Abstract: An improved electric discharge machine with a numerical control unit includes an electrode configuration sensor in a machining vessel for detecting the configuration of a machining electrode before an electric discharge machining operation is conducted. According to one aspect of the invention, the electric discharge machining operation is performed while electrical discharge machining conditions are being automatically selected so as to permit the most suitable machining conditions for the electric discharge machining operation to be carried out with respect to the electrode whose configuration has been detected. According to another aspect of the invention, troublesome operations for setting the electrical conditions corresponding to the electrical discharge machining operation are eliminated.

Abstract: The machine has a rotary device for holding and rotating a workpiece to be processed, an electrode disposed to oppose the workpiece, an indexing device for holding the electrode and indexing the electrode at a predetermined angular pitch, a power supply device for applying a voltage between the workpiece and the electrode so as to cause the electric discharge therebetween, and a cutting device for cutting a portion of the electrode which has been used for the electric discharge and has been indexed by the indexing device to face the cutting device. The consumed portions of the electrode are successively indexed to the position where the cutting device is set so that the consumed portion of the electrode is successively cut without requiring the processing to be stopped.

Abstract: A machining liquid 5 is supplied to a machining zone between a machining electrode 4 and a workpiece 2 in a direction effective to remove material particles to be accumulated around the machining zone. When the liquid pressure drops below a predetermined level due to a breakthrough in the bottom of the workpiece, machining liquid is supplied in a direction up through the breakthrough hole to compensate for a reduction of particle removing effect due to the pressure drop.

Abstract: A very useful data transmission system having a plurality of transmission modules connected to a single cable in a multidrop manner is disclosed herein. The system features its ability to check the transmission state at the level of individual modules through use of a proper code notation (typically, Manchester code). The system detects a specific module with proper signals lasting at the same level for more than a given time, except cable outputs, and treats it as involving a faulty condition and compels the transmission state to a halt, thus preventing only the faulty module or modules from transmitting signals thereby avoiding breakdown of the whole system.

Abstract: A signal transmission system over building or house wiring includes noise reduction circuit to reduce noise including asynchronous noise and synchronous noise. Received pulses are sampled in a given interval and the number of continous pulses in question during the sampling interval is counted. The pulses in question are ignored as noise if the number of pulse counting is less than a predetermined reference count and the pulses are treated as true signals if the number is more than said reference count.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an emergency access method in which in the event that an emergency data occurring at a particular terminal is fed immediately to a central system but collides with any emergency data from a different terminal such collision is sensed and a signal in that data is delayed in a random number manner through the use of an appropriate random number generating algorithm in order to avoid such collision within a short length of time.

Abstract: In a jet loom in which weft yarns are stored in weft yarn storing units according to a weaving command, and are jetted in the weft insertion cycles thereof, a device for controlling the storing unit comprises: rotation detecting means for detecting the rotational condition of the loom spindle, to output a spindle rotation signal; a rotation control circuit which, according to a weft yarn jetting order, calculates the number of standby cycles between weft insertion cycles, and calculates the speeds of rotation of the storing units to store weft yarns in advance according to the numbers of standby cycle, to output rotation command signals; a drive circuit for receiving the spindle rotation signal and the rotation command signal, to output drives signal to determine the speeds of rotation of the storing units; and drive means provided for the storing unit, each receiving the drive signal to drive the storing unit at a speed of rotation corresponding to the drive signal thus received, a weft yarn as long as a pre

Abstract: A data transmission method over building wiring includes a plurality of transmission sections. One of these sections is selected from the plurality of transmission sections to be a data transmission source machine for providing data. The data is transmitted from the data transmission source to the remaining transmission sections. If a transmission section is not selected it is used to relay the data to one of the remaining transmission sections wherein it is received by a final data transmission section. A data transmission section used in the method, comprises a data receiving part for receiving the transmitted data, a relay counter part for counting the number of relaying the transmitted data, and data relaying part for steps of relaying the-received data.

Abstract: A signal transmission system utilizes the building or house wiring as the data transmission line. A frequency detection system is required to detect a frequency of the power voltage. The frequency detection system includes a zero-crossing detection circuit for developing a detection output when the zero-crossing is detected. A timer element is provided in the frequency detection system, which functions to neglect an output signal from the zero-crossing detection circuit for a preselected period of time after the last detection output has been developed from the zero-crossing detection circuit.

Abstract: A data transmission system for transmitting and receiving data over a transmission line includes a receiving station having a receiving circuit for simultaneously detecting current and voltage signals including the data in the transmission line and applying these signals to a common output impedance, so that an output voltage signal developed across the output impedance will have a sufficient signal level irrespective of the value of other load impedances on the transmission line.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a data transmission system via the power supply line wherein it is characterized in that; it effectively controls branching terminal units connected to the CPU via the power supply line, by transmitting a high frequency AC signal that is mixed into the AC commercial frequency via the power supply line, while it normally surveilles the actual status of terminal units during normal operations. According to this system as a preferred embodiment of the present invention, after sampling data via the poling, a specific AC commercial frequency cyclic period can be allocated in order to properly transmit any emergency data between terminal units via a contention, and as a result, even in the slow-speed transmission line, not only any change of condition occurring in the terminal units can quickly be sent to the central processing unit, but all the control signals from the central processing unit can also be sent to respective terminal units without being held for waiting.

Abstract: A process for sintering cubic system silicon carbide powder, which comprises compacting a mixture of cubic system silicon carbide powder with more than 1% by weight and not more than 3% by weight of carbon and at least 0.10% by weight and less than 0.3% by weight of boron and sintering the compact thereby obtained, under vacuum or in a chemically inert atmosphere at a temperature of from 1,900.degree. to 2,200.degree. C.

Abstract: A centralized monitor system can be automatically controlled so that the signal receiving levels in each component of the system can be held at an optimum position even in the presence of noise components, since they are totally free from any failure caused by the noise interference. More particularly, the monitor panel as part of the centralized monitor system collects and displays any alarm information detected by any of the sub units constituting part of the system while using the indoor power line as the data transmission path, enabling the centralized monitor system to generate an alarm upon receipt of such alarm information from the monitor panel, while the automatic receiver gain controller, in responding to an answer back instruction periodically output by the monitor panel, properly controls both the monitor panel and sub units so that both will remain in such positions where their incoming signal levels can be held optimum even under presence of a variety of noise components.

Abstract: A data transmission system including a pair of parallel transmission lines, applies data signals to the transmission lines through a transformer and an associated impedance connected across the lines. The transformer is magnetically coupled to at least one of the lines to apply a signal current thereto. The signal current is transferred to the other line through the impedance. The impedance is tuned to the transmission frequency so that it has a very low value during data transmission.

Abstract: A system transmits and receives control signals for various types of indoor devices using the existing power wiring in houses and buildings. The transmitter section of the power wiring transmission system is provided with a circuit in which the output of a sine wave oscillator is fed to an emitter-follower through a photocoupler and this output is then fed to the indoor power distribution line through a series resonance circuit after stepping down with a transformer; and the receiving section is provided with a circuit in which the signal from the distribution line is fed to a parallel resonance circuit after passing through a series resonance circuit. Moreover, the input and output sections are resistor terminated.

Abstract: Method for the production of substituted sulfur containing L-amino acids by contacting .beta.- or .gamma.-substituted amino acids in an aqueous medium containing methioninase together with the precursor of the substituent.