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A general-use white color reflecting material, and a process for production thereof are provided. The white color reflecting material, without troublesome surface treatment such as formation of a reflective layer by plating, is capable of reflecting a near-ultraviolet ray of a wavelength region of 380 nm or longer or a near-infrared ray sufficiently without light leakage; does not become yellow even when exposed to near-ultraviolet rays; has excellent lightfastness, heat resistance, and weatherability; has high mechanical strength and chemical stability; is capable of maintaining a high degree of whiteness; and is easily moldable at a low cost. Further a white color reflecting material used as an ink composition for producing the white color reflecting material in a film shape is also provided. The white color reflecting material comprises; a silicone resin or silicone rubber formed from titanium oxide-containing silicone composition, in which anatase-type or rutile-type titanium oxide particles are dispersed.

A speed-ratio control apparatus for controlling a speed ratio of a continuously variable transmission of a vehicle, such that an actual input speed of the transmission coincides with a target input speed, the apparatus including an acceleration-requirement determining portion operable to determine whether non-rapid acceleration or rapid acceleration of the vehicle is required by a vehicle operator, and a target-input-speed setting portion operable, upon determination of the operator's requirement for the non-rapid acceleration, to implement an instantaneous stepping increase of the target input speed to a first transient target value, (ii) hold the target input speed at the first transient target value in a first portion of a rapid shifting period, (iii) instantaneously reduce, at the end of the first portion of the rapid shifting period, the target input speed to an initial value of a second transient target value which initial value is close to the actual input speed and lower than the first transient target value, and (iv) gradually increase, in a second portion of the rapid shifting period, the target input speed back toward the first transient value, and upon determination of the operator's requirement for the rapid acceleration, the target-input-speed setting portion holding the target input speed at the first transient target input speed during the rapid shifting period, without setting at the second transient target value.

The invention provides a piezoelectric liquid gauge system in particular for a motor vehicle fuel tank, the system comprising piezoelectric means suitable for transmitting a sound wave in a liquid and for detecting said wave in order to determine the distance traveled by the wave in the liquid on the basis of the time between transmission and reception, said piezoelectric means comprising two distinct active piezoelectric portions suitable respectively for directing a sound wave towards a reference obstacle and a sound wave towards the surface of the liquid to be gauged, the system being wherein the pellet is contained in a housing suitable for being fixed in position in the tank in which measurement is to be performed, the reference obstacle extending over a face of the housing which faces one of the active portions, said face also having a measurement opening placed facing the other active portion and suitable for allowing the measurement sound waves to pass through.

A foreign-particle detection system for use with an optical instrument having a transmissive window with a first side and a second side includes a radiation source to emit a radiation signal, a diffusing reflector to diffusively spread the radiation signal emitted by the radiation source over the first side of the transmissive window, a radiation detector to detect, at the second side of the transmissive window, the diffusively spread radiation signal transmitted by the transmissive window, and to generate a detected radiation signal based on the detected diffusively spread radiation signal, and a computation module communicatively coupled to the radiation detector to detect a presence of foreign particles on at least one of the first side or the second side of the transmissive window based on at least the detected radiation signal.

A tail light structure having a light-emitting body and a reflector member for reflecting light from the light-emitting body for external illumination. The reflector member has a lower reflecting surface for receiving maximum external light and an upper reflecting surface and left and right reflecting surfaces, and the lower reflecting surface having a lower reflectance than the upper reflecting surface and the left and right reflecting surfaces.

In a W-CDMA wireless system, when communication is performed by using a StandAlone-DCCH, adequate transmission power control is performed depending on change in a communication status. In a W-CDMA wireless system 1, a reception quality of a common channel is measured, and if a StandAlone-DCCH state has occurred, transmission power control corresponding to the common channel is performed in which a target SIR is determined depending on the reception quality of the common channel. Therefore, even in the StandAlone-DCCH state in which Blind transport format detection is used, it is possible to set the target SIR in accordance with a reception status of a user equipment 20, enabling the adequate transmission power control depending on the change in the communication status.

Provided is an optical recording medium including, in sequence:a first substrate; a first information recording layer; an intermediate layer; a second information recording layer; and a second substrate having wobble convex portions on its surface,wherein information is recorded on or reproduced from the first information recording layer and second information recording layer by irradiation with a laser beam from a first information recording layer side,wherein the second information recording layer includes, over the second substrate, a light reflective layer, a dye recording layer, and an inorganic protective layer,wherein the inorganic protective layer has a thickness of 3 nm to 40 nm, and wherein the dye recording layer includes a cyanine compound expressed by General Formula (I) and a squarylium compound expressed by General Formula (II):

A drive method for an electrophoretic display device that has an electrophoretic device composed of a suspension fluid containing electrophoretic particles disposed between a common electrode and a plurality of pixel electrodes, a driver that drives the electrophoretic device by applying voltage between the common electrode and the plural pixel electrodes, and a controller that controls the driver. The control method has a display redrawing process that changes the displayed image by applying a common electrode drive pulse that repeats two different potentials to the common electrode, and applying either of the two different potentials to the pixel electrodes according to the updated display content. The display redrawing process includes a first pulse application step that applies a first pulse train to the common electrode as the common electrode drive pulse train, and a second pulse application step that executes after the first pulse application step to apply a second pulse train to the common electrode as the common electrode drive pulse train, the pulses of the second pulse train being wider than the pulses of the first pulse train.

An optical apparatus for training a golfer which is the form of a pair of spectacles with tinted lenses, one of which is inclined so that an image projected onto an inner surface of the lens is reflected onto an eye of a user. The image comprises data which aids the golfer in a training stroke. To reduce ghost images, to allow for binocular vision and to superimpose the projected image on a background view, the lenses have an absorption of from 60% to 85%.

Methods and systems for controlling a wind turbine in a manner that takes into account the degree of loading of and damage to one or more components of the turbine are provided. An operational load on a wind turbine part is determined, and is used to compute a damage signal. The damage signal is indicative of the potential damage to the component or to the turbine as a whole that will result if action is not taken to reduce or mitigate the determined load. When the damage signal exceeds a pre-determined threshold, load-reducing wind turbine control means are activated to obviate the estimated damage.