Abstract: A handler used in a testing system for semiconductors includes an arm shaped conveyer unit for conveying a semiconductor device from a first end thereof to a second end thereof and vice versa,a loader/unloader unit which is provided at the first end of the conveyer unit, a setting unit which is provided at the second end of the conveyer unit, and an adjusting unit for adjusting the setting unit on a testing position which is a predetermined position with respect to a test head. The conveyer unit includes a ring shaped conveyer belt which is rotated between the first end of the conveyer unit and the second end thereof, and a plurality of holders each of which is fixed on an outer surface of the conveyer belt and holds the semiconductor device.

Abstract: A loading and unloading airlock apparatus for a vacuum treatment chamber which includes an airlock chamber, a transport mechanism inside the chamber to transport a substrate holder arranged to have substrates detachably mounted thereon, an exhaust port to evacuate the chamber to a vacuum, a gas inlet port to introduce a gas to bring the evacuated chamber back to atmospheric pressure, a rectifying plate provided in the chamber adjacent to and at a predetermined distance away from the substrate holder on that side of the substrate holder upon which the substrates are detachably mounted, and a gas introduction pipe having a gas ejection outlet in said chamber for introducing additional gas in a space defined by the predetermined distance to flow along the surfaces of the substrates and the substrate holder.

Abstract: A floating type composite magnetic head includes a head core fixed to a slider formed of nonmagnetic material. In the head core, a pair of magnetic core halves are abutted against each other with nonmagnetic material such as SiO.sub.2 or the like interposed therebetween. The first and second magnetic core half members have first and second gap forming surfaces to be abutted against each other to define a magnetic gap (g), respectively. A first groove is formed on the second gap forming surface. A glass layer is formed in the first groove. A first thin film including a ferromagnetic metal thin film is selectively formed on the first gap forming surface. A second thin film including a ferromagnetic metal thin film is selectively formed on the second gap forming surface so that at least a portion except the surface of the glass layer in the second gap forming surface is exposed. A second groove is formed on the exposed second gap forming surface adjacent to the first groove.

Abstract: A bracket for orthodontics having a bracket body made of a composite resin material and a thin layer of a synthetic resin material in a dental adhesive. The synthetic resin layer is laminated on the base surface of the bracket body in such a manner that the composite resin material of the bracket body and the synthetic resin of the thin layer are mingled with each other at the boundary therebetween. The thin resin layer is composed of polymethyl methacrylate having an average molecular weight of 1000,000 or less or a polymethacrylate copolymer.

Abstract: A reflective type screen comprising a reflective surface layer a polarizing plate layer located in front of said reflective surface layer and a diffusion layer located in front of the polarized plate layer, wherein the reflective surface layer, the polarizing plate layer and the diffusion layer are laminated together using an adhesive to form an integral structure is disclosed. In addition, a reflective type screen comprising a reflective surface layer subjected to mirror-surface processing and laid on a flexible substrate, a polarizer and a diffusion layer arranged for covering the polarizer therewith wherein the reflective surface layer, the polarizer and the diffusion layer are laminated together using an adhesive to form an integral structure is disclosed.

Abstract: The invention provides a shaped resin article for optical use which is a three-dimensional reaction product cast from a molding composition essentially comprising a tetrahalobisphenol A epichlorohydrin polycondensate-(meth)acrylic acid adduct (A) and a polyisocyanate compound (B). In another aspect of the invention, the resin article is cast from a composition containing a styrenic or ester monomer (C) in addition to (A) and (B). In still another aspect, the resin article is cast from a composition containing a phenolic compound (D) in addition to (A), (B) and (C).

Abstract: The present invention provides a collar and clothes for animals having at least one side face which contacts the animal's fur or skin, which comprises an acrylic fiber and/or a nylon fiber having copper sulfide absorbed therein. This invented collar or clothes has a deodorant effect on the animal's body smell, bad breath and otorrhoea smell when animals put it on, and the deodorant effect is continuous as long the animals have one on. Further the inventor found that the collar or the clothes is safe for animals.

Abstract: A bolt feed device for feeding a welding bolt to a welding section of a welder is installed separately from an electrode. The device includes a feed device body holding an end portion of a welding bolt feed pipe; a feed rod installed for movement forward or rearward relative to the feed device body; a bolt grasping section having a bolt receptacle and installed to the feed rod so that when the feed rod is at a retreat position the bolt receptacle is positioned at a lower end portion of the feed pipe, and when it is at an advance position the bolt receptacle is positioned at the welding section; and an inserting device having a welding bolt inserting cylinder and installed to the feed rod so that when the feed rod is at the retreat position the welding bolt inserting cylinder is positioned at a lateral side of the feed pipe, and when it is at the advance position the welding bolt inserting cylinder is rotated and positioned onto the bolt receptacle of the bolt grasping section.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a compact roll stand apparatus, particularly of four-roll type, comprising both a roll parting adjustment device and an all-roll drive device.

Abstract: An apparatus for executing a subroutine and an interrupt processing routine of a bank switching scheme has a plurality of memory banks (4, 5, 6), a program for controlling bank switching being stored in the same address space (90) in each of the plurality of memory banks. When there is a necessity of switching the banks to the second memory bank (5) or (6) during the execution of a processing program in the first memory bank (4) to execute a subprogram, the bank switching control program in the first memory bank is called so that switching is performed from the first memory bank to the second memory bank, and the bank switching control program in the second memory bank is called. The subprogram is called in accordance with this bank switching control program in the second memory bank.

