Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a switch unit for controlling the supply of a power source voltage to a signal amplification circuit for receiving an input signal, and a control unit for selectively turning ON and OFF the switch unit in accordance with the amplitude or frequency of the input signal. By the constitution, it is possible to provide an input circuit or an output circuit capable of being applied to an input/output interface adapted for a small amplitude operation.

Abstract: A ball joint comprises: a ball stud having a spherical head at an end thereof; a ball seat into which the spherical head is slidably fitted so as to universally support the ball stud; and a housing for accommodating the ball seat. The ball seat and the housing have surfaces opposing each other, and recesses communicated with each other are formed on the surfaces. The recesses are filled with a resin, so that relative movement of the ball seat with respect to the housing is restricted.

Abstract: A grass collection container for a lawnmower is provided to reduce the amount of blockage in an air-permeable region of the container. Materials, such as residual grass, that adhere to the container, cause the blockage. The grass collection container is made from cloth, sewn in the form of a bag, to collect grass that has been cut by a rotating cutting blade of the lawnmower and carried to the container by a flow of air. At least one section of the grass collection container is the air-permeable region that allows the flow of air to pass therethrough but does not allow the grass to pass therethrough. The air-permeable region carries thereon a photocatalyst that sterilizes and decomposes grass and organic materials. Therefore, the container is able to reduce the amount of blockage and suppress decay therein, thereby lowering the level of unpleasant odors.

Abstract: A hydraulic engine-starting system for cranking and starting an engine for a vehicle having automatically stopping and starting functions by a hydraulic motor. A hydraulic pressure that operates a hydraulic clutch of a transmission is raised promptly by using a hydraulic motor. The hydraulic motor is driven by a hydraulic pressure supplied thereto through a first oil passage from a hydraulic motor-driving device including an oil pump, an accumulator and a solenoid valve, thereby starting the engine. A transmission is disposed in the middle of a second oil passage for returning an oil discharged from the hydraulic motor to the hydraulic motor-driving device. Thus, the hydraulic pressure in the transmission can be raised simultaneously with the start of the engine to enable the engagement of a hydraulic clutch, thereby starting the vehicle promptly, while avoiding generating a shock from the engagement of the hydraulic clutch.

Abstract: A seat apparatus comprises a backrest portion which can be tilted, a hook mounted on the upper portion which is a tilting end, a sitting portion which can raise on a fulcrum, which is a front edge, and an engaged portion which can engage a book mounted on a rear. When the sitting portion is raised, the rear of the sitting portion is turned toward the backrest portion side. When the backrest portion is tilted forward, the hook is engaged with the engaged portion, the backrest portion and the sitting portion are fixed to each other, and then it is in a double folded state. The hook is arranged at a position where a tether strap for mounting an auxiliary seat on the backrest portion is hung. The hook is integrally formed with a guide of the tether strap.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a digital-to-analogue converter for converting a digital signal into an analogue signal to output an analogue current signal, a current-to-voltage converter for converting the analogue current signal output by the digital-to-analogue converter, into an analogue voltage signal whose level has been controlled, and a filter for filtering the analogue voltage signal converted by the current-to-voltage converter. The current-to-voltage converter converts the current signal into the voltage signal in which a factor variable in accordance with manufacturing process conditions and/or environmental conditions has been corrected.

Abstract: On the surface of a conductive substrate (1) of GaAs, Ge, Si, etc., a semiconductor lamination section including a light emitting layer forming portion (11) that has at least an n-type layer (4) and a p-type layer (6) made from a compound semiconductor of a Group III element and nitrogen and that is laminated so as to form a light emitting layer is formed through a buffer layer (2) suitable for the substrate. As a result, a semiconductor light emitting device using a Group III nitride compound semiconductor, which is of a vertical type that allows electrodes to be taken out from both of the upper and lower surfaces of a chip, has superior crystalline properties with high light emitting efficiency, and exhibits cleavage, is obtained. Therefore, it is possible to easily mount a LD chip on a sub-mount having a good thermal conductivity, and consequently to prevent a reduction and degradation in the light emitting efficiency (differential quantum efficiency) due to heat.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine with cylinders and a crankshaft, coolant discharged from a coolant circulating pump is supplied to a coolant jacket formed in a cylinder block via a coolant jacket formed in a cylinder head. An inlet port through which the coolant discharged from the coolant circulating pump flows into the coolant jacket is provided at one end portion of the cylinder head on an intake side thereof in a cylinder-head center line direction, whereas an outlet port through which the coolant in the coolant jacket is allowed to flow out into a heater core is provided at the other end portion of the cylinder head on an exhaust side thereof.

Abstract: A sensor probe and method of use for determining the temperature, velocity, and/or liquid volumetric fraction of gas laden with droplets. In one variation, the probe includes a single heating element used in a well-characterized flow. The heating element is maintained above the Leidenfrost transition for the droplets, which prevents cooling effects from the droplets from impacting the temperature measurement. In another variation, the probe includes two or more heating elements arranged in similar flow environments. The property of interest is derived by relying on thermodynamic and heat transfer principles, which are not usable in conjunction with conventional devices.

