Abstract: A bonding wire for use in semiconductor devices which consists essentially of 0.0003 to 0.01 wt. % of barium and the balance gold, the gold purity of said bonding wire being at least 99.99%. The bonding wire may further contain at least one element selected from the group consisting of 0.0005 to 0.005 wt. % of aluminum, 0.0001 to 0.003 wt. % of calcium, 0.0005 to 0.005 wt. % of silver and 0.0005 to 0.005 wt. % of palladium. The total content of the elements and barium in the bonding wire should not exceed 0.01 wt. % based on the weight of the bonding wire so that the gold purity of the bonding wire is at least 99.99%. The use of the additive elements improve the mechanical strength and wire-bondability, making the bonding wire highly suitable for use in wire bonding of semiconductor elements, especially for high-speed bonding.

Abstract: A protector for a movable panel within a roof aperture is disclosed. In order to urge all of the rain drops and the like to drop into a water collecting channel fixed relative to the roof, the protector is formed with a downwardly extending lip which when the movable panel is in its closed position assumes a position above the center line of the water collecting channel.

Abstract: In a method of making a magnetic gap by depositing a glass layer on a surface of magnetic head core materials by cathodic sputtering of a glass target and cementing a pair of the resulting glass-coated magnetic head core materials, the improvements constituted by monitoring the thickness of the sputtered glass layer by an interference of a light beam guided onto a surface of the magnetic head core materials during the deposition and using a sputtering apparatus having a sample holder beside the target for securing the magnetic core materials and a mask plate for achieving uniform thickness of the sputtered glass layer.The method makes possible production of magnetic heads having excellent electromagnetic conversion characteristics with high accuracy.

Abstract: A magnetic head having a sputter-deposited glass film of the gap forming area of the magnetic core, said glass film being made of borosilicate glass having the composition consisting of 65-85 mol % of SiO.sub.2, 8-30 mol % of B.sub.2 O.sub.3 and containing 2-15 mol % of alkali metal oxide Na.sub.2 O and K.sub.2 O and 0.1-5 mol % of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, with the molar ratio of boron oxide to alkali metal oxides being defined by the following formula: ##EQU1## The magnetic head provides sharpness of the recording leakage flux, thus giving excellent electromagnetic conversion characteristics.

Abstract: A magnetic head having a sputter-deposited glass film of the gap forming area of the magnetic core, said glass film being made of borosilicate glass having the composition consisting of 65-85 mol % of SiO.sub.2, 8-30 mol % of B.sub.2 O.sub.3 and containing 2-15 mol % of alkali metal oxide Na.sub.2 O and K.sub.2 O and 0.1-5 mol % of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, with the molar ratio of boron oxide to alkali metal oxides being defined by the following formula: ##EQU1## The magnetic head provides sharpness of the recording leakage flux, thus giving excellent electromagnetic conversion characteristics.