Abstract: A screw fluid machine comprising female and male rotors each including foward and backward flanks each having a reference profile, respectively, wherein on at least one of the forward and backward flanks of the female and male rotors a modified profile is obtained by appropriately angularly shifting the reference profile around a center of the associated rotor to provide proper backlash between the engaged rotors.

Abstract: A cigarette buffer reservoir system includes mobile containers (18) which are loaded and unloaded by transfer of successive batches of cigarettes between the container and a common transfer station (16) connected to a mass flow conveyor system (2-19) linking at least one maker (3) and at least one packer (5). The transfer station (16) has suction assistance (32) bearing on the ends of the cigarettes to allow separation of cigarettes in a container into batches for transfer during unloading. The transfer station (16) preferably also includes a conveyor (26) with retractable spaced partitions (30) for supplying or receiving successive batches, and at least one pusher (32,34) for transferring batches to or from the conveyor in a direction parallel to the cigarettes.

Abstract: A hermetic rotary compressor has a motor unit composed of a stator and a rotor which are arranged in an upper portion of a hermetic housing, an oil-lubricated compressor unit arranged in a lower portion of the hermetic housing, a crank shaft which interconnects said motor unit and said compressor unit, a discharging silencer which is formed by a lower bearing of the compressor unit positioned around the lower end of the crank shaft and a cover of the lower bearing. The hermetic rotary compressor further has a lower balancing weight mounted around a lower shaft end portion of the crank shaft which extends to a position below the discharging silencer and a weight cup surrounding the lower balancing weight. In this hermetic rotary compressor, the lower balancing weight is not disposed within the discharging silencer.

Abstract: In a jet aircraft having a drive which rotatably drives an airframe mounted accessory drive (12), a system for controlling the connection of the drive to the airframe mounted accessory drive is disclosed which permits the manual connection and disconnection of a rotatable shaft (18) from a driven shaft (22) with high reliability by a manually movable handle (30) which is connected to a fork (88) which is rotatable between first and second positions which translates a movable carrier (20) which carries the driven shaft between first and second positions. The system has minimal backlash which insures high integrity in sensed positions of the system which is necessary for safe operation of the aircraft.

Abstract: A sequence for detecting variations in the blood flow speed in the blood vessel is added before a measurement of imaging signals so as to determine the highest and/or the lowest speed points of time and an examined body is imaged two times at those timings. In this way the timing for setting the delay time measured from the R wave can be determined automatically and thus it is possible to obtain a blood vessel image of high quality in a short time with the minimum number of two images.

Abstract: A binary digital full adder as a component element of a digital circuit receives three binary signals including two input signals and a carry-in from the lower digit. The adder comprises a four-state logic converter for adding together the three binary signals in terms of current addition to convert the sum into a four-state logic signal, and an encoder for deciding a four-state logic level to encode it into a binary sum and a carry-out.

Abstract: A parabolic antenna dish has a circumferential reinforcement flange portion defined by a ridge line which is devoid of air holes and a mesh plate portion integrally connected to the inner periphery of the reinforcement flange portion, the mesh plate portion having as many air holes as possible formed in a region which is not smaller than 80% in terms of the radius of the radiowave reflecting surface.

Abstract: In an electronic chip supplying apparatus, a vacuum suction device for sucking a retainer tape which encases electronic chips is provided in a retainer tape support member provided at an opening position where the electronic chips are picked up from a chip pickup device, or a tension applying device for the retainer is provided. Thus, vertical fluctuation of the retainer tape is prevented at the opening position.

Abstract: An ink paper cassette has ink paper, a supply shaft for supplying the ink paper, a take-up shaft for winding the ink paper, a front connecting portion for rotatably supporting first ends of the supply and the take-up shafts and a rear connecting portion for rotatably supporting second ends of the supply and the take-up shafts. The ink paper cassette is to be loaded into a printer. The printer performs thermal prints of characters and/or pictorial images onto a transfer paper with the ink paper loaded in the ink paper cassette. The front connecting portion has a depth so greater than that of the rear connecting portion that the front connecting portion is brought into abutment with a front face of a printer mechanism, whereby preventing the ink paper cassette from being loaded into the printer.

Abstract: A skip table is prepared from which a state of a subsequent symbol string and an address of one or plural symbols to be subsequently inputted can be readily determined by making reference to a set of a current symbol string search state and one or plural symbols to be subsequently inputted of the symbol string. When executing searching for the symbol string, data stored in the skip table are looked up to assure the symbol string search by inputting only a minimized number of necessary characters of the symbol string. Necessity of inputting all the characters of the symbol string for searching is eliminated and the processing speed can be increased considerably. A plurality of symbol strings may be searched for.

Abstract: A ceramic conduit with a metal outer tube is joined to bonding rings through insert members between end surfaces of the rings and annular bonding surfaces, with the annular bonding surface being not parallel to the axis of the conduit and the insert member being bonded to the ring and conduit. The rings are joined to the outer tube through welds between forward ends of annular protrusions provided in end surfaces which are the reverse surfaces of the surface bonded with the insert members and the forward ends of annular protrusions provided in axial end surfaces of the outer tube. The inner periphery of the outer tube is fitted on the outer periphery of the conduit with a small gap therebetween. The rings are bonded to the conduit with the insert members by being pressed against the conduit in the axial direction of the conduit and only a small quantity of heat is transmitted from the welds to other portions.

