Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus of a disc-shaped recording medium includes a main body portion, a shutter mechanism, a drive mechanism, an elevation mechanism and an eject mechanism. The main body portion has an opening portion through which a disc-shaped recording medium is inserted or ejected. The shutter mechanism opens and closes the opening portion. The shutter mechanism is provided on the main body portion to be freely movable and closes the opening portion under a state that the disc-shaped recording medium is completely inserted into the main body portion. The drive mechanism rotatably drivers the disc-shaped recording medium. The elevator mechanism is moved up and down in an interlocking manner with a movement of the shutter mechanism.

Abstract: A radio communication apparatus is disclosed, that comprises a receiving portion for receiving a radio signal transmitted from a base station, the radio signal including character codes, a display portion for displaying a character string corresponding to character codes received by the receiving portion on a plurality of lines, a detecting portion for detecting a particular character from the character string displayed on the display portion, and a display controlling portion for displaying a word just after the particular character at the beginning of the next line. According to the present radio communication apparatus , a word in a message composed of a character string is prevented from being displayed in a plurality of lines. Thus, a character string is displayed on the screen of the display portion in such a manner that the user can easily read the character string.

Abstract: On the assumption that a phase difference caused by a birefringence at the substrate is &phgr;br while a one caused by the magneto-optic Kerr effect of the recording layer is &phgr;MO, the magneto-optical recording medium formatted to record information in the groove meets the conditions: −20°<&phgr;br<+10° and −45°<(&phgr;br+&phgr;MO)<+15°, the magneto-optical recording medium formatted to record information on the land meets the conditions: −20°<&phgr;br<+10° and −15°<(&phgr;br+&phgr;MO)<+45°, and the magneto-optical recording medium formatted to record information at both the land and groove meets the conditions: −20°<&phgr;br<+10° and −15°<(&phgr;br+&phgr;MO)<+15°.

Abstract: A molding machine for producing a mold by applying external force of either pressurized air or mechanical compaction or both to molding sand (12) that is held in a mold space is disclosed. The mold space is defined by a master plate (9), which has a pattern (8), and a flask (7). The molding machine includes a lifter table (11) for vertically carrying the master plate (9) and the flask (7), a filling frame (4) disposed for vertical movement above the lifter table (10), and a reinforcing frame (5) disposed for vertical movement between the filling frame (4) and the lifter table (10). The reinforcing frame (5) and the flask (7) are adapted to approach each other such that the reinforcing frame (5) contacts the outer surface of the flask (7) to reinforce it.

Abstract: An optical pickup device including a light source, an objective lens for converging a light beam outgoing from said light source, a beam splitter arranged between the light source and the objective lens for splitting the light beam radiated from the light source from a light beam incident thereon via the objective lens and a photodetector for receiving the light beam split by the beam splitter and incident on it via the objective lens. The optical pickup device also includes irregularities or an inclined surface for scattering stray light components produced when a light beam outgoing from the light source is passed through the beam splitter for preventing the stray light components from entering the photodetector for improving detection accuracy of the photodetector.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing a control transfer on a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device. A USB device includes a memory space for reading and writing data transmitted over a USB network. The memory space is shared between a plurality of endpoints. A host initiates a control transfer by transmitting a SETUP token to a first endpoint. The endpoint must accept the SETUP token. If the first endpoint does not expect the SETUP token, or if another endpoint is active, the device stores the token until a buffer is allocated and the first endpoint is made active.

Abstract: An evacuatable storage unit that includes a substantially rigid container having an open upper end, a flexible air tight liner attached to the inside of the container, and a port installed in a surface of the liner that allows air to pass out of the liner and prevents air from entering the liner. The liner has an upper portion that extends out beyond the open upper end of the container. The liner upper portion terminates in an opening for inserting compressible articles into the liner. The opening is closable to form an air tight seal. As air inside the liner is evacuated from the liner through the port (typically by using a household vacuum cleaner), the liner upper portion and compressible articles stored therein collapse into the container.

Abstract: A high speed dubbing is to be realized with two recording and/or reproducing units for compressed data. To this end, a magneto-optical disc 32 is read by an optical head 33 and compressed data produced via a decoder 41 are delivered to a memory 14 via a switch 37. The data are then delivered to a magnetic head driving circuit 16 via an encoder 15 for direct writing on a magneto-optical disc 2. In this manner, compressed data are directly dubbed without expansion to realize high speed dubbing.

Abstract: A video subtitle processing system encoding unit which allows display of high quality subtitle in accordance to a preference of an user, to switch the display of the subtitle quickly without degrading the background video image and to transmit and display the colored subtitle with less data amount are provided. The subtitle data encoding unit comprises a color lookup table as memory means for storing color data and a color quantization circuit as detecting means for detecting an address in memory for storing the color data which corresponds to a color of the subtitle, and is characterized in that the address in the memory means detected by the color quantization circuit is coded and transmitted as color information concerning on the color of the subtitle.

Abstract: To ensure an overwrite characteristic for a magnetic disk and restrain the occurrence of waveform distortion. When record data (updated data) is recorded on a target area of a magnetic disk, a dc erase is effected to thereby ensure a requested overwrite characteristic. Next, erasing data of a constant frequency is recorded i.e., an intermediates wavelength erase is accomplished. Then, the record data is recorded. Since the erasing data is recorded before the recording of the record data, a magnetized pattern corresponding to the erasing data is formed over a recording layer (magnetic film) as a bed and waveform distortion is restrained from occurring due to the execution of the dc erase alone.

