Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprises a recording medium base, a lower layer formed on the recording medium base, and an upper layer formed on the lower layer. The lower layer is made of a first material including cobalt, chromium and one or more elements other than cobalt and chromium. On the other hand, the upper layer is made of a second material including cobalt, chromium and one or more elements other than cobalt and chromium. A quantity of the one or more elements added to cobalt and chromium making up the second material is less than a quantity of the one or more elements added to cobalt and chromium making up the first material.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprises a recording medium base, a lower layer formed on the recording medium base, and an upper layer formed on the lower layer. The upper layer is made of cobalt-chromium, and the lower layer at least includes cobalt and chromium.

Abstract: A two-cycle engine oil composition which comprises a terpene compound selected from the group consisting of terpene hydrocarbons, terpene alcohols and terpene ether incorporated in a lubricant substance selected from the group consisting of a mineral oil, a polyglycol ester, a polyol ester, a phosphate, a dibasic acid ester, a polyolefin and a mixture thereof, the content of the terpene compound being in the range of 2 to 70% by weight based on the total amount of the composition. The two-cycle engine oil can reduce the concentration of smoke in the exhaust gas and provides an exhaust gas free of disagreeable and/or irritating odors which instead has a pleasant smell. The oil also has good detergent dispersing characteristics.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording and reproducing system records and reproduces a signal on and from a perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprising a magnetic layer which is made from one magnetic material and is constituted by a layer having a low coercivity and a layer having a high coercivity on top of the layer having the low coercivity, by use of a ring core head and utilizes the layer having the low coercivity as a high permeability layer and the layer having the high coercivity as a perpendicular magnetization layer.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprises a recording medium base, a low coercivity layer formed on the recording medium base and having a low coercivity in an in-plane direction thereof, and a high coercivity layer formed on the low coercivity layer and having a high coercivity in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the low coercivity layer. The low coercivity layer and the high coercivity layer are formed from the same magnetic material and constitute a magnetic layer. A method of manufacturing this perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprises a single magnetic layer forming process of successively and continuously forming the low coercivity layer and the high coercivity layer on the recording medium base by using the same magnetic material as a depositing material.

Abstract: A heat-resistant and oil-resistant rubber composition comprising a nitrile group-containing rubber having an iodine value of not more than 120 and a nitrile group-containing liquid polymer having an iodine value of not more than 120.

Abstract: An oil- and heat-resistant rubber composition comprising a nitrile group-containing hydrocarbon rubber having an iodine number of not more than 120 and a fluorine-containing rubber.

Abstract: A heat resistant resin composition comprising from 10 to 90% by weight of a copolymer A and from 90 to 10% by weight of a copolymer B, in which the copolymer A is composed of an N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue, a maleimide monomer residue, a vinyl aromatic monomer residue and, optionally other vinyl monomer residue, the total content of the N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue and the maleimide monomer residue being from 10 to 45%, the content of the N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue being greater than the content of the maleimide monomer residue, the content of the vinyl aromatic monomer residue being from 90 to 55% and the content of said other vinyl monomer residue being from 0 to 20%, and the copolymer B is composed of a vinyl cyanide monomer residue, a vinyl aromatic monomer residue and, optionally other vinyl monomer residue, the content of the vinyl cyanide monomer residue being from 20 to 55%, the content of the vinyl aromatic monomer residue being from 80 to 45% and the content of said other

Abstract: A bumper core suitable for use in the fabrication of an energy-absorbing automobile bumper is formed by molding core-constituting members in accordance with the expansion molding process and then bonding them together at their confronting lengthwise end portions into a unitary body. The core-constituting members are formed into such configurations and dimensions that conform with configurations and dimensions obtained by longitudinally dividing the intended core into at least two parts. The bumper core enjoys extremely-high dimensional accuracy.

Abstract: An angle change detector which can also be used as an inclination angle detector comprises a pair of opposing magnets, a sector-shaped pendulum made of an electroconductive non-magnetic material and swingable past a spacing between the opposing magnets, and a pair of photosensors disposed on both side edges of the pendulum. Each photosensor comprises a light emitting diode and a phototransistor disposed on both sides of the pendulum. Output signals of the phototransistors are compared with a reference signal for producing an output signal corresponding to the degree of swinging of the pendulum.

Abstract: An angle change detector which can also be used as an inclination angle detector comprises a pair of opposing magnets, a sector-shaped pendulum made of an electroconductive non-magnetic material and swingable past a spacing between the opposing magnets, and a pair of photosensors disposed on both side edges of the pendulum. Each photosensor comprises a light emitting diode and a phototransistor disposed on both sides of the pendulum. Output signals of the phototransistors are compared with a reference signal for producing an output signal corresponding to the degree of swinging of the pendulum.

Abstract: A rubber composition having improved steam resistance comprising a nitrile group-containing hydrocarbon rubber having an iodine number of not more than 120, an organic peroxide vulcanizer and a crosslinking coagent, the amount of said crosslinking coagent being 8 to 30 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said rubber.

