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A thin-film piezoelectric resonator including a substrate (6); a piezoelectric layer (2), a piezoelectric resonator stack (12) with a top electrode (10) and bottom electrode (8), and a cavity (4). The piezoelectric resonator stack (12) has a vibration region (40) where the top electrode and bottom electrode overlap in the thickness direction, and the vibration region comprises a first vibration region, second vibration region, and third vibration region. When seen from the thickness direction, the first vibration region is present at the outermost side, the third vibration region is present at the innermost side and does not contact the first vibration region, and the second vibration region is interposed between the first vibration region and third vibration region. The resonance frequency of the primary thickness-longitudinal vibration of the vibration region (40) is f1 at the first vibration region, is f2 at the third vibration region, wherein f1 and f2 satisfy a relationship of f1<f2, and is a value between f1 and f2 at the second vibration region, said value increasing from the outer portion contacting the first vibration region to the inner portion contacting the third vibration region.

The present invention provides a memory card equipped with an interface controller connected to external connecting terminals, a memory connected to the interface controller, and a security controller connected to the interface controller. A second external connecting terminal capable of supplying an operating power supply to the security controller is provided aside from a first external connecting terminal which supplies an operating power supply to the interface controller and the memory. An interface unit of the interface controller connected to the security controller receives the operating power supply from the second external connecting terminal and thereby enables a stop of the supply of the operating power supply from the first external connecting terminal. Even if the supply of the operating power supply to the interface controller is cut off, the output of the interface unit is not brought to an indefinite state.

An imaging device includes a photoreceptor portion including a plurality of photoreceptors arranged in an array, a microlens array including a plurality of microlenses, and a light shielding layer placed between the photoreceptor portion and the microlens array. The light shielding layer has apertures located corresponding to the plurality of photoreceptors. An optical relationship of an actual length d1 of an aperture width of the apertures on a side of the photoreceptors, an actual length p of a distance between adjacent microlenses, an equivalent air length t0 of a distance between vein and a top of the microlenses, and an equivalent air length t1 of a thickness between the top of the microlenses and an aperture position of the apertures on the side of the photoreceptors satisfies:1.36×t1p≤d1≤2.4×t1p+p×t1t0.

A display controller is capable of changing a refresh rate, indicative of how often a screen displayed on a display device having a plurality of pixels is switched, between a low refresh rate of 40 Hz and a normal refresh rate of 60 Hz and generates (i) a dot clock (reference clock) serving as a timing signal indicative of a timing of operation in the display device, (ii) video data indicative of an image to be displayed on the screen, (iii) Hsync for defining a horizontal period of a display on the screen, and (vi) Vsync for defining a vertical period of the display on the screen, so as to supply the dot clock, the video data, Hsync, and Vsync to the display device, wherein the display controller includes a dot clock generation circuit for generating the reference clock whose frequency is constant without depending on a change of the refresh rate. This makes it possible to provide the display controller which can suppress occurrence of noise also in switching the refresh rate and which does not allow any screen derangement which is caused by the noise.

A magnetic force sensor includes: an action portion on which an external force acts; a sensing unit converting a force working on the action portion into an electric signal; and an outer frame having an elastic body elastically supporting the action portion and storing the sensing unit therein. The sensing unit includes a magnetic flux generation source connected with the action portion and a magnetoelectric transducer fixed on the outer frame and the magnetic flux generation source has a magnetic body therewith that controls flow of magnetic fluxes generated by the magnetic flux generation source.

A substrate for suspension 10 comprises a metallic substrate 1, an insulating layer 2 formed on the metallic substrate 1, having an opening for grounding terminal 3, and a grounding conductor 4 formed on the insulating layer 2. A grounding-terminal-forming material 5 is placed in the opening for grounding terminal 3 to form a grounding terminal 7 that connects the metallic substrate 1 and the grounding conductor 4. The grounding conductor 4 does not surround a portion 8 of the circumference of the opening for grounding terminal 3.

An exhaust device includes an exhaust pipe connected at its upstream end to a cylinder head of the engine and an exhaust muffler connected to the downstream end of the exhaust pipe for suppressing the generation of noise from a heat insulating cover that covers a part of the exhaust pipe. A heat insulating cover covers a portion of the exhaust pipe near the engine and a stay is fixed to the heat insulating cover. The stay includes a supporting plate portion curved so as to partially surround the outer circumference of the exhaust pipe. A first vibration isolating member is provided that is sandwiched between the outer circumference of the exhaust pipe and the supporting plate portion, a band member is tightened to mount the supporting plate portion to the exhaust pipe, and a second vibration isolating member is sandwiched between the supporting plate portion and the band member.

