Abstract:
A secondary battery charging system, mounted on a vehicle having an internal combustion engine, has a secondary battery, a fuel cell, a fuel storage unit, and a fuel supply controller. In order to start the engine of the vehicle, the engine requires the electric power from the secondary battery. The fuel storage unit stores a fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell. When a given condition is satisfied, the fuel supply controller instructs the fuel storage unit to supply the fuel to the fuel cell in order to start the operation of the engine of the vehicle. The fuel cell thereby starts the generation of the electric power by performing electric chemical reaction and supplies the generated electric power to the secondary battery. The secondary battery supplies the electric power to the engine of the vehicle. The engine initiates its operation.
Abstract:
There is provided an ink jet recording head which can efficiently prevent ink from corroding an insulating film layer. A positive electrode is disposed on an upper surface of the insulating film layer and a negative electrode is disposed on a lower surface of the insulating film layer, which is referred to as a turnover structure. There is no electrode between any two adjacent heater resistor portions. As a result, high-density disposition of the heater resistor portions can be carried out. The heater resistor portions are thermally oxidized, so that surfaces thereof are changed into tantalum insulating films (surface oxidation films), which serve as ink protection layers. A second insulating film layer is totally covered by the heater resistor portions and the partition walls and is not exposed. Thus, ink does not contact the second insulating film layer, and the second insulating film layer is not corroded by ink.
Abstract:
A liquid fuel vaporizer includes a combustion chamber in which heat is generated by burning fuel therein, an vaporization chamber in which liquid fuel is vaporized by the heat transferred from the combustion chamber to the vaporization chamber. Both chambers are integrally built in a housing, and liquid fuel is supplied from a single injector to both chambers. Liquid fuel consisting of small particles is supplied to the combustion chamber to improve combustion efficiency. Vaporized fuel in the vaporization chamber is prevented from being ignited and burnt therein by various manners, such as intercepting combustion flame, controlling an air/fuel ratio in a range out of a combustible range, or keeping vaporized fuel temperature at a level lower than its self-igniting temperature.
Abstract:
According to an aspect of the invention, a light-emitting element includes a semiconductor layer, a gold electrode layer, an insulator, a barrier metal layer, and an aluminum wiring layer. The gold electrode layer is formed on a part of the semiconductor layer and is electrically connected to the semiconductor layer. The gold electrode layer being made of metal including gold. The insulator film covers the semiconductor layer and has a contact opening corresponding to the gold electrode layer. The barrier metal layer covers a an upper face of the gold electrode layer and the insulator film in a vicinity of the contact opening. The aluminum wiring layer is formed on the barrier metal layer and electrically connected to the barrier metal layer.
Abstract:
An SSG circuit section is composed of: a memory storing correction information for correcting a transmission characteristic of an image pickup signal in a transmission path; a readout circuit for reading out the correction information stored in the memory; and an SSG for generating a drive signal to be outputted from a driving circuit and a sampling pulse to be used in a CDS circuit, and for specifying an amplification factor of an amplifier circuit.
Abstract:
A liquid droplet ejecting head including: a piezoelectric element that includes a piezoelectric body, a first electrode disposed on one side of the piezoelectric body, and a second electrode disposed on the other side of the piezoelectric body; a first layer on one side of which the second electrode of the piezoelectric element is disposed; a second layer disposed on the other side of the first layer; a first electrical wire formed between the first layer and the second layer; and a second electrical wire that connects the first electrical wire and the second electrode, is provided.
Abstract:
An inkjet recording head includes: nozzles that jet ink droplets; pressure chambers that communicate with the nozzles and contain ink; a diaphragm that configures part of the pressure chambers; an ink pool chamber that pools ink to be supplied to the pressure chambers via ink flow paths; and piezoelectric elements that cause the diaphragm to be displaced, wherein the ink pool chamber is disposed opposite from the pressure chambers with the diaphragm being disposed therebetween, and drive ICs that apply a voltage to the piezoelectric elements are mounted on a piezoelectric element substrate formed to include the diaphragm.
Abstract:
The vehicle power generation system, which is mounted on a vehicle having an internal combustion engine as a travel drive power source, and a cooling device for cooling the internal combustion engine by use of coolant containing one of alcohol and ether, includes a fuel cell generating electric energy by electrochemical reaction between one of alcohol and ether as fuel and oxidant in the fuel cell, and a fuel supply device operating to supply one of alcohol and ether contained in the coolant to the fuel cell.
Abstract:
A liquid droplet ejecting head comprising: a piezoelectric element substrate including an diaphragm and a piezoelectric element; a liquid pool chamber that pools liquid supplied to a pressure chamber and which is provided opposite a pressure chamber filled with liquid with the piezoelectric element substrate placed in between; an upper substrate arranged so as to separate the liquid pool chamber and the piezoelectric element substrate with the piezoelectric element substrate between with a through port for supplying liquid to the pressure chamber from the liquid pool chamber formed therein; a driver that is mounted on the upper substrate and which drives the piezoelectric element; a connecting component arranged between the opposite upper substrate and the piezoelectric element substrate and which electrically connects this upper substrate to the piezoelectric element.
Abstract:
A liquid droplet ejecting head is disclosed which includes: a nozzle that ejects a liquid droplet; a pressure chamber that is communicated with the nozzle and in which a liquid is filled; a vibrating plate that forms a portion of the pressure chamber; an ink pooling chamber that pools a liquid which is supplied to the pressure chamber via a liquid flow path; a piezoelectric element that displaces the vibrating plate; and an isolation chamber that is provided in the liquid pooling chamber and isolates the piezoelectric element from the liquid. The liquid pooling chamber is provided at a side opposite to the pressure chamber, with the vibrating plate disposed between the liquid pooling chamber and the pressure chamber. A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus including this liquid droplet ejecting head is also disclosed.