Abstract: A compressor assembled under desirable working conditions at a low cost is disclosed. In the compressor, the first rolling bearing for permitting axial movement of the shaft is inserted into the first housing from the side where the compression mechanism is to be provided, and the second rolling bearing for restricting axial movement of the shaft is inserted into the first housing from the other side where the driving source is to be provided. The shaft is inserted into the first housing from the side where the compression mechanism is to be provided. A seal member is further provided between the rolling bearings for sealing an area between the insertion hole and the shaft, wherein the seal member is inserted into the insertion hole of the first housing from the side where the compression mechanism is to be provided before the shaft is inserted into the insertion hole.

Abstract: A bi-phase mark reproduction apparatus which reduces an error rate of demodulated data by half and improves demodulation ability of ATIP and an optical disk drive device are provided. The bi-phase mark reproduction apparatus includes a data conversion unit which takes out a synchronous code portion, a data portion and an error detection code portion from a bi-phase mark input signal by means of a data separating signal and demodulates data of the data portion and the error detection code portion. The data conversion unit includes a pattern retrieval unit which detects a predetermined error pattern contained in the data portion and a conversion table which decodes the error pattern in accordance with a replacement rule based on bi-phase mark modulation.

Abstract: An optical disk apparatus, which decreases probability of impossibility of correcting an error in reading, is provided, where the error results from deviation of a writing-resuming position in resumption of writing. When an amount of data in a buffer becomes not more than a given amount of data, a buffer-underrun-detecting-circuit judges that the data are in a buffer-underrun-condition. According to the judgement, a writing-interrupting-and-resuming-circuit detects an end position of the last pit for writing, and the position is stored in a time-information-memory, and the optical disk apparatus becomes in a pause condition of writing. When the buffer-underrun-condition is avoided, the optical disk apparatus releases the pause condition of writing, and reads the position of interruption of writing from the time-information-memory, and then synchronizes data written on an optical disk and the data for writing.

Abstract: The present invention provides an insecticidal composition comprising, as active ingredients, (a) at least one pyrethroid compound and (b) an N-arylpyrazole compound such as 5-amino-3-cyano-1-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-4-trifluoromethylsulfmylpyrazole, and an insecticidal method which comprises applying the composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides an insecticidal composition comprising, as active ingredients, (a) at least one pyrethroid compound and (b) an N-arylpyrazole compound such as 5-amino-3-cyano-1-(2,6-dichloro)-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-4-trifluoromethylsulfinylpyrazole, and an insecticidal method which comprises applying the composition.

Abstract: A scroll compressor comprises a fixed scroll member and a revolving scroll member that engage with each other with their centrifugal walls, wherein the revolving scroll member is supported to revolve with respect to the fixed scroll member, but to avoid self-rotation thereof. The spiral-starting portion of the centrifugal wall comprises non-stepped portions formed along curves of &bgr;1-&bgr;1′ and &bgr;2-&bgr;2′ respectively, and a stepped portion formed along a curve &bgr;1′-&bgr;2′ that provides a thickness increase area encompassed by its upper-side curved surface and its lower-side curved surface. The discharge port is located on the end board of the fixed scroll member to partly overlap with the thickness increase area by partly hollowing the lower side of the stepped portion with the prescribed height.

Abstract: A plane-shaped lighting device has a light-directing plate and a light source that is placed in contact with or in the proximity of the light-incident surface of the light-directing plate, and the light source is constituted of a plurality of LED lamps each of which has an LED chip for emitting light and a semispherical lens for directing the light from the LED chip into the light-directing plate. Here, the distance from the LED chip to the top of the semispherical lens is set to be 1.8 times as long as the radius of curvature of the semispherical lens. This arrangement allows the light emitted from the LED chip to be efficiently incident on the light-incident surface of the light-directing plate, thereby improving the light-incidence efficiency to the light-directing plate. Further, the application of this plane-shaped lighting device to display devices makes it possible to improve the efficiency of light utilization, and consequently to provide thinner display devices with high visibility.

Abstract: A compressor assembled under desirable working conditions at a low cost is disclosed. In the compressor, the first rolling bearing for permitting axial movement of the shaft is inserted into the first housing from the side where the compression mechanism is to be provided, and the second rolling bearing for restricting axial movement of the shaft is inserted into the first housing from the other side where the driving source is to be provided. The shaft is inserted into the first housing from the side where the compression mechanism is to be provided. A seal member is further provided between the rolling bearings for sealing an area between the insertion hole and the shaft, wherein the seal member is inserted into the insertion hole of the first housing from the side where the compression mechanism is to be provided before the shaft is inserted into the insertion hole.

Abstract: The present invention provides an insecticidal composition comprising, as active ingredients, (a) at least one pyrethroid compound and (b) an N-arylpyrazole compound such as 5-amino-3-cyano-1-(2,6-dichloro)-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-4-trifluoromethylsulfinylpyrazole, and an insecticidal method which comprises applying the composition.

