Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.

Nisshin Engineering Co., Ltd.

Sekiusi Chemical Co., Ltd.

Honda Research and Development Co., Ltd.

Masaki Ban

Hiroshi Murata

Masaaki Kubo

Kazuya Yoshimura

Masahiro Asai

Makoto Nakahara

Takatoshi Kira

Hiroyuki Nakatani

Daisuke Ikesugi

Akihiko Tateno

Shin Doi

Hiroyuki Morita

Goro Watanabe

Kazuman Taniuchi

Yasushi Okada

Katsutoshi Tagami

Fumitaka Takahashi

Akio Matsuzaki

The present invention has its object to provide a method of spraying particles by which predetermined quantities of particles can be disposed on specified electrodes, in particular a method of spraying particles by which spacers can be sprayed in interelectrode gaps selectively even in the case of substrates comprising pattern-forming transparent electrodes, such as those used in liquid crystal display devices, and a method of producing liquid crystal display devices of high contrast and high display uniformity by which spacers can be disposed in interelectrode gaps without sacrificing the aperture ratio and by which spacers can be disposed on the substrate without irregularity to attain a uniform cell thickness over the whole substrate, as well as a particle spraying apparatus and a liquid crystal display device. The present invention provides a method of spraying particles

Method of scattering fine particles, method of manufacturing liquid crystal display, apparatus for scattering fine particles, and liquid crystal display

To provide a Stirling engine and a control unit for a Stirling engine capable of disposing a displacer unit and a power cylinder unit separately from each other, thereby increasing the degree of freedom of layout thereof. A displacer unit and a power cylinder unit of a Stirling engine E are disposed separately from each other. A compression chamber of the displacer unit is connected to an operation chamber of the power cylinder unit via a pressure conduit. A control actuator capable of arbitrarily controlling the displacer piston of the displacer unit is connected to the displacer piston.

Stirling engine

The present invention provides a finely-divided powder spray apparatus having a spray nozzle pipe for discharging finely-divided powders from the tip together with a gas stream, which is disposed at a prescribed distance from the member to be sprayed and inclined in a prescribed direction to the member; and a moving-speed control means which controls the moving-speed of the tip of the spray nozzle pipe in accordance with the quadratic function, which indicates the reduction rate of the density of the deposited finely-divided powders based on the distance between a peak point of the density of the finely-divided powders deposited on the member to be sprayed in a trial spray and a spray point at which an extension from the spray nozzle pipe intersects with the member to be sprayed.

Finely-divided powder spray apparatus

To generate mechanical energy and electrical energy efficiently, by combining a Stirling engine and a fuel cell. A solid electrolyte type fuel cell FC is disposed between an air passage for supplying air to a heater of a Stirling engine E and a fuel passage for supplying fuel. Air and the fuel react with each other in the solid electrolyte type fuel cell FC to generate electrical energy, an off gas containing the unreacted fuel discharged from the solid electrolyte type fuel cell FC is supplied to the heater of the Stirling engine E and subjected to catalytic combustion. The resulting heat is used to operate the Stirling engine E to generate mechanical energy. The solid electrolyte type fuel cell FC is arranged in an annular-shape and so disposed as to surround the heater. The heat of reaction generated in the solid electrolyte type fuel cell FC acts on the heater, thereby contributing to elevation of the temperature of the heater.

Compound-type energy generation system

Provided is a spacer microparticle spraying apparatus capable of selectively disposing spacer microparticles in electrode gaps where no pixels are present even on a substrate carrying an array of stripe electrodes in use for the STN liquid crystal display device, to a spacer particle spraying method and a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device which utilize said apparatus. The spacer microparticle spraying apparatus for selective disposition of a charged spacer microparticle on a substrate carrying a plurality of electrodes includes a spraying chamber adapted to accommodate the substrate, a spacer microparticle supply means for supplying the spacer microparticle into the spraying chamber and spraying it on the substrate, and a voltage application means for applying voltages to the electrodes disposed on the substrate, wherein the voltage application means is capable of applying different levels of voltages to the electrodes respectively.

Spacer microparticle spraying apparatus and method for fabricating a liquid crystal display

A drive unit for a prosthetic limb for driving a prosthetic limb with comfort for a long time. A Stirling engine is composed of a displacer unit mounted at an arbitrary portion other than prosthetic limb bodies and a power cylinder unit mounted between the prosthetic limb bodies and for bending/stretching the prosthetic limb bodies and relative to each other. A compression chamber of the displacer unit is connected to an operation chamber of the power cylinder unit via a flexible pressure conduit. A combustor for heating an expansion chamber disposed in a displacer cylinder of the displacer unit is provided around a head portion of the displacer cylinder. A fuel supply device is connected to the combustor. An actuator for arbitrarily driving a displacer piston of the displacer unit is connected to the displacer piston.

