Abstract: An apparatus ID as an identifier of a filing apparatus is previously assigned to the filing apparatus, and an image ID as an identifier of an image and the apparatus ID are assigned to information to be registered, and thereby the information is managed. A registration sheet is prepared in order that a user can grasp the contents of the registered information, and an ID image pattern formed by patterning a data ID comprising the apparatus ID and the image ID is superimposed on the registration sheet. In extracting the registered information, the registration sheet is read and the ID image pattern is converted into the data ID, then the filing apparatus in which the information is registered is identified based on the apparatus ID included in the data ID, and the registered information is extracted therefrom.

Abstract: If a user attempts to provide a protection attribute to a new message while the number of old messages which have a protection attribute and are retained is equal to the maximum number of protected messages, a portable radio terminal, such as a pager system, displays on an LCD 13 the oldest received message having a protection attribute. Only the messages having a protection attribute are displayed on the LCD 13 in chronological order of receipt by rotating a rotary switch 4. A message whose protection attribute is canceled is determined by pressing the rotary switch 4 while a message which the user desires to cancel is displayed. Simultaneously, the foregoing operation enables a new message which the user desires to protect to be provided with a protection attribute.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner comprises a floor nozzle housing an agitator for stirring dust, a handle sector containing a dust bag and a fan motor for sucking dust, and a power transmission device for transmitting the driving force of the fan motor to the agitator. The handle sector is tiltably attached to the floor nozzle at a rear section. The power transmission device comprises a driving pulley fixed to the agitator, an idling pulley attached adjacent to the driving pulley and rotating free from the agitator, and a belt provided between the fan motor and one of the driving pulley and the idling pulley. A switching lever is provided for switching the position of the belt to the driving pulley or to the idling pulley, which motion is coupled with the tilting motion of the handle sector. The driving force of the fan motor is conveyed to the agitator in accordance with the tilting motion of the handle sector.

Abstract: In a magneto-optical disc apparatus using an initializing magnetic field generator, the magnetic field generator including a permanent magnet slides on or and floats above a surface of the magneto-optical disc for applying a magnetic field at a position on a track and precede to or follow a light beam spot irradiated by an optical head.

Abstract: In plural internal logic circuits, plural transistors having the same function are merged into a single merged transistor. This merged transistor is interposed between a ground and a virtual ground line connected with a ground node of an inverter included in each of the internal logic circuits, and has a threshold voltage higher than a threshold voltage of a transistor included in each inverter. The merged transistor is controlled in accordance with a block selecting signal. Since the merged transistor is merged among the internal logic circuits, its gate width can be set larger, resulting in attaining a high speed operation of each inverter. During a standby, a leakage current can be suppressed since the merged transistor is in an off-state. During an operation, a leakage current can be suppressed in an unselected circuit block since the merged transistor is in an off-state.

Abstract: By a motion vector correction circuit 313, a motion vector minimizing the sum of a value of the quadratic error function having a motion vector as a variable and the motion vector changing amount in neighboring blocks is determined, and it is linearly interpolated by a motion vector interpolation circuit 314 to obtain a motion vector in a pixel unit, and a motion compensated picture is generated, and a differential picture of the current frame and this motion compensated picture is divided into sub-bands by a video transform circuit 304, and only the information in the region of the larger differential signal energy is coded.

Abstract: The present invention offer a semiconductor testing apparatus which is able to test all functions of a semiconductor device in a short time. The semiconductor testing apparatus comprises a conditional imperative statement part storing therein all statements concerning conditional setting for the measuring means, a first comparison part for comparing statement received from the control means with the respective statements stored in the conditional imperative statement part, and a second comparison part for comparing the statements received from the control means with the respective statements stored in the memory means.

Abstract: An optical disk is provided which includes a rewritable first recording area and a read-only second recording area. The first recording area includes groove tracks and land tracks divided into first sectors. Each first sector has a header region with identification data and a data region for recording user data. The second recording area includes tracks formed with physical bit rows, the tracks being divided into second sectors. Each second sector includes a header region and a data region having read-only data recorded as the bit rows. The header regions in the first sectors include pits the width of groove tracks and wobbled from a center line of the groove track. The header regions in the second sectors include pits having a width smaller than the groove tracks and formed along the center line of a track.

Abstract: In order to provide a Tl--Ba--Ca--Cu--O superconductive material which can obtain a stable superconducting state and a method of preparing the same, the oxide superconductive material is expressed in the following composition formula:Tl.sub.x Ba.sub.2 Ca.sub.y Cu.sub.3 O.sub.zwhere x, y and z are in relations satisfying 1.5.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.2.0, 2.0.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.2.5, x+y=4.0 and 9.0.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.11.0, and comprises tetragonal system superconducting phases having lattice constants of a=0.385 to 0.386 nm and c longer than 3.575 nm, to exhibit zero resistance under a temperature of at least 125 K, while the method comprises a step of mixing powder raw materials in blending ratios for satisfying the above composition formula, a step of sintering the as-formed mixed powder in an oxygen jet or in the atmosphere to obtain a sintered body, and a step of annealing the sintered body in a closed atmosphere at 700.degree. to 800.degree. C. for at least 10 hours.

Abstract: A chip type aluminum electrolytic capacitor (1) has a capacitor element (2) impregnated with an electrolytic solution, a cylindrical case (3) for containing the capacitor element (2), a sealing member (4) for sealing the cylindrical case (3), and an insulating board (5) having a mounting surface (5c) to be fixed to an electronic circuit board; and vapor pressure of the electrolytic solution is regulated to a predetermined value to prevent deformations of the cylindrical case (3) and the sealing member (4).