Abstract: A drive control apparatus for a stepping motor comprises a driving circuit connected to the stepping motor for driving the same, and a controller for outputting a control signal to the driving circuit so as to set up a W1-2 phase driving mode when the stepping motor is in an acceleration and deceleration states, and so as to set up 1-2 phase driving mode when the stepping motor is in a constant-speed state.

Abstract: Aldehydes are produced by reacting an olefinic compound with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst containing a metal of Group 8 to 10 and a phosphonite compound as a trivalent organic phosphorus compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides an insecticidal composition comprising, as active ingredients, (a) at least one pyrethroid compound and (b) an N-aryldiazole compound such as 5-amino-3-cyano-1-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl-4-trifluoromethylsulfinylpyrazole, and an insecticidal method which comprises applying the composition.

Abstract: A process for producing aldehydes, which comprises reacting a mono-olefinic compound with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a Group VIII transition metal compound of a bisphosphite compound of the following formula (1) or (2)

Abstract: The present invention provides an insecticidal composition comprising, as active ingredients, (a) at least one pyrethroid compound and (b) an N-aryldiazole compound such as 5-amino-3-cyano-1-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl-4-trifluoromethyls ulfinylpyrazole, and an insecticidal method which comprises applying the composition.

Abstract: A DBS tuner for satellite broadcasting receivers, includes an attenuating filter (trap circuitry) composed of a microstrip line having an open-ended load terminal which projects from the RF signal line or the power supply line.

Abstract: A plane-shaped lighting device has a light-directing plate and a light source that is placed in contact with or in the proximity of the light-incident surface of the light-directing plate, and the light source is constituted of a plurality of LED lamps each of which has an LED chip for emitting light and a semispherical lens for directing the light from the LED chip into the light-directing plate. Here, the distance from the LED chip to the top of the semispherical lens is set to be 1.8 times as long as the radius of curvature of the semispherical lens. This arrangement allows the light emitted from the LED chip to be efficiently incident on the light-incident surface of the light-directing plate, thereby improving the light-incidence efficiency to the light-directing plate. Further, the application of this plane-shaped lighting device to display devices makes it possible to improve the efficiency of light utilization, and consequently to provide thinner display devices with high visibility.

Abstract: An optical disk apparatus comprising a reproduced signal detector which digitizes a reproduced signal from an optical disk, a broadband synchronizing clock signal generator for generating a synchronizing clock signal for use in reproducing data, a signal processor for processing signals, and a disk rotation controller for controlling the optical disk by switching control modes according to the reproducing position of the disk, that is, performing CAV control using the constant rotating velocity which is the same as the current rotating velocity in a range where the synchronizing clock signal generator allows a reproduced signal to be subjected to pull-in-synchronization, and performing CLV control so that the linear velocity is constant to minimize the pull-in-enable changes of number of revolutions in a range exceeding the pull-in-synchronization range, by which arrangement the amount of change of number of spindle motor revolutions when the reproducing position of the optical pickup changes is minimized, th

Abstract: The present invention provides an insecticidal composition comprising, as active ingredients, (a) at least one pyrethroid compound and (b) an N-aryldiazole compound such as 5-amino-3-cyano-1-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl-4-trifluoromethyls ulfinylpyrazole, and an insecticidal method which comprises applying the composition.

Abstract: A bisphosphite compound of the following formula (A): ##STR1## wherein --Ar--Ar-- is a bisarylene group represented by any one of the formulae (A-I) to (A-III) defined in the specification, and each of Z.sub.1 to Z.sub.4 is a C.sub.4-20 aromatic or heteroaromatic group which may have a substituent, wherein each of substituents on carbon atoms of an aromatic ring adjacent to the carbon atom bonded to the oxygen atom in each of Z.sub.1 to Z.sub.4, is a C.sub.0-2 group, and each pair of Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2, and Z.sub.3 and Z.sub.4, are not bonded to each other.

Abstract: A plane-shaped lighting device has a light-directing plate and a light source that is placed in contact with or in the proximity of the light-incident surface of the light-directing plate, and the light source is constituted of a plurality of LED lamps each of which has an LED chip for emitting light and a semispherical lens for directing the light from the LED chip into the light-directing plate. Here, the distance from the LED chip to the top of the semispherical lens is set to be 1.8 times as long as the radius of curvature of the semispherical lens. This arrangement allows the light emitted from the LED chip to be efficiently incident on the light-incident surface of the light-directing plate, thereby improving the light-incidence efficiency to the light-directing plate. Further, the application of this plane-shaped lighting device to display devices makes it possible to improve the efficiency of light utilization, and consequently to provide thinner display devices with high visibility.