Abstract: A plurality of shift control valves for independently controlling the supply of hydraulic oil to, and the discharge thereof from, a plurality of hydraulic engaging elements are divided into a first group of shift control valves which establish a predetermined-speed transmission train and a second group of shift control valves corresponding to the other hydraulic engaging elements. A fail-safe valve is interposed between an oil supply passage which is connected to a hydraulic pressure source and the second group of speed change control valves. The fail-safe valve is switched to a closed position in a condition in which the hydraulic oil is supplied to all of such plurality of hydraulic engaging elements as are not to be engaged at the same time, whereby the oil supply passage is connected only to the first group of shift control valves. Each of the first group of shift control valves is provided with an oil chamber for urging it toward an oil supply position.

Abstract: A mixed feed or a feed additive, which comprises Cucurbita Seed, Plantago and Lornicera.Other crude drugs such as Safflower, Licorice, Mabiacao, Pugongying, Houttuynia and Juhua may be compounded in addition to the above crude drugs.For breeding cattle, swine, fowl, Hamachi, and the like, the above-described mixed feed, or the feed additive compounded with the marketed feed may be used.The resistance to diseases of the fed animals is improved, healthy candicidin can be maintained during the breeding, and the meat quality, egg quality, or the like is improved.

Abstract: In a radiation detection device using superconducting tunnel junctions, the increase in electric capacitance and the decrease in electric resistance due to the increase in junction area for improvement of the detection efficiency are largely repressed by the invention. The junctions are connected in series. The number of the series-connected junctions is settled in the range of larger than 0.05 (SC.sub.o /C')0.5 and smaller than 20 (SC.sub.o /C')0.5 or 10SCo/C', whichever is larger, where S is the total area of the junctions, cm.sup.2, C.sub.o is the electric capacitance per unit area of the junctions, F/cm.sup.2, and C' is the electric capacitance connected to the device in parallel so as to transfer and amplify the signals from the device, F.

Abstract: In an optical reader a lens system is located between a source of light designed to illuminate an object to be read and the object. The lens system is designed to refract and diffuse the light produced by the light source to reduce the deleterious effect of specular light reflected from the illuminated object into the optical reader and an image sensor designed to convert reflected photo signals into electric analog signals. In one embodiment of the invention the optical reader includes an array of LEDs and a lens having prisms located in front of each LED for refracting or bending the light output of each LED to reduce the generation of specular light being reflected. In another embodiment the optical reader includes a lens with a light shield strip to prevent the generation of specular light.

Abstract: A method of inspecting a liquid crystal panel and determining the type of defect. Each part of the liquid crystal panel is extracted and inspected by comparison with an extracted reference part. The parts to be inspected may be found based on the location of previously found parts or by examining a plot of the density in the image. Vector data from a part that is known to be defectless is used to extract the reference part. Alternatively, the contour of a reference part may be determined by analyzing the vector data which was obtained for the parts to be inspected. The type of defect is determined by classifying the defective part according to characteristics of the part's image (e.g., brightness of the pixels) as compared with parts having known defects.

Abstract: A graphic display method and apparatus including a plurality of virtual device coordinate systems independent of a coordinate system of a physical screen in which a graphic image to be displayed is independently drawn in a virtual device space of the corresponding virtual device coordinate system so as to map a specified area of each virtual device space onto the virtual screen at a specified position, thereby displaying a specified area of a virtual memory in a physical screen. Furthermore, code data of characters and graphics and image data are written in a logical screen buffer as drawing elements to be located at arbitrary positions of the logical screen such that a unit, specifying an area which is located at an arbitrary position and which has an arbitrary size in the logical screen causes the combining and editing of character, graphic, and image data already written in the specified area of the logical screen and the generating, as a result, of new image data.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible for unskilled to inspect the total surface of a liquid crystal panel accurately in short time. It is defined that a liquid crystal panel can be divided into a single part which is a constituent, isolable, and an inspectable area, and that the single part to be "unit area of image" which is defined as a pattern to be inspected. Before the inspection, a unit area of an image without defect is selected from a liquid crystal panel to be inspected. The upper limit reference pattern and the lower limit reference pattern are generated by giving the maximal brightness in a convolution and adding the predetermined brightness and by giving the minimal brightness in the convolution and subtracting the predetermined brightness, respectively, to each pixel of the convolution.