Abstract: A recording-medium transfer device having a anti-rattle construction is provided. A transfer roller 6 of the recording-medium transfer device is arranged above a chassis 5 to be perpendicular to a direction X of transferring recording medium. The transfer roller 6 has a structure in which a shaft is inserted in rolling member made of a material having flexibility. Projecting portions 13 and 14 are formed on the chassis 5 to oppose to both ends of the rolling member. In both ends of the rolling member, clearances are respectively formed to permit the deformation produced by its abutment with the projecting portions 13 and 14. In the process for inserting the disc, the projecting portions 13 and 14 are moved away from the transfer roller 6. Upon receiving a driving force from a driving motor 7 and gears 8 to 11, the rolling member of the transfer roller 6 is rotated keeping in contact with the disc so as to transfer the disc toward a clamping position.

Abstract: The brush section of a brush seal is protected from damages during installing work. It is constituted such that a brush seal unit has, at the free end of the brush section, at least one ablative plate section formed therewith and has a thin groove at the boundary between the brush section and the ablative plate section; and the ablative plate section is broken off before mounting the brush seal between two components.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes an SRAM provided on a chip, the SRAM including an SRAM cell array. A DRAM is provided on the chip, the DRAM including a DRAM cell array. An address input circuit receives an address signal, the address signal having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion carrying a unique value of row-column address information provided to access one of memory locations in one of the SRAM and DRAM cell arrays, the second portion carrying a unique value of SRAM/DRAM address information provided to select one of the SRAM and the DRAM.

Abstract: In a non-contact communication system, when an interrogator is attempting to detect that a responder is present in a range communicable therewith, the interrogator transmits a weak radio wave from its tuning circuit. The responder receives this radio wave and acquires electric power by rectifying it, but, because the electric power thus obtained is insufficient, the responder is turned on and off repeatedly at regular intervals. This causes variation in the impedance with which the tuning circuit is loaded. The interrogator, by detecting this variation in the impedance occurring at regular intervals, recognizes that the responder is present within the range communicable therewith. Only then, the interrogator transmits a radio wave strong enough to permit the responder to acquire sufficient electric power.

Abstract: A fluid transmitting device includes a side cover connected to a pump impeller and defining a clutch chamber between the side cover and an outer surface of a turbine runner, and a lock-up clutch which includes a clutch piston connected to the turbine runner. The clutch chamber is divided by the clutch piston into an inner oil chamber and an outer oil chamber. The inner oil chamber is divided into primary and secondary inner oil chamber sections provided between the turbine runner and the clutch piston. Upon operation of a lock-up control device, the clutch piston is urged in a clutch switch-on direction, pressure in the primary inner oil chamber section relative to the outer oil chamber is raised and then pressure in the secondary inner oil chamber section is raised relative to the outer oil chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of and a device for detecting the flatness of a metal band product at high temperature, using a measuring roll (1) having a cylindrical external face (13) comprising an angular contact sector with the band and a free sector. According to the invention, the roll (1) is cooled down forcibly by circulating a heat exchanging fluid along at least one portion of the free sector of the external face (13) of the roll (1) and one determines the parameters responsible for the cooling efficiency such as the opening angle (B) of cooling sector, the temperature and the circulation flow rate of the heat exchanging fluid, so that the external face (13) of the roll (1) is brought back, at each revolution, to a pre-set equilibrium temperature. The invention applies especially to the hot rolling of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

Abstract: A method for stabilizing material physical properties of recyclable bumpers including the steps of: separating coating from raw material obtained by cleaning, fracturing and drying recyclable bumpers to form a recycled matrix; mixing an additive with the recycled matrix; melting and extruding the mixed matrix with an extrusion machine; cutting the molten and extruded matrix to produce pellets; introducing the pellets into a tank of a predetermined capacity; and mixing the pellets in the tank for a predetermined period of time while again delivering the pellets in the tank to an introduction opening of the tank for reintroduction into the tank in parallel with the pellets that are to be newly introduced.

Abstract: A motor that is capable of both linear and rotational motion. One coil translates the motor along its axis for linear motion and a second coil causes the shaft to rotate. Coacting with the translate coil is a translate magnet where the north and south poles are oriented along the motor shaft. A segmented magnet where alternating north and south poles are located along the periphery of the magnet interacts with a rotation coil so that the interaction of the magnetic field of the segmented magnet and the magnetic field produced by the rotation coil cause the rotary magnet to rotate. Rotation of the rotary magnet, which cooperates with the shaft to which it is operably connected, causes rotation of the motor shaft.

Abstract: Deflecting ribs are provided within a coolant jacket formed in a cylinder head in such a manner as to protrude upwardly from bottom walls for directing the flow of coolant toward exhaust-valve-port side port wall portions The deflecting ribs for deflecting part of the flow of coolant toward the exhaust-valve-port side port wall portions are formed in such a manner as to extend from the intake-valve-port side port wall portions, and gaps are left between the exhaust-valve-port side port wall portions and the deflecting ribs for allowing the coolant to flow along the wall surfaces of the exhaust-valve-port side port wall portions, whereby there is generated no stagnation of the coolant on the wall surfaces of the exhaust-valve-port side port wall portions at the portions where the gaps are formed.

Abstract: An electric furnace extending method and apparatus for an optical fiber glass body alignment when connecting the extension use body and pulling member and making it possible to immediately start the extension after the fusing of the connection portion. A centering mechanism for centering the free end portion of the body and member on the furnace center side is provided between the furnace pipe of the electric furnace and grips of the extension use glass body and between the furnace pipe and the pulling member. The free end portion is centered by this centering mechanism, then the gripped sides of the body and member are fixed, the front ends of the two free end portions are abutted and fused and bonded at the highest temperature portion inside the electric furnace, then the highest temperature portion is moved to the extension portion of the glass body side and the extending of the glass body is commenced.