Abstract: An air bag device has an air bag at least partially receivable in a predetermined receiving part of a vehicle along with an inflator for inflating the air bag. A band is breakable by a deployment pressure of the air bag and is provided such that at least a part of the air bag is strapped by the band to retain a folded shape prior to deployment of the air bag. The band is formed of a woven fabric in an embodiment and includes a breaking part formed by breaking assisting structure arranged in a line corresponding to a breaking direction of the breaking part. In an embodiment of the air bag device the woven fabric has weaving thread inclined at an inclination angle with respect to the breaking direction of the breaking part.

Abstract: A laser light source apparatus and a control method for automatically sitting the temperature of a KTP crystal to an optimal temperature, and to follow up in variations of the optimal temperature. A predetermined temperature step is periodically added to a temperature corresponding to a reference potential, the addition of the temperature step is stopped when a temperature at which the UV laser output is substantially maximized, and a temperature step smaller than the temperature step .DELTA.T is successively subtracted from the temperature Tc, thereby automatically setting the KTP crystal temperature to the optimal temperature. Also, the difference between the two values of the UV laser output before and after each step addition of the temperature step is calculated and step subtraction is started when the difference becomes reversed in polarity, thus controlling the KTP crystal temperature so that the UV laser output is always maintained at the maximum.

Abstract: A drive unit and a toy using the same wherein a mechanical drive transmitting mechanism is not used and moving parts are made to pivot by means of magnetic interaction forces acting between coils and magnets and the response of the moving parts is quick and movements of the moving parts can be controlled accurately and subtly, and wherein fatiguing of the coil wires is prevented by the coil parts being fixed and the permanent magnets being made to move. By the drive unit being simplified and reduced in size, a drive unit and a toy using the same which can operate stably over a long period are provided while mass production benefits and cost reductions together with simplification of the manufacturing process are promoted.In the drive unit, a swinging body 21 is mounted on a swing shaft 20 and a pair of permanent magnets 26, 27 are mounted on the swinging body 21 side by side in the direction in which the swinging body 21 pivots.

Abstract: An arm mechanism includes a drive control mechanism that uses an end effector coordinate system and has an end effector drive control mechanism. The drive control mechanism includes an end effector rotational drive control mechanism and an end effector coordinate system translational drive control mechanism. The rotational drive control mechanism has three rotational actuators for driving end effector rotation about each axis separately. The end effector coordinate system translational drive control mechanism has an end effector coordinate system translational actuator to drive translational motion of the object. The drive control mechanism further includes an orientation maintenance mechanism that maintains the orientation of the target object on the absolute coordinate system and two absolute coordinate system translational actuators supported on the orientation maintenance mechanism for providing translational motion of the object along two orthogonal axes on the absolute coordinate system.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving an objective lens of an optical disk system for recording/reproducing data to/from a data plane of an optical disk by using light which can simply correct a deviation from an adequate angle between an optical axis of the objective lens and the optical disk is provided by constructing such that the center of gravity of an objective lens movable part is located on the optical axis of the objective lens and a height for anchoring suspensions to the movable part coincides almost with the center of gravity of the movable part.

Abstract: To improve the efficiency of instruction branch operations, particularly in a pipeline processor, a branch reservation instruction is generated during program compile. The system includes a processor having a branch address stack 10 for storing pairs of branch point addresses and branch target addresses, a program counter (PC) 12 which holds a current instruction fetch address, a comparator 11 which compares the branch point address of the most recently entered pair stored in the stack 10 and the value of the PC 12, and a selector 14 which, when the result of comparison shows the coincidence, switches the instruction fetch address from the value of the PC 12 to the branch target address of the most recently entered pair stored in the stack 10.

Abstract: To improve the efficiency of instruction branch operations, particularly in a pipeline processor, a branch reservation instruction is generated during program compile. The system includes a processor having a branch address stack 10 for storing pairs of branch point addresses and branch target addresses, a program counter (PC) 12 which holds a current instruction fetch address, a comparator 11 which compares the branch point address of the most recently entered pair stored in the stack 10 and the value of the PC 12, and a selector 14 which, when the result of comparison shows the coincidence, switches the instruction fetch address from the value of the PC 12 to the branch target address of the most recently entered pair stored in the stack 10.

Abstract: A static logic circuit employs pull-down type logic gates having logic transistors forming a power supply current path and logic transistors forming a grounding current path and having current drive abilities higher than those of the logic transistors forming the power supply current path, and pull-up type logic gates having logic transistors forming a power supply current path and logic transistors forming a grounding current path and having current drive abilities lower than the logic transistors forming the power supply current path, and comprises logic series formed by alternately cascading the two types of the logic gates. The static logic circuit is provided with signal merged logic circuits each of which provides a signal having a high speed falling transient and a high speed rising transient by merging the output signals of the logic series.

