Author: claimsbot

1. A motorcycle comprising:
a chassis frame;
an engine having a hanger portion that is suspended from the chassis frame;
a pair of down tubes in a vehicle width direction that fauns a part of the chassis frame, and extends downwards at a front portion of the chassis frame; and
an engine hanger bracket having a plate portion formed in a plate shape and a collar portion provided to the plate portion, and joining the pair of down tubes with the hanger portion,
wherein the hanger portion includes an upper hanger portion and a lower hanger portion that are respectively disposed one above the other in a height direction of the engine, and
wherein the motorcycle further comprises:
an upper suspension portion that suspends the engine by way of fastening the down tube, the plate portion, the collar portion and the upper hanger portion in a state arranged linearly in a vehicle width direction; and
a lower suspension portion that suspends the engine by way of fastening the plate portion and the lower hanger portion.
2. The motorcycle according to claim 1, wherein the upper suspension portion includes:
a boss portion provided at the down tube;
the plate portion abutting the boss portion;
the collar portion fixed to the plate portion;
the upper hanger portion abutting the collar portion; and
an upper fastening member that is disposed to penetrate the pair of down tubes, the boss portion, the plate portion, the collar portion and the upper hanger portion in a vehicle width direction, and is configured to be fastenable from outside of the pair of down tubes.
3. The motorcycle according to claim 1, further comprising a head pipe that forms a part of the chassis frame, and retains a steering device of a front wheel to be rotatable,
wherein the down tube extends downwards linearly from the head pipe, and
wherein the upper suspension portion and the lower suspension portion are disposed linearly along a direction in which the down tube extends.
4. The motorcycle according to claim 1, wherein a fastening portion to fasten the plate portion and the down tube is provided above the upper suspension portion.
5. The motorcycle according to claim 4, wherein a cover-member fastening stay to fasten a cover member that covers a lateral side of a chassis is provided between the fastening portion of the plate portion and the upper suspension portion.
6. The motorcycle according to claim 1, further comprising a rear suspension portion that suspends the engine, by way of fastening a rear portion of the engine having a crankshaft extending in the vehicle width direction, and an engine hanger stay that is provided at a substantially central part of the chassis frame in a front-rear direction and supports the rear portion of the engine,
wherein the upper suspension portion and the lower suspension portion are respectively disposed above and below the crankshaft in a side view, and
the crankshaft is disposed within a region of triangular shape formed by linking the upper suspension portion, the lower suspension portion, and the rear suspension portion in a side view.
7. The motorcycle according to claim 1, wherein a part of the plate portion between the upper suspension portion and the lower suspension portion bends so as to project forwards relative to a line linking the upper suspension portion and the lower suspension portion in a side view.

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 head support comprising or including:
a) a harness locatable to the upper body portions of a person
b) a rigid member extending from a region of said harness stabilised in respect of and by the use of the harness relative to the body wherein, when in use, said harness is attached to the body of a person, said rigid member extending therefrom to provide a support region thereof which when said person is in a substantially upright position, and the head is tilted backwards to allow viewing of an object above the horizontal, said support region comes in contact with at least part of the back of the head and provides at least vertical support to the head.
2. A head support as claimed in claim 1 wherein said rigid member has a vertically extending portion which, in use extends substantially vertically and parallel with the general upright position of said user, and an outwardly extending portion which extends, in use from said vertically extending portion, outwardly from the body of a user wherein at or near the distal end of said outwardly extending portion said head supporting region is provided.
3. A head support as claimed in claim 2 wherein said rigid member is secured to said harness at said vertically extending portion thereof.
4. A head support as claimed in claim 3 wherein said harness is secured to the vertically extending portion of said rigid member to, when said harness is secured to the body of the user, press said rigid member against the back of the user.
5. A head support as claimed in claim 4 wherein said rigid member is pressed against is the upper spine region of the back of the user.
6. A head support as claimed in claim 3 wherein said rigid member is held apart from the upper spine region of the back of the user.
7. A head support as claimed in claim 6 wherein said rigid member is held apart from the upper spine region of the back of the user by means of a strut or brace attached to said harness.
