In a latch apparatus, a latch mechanism arranged at a vehicle body or a door, holds the door towards the vehicle body in a half closed state and a fully closed state. An open lever, a door opening action of which cancels the half closed state or the fully closed state of the door held by the latch mechanism, is arranged to be interlocked with the latch mechanism and to be able to swing. A first handle lever performs an opening action based on an opening operation of a first operation handle. A s...

A digital image signal based on transformed in frequency, thereby providing partitioned frequency components. Characteristic information is calculated in accordance with a coefficient at a first frequency domain that is selected from among the partitioned frequency components. A coefficient at a second frequency domain is handled in accordance with predetermined rules, thereby embedding the characteristic information into the coefficient at the second frequency domain. The second frequency domai...

The invention provides a novel means for solving the problem of poor adhesion between the surface of a substrate of a metal or a plastic resin, e.g. polycarbonate resin, and a cured coating film of an organopolysiloxane formed thereon to impart good surface properties, e.g. hardness and weathering resistance, to the substrate surface by use of an adhesion improver as a primer which comprises a copolymer of an organosilicon compound having a hydrolyzable group and an ethylenic unsaturation in the...

In a method of operating an air conditioner for supplying an air from the air conditioner to the inside of a chamber, the temperature of the air supplied to the inside of the chamber upon starting the operation of the air conditioner is increased to an aimed temperature while maintaining the supplied air temperature higher than the temperature at the surfaces of the inner wall of the chamber and/or the equipments installed therein but lower than the temperature the dew point for which is lower t...

Heavy duty pneumatic tires having lug grooves at a tire tread surface are disclosed, wherein a width of a tread portion from a tire equator to one of tread edges which tread portion is to be located on a wheel-mounted outer side is larger than that of the other tread portion from the equator to the other tread edge. When contours of the tread portions located on the opposite sides of the tire equator are approximated by two respective circular arcs, the radius of curvature of the wider tread por...

A rear under body structure of a vehicle in which a fuel tank is located on the rear side of a seat back of a rear seat, and is arranged on substantially the same straight line as an axis of a rear axle and on the lower side of a rear floor pan. Accordingly, the degree of freedom of the design of the styling of a rear windshield and its peripheral components of the vehicle is enhanced.

An object of the present invention is to provide an information embedding/tamper detecting apparatus and method capable of distinguishing between changes caused by image processing and intentional image tampering, and further capable of localizing, on a regional basis, a tampered position on an image. A tamper-detection-information embedding apparatus 1 divides the image into a plurality of frequency bands to obtain transform coefficients, and then generates a pseudo-random number series by usin...

Opposed inner surfaces of lower and upper casings making up a connection box are flat, and wire arrangement grooves are formed in the inner surfaces. Insertion holes communicate with the wire arrangement grooves in specified positions and are open to the outer surfaces of the casings. A wire is laid into the wire arrangement grooves and is pressed into the slots of the cramping terminals mounted in the insertion holes. The tabs on the cramping terminals project from the outer surfaces of the cas...

An object of the present invention is to provide a simple apparatus for and a simple method of embedding and extracting digital information with little clue to a third party as to embedded digital information with less effort, and the embedded information is securely reconstructed thereby. To embed digital information, a band division portion receives a digital image signal, and then divides the same into ten frequency band signals through discrete wavelet transform so as to compute wavelet coef...

The sealed alkaline storage battery is provided with a closing lid having a safety vent unit which closes a gas release hole in a sealing plate, and a positive electrode cap which houses the safety vent unit in a compressed state between itself and the sealing plate. The safety vent unit is provided with a ventage plate which closes the gas release hole, and a spring which spring-loads the ventage plate towards the gas release hole and has a compressive load to length deformation ratio .ltoreq.5...