Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Rioch Company, Limited

Kazuyuki Shimada

Tomohiro Nakajima

Yasushi Nakazato

Seizo Suzuki

Taku Amada

Yoshinori Hayashi

Isamu Shibata

Naoki Miyatake

Mitsuo Suzuki

Takahiro Yagishita

Satoru Itoh

Keiichi Iwasaki

Susumu Imakawa

Masayoshi Miyamoto

Hitoshi Matsuo

Yoshiharu Niito

Yukitoshi Kiya

Hideo Azumai

Akira Kojima

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Hiroyuki Kuriyama

Ikuko Yamashiro

Hideyuki Ban

Tomoatsu Imamura

Toshitaka Senma

Chiaki Taniguchi

Takeshi Hashiguchi

Kiyoteru Noguchi

Yutaka Kaneko

Masahiro Ito

Koji Masuda

Satoshi Muramatsu

Kozo Yamazaki

Tsukuru Kai

Masanori Suzuki

Yasuo Suzuki

Yusuke Takeda

Nobuo Sakuma

Satoru Tomita

Hideaki Mochimaru

Yoshinobu Takeyama

Hirokatsu Suzuki

Satoshi Mitsuyama

Manabu Furukawa

Tatsuya Sekiguchi

Teruyasu Watabe

Osamu Inage

Yoshiya Inoue

Katsumi Yamaguchi

Tomoya Ohsugi

Kunihiko Kido

Hitoshi Otake

Masayuki Ohta

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Katsuyuki Kitao

Hiroaki Kotabe

Takamasa Hayashi

Toru Hisamitsu

Kouji Yamanobe

Hirofumi Nishiwaki

Kunio Tomiyasu

Mariko Yamamoto

Seizoh Suzuki

Junichi Hirasawa

Tetsuji Furukawa

Tetsuro Saitoh

Jumpei Sato

Tooru Nagatsuma

Syuntaro Yui

Susumu Imagawa

Keiichi Sugimura

Yikitoshi Kiya

The present invention provides a protective construction of a fuel pump. The protective construction includes a pump shield, disposed on an internal-combustion engine, wherein a specified interval exists at a carriage side of a vehicle in opposite to a high-pressure fuel pump and the pump shield overlaps the high-pressure fuel pump in a front and rear direction. The pump shield includes: a base portion having a width increasing gradually towards the high-pressure fuel pump; a left protective arm portion and a right protective arm portion, extending diagonally and integrally extend upwards from a specified location of the base portion to the side of the high-pressure fuel pump, wherein an interval between the left protective arm portion and the right protective arm portion increases gradually towards the high-pressure fuel pump, and a beam portion, integrally extending between the left protective arm portion and the right protective arm portion.

Protective construction of fuel pump

Upon evaluation of a value of a diagnostic process, the value of a diagnostic process is evaluated not based on a simple cost but on a cost required for all processes of a patient who was in the diagnostic process through a follow-up survey. Diagnostic processes that are not relevant to a target diagnostic process are eliminated, clustering is performed on patients to divide the patients into clinically meaningful homogeneous groups, and the target diagnostic process is evaluated for each of the homogeneous groups. For the purpose, importance scores of data pieces of the clinical data are calculated and the relevant data is output using the output result of the medical knowledge extraction unit, clustering is performed on patients in the clinical data, and a clinical index and a cost are output for each of the clusters.

Diagnostic process analysis system

A vehicle lighting unit can be configured to allow the brightnesses of light observed through vertically arranged lenses to substantially match when the lenses are viewed from a certain viewpoint in front of the vehicle. The vehicle lighting unit can include: a first lens on a first upper optical axis; a second lens on a second lower optical axis; a semiconductor light-emitting device; a first revolved ellipsoidal reflector; a shade; a second revolved ellipsoidal reflector; and a third reflector. The third reflector is inclined at an inclination angle with respect to the horizontal plane adjusted such that light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting device, reflected by the second reflector, focused at a second focal point of the second reflector, reflected by the third reflector, and passing through the second lens is directed in a direction at a predetermined upward angle with respect to the horizontal plane.