8. A head support as claimed in claim 7 wherein the rigid member is not in contact with the upper spine region of the back of the user.
9. A head support as claimed in claim 5 or claim 8 wherein said rigid member is an elongate member having a first distal end defining the lower end of the substantially vertical member and a second distal end defining the outer end region of said outwardly extending portion thereof.
10. A head support as claimed in claim 9 wherein said rigid member is an extrusion, preferably plastics, or is of an elongate sheet material shaped, moulded or fabricated to provide said vertically extending region and said outwardly extending region thereof.
11. A head support as claimed in claim 10 wherein said head supporting region is formed or shaped to additionally provide support to the sides of the head.
12. A head support as claimed in claim 11 wherein the head support includes one or more adjustment means selected from:
(i) adjustment means capable of altering the tilt of said member, andor of said second distal end of said substantially vertical member relative to said first distal end;
(ii) adjustment means capable of altering the height of the rigid member with respect to the harness, andor the head support region with respect to the rigid member andor the harness;
(iii) adjustment means capable of altering the distance between said rigid member and said back of said user.
13. A head support as claimed claim 12 wherein said rigid member is provided with padding in those regions which, when said head support is in use, are in contact with the body of the user.
14. A head support as claimed in claim 13 wherein said harness includes or comprises at least two shoulder engaging straps, one each to locate over shoulder of the user and to locate with said rigid means, or an extension thereof, at the back of said user.
15. A head support as claimed in claim 14 wherein said shoulder straps are each endless members in use and have a means to open such as a buckle and also to provide an adjustment in the length of said strap.
16. A head support as claimed in claim 15 wherein said rigid member is provided with lateral extensions, extending from said vertically extending portion of said rigid member from each side thereof each said lateral member having at its distal end thereof a shoulder strap engaging means to allow the location of said shoulder strap with said lateral member.
17. A head support as claimed in claim 16 wherein each lateral member allows the longitudinal sliding engagement of each shoulder strap at its distal ends thereof, to provide, when said harness is in use a directional stability of said second distal end of said substantially vertical member to prevent it from moving to any significant and functionless degree in a substantially horizonal direction in respect of the head.
18. A head support as claimed in claim 17 wherein the shoulder strap means each locate to said rigid means at the distal end of said vertically extending member thereof.
19. A head support as claimed in claim 18 wherein said harness further includes a chest or waist encompassing strap which is located at substantially the point where said shoulder straps locate at said rigid means.
20. A head support as claimed in claim 19 wherein said harness further includes a release buckle and adjustable means, about the waist or chest of the user.
21. A head support as claimed in claim 20 wherein the head support is a recreational head support.
22. A head support as claimed in claim 20 wherein the head support is for vocational use.
23. A head support comprising a rigid member having a vertically extending region and an outwardly extending region supporting the head, when in use in respect of the vertically upright body of a user, in a tilted backwards position to allow viewing of an object above the horizontal, wherein said vertically extending member has a region adapted for engaging with a head support receiving means located ator near the top of a back pack.
24. A head support as claimed in claim 23 wherein the head support includes one or more adjustment means selected from:
(i) adjustment means capable of altering the tilt of said member, andor of said second distal end of said substantially vertical member relative to said first distal end;
(ii) adjustment means capable of altering the height of the rigid member with respect to the harness, andor the head support region with respect to the rigid member andor the harness;
(iii) adjustment means capable of altering the distance between said rigid member and said back of said user.
