Abstract: A wiring substrate is disclosed, which has optimal characteristics for, for example, an active matrix type liquid crystal display device with a thin film transistor. Wiring formed of an Al-Nd-Ti alloy thin film is formed on a glass substrate, and if necessary, a semiconductor element which is electrically connected to the wiring is formed. In this case, the specific resistance of the Al-Nd-Ti alloy thin film is about 8 &mgr;&OHgr; cm if the Nd concentration is 0.75 at % and the Ti concentration is 0.5 at %. Further, even if the resultant substrate is heated at 240-270 C. after the formation of the wiring, occurrence of a hillock and a pinhole is substantially completely suppressed.

Abstract: A vehicle diagnosis system can handle with OBD III as well as OBD II by only adding a transponder to an OBD II system. The vehicle diagnosis system includes an engine ECU for controlling an engine device such as injector and storing a diagnosis data, a K-line connected to the engine ECU, a transponder connected to the K-line, and a connector connected to the K-line for detachably connecting an external scan tool that reads the diagnosis data stored in the engine ECU. The transponder receives a request from a receiver system by radio, reads the diagnosis based on the request, and sends the read diagnosis data to the receiver system.

Abstract: A self-diagnostic apparatus of vehicles which allows frozen diagnostic data to reflect correctly and efficiently a vehicle state upon the detection of an abnormality. A control unit has a CPU and a RAM which holds stored data even when the ignition key is turned off. The CPU detects an abnormality of individual on-board devices and when an abnormality of a device is detected, it stops updating diagnostic data and maintains data immediately prior to the detection of the abnormality. When updating of diagnosis data is not stopped, the contents of the RAM is updated at a predetermined updating period of time with diagnostic by data necessary for analyzing the device abnormality. The updating period becomes shorter as the rate of change of the diagnostic data grows larger. Through this, an adequate amount of diagnostic data near a time point at which the device abnormality occurs can be reliably and efficiently stored for later retrieval.

Abstract: A diagnosis apparatus adapted to be mounted on a vehicle, which stores conditions of abnormality of an electronic control apparatus for controlling the vehice and diagnoses a fault in the apparatus, comprising operating condition detecting element for detecting the condition of the vehicle operation, abnormal condition memory element storing an occurrence of an abnormal condition of the vehicle, vehicle operating condition memory element for storing the operating conditions when an abnormal condition occurs in the vehicle, reproduction mode instruction element for instructing to execute abnormal condition reproduction test mode, operating condition comparison element for comparing the current vehicle operating conditions with the vehicle operating conditions at the time of abnormality occurrence in the abnormal condition reproduction mode set by the instruction element, and notifying element for notifying a result of the above-mentioned comparison of vehicle operating conditions.

Abstract: A temperature compensation type infrared sensor includes a substrate having a central pit and functioning as a heat sink with an insulation film formed on the top face of the substrate and defining a diaphragm located above the pit, a plurality of thermocouples disposed on the insulation film and connected in series with each of said thermocouples having a hot junction on said diaphragm and a cold junction on the heat sink, and a thermopile element including a black body on the central portion of the diaphragm in the insulation film for absorbing infrared rays with the thermopile element being placed on a thermistor chip for compensating temperature.

Abstract: An image data processing system for use with an image input device of a facsimile apparatus, digital copier, computer or the like. By using the fact that both MTF compensation processing said scanning line density conversion processing are represented by a sum of products of peripheral pixels and coefficients, i.e., linear product of peripheral pixels, the system adequately selects values of the coefficients to simultaneously effect MTF compensation processing and scanning line density conversion processing by way of the same architecture.

Abstract: A musical scoring system for scoring music arranged in measures. The system preferably includes a keyboard unit having a plurality of keys, a clock generator, a counter for counting clock signals generated by the clock generator and a summing circuit for maintaining a running sum of a series of quantized note, rest length values during each measure of the music to be scored. When keys are operated at the keyboard unit, a subtracting and converting means subtracts the value then stored in the register from the value stored in the counter and quantizes the result to produce a new quantized note/rest length value. This new quantized note/rest length value is thereafter summed by the summing means to the value stored in the register. Preferably, at the beginning of each measure of the music to be stored, the contents of the counter and the register are cleared and the summing means, and subtracting and converting means are provided by a central processing unit.

Abstract: A linearizer circuit comprises a frequency mixer which mixes a first frequency varying in accordance with a change in a parameter and a second frequency from a reference oscillator which has no dependence upon any parameter at a given proportion, and a derivation circuit for producing an output pulse corresponding to the average period of an output from the mixer, thus providing a linearized output for the parameter. The linearizer circuit may be assembled into a watch as means to detect the environmental temperature of the watch. By detecting temperature information with this means, a temperature compensation of a clock signal may be achieved in accordance with a temperature offset from a reference temperature.

Abstract: An electronic watch including a watch circuit and display is provided which additionally includes an automatic time indication modifier. The modifier comprises a receiver, a filter for passing only that component of the signal from the receiver which has the same frequency as a time announcement signal, a pulse height discriminator for converting an output signal of the filter into a bi-level signal in accordance with the magnitude of the output signal above a threshold level, a time announcement pattern discrimination circuit responsive to the bi-level signal from the discriminator to determine the presence of a time announcement pattern on the basis of the duration of and the time interval between the bi-level signals, and a "seconds" indication modifying and control circuit for modifying a "seconds" indication of the watch in response to an output signal from the discrimination circuit.