Vehicle lighting unit

A metabolic energy monitoring system is provided which comprises: a wearable device having a movement sensor, a temperature sensor and a pulse wave sensor and adapted to be worn on a human body; a database to store activity state decision knowledge data including activity state decision condition data and calorie consumption calculation knowledge data including a calorie consumption calculating algorithm for each metabolic state; an activity state decision unit to determine the activity state based on a detection signal from the wearable device and activity state decision knowledge data; a metabolic state decision unit to detect an activity continuation state, and determine the metabolic state; a calorie consumption calculating unit to calculate a calorie consumption according to the metabolic state; and an output unit to output the calorie consumption.

Metabolic energy monitoring system

A rubber mount includes a cylindrical rubber member () formed with an annular groove () to engage a component part () to be supported, and a threaded bolt () passed through a central axial bore () of the rubber member and having a threaded part () in a forward end thereof to be threaded into a base member (). The intermediate part is provided with a larger diameter than the threaded part, and a pair of annular grooves () are formed on an outer circumferential surface of the intermediate part. The rubber member is axially compressed by the head () of the threaded bolt when the threaded bolt is fully threaded into the hole. The rubber mount consists a small number of component parts, and is easy to install, but is still able to firmly support the component part and provide a favorable vibration insulation capability.

Rubber mount

A safety and health information reporting system including a wearable device, a metabolic index calculating part, an activity index calculating part, a safety and health status determining part and a determination result output part. The wearable device is worn by a living body. The metabolic index calculating part calculates a metabolic index which represents energy consumption of the living body, based on a detection signal of the wearable device. The activity index calculating part calculates an activity index representing an activity amount of the living body on a daily basis. The safety and health status determining part which determines a safety and health status of the living body, based on a comparison of the metabolic index and the activity index. The determination result output part outputs a determination result of the safety and health status determining part.

Safety and health information reporting system

An image forming apparatus including a plurality of cartridges, each including a drum, a single writing unit which is an only writing unit of the image forming apparatus. There is a structural member disposed between the plurality of cartridges and the single writing unit which extends in the direction in which the cartridges are stacked. There is a first side wall, a second side wall facing the first side wall, a top wall, and a bottom wall. The structural member is affixed to the first side wall, the second side wall, the top wall, and the bottom wall.

Image forming apparatus having a plurality of cartridges and a single writing unit

An optical scanner includes a light source modulated based on image data, an optical deflection and scanning part deflecting a light beam emitted from the light source, and a scanning and imaging optical system condensing the deflected light beam toward a scanning surface so as to form a light spot optically scanning the scanning surface. The effective scanning region of the scanning surface is divided into a plurality of regions according to a scanning line curving characteristic. Suitable image data for optically scanning the divided regions are selected from image data of a plurality of image lines every time the light spot optically scans the effective scanning region, so that the image data of each of the image lines is written with scanning line curving being corrected.

Optical scanner and imaging apparatus using the same

An optical scanning characteristic control method is applied to an optical scanning system in which a beam is deflected, and the deflected beam is converged and directed toward a scanning surface, so that optical scanning of the scanning surface is performed by an optical spot formed thereon by the deflected beam. The method comprising the steps of a) disposing a beam deflection control device on the light path of the beam before it is incident on the scanning surface; and b) controlling a beam deflection amount of the beam deflecting device provide to an incident beam so as to control a scanning characteristic of the optical scanning.

Image forming system employing effective optical scan-line control device

An image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming cartridges removably mounted to an apparatus body one above the other is disclosed. Structural members each partition off a space between nearby image forming cartridges mounted to the apparatus body. The apparatus is capable of obviating banding ascribable to the vibration of the cartridges.

Image forming apparatus

Image forming apparatus having a plurality of photoconductive elements, a plurality of optical writing devices and a stay

An optical scanner is capable of effectively correcting a difference with respect to the sub-scanning direction between the positions of optical spots for scanning photoconductor drums of a tandem type color image forming apparatus. The optical scanner includes an optical axis adjusting part. The optical axis adjusting part uses a deflecting mirror or a wedge-shaped prism to deflect the optical axis of an optical beam with respect to the sub-scanning direction. As a result, it is possible to accurately correct a resist difference among individual image forming stations and form a high-quality color image without any color displacement.

Optical scanner and image forming apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuyuki Shimada