A driving-side rotatable body includes a driving-side inner gear, which has an axial extent that does not overlap with an axial extent of a driven-side inner gear of a driven-side rotatable body. A driven-side outer gear and a driving-side outer gear of a planet gear are meshed with and are driven together with the driven-side inner gear and the driving-side inner gear, so that the planet gear changes a relative rotational phase between the driven-side rotatable body and the driving-side rotatable body. The driven-side rotatable body supports the driving-side rotatable body from a radially inner side of the driving-side rotatable body at a location, which is radially outward of the driven-side inner gear.

A method for controlling a tip speed of a blade of a wind turbine. The method includes determining the wind speed proximate the wind turbine; maintaining a first substantially constant rotational speed of the tip of the blade during variable wind speeds above a first predetermined nominal wind speed and below the second predetermined nominal wind speed; maintaining a second substantially constant rotational speed of the tip of the blade during variable wind speeds above a second predetermined nominal wind speed. The noise generated by wind at the second predetermined nominal wind speed is greater than noise generated by the blade at the second constant rotational speed of the tip of the blade.

A brake system for a vehicle includes an electrically operated parking brake drive device which generates an operating force for operating the wheel brakes or dedicated parking brakes in response to energization, and which operates even upon cancellation of the energization while in the operated state. A braking force related amount detector detects a physical quantity related to a braking force exhibited by each of the hydraulic pressure operated wheel brakes. When a detected physical quantity exceeds a reference value in a stopped state of the vehicle, a controller energizes the electrically operated parking brake drive device. Thus, the frequency of operation of the electrically operated parking brake drive device is decreased while eliminating inconvenient operations required to operate the electrically operated parking brake drive device, thereby reducing noise and improving durability.

A power supply device includes a battery block 3 of battery cells 1. Cooling gaps 4 are provided for flowing cooling gas between cells 1 from a side surface of the block 3 into the gaps 4. The width of a temperature equalizing plate 15 covering the side surface of the block 3 varies designed so that the amounts of the gas flowing into the gaps 4 are reduced toward the upstream side. The upstream side of the plate 15 is fastened to the block 3. The plate 15 includes protrusions 37 that protrude from the downstream side of the plate 15. Insertion portions 39 are arranged at positions of coupling members 11 corresponding to the protrusions 37 on side surface of the block 3. When the protrusions 37 of the plate 15 are inserted into the insertion portions 39, the plate 15 is attached to the coupling members 11.

A radio receiving apparatus has a receiving section for receiving a radio signal, a local oscillating section for generating a first local oscillation signal and a second local oscillation signal, wherein the first local oscillation signal and the second local oscillation signal have each of a first frequency and a second frequency differing from a received frequency. The apparatus also has a frequency converting section for mixing the received signal output from the receiving section and the first local oscillation signal to output an intermediate frequency signal and an orthogonal converting section for orthogonal converting the intermediate frequency signal output with the second local oscillation signal.

A charge pump circuit of the present invention comprises a resistance voltage divider provided between a reference voltage source and an output terminal, a differential amplifier which has an inverting input terminal applied with a divided voltage portion from the resistance voltage divider and a non-inverting input terminal applied with a comparison voltage and is configured to output an output signal obtained by amplifying a potential difference between the divided voltage portion and the comparison voltage through an output terminal, a clock feeder configured to output first and second clock signals according to an original clock signal, and a pump circuit section which is applied with the first and second clock signals alternately and control an output voltage at an output terminal, and the clock feeder is configured to regulate amplitude levels of the first and second clock signals according to the voltage of the output signal.

The present invention is directed to a multi-mode crystal oscillator system selectively configurable to minimize power consumption or noise generation. Such a system is particularly applicable to the communication system of an implantable device, e.g., the microstimulator / sensor device described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,164,284 and 6,185,452. In such devices, their small size limits the size of the battery contained within and thus makes it essential to minimize power consumption. Additionally, the small size and battery capacity result in a limited transmission power. Furthermore, the small size limits the antenna efficiency which makes it desirable to limit any noise generation to maximize the signal-to-noise level of the resulting receive signal. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention alternatively supply power to the oscillator in either a first mode that minimizes power consumption or a second mode that minimizes noise generation.

For providing television receiver apparatus and a video displaying method for that, i.e., suppressing deterioration of picture quality when conducting a frame-rate conversion on a video signal while piling up an OSD picture thereon, within the television receiver apparatus, picture quality correction is made on an input video signal including the moving picture therein. After inserting the OSD picture within an OSD inserter (OSD processor) unit 8, a frame-rate conversion is conducted within a frame-rate converter unit 9. Further, the frame-rate converter unit executes a frame-rate conversion accompanying a moving picture frame interpolation therewith, upon the video signal including the moving picture therein within a screen of one (1) frame to be displayed, while it executes a frame-rate conversion accompanying no moving picture frame interpolation therewith, upon the OSD picture, and thereby displaying the video signal including the moving picture therein on a display panel 10, together with the OSD picture, while conducting frame interpolation thereupon.

