1. A method of generating electronic facsimiles comprising:
receiving data representing an electronic document in a file format into a messaging system;
converting a plurality of fax components to a fax compatible format including the electronic document in the file format to form converted fax components;
determining whether to generate an electronic facsimile to include the fax components as a pre-rendered electronic facsimile;
generating the pre-rendered electronic facsimile; and
transmitting the electronic facsimile as the pre-rendered electronic facsimile.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein transmitting the pre-rendered electronic facsimile occurs according to a user’s scheduling preference input.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
displaying an email application interface comprising input fields for inputting data representing an electronic document in a file format into a messaging system.
4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
storing a first subset of the fax components prior to generating the electronic facsimile; and
retrieving the first subset of the fax components to form the electronic facsimile.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the first subset of the fax components comprise:
data representing at least a portion of a cover sheet.
6. The method of claim 4 further comprising:
storing the first subset of the fax components and a second subset of the fax components prior to generating the electronic facsimile; and
generating the electronic facsimile as the pre-rendered electronic facsimile.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the second subset of the fax components comprise:
the data representing the electronic document.
8. The method of claim 6 further comprising:
appending a time and date stamp prior to transmitting the electronic facsimile as the pre-rendered electronic facsimile.
9. The method of claim 6 further comprising:
converting either the first subset of the fax components or the second subset of the fax components, or both, prior to storing the first subset of the fax components and the second subset of the fax components.
10. The method of claim 6 further comprising:
storing the pre-rendered electronic facsimile,
wherein the first subset of the fax components or the second subset of the fax components, or both, are stored as separable fax components.
11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
transmitting data to present an interface configured to accept a first user input; and
receiving the electronic document as the first user input.
12. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
transmitting data to accept at least one of dual-tone multi-frequency input and audio selections as audio input;
receiving the audio input into the messaging system; and
converting the audio input into alpha-numeric text to form at least a subset of the fax components.
13. A system for supporting message delivery over a communications network, the system comprising:
a messaging system further comprising:
a plurality of processing servers, at least one of which is configured to receive a user input to create an electronic facsimile over a first communications network from a sending communications device;
at least one repository, wherein the messaging system is configured to:
format the user input into at least one pre-rendered electronic document in a fax format,
store the at least one pre-rendered electronic document in the repository, wherein the pre-rendered electronic document is pushed for transmission by a fax resource selected by the repository, and
transmit the at least one pre-rendered electronic document,
wherein the messaging system is coupled to a communications network for transmitting the at least one pre-rendered electronic document as an electronic facsimile.
14. The system as in claim 13 wherein the messaging system is further configured to:
transmit the at least one pre-rendered electronic document as a function of either a schedule based on the user input, or upon availability of the fax resource, or both.
15. The systems as in claim 14 wherein the messaging system is configured to accept a schedule from a user of the transmission of the pre-rendered electronic document as an electronic facsimile according to at least one of a least cost route, least cost time, and least cost day.
16. The system as in claim 14 further comprising:
at least one of the plurality of processing servers including:
a rendering server coupled with the at least one repository and configured to pre-render the user input into the at least one pre-rendered electronic document in a common fax format.
17. The system as in claim 14 wherein:
the repository is coupled with a rendering server and with at least one of a web server, a synchronization server, and a fax polling server, each of which can be configured to upload a request for an electronic facsimile to the repository; and
the repository also is coupled with a fax router so that the repository can request that the fax router select a preferred delivery route and corresponding deliver resource for transmitting the electronic facsimile.
18. The system as in claim 14 wherein the sending communications device is a computing device configured to accept the user input.
19. The system as in claim 14 wherein the communications network is a switched network or a packet network.
20. The system as in claim 14 wherein the message system is configured to affix a time and date stamp to the at least one pre-rendered electronic document.
