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| 20090242311 | Upper Assembly Structure of Work Machine - An upper assembly structure of a work machine comprising a driver's seat mounted on a vehicle body, an engine compartment for housing an engine, a tank compartment for housing a tank, a hood, a tank cover member, a first partition for partitioning between the engine compartment and the driver's seat, a second partition for partitioning between the tank compartment and the driver's seat, and a support frame mounted on the engine compartment including an arm member protruding from the support frame toward the tank compartment, wherein the engine compartment and the tank compartment are arranged to form an L-shape as viewed from the top, wherein the engine compartment is covered by the first partition and the hood, wherein the tank compartment is covered by the second compartment and the tank cover member, and wherein the arm member supports internal equipment arranged inside the tank compartment. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100122862 | Bonnet Sealing Structure for Work Machine - A bonnet sealing structure for a swiveling work machine includes: a bonnet configured to cover an engine provided on a swivel stage including: a fixed cover, and an open-close cover which is swingably supported about a vertical shaft and is openable and closable relative to the fixed cover; a sealing member through which an upper end portion of the open-close cover is brought into contact with an upper end portion of the fixed cover when the open-close cover is closed; and a cover piece protruding from one of an upper wall of the open-close cover and an upper wall of the fixed cover, wherein when the open-close cover is closed, the cover piece is located above the sealing member and reaches a point above the other of the upper wall of the fixed cover and the upper wall of the open-close cover. | 05-20-2010 |
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| 20080314884 | Method of Controlling Arc Welding and Welding Apparatus - A wire feeding speed is decreased to a level lower than a base wire feeding speed in a short-circuiting period, and set to the base wire feeding speed in an arcing period. During the arcing period, a welding current is increased to a predetermined peak value by means of current control from the start of arcing to a first predetermined time, the welding current is then supplied with a welding voltage, a source voltage of which is controlled constant, from the first predetermined time to a second predetermined time, and the welding current is decreased to a predetermined base current by means of current control from the second predetermined time until the end of the arcing period. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090289044 | ARC WELDING CONTROL METHOD AND ARC WELDING APPARATUS - An arc welding control method carries out weld with a welding current and a welding speed different from those at a steady welding period according to intrinsic resistivity of a weld wire or a base material at a welding start period and a welding end period, so as to obtain a satisfactory welding quality. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100126976 | WELDING DEVICE - A welding device includes a welding torch, a memory, a power supply, an input section, a selector, and a controller. The welding torch includes a welding tip having a feeder for supplying electric power to a welding wire. The memory stores a plurality of welding conditions in which a feeder-work-piece to be welded distance is associated with at least one a length of the wire supplied per unit time, a weight of the wire supplied per unit time, and a set electric current. The power supply supplies electric power between the wire and the work-piece. The input section receives an input of a set value of a feeder-work-piece distance. The selector selects one of the welding conditions stored in the memory based on the set value. The controller controls the power supply based on the welding condition selected by the selector. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20110226749 | ARC WELDING CONTROL METHOD AND ARC WELDING CONTROL SYSTEM - A welding control method alternately repeats a short circuit period, during which a welding wire and an object to be welded short-circuit, and an arc period, during which an arc is generated and discharged, to weld the object to be welded. The method compares average output voltage, which is an average of welding voltage calculated during welding, to set voltage preliminarily set, and controls a welding output current produced when an arc is generated based on the comparison result therefrom, to regulate the meltage of the wire for adjusting the arc length, which brings the short circuit cycle closer to a constant one when a disturbance (e.g. extended or shortened arc length) occurs. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110248012 | ARC WELDING METHOD AND ARC WELDING APPARATUS - A consumable electrode arc welding method includes: setting an optimal voltage and an increasing slope of a short circuit current to correspond to a setting current; feeding a consumable electrode wire; and alternately generating a short circuit condition and an arc condition, thereby carrying out welding, wherein the short circuit current is controlled by changing the increasing slope of the short circuit current according to a difference between the setting voltage and the optimal voltage when the setting voltage is different from the optimal voltage. With this, the increasing slope of the short circuit current and the current value corresponding to the inflection point of the short circuit current are automatically changed. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20120074114 | CONSUMABLE ELECTRODE ARC WELDING METHOD AND CONSUMABLE ELECTRODE ARC WELDING DEVICE - If a short circuit does not occur during deceleration of a wire feed speed in forward feed of a welding wire before the wire feed speed reaches a predetermined wire feed speed, a cyclic change is stopped and the wire feed speed is constantly controlled at the first feed speed. If a short circuit occurs during forward feed at the first feed speed, deceleration from the first feed speed starts, and the cyclic change is resumed for welding. This achieves uniform weld bead without increasing spatters even if any external disturbance such as change of distance between a tip and base material occurs. | 03-29-2012 |