Abstract: A paper feeding device for a paper cassette of an image processing apparatus. The paper cassette is mounted at a specific position on the image processing apparatus in a manner permitting the cassette to be pulled out. A preliminary feed roller feeds the paper on the paper cassette toward a feed roller which is normally energized in a paper pressing direction. When the paper cassette is mounted in the image processing apparatus, the document setting board disposed in the paper cassette is upwardly turned by a pressing mechanism. When the paper cassette is pulled out, the feed roller from the paper cassette is turned in reversed direction. A feed channel to guide the paper from the paper cassette is formed in a curved manner, and a normally turned delivery roller is provided inside the curved channel.

Abstract: In a pressure foot used in an apparatus for drilling printed circuit boards, which includes a bearing for holding a spindle, and formed at the end portion thereof with an inner void space having a bottom hole for passing the drill bit, the end portion of the pressure foot is provided with an annular end surface possibly contacting with the printed circuit board and air injection ports for injecting compressed air into the inner space. The air injection ports are so directed that the air flow from each injection port is tangently contacts with the circumferential surface of the drill.

Abstract: A method is provided for transporting in a duct a fluid comprising gas and water, and being under conditions where at least one hydrate is formed, the hydrates being formed from said gas and said water, wherein, before or during the formation of the hydrate or hydrates, an additive is injected into said fluid for reducing the tendency to agglomeration of the hydrate so as to obtain one or more hydrates in dispersed form, and said fluid is transported containing said hydrate or hydrates in dispersed form.

Abstract: A carbon-carbon mirror for high thermal input space applications is comprised of a plurality of thermally conductive, metallic layers formed as a laminate structure atop a carbon-carbon substrate. Within the laminate structure, a first thin adhesion layer of chromium is formed directly on the surface of a carbon-carbon substrate. Atop the adhesion layer, a plating base layer of gold or copper is deposited, followed by a thick working/smnoothing layer of nickel, which serves as the optically reflective surface of the mirror. The nickel layer is polished to a precision flatness or smoothness. Because the underlying gold and chromium layers possess high thermal conductivity, they enhance the transmission of heat from the cladding layer to the underlying carbon-carbon substrate, thereby preventing the laminate from absorbing heat, which would lead to delamination of the structure.

Abstract: A scanning electron microscope for observing and measuring a minute pattern of a sample comprising an electron lens for focusing an electron beam from an electron source onto the sample, wherein the electron beam scans on the sample, an inclining means for inclining the sample at an arbitrary angle .alpha., and two secondary electron detectors are disposed at the position which are respectively turned at the same angle .theta. around the central axis of the electron beam from a plane which contains an axis of inclination of the sample and a central axis of the electron beam. As it is possible to measure the length of the minute pattern by detecting the secondary electron having a symmetrical wave-form while observing the minute pattern at the arbitrary angle, high measuring accuracy is attained.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory of a dual-port type which has input/output circuits and which has respective semiconductor memory units having a memory array of rows and columns of memory cells, a pluraliity of sense amplifiers coupled to one end of the memory array data lines and being respectively associated with individual pairs of complementary data lines, a row address decoder for selectively applying signals to the word lines, column switches for providing either selective or simultaneous connection of the plurality of complementary pairs of data lines to a pair of complementary common data lines, write amplifiers for supplying predetermined write signals to respective data lines via the common data lines and column switches, the sense amplifiers becoming operational during a predetermined mode of operation subsequent to the transfer of write signals to the data lines and the write signals being supplied from the write amplifiers are, furthermore, made to have a minute level equal to or greater than that of a ty

Abstract: A data processing apparatus of processing first instruction of a type in which the result of operation of the first instruction is stored in at least one storage location designated by operands of the first instruction and second instruction of a type which succeeds to the first instruction and makes use of the result of operation of the first instruction as operand data. The apparatus comprises an OSC control circuit for detecting whether at least a part of the result of operation of the first instruction is to be used or not as the operand data for the second instruction, and an arithmetic unit for allowing the result of operation of the first instruction to be directly used as the operand data for the second instruction when the OSC control circuit detects the given condition is fulfilled.

Abstract: An easily openable packaging container produced by heat-sealing a container member with a lid member, the easily openable packaging container comprising:(a) a container member including a recess portion and an integral flange portion surrounding the recess portion; and(b) a multilayer lid member including an inner layer and a substrate layer adjacent to the inner layer being peelable from the inner layer, the inner layer being heat-sealed to the flange portion outside the inner edge of the flange portion and inside the outer edge of the flange portion and having a first circular depression therein outside the outer edge of the heat-sealed portion and inside the outer edge of the flange portion and a second circular depression therein inside the inner edge of the heat-sealed portion and outside the inner edge of the flange portion, the first circular depression and the second circular depression being formed by pressing pressure, the first and second circular depression being for cutting the inner layer when s

Abstract: A compound semiconductor structure in the form of a superlattice film with effectively graded average composition, comprising an alternating lamination of two kinds of layers of different composition to form pairs of layers, the ratio of the thickness of one layer to the thickness of the other in said pairs of layers being gradually varied in the direction of thickness throughout successive pairs, thereby the average composition being effectively graded throughout the pairs. In a hetero-junction field effect transistor, the layer of effectively graded composition is used between a semiconductor layer making low resistance contact with a current-supplying electrode and a semiconductor layer where a two dimensional channel is to be formed. In case of AlGaAs/GaAs system, the Al composition is varied. When the superlattice film is heat-treated, Al in the AlGaAs layer diffuses into the GaAs layer, yielding a film with actually smoothly graded Al mole fraction.