A magnetoresistive spin-valve sensor includes a first layer made of a magnetic material, a second layer made of a magnetic or nonmagnetic material and disposed on the first layer, and a third layer made of a magnetic material and disposed on the second layer, where the first, second and third layers form a free layer having a multi-layer structure.

Provided is a shaft member capable of minimizing the occurrence of noise by positively attenuating vibration acting on a metal shaft member having spline grooves and spiral grooves axially formed therein. To attain such an object, a shaft member includes a metal shaft main body having a hollow portion and a ceramic material serving as a vibration absorbing member which fills the hollow portion of the shaft body with no gaps. The ceramic material is filled into the hollow portion of the shaft main body in a powder, granular, or fluid state, and formed within the hollow portion into a shape matching the hollow portion.

The present invention is to provide mobile terminal apparatus capable of suppressing occurrence of noise while keeping required display capacity in accordance with the operation condition of the apparatus. A control portion 16 and a display portion controller 19 control driving of a display portion 20 comprised of a liquid crystal display unit, and change the driving operation such as a drive system, a driving frequency, etc. into a suitable driving condition in accordance with the operation condition of the apparatus. For example, driving operation giving priority to the image quality of an image displayed on the display portion 20 is performed using sequential scanning drive such as one-line inversion drive when a movie is displayed in a camera operation mode or the like. Thus, visibility is improved. In another operation mode such as a voice call mode, driving operation giving priority to the acoustic characteristic is performed using interlaced scanning drive such as interlace drive so as to suppress noise caused by the display portion 20. Thus, a good use environment is secured.

A reduction gear coupled to an electric motor includes: a first bearing that rotatably supports a first end portion of a worm shaft such that the worm shaft is allowed to oscillate in an oscillation direction about the first end portion; and a first elastic member that elastically urges a second bearing in such a direction that an axis-to-axis distance between the worm shaft and the worm wheel reduces. The first end portion and an output shaft of the electric motor are coupled by a joint. A second elastic member located between the joint and the first end portion elastically urges the worm shaft toward a second end portion and applies a preload on the first bearing. An outer ring of the first bearing is interposed in an axial direction by the third elastic member and the fourth elastic member.

A brake system for a vehicle includes an electrically operated parking brake drive device which generates an operating force for operating the wheel brakes or dedicated parking brakes in response to energization, and which operates even upon cancellation of the energization while in the operated state. A braking force related amount detector detects a physical quantity related to a braking force exhibited by each of the hydraulic pressure operated wheel brakes. When a detected physical quantity exceeds a reference value in a stopped state of the vehicle, a controller energizes the electrically operated parking brake drive device. Thus, the frequency of operation of the electrically operated parking brake drive device is decreased while eliminating inconvenient operations required to operate the electrically operated parking brake drive device, thereby reducing noise and improving durability.

A vibrating wet shaver that includes a hollow handle, a shaving head borne by the handle, and an electric vibratory that includes a rigid casing that is fixed inside the handle for transmitting vibrations to the shaving head through the handle. The casing of the vibratory is tightly fitted in the handle, and at least an elastomeric layer is interposed between the casing and the handle.

A motor control apparatus that drive-controls a motor by an inverter based on each-phase duty command values of PWM and detects each-phase motor currents of the motor by a one-shunt type current detector. The apparatus includes a current detection correcting section that calculates a current detection correction value based on a power-supply voltage of the motor, each-phase duty command values, a back-EMF information of the motor, each-phase motor currents detected by the current detector, arrangement information of the PWM, and electric characteristic formula of the motor, thereby to correct the each-phase motor currents detected by the current detector to a motor average current by the current detection correction value and drive-controls the motor.

One surface of a base section having an open portion forming an inlet port of a fluid is thermally connected to a target module to be cooled. Pluralities of fins arranged in parallel are mounted on the other surface of a base section in a direction substantially perpendicular to the base section. A fan is arranged to permit the fluid to flow through the clearance between the adjacent fins. A wall section open to the inlet port of the fluid is mounted on the base section. A part of the wall section constitutes a detachable lid section. A partition plate having through-holes formed therein is arranged between the base section and the lid section so as to divide the space between the base section and the lid section into two fluid flowing channels consisting of a main flowing channel and an auxiliary flowing channel.

The present invention provides a robust solution to the task of re-aligning data at the transmit end of a fiber optic or other high performance serial link, and also offers flexibility in the circuit board design approach. A high performance analog phase locked-loop circuit is used to simultaneously provide clock recovery for multiple bit streams. The power dissipation required to perform clock recovery is thereby reduced to a fraction of that required in conventional transmit systems. This analog phase locked loop produces plural phase output signals. An output multiplexer selects one phase for use in electrical to optical conversion.