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| 20080270513 | DATA TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND DATA TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - A data transmitting apparatus that transmits content data having use restriction is provided. The data transmitting apparatus includes: a data transmitting unit that transmits the content data to the first data receiving apparatus that receives the content data for viewing, and transmits the content data to the second data receiving apparatus that receives the content data so that the content data is transferred; a calculation unit that calculates a time required for the data transmitting unit to complete transmitting the content data to the first or second data receiving apparatus; and a notification unit that notifies the first or second data receiving apparatus of the time calculated by the calculation unit. The first or second data receiving apparatus that receives the notification is the data receiving apparatus that is not the data receiving apparatus corresponding to the time. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090254751 | DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, DATA RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM - Provided is a data transmission apparatus, a data reception apparatus, and a data transfer system which can prevent a case where the same usable data is present in plural apparatuses at the same time and can certainly the move data, in MOVE processing of the data between the data transmission apparatus and the data reception apparatus. The data transmission apparatus ( | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090257587 | AV DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AV DATA RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND AV DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - An AV data transmission apparatus comprising: an encryption unit which encrypts AV data; an AV data transmission unit which transmits the encrypted AV data; a cipher-type-information switching unit which switches cipher type information indicating a cipher scheme used for the AV data, to other cipher type information; and a cipher-type-information transmission unit which transmits cipher type information. When transmitting AV data which is prohibited from being used in a reception apparatus that does not support new usage control information, the AV data transmission apparatus assigns different cipher type information to be notified to the reception apparatus, so that even the reception apparatus which cannot recognize the new usage control information can recognize that being unable to perform decryption is due to new encryption performed by the AV data transmission apparatus. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090257588 | AV DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND AV DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - An AV data transmission apparatus having two or more output channels, the apparatus comprising: an encryption unit which encrypts AV data using an encryption key; an AV data transmission unit which transmits the encryption key and the encrypted AV data to AV data reception apparatuses from each output channel; an encryption key switching unit which switches an encryption key generation scheme to another one for the encryption key transmitted through a selected output channel; an output suspension unit which suspends output of the encrypted AV data transmitted through a selected output channel; and a control unit which causes (i) the output suspension unit to select an output channel and suspend the output of the encrypted AV data through the selected output channel, and then causes (ii) the encryption key switching unit to select the same output channel and switch the encryption key generation scheme to another one for the output channel. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100077488 | DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, DATA RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - A data transmission and reception system and the like are provided, which are capable of preventing: unauthorized copying between a server and a client; and unnecessary use limit when a copyright constraint is conformed. A server generates and manages overall use permission information indicating that the overall data accumulated in the server can be used and distributes the overall use permission information together with copied data to the client determined to exist within a private use range. The client manages the overall use permission information and the data received from the server in such a manner associated with each other and enables use of the data received from the server only when the overall use permission information is valid. When the client moves only within the private use range, the server continuously manages the overall use permission information so as to enables use of the copied data. Meanwhile, use of the copied data in the client which has moved out of the private use range is inhibited. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20110116768 | DATA RECORDING APPARATUS, DATA RECORDING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A data recording apparatus ( | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110179497 | DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION CONTROL APPARATUS, AND DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A portable terminal ( | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110293090 | AV DATA RECEIVING DEVICE, AV DATA RECEIVING METHOD, AND AV DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - A conventional AV data receiving device switches to a key for distribution to an outdoor device when a network environment is switched to an outdoor network environment, thus resulting in high key switching frequency. In view of this, an AV data receiving device according to the present invention determines, after switching the network environment from indoors to outdoors as a result of moving the AV data receiving device, whether or not key switching should be performed, before a command for restricting a hop count on a route from an AV data transmission device located indoors is transmitted, and performs authentication and key exchange processing for outdoor device distribution, so as to switch to the key for outdoor device distribution. | 12-01-2011 |
