Abstract: A mobile communication system involves a mobile space defined in, for example, a train, and mobile terminals available in the market. When the mobile terminals are used in the mobile space, the system provides them with value-added services exclusive to the mobile space. The system also includes existing base stations each controlling a fixed radio zone that covers a predetermined area, and a mobile base station for controlling a mobile radio zone allocated to the mobile space where the mobile terminals are used. The mobile base station serves as a mobile base station to communicate with the existing base stations, and as a fixed base station to communicate with the mobile terminals when the mobile terminals are in the mobile radio zone. Also provided is a method of controlling such a system.

Abstract: An economical, diagnostic, sensory testing instrument having a semi-rigid filament rigidly secured within a hand-gripped support for use in the care and treatment of sensory-affecting conditions. The filament is adapted for perpendicular contact with a testing surface, and maintains an outwardly projecting orientation with respect to the support until such contact reaches a predetermined force that causes the filament to buckle.

Abstract: A garment hanger clip is provided with a pair of clip jaws having lateral projecting portions or extensions which prevent or reduce unintended release of the clip jaws when a series of hangers is pressed or pushed together. The projections or release guards are advantageously located beneath the pivot point of the clip jaws so that lateral or sideward force applied to the guards tends to close the jaws even tighter.

Abstract: A data transfer rate control method inserts a stuff packet in real time to resolve the problem present in an ATM transmission for MPEG data. The method, for controlling a data transfer rate at which coded data are transferred in an asynchronous transfer mode may include the steps of: forming the coded data for an AAL layer (ATM Adaptation Layer); calculating an insertion timing for insertion of a NULL packet; inserting the NULL packet into the coded data of the AAL layer in consonance with the insertion timing, obtained by the calculation, for the NULL packet; and transferring, in the asynchronous transfer mode, the coded data of the AAL layer into which the NULL packet is inserted.

Abstract: In the case of a claw toothing for a gearbox or the like, of which the claws are designed with an undercut and, viewed in cross-section with respect to the longitudinal axis of the claws, have a flat or convex roof profile, it is provided to improve the engagement that the plan view of the claws tapers into a wedge shape towards the rotational axis of the claw toothing and that the generatrices (5a, 5b) of the roof profile and/or the sides, in the longitudinal direction of the claw, are straight lines which go through the rotational axis (D).

Abstract: In the present invention, the first communication device accepting the first LAN and the second communication device accepting the second LAN are connected through the ATM network. When data is transmitted from the second LAN to the first LAN, data transmitted from the second LAN is received by the first communication device through the second communication device and the ATM network, and held by the buffer unit until transmitted to the first LAN by the transmission part. The monitor part the storage quantity of the buffer unit. When the monitor part indicates the possibility that data overflows from the buffer unit, the control data generation part generates control data and transmits it to the second communication device. In the second communication device, the control part obtains the control data and reduces data quantity transmitted from the second communication device to the first communication device based on the control data.

Abstract: A rolling bearing unit for a vehicle wheel comprising an outer ring formed with first and second outer ring raceways, a hub formed with a first inner raceway, and with a housing portion for an outer ring of a constant velocity joint, an inner ring formed with a second inner ring raceway and fitted onto the middle portion of the hub, and a plurality of rolling members rotatably provided in rows between the first and second outer ring raceways and the first and second inner ring raceways to rotatably support the hub and inner rings inside the outer ring, balls being used for the rolling members for the row with respect to the first inner ring raceway while rollers being used for the rolling member row with respect to the second inner ring raceway, so that the basic dynamic load rating of the rolling member row on the axial inside is larger than that of the rolling member row on the axial outside whereby the lives of the double row rolling member rows are equalized.

Abstract: A semiconductor detector including a substrate formed of a semiconductor material and defining two opposite facing surfaces and at least one side wall, electrodes formed on two opposite facing surfaces of the substrate, the electrodes on one of the two opposite facing surfaces including an array of mutually spaced pixellated anodes defining interstices therebetween, an electrical insulator formed on the substrate at locations in the interstices between the mutually spaced pixellated anodes, or on the side wall, or both, and an electrical conductor formed onto at least part of the electrical insulator. There is also disclosed a method for overcoming performance degradation in a semiconductor detector due to non-uniformities in an electric field.

Abstract: Source data is stored in a source data storage unit and a comparing device compares source data with destination data stored in a destination data storage unit. A destination address compressing unit compresses destination address information, and other accounting parameters are output with some delay. An accumulating device accumulates information from the destination address compressing unit as an address. A source address compressing unit compresses or delays information from an accumulating unit, and then outputs information. A source address carrier compressing unit compresses or delays information from the source address compressing unit, and then outputs information. A destination address source address carrier re-compressing unit compresses or delays compressed information from the source address carrier compressing unit, and then outputs information. A period abnormality detecting circuit in an accounting unit validates transfer data and prevents a wrong accounting process from being performed.

Abstract: A digital transmission equipment comprising an interface apparatus connected through a wired line between a transmitter-receiver which transfers a digital signal through a wireless communication link and a multiplexer connected to a terminal equipment. The interface apparatus communicates with a multiplexer with the I-interface frame format and communicates with an interface apparatus opposed through a transmitter-receiver by the frame format in which a synchronization bit string in this frame format is allocated to service information bits for a wireless communication link. Without changing a basic format of the I-interface signal from the multiplexer, the service information bit peculiar to the wired line can be arranged in the frame format.

Abstract: In one embodiment of a multi-connection management method, a management area is prepared for each of the interfaces. A call control memory stores the management information of a leaf interface, statuses of connections, leaf interface information and link information. A whole leaf interface management area is stored with the link information of the leaf management areas. The leaf management area for each interface is stored with the information of the corresponding interface and the link information. In another embodiment, connection status for a fixed-connection communication of a multicast is confirmed. This includes a communication controller that receives a status confirmation demand message sent by terminals and demands a multicast server for information collection, if the message is the status confirmation demand message which is effective for the protocol regulations.

Abstract: A method for routing messages within a LAN between a first station attached to the LAN and belonging to a first network and a second station attached to the LAN and belonging to a second network, the method including providing a router operatively attached to both the first network and the second network, sending a frame from the first station to the router, the frame including a destination address of the second station, and sending a redirect message from the router to the first station, the redirect message including a pool address associated with the second station.

Abstract: A data transfer control device and controlling method in which data on a storage medium is read continuously. The data transfer control device includes M storage units each for storing respectively at least two kinds of different data among N kinds of data in memory regions, a transmission control element for transmitting the N kinds of data and a spare storage unit for storing at least one kind of data among said N kinds of data. The transfer control device includes a judging element for judging whether accessing any one of the M storage units must be halted. Switching element for switching a memory region to the spare storage unit and the remaining (M-1) storage unit when the judging element judges that accessing must be halted and then the switching element performs an accessing operation.