摘要:
A pedestrian airbag system according to the present invention includes a hood panel and an airbag which is folded and accommodated in a position downwardly of the rear end portion of the hood panel and which is adapted to be deployed and inflated upward by allowing inflation gas to flow therein. The hood panel includes an outer panel on the upper surface side and an inner panel disposed below the outer panel and set to have higher rigidity than the outer panel for supporting the outer panel, both panels formed of sheet metal. A storage portion for accommodating the airbag is formed from the outer panel near the rear end.
摘要:
A surface of a glass plate is coated with a first n-type semiconductor film which is a 50 nm-thick niobium oxide film as a primer layer. The primer layer is coated with a 250 nm-thick photocatalyst film comprising titanium oxide. Thus, an article having a photocatalytically active surface is obtained. The two coating films can be formed by sputtering. The first n-type semiconductor film as the primer layer is selected so as to have a larger energy band gap than the titanium oxide. Due to this constitution, more holes are generated near the film surface. This article can be free from the problem of conventional titanium oxide films having photocatalytic activity that it is difficult to generate many surface holes contributing to photocatalytic activity, because electrons and holes generated by charge separation recombine within the film, making it impossible to effectively heighten catalytic activity.
摘要:
An optical fiber collimator which facilitates optical adjustment. The optical fiber collimator includes a gradient index rod lens, and an optical fiber optically connected to the rod lens. An anti-reflection film is formed on one end face of the rod lens. The anti-reflection film has a refractive index which continuously changes from a value substantially equal to that of a center refractive index of the rod lens to a value substantially equal to that of the refractive index of the optical fiber along a film thickness direction of the anti-reflection film. A refractive index matching medium having a refractive index substantially equal to that of the optical fiber bonds the anti-reflection film to the end face of the optical fiber.
摘要:
An airbag has a slit group arranged in a flexible peripheral wall. The slit group is formed by arranging a plurality of slits intermittently along one line. As an inflating gas flows into the airbag so that the internal pressure of the airbag rises, a portion designed to rupture between the slits ruptures to open a vent hole in the area of the slit group for discharging the inflating gas. At the peripheral edges of the individual slits of the peripheral wall, there are portions which are solidified after melting. In this airbag, the shape holdability is retained at the peripheral edges of the slits. Therefore, the effective area and the opening timing of the vent hole is uniform for every airbag.
摘要:
A server in an information base determines a route (server route) from a place of departure to a destination, transmitted from a client terminal of a navigation unit via communication, using information in a server database. On the other hand, the client terminal determines a route (client route) from the place of departure to the destination using information in a client terminal database. Either the server or the client terminal determines whether or not the server route and the client route are identical based on information concerning guiding points of each route, and the client terminal then performs route navigation of a route in a section where the routes are identical using the information in the client terminal database and a route in a non-identical section where the routes are not identical using the information in the server database. In this way, the information in the client terminal database is effectively used in the route navigation and thereby an amount of information to be transmitted to the client terminal from the server is decreased.
摘要:
Plaster structures for iontophoresis are disclosed for the administration of drugs through skin and mucous membranes. The devices provide for the stable retention and storage of a predetermined amount of a physiologically active agents until the device is applied to a patient. The devices include an electrically conductive medicinal substance storing layer which contains physiologically active agents, and a non-permeable backing layer which covers the medicinal substance storing layer. An electrode passes through the backing layer where it makes contact with the medicinal substance storing layer. On the opposite side of the storing layer a non-permeable protective layer is provided which a has a portion adapted to be removed to allow access to the medicinal substance storing layer. This protective layer supports the medicinal substance layer and, on the opposite side, is provided with an adhesive agent layer. The adhesive agent is protected by a laminate layer. The device is designed so that when the laminate layer is removed to expose the adhesive agent, a potion of the protective layer is also removed allowing the medicinal substance storing layer to be brought into contacted with skin or a mucous membrane.
摘要:
A magnetic head slider assembly for a magnetic disk type recording/reproducing apparatus includes a slider body, a sliding pad provided on the slider body and projecting beyond a disk facing surface thereof, a thin film layer disposed at one end of the slider body, a magnetic head constituted by the thin film layer as an integral part thereof, and a core pad projection incorporating therein a core of the magnetic head and projecting beyond an adjacent disk facing surface of the slider body. The sliding pad is provided at a region of the slider body ahead of the core pad projection and prevents generation of a floating force by making use of a relative movement between the slider body and the magnetic disk. The core pad projection is not formed as a continuation of the slider body and is separated from the sliding pad a predetermined distance longitudinally of the slider body by a recess interposed therebetween whereby the core pad projection is positioned closer to the magnetic disk than a back end of the sliding pad.
摘要:
In magnetic disk structure having a high density, positioning errors (generally referred to as "flutter error") occur due to fluctuation (i.e., flutter) of a magnetic disk. As a result reading precision deteriorates. This is a significant problem in realizing a large capacity providing magnetic disk apparatus. This can be resolved by magnetic apparatus such that a suspension which holds a slider having a magnetic head at one end and which is attached to a supporting arm at the other end is inclined so that an interval between the suspension and the magnetic disk is small on the inner rim side and is large on the outer rim side with this arrangement the occurrence of the positioning error due to the fluctuation of a deformation of the magnetic disk is reduced, thereby enabling a high density recording of the magnetic disk.
摘要:
A process for producing a carbonic acid diester, a method of removing CO.sub.2 and an absorbent for CO.sub.2 and an apparatus therefor are provided and are capable of selective removing of CO.sub.2 by absorption from a CO-containing gas admixed with CO.sub.2 which is recovered from a reactor to thereby enable recycling CO to the reactor for use. The invention is characterized by (1) carrying out a reaction of an alcohol, carbon monoxide (CO) and oxygen in a reactor and withdrawing a gas (i) which contains CO and CO.sub.2 produced as a by-product of the reaction from the reactor; (2) contacting the withdrawn gas (i) with an alcohol solution so that at least part of the CO.sub.2 contained in the gas (i) is absorbed by the alcohol solution and removed from the gas (i), thereby obtaining a CO-containing gas (ii), and (3) recycling the CO-containing gas (ii) to the reactor. It is preferred that the gas (i) is subjected to vapor-liquid separation and a separated gas is contacted with the alcohol solution.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a novel catalyst having a stable catalytic activity for catalyzing the reaction of an alcohol with carbon monoxide and oxygen to produce carbonic acid esters (i.e., carbonate), and also the present invention relates to a method of producing carbonic acid esters using this catalyst. The catalyst of the present invention comprises a copper halide and at least one hydroxide compound selected from a group consisting of alkali metal hydroxides and alkali earth metal hydroxides carried on a porous carrier, and also provide a process of regenerating a catalytic activity of the catalyst.