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| 20100225574 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An objective of the present invention is to provide an image display device that performs area active drive and that can suppress the occurrence of flicker upon displaying a moving image. An APL calculating unit ( | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100309107 | DISPLAY DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a liquid crystal display device with high color reproduction ability even when an area active backlight is driven. A liquid crystal display device ( | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100321414 | DISPLAY DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device that can improve the color reproductivity on a displayed image and improve the display quality. A liquid crystal display device ( | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110007104 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - There is provided a lighting device that can reduce the occurrence of both color irregularity and brightness irregularity of light to be irradiated onto an irradiation surface even if one of a plurality of light-emitting elements included in light sources fails to light properly, and a display device using this lighting device. The lighting device includes a plurality of light sources ( | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110090265 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - There is provided an image display device capable of suppressing the occurrence of a color shift while ensuring a sufficient color reproduction range. An in-area maximum luminance obtaining unit ( | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110115826 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An area active drive processing unit ( | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110181793 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE FOR IMAGE DISPLAY, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A light emitting device for image display includes an LED current setting circuit and an LED voltage setting circuit. In at least one embodiment, the LED current setting circuit generates a current control signal to vary an element current flowing in the LED element depending on an image display mode. The LED voltage setting circuit generates a voltage control signal to vary driving voltage driving the LED element depending on the image display mode. The light emitting device further includes a voltage generation circuit that generates the driving voltage according to the voltage control signal and the driving voltage to the LED element. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110193889 | Backlight unit, liquid crystal display device, data generating method, data generating program and recording medium - Provided are a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display device including the backlight unit mounted therein. In at least one embodiment of the backlight unit, a process control section performs correction processing to a light source red image signal of a red LED chip, by using an LUT, based on the relationship between the light source red image signal and luminance of the red LED chip. Furthermore, correction processing is performed by using an LUT, based on a light source green image signal of a green LED chip different from the red LED chip. The light source red image signal becomes a new light source red image signal. In the backlight unit, luminance nonuniformity and chromaticity nonuniformity due to the fact that one LED chip is affected by instantaneous heat generated by other LED chip are reduced. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110248974 | BACKLIGHT DRIVE DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING SAME - Backlight drive units included in a backlight drive device of at least one embodiment of the present invention each have a plurality of metal pads functioning as a plurality of address setting terminals. To provide a potential for setting a unique address by coming into contact with the metal pads, metal protrusions are provided at corresponding locations of a backlight housing. A backlight drive control unit is directly connected to each unit through an IIC bus by a bus scheme and receives, via the IIC bus, a detected amount of light and temperature from each unit identified by the address. With such a simple configuration, a unique address can be automatically set for each unit, obtaining the commonization of backlight drive units. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20120075362 | Image Display Device And Control Method Therefor - In an LCD data calculation section, a base data calculation section calculates LCD data before temperature compensation based on an input image and display luminance of each area of a backlight, a scene change detection section detects a scene change point at which the amount of change of the input image increases, based on the input image, and an LUT selection and application section acquires an appropriate table corresponding to the temperature of a liquid crystal panel from a temperature compensation LUT, and applies the table at the scene change point, thereby outputting LCD data subjected to temperature compensation. Thus, temperature compensation can be performed without adversely affecting display luminances of the backlight, making it possible to correctly provide tone display without uneven luminances even in the case of area-active drive. | 03-29-2012 |
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| 20080236125 | Climb-Up Assist Structure for Mower Unit - A mower unit configured to be supported to a work vehicle at a position between front wheels and rear wheels, comprises a mower deck; at least one blade supported by the mower deck; a climb-up assist member in which an inclined surface is formed for assisting the wheels in climbing over the mower unit; and a connecting device for detachably connecting the climb-up assist member to the mower unit in a service position in which the inclined surface assists the wheels in climbing over the mower unit. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090282799 | Rear Discharge Type Mower Apparatus - A rear discharge type mower apparatus includes a blade housing, a support shaft supported by the blade housing, a rotatable blade supported by the support shaft, and a front guide plate having a shape extending substantially along the rotation path of a corresponding blade. The front guide plate forms an opening for ejecting cut grass rearwardly and has a downstream plate portion located in a downstream position with respect to a rotating direction of the corresponding blade and having an end defining one end of the opening. The downstream plate portion extends rearwardly of the blade housing and a distance from a center of rotation to the downstream plate portion is progressively decreased toward a rear end of the blade housing. At least a part of the downstream plate portion is located radially inside of the rotation path of the corresponding blade. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100019539 | Work Vehicle - A work vehicle includes a vehicle body frame extending in the fore/aft direction, the vehicle body frame including a front frame and a rear frame disposed rearwardly of the front frame, a passenger's section provided on the vehicle body frame, a driver's seat disposed on the front side of the passenger's section, and a drive unit including an engine, the drive unit being disposed downwardly of the rear frame. A rear portion of a rear seat disposing space provided rearwardly of the driver's seat is overlapped with an upper side of the rear frame. A rear seat disposed in the rear seat disposing space is selectable in its posture between a first posture where the upper side of the rear frame is opened up to allow visual inspection of the drive unit and a second posture where the rear seat is positioned on the upper side of the rear frame to cover the drive unit. