions of a side frame, both outer longitudinal walls of the stay are inclined such that both outer longitudinal walls are opened toward the reinforcement member, and the distance between the inner longitudinal walls is set substantially equal to the distance between the both side longitudinal wall portions of the side frame.

Bumper device for vehicles and bumper stay

A shock absorbing member for a vehicle is designed to absorb the impact energy in a plastic deformation manner to absorb the axial compressive load. The shock absorbing member includes a hollow member whose cross-section is roughly constant and whose axis is adapted to extend forward and rearward of the vehicle. A flange is formed on the hollow member roughly along the axis of the hollow member and projects by an amount increasing gradually from one side toward the other side of the axis.

Shock absorbing member and bumper

A first frame section is hollow and has a substantially uniform polygonal cross-sectional shape. An axial load is applied to the first frame section. A second frame section is hollow and has a substantially uniform polygonal cross-sectional shape. The axial load is transmitted from the first frame section to the second frame section. A transmitting portion is provided in at least one of the first and second frame sections. The transmitting portion receives the axial load that acts on each edge of the first frame section and transmits the axial load to each edge of the second frame section.

Frame section joining structure

For determination of the expiration of the life of a cutting tool on the basis of a resistance signal from sensor lines, a true signal component indicative of the abrasion of the sensor lines should be extracted from the resistance signal. In a signal processing method according to the present invention, an output of an abrasion sensor is sampled in a predetermined sampling cycle (Step S ), and then the sampled data is passed through a median filter for elimination of a noise therefrom (Step S ). Further, the noise-free data is passed through a separation filter (Step S ). By the separation filter, reduction data having a time-serially reduced in value is separated and eliminated from the noise-free data. As a result, true data indicative of a change in the resistance of the sensor is obtained. The true data is subjected to a counter function process (Step S ) thereby to determine how many sensor lines have been cut off by the abrasion. The expiration of the life of the cutting tool is detected when the number of the cut-off sensor lines reaches a predetermined number (Step S ).

Signal processing system and signal processing method for cutting tool with abrasion sensor

Load is applied to a bumper reinforce. Two hollow crash boxes are coupled to the bumper reinforce. Each crash box has a substantially constant cross section, an axis and an open end. When load is applied to the bumper reinforce, each crash box is plastically deformed in the axial direction for absorbing the load. The bumper reinforce includes projections. Each projection corresponds to one of the crash boxes and faces part of the open end of the corresponding crash box. The projections reduce the load at the beginning of plastic deformation.

Coupling structure of shock transmitting member and shock absorbing member, and bumper

A disk cartridge having a case including a first planar protion and a second planar portion which are disposed opposite to each other with a given spacing therebetween, and a plurality of walls which join the first planar portion and the second planar portion together. The case contains an information carrying disk in a rotatable manner and has an opening formed in one of the walls through which the disk can be inserted or removed. The disk cartridge has a lid mounted on the case for opening or closing the opening. The lid is formed so that an outer surface of the lid is located inside an outer surface of the wall in which the opening is formed.

Disk device with opening lid

A bumper apparatus for a vehicle includes a first reinforcement, and a second reinforcement extending in the vehicle width-wise direction. The second reinforcement has a first outer wall at a side remote relative to the vehicle body, an inner wall at a near side relative to the vehicle body, and a first top wall and a first bottom wall connecting the first outer wall with the inner wall. The second reinforcement further includes two end portions and an intermediate portion located between the end portions, with both end portions being fixed to the vehicle body via the first reinforcement. At least a portion of the inner wall disposed in the intermediate portion being caved in to gradually approach toward the first outer wall from the both end portions.

Bumper apparatus for vehicle

A disk cartridge has a case including a first planar portion and a second planar portion which are disposed opposite to each other with a given spacing therebetween, and a plurality of walls which join the first planar portion and the second planar portion together. The case contains an information carrying disk in a rotatable manner and has an opening formed in one of the walls through which the disk can be inserted or removed. The disk cartridge has a lid mounted on the case for opening or closing the opening. The lid is formed so that an outer surface of the lid is located inside an outer surface of the wall in which the opening is formed.

Disk cartridge

A turntable is a table mounted to a shaft (,) of a spindle motor and the turntable supports a laminated disc thereon and drives the disc in rotation. The laminated disc includes a lower disc and an upper disc stacked on the lower disc, and is supported on a disc-supporting surface. When the disc is loaded on the turntable, a fitting member fits into the center hole of the laminated disc for centering the laminated disc with respect to the shaft. The fitting member fits the center hole of the lower disc when the laminated disc is supported on said disc-supporting surface. The turntable may include a tapered member which guides the laminated disc to the disc-supporting surface. The laminated disc includes lower and upper discs each having an edge which defines the center hole. The corners of the edges are cut away along a circumference of the center hole. The upper and lower discs are placed together so that the cut-away corner directly face each other.

Laminated optical disc and turntable for the laminated optical disc

Prior to a heat treatment for bonding a III-V group compound semiconductor layer on a silicon substrate, a thermal stress relaxation layer is provided between the silicon layer and the III-V group compound semiconductor layer thermal stress relaxation layer, having a thermal expansion coefficient equal or near to the thermal expansion coefficient of the III-V group compound semiconductor layer and having a rigidity coefficient being sufficiently large to suppress generation of any crystal defects in the III-V group compound semiconductor layer due to a thermal stress generated in the heat treatment and subsequent cooling stage by the difference in the thermal expansion coefficient between the III-V group compound semiconductor layer and the silicon layer.

Method of bonding a III-V group compound semiconductor layer on a silicon substrate

A turntable is a table mounted to a shaft (4) of a spindle motor and the turntable supports a laminated disc thereon and drives the disc in rotation. The laminated disc includes a lower disc and an upper disc stacked on the lower disc, and is supported on a disc-supporting surface. When the disc is loaded on the turntable, a fitting member fits into the center hole of the laminated disc for centering the laminated disc with respect to the shaft. The fitting member fits the center hole of the lower disc when the laminated disc is supported on said disc-supporting surface. The turntable may include a tapered member which guides the laminated disc to the disc-supporting surface. The laminated disc includes lower and upper discs each having an edge which defines the center hole. The corners of the edges are cut away along a circumference of the center hole. The upper and lower discs are placed together so that the cut-away corner directly face each other.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuo Mori