25. A head support as claimed in claim 24 wherein the head support is a recreational head support.
26. A head support as claimed in claim 24 wherein the head support is for vocational use.

1. In an autonomously moving robot which drives while evading obstacles, it comprises:
a memory means for memorizing map information of driving domain and various parameters for driving;
an input instruction means for inputting a destination and a command for moving;
a route forming means for forming a driving route to the destination;
an environmental information acquisition means for acquiring environmental information on the driving route including an object becoming an obstacle;
a driving means for driving it; a self-location recognition means for recognizing a self-location on a basis of information provided by the above environmental information acquisition means and the map information; and
a driving control means for controlling the driving means to arrive at the destination while evading obstacles with recognizing the self-location by the self-location recognition means by oneself; wherein
the above environmental information acquisition means further comprises:
an imaging apparatus for taking an environmental image on the driving route;
an image recognition processing means for extracting an area having a property relating to a region of a human body by arithmetically processing a photographed image data;
a ranging apparatus for detecting an object existing in an environment on the driving route and measuring a range and an orientation of the object;
a range information analyzing means for obtaining a shape of the object by arithmetically processing a range data of the measured object and recognizing the object is a candidate of a person from the shape; and
an environment recognition means for comparing a location of an area having the property extracted by the image recognition processing means with a location of an object which is recognized as a candidate of a person by the range information analyzing means, and recognizing the object as a person when both of them agree with.
2. In the autonomously moving robot described in claim 1, characterized by that
the image recognition processing means arithmetically processing an image data with respect to the orientation of the object obtained by the range information analyzing means, and the environment recognition means performs recognition processes with respect to a portion corresponding to the orientation of the object.
3. The autonomously moving robot described in claim 1, characterized by that
the ranging apparatus performs ranging with respect to an area extracted by the image recognition processing means, and the environment recognition means performs recognition processing with respect to a portion corresponding to the orientation of the extracted area.
4. The autonomously moving robot described in claim 1, characterized by that
the ranging apparatus is comprised of a laser-radar which measures a range to an obstacle by scanning a plane parallel to a driving road surface at a previously set angle.
5. The autonomously moving robot of described in claim 1, characterized by that
the range information analyzing means recognizes an object as a candidate of a person when a width of the object obtained by arithmetically processing the range data is in a previously established region.
6. The autonomously moving robot of described in claim 1, characterized by that
the range information analyzing means recognizes an object as a candidate of a person when a measured range to the object is not coincided with a range to an object on a memorized map.
7. The autonomously moving robot of described in claim 1, characterized by that
the imaging apparatus is a camera mounted on the autonomously moving robot, and coordinate of an image taken by it can be converted to a standard coordinates system of the autonomously moving robot.
8. The autonomously moving robot of described in claim 1, characterized by that
the image recognition processing means includes at least a specific color area detecting unit-for detecting a specific color area from a photographed image data and a shape characteristic processing unit for arithmetically processing with respect to a shape of a specific color area detected by the specific color area detecting unit, and recognizes the specific color area as a candidate of a person when the detected specific color area satisfies shape characteristic condition previously established.
9. The autonomously moving robot of described in claim 1, characterized by that
the environment recognition means calculates a ratio of a planar dimension of an area of a color of human skin detected in the image with respect to a planar dimension of an area of a color of human skin at a range previously established from the autonomously moving robot to a person, and judges whether the detected person awakes the autonomously moving robot or not by comparing the ratio with a threshold value previously established.
10. The autonomously moving robot of described in claim 1, characterized by that
the driving control means controls the driving means to stop when an object recognized as a person exists in a moving direction of the autonomously moving robot and within a range previously established, to evade an obstacle when the object recognized as a person does not exist in the moving direction of the autonomously moving robot, and to proceed the driving when no obstacle exists.
11. The autonomously moving robot of described in claim 1, characterized by that
the driving control means controls the driving means to drive for evading an object recognized as a person with a range previously established when the object recognized as a person exists in a moving direction of the autonomously moving robot.
12. The autonomously moving robot of described in claim 1, characterized by that
the driving control means controls the driving means in a moving speed corresponding to a range or a range and an angle when the object recognized as a person exists in a range previously established.
13. The autonomously moving robot of described in claim 9, characterized by that
the driving control means controls the driving means to approach when it is possible to judge that the person detected awakes the autonomously moving robot, and not to approach to the person detected more than a range previously established.
14. The autonomously moving robot of described in claim 1, characterized by that
the driving control means takes an attention attracting action to a person when it passes near the person detected.
15. The autonomously moving robot of described in claim 1, characterized by that
the image information acquisition means (SIC) photographs a person detected, memorizes its image in the memory means or transmits the image to a remote station.