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100139228 | Climb-Up Assist Structure for Mower Unit - A mower unit configured to be supported to a work vehicle at a position between front wheels and rear wheels, comprises a mower deck; at least one blade supported by the mower deck; a climb-up assist member in which an inclined surface is formed for assisting the wheels in climbing over the mower unit; and a connecting device for detachably connecting the climb-up assist member to the mower unit in a service position in which the inclined surface assists the wheels in climbing over the mower unit. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20110314953 | Tiltable Steering Wheel Apparatus for Work Vehicle - A tiltable steering wheel apparatus comprises a tilting mechanism provided under a grip portion of a steering wheel. The tilting mechanism includes a steering wheel support member for supporting the steering wheel to be tiltable about a pivotal axis extending along a transverse direction of a vehicle body, and a control lever switchable between a tilting allowing mode for allowing tilting movement of the steering wheel and a tilting preventing mode for preventing tilting movement of the steering wheel. The control lever has an extension extending toward the grip portion with a manual control portion provided in a distal end thereof to be operable with the fingers of the operator holding the grip portion of the steering wheel. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120055728 | Work Vehicle having Drive Wheels - A work vehicle having drive wheels includes: an engine having an output shaft oriented in a transverse direction of a vehicle body; a transmission having an input shaft oriented in the transverse direction, which includes a transmission case arranged next to the engine in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body; and a CVT which extends between a lateral side of the engine and a lateral side of the transmission case and is configured to transmit a driving force from the output shaft to the input shaft. A connecting plate is configured to connect an upper part of the engine and an upper part of the transmission case and has a cover part. An electric component is disposed in a space defined by the engine, the transmission case and the connecting plate and is covered by the cover part from above. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120056411 | Work Vehicle - A pick-up style work vehicle includes a rollover protection structure (ROPS), a seat section including a forward driver's seat and a rear seat, and a rear seat posture changing mechanism for changing the rear seat in its position between a first posture where the rear seat is in a non-use condition and a second posture where the rear seat is in a use condition. A fore/aft length of the rear seat in the first posture is shorter than the fore/aft length of the rear seat in the second posture. The work vehicle also includes a partitioning member for partitioning the seat section from a space behind the seat section with the partitioning member being supported by the ROPS. The partitioning member is movable with being supported by the ROPS between a rearwardly displaced position immediately behind the rear seat and a forwardly displaced position moved forward from the rearwardly displaced position. | 03-08-2012 |
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| 20110102231 | INSULATED ULTRAFINE POWDER AND HIGH DIELECTRIC CONSTANT RESIN COMPOSITE MATERIAL - The present invention provides an insulated ultrafine powder containing electrically conductive ultrafine particles coated with an insulation coating, characterized in that the electrically conductive ultrafine particles are formed of a carbon material which is in the form of spherical particles having a diameter of 1 nm or more and 500 nm or less, fibers having a cross-sectional diameter of 1 nm or more and 500 nm or less, or plate-like particles having a thickness of 1 nm or more and 500 nm or less; the insulation coating is formed of an insulating metal oxide or a hydrate thereof; and the thickness of the insulation coating is 0.3 nm or more, and, when the electrically conductive ultrafine particles are in the form of spherical particles, the coating thickness is equal to or less than the diameter of the particles; when the electrically conductive ultrafine particles are in the form of fibers, the coating thickness is equal to or less than the cross-sectional diameter of the fibers; or when the electrically conductive ultrafine particles are in the form of plate-like particles, the coating thickness is equal to or less than the thickness of the plate-like particles; and as well a high-dielectric-constant resin composite material containing the insulated ultrafine powder. The resin composite material exhibits high dielectric constant and radio wave absorbability, while maintaining fundamental characteristics of resin material (i.e., excellent moldability and workability, and light weight). | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110194036 | PHOTODIODE, PHOTODIODE-EQUIPPED DISPLAY DEVICE, AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREFOR - A photodiode ( | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110221722 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE - Provided is a display device equipped with a display panel having an optical sensor built in a pixel. The display device is equipped with the display panel having a photo sensor element ( | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110297936 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A semiconductor device | 12-08-2011 |