21 . A system for supporting a message delivery service comprising:
at least one receiving communications device configured to receive an audio input to create electronic messages over a communications network from a sending communications device,
a receiving media server configured to communicate with an interface of the sending communications device,
a prompt-and-collect logic coupled with the receiving media server further configured to provide automated speech recognition technology to generate an electronic document by accepting the audio input;
a rendering server configured to format the electronic document into a pre-rendered electronic document in a common fax format, wherein the pre-rendered document can become an electronic facsimile or a component of an electronic facsimile;
at least one repository for storing pre-rendered electronic messages; and
at least one fax application server, wherein the at least one fax application server responds to a request from the repository for transmission of the pre-rendered electronic message as an electronic facsimile.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A hybrid vehicle including a hybrid type power unit (PA, PB) mounted on a vehicle body frame (F), the hybrid type power unit (PA, PB) including: an engine (EA, EB) having an engine body (11A, 11B) of which part is formed by a crankcase (12) rotatably supporting a crankshaft (7); a transmission (M) for changing speed of driving force transmitted from the crankshaft (7); and an electric motor (9) capable of transmitting the driving force to the transmission (M), characterized in that the electric motor (9) is attached to a lower portion of a front face of the engine body (11A, 11B).
2. The hybrid vehicle according to claim 1, wherein
an exhaust pipe (24, 25) having an upstream end thereof connected to a front face of a cylinder head (14) which forms a portion of the engine body (11A) extends rearwardly below the engine body (11A) from the front of the engine body (11A), and at least a portion of the electric motor (9) is disposed in a region surrounded by the lower portion of the engine body (11A) and the exhaust pipe (24, 25) in a side view.
3. The hybrid vehicle according to claim 2, wherein
the exhaust pipe (24, 25) extends out forwardly and downwardly from the cylinder head (14) toward one side in a vehicle width direction, and the electric motor (9) is attached to the lower portion of the front face of the engine body (11A) on the other side in the vehicle width direction, avoiding the exhaust pipe (24, 25) when the engine body (11A) is seen from the front.
4. The hybrid vehicle according to claim 3, wherein
the electric motor (9) is disposed in such a manner that an output end of a motor shaft (61) is oriented in a direction opposite to the exhaust pipe (24, 25) in the vehicle width direction.
5. The hybrid vehicle according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein
a control unit (74) and a battery (75) are disposed above the crankcase (12).
6. The hybrid vehicle according to claim 1, wherein
the engine body (11B) is mounted on the vehicle body frame (F) with a cylinder axis thereof inclined rearwardly and upwardly, an intake system (18B) is connected to a front face of an upper portion of the engine body (11B), and the electric motor (9) located below the intake system (18B) is attached to the lower portion of the front face of the engine body (11B).
7. The hybrid vehicle according to any one of claims 1 to 4 and 6, wherein
the electric motor (9) is disposed on an opposite side of an axis of the crankshaft (7) from an input shaft (41) of the transmission (M), and a distance (L1) between an axis of the motor shaft (61) included in the electric motor (9) and the axis of the crankshaft (7) is set substantially equal to a distance (L2) between an axis of the input shaft (41) and the axis of the crankshaft (7).
8. The hybrid vehicle according to claim 7, further comprising a motor-side primary gear mechanism (63) for transmitting power from the motor shaft (61) of the electric motor (9) to the transmission (M) side, the motor-side primary gear mechanism (63) including a pair of idle gears (70, 71), wherein one (71) of the idle gears is disposed coaxially with the crankshaft (7), and the other one (70) of the idle gears is disposed between vertical planes (PL1, PL2) passing through the axis of the crankshaft (7) and the axis of the motor shaft (61), respectively.
9. The hybrid vehicle according to claim 5, wherein
the electric motor (9) is disposed on an opposite side of an axis of the crankshaft (7) from an input shaft (41) of the transmission (M), and a distance (L1) between an axis of the motor shaft (61) included in the electric motor (9) and the axis of the crankshaft (7) is set substantially equal to a distance (L2) between an axis of the input shaft (41) and the axis of the crankshaft (7).
10. The hybrid vehicle according to claim 9, further comprising a motor-side primary gear mechanism (63) for transmitting power from the motor shaft (61) of the electric motor (9) to the transmission (M) side, the motor-side primary gear mechanism (63) including a pair of idle gears (70, 71), wherein one (71) of the idle gears is disposed coaxially with the crankshaft (7), and the other one (70) of the idle gears is disposed between vertical planes (PL1, PL2) passing through the axis of the crankshaft (7) and the axis of the motor shaft (61), respectively.