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. An electroluminescent device comprising a light emitting layer comprising a boron complex wherein the boron is bonded to a nitrogen atom of a first 5-membered heteroaromatic ring group and to a nitrogen atom of a second 5-membered heteroaromatic ring group, provided that the 5-membered rings are further connected by a methene or an imine bridge to form a six-membered ring, and provided further that at least one of the 5-membered rings contains at least one additional heteroatom that is divalent or trivalent.
2. The device of claim 1, wherein the additional heteroatom is a N, O, S, Se or Te atom.
3. The device of claim 1, wherein the additional heteroatom is a N, O or S atom.
4. The device of claim 1, wherein one five-membered ring is fused to an additional aromatic ring group.
5. The device of claim 1, wherein both five-membered rings are each fused to at least one additional, independently selected, aromatic ring group.
6. The device of claim 1, wherein the bridge is an imine group.
7. The device of claim 1, wherein the bridge is a methene group.
8. The device of claim 1, wherein the boron complex is represented by Formula 1,
wherein:
Ar1 represents the atoms necessary to form a five-membered heteroaromatic ring;
Ar2 represents the atoms necessary to form a five-membered heteroaromatic ring that contains at least one additional heteroatom that is divalent or trivalent;
Y represents N or C\u2014X, wherein X represents hydrogen or a substituent;
L1 and L2 represent independently selected substituents.
9. The device of claim 8, wherein, Ar1 and Ar2 independently represent the atoms necessary to form an imidazole ring group, an oxazole ring group, a thiazole ring group, or a selenazole ring group.
10. The device of claim 8, wherein L1 and L2 represent fluoro substituents.
11. The device of claim 8, wherein Y represents N.
12. The device of claim 8, wherein Y represents C\u2014X, wherein X represents hydrogen or a substituent.
13. The device of claim 1, wherein the boron complex is represented by Formula 2,
wherein:
W1 represents O, S, Se, or N\u2014Ra, wherein Ra is a substituent;
V1 and V2 independently represent hydrogen or an independently selected substituent, provided that V1 and V2 may join together to form a ring group;
Ar1 represents the atoms necessary to form a five-membered heteroaromatic ring group;
Y represents N or C\u2014X, wherein X represents hydrogen or a substituent;
L1 and L2 represent independently selected substituents.
14. The device of claim 13, wherein V1 and V2 independently represent an aryl group or an alkyl group.
15. The device of claim 13, wherein V1 and V2 join together to form an aromatic ring group.
16. The device of claim 1, wherein the boron complex is represented by Formula 3,
wherein:
W1 and W2 independently represent O, S, Se, Te, or N\u2014Ra, wherein Ra is a substituent;
V3-V10 independently represent hydrogen or an independently selected substituent, provided that adjacent substituents may join together to form a ring group;
Y represents N or C\u2014X, wherein X represents hydrogen or a substituent;
L1 and L2 represent independently selected substituents.
17. The device of claim 16, wherein W represents S.
18. The device of claim 16, wherein L1 and L2 represent fluoro substituents.
19. The device of claim 16, wherein, independently, at least two of V3-V6 and at least two of V7-V10 combine to form a ring group.
20. The device of claim 16, wherein Y represents N.
21. The device of claim 16, wherein Y represents C\u2014X, wherein X represents hydrogen or a substituent.
22. The device of claim 1 wherein the layer comprises a host and dopant where the dopant is present in an amount of up to 10 wt % of the host.
23. The device of claim 1 wherein a host material represented by Formula 4 is present in the light-emitting layer,
wherein:
W1-W10 independently represent hydrogen or an independently selected substituent, provided that two adjacent substituents can combine to form rings.
24. The device of claim 23 wherein W9 and W10 independently represent naphthyl groups.
25. The device of claim 23 wherein W9 and W10 represent a naphthyl group and a biphenyl group.
26. The device of claim 23 wherein W9 represents a biphenyl group.
27. The device of claim 1 wherein the boron complex is between 0.5 and 8% by volume of the light-emitting layer.
28. A display comprising the electroluminescent device of claim 1.
29. The device of claim 1 wherein white light is produced either directly or by using filters.
30. An area lighting device comprising the electroluminescent device of claim 1.
31. A process for emitting light comprising applying a potential across the device of claim 1.