Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device (such as guidewire inserter) for easily and certainly inserting a medical long item having a curved tip into a tube such as catheter and sheath. The guidewire inserter is a tubular member having therein a bore for passage of a guidewire. The tubular member has a slit cutting across the wall thereof over the total length thereof. The tubular member has at the proximal end thereof an aperture, which results from the slit expanding toward the proximal end. The tubular member has at the proximal end of the aperture an open part and a connecting part adjacent thereto for the holder tube. There are a pair of wing-like protruded pieces projecting in the mutually opposite directions at both sides of the open part. The distal end of the tubular member has on its outer surface a pair of protruded rims, which project in the mutually opposite directions with respect to the central axis of the tubular member.

Abstract: Provided in a catalyst system are: a first reaction part fitted with a first catalyst containing, as active constituents, at least, a complex oxide consisting of two or more oxides selected from among silica, alumina, titania, zirconia, and tungsten oxide, and a rare earth metal or transition metal (except Cu, Co, Ni, Mn, Cr, and V); and a second reaction part fitted with a second catalyst containing, as active constituents, at least, a noble metal and a silica-alumina type complex oxide.

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes an AD converter and a self-test circuit configured to test the AD converter. The self-test circuit includes a clock generator which generates a clock for allowing the AD converter to AD-convert an external sine wave signal externally input, a sine wave generator which generates an internal sine wave signal in digital form, a subtractor which determines a differential signal between the AD-converted external sine wave signal and the internal sine wave signal, a PLL device which allows a phase-locked loop receiving the differential signal as an input to control a phase of the internal sine wave signal such that the internal sine wave signal is in phase with the external sine wave signal, and a root mean square calculator which calculates a root mean square of the differential signal to generate a diagnostic signal corresponding to the AD converter.

Abstract: An information reproducing apparatus reads information recorded on a recording medium and outputs a reproduced signal, and performs, for the reproduced signal, analog offset correction of correcting offset before AD conversion, digital offset correction of correcting offset after AD conversion, and offset detection of detecting an offset control amount from a corrected reproduced signal after the digital offset correction. Further, the information reproducing apparatus divides offset data indicating the detected offset control amount into first offset data of a least significant bit unit for the AD conversion of the reproduced signal or greater and second offset data less than the least significant bit unit so as to perform the digital offset correction using the first offset data and perform the analog offset correction using the second offset data.

Abstract: A lead-free solder paste printing method is practiced with use of a metal mask of the invention by placing the metal mask 1 on a circuit board 2 having an electrode 21 formed in a predetermined pattern to join an end portion of a lead member 6, and moving a printing squeegee along the upper surface of the metal mask 1 to thereby print a lead-free solder paste on the surface of the electrode 21 on the circuit board 2. The method produces on the electrode 21 of the circuit board 2 two lead-free solder paste patterns 30a, 30a each circular or elliptical in shape and arranged in a direction in which the lead member 6 is to extend from the electrode.

Abstract: An information storage medium on which characters, images, etc., can be optically formed with high visual distinguishability. In the information storage medium for allowing multilayer recording with a laser-emitted face on one side and a label face on the other side, the information storage medium includes: a first recording layer for optically recording various kinds of digital data from the laser-emitted face side; and a second recording layer for optically recording image data from the laser-emitted face side and allowing visual confirmation from the label face side.

Abstract: There is provided parallax correction means for correcting a parallax for each area calculated by parallax calculation means in accordance with the magnitude of a motion vector for the area detected by motion vector detection means in order to prevent the three-dimensional effect of a conversion video from greatly differing depending on an input video when the MTD method and the CID method are simultaneously used. When a depth estimate is converted into a parallax, the depth estimate is subjected to distance scale conversion in order to suppress the distortion of the conversion image, to find a tentative target phase for each parallax calculation area, and a dynamic range in which a phase difference between the parallax calculation areas is within a distortion allowable range is searched for and is subjected to distance scale conversion, to find a tentative target phase, which operations are repeated.

Abstract: The present invention provides a running control device for an industrial vehicle that has superior driving operability and that allows easy starting and stopping on road surfaces that have sloped or stepped surface. The running control device for an industrial vehicle includes an engine, a sensor that detects an operation amount of an accelerator member, a transmission that has a forward clutch and reverse clutch, a brake that applies braking to the vehicle, and a controller. The controller simultaneously controls the engine revolutions, the engaging force of the forward clutch and reverse clutch and the braking force of the brake in accordance with the operation amount.

Abstract: The present invention provides a running control device for an industrial vehicle which generates no speed change shock when the traveling direction is switched to the opposite direction by the forward-reverse selection member during the running of the vehicle.

Abstract: An optical pickup capable of selectively emitting blue light based and red light based laser beams is moved to a radial direction of an optical disk while emitting either of the laser beams, and it is detected whether or not a track pitch of the optical disk has changed based on a signal obtained from the optical pickup. In the case where a change in the track pitch of the optical disk has been detected, the blue light based laser beam is emitted from the optical pickup. In the case where a change in the track pitch of the optical disk is not detected, the red light based laser beam is emitted from the optical pickup.