Abstract: A digital signal processor that includes an instruction memory, a program control unit, and an instruction decoder. The instruction memory stores a sequence of instruction words including DSP instruction words and RISC instruction words. The program control unit outputs an instruction address to the instruction memory so as to select one instruction word in the instruction memory. Every DSP instruction word identifies one data processing operation and one data transfer operation to be performed. The DSP instruction words include a predefined DSP instruction word having separate source and destination fields for specifying register locations for data sources and data destinations. The RISC instruction words include a predefined RISC instruction word corresponding to the predefined DSP instruction word. The predefined RISC instruction word has separate source and destination fields for specifying register locations for data sources and data destinations.

Abstract: A disk selection control device for a multidisk player, in which disk content identifying information and TOC information of the disks are preliminarily stored correspondingly with each other, and the disk content identifying information and disk holding position information of the disks are stored correspondingly with each other according to the TOC information when it is read-out. By inputting the disk content identifying information, the disk holding position information corresponding to the input disk content identifying information can be obtained from the above correspondency therebetween to thereby select a desired disk.

Abstract: A musical toy in which tappers on the ends of swinging bodies can be swung up and kept upswung without using any springs; space for spring mounting is thereby made unnecessary and the toy can be made small; the manufacturing process can be simplified and resulting mass production benefits and cost reductions can be achieved, and which can operate stably over a long period of time. There are provided a toy body 7, a sound producing body 5 and a control device 54, and the toy body 7 comprises first permanent magnets 23a and 23b and swinging bodies 9a and 9b mounted in the vicinity of the first permanent magnets 23a and 23b.

Abstract: A pass transistor type selector circuit comprises a control signal supplying circuit for supplying a pair of control signals of opposite phases to the respective gate electrodes of a pair of nMOS transistors of a selecting circuit. The control signal supplying circuit includes a control signal interrupting means which operates in synchronism with a clock signal so as to selectively interrupt the supply of the control signals to the signal selecting circuit while the clock signal is low level. The control signal interrupting means is provided with a discharging means for discharging high-level one of the gate electrodes of the nMOS transistors of the signal selecting circuit while the clock signal is low level. The discharging means comprises two nMOS transistors, each connected between the respective gate electrodes of the nMOS transistors of the signal selecting circuit and a grounding terminal.

Abstract: An intermediate tap 31 is provided on a vertical deflection coil 22 of a deflection yoke and the intermediate tap is connected to a chassis ground through a high-pass filter 32 which can pass only a ringing current to form a current path, thereby the the ringing current is prevented from passing through the vertical deflection coil 22 so that the raster ringing is substantially reduced.

Abstract: A toothbrush capable of permitting tips of fillings thereof to enter or reach areas such as recesses between teeth, boundaries between teeth and gingivae, and the like to effectively remove dental plaque and the like and exhibit a soft feeling sufficient to prevent damage to gingivae. The toothbrush includes fillings made of a synthetic filament material. The fillings are each formed at both tips thereof into a pointed tapered shape and tied up into a plurality of bundles. The pointed tapered tips of the fillings are each formed with a length of 4 to 8 mm and a non-tapered section of each of the fillings is formed with a maximum diameter of 0.16 to 0.20 mm. Filling setting holes of a filling setting base provided at distal end of a handle of the toothbrush so as to set the bundles of the fillings thereon are formed with a diameter of 1.5 to 2.0 mm and spaced from other holes at an interval of 1.0 to 1.2 mm in the longitudinal direction of the handle.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal projector having a light source and liquid crystal panel units disposed in the optical paths, reflecting means is disposed on the emanating side of the projector for reflecting the light in a direction approximately perpendicular to the optical axis, and change-over means is coupled to the liquid crystal panel units for reversing the lateral directions of images.

Abstract: A multi-processor system for multidimensional image signal processing includes a plurality of co-processors and a host processor which issues processor numbers and a command to the co-processors through a bus. Due to the multi-dimensional nature of the processor numbers, data processing for given ranges of an image signal can be shared by the co-processors. A particular multi-dimensional processor number issued by the host computer which allows simultaneous communication to be performed between the host processor and the co-processors.

Abstract: A map display apparatus for displaying a wide area map and an enlarged map is disclosed. When a display mode is shifted from the mode of displaying the enlarged map to the mode of displaying the wide area map, a cursor frame is displayed on a position on a parent screen corresponding to the divided area which has been displayed in an enlarged manner just before the shift of the display mode, so that the position on the parent screen of the area which has been displayed in the enlarged manner so far can be easily discriminated.

Abstract: A display apparatus for a multidisk player including a memory for storing data of titles and disk kinds for a plurality of disks, and a controller for reading all the stored data and displaying the title and the disk kind of each disk on a display in accordance with the read data. Accordingly, a user can acknowledge the content of each disk at a glance without actually playing the disks. Furthermore, the user can conveniently distinguish an audio disk from a ROM disk and select a desired one of these disks.