Abstract: A semiconductor laser module includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of surface emitting lasers provided on a primary plane of the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of guiding holes provided on a secondary plane of the semiconductor substrate, the secondary plane being opposite to the primary plane; and an optical fiber tape including a plurality of optical fibers and a covering material which fixes the plurality of optical fibers in parallel with each other, one tip of the optical fiber tape being adjoined to the secondary plane of the semiconductor substrate. A pitch of the respective surface emitting lasers is equal to an interval of a center of the respective optical fibers. The respective guiding holes are aligned with the respective surface emitting lasers so that a center of a light beam emitted from each of the surface emitting lasers and a center of each of the guiding holes are at approximately the same position on the secondary plane of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: An input picture signal is divided into blocks. The blocks are grouped into groups each having a plurality of blocks. The input picture signal is encoded into a second picture signal block by block. The second picture signal uses a variable length code. An error correction signal is added to the second picture signal for each of the groups. A signal of a start address and a signal of a location address are added to the second picture signal for each of the groups. The start address represents a position of a bit within each of the groups. The location address representing a spatial position of a block within each of the groups.

Abstract: A resist composition for deep ultraviolet light comprising (a) one of the following resin components (i)-(iii): (i) a resin which becomes alkali-soluble by eliminating protective groups by the action of an acid, (ii) a combination of an alkali-soluble resin and a dissolution-inhibiting compound, and (iii) a combination of an alkali-soluble resin and a crosslinkable compound, (b) an acid generater, (c) a special anthracene derivative, and (d) a solvent, is suitable for forming a pattern using deep ultraviolet light, KrF excimer laser light, etc., on a highly reflective substrate having level differences due to absorption of undesirable reflected deep ultraviolet light.

Abstract: An electric power receiving and supplying circuit comprises: a microstrip patch antenna, having a feeding point, for receiving a microwave signal and supplying an electric power; a rectifier, for rectifying the electric power, having: a first diode having an anode, connected to the feeding point, and a cathode; a second diode having a cathode, connected to the cathode of the first diode through a junction point, and an anode; and a high-frequency grounding circuit for high-frequency-grounding the anode of the second diode, and a lowpass filter for low-pass filtering the rectified electric power to supply a dc supply power.

Abstract: A disk driving apparatus solves such problems that the position of a rotor is unstable and likely to float, and the rotor is displaced when an excessive acceleration is applied thereto, so that a hydrodynamic bearing mechanism can be used. This apparatus uses a single surface opposing type mechanism in a thrust bearing of a motor. It has a device using a magnetic attraction force to stabilize the position of the rotor and various devices for limiting the amount of movement of the rotor, in which devices members which physically contact the rotor and lock in are provided. As a result, a thrust bearing mechanism can be formed by use of a single surface opposing type thrust bearing which is simple in construction. Advantages such as low height, simplicity in construction, low price, or low consumption of power can be obtained. In particular, the feature of low height is extremely advantageous when a hydrodynamic bearing is used in a thin type apparatus.

Abstract: An input register holds, as an input operand to be square rooted, a floating-point number with an exponential radix is 2. An approximation of the reciprocal of a square root is retrieved from a table information store unit by an address composed of a least significant bit of an exponent and upper bits of a mantissa provided from the input register. The mantissa, with a leading bit appended, is normalized by a normalization circuit in units of two bits. An output of a remainder hold circuit in which a 0th remainder serves as a normalized operand is multiplied by a retrieved approximation to find a partial square root. Partial square roots found in iterative calculations are merged by a digit place alignment circuit and an adder. By making use of an inverter, a multiplicand generator, and an (R+S.times.

Abstract: A recording and reproducing device is provided. The device comprises a recording medium, a head giving and receiving recording signals to or from the recording medium, and a mechanism section and a circuit section giving and receiving the recording signals, wherein at least one protective film, and at least one fluorine-containing monomolecular film are formed in this order on the recording layer of the recording medium or on the surface of the head which comes into contact with said recording layer, wherein said protective film is a metal film, oxidized metal film, semi-conductor film, oxidized semi-conductor film, or organic monomolecular film, and wherein said fluorine-containing monomolecular film is formed by the chemical adsorption of a specific-type of silane compound that contains a perfluoroalkyl group at the molecular end on the surface of the protective film.

Abstract: In accordance with the principles of the present invention, advantage is taken by the inventors of the fact that the speed of operation of the digital hardware in a digital beamformer having a plurality of parallel receiving channels can be reduced by providing multiple phases for the data signals supplied by each receiving channel and then processing the multi-phase data in N parallel summing paths. An interpolation-decimation filter receives the multi-phase data from the N parallel summing paths and provides at its output a signal having a reduced data rate (1/N). In accordance with this technique, the speed of operation of the individual digital circuits for forming the required beamforming delays are not increased as compared to conventional post-beamforming interpolation schemes, so that hereby the effective data rate is increased by a factor N and the delay quantization error is reduced by a factor N.

Abstract: A thermoelectric semiconductor device having a porous structure and an air-tight sealing structure maintaining it in a deaerated state is disclosed. A refrigeration panel comprising a plurality of p-type and n-type semiconductor elements each having a structure mentioned above, in which the elements are arranged alternatively and electrically connected in series is also disclosed.