Abstract: An electricity supply device, connected to an electric contact of a heater on a tray, is disposed on the side wall at the upper part of a support member which supports and guides a tray and which is formed on the side wall of a receiving chamber. The electricity supply device has a) a conductive plate spring placed in pressure contact with an electric contact of a heater and b) a conductive pin connected to a power source and is embedded into a plastic mold. The plastic mold is disposed into a casing which is mounted to the side wall of the receiving chamber to secure an insulating property. The plate spring makes positive contact with a contact of the heater.

Abstract: This invention provides a halogen-containing thermoplastic resin composition comprising a halogen-containing thermoplastic resin (A) consisting of 100 to 0.1 weight percent of a thermoplastic polyurethane-vinyl chloride graft polymer (a1) with a polyurethane content of 10 to 90 weight percent which is produced by polymerizing vinyl chloride in the presence of a thermoplastic polyurethane and 0 to 99.9 weight percent of another halogen-containing polymer (a2) and a melt-moldable vinyl alcohol polymer (B), the proportion of melt-moldable vinyl alcohol polymer (B) being in the range of 0.1 to 100 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of halogen-containing thermoplastic resin (A).

Abstract: A storage section for storing a video monitoring equipment for an airliner and the video monitoring equipment which moves to a visible position are connected by two long cylindrical springs. One of the springs is urged in the direction of the storage section of the airframe. The other spring is made of a shape-memory alloy on which a specific shape is memorized in heated condition. When the second spring is heated and takes the specific shape, the video monitoring equipment is moved to the visible position together with the move of the second spring going against the urging force of the first spring. When the heating of the second spring is stopped, the video monitoring equipment is moved to the storage section along with the movement of the first spring by the urging force of the first spring.

Abstract: The invention deals with a string for use in rackets used for tennis and badminton and so on. These are wound around the periphery of a monofilament center core in a mixed condition, wrapping monofilaments of a large diameter and a small diameter and the wrapping monofilaments are covered with a coating resin such that a part in a periphery side of the large diameter wrapping monofilament is uncovered. Moreover, the elongation of the wrapping monofilaments of large diameter and small diameter is greater by 5-40% than the elongation of monofilament center core. This string is superior in ball control and has a higher knot strength.

Abstract: A surface treatment process for improving surface properties of a timber as to wetness by exposing the timber to a plasma mixture of an inert gas and a reactive gas at a near atmospheric pressure. Prior to being exposed to the plasma mixture, the timber is treated to reduce a moisture content below a fiber saturation point of the timber so as to eliminate free moisture from the fibers of the timber which would otherwise lead to unstable plasma and therefore detract an uniform improvement over substantially the entire surface expected at the subsequent exposure to the plasma mixture. Thus, the plasma treatment can be effected in the absence of the free moisture to obtain a desired surface improvement uniformly across the surface of the timber, which gives an enhanced practicability of improving the surface properties of the timber, in addition to that the plasma mixture is generated at near the atmospheric pressures readily available without requiring substantial vacuum generating equipments.

Abstract: A molding material suitable as an optical material and an optical recording medium formed of the molding material are disclosed. The molding material comprises a hydrogenated product of a polymer formed by ring-opening polymerization of a norbornene-type monomer, the hydrogenated product having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 20,000 to 50,000, a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 40,000 to 80,000 and a molecular distribution (Mw/Mn) of not more than 2.5 and having a volatile content of not more than 0.3% by weight.

Abstract: A process for transferring environmentally harmful substances which are easily leachable from openly discarded waste material, and which to a large proportion consists of inorganic material, such as spent spot linings for aluminum electrolysis cells, into gaseous form or into leach stable compounds, includes the steps of heating that the material in finely ground form is heated and in that reagents such as silica, water and oxygen are added in a cyclone furnace (1) which includes a heat source (2) for example a plasma generator, and a cylindrical furnace vessel (10). By feeding the waste material and the reagents via a mixing and prereaction chamber (3) which is located between the high temperature source and the vessel (10), a very high proportion of the added materials are reacted in the furnace.

Abstract: A dielectric filter includes: a plurality of coaxial resonators and external connectors; each of the coaxial resonators includes a dielectric block having an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface parallel to a common axis and having two end faces, a conductive layer formed on the outer and inner peripheral surfaces and on one of the end faces, and a depressed part for accepting the external connection means and formed by removing a portion of the conductive layer on at least the outer peripheral surface in the vicinity of the other end face; and the external connectors includes a dielectric substrate, and an external connection electrode formed on the dielectric substrate and capacitance-coupled with the conductive layer on the inner peripheral surface.

Abstract: A veneer lathe including a knife blade which is adjustable to different pitch angles. The veneer lathe includes a feed carriage mounted for movement on guides fixed to a lathe frame and a blade carriage supporting the knife blade. The blade carriage is a massive member pivotally mounted by trunnions on the feed carriage so as to rotate under the force of gravity. A support device is operative between the feed carriage and the blade carriage for supporting the blade carriage against the force of gravity in an angularly biased position relative to the feed carriage. The lathe also includes a control responsive to different types of wood for allowing the means for supporting the blade carriage to retract at different rates under the force of gravity exerted on the blade carriage.