Abstract:
When receiving a traffic information providing request, a traffic information providing apparatus analyzes which area's traffic information is requested based on the received request information. Traffic information of road links located in the requested area is read from the traffic information, and it is determined whether the road links' traffic information is similar or not. Similar links configure a link group, and traffic information corresponding to the link group is created. Traffic information of the configured link group is delivered to an in-vehicle information apparatus.
Abstract:
[Object] To provide a power plant which is capable of improving the drive efficiency and power generation efficiency when electric power is generated using power of the drive part thereof. [Solution] In a power plant 1, an output shaft 3a of an internal combustion engine 3 is connected to driven parts DW and DW, and a transmission 20 is connected between the output shaft 3a of the engine 3 and the driven parts DW and DW, while one of first to third elements 31, 32, and 34 of a planetary gear train 30 is connected between the output shaft 3a of the engine 3 and the transmission 20, another one of the first to third elements to the output portion 42 of the generator-motor 40, and the remaining one of the same to the driven parts DW and DW.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for forming an electrode of a flat panel display device using ink for ink jet printing and an ink jet printer. The ink for ink jet printing is prepared by a method comprising the first step of contacting the vapor of a metal with the vapor of the first solvent, according to the vapor phase-evaporation technique, to thus give a dispersion of metal ultrafine particles; the second step of adding a low molecular weight polar solvent as the second solvent to the dispersion prepared in the first step to thus precipitate the metal ultrafine particles and removing the first solvent; and the third step of adding the third solvent to the precipitates thus prepared to carry out the solvent substitution and to give a dispersion of independently dispersed metal ultrafine particles, and prepared by adding a dispersant in or during the foregoing first and/or third steps, and the ink for ink jet printing consists of a dispersion excellent in ink characteristic properties. In the dispersion, metal ultrafine particles having a particle size of not more than 100 nm are independently and uniformly dispersed. The electrodes of FPD devices are formed using this ink for ink jet printing.
Abstract:
An exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine is provided with a main catalyst activated with heat of exhaust gas, a self-exothermic type auxiliary catalyst activated with electric current energy and a silencer, which are connected in series and in sequence from an upstream side to a downstream side in an exhaust system leading from an engine body. Thus, noxious components included in the exhaust gas can be converted and the gas is purified by using the main and auxiliary catalysts in combination but with the auxiliary catalyst being subject to less heat from the exhaust gas than the main catalyst.
Abstract:
A circuit for detecting an abnormal transmission state on a signal transmission line, the abnormal state being such that a short-circuit or open-circuiting occurs in the signal transmission line, applicable to a time-division multiplex transmission network system having an address clock line and a data transmission line. The circuit includes a first latch circuit, which is set by a trailing edge of a data receivable interval specification pulse to a state indicating no presence of the specification pulse, wherein the specification pulse is derived from an address coincidence circuit constituting one data receiver of the network system. The first latch circuit latches the state of presence or absence of the specification pulse on a trailing edge of a start bit constituting data to be received. The circuit further includes a second latch circuit which is initially set to a state indicating the state of the presence of the specification pulse and which latches the state of presence or absence of the specification pulse latched in the first latch circuit at a time when a duration of the specification pulse continues and which operates with a slight delay with respect to the appearance of the trailing edge of the start bit on the data transmission line.
Abstract:
An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations.
Abstract:
There is provided a power output system 1 comprising an internal combustion engine 6, an electric motor 2 and a transmission 20 including two transmission shafts 11, 16 which are connected to the internal combustion engine 6. The electric motor 2 includes a stator 3, a primary rotor 4 and a secondary rotor 5. The primary rotor 4 is connected to either of the two transmission shafts 11, 16. The secondary rotor 5 is connected to drive shafts 9, 9. And, the other transmission shaft of the two transmission shafts 11, 16 transmits power to the drive shafts 9, 9 without involving the electric motor 2.
Abstract:
A power plant that is capable of attaining downsizing and reduction of manufacturing costs and enhancing the degree of freedom in design thereof. In the power plant 1, a first rotating machine 11 includes a first rotor 14 having a predetermined plurality of magnetic poles 14a, a stator 13 that generates a predetermined plurality of armature magnetic poles to thereby generate a rotating magnetic field, and a second rotor 15 having a predetermined plurality of soft magnetic material elements 15a. The ratio between the number of the armature magnetic poles, the number of the magnetic poles, and the number of the soft magnetic material elements is set to 1:m:(1+m)/2 (m≠1.0). One of the rotors 14 and 15 is mechanically connected to an output portion 3a of a heat engine 3, and the other of the rotors 14 and 15 and a rotor 23 of a second rotating machine 21 are mechanically connected to driven parts DW and DW. Further, in starting the heat engine 3, when the rotational speed of the output portion 3a is not lower than a first predetermined value NEST1, the heat engine 3 is started in a state where the rotational speed of the output portion 3a is not increased.
Abstract:
An automatic transmission for a hybrid vehicle has a first clutch connecting a first drive gear shaft rotatably supporting drive gears G3a and G5a, to an input shaft, a second clutch connecting a second drive gear shaft, rotatably supporting drive gears G2a and G4a, to the input shaft, a first meshing mechanism connecting the drive gears G3a and G5a to the first drive gear shaft, a second meshing mechanism connecting the drive gears G2a and G4a to the second drive gear shaft, a brake fixing a third element of a planetary gear mechanism to a transmission case, and a switching mechanism switching to where an electric motor is connected to a first element or where the electric motor MG is connected to the third element. The first element and the first drive gear shaft are connected. A second element and the drive gear G3a are connected.
Abstract:
An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations.