Abstract: The endoscope system of the present invention recording an endoscope image has a monitor displaying as a picture image an observed image obtained by the endoscope and a recording apparatus recording the obtained image in a recording medium. The state of the recording medium is sensed by a state sensor and a signal showing the state is output outside.

Abstract: An ignition timing control system for an internal combustion engine is operable to detect knocking occurring in the engine, determine basic ignition timing based upon operating conditions of the engine, correct the basic ignition timing by a correction value which is determined in response to an output from a knocking sensor, and inhibit correction of the correction value toward an advanced side with respect to at least one predetermined value in a timing retarding direction which is determined based upon operating conditions of the engine, when the correction value is greater than the at least one predetermined value. The correction value is initialized to a value based upon the difference between the correction value and the at least one predetermined value when the correction value exceeds the at least one predetermine value.

Abstract: A hydraulic pressure control system has a hydraulic pressure control valve which includes a spool slidably received in a housing for axial sliding movement between a rear position in which it permits the communication between an output port and a release port and a front position in which it permits communication between an input port and the output port. The hydraulic pressure control system also has a reaction chamber connected to the output port for providing a hydraulic pressure for biasing the spool rearwardly, and an input pressure working chamber for providing a hydraulic pressure for biasing the spool forwardly, a differential pressure regulating valve is interposed between the output port and the reaction chamber and adapted to be opened in response to the hydraulic pressure from the output port becoming higher than the hydraulic pressure in the reaction chamber by a predetermined value therefor.

Abstract: A fuel storage canister includes a fuel storage chamber defined in a housing and connected to a fuel tank, a first activated carbon layer disposed in said housing for adsorbing fuel vapor, a first passageway connected to said housing for venting said fuel storage chamber through said first activated carbon layer to the atmosphere, a second activated carbon layer disposed in said housing for adsorbing fuel vapor, and a second passageway connected to said housing for venting said fuel storage chamber through said first and second activated carbon layers to the atmosphere. A directional control valve is connected to said first and second passageways for selectively opening said first and second passageways depending on an operating condition of the engine.

Abstract: A method for traction control of a vehicle, includes detecting a slipping tendency of a drive wheel in a driven state, and controlling the braking force of a drive wheel brake device in an increasing and decreasing manner in accordance with the degree of the detected slipping tendency, wherein a rapid increase mode of rapidly increasing the braking force of the drive wheel brake device and a slow increase mode of slowly increasing the braking force can be switched from one to the other, so that at an initial stage in increasing the braking force of the drive wheel brake device on the basis of the decision that the drive wheel is in an excessive slipping tendency, the braking force is increased in the rapid increase mode.

Abstract: There are disclosed a process for producing an .alpha.-acyloxy-.alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carbonyl compound represented by the general formula (VI): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.4 are independently hydrogen atoms or substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon residues, or R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.4, when taken together with one another in an optional combination, form a ring, R.sub.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for forming a through bore or recess in a turbine blade, for a lacing wire hole for example, includes a machine capable of approaching the area to be machined in a first direction during which an initial machining operation may take place and them moving in a second direction completing the machining operation. Support means are provided to ensure the blade is held firmly. The method and apparatus permit of accurate machining of blades when they are in an array of blades still secured to the rotor.

Abstract: The invention provides liposomes characterized in that the lipid membrane thereof contains a glycolipid resulting from O-glycoside or S-glycoside bonding of a lipid and at least one carbohydrate selected from the group consisting of uronic acids, uronosyl-oligosaccharides, oligosaccharides composed of glucosamine and glucuronic acid, oligosaccharides composed of galactosamine and glucuronic acid, oligosaccharides composed of glucuronic acid and xylose, oligosaccharides composed of glucuronic acid and glucose, oligosaccharides composed of glucuronic acid and galactose, oligosaccharides composed of glucuronic acid and mannose, oligosaccharides composed of galacturonic acid and rhamnose, ketoaldonic acids, 2-acetamido-2-deoxyuronic acids, 2-acetamido-2-deoxyuronic acid-containing oligosaccharides, 6-O-carboxyethyl-.beta.-D-glucose, 6-O-carboxymethyl-.beta.-D-glucose, 6'-O-carboxymethyl-.beta.-D-maltose and 6'-O-carboxyethyl-.beta.-D-maltose.

Abstract: A wafer supporting jig that allows formation of a film with an even thickness on a wafer as well as a decompressed gas-phase growth method utilizing such a jig.A wafer supporting jig according to the invention is realized in the form of a ring made of a heat-resistive material having a central opening.

