Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Adv Antest Corporation

Tyco Electronics Amp K.k.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corporation

Takahiro Hatano

Makiya Kimura

Shin Sakiyama

Tomoyuki Takamoto

Satoshi Shigematsu

Mamoru Nakanishi

Takashi Sekizuka

Katsuyuki Machida

Hiroki Morimura

Yukio Okazaki

Jun Takahashi

Koji Yamazaki

Tomoaki Kawamura

Shoko Oteru

Namiko Ikeda

Saki Hatta

Koichiro Inukai

Shuhei Kobayashi

Masao Takiguchi

Junpei Kaneta

Yukihiro Hayakawa

Tokuma Kaiho

Hakaru Kyuragi

Koji Fujii

Takuya Adachi

Takashi Sokizuka

A continuously variable transmission includes, in a case: a drive pulley and a driven pulley each including a fixed-side pulley half and a movable-side pulley half configured to move axially relative to the fixed-side pulley half; a belt including a plurality of elements and a plurality of rings wound around the drive pulley and the driven pulley; a parking gear provided to the fixed-side pulley half of the driven pulley; a parking pawl configured to be fitted to the parking gear; a parking rod configured to swing the parking pawl; and a guide member configured to guide the parking rod, the continuously variable transmission transmitting a driving force a wheel while changing a transmission ratio by changing groove widths of the drive pulley and the driven pulley, wherein the case includes an auxiliary rib having a gap from the drive pulley equal to or smaller than a predetermined width.

Continuously variable transmission

A continuously variable transmission includes, in a case: a drive pulley and a driven pulley each including a fixed-side pulley half and a movable-side pulley half configured to move to the fixed-side pulley half; a belt including a plurality of elements and a plurality of rings wound around the drive pulley and the driven pulley; a parking gear provided to the fixed-side pulley half of the driven pulley; and a parking pawl configured to be fitted to the parking gear, the continuously variable transmission transmitting a driving force to a wheel while changing a transmission ratio by changing groove widths of the drive pulley and the driven pulley, wherein the case includes an annular rib integrally molded with the case in a manner surrounding an outer periphery of the parking gear except for a position intersecting a swing trajectory of the parking pawl and a predetermined position.

A network load balancing apparatus has a data buffer provided to each communication path of transfer destinations of a received packet and being associated with a virtual function, determines a destination virtual function based on a field value of the received packet, determines a communication path of a transfer destination of a packet to be subject to priority control based on a first hash value calculated using the field value, determines a communication path of a transfer destination of a packet to be subject to load balancing control, to match a preset load balancing situation of the data buffer, based on a second hash value based on the first hash value, and transmits the packet to a data buffer corresponding to the destination virtual function and the communication path of the transfer destination.

Network load distribution device and method

A packet processing apparatus includes a line adapter configured to receive packets from a communication line, a packet combining unit configured to generate a combined packet by combining a plurality of packets received from the communication line, a packet memory configured to store packets received from the communication line, and a combined packet transferring unit configured to DMA transfer the combined packet generated by the packet combining unit to the packet memory. The combined packet transferring unit determines an address of start data of each packet inside the combined packet on the packet memory, writes information on the address into the descriptor that is a predetermined data area on a memory, and DMA transfers the combined packet to the packet memory.

Packet processing device and packet processing method

Transmission case for automobiles

This invention includes an image quality priority level decision processing unit () which evaluates the magnitude of an image quality of each of a plurality of first image data formed from biometric images associated with the same target on the basis of a specific index having the relationship of a monotone function with authentication accuracy of biometric authentication, and outputs each of the first image data upon adding a priority level thereto on the basis of the evaluation result, a first image storage () unit which stores each of the first image data having a priority level added thereto from the image quality priority level decision processing unit (), a second image storage unit () which stores second image data used for comparison/collation with the first image data, an image collation unit () which compares/collates the second image data stored in the second image storage unit () with the first image data stored in the first image storage unit () and outputs the comparison/collation result, and a control unit () which controls each of the units. The control unit () causes the image collation unit () to compare/collate the second image data stored in the second image storage unit () with the first image data stored in the first image storage unit () in accordance with the priority levels, and outputs the comparison/collation result from the image collation unit ().

Biometric image collation apparatus and collation method therefor

A sensor cell includes a sensor electrode () formed on a substrate (), a signal output unit () which outputs a signal corresponding to a capacitance (Cf) formed between the sensor electrode and the surface of a finger (), a high-sensitivity electrode () formed on the substrate so as to be insulated and isolated from the sensor electrode, and a potential controller () which controls the potential of the finger surface via a capacitance (Cc) formed between the high-sensitivity electrode and the finger surface by controlling the potential of the high-sensitivity electrode. In this arrangement, when the resistance of the finger is high, the potential of the finger surface can be controlled so as not to fluctuate with the potential change of the sensor electrode. This makes it possible to increase the sensitivity of detection of the capacitance formed between the sensor electrode and the finger surface, so ridges and valleys of the finger surface can be clearly discriminated by outputs from a plurality of sensor cells.

Surface shape recognizing sensor device

Electrical connector housing

A board mount-type connector having an insulative housing with a base and a row of contacts carried by the housing is disclosed. Each contact has a centerpiece secured to the housing along a substantially vertically upright inner wall of the base, a mating interface connected to one end of the centerpiece so that the mating interface contacts a mating contact, and a board interface connected to the remaining end of the centerpiece so that the board interface connects to a circuit board. Each board interface has a bend that initially extends away from an extension line associated with a generally vertically upright portion of the respective centerpiece and that is bent back toward the extension line. A pad interface extends from the free end of the board interface toward the extension line and the contacts of the row are staggered along a length of the row.

Board mount-type connector and board mount-type connector assembly

Electrical connector

An image processing apparatus includes an image correcting section. When an image of an object is input, the image correcting section performs correction processing for the input image including the object image and outputs the corrected image as an image required for authentication of the object. An image processing method is also disclosed.

Image processing method and apparatus

An image collation apparatus includes a collation unit, minimum coincidence ratio extraction unit, and determination unit. The collation unit obtains a coincidence ratio between first and second images within a printing element range for each collation unit by collating the first and second images with each other. The minimum coincidence ratio extraction unit obtains a minimum coincidence ratio from coincidence ratios obtained from the collation unit. The determination unit determines that the first and second images are identical, if the extracted minimum coincidence ratio is smaller than a predetermined threshold. An image collation method is also disclosed.

Image collation method and apparatus and recording medium storing image collation program

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Tokyo, Japan

Takahiro Hatano