汽车无线电DSP推动汽车音响发展

随着MP3音频压缩和CD技术的普及，消费者开始希望这些功能和便利性也能在其他常用设备包括汽车中实现。因此，制造商开始在汽车内引入数字媒体处理技术，使司机和乘客能数字化地获得娱乐和信息。     

Activity measurement of the constituents in molten Fe–B and Fe–B–C alloys

The distribution ratios of Fe and B between molten Fe–B alloy and molten Ag were measured at temperatures between 1573 and 1923 K. Also, distribution ratios of Fe and B between molten Fe–B–C_satd. alloys and molten Ag were measured at 1873 K. It was found that the excess Gibbs free energy of mixing in molten Fe–B and Fe–B–C alloys can be expressed by utilizing the Redlich–Kister polynomial. The activity curves of the elements in molten Fe–B alloy and Fe–B–C alloy were estimated.     

Thermal properties of ethylene ionomers

The annealing effect of ethylene ionomers annealed at various temperatures and for various periods was studied by differential scanning calorimetry. Two endothermic melting peaks were observed for all the ethylene ionomers annealed. The melting peak at the lower temperature, which was assigned to bundlelike crystal owing to a Hoffman-Weeks relationship, shifted to a higher temperature with the annealing temperature and period, indicative of recrystallization. There is physical cross-linking consisting of ionic aggregates, such as multiplets and clusters in ethylene ionomers. The crystallization kinetics of ethylene ionomers was fundamentally similar, but different from that of low-density polyethylene. Crystallization and recrystallization suggested a mobile ethylene chain in both amorphous regions and ionic aggregates even in the presence of cross-linking.     

Application of an improved control-variate scheme to local neoclassical transport simulations

A new radially local neoclassical transport code is developed based on the radially global two-weight δf$\delta f$ Monte Carlo code, FORTEC-3D (Satake et al., 2008). In the collisional two-weight δf$\delta f$ method, the variance of weight increases in time due to the so-called weight spreading, which leads to an increasing numerical noise in long time simulations. A new improved control-variate scheme was proposed by Kleiber et al. (2011) to reduce the variance. We investigate the effectiveness and validity of the new control-variate scheme for a practical collisional transport problem in a plasma described by the drift kinetic equation. It is demonstrated that the new scheme reduces the variance of weight by approximately 75% in an axisymmetric magnetic field configuration. The burst-like behavior of a transport observable caused by a large numerical noise can be avoided. As a result, the time evolution of a transport observable can be successfully smoothed.     

Delay time compensation based on coefficient of restitution for collision hybrid motion simulator

A hybrid motion simulator embeds a hardware experiment in a numerical simulation loop. However, it is often subjected to the inherent problem of an energy increase in the collision of two pieces of hardware in a loop because of the delay time. This paper proposes a delay time compensation method based on contact dynamics model for a collision hybrid motion simulator under delay time and establishes a compensation method for coupled translational and rotational motion. The model developed in this paper describes linear uniform motion of a floating object during the period of the delay time until the force and torque are observed and non-linear motion according to environmental stiffness after the initial delay time period in contact. By using the above model, compensation parameters are designed based on desired coefficient of restitution with iterative calculation. The proposed method achieves accurate delay time compensation and simultaneously realizes a variable desired coefficient of restitution over a wide range of frequencies. Furthermore, the compensation method for multi-dimensional motion is established under the assumption that the friction effect is very small. The efficiency of the proposed method is verified through collision experiments for the coupled motion in two dimensions.     

Gas transport properties of 6FDA-TAPOB hyperbranched polyimide membrane

Physical and gas transport properties of the hyperbranched polyimide prepared from a triamine, 1,3,5-tris(4-aminophenoxy)benzene (TAPOB), and a dianhydride, 4,4′-(hexafluoroisopropylidene) diphthalic anhydride (6FDA), were investigated and compared with those of linear-type polyimides with similar chemical structures prepared from diamines, 1,4-bis(4-aminophenoxy)benzene (TPEQ) or 1,3-bis(4-aminophenoxy)benzene (TPER), and 6FDA. 6FDA-TAPOB hyperbranched polyimide exhibited a good thermal stability as well as linear-type analogues. Fractional free volume (FFV) value of 6FDA-TAPOB was higher than those of the linear-type analogues, indicating looser packing of molecular chains attributed to the characteristic hyperbranched structure. It was found that increased resistance to the segmental mobility decreases the gas diffusivity of 6FDA-TAPOB, in spite of the higher FFV value. However, 6FDA-TAPOB exhibited considerably high gas solubility, resulting in high gas permeability. It was suggested that low segmental mobility and unique size and distribution of free volume holes arising from the characteristic hyperbranched structure of 6FDA-TAPOB provide effective O₂/N₂ selectivity. It is concluded that the 6FDA-TAPOB hyperbranched polyimide has relatively high permeability and O₂/N₂ selectivity, and is expected to apply to a high-performance gas separation membrane.     

Characterization of alicyclic polyimides based on cyclobutane ring dianhydride and aromatic diamine

Films of alicyclic polyamic acid and polyimide containing cyclobutane ring in dianhydride moiety and aromatic ring with p- or m-linkages in diamine moiety were characterized by infrared (IR) spectroscopy, dynamic viscoelasticity, differential-scanning calorimetry (DSC), density, and wide-angle X-ray diffraction analyses. Partially and fully imidized polyimides were obtained by varying the imidization temperature, e.g., 150°C, 250°C, and 350°C. It was found from the results of IR spectra, dynamic viscoelasticity, and DSC measurements that the imidization of alicyclic polyamic acid was reduced at about 150°C and needed a higher imidization temperature than aromatic polyamic acid. Alicyclic polyimide with m-linkage in the diamine moiety had a higher density and a much more ordered structure than with p-linkage. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.