Abstract: A film inspecting apparatus is used for inspecting fine roughness and particle state on a surface of a thin film. In inspecting the thin film surface, shape data of the thin film are obtained by a scanning type probe microscope. The obtained shape data are analyzed to identify individual particles, and the fine roughness and particle state on the thin film surface are inspected based on the particle data obtained by the shape data analysis. The film inspecting apparatus includes a particle analyzing device for inspecting the fine roughness and particle state on the thin film surface by using the shape data obtained by the scanning type probe microscope. The particle analyzing device includes a particle extracting device for extracting the particles on the film surface from the shape data, and a particle data calculating device for calculating the particle data based on the data extracted by the particle extracting device.

Abstract: A method of determining the three-dimensional position of an object in a specific position with respect to a predetermined standard position includes storing position data representative of a distinctive part of the object as if the object is virtually located in a predetermined standard position, formularizing a relation between the specific and standard positions in terms of a standard three-dimensional co-ordinate system as an equation including a positional deviation as an unknown parameter, and determining a restrictive condition for the position of the distinctive part of the object located in the specific position. The equation is solved under a condition in which the position of the distinctive part satisfies the restrictive condition to find a positional deviation.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a register bank circuit includes a register array for storing data. The register array has a matrix structure which is formed of a plurality of banks arranged in a row of the matrix structure and a plurality of registers arranged in a column thereof. A bank selector selects one of the banks while the one to be selected is specified. A register selector selects one of the registers in the one bank selected by the bank selector means, so that the selected register is coupled to a bus.

Abstract: In a dot line printer that prints, for example, eight lines of dots with each single scan of a hammer bank, wherein the pins of hammers for printing the first dot line and the eighth dot line or for printing the second dot line and the seventh dot line are shifted from their respective home positions to compensate for an error causing impressions of dots to be made at an unequal pitch in a sheet feed direction as a result of consecutive forward and backward movements of the hammer bank.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a register bank circuit including a register array for storing data. The register array has a matrix structure formed by a plurality of banks arranged in a row and a plurality of registers arranged in a column. Each bank is a group of a predetermined number of registers. A bank selector selects one of the banks, and a register selector selects a register corresponding to the bank selected by the bank selector. The selected register is coupled to a bus.

Abstract: Disclosed is a data processing device with a test control circuit comprising a CPU, peripheral devices such as a ROM, a RAM, and the like, an address bus through which the CPU is connected to the peripheral devices, an input/output circuit as an interface circuit for controlling transfer of data input/output and an address signal between the address bus and the data bus and an external device, and a control circuit incorporated in the data processing device for isolating the address bus and the data bus from the CPU in a test mode of the device and for controlling the input/output operations for the peripheral devices, the operation of the input/output control circuit, and the operation of the CPU.

Abstract: A data input system of a multi-window mode in which a plurality of logic pictures can be displayed on a physical image screen of a CRT display. An input data once stored in a specified area of a memory is displayed in a selected one of the logical pictures. The system includes at least one logic picture designating device equipped with an indicator lamp, and transfer keys for designating one of the display fields in the logic picture. In accordance with combinations of designation and non-designation of the logic pictures, a data input path of the stored input data to the logic picture in which cursor is present or the logic picture in which cursor is absent is exchangeably selected, whereby the data stored in the specified memory area is transferred for display to the field designated by the transfer key in the selected picture through the input path as established.

Abstract: An improved epoxy molding composition for encapsulating microelectronic devices wherein the molding composition, after conversion to a thermoset condition, i.e., infusible state, by the application of heat and pressure, displays a low coefficient of thermal expansion and a high thermal conductivity. The dual properties of low coefficient of thermal expansion and high thermal conductivity are imparted to the molding composition by the incorporation therein of a specific anisotropic, polycrystalline, sintered ceramic product which is relatively non-abrasive and free of ionic contaminants and which has cordierite as its primary phase, consisting essentially on an analytical oxide basis of 11.5 to 16.5% RO, 33 to 41% Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and 46.6 to 53% SiO.sub.2.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of substantially water-insoluble, particulate sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, suitable for use as an absorbent in tampons and other catamenial devices, or the like. The process involves treating solid, water-soluble sodium carboxymethyl cellulose having a degree of substitution of at least 0.4 with hydrogen chloride gas and heating the carboxymethyl cellulose, either after the hydrogen chloride treatment or concurrently therewith, to produce a cross-linked, insoluble, partially acid form carboxymethyl cellulose suitable for absorbent applications.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a substantially water-insoluble, particulate sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose, suitable for use as an absorbent in tampons and other catamenial devices or the like. The process involves heating solid, water-soluble sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, having a degree of substitution of at least 0.4, with carbon dioxide gas to substantially insolubilize the carboxymethyl cellulose and convert it to a form suitable for absorbent applications.

Abstract: Disclosed is a construction of a fan shroud for a fan assembly in an internal combustion engine. The fan shroud operates to direct a flow of air generated by the rotation of the fan so that the flow is effectively passed through the radiator core. The fan shroud has an upper portion which is located above the level of the radiator core. The upper portion has, at the end facing the engine body a cut out portion which operates to decrease the amount of air flow passed through the shroud at a position located above the level of the radiator core. It is thus possible to obtain a fan apparatus of low operational noise, which can operate to generate a sufficient amount of flow of air passed through the radiator core for cooling the engine.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of substantially water-insoluble, particulate sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, suitable for use as an absorbent in tampons and other catamenial devices, or the like. The process involves treating solid, water-soluble sodium carboxymethyl cellulose having a degree of substitution of at least 0.4 with hydrogen chloride gas and heating the carboxymethyl cellulose, either after the hydrogen chloride treatment or concurrently therewith, to produce a cross-linked, insoluble, partially acid form carboxymethyl cellulose suitable for absorbent applications.