Abstract: A polyphenylene sulfide resin composition including a polyphenylene sulfide resin and a metal salt solid solution represented by formula (I)[(Mg).sub.y1 (M').sub.y2 ].sub.1-x M".sub.x (OH).sub.2 A.sub.x/n.mH.sub.2 O (I)wherein M' is at least one divalent metal element selected from the group consisting of zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), calcium (Ca), and strontium (Sr);M" is a trivalent metal element;A is an n-valent anion;x is a positive number in the range of 0<x.ltoreq.0.5;y1 and y2 are positive numbers which satisfy a relationship of 0.5.ltoreq.y1+y2<1;m is 0 or a positive number in the range of 0<m<2; andn is an integer in the range of 1 to 3,and provides a resin composition which reduces generation of gases corrosive to metals from the polyphenylene sulfide resin.

Abstract: In a process for the microsuspension or emulsion polymerization of vinyl chloride using a polymerization apparatus equipped with an agitator the improvement where the ratio (H/D) of the effective height (H) of the apparatus to the effective inner diameter (D) of the apparatus is 4 or more.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing copolymer comprising 20 to 60% by mole of the fluoroolefin unit (1), 5 to 45% by mole of the .beta.-methyl substituted .alpha.-olefin unit (2), 1 to 45% by mole of the unit (3) derived from a monomer having a chemically curable functional group, 1 to 45% by mole of the unit (4) derived from a monomer having ester moieties in the side chains and 0 to 45% by mole of the unit (5) derived from a copolymerizable monomer other than the above monomers, if necessary, 0.1 to 15% by mole of the unit (6) derived from a monomer having carboxyl groups. The copolymer can provide a curable composition alone or with an acrylic polymer. The fluorine-containing copolymer is excellent in solvent-solubility, compatibility with curing agents, additives and other polymers, pigment dispersibility, curing reactivity, dispersibility to water, pot life, film forming ability, coating properties, and the like.

Abstract: A there is disclosed a wafer supporting jig that allows formation of a film with an even thickness on a wafer as well as a decompressed gas-phase growth method utilizing such a jig.A wafer supporting jig according to the invention is realized in the form of a ring made of a heat-resistive material having a central opening.

Abstract: The present invention provides a complex machine tool wherein the punching center is coincides with the cutting work position so that the range of movement of a workpiece is not subjected to any restriction even during the workpiece cutting work in the same manner as in the workpiece punching work. The composite machine tool comprises a plasma torch (16) mounted on the machine tool body near the working position and arranged to be movable freely such that it can be withdrawn from the working position when a workpiece (5) is subjected to die-punching work, and proceeded to the working position when the workpiece is subjected to cutting work. Futher, the machine tool comprises protecting means (18, 19) for protecting the lower turret (3) and other members mounted adjacent thereto from the dross and heat developed by plasma arc during the workpiece cutting work by the plasma torch.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automating a routine operation of an electronically controlled hydraulic-powered machine is provided. The apparatus is mounted on the hydraulic-powered machine to have the hydraulic-powered machine automatically and repetitively perform its simple routine operation. The present invention also provides a method and apparatus for automating a routine operation of an electronically controlled hydraulic-powered machine to perform an effective loading operation of a present amount of load.

Abstract: The stem of an inching valve for a power-shift transmission, particularly for lift trucks, is controlled by a hydraulically-operated piston whose axis is distinct from and parallel to the axis of the stem and which is connected to the stem by means of a mechanical transmission. The risk of contamination of the fluid used for operating the piston (which is the fluid of the vehicle's braking circuit) by the oil used in the power-shift transmission is thus avoided.

Abstract: An antenna device having a straight shaft extending from a mount member to be attached to an electronic device, and a cylinder member which comprises an antenna member and slidably fitted around the shaft in intimate contact therewith to define a generally airtight chamber by the outer end of the shaft and the inner surface of the cylinder member. The cylinder member is projectable outward along with the antenna member by an urging force when released from a lock member, the cylinder member being so projectable at a reduced speed by giving a negative pressure to the chamber.

Abstract: A method for exposing a peripheral part of a wafer according to the present invention is to expose the peripheral part, taking account of a correcting angle determined by calculating the amount of misalignment between a center of a wafer and a rotational center for the wafer from the amount of displacement of a sensor for detecting a peripheral edge. Therefore, any wafer-centering motion and mechanism are not required, and this method is higher in precision of exposing position.

Abstract: An aircraft and a method and system for operating thereof as force/moment sensors integrated in elastic connecting joints of parts and units of the aircraft. The various force/moment components determined by the sensors are processed in order to generate control signals for optimizing the operation of the aircraft.