Abstract: A superconducting tunnel junction radiation sensing device includes first and second superconductor electrodes and a tunnel barrier layer interposed therebetween. The tunnel barrier layer is made up of a thin-wall portion and a thick-wall portion each formed of a semiconductor or an insulator, and each having opposite surfaces respectively contacting the first and second superconductor electrodes, and each extending adjacent each other in a same horizontal plane between the first and second electrodes. The thick-wall portion has a vertical thickness which is at least twice that of the thin-wall portion. Furthermore, the thickness of the thin-wall portion is such that a tunnel effect is enabled therethrough form the first electrode to the second electrode, and the thickness of the thick-wall portion is such that a tunnel effect is substantially prohibited therethrough from the first electrode to the second electrode.

Abstract: It is possible to inspect a printed matter precisely because lines are surely and accurately extracted by the present invention. Extraction of lines are the important point for the judgment if a character is correctly printed or not. The printed matter inspection method according to the present invention comprises the following steps: i) an image of a predetermined area including a line is input; ii) a density projection is performed on said input image; iii) a start point and end point of change of density are emphasized in said density projection; iv) the center pixel in each predetermined convolution is substituted by the minimal density pixel in each said convolution; v) a density projection is performed; and vi) said printed matter defective or not is judged according to said density projection in v).

Abstract: A nuclear reactor facility including a primary containment vessel, a reactor pressure vessel installed in the primary containment vessel and accommodating a reactor core in a lower part thereof, and a vertical cylindrical wall disposed in a lower part of the primary containment vessel around and spaced from the reactor pressure vessel so as to delimit an annular space therebetween. The vertical cylindrical wall has an upper end disposed at a position higher than an upper end of the reactor core and a diaphragm extends substantially horizontally between the upper end of the vertical cylindrical wall and an inner wall of the primary containment vessel for cooperating with the vertical cylindrical wall to separate a space in the primary containment vessel around the reactor pressure vessel into a pressure suppression chamber and a drywell which includes annular space.

Abstract: A container-outer-periphery pool in which water is stored is provided between a primary containment vessel and a reactor building, and outside of a pressure suppression pool. Consequently, the natural heat transfer capabilities of reactor facilities is enhanced, and the inherent safety of the reactor facilities is improved.

Abstract: A color picture tube having a shadow mask structure with a shadow mask and a mask frame supporting the shadow mask facing a phosphor screen inside a panel comprises a plurality of V-shaped support members, each having a folded portion apart from a sidewall of the mask frame and two arm portions extending from the folded portion.The support members support the shadow mask structure to the panel to control a relative distance beween the phosphor screen and the shadow mask according to thermal expansion of the shadow mask structure or the panel, whereby positions impinged by an electron beam on the phosphor screen remained invariably.

Abstract: A deflection device generating magnetic field for electron beam deflection comprises, a cylindrical mold, a horizontal deflection coil provided inside the mold, a magnetic core attached to outside of the mold, a vertical deflection coil wound on the core, and magnetic member means for modifying deflection field distribution, interposed between the mold and vertical deflection coil.The deflection device further includes a porous ceramic layer for heat dissipation coated on at least a part of the outer surfaces of the mold, horizontal deflection coil, vertical deflection coil and magnetic member means.

Abstract: A container made of synthetic resin and provided at one portion thereof with at least one tightly closable opening, which container has on a surface thereof a continuous coating having a gas barrier characteristic comprising low permeability to oxygen and carbon dioxide by the plasma treatment reaction of a mixture of a silicon compound having the general formula I with a silicon compound having the general formula II: ##STR1## wherein m=1-5, n=1-5, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkoxy or phenyl or OH.

Abstract: A matrix pin board has a plurality of transversely and longitudinally extending I-shaped elements with the flanges having a plurality of semicircular recesses spaced at intervals along the edges thereof. The I-shaped elements are side by side to form two insulating plates with channels therethrough and the flanges abutting to define holes at the recesses therein. The bottom flanges of the uppermost elements have a plurality of T-shaped transverse recesses therein at spaced intervals therealong, and the top flanges on the lowermost I-shaped elements extend through the T-shaped recesses. The holes defined by the flanges of the elements are aligned in vertical lines extending through the channels.