Abstract: A power source device includes a control circuit which controls switching elements in full-bridge arrangement so as, in decreasing an output to a load, to substantially equalize ON timing of one of two switching elements at diagonal position to the other of them with ON period of the one switching element shortened, that is, with ON duty ratio of the one switching element decreased. Switching operation of the elements in this event is not made to be in the hard switching operation, and a range in which the output to load can be controlled without increasing any stress or noise is thereby broadened, whereby it is enabled to minimize varying width of switching frequency and to attain a wide range control of the output to load without causing any one of the switching elements to be in the hard switching operation.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a closed battery capable of rapidly releasing the internal pressure thereof and at the same time disconnecting the current to effectively prevent itself from temperature rising and explosion so that it may assure the safety and reliability thereof, when the internal pressure is elevated due to short circuit, overcharge, reverse charge, or the like in such a completely closed battery. The formation of a valve element 5 whose center is eccentric to the center of a metal substrate 1 produces a slit 3 having a large width portion around the circumference of a valve element 5. When the internal pressure of a battery is elevated, the valve element 5 is smoothly raised up together with a metal foil 2 from the bending fulcrum portion 4 to thereby cut a lead wire 6 or permit a braze portion 8 to detach from the lead wire 6, thus reliably disconnecting the current.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a liquid crystal panel in which two substrates are faced to each other with spacers interposed therebetween, applied with heat and pressure in an overlapped condition, and adhesive arranged between the two substrates is cured for fixing, characterized in that at least one of a pair of pressurizing plates for applying pressure to the two substrates is a graphite plate and in that upper and lower pressurizing plates are made to be of different rigidity. The graphite plate of low rigidity is made to stick to the substrate, and shifts between substrates can be prevented while securing uniformity in gaps between substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display panel and a light guide plate arranged in a rear side of the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel is of a substantially spherical shape, and the liquid crystal display panel is fitted at a front side of the light guide plate such that a proximity of a central portion of the liquid crystal display panel is outwardly bulged. There can be prevented display deficiencies (paddling) owing to interference between the liquid crystal display panel and the backlighting unit or between the former and the casing. Moreover, since no interference exists between the liquid crystal display panel and the backlighting unit or between the former and the casing, sheets such as the diffusing sheet will not be wrinkled, and the brightness of the backlighting unit can be maintained to be uniform.

Abstract: A polyphenylene ether resin composition which comprises: (A) from 30 to 95% by weight of a modified polyphenylene ether resin entirely or partially modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a functional derivative thereof; (B) from 2 to 60% by weight of at least one of a polystyrene and a rubber-modified polystyrene; and (C) from 3 to 40% by weight of a styrene/acrylonitrile copolymer having an acrylonitrile ingredient content of from not less than 7% by weight to less than 11% by weight. The resin composition optionally contains (D) from 1 to 30 parts by weight of a phosphoric acid ester compound; and (E) from 1 to 100 parts by weight of an inorganic filler, each per 100 parts by weight of the total amount of said components (A), (B) and (C). Also disclosed is a molded article prepared from the resin composition.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide safety valve elements for condenser use, which rupture precisely at a predetermined pressure especially stably in a low pressure range so as to release inner pressure outside and can be manufactured readily, and to provide a condenser which incorporates the safety valve elements. The safety valve elements for condenser use according to the present invention comprises a metal substrate A which is provided with a perforated opening C and a metal foil B laid over the metal substrate A to close the perforated opening C.

Abstract: A safety valve element for battery use which ruptures at a stable pressure range so as to release the inner pressure of the battery is disclosed. The safety valve element for battery use comprises a metal substrate which is provided with a perforated opening and a metal foil laminated on the metal substrate so as to close the perforated opening. A battery which is provided with such a safety valve is also disclosed. A battery case provided with such a safety valve is also disclosed. The battery and the battery case lid is produced by forming the perforated opening in the metal substrate, pressure welding the metal foil to the metal substrate and molding the clad material into a form of the battery case lid.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a liquid crystal panel in which two substrates are faced to each other with spacers interposed therebetween, applied with heat and pressure in an overlapped condition, and adhesive arranged between two substrates is cured for fixing, characterized in that at least one of a pair of pressurizing plates for applying pressure to the two substrates is a graphite plate and in that upper and lower pressurizing plates are made to be of different rigidity. The graphite plate of low rigidity is made to stick to the substrate, and shifts between substrates can be prevented while securing uniformity in gaps between substrates.

Abstract: A 6-phenoxy picolinic acid alkylidene hydrazide derivative, a process for producing the derivative and a herbicide containing the derivative as an effective ingredient. Such a compound is a novel compound and is useful as an effective ingredient of herbicides.

Abstract: Clad material comprises a metal substrate which is provided with a multiplicity of perforated openings therein and a metal foil which is laminated on the metal substrate to close the perforated openings. To produce such a clad material, at least one surface of the metal substrate and corresponding one surface of the metal foil are respectively subjected to a dry etching and the metal substrate and the metal foil are laminated in such a manner that the etched surfaces face each other. Alternately, only one surface of the metal substrate is subjected to a dry etching and the metal substrate and the metal foil are laminated in such a manner that the etched surface of the metal substrate defines a laminating surface. It may be possible to provide a nickel plating on the metal substrate or the metal foil. The clad material can be effectively used for producing safety valve chips which rupture accurately at low pressures which fall in a stable pressure range on a mass production basis.