Drive unit for prosthetic limb

Liquid crystal display and manufacture thereof with electrostatic control of sprayed spacer particle deposition

The present invention provides a finely-divided powder spray apparatus having a spray nozzle pipe for discharging spacers for liquid crystal displays from the tip together with a gas flow, which is disposed at a prescribed distance from a member to be sprayed, and comprising: a touch panel which enters control factors for controlling the moving-speed of the tip of the spray nozzle pipe at individual spray points the surface of the glass substrate; and an actuator driver which controls the moving speed of the tip of the spray nozzle pipe in accordance with the control factor entered by the touch panel.

Method of scattering fine spacers method of manufacturing liquid crystal display, apparatus for scattering fine spacers with electrostatic control and confinement, and liquid crystal display

To generate electric power efficiently with a thermoelectromagnetic generator using the heat regenerator of a Stirling engine. When a high-temperature operating gas and a low-temperature operating gas alternately pass through a heat regenerator of a Stirling engine, the temperature of the heat regenerator increases and decreases periodically. A thermoelectromagnetic generator G integrally associated with the heat regenerator has a yoke making up a closed magnetic circuit passing through the heat regenerator, a permanent magnet for supplying magnetic fluxes to the magnetic circuit, and an induction coil responsive to changes in the magnetic fluxes of the magnetic circuit. The heat regenerator which is made of a ferromagnetic material has a Curie temperature which is present in a range of varying temperatures of the heat regenerator. When the temperature of the heat regenerator periodically changes across the Curie temperature, the magnetic fluxes passing through the induction coil are varied greatly each time the temperature of the heat regenerator passes through the Curie temperature, generating a large electromotive force across the induction coil.

An exhaust gas recovery system for an internal combustion engine recovers the high heat energy generated by an exhaust gas clarification catalytic converter intermediately disposed in the exhaust system of the internal combustion engine as electrical energy without causing an increase in exhaust gas resistance. A stack device in a heat-driven type sound wave generating portion is provided at a one end of a resonance pipe. The resonance pipe is disposed adjacently to an exhaust gas clarification catalytic converter intermediately disposed in the exhaust system. A first end portion of the stack is heated by the heat generated by the catalytic converter, thereby providing the stack with a temperature gradient. A transducer for converting a sound wave generated by the sound wave generating portion attendant on the temperature gradient into electrical energy is provided at the other end portion of the resonance pipe.

Exhaust heat energy recovery system for internal combustion engine

To provide a heating device for an external combustion engine, which is capable of improving the stabilization of combustion in a controlled state with a relatively small quantity of heat and for controlling the properties of an exhaust gas. An increased long-time operation of the external combustion engine is achieved by the present invention. A heating device for an external combustion engine includes a combustion housing provided for surrounding a heating portion of an external combustion engine. An fuel-air mixer is provided at one end of the combustion housing and an exhaust pipe provided at the other end of the combustion housing. An oxidation catalyst is disposed in the combustion housing for accelerating the combustion of a fuel-air mixture of fuel and air supplied through the fuel-air mixer.

Heating device for external combustion engine

A finely-divided powder spray apparatus of the invention comprises a spray nozzle pipe disposed at a position spaced apart from a member to be sprayed a prescribed interval; a support unit of the spray nozzle pipe for supporting it so that it can be inclined; a first joint unit disposed to the upper end of the spray nozzle pipe; two linearly-moving actuators that each move in respective linear paths that are fixed relative to each other and each provided with a second joint unit; and two rods for coupling each of the second joint units with the first joint unit; wherein the finely-divided powder is sprayed onto the member to be sprayed from the spray nozzle pipe which is inclined in an arbitrary direction by combining the movements of the two linearly-moving actuators. This spray apparatus is a smaller apparatus capable of spraying the finely-divided powder such as liquid crystal spacers onto a larger member to be sprayed such as a larger glass substrate and does not uselessly spray finely-divided powder to the periphery of a member to be sprayed by providing a drive mechanism for driving a spray nozzle pipe which has a larger spray angle, can move in a prescribed direction at a high speed, applies a uniform load on drive sources for driving the spray nozzle pipe and can change the center of the locus of a spray path along which the finely-divided powder is sprayed and the moving speed of the center of the locus.

A shared vehicle rental system has a plurality of motor vehicles, a parking area for a plurality of users to rent motor vehicles therefrom and to return motor vehicles thereto, and a control center for supervising the motor vehicles. The shared vehicle rental system registers the users in a plurality of groups depending on a usage time zone in which the users use the motor vehicles, identifies registration information of the users which is recorded on IC cards of the users, and supervises the motor vehicles and the parking area based on the registration information of the users.

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Saitama, Japan

Masaki Ban