Papers by Hideyuki Kosugi
SAE Technical Paper Series, 2004
There is a trend toward integration of several components in automobiles into modules and we have... more There is a trend toward integration of several components in automobiles into modules and we have developed a new wiring system suitable for module components. This new wiring harness consists of multi core flat cable that has zero-halogen insulation. The features are weight reduction and simplification of the manufacturing process. The connector for this system is IDC (Insulation Displacement Contact) and hotmelt overmold is used for waterproofing the IDC. The mechanics of the waterproofing is adhesion between surfaces of cable insulation, connector housing and hotmelt. We have developed a new hotmelt material that can adhere to both nonpolar compounds (zero-halogen cable insulation) and polar compounds (connector housing), and is a highly reliable waterproof IDC connector that can be used in engine compartments. We also discuss a compact facility that can simultaneously operate both IDC and a hotmelt molding process.
Pennsylvania History, 1989
has been "doing history" for more than six decades. An Allentown native who grew up in Lancaster,... more has been "doing history" for more than six decades. An Allentown native who grew up in Lancaster, studied at Franklin & Marshall College and the University of Pennsylvania, and taught for three decades at Penn State, Klein has been among the most zealous and productive advocates of Pennsylvania history. His energies, moreover, have frequently channeled through organizations devoted to the preservation of Pennsylvania documents and material culture, and to the dissemination of knowledge about the Keystone State. Klein is perhaps best known nationally for his authoritative biography of Pennsylvania's only President,James Buchanan. His synoptic history of Pennsylvania, co-authored with Ari Hoogenboom, continues to be read by thousands of high school and college students each year. The aura of ineluctability evoked by a career spent in Pennsylvania and dedicated to Pennsylvania history must be tempered by a simple fact: Philip Klein's passion as a young man was not history, but rather, conflict resolution. As he relates in the interview which follows, Klein was profoundly affected by World War I. He was determined to use his talent to help prevent a repetition. This was not merely an idle daydream. After college and a stint teaching high school in central Pennsylvania, Klein matriculated in a law/international relations program at the University of Chicago. Only the depression and the decline of the League of Nations, which he hoped to serve as an legal specialist, pointed him in other directions for his life's work. Pennsylvania history is richer for the loss of a lawyer. Philip Klein's contributions to the history of his native state can in part be counted on the pages of a long resume. They include authorship of dozens of books, pamphlets, scholarly articles, book reviews and popular lectures. Klein's first substantial publication was an article on "Early Lancaster County Politics," which appeared in Pennsylvania History in 1936. His most recent scholarly effort was a paper delivered in 1988 at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, in which he examined trends in writings on Pennsylvania History. His favorite themes have included the importance of local history, politics in the Keystone State before the Civil War, and James Buchanan. Klein's book, Presidentjames Buchanan, published in 1962, earned respect and praise from his peers, even if its favorable interpretation of the nation's fifteenth president did not persuade many readers. Scholarly opinion of Buchanan has not changed significantly since 1962, I6~ 244 and neither has Klein, at least on this subject, as the transcript below will show. Klein has been cheered, however, by the Buchanan's biography's influence on some students and on the writerJohn Updike, whose 1974 play, Buchanan Dying, drew its inspiration from Klein's work. In the preface to Buchanan Dying Updike effusively praised Klein's writing and the substance of his argument. On Philip and Dorothy Klein's bookshelf in State College stands a copy of Buchanan Dying, with Updike's personal inscription to Philip Klein: "With hopes that he will be at least amused at this strange fruit of his and my researches, with admiration and gratitude." Philip Klein gravitated to the study of James Buchanan as a natural alternative to work for the League of Nations. Buchanan was a tangible presence during Klein's childhood. As a boy, he romped with his brothers and friends on the Buchanan estate, Wheatland. He attended the college of which Buchanan was a patron. Klein, moreover, fervently sympathized with Buchanan's attempts to prevent or at least forestall a bloody civil war. As a graduate history student at Penn, Klein fell under the influence and perhaps the spell of Roy F. Nichols, whose fascination with local history, Pennsylvania politics, and James Buchanan meshed with Klein's own. If we must look to his father, long-time Franklin & Marshall College history professor H.M.J. Klein, as the taproot of Philip Klein's historical mindedness, it was Nichols who, more than anyone, channeled Klein's energies