Abstract: According to a strategy of monitoring an evaporative purge system, a tank pressure within a fuel tank is monitored and a canister purge valve is shut off if the monitored tank pressure reaches a predetermined vacuum. A purge prohibit code is stored after the monitored tank pressure has reached the predetermined vacuum. A canister purge by the engine is conducted if predetermined conditions are met unless the purge prohibit code is stored.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device has a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, a plurality of pairs of complementary first and second bit lines arranged corresponding to respective columns and connecting memory cells on a corresponding column, first and second read data lines, and a plurality of pairs of first and second bipolar transistor provided for respective pairs of first and second bit lines. Each first bipolar transistor is coupled to the first read data line and each second bipolar transistor is coupled to the second read data line and a plurality of first switching circuits transfer potentials of the first and second bit lines to respective bases of corresponding first and second bipolar transistors. A reference line transmits a non-selection level voltage and a plurality of second switching circuits, operating complementary to the corresponding first switching circuits, transfer the non-selection level voltage to bases of corresponding first and second bipolar transistors.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are poly(phenylene sulfide) fibers having a tensile strength of at least 3.5 g/d, a knot tenacity of at least 2 g/d, a loop tenacity of at least 3.5 g/d, the number of abrasion cycles until breaking in a flexing abrasion test of at least 3,000 times, and the number of repeated flexings until breaking in a flexural fatigue test of at least 150 times. A process for the production of poly(phenylene sulfide) fibers, which comprises melt-spinning a poly(phenylene sulfide), stretching the resultant unstretched filaments at a draw ratio of 2:1 to 7:1 within a temperature range of 80.degree.-260.degree. C., and heat-treating the stretched filaments for 0.1-30 seconds under conditions of a take-up ratio of 0.8:1 to 1.35:1 in a dry heat atmosphere exceeding 285.degree. C., but not exceeding 385.degree. C. is also disclosed.