Abstract: An optical disk device of the invention comprises a pickup which obtains a reading signal by irradiating an optical disk having plural recording layers with laser beam, a generating unit which generates a focus error signal from the reading signal, a control unit which focuses the laser beam based on the focus error signal, a holding unit which holds changes in a focus drive signal for driving the objective lens in a focus direction and the focus error signal as history information, and a determining section which determines where the focus position exists within the plural recording layers of the optical disk based on the focus error signal, the focus drive signal and the history information.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device (such as guidewire inserter) for easily and certainly inserting a medical long item having a curved tip into a tube such as catheter and sheath. The guidewire inserter is a tubular member having therein a bore for passage of a guidewire. The tubular member has a slit cutting across the wall thereof over the total length thereof. The tubular member has at the proximal end thereof an aperture, which results from the slit expanding toward the proximal end. The tubular member has at the proximal end of the aperture an open part and a connecting part adjacent thereto for the holder tube. There are a pair of wing-like protruded pieces projecting in the mutually opposite directions at both sides of the open part. The distal end of the tubular member has on its outer surface a pair of protruded rims, which project in the mutually opposite directions with respect to the central axis of the tubular member.

Abstract: A lead-free solder paste printing method is practiced with use of a metal mask of the invention by placing the metal mask 1 on a circuit board 2 having an electrode 21 formed in a predetermined pattern to join an end portion of a lead member 6, and moving a printing squeegee along the upper surface of the metal mask 1 to thereby print a lead-free solder paste on the surface of the electrode 21 on the circuit board 2. The method produces on the electrode 21 of the circuit board 2 two lead-free solder paste patterns 30a, 30a each circular or elliptical in shape and arranged in a direction in which the lead member 6 is to extend from the electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a running control device for an industrial vehicle which has superior driving operability, and which allows easy starting and stopping in place on road surfaces that have a slope or step parts. In a running control device for an industrial vehicle which comprises an engine, a sensor that detects an operation amount of an accelerator member, a transmission which has a forward clutch and reverse clutch, a brake that applies braking to the vehicle, and a controller which controls an engaging force of the forward clutch and reverse clutch and a braking force of the brake during the running of the vehicle, and which controls the engine revolutions on the basis of the operation amount, a construction is used in which the controller simultaneously controls the engine revolutions, the engaging force of the forward clutch and reverse clutch and the braking force of the brake in accordance with the operation amount.

Abstract: The present invention provides a running control device for an industrial vehicle which generates no speed change shock when the traveling direction is switched to the opposite direction by the forward-reverse selection member during the running of the vehicle.

Abstract: A boundary position detection apparatus in which the position of an imageless part (containing no meaningful image information) lying at the upper part or/and the lower part of a picture is precisely detected from a video signal. A line decision circuit decides whether each of lines constituting the picture belongs to an image part (containing meaningful image information) or to the imageless part. A boundary decision circuit decides the boundary between the image part and the imageless part. A time integration circuit integrates the detected boundary positions temporally, and determines a final boundary position. A detection control circuit finds an image-part region from the final position, detects the average luminance of the region and controls the integrating time interval of the time integration circuit with the average luminance.

Abstract: Nitrous oxide contained in a gas is directly decomposed by contacting the gas with a catalyst layer composed mainly of tin (IV) oxide at a reaction temperature of not less than 250.degree. C., preferably not less than 300.degree. C. Particularly when a cobalt (II) compound is added to the catalyst layer, nitrous oxide can be effectively removed to a low concentration by contacting the gas with the catalyst layer at the reaction temperature of not less than 200.degree. C., preferably not less than 300.degree. C. By the present process, nitrous oxide which has not conventionally effectively removed can be reliably removed at a low cost. The present process can be applied for the removal of nitrous oxide in exhaust gases discharged from a sludge-incinerating furnace, a boiler fine powder coal combustion furnace, etc.

Abstract: A rear fender mounting structure includes features for simplifying the assembly of a rear fender, sub-frame, and grab rails to a rear frame of a motorcycle. The sub-frame has brackets welded onto it. The brackets include holes with protruding collars defining the holes. The rear fender has holes lined with rubber bushings. The protruding collars are fitted into the rubber bushings. The rear fender includes a bracket which is hooked over a crossbar of the motorcycle frame. The fender is then lifted from its rear end, by pivoting the bracket about the crossbar. When alignment occurs between the bracket holes and holes in the rear frame, linkage plates with bolts extending therefrom, are employed. The bolts are passed through the aligned holes. Next, holes in the grab rails can be easily aligned with the ends of the bolts. Nuts are used to secure the arrangement.

Abstract: A boundary position detection apparatus in which the position of an imageless part (containing no meaningful image information) lying at the upper part or/and the lower part of a picture is precisely detected from a video signal. A line decision circuit decides whether each of lines constituting the picture belongs to an image part (containing meaningful image information) or to the imageless part. A boundary decision circuit decides the boundary between the image part and the imageless part. A time integration circuit integrates the detected boundary positions temporally, and determines a final boundary position. A detection control circuit finds an image-part region from the final position, detects the average luminance of the region and controls the integrating time interval of the time integration circuit with the average luminance.

Abstract: A measles vaccine virus AIK-C strain comprises genomic RNA that produces by reverse transcription cDNA having a specific nucleotide sequence indicative of the viral genomic RNA in the seed virus for measles vaccine or measles virus vaccine. The complete sequence of 15,894 nucleotides has been determined.