Abstract: A discharge disposing apparatus is provided with a diaper cup body 2 enveloping the waist and hips of a human body, a cleaning water feeding hose connected to the diaper cup body 2 for feeding water into the inside of the diaper cup body, and a filth sucking hose connected to the diaper cup body 2 for sucking the cleaning water and the filth from within the inside of the diaper cup body. The diaper cup body 2 is composed of a base body 2x provided with the cleaning water feeding hose 2p and the filth sucking hose 2n, a caterpillar-like joint 2a rotatably coupled with the base body 2x, and a front cover 2b rotatably coupled with the caterpillar-like joint 2a. The caterpillar-like joint 2a is connected with a plurality of joint pieces 2a1, 2a2, 2a3, 2a4, and 2a5. The diaper of the present invention provides a discharge disposing apparatus in which the exchange operation is made easily without any leakage of water, and the diaper cup body 2 is adjustable to fit human bodies of different sizes.

Abstract: A control system is disclosed which permits information captured by each sensor to be sent exactly to a main controller and a fall in the level of sensor signals with time to be automatically compensated for with no need to make sensor signal lines long and without reducing the sensor monitoring accuracy and limiting the number of sensors used. The levels of signals from sensors connected to each of unit controllers are compared with slice levels. The results of comparisons are converted into a serial signal and then transmitted to the main controller. Each time the sensor signal level is monitored, the optimum slice level therefor is set.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a motor control circuits and a control system comprising the motor control circuits.

Abstract: A scanning reduction projection aligner has an image field twice wider than an image field of a stepping reduction production aligner, and plural first latent images and plural second latent images are formed in a first photo resist layer and a second photo resist layer spread over a semiconductor wafer in different phases of a fabrication process of a semiconductor device by using the stepping reduction projection aligner and the scanning reduction projection aligner, respectively; when the first latent images are formed in the first photo resist layer, narrow areas of the first photo resist layer are aligned with a reticle by using an alignment mark on the semiconductor wafer at every other pattern transfer so that each second latent image is exactly superimposed on one of the pairs of first latent images in spite of incorrect perpendicularity of orthogonal coordinates virtually determined over the semiconductor wafer.

Abstract: An exposure method which makes it possible to determine the amount of exposure and the placement error with the use of fewer monitoring patterns is provided. A scribing region of an exposure mask includes a first monitoring pattern of geometric shapes and a second monitoring pattern of geometric shapes. The shapes of the first pattern are arranged at a constant pitch and have the same size. The shapes of the second pattern are arranged at the same pitch as that of the shapes of the first pattern and have different sizes from each other. By illuminating the substrate twice using the exposure mask, first and second images of the circuit pattern region and first and second images of the scribing region are formed on the substrate so that the second image of the scribing region is adjacent to the first image of the scribing region. The second image of the shapes of the second pattern is compared with the first image of the shapes of the first pattern.

Abstract: A device for disposing excrement, comprising a diaper cup (1) having a main body (101) for encompassing a human body's hip and buttocks, a washing water sending hose (105) connected to the main body (101) for passing washing water to an interior of the diaper cup (1), and a human waste sucking hose (104) connected to the main body (101) for sucking washing water and waste from the interior of the diaper cup (1). A front cover (103) is mounted to the main body (101) of the diaper cup (1) through bellows joints (102) so that the front cover (103) can be freely bent. A sensor coupler (107) is electrically connected to a bowel movement perceiving sensor (109) mounted to the main body (101) of the diaper cup (1). The washing water sending hose (105), human waste sucking hose (104), and sensor coupler (107) are bundled together into a single hose unit (123) to facilitate attachment and removal of the hoses and sensor coupler from the main body (101) of the diaper cup (1).

Abstract: There is provided a photomultiplier in which a transmittance of an incident light and a photosensitivity is high and a hysteresis characteristic is excellent. Therefore, in the present invention, a photocathode 16, dynodes 17a to 17c and an anode 18 are supported between insulating material substrates 12a and 12b provided in a glass bulb 11. A transparent conductive film 19 is formed on an inside wall surface of a light entrance portion 15. The transparent conductive film 19 electrically contacts with a pad 20 which is led through a terminal 14 to the outside. The same potential as the photocathode 12 is applied through the pad 20 to the transparent conductive film 19. The incident light directly impinges on the photocathode 16 through the glass bulb 11 and the transparent conductive film 19 at a place corresponding to the light entrance portion 15. As a result, the incident light reaches the photocathode 12 with not being interfered at all, and the transmittance of the incident light is improved.