Abstract: A method of preventing degradation of vulcanized rubber materials used in the operation of oil and gas wells comprising forming said rubber material from a sulfur vulcanized composition comprising a copolymer rubber having in the polymer chain (I) 10 to 60% by weight of a unit from an unsaturated nitrile, (II) not more than 10% by weight of a unit from a conjugated diene, and (III) 30 to 90% by weight of a unit from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer other than the unsaturated nitrile and/or a unit resulting from the hydrogenation of a unit from a conjugated diene, said rubber being vulcanized with a sulfur vulcanization system.

Abstract: A heat resistant resin composition comprising from 10 to 90% by weight of a copolymer A and from 90 to 10% by weight of a copolymer B, in which the copolymer A is composed of an N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue, a maleimide monomer residue, a vinyl aromatic monomer residue and, optionally other vinyl monomer residue, the total content of the N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue and the maleimide monomer residue being from 10 to 45%, the content of the N-aromatic maleimide monomer residue being greater than the content of the maleimide monomer residue, the content of the vinyl aromatic monomer residue being from 90 to 55% and the content of said other vinyl monomer residue being from 0 to 20%, and the copolymer B is composed of a vinyl cyanide monomer residue, a vinyl aromatic monomer residue and, optionally other vinyl monomer residue, the content of the vinyl cyanide monomer residue being from 20 to 55%, the content of the vinyl aromatic monomer residue being from 80 to 45% and the content of said other

Abstract: An inclinometer comprising a sector weight pivotally supported on a main body which may become inclined, the weight being relatively rotatable with respect to the main body and constantly hanging vertically due to gravity regardless of an inclination of the main body. A code part is provided on the weight, corresponding to a plurality of bits based on a predetermined code according to a relative rotary angle of the weight with respect to the main body, and a detecting part which becomes inclined together with the main body and becomes displaced with respect to the weight along each of the bits of the code part, produces a detection output based on the predetermined code according to the inclination angle of the main body.

Abstract: A method for controlling intake throttling for a diesel engine provided with an exhaust gas soot catcher, which also has an intake throttling valve for restricting intake air, thus heating the exhaust gases for purging the soot catcher. The intake throttling valve is controlled by selecting a target opening amount for the intake throttling valve, and by altering the actual opening amount of the intake throttling valve, if substantially different from this target opening amount, in the direction of the target opening amount. The rate of change of the actual opening amount of the intake throttling valve is made to be greater when the difference between the actual opening amount of the intake throttling valve and the target opening amount for the intake throttling valve is greater, and is smaller when the difference between the actual opening amount of the intake throttling valve and the target opening amount is smaller. Apparatus is also described for controlling an intake throttling valve in this manner.

Abstract: A method for intake throttling for a diesel engine provided with an exhaust gas soot catcher, which also has an intake throttle valve for restricting intake air, thus heating the exhaust gases for purging the soot catcher. When the soot catcher is clogged with soot, throttling operation of the intake throttling valve is commenced after a first time period has elapsed after the point which represents the current operational condition of the diesel engine in a phase space whose dimensions are certain operating parameters of the diesel engine has transited from a first region representing non intake throttling combinations of these certain operating parameters to a second region, the complement of the first region, representing intake throttling combinations of these operating parameters; and/or such throttling operation of the intake throttling valve is ceased after a second time period has elapsed after this point has transited to this first region from this second region.

Abstract: A diesel engine is provided with an air throttle valve fitted in its intake system, which when operated to provide throttling action decreases the air flow in the intake system of the engine and increases the temperature of the exhaust gases of the engine, in order to heat up a soot particle catcher fitted to the exhaust system which thus is purged by combusting the accumulation of soot particles in it. When the air throttle valve is thus throttling the intake system and thus raising the temperature of the exhaust gases so as to purge the soot particle catcher, the amount of throttling provided by the air throttle valve is controlled, by comparing the pressure in the intake system downstream of the air throttle valve with a certain reference pressure, so as to keep this pressure in the intake system downstream of the air throttle valve substantially the same as this reference pressure.

Abstract: In an inclinometer of the type wherein inclinations in the fore and aft and left and right directions of a motor car are displayed independently, there are provided a pair of intermeshing sector gears, weights mounted on one of the sector gears, display discs mounted on shafts of one sector gears, and a scale cooperating with respective display discs for displaying pitching and rolling angles of the motor car.

Abstract: A voice signal converting device is adapted for a digital communication network which handles digitized voice signals and data signals simultaneously or equally. A bit for discriminating whether a signal in communication is a voice signal or a data signal is applied in a digital signal channel. The voice signal converting device is connected to a digital communication path to detect the discrimination bit from the incoming signal in such a manner that when a bit group corresponding to the discrimination bit represents the voice signal, the bit group is converted into a predeterminedly correlated bit group and delivered out and when the bit group corresponding to the discrimination bit represents the data signal, this bit group is delivered out in its original form.