Abstract: In methods of manufacturing optical components for infrared-light or ultraviolet-light applications, by lessening the expense consumed during finishing processes, a technique for manufacturing ceramic optical components inexpensively is realized. Raw material powders whose main constituent is ZnS, ZnSe or Ge, for ceramics for infrared-light optical components, and whose main constituent is CaF2 or MaF2, for ceramics for ultraviolet-light optical components, are molded into molded masses; the molded masses are sintered into sinters; and by pressing the sinters through a heating and compressing process, net-shape ceramic sinters can be produced. Alternatively, a finishing process is carried out after they are pressed into near-net shape. By shaping into net shape or near-net shape, the finishing process can be omitted, or the finishing process time and processing expense taken up can be decreased.

Abstract: An electric wire for automobile has a compressed conductor which is configured by compressing a conductor including a plurality of surrounding wires to surround the central wire. The wires are configured by combination of both wire made of stainless steel and wire made of copper or copper alloy.

Abstract: If the pump for antilock fluid pressure control is used as a fluid pressure source for automatic brake control, the pressure rising speed will drop, deteriorating the responsiveness of the device, or otherwise an extremely large pump-driving motor has to be used. To solve this problem, a fluid supply amplifier and a pressure-responsive valve are provided parallel to each other between a pump and a wheel brake fluid pressure control valve. A solenoid valve is closed until the output fluid pressure rises to a predetermined value to amplify the amount of fluid discharged from the pump with the fluid supply amplifier. It is thus possible to increase pressure sufficiently quickly. At the same time, it is possible to increase the output of the pump-driving motor. When the output fluid pressure exceeds the predetermined value, the pressure-responsive valve opens, so that brake fluid is now supplied directly from the pump into the wheel brake. The brake pressure can thus be increased to a high level.

Abstract: A surface emitting type of light emitting devices has a narrow emanating region near the front surface. A spherical lens is fixed on the front surface or rear surface for converging light beams to a core of an optical fiber. Prior devices determined the position of the spherical lens by forming a concavity or a set of protrusions on the rear surface. Two wafer processes were required to form the concavity or protrusions. Two wafer processes on both surfaces induced not a little positioning error.This invention does not form concavities nor protrusions on the rear surface. The rear surface is ground and left flat. Second electrode is formed on the rear surface, not hindering light to emit through. The center of the emanating region is determined by supplying current to the device and illuminating the emanating region. The emanating pattern is observed by a TV camera connected to a computer. The center of the emanating region is detected by image processing of the illuminated pattern.

Abstract: In order to enable formation of a smooth and dense oxide superconducting film with no clear appearance of grain boundaries in a fine structure even at a high film forming rate, a laser ablation method is employed to apply a laser beam 2 to a target 1 containing components of an oxide superconductive material and deposit particles, which are thus scattered from the target 1, on a substrate 3, while gaseous oxygen is supplied from a gaseous oxygen inlet 7 toward laser plasma 6, which is generated by the application of the laser beam 2.

Abstract: A high-elongation composite cord used for reinforcing a rubber composite such as a wheel tire and a conveyor belt. It is made by twisting a plurality of strands each made by twisting a plurality of brass-plated steel filaments and monofilaments of organic fiber. Before twisting the cord, monofilaments of organic fiber are put in the gaps formed between the adjacent strands so as to prevent fluidized rubber from penetrating into a center core formed in the cord after the cord has been covered with rubber. The monofilaments should have a diameter small enough not to protrude from a circle circumscribing the cord and large enough to close the gaps between the adjacent strands.

Abstract: Superconducting material of oxide which have a composition represented by the general formula:{.alpha..sub.1-x (.beta..sub.1-w .gamma..sub.w).sub.x }.delta..sub.y .epsilon..sub.zparticularly, {Ba.sub.1-x (Y.sub.1-w .gamma..sub.w).sub.x }Cu.sub.y O.sub.z in which, ".gamma." represents at least one element selected from a group consisting of titanium (Ti), hafnium (Hf), silicon (Si), germanium (Ge), tin (Sn), lead (Pb) and manganese (Mn), and "X", "Y" "W" and "Z" represent numbers which are selected in the following ranges: 0.1.ltoreq.X.ltoreq.0.9, 0.4.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.1.0, 1.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.5 and 0.01.ltoreq.w.ltoreq.0.50 and which have crystal structures of perovskite type or quasiperovskite type.

Abstract: A thin film of a preselected compound having a large area is continuously produced on a substrate by depositing elements constituting the preselected compound from a target member onto the surface of a substrate by sputtering, comprising the steps of:rotating a first target member having a flat surface disposed around an axis which crosses the surface and comprising elements of the preselected compound so that a first part of the surface of target member is positioned at a first sputtering position and another part of the first target member is positioned at a second sputtering position,at the first position, sputtering at least one second target comprising at least one element of the preselected compound which is easily sputtered from the first target member so as to supply the deficient element to the first target member, andat the second position, sputtering the elements from the first target member so as to deposit them on the surface of said substrate while continuously supplying the substrate so that a

Abstract: A plunger of a plunger pump is formed with an air vent passageway having its one end open to a compression chamber and the other end adapted to communicate with a reservoir space open to the atmosphere when the plunger comes near its top dead point. Air or gas trapped in the liquid sucked into the compression chamber will flow into the air vent passageway so as to be discharged into the reservoir space when the passageway gets into communication with it. Since air or gas is removed from the compression chamber, the pumping efficiency is prevented from decreasing.

Abstract: A method for producing a glass preform for an optical fiber comprising jetting SiCl.sub.4 as a glass-forming raw material and an insert gas from a first nozzle of a multi-nozzle burner and, as another glass-forming raw material, at least one hydrogen-containing silicon compound with larger oxidation or hydrolysis reaction heat than that of SiCl.sub.4 selected from the group consisting of SiHCl.sub.3, SiH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2, SiH.sub.3 Cl and SiH.sub.4 from a second nozzle surrounding the first nozzle, flame hydrolyzing or oxidizing the glass-forming raw materials to synthesize glass soot particles, depositing the glass soot particles on a starting member to form a porous soot preform with a controlled bulk density distribution and heating and sintering the soot preform to obtain a transparent glass preform, by which a large glass preform is stably produced without cracking.

Abstract: An oil pump using internal gearing, wherein the difference in number of teeth between the internal and external gears is one, and wherein the inner rotor is directly connected to the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine or to the transmission shaft. The inner rotor is formed from a trochoidal curve and tracking circle which the outer rotor is formed from a trochoidal curve theoretically ideal for the inner rotor but modified by having circularly arched inwardly curved portions so as to decrease confinement of the inner rotor and smooth the operation thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus for fixing a toner-image by transporting a toner image bearing material as it is held between a heated fixing roll and a compression roll. The apparatus uses a porous tube of tetrafluoroethylene resin with both ends sealed which is placed in contact with the fixing roll in an axial direction and a release agent is applied onto the surface of the fixing roll through the porous tube.