Abstract: A navigation apparatus allowing a user to know an outline of a route searched for and selected. The apparatus includes: a searching element for searching for a route to a destination; a determining element for determining a pattern of the route searched for by the searching element; an extracting element for extracting information pertaining to the route searched for by the searching element; a preparing element for preparing an abstract of the route by applying the information extracted by the extracting element to the pattern determined by the determining element; and an outputting element for outputting the abstract of the route prepared by the preparing element.

Abstract: A movable sheet overlying a wing is disclosed that creates laminar flow over its exposed surface. The movable sheet serves as an integral, retractable shield for protecting a suction support structure of a wing against contamination, and also serves as a movable, conductive substrate for deicing by means of electrical resistance or hot-gas heating. The invention includes a movable sheet that is mounted scroll-like on two motor-driven rollers. The sheet has a solid area without perforations that protects the suction support structure from contamination, and a porous area with perforations therethrough that allows boundary layer suction. The motor-driven rollers scroll the sheet to cover the suction support structure with either the solid area or the perforations of the sheet. Contact rollers at the edge of the sheet supply electrical current to resistively heat the sheet and melt any accumulated ice. The movable sheet can also be moved back and forth to dislodge the ice.

Abstract: There is provided a content providing system in which many unspecified many people can arbitrarily use it to get (purchase) a recording medium in which desired content has been downloaded, and the recording medium itself can be effectively used. Some download data (content) are selected and set on the basis of exhibit information detected from a recording medium, and operation control is made so that the recording medium in which the download data are recorded is ejected. That is, the recording medium which records content desired by a user can be provided to the user in any one mode of returning, exchange, and selling.

Abstract: Capacitance between interconnects lines of a semiconductor device is reduced by providing air voids between the interconnects. The air voids are produced by depositing a dielectric over and partially between the pairs of interconnects and the substrate between them, and etching (preferably by sputter etch) in a controlled and coordinated manner so as to produce air voids in the dielectric between the interconnects. The tops of the air voids are below the level to which the uppermost surfaces of the interconnect is then exposed during subsequent processing so that the air voids remain intact during such subsequent processing.

Abstract: A stent for a vessel inserted in use into the vessel of a living body including a tubular member constituting a passageway from one end to its opposite end. The tubular member includes a main mid portion and low tenacity portions formed integrally with both ends of the main mid portion. The low tenacity portions are lower in tenacity than the main mid portion. These low tenacity portions are formed so as to have the Young's modulus approximate to that of the vessel of the living body in which is inserted the stent, so that, when the stent is inserted into the vessel, it is possible to prevent stress concentrated portions from being produced in the vessel.

Abstract: An apparatus for encapsulating with plastic lead frames carrying chips includes mutually movable halves. In the closed position the movable halves bound a mold cavity for receiving a lead frame, a feed runner connecting onto the mold cavity for supplying encapsulating material, a pot for receiving an encapsulating material and a plunger reciprocating in the pot, connected onto said feed runner for carrying up encapsulating material under pressure. At a distance from a head end of the plunger a peripheral groove is arranged which is connected to the head end by at least one flow channel. The outer wall of the plunger is provided with helically running grooves and the depth of the grooves increases as seen from the drive side of the plunger.

Abstract: In a contactless IC card system, a modulating circuit manufactured in an IC form is operable at a high power efficiency. The demodulating apparatus is configured to include first signal output means for outputting a first output signal having a predetermined phase with respect to that of an input signal, a second signal output means for outputting a second output signal having a predetermined phase with respect to that of the input signal, gate means for gating at least the second output signal, calculation means for adding, or subtracting the first output signal and the second output signal; and control means for controlling the operation of the gate means in response to a logic level of input data.

Abstract: In a data recording system used for a magnetic disk drive, a write amplifier feeds a write head with a recording current that corresponds to the data to be recorded on the disk. A recording current controller selects a current value to be fed to the write head from the write amplifier according to the recording pattern detected by a pattern detection circuit. Thus, an effective recording track width can be selected without relying on the recording wavelength of the data to be recorded. Therefore, the influence of the cross talk from adjacently located tracks can be effectively reduced without unnecessarily reducing the recording track width.

Abstract: A pulser with solid dielectrics including a pulse compressor and pulse transformer apparatus, which is able to produce short bursts of electrical energy at high voltage utilizing a coaxial structure. Both the transformer and the compressor utilize ferromagnetic cores having an inner and an outer diameter, and isolating members of similar geometry. The cores and ceramic members are held in place using conducting plates and bus bars. The overall structure of the compressor and the transformer is built around a central axis.

Abstract: Disclosed is a MOS transistor having a polysilicon gate structure in which an overlying metal interconnect completely shorts the gate area. In one embodiment, the gate is formed from multiple fingers joined in a serpentine pattern and separated by oxide-filled spaces. Overlying the fingers and oxide-filled spaces is an interconnect comprising a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer overlies the fingers and oxide-filled spaces and the second metal layer overlies the first metal layer. Both metal layers form a stack that simultaneously shorts the fingers. Also disclosed is a method of fabricating such a polysilicon gate structure in a MOS transistor using a series of masks. Once the gate and fingers are defined, a conformal oxide is deposited over the fingers and in the spaces between the fingers. The conformal oxide is anisotropically etched to produce a planarized profile of the fingers and oxide-filled spaces.