into a fruitful commitment. In Roy Nichols Klein encountered a model: A vivid lecturer, exacting researcher, prolific author, and, not least, tireless promoter of history. Nichols's behaviorist outlook, which emphasized the connectedness of local and regional activity to national development, also influenced his protege. Although Philip Klein was never as intensively interested in social science theory as his mentor, Nichols's commitment to a grassroots understanding of political behavior clearly shaped the younger man's historical vision. What Klein wrote in a 1971 tribute to Nichols is as good a statement of his own credo as can be found. Students of Roy Nichols's work, Klein wrote, "will soon be persuaded that neither national nor state history is more important or significant than the other; but that each is tied tightly to the other in a complex, shifting relationship of cultural federalisms-the ever-present but rarely noticed body of peculiar regional attitudes which influence political behavior." Philip Klein's work carried the credo into print, its influence enhanced by a crisp prose style. Klein's evocation of Pennsylvania politics in the earlyJacksonian period as akin to "sport," which captures the vibrancy and crudeness of much of theJacksonian political scene, is a case in point. Election campaigns, he wrote in Pennsylvania Politics., A Game Without Rules, "gave people a chance to take sides, to shout and swear, to cheer and jump up and down, to get drunk and fight." Pennsylvania History 245 Klein's pen could achieve other effects as well, the kind which gained the notice of John Updike as he prepared his own, fictional account of Buchanan's ordeal in the White House. In his Prologue to PresidentJames Buchanan, Klein stole a leaf from the novelist by imagining the aging ex-President at Wheatland just before the battle of Gettysburg, wondering if the Confederate troops under General Robert E. Lee would cross the Susquehanna River and despoil Buchanan's beloved Lancaster County. Might the Squire of Wheatland have been a target of the rebels' wrath? As Klein portrays the scene, scared citizens fled east towards Lancaster until word finally arrived that Southern troops had been halted by the burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville bridge. From the Prologue: "Nearly half a century before, while trying to save that bridge in a law court, (Buchanan) had lost Ann Coleman.... Through all his later years, eschewing domesticity for politics, he had labored to keep strong the bridge of understanding and mutual regard between people of the North and the South. The bridge was burning now, ruined as completely as his own life's work." Were Philip Klein simply a fine writer, his reputation as a leading Pennsylvania historian would be safe. But he has earned the nickname "Mr. Pennsylvania History" through more than his publications. As Penn State Klein supervised several dozen master's theses and doctoral dissertations, many of them on Pennsylvania subjects. His course on Pennsylvania History turned more than one reluctant student into a buff. Virtually every major organization devoted to the study of Pennsylvania history has borne Klein's imprint, from the Centre County Historical Society to the Historical Foundation of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Historical Association, of which Klein is a charter member and ex-President. In his broad-ranging commitments, and his zestful approach to issues large and small, Philip Klein has followed in the footsteps of his mentor, Nichols. But as the discussion which follows shows, his work and his views are no mere echo of even so distinguished a historian as Roy Franklin Nichols; Klein's corpus and his eloquent advocacy for history stand impressively on their own. Birkner: We're sitting here in State College on a late fall afternoon in Philip Klein's house to talk about his life and career and some of his memories. I'd like to begin by discussing your early life and education. You're one of the Lancaster Kleins? Klein: Yes. Birkner: Yet you were born in Allentown. How did you get to Lancaster? Klein: At the time of my birth my father was pastor of Zion Reformed Church in Allentown. He was invited to come to Franklin & Marshall College to teach church history, the main kind of history taught there. That was a Reformed
SAE Technical Paper Series, 2002
RESUMO: Este texto tem como fi nalidade realizar uma refl exão sobre a prática pedagógica de leit... more RESUMO: Este texto tem como fi nalidade realizar uma refl exão sobre a prática pedagógica de leitura e a construção de sentidos na formação de um sujeito-leitor no ensino de Língua Portuguesa, como língua materna, na educação básica. Insere-se em um estudo discursivo norteado pela ação educativo-crítica, própria da prática educativa transformadora numa interlocução com a Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, no intuito de realizarmos um gesto de interpretação que nos possibilite percebermos que não desvelamos os sentidos subjacentes às leituras e compreensão de textos realizadas em sala de aula como também não compreendemos em quais direções apontam os discursos materializados nos textos estudados na escola de educação básica.
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