Abstract: An optimum route determination apparatus comprises a plurality of specific points selected from a road map on the basis of a fixed criterion, and an optimum route leading to each destination in which one of the specific points is a departure point and which has been calculated in advance. A route memory has a route table in which data of an initial route leading from the one of the specific points to at least the next specific point through which the optimum route passes are stored in correspondence with the each destination and the one of the specific points. An initialization unit is provided for setting a destination, a specific point near to a vehicle's current location, and specific points along the optimum route. An initial route acquisition unit is provided for retrieving the route table to acquire the data of the initial route in accordance with the destination and the specific point set by the initialization unit.

Abstract: A cathode for photoelectric emission or a cathode for secondary electron emission comprises a thin film made of a material which emits photoelectrons by an incident light or emits secondary electrons by an electron input on a base substrate. The average particle size of the particles forming the thin film is 200 nm to 2000 nm. It is preferred that the average particle size is nearly equal to an average diffusion length of the particle of an excited electron. Further, the average particle size is preferably larger than the mean value of penetration lengths of inputted electrons or incident lights in the particles. Moreover, preferably convexities and/or concavities formed of particles each having the average particle size are formed over the surface of a plane for the incident light or electron input. Further, it is preferred that the thin film is activated by an alkali metal and is made of compounds of at least one kind of alkali metal and an antimony metal.

Abstract: An electron lens electrode for guiding photoelectrons emitted from a photocathode to an electron multiplier section is arranged between the photocathode and the light-incident portion of a sealed container, and an opening is formed at a portion of the electron lens electrode opposing the light-incident portion. Incident light reaches the photocathode through the opening without being scattered or absorbed at all. The transmittance of light incident on a photomultiplier is improved, and the output waveform is uniformed, resulting in an improved S/N ratio.

Abstract: A cash managing system comprises a plurality of automatic teller machines for receiving and dispensing cash from and to a customer, a cash arrangement device for arranging cash to be handled in the teller machines, and a plurality of loading safes. Each loading safe is designed to be selectively mounted in a desired one of the teller machines and the cash arrangement device, and transfers cash between the teller machine and the cash arrangement device. The cash arrangement device includes a data memory for storing cash data with respect to each teller machine. The cash data includes denominations and the amount of cash to be loaded in each teller machine. When a loading safe is mounted in a mount section of the cash arrangement device, a transfer mechanism of the device transfers cash, having the denomination and amount stored in the memory means, to the mounted loading safe.

Abstract: In an image pickup device comprising photodetectors (1), vertical transfer portions (2), transfer gate areas (3) each provided between one of the photodetectors (1) and the corresponding one of the vertical transfer portions (2), a storage portion (7), a horizontal transfer portion (5) and an output portion (6), the whole of which are formed on a semiconductor substrate, wherein signal charges obtained in the photodetectors (1) during a light receiving period are read out through the transfer gate areas (3) to the vertical transfer portions (2) during a reading out period, then transferred from the vertical transfer portions (2) to the storage portion (7) at high speed and further transferred through the horizontal transfer portion (5) to the output portion (6); the transfer gate areas (3) are of high impurity density, and each of the vertical transfer portions (2) is surrounded by a region (13) of high impurity density including the transfer gate areas.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a charge transfer device for multiplexing signals and eliminates an output circuit and level adjusting circuit necessary for multiplexing signals in the prior art. There are provided at least two first and second transfer channels (34) and (35) for transferring signal charges and a third transfer channel (36) for alternately multiplexing the signal charges which are transferred within the transfer channels (34) and (35). To the first and second transfer channels (34) and (35) is supplied the same transfer clock signal and to the third transfer channel is supplied a second transfer clock signal with a frequency of which is n times the transfer channels before the signals are multiplexed. a multiphase clock with different phases of the clock being applied to spatially corresponding electrodes is used in the invention.

Abstract: An input circuit for a charge transfer device in which within a region of the input gate of its charge transfer element the potential barrier same as that in the transfer section thereof is provided and the same digital input signal is supplied to a pair of input gates.