Abstract: A polyphenylene ether resin composition which comprises: (A) from 30 to 95% by weight of a modified polyphenylene ether resin entirely or partially modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a functional derivative thereof; (B) from 2 to 60% by weight of at least one of a polystyrene and a rubber-modified polystyrene; and (C) from 3 to 40% by weight of a styrene/acrylonitrile copolymer having an acrylonitrile ingredient content of from not less than 7% by weight to less than 11% by weight. The resin composition optionally contains (D) from 1 to 30 parts by weight of a phosphoric acid ester compound; and (E) from 1 to 100 parts by weight of an inorganic filler, each per 100 parts by weight of the total amount of said components (A), (B) and (C). Also disclosed is a molded article prepared from the resin composition.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to obtain a vacuum chucking which can vacuum suck a wafer even if dusts attach thereon. The main body of vacuum chuck (101) has a plurality of block grooves (125) on the surface on which the wafer (1) is sucked and fixed, in which vacuum evacuation paths (105) each for vacuum evacuating each block groove (125) are provided for each block groove (125). When the wafer (1) is sucked and fixed under low pressure, even if the degree of vacuum in one of the block grooves (125) decreases due to attachment of dusts on part of the suction surface, or the like, the wafer (1) can surely be sucked and held.

Abstract: In the production of a metallic honeycomb body for use as a metallic carrier, for supporting a catalyst, in the purification of an exhaust gas from automobiles or the like, a desired joint site for each layer constituting the metallic honeycomb body is preset, and, when a portion of contact between a metallic corrugated foil and a metallic flat foil for forming the metallic honeycomb body has reached the joint site, a brazing foil which has been cut into a predetermined length is inserted and enfolded in the contact portion.

Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine includes a heat flux sensor arranged in the combustion chamber of the engine, for detecting the heat flux within the combustion chamber. An ECU controls at least one of the amount of fuel supplied to the engine, the fuel injection timing, and the ignition timing of the engine according to operating conditions of the engine. The heat flux sensor detects the heat flux at timing within a range from the latter half of the exhaust stroke of each of the cylinders of the combustion cycle of the engine to the first half of the compression stroke of the following combustion cycle. At least one of the amount of fuel, the fuel injection timing, and the ignition timing is corrected based on the detected heat flux in the same stroke as the compression stroke of the following combustion cycle in which the heat flux has been detected.

Abstract: An electronic ballast for discharge lamps comprises a main resonance circuit for applying a voltage necessary for operating of a discharge lamp having filaments to both ends of the discharge lamp and a filament resonance circuit for supplying a filament current to the filaments, wherein the main resonance circuit and filament resonance circuit have resonance circuits having different resonance characteristics in an output path leading to the discharge lamp and also change their outputs depending on an operating frequency of switching elements. Thereby a filament current and a voltage across the discharge lamp can be set at suitable one of respective operational modes of the discharge lamp according to an operational state of the discharge lamp.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polyamide resin composition comprising a melt-kneaded product of (A) a polyamide; (B) a polyphenylene ether; (C) a styrene polymer; and (D) a compound having in a molecule thereof a carbon-to-carbon double bond and at least one functional group selected from a carboxylic acid group, an acid anhydride group, an epoxy group, an amino group and a hydroxyl group, wherein the polyamide (A) is present as a continuous phase in which the polyphenylene ether (B) and the styrene polymer (C) are dispersed individually, independently or in mixture thereof to form a dispersion phase having an average particle diameter of 5 .mu.m or less, and wherein the (B)/(C) weight ratio is from 20/80 to 70/30, and the styrene polymer (C) in the melt-kneaded product has a reduced viscosity of 0.70 dl/g or more.

Abstract: A power converter apparatus in which a switched capacitor circuit includes one or more sets of cells connected in series each having a capacitor as a voltage supply source and a bridge circuit for inverting the polarities of the capacitor, the switched capacitor circuit is connected to a load, there is provided a means for parallelly charging the capacitors of the cells with a D.C. voltage source, any number of the cell capacitors are connected in series with any polarity to control supply of an A.C. output to the load. Whereby the power converter apparatus using the switched capacitor circuit can supply A.C. power with less distortion to the load without increasing the withstand voltage of the switching elements and without any need for provision of large inductors or capacitors.

Abstract: A power converting system rendering an applied voltage to a load to be a continuous voltage waveform, wherein a plurality of capacitors are charged so that their terminal voltages will reach predertermined voltages mutually different, the respective capacitors are sequentially connected respectively through a switching element to a series circuit of an inductor and a load-use capacitor, the load-use capacitor is charged with a resonance current of the capacitor and inductor, and the applied voltage to the load-use capacitor is made to be a pulsating waveform by properly adjusting the terminal voltages upon charging of the respective capacitors as well as change-over timing of the respective switching elements.

Abstract: A power converter has two switched capacitor circuits each including at least a plurality of sets of capacitors and switching elements, first of which circuits is provided for supplying a DC power to a load while second of which accumulates a power in a period receiving a higher input voltage, and the first switched capacitor circuit being made to receive, in a period receiving a lower input voltage, a power supplied from a DC power source and also the power supplied from the second switched capacitor circuit for supplying to the load the DC power of a constant voltage, in which an input current collectively taken up by the two switched capacitor circuits is made similar in the waveform to the input voltage to eliminate any harmonics distortion of the current drawn from the source, for attaining the supply of the DC power of the constant voltage to the load, whereby the power converter is rendered not to require any large inductor to be capable of being minimized in size and restraining any noise radiation fr