Abstract: An engine room temperature rise restricting apparatus including an open and close detector of the grille shutter, and a controller including a CPU and a memory coupled to the CPU, wherein the CPU and the memory are configured to perform: detecting a stuck-closed failure of a grille shutter of a condition that the grille shutter remains closed regardless of an open instruction for the grille shutter, based on signal from the open and close detector; and controlling a speed ratio of a continuously variable transmission so that an upper limit of an engine rotational speed or an engine driving force when the stuck-closed failure is detected is smaller than an upper limit of the engine rotational speed or the engine driving force when the stuck-closed failure is not detected.

Abstract: An engine room temperature rise restricting apparatus including an open and close detector of the grille shutter, and a controller including a CPU and a memory coupled to the CPU, wherein the CPU and the memory are configured to perform: detecting a stuck-closed failure of a grille shutter of a condition that the grille shutter remains closed regardless of an open instruction for the grille shutter, based on signal from the open and close detector; and controlling a speed ratio of a continuously variable transmission so that an upper limit of an engine rotational speed or an engine driving force when the stuck-closed failure is detected is smaller than an upper limit of the engine rotational speed or the engine driving force when the stuck-closed failure is not detected.

Abstract: The horizontal deflection apparatus has a separator whose cross-section takes a saddle-shape form, and horizontal deflecting coils are comprised of three coil groups connected in a series to each other. The first coil group is wound on the outermost circumference on the inside of the main structure of the separator, the second coil group is wound at a predetermined distance from the first coil group, and the third coil group is wound at a predetermined distance from the second coil group. Deflecting efficiency at the deflection center is improved because the deflection magnetic field generated from the second and third coil groups is generated at the deflection center.

Abstract: An intake manifold adapted for use with an engine having two intake ports for each cylinder incorporates an aluminum plenum chamber having an air inlet and air outlets twice the number of cylinders of the engine in number, and a plurality of branch pipes of wrought aluminum connected to the respective air outlets of the plenum chamber. One of the two branch pipes to be connected to the intake ports for each cylinder is larger in the length of the channel than the other branch pipe. The two branch pipes are equal in the cross sectional area of the pipe channel, or the branch pipe having the longer channel is smaller than the other branch pipe in the cross sectional area of the channel. The roughness of the inner surface of each branch pipe is up to 10 .mu.m, preferably up to 5 .mu.m, more preferably up to 1 .mu.m, in terms of center line average height.

Abstract: The invention is drawn to an intake manifold for an internal combustion engine. The manifold is made of an aluminum plenum chamber having an air inlet and a plurality of air outlets with a plurality of wrought aluminum branch pipes extending from the respective plenum outlets. The branch pipes have an inner peripheral surface of circular cross section. At least one of the branch pipes is deformed at an intermediate portion along its length thereby forming a clearance area so that the branch pipe is free from contact with the adjacent branch pipe.

Abstract: In an apparatus for converting received video signals of a first format, which has a first number of horizontal lines in a field or frame and a picture display of a first aspect ratio, to video signals of a second format, which has a second number of horizontal lines in a field or frame and a picture display of a second aspect ratio; an analog-to-digital converter converts the received video signals of the first format to digital video signals, a memory has addresses at which there are written at least a field of the digital video signals of the first format, whereupon, a reading circuit reads from the memory addresses less samples of the digital video signals than were written in the memory and the digital video signals thus read from the memory are converted back to analog form, and a controller is provided for variably determining a start address of the addresses in the memory from which video signal data are read.

Abstract: According to the party selecting circuit arrangement of a telephone of the present invention, an owner of the telephone can avoid a mischievous call or an erroneous call since it is so arranged that a call sound is discharged through the speaker only when the number given by the party other than the owner of the telephone is coincident with the telephone number stored as a secret number in the memory circuit of the telephone. Moreover, the party selecting circuit arrangement according to the present invention enables the owner of the telephone to identify the other party before he or she answers the call since an indicating element which indicates the number of the auto-dialing operation button provided correspondingly to the memory circuit storing the secret telephone number is turned on only at the above-described time.

Abstract: A telephone call selector in a telephone which comprises a memory circuit for storing a plurality of telephone numbers; an automatic dialing device operable to read out one of the telephone numbers from the memory circuit and to output a dialed signal representative of such one of the telephone numbers; a comparator for comparing a number, corresponding to a DTMF signal transmitted from a calling party subsequent to the receipt of a ringing signal generated from a local telephone of the calling party, with any one of identifier codes; and a loudspeaker device for emitting ringing sounds when the the number corresponding to the DTMF signal coincides with such one of the identifier codes. The telephone numbers stored in the memory circuit are utilized as the respective identifier codes.

Abstract: A side pincushion distortion correction circuit has an impedance circuit connected in series with the deflection coil in a television receiver. A controllable switch connected in parallel with the impedance circuit is operated by a switching signal, the phase of which is modulated by a combination of a parabolic signal at the vertical rate and a control signal corresponding to the brightness of a reproduced picture on the screen of the television receiver in order to maintain proper correction of side pincushion distortion despite variations in the brightness of a picture reproduced on the cathode ray tube of the television receiver.

Abstract: The beam forming means and static convergence correcting means in a color cathode ray tube are arranged to provide for proper convergence of the beams at regions remote from the center of the screen and closer to the corners. The resulting misconvergence at the center of the screen is then corrected by dynamic convergence correcting means which produces less beam distortion then if it had to correct misconvergence at the corners.