Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems, Inc.

Keiichi Tomita

Nobuhiko Noma

Tatsuo Imai

Hiroyuki Nemoto

Yohei Kawaguchi

Mikio Mizutani

Osamu Noguchi

Shigeru Hata

Yo Kitabatake

Tsukasa Sakai

Kento Oku

Kazuo Kurita

Tatsunori Sakai

Tetsuya Masuda

Ryohei Horiba

Tatsuya Asanuma

Kumi Aoki

Akihide Terao

Hirohito Yagi

Rei Hayakawa

An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus, having a compressor, a top cover configured to cover an upper surface of the compressor, and a side cover configured to cover a side of the compressor and a side of the top cover, the side cover including a rectangular cutout portion formed in a part of an upper end of the side cover. The outdoor unit has a non-water-absorbent draining element disposed across from a central portion of the top cover to a bottom portion of the cutout portion, and tilts down from the central portion of the top cover toward the bottom portion of the cutout portion.

Outdoor unit for air-conditioning apparatus

An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus enabling a soundproof material to correctly cover a compressor and having enhanced assembling efficiency and a method for assembling the outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus are provided. The outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes the compressor installed inside a casing and the soundproof material covering at least the compressor. The soundproof material includes a lower soundproof material surrounding a lateral periphery of a lower portion of the compressor and an upper soundproof material surrounding a lateral periphery of an upper portion of the compressor.

Outdoor unit of air-conditioning apparatus and method of assembling outdoor unit of air-conditioning apparatus

A refrigerant distributor includes: a first introduction pipe configured to be open at a first end and closed at a second end and to cause refrigerant to flow from the first end toward the second end; a second introduction pipe configured to be closed in ends on both upstream and downstream sides and to cause the refrigerant to flow in a direction opposite to a refrigerant flow direction in the first introduction pipe; a plurality of branch pipes connected in series along a refrigerant flow direction on the second introduction pipe; and an adjusting pipe configured to connect the first introduction pipe and the second introduction pipe.

Refrigerant distributor and air-conditioning apparatus using the same

An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a machine chamber in which a compressor serving as a vibration source and at least two refrigerant-circuit components and are provided. One of the refrigerant-circuit components and is provided with an elastic tab while an other refrigerant-circuit component or is provided with a catching portion that is engageable with the elastic tab. The refrigerant-circuit components and are brought into close contact with each other by the elastic tab and the catching portion.

The present invention provides a management table that uses only specific symbols for upstream signals and other symbols for downstream signals, within a hyperframe (ADSL communication unit). Communication is performed by switching streams between the upstream and downstream, in accordance with the symbols stored in the management table. Upon transmitting a predetermined number of hyperframes, a processor transmits a SEGUE signal instead of a REVERB signal in the beginning of the next hyperframe.

ADSL modem apparatus and ADSL modem communication method

The present invention monitors communication status during a data communication, determines whether the current communication status needs a re-initialization, requests a re-initialization of an opposing ADSL modem apparatus by transmitting ClearEOC when a re-initialization is needed, receives a response to a re-initialization request from the opposing ADSL modem apparatus, and performs a re-initialization after a predetermined time period.

ADSL modem apparatus and re-initialization method for ADSL modem apparatus

A communication control method detects whether an opposing apparatus is capable of performing an abbreviated procedure during a handshake step, declares an initiation of the abbreviated procedure if the opposing apparatus is capable of performing the abbreviated procedure, omits a negotiation prior to transmitting a MEDLEY signal, allows a remote side to transmit capacity information and reception result once to a center side after exchanging the MEDLEY signal, and further allows the center side to transmit the final capacity and transmission speed information to the remote side, in order to complete the initialization sequence.

Communication control method, communication control apparatus, and ADSL communication apparatus

A control monitors communication status during a data communication and determines a re-initialization is necessary in the current communication status. If the re-initialization is necessary, a pre-selected sub-carrier topology is inverted to request the re-initialization to an ADSL modem apparatus, which is installed by a central system. Upon receiving a reply to the re-initialization request from the ADSL modem apparatus, the re-initialization is performed after an expiration of a predetermined time period.

ADSL modem apparatus

An encoding (or decoding) method, by which raw data of 1 line is converted into, for example, modified Huffman (MH) code (or MH code is converted into raw data) by obtaining a cumulative run-length code every transition point, at which there occurs a transition or change between a run of white pixels to another contiguous run of black pixels, from the beginning of the line and then converting the cumulative run-length code to the MH code (or converting the MH code to the cumulative run-length code). The cumulative run-length code is defined by both of data, which indicates that a pixel of a run just prior to the transition point is black or white, and data representing a cumulative run-length of the run up to the pixel thereof just prior to the transition point. Thus, an encoding or decoding processing can be performed at a high speed.

Encoding and decoding methods for use in facsimile

A Viterbi decoding method, in which consecutive input data bits Q.sub.6n .about.Q.sub.1n are first converted into consecutive code bits Q.sub.6n .about.Q.sub.3n Y.sub.2n Y.sub.1n Y.sub.0n at a time instant n by use of a Trellis encoder. Then, a branch metric, which is a minimum Euclidean distance between a reception signal point and each of signal points (namely, Trellis codes Q.sub.6 .about.Q.sub.3 Y.sub.2 Y.sub.1 Y.sub.0) in a signal space diagram, corresponding to each of eight states 0 to 7 and a corresponding signal point are obtained. Further, a sum of the branch metric corresponding to each state and a corresponding path metric at a time instant (n-1), which is a sum of corresponding branch metrics since a time instant 1 to the time instant (n-1) is calculated. Then, the path metric corresponding to each state is updated by replacing it with the calculated sum of the corresponding branch metric and the corresponding path metric obtained at the time instant (n-1). Subsequently, a minimum one of the path metrics is determined as the latest part of a surviving path. Moreover, the surviving path is traced back to a signal point Q.sub.61 .about.Q.sub.31 Y.sub.21 Y.sub.11 Y.sub.01 at the time instant 1. Thus input data bits Q.sub.61 .about.Q.sub.31 Q.sub.21 Q.sub.11 at the time instant 1 is restored. In case of this method, the signal points are classified according to three bits Y.sub.21 Y.sub.11 Y.sub.01 into eight groups. Further, one of the groups is determined as a reference group. Furthermore, tables representing the signal points of the other groups are calculated from a table representing the signal points of the reference group.

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Keiichi Tomita