Abstract:
Provided is a conditioner composition, which comprises a tertiary amine represented by the following formula (1): wherein, R1 represents a linear or branched C6-24 alkyl or alkenyl group, R2 and R3 are the same or different and each represents a C1-6 alkyl group or a group —(AO)nH (in which A represents a C2-4 alkylene group, and n stands for a number of from 1 to 6 with the proviso that n pieces of A are the same or different and are arranged in any order); or a salt thereof. The conditioner composition can impart fiber or hair with good suppleness and smoothness during wetting and after drying and is particularly excellent in imparting hair or fiber with smoothness after drying.
Abstract:
An adaptive digital filter for estimating a response characteristic of a signal path by monitoring a sampled output signal of the signal path, estimating a predetermined number of filter coefficients which represent the response characteristic of the signal path, and generating an estimated output signal of the signal path using a plurality of successive sampled input signals of the signal path and the estimated filter coefficients, where the estimation is carried out so that a difference between the output signal and the estimated output signal is reduced. Each of the filter coefficients is extracted by a low-pass filter where the low-pass filter coefficient in the low-pass filter can be set to a constant. Normalization can be carried out in either the input side or the output side of the low-pass filter. Otherwise, the low-pass filter coefficient may be set to 1-K.multidot.X.sub.j (m).sup.2 /r, where r is set equal to a norm of the sampled input signals in the beginning, and is then set to an integrated power of the sample input signals.
Abstract:
A control valve includes a first valve having a cylinder and a piston arranged in the cylinder. The piston defines in the cylinder a pressure receiving chamber and first and second output pressure chambers, and is moved by pilot pressure applied to the pressure receiving chamber to change volumes of the first and second output pressure chambers. The output pressure chambers are connected to each other through a throttle control valve which generates pressure difference corresponding to a rate of change in volumes of the output pressure chambers, between the output pressure chambers. A main valve is connected to the throttle control valve and includes an inlet port, output ports, and a valve member located between the input and output ports. The valve member is moved in accordance with the pressure difference between the first and second output pressure chambers to control hydraulic pressure output from the output ports.
Abstract:
A display panel enabling constraint of void formation between substrates and minimizing the effect of any voids formed, has for at least one pixel, a distance between the element surface and the element opposing surface corresponding to each light-emitting element of the pixel that is smaller than a distance between the inter-pixel surface and the inter-pixel opposing surface in an inter-pixel area between neighboring pixels, and smaller than a distance between the inter-element surface and the inter-element opposing surface corresponding to the light-emitting elements, and on the element substrate, the distance between neighboring pixels is greater than a distance between neighboring light-emitting elements, and a distance between the inter-pixel surface and the inter-pixel opposing surface is greater than a maximum distance between the inter-element surface and the inter-element opposing surface.
Abstract:
A game system guides operation timing of the operating section through a monitor by displaying an operation instructing indicator corresponding to the respective operation timings and an operation reference indicator corresponding to the current time in temporal order along a predetermined path on the game, and producing a relative displacement, which is along the predetermined path and is according to the progression of the time on the game, between the operation reference indicator and the operation instructing indicator in order that the operation instructing indicator agrees with the operation reference indicator at the operation timing that should be indicated by the operation instructing indicator, and changes at least either one of a starting position and a reaching position of the predetermined path.
Abstract:
A base/inversion component extractor calculates an occupancy rate of each component of a vector of user preference information obtained from information stored on a user preference database, and extracts a base component from the user preference information in accordance with the calculated occupancy rate of the base component. The base/inversion component extractor extracts a similar base component from item preference information obtained from information stored on an item metadatabase. A recommendation engine calculates a similarity between a base vector of the user preference information and a base vector of the item preference information, and identifies, as candidate items, items of the predetermined number in the order of from high to low similarity. The recommendation engine further calculates a similarity between an inversion vector of the user preference information and an inversion vector of the item preference information, and identifies an item candidate having a low similarity.
Abstract:
A plurality of sliding doors 3 arranged side by side to close an opening of a frame 1. The sliding doors 3 are flush with each other. A rotatable link 50 is disposed in an upper edge portion of an opening section 2x. The rotatable link 50 has a short rail portion 51 formed at a distal end thereof. A roller 15 is disposed in an upper edge portion of the sliding door 3. The roller 15 rides on the rail portion 51. When the sliding door 3 moves from a closed position to an opening preparation position in a front or rear direction, the rotatable link 50 rotates from a first rotation position to a second rotation position, thereby positioning the rail portion 51 coaxial with a fixed rail 39. The sliding door 3 is provided with a rail member 11. The rail member 11 of the sliding door 3 in the closed position is coaxial with the fixed rail 39. The roller 15 of the sliding door 3 moving to an open position runs on the rail member 11 of the sliding door 3 in the closed position and the fixed rail 39.
Abstract:
To provide a vibration isolating device that can reduce the dynamic spring constant in the fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle and can reduce effectively the indoor noise upon acceleration and running at high speed. The device has a cylindrical main body fitting to be fixed to a vehicle body side, a boss fitting to be coupled to a vibration generator side, a rubber elastomer as a vibration isolator interposed between both, front and rear stopper rubber portions attached to a coupling member secured to an upside of the boss fitting, and a stopper member disposed in front of and in the rear of the stopper rubber portions and to be fixed to a vehicle body side, wherein a small cavity is provided in at least one of the front and rear stopper rubber portions.
Abstract:
A failure check apparatus for a control apparatus of a vehicle such as ABS. When the failure check apparatus performs initial check for the ABS, it successively activates each of solenoid valves and a motor provided in the ABS, one at a time, for a predetermined time so as to determine whether a failure has occurred in the ABS. At that time, activation of the motor is started when a certain delay time elapses after the end of activation of the last solenoid valve. The delay time is a time which the vibration generated in the control apparatus upon activation of the last solenoid valve converges. Thus, interference between a vibration wave (sound wave) generated upon actuation of the solenoid valves and a vibration wave (sound wave) generated upon actuation of the motor, which differ in nature of vibration, is prevented.
Abstract:
A process for producing an ether amine (3), which comprises reacting a primary or secondary alcohol (1), ROH, with acrylonitrile in an amount of 0.8 to 1.2 equivalents of the alcohol (1) in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide in an amount of not less than 0.01 part by weight, but less than 0.05 part by weight per 100 parts by weight of the alcohol (1) to obtain an alkyloxypropionitrile (2), and then adding water to the reaction system without removing the alkali metal hydroxide therefrom and effecting hydrogenation using a hydrogenation catalyst: ROH(1)+CH2=CHCN→ROCH2CH2CN(2)→ROCH2CH2CH2NH2(3) wherein R denotes a linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl group having 6 to 24 carbon atoms. Also disclosed are a process for producing an ether tertiary amine (5), R—O—CH2—CH2—CH2—N(CH2R1)2, which comprises adding an aldehyde to the resulting ether amine (3) in the presence of a metal catalyst or a Raney nickel catalyst, and a process for producing an ether quaternary ammonium salt (6), R—O—CH2—CH2—CH2—N(CH2R1)2(R2), which comprises reacting a quaternizing agent with the ether tertiary amine (5).