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| 20090066805 | VIDEO CAMERA - An image sensor has an imaging surface irradiated with an optical image of an object scene, and repeatedly generates an object scene image. A CPU repeatedly determines whether or not a specific variation exceeding a reference is generated in the object scene captured by the image sensor, in parallel with a generating process of the object scene image by the image sensor. When a determination result is updated from a negative result to an affirmative result, the CPU waits for an elapse of a designated period, then, determines presence or absence of a generation of a flicker, and executes a flicker countermeasure process, as needed. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090073305 | AUTOMATIC FOCUSING DEVICE - An automatic focusing device in accordance with the present invention comprises an image sensor being subjected to exposure performed in a rolling shutter system, a focusing system including a focus lens for focusing on the image sensor, an AF evaluation value calculating unit calculating an AF evaluation value based on an imaging signal obtained from the image sensor, and an AF control unit controlling an operation of the focusing system based on an AF evaluation value of a focusing area set in a part of the imaging picture by the image sensor, and the AF control unit makes the AF evaluation value of a focusing area of each imaging picture and a focus lens position at the time of exposure for the focusing area correspond to each other, and drives the focusing system during the period which overlaps with an exposure period while searching the focus lens position where the AF evaluation value becomes maximum. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100141791 | VIDEO CAMERA - A video camera includes an image sensor. The image sensor repeatedly outputs an object scene image produced on an imaging surface having a plurality of pixels lined up in a vertical direction. A driver repeatedly executes an exposing operation for exposing the imaging surface for each pixel lined up in a vertical direction. A CPU repeatedly detects a plurality of luminance values respectively corresponding to a plurality of flicker evaluation areas allocated to the imaging surface in a manner to be located at positions different from one another in a vertical direction, based on the object scene image outputted from the image sensor. Moreover, the CPU determines the presence or absence of a flicker based on the plurality of luminance values thus detected. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20110249130 | ELECTRONIC CAMERA - An electronic camera includes an imager. An imager repeatedly outputs an image representing a scene captured by an imaging surface. An adjuster adjusts an imaging condition by referring to any one of a plurality of adjustment references including a specific adjustment reference suitable for a dynamic scene. A permitter permits the referring by the adjuster to the specific adjustment reference when a movement of the image outputted from the imager satisfies a first condition and a luminance of the image outputted from the imager satisfies a second condition. A restrictor restricts the referring by the adjuster to the specific adjustment reference when at least one of the first condition and the second condition is not satisfied. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249140 | ELECTRONIC CAMERA - An electronic camera includes an imager. An imager repeatedly outputs an image representing a scene captured by an imaging surface. An adjuster adjusts an imaging condition by referring to any one of a plurality of adjustment references including a specific adjustment reference suitable for outdoors. A controller controls whether or not the referring by the adjuster to the specific adjustment reference should be permitted, with reference to a determined result of whether or not an average luminance of the image outputted from the imager satisfies a first condition and a determined result of whether or not a ratio of an area having a luminance deviating from a predetermined range occupying in the image outputted from the imager satisfies a second condition. | 10-13-2011 |
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| 20100195569 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a communication terminal device that reduces, in a network using a power line, the percentage of bands consumed for transmission of control packets in the bands consumed for all the communication, so as to ensure transmission of data intended to be transmitted. A PLC terminal F | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100195656 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - There is provided a communication apparatus which, in an ad-hoc network, when receiving control packets from a plurality of terminals, can determine whether or not there is a collision among the control packets, and, based on the determination, can be prevented from continuing to be out of the network due to a collision among the control packets transmitted from the plurality of terminals. In the communication terminal, a communication section receives a control packet which periodically comes up on a communication path. When the communication apparatus receives a plurality of control packets which are defective in at least payload portions thereof within a predetermined time period, if a control section determines that source addresses included in header portions of the control packets which are defective in the payload portions thereof include a source address which is not identical to the other source addresses, the control section determines that the control packets are transmitted from a plurality of terminals and collide with each other. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100220593 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - Each of PLC modems | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100290393 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a communication terminal that is capable of securing a route having the finest state while suppressing a bandwidth that is consume by a transmission of a control packet at a low level, when applied in an ad-hoc network which uses an electrical power line. The communication terminal included in the ad-hoc network acquires a plurality of route candidates at the beginning of a data transmission by conducting a broadcast transmission of a route creation packet, and acquires a route having the finest state by conducting an unicast transmission of a route estimation packet to each of the route candidates in each predetermined period. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110261706 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A source apparatus writes, in a route request packet, the number of routes requested by the source apparatus. When a relay apparatus receives a route request packet for the first time, the relay apparatus determines a waiting time period, based on a route evaluation value that indicates a state of a route through which the route request packet has passed, and starts a timer. The relay apparatus selects route request packets having as high route evaluation values as possible, among route request packets that have been received until the timer expires, the number of route request packets to be selected being equal to the number of routes requested by the source apparatus, and then broadcasts the selected route request packets. | 10-27-2011 |
