Abstract: In fabricating a heat sink from a blank comprising a base plate portion, and a fin-forming portion to be cut and provided on at least one side of the base plate portion by cutting the fin-forming portion to a raised form to make a plurality of fins, an object of the invention is to reduce the likelihood of producing burrs which are difficult to remove when the base plate portion is drilled while assuring the base plate portion of suitable machinability to render the heat sink less costly to manufacture. In a heat sink 1 having a plurality of fins 3 and fabricated from a blank 11 comprising a base plate portion 12, and a fin-forming portion 13 to be cut and provided on at least one side of the base plate portion 12 by cutting the fin-forming portion 13 to a raised form to make the fins 3, the above object can be fulfilled by using as the heat sink blank 11 an aluminum or aluminum alloy extrudate having a Vickers hardness of 40 to 65.

Abstract: A hydrogen absorbing alloy electrode is provided which has an excellent oxygen gas absorbing capacity and further improved in charge-discharge cycle characteristics and high-rate discharge characteristics. The electrode contains a powder prepared by mixing a hydrogen absorbing alloy powder with a powder of at least one complex oxide selected from the group consisting of a ZrO2—Y2O3 solid solution, ZrO2—CaO solid solution, CeO2—Gd2O3 solid solution, CeO2—La2O3 solid solution, ThO2—Y2O3 solid solution, Bi2O3—Y2O3 solid solution, Bi2O3—Gd2O3 solid solution, Bi2O3—Nb2O3 solid solution and Bi2O3—WO3 solid solution. Preferably the electrode contains 0.1 to 10 wt. % of the complex oxide powder based on the combined amount of the two powders.

Abstract: The hybrid vehicle of the present invention has an internal combustion engine, a power storage unit for storing electric power, and a motor driven by the electric power stored in the power storage unit, the hybrid vehicle being driven by at least one of the outputs from the internal combustion engine and the motor.

Abstract: A data copyright management system is provided, in which a primary user edits a received data and supplies the edited data to a secondary user. The copyright management system comprises a database and a key control center, and uses a primary copyright label, a primary use permit key including a first crypt key, a secondary use permit key, a third crypt key, and a copyright management program. The primary user decrypts the copyrighted primary data, which is encrypted using the first crypt key and supplied, to plaintext using a primary use permit key obtained from the key control center and utilizes it. If the copyrighted primary data is stored in a primary user device, it is re-encrypted using the primary use permit key. The primary user receives a secondary use permit key for editing the copyrighted primary data from the key control center and edits the copyrighted primary data. The data being edited is encrypted using the secondary use permit key and is stored.

Abstract: In a connector unit 3 comprising a connector housing 1 which includes at least one terminal receiving chamber 8 into which a metal terminal 4 or 5 is inserted from a back side, the metal terminal being locked by a lance 10 for prevention of a backward withdrawal, and a front holder 2 coupled to the connector housing from a front side, the front holder 2 is provided with at least one terminal insertion hole 11 into which a mating terminal T is adapted to be inserted from a front side so as to be connected with the metal terminal, and at least one draw jig hole 13 through which a draw jig 7 is inserted from a front side to force the lance to be elastically deformed thereby to disengage a lock between the lance and the metal terminal. The draw jig hole 13 adjacent to the terminal insertion hole 11 is provided with a guide support section 15 which can guide the draw jig to move back and forth, and bear a reaction force from the lance acting on the draw jig when the lance is disengaged.

Abstract: A tape carrier package formed by a TAB technique is provided. This tape carrier package includes a semiconductor chip and a TAB tape. The TAB tape has a rectangular device hole in which the semiconductor chip is situated, and inner leads extending inward in the device hole and bonded to the electrode bumps of the semiconductor chip. The inner leads (corner leads) at each corner of the device holes are reinforced by reinforcing leads.

Abstract: A control system for a hybrid vehicle with a combustion engine is provided for outputting driving force, an electric motor for generating a force for assisting the output from the engine, and a power storage unit for supplying a power to the motor and for storing energy regenerated by the motor when the vehicle decelerates.

Abstract: The invention relates to a protective device for a clean robot that includes a base 7 in which actuators 4 and 5 for driving a robot arm 3 are accommodated; a translational guide 8 for causing the base 7 to travel in a rectilinear direction; and a robot controller 10 that drives and controls the drive motor 4A and 5A of the robot arm 3 and an actuator 9 of the translational guide 8; wherein the protective device further includes acceleration sensors 11, which are disposed in the base 7 and are provided in respective axes so that they can detect an impact, when the clean robot 1 interferes with a surrounding substance, as vibration acceleration in the three-dimensional directions; an interference detecting device 13 that outputs a pulse when the detection signals of the acceleration sensors 11 of the respective axes exceed the threshold values that will become standards; and the first AND circuit that converts signals outputted from the interference detection means of the respective axes to interference signal

Abstract: A hybrid connector consists of an electrical connector and an optical connector. The electrical connector includes a housing with a wall having a terminal mount section and an optical connector mount section and terminals bent L-shaped and inserted through the terminal mount section into the electrical housing. The optical connector includes an optical housing, and a light emitting element module and a light receiving element module, both accommodated in the optical housing. The optical housing, when assembled to the electrical housing, overlies the terminals with a spacing therebetween. A compact hybrid connector is obtained.

Abstract: Penta-coordinated ruthenium catalysts for the metathesis reactions of olefins, in particular ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of cyclo-olefin monomers, which are cationic complexes represented by formula I, II or III: wherein each of X1 and X2, which may be the same or different, is an optionally substituted C3-C20 hydrocarbon group having an allyl moiety as an end group bonded to the ruthenium atom, or X1 and X2 together form a group, optionally substituted, which results from dimerization of an alkene and has at each end an allyl group bonded to the ruthenium atom; L1 and L2 are mono-dentate neutral electron donor ligands, preferably highly sterically encumbered neutral electron donor ligands such as alkyl phosphines or amines; L{circumflex over ( )}L is a bidentate neutral electron donor ligand, preferably phosphine, amino, imino, arsine or arphos; L3 is a solvent molecule or a neutral mono-dentate electron donor ligand; L{circumflex over ( )}L{circumflex over ( )}L is a trid

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device capable of suppressing increase of a leakage current resulting from a high-temperature heat treatment is obtained. In this manufacturing method, an impurity region is formed by selectively ion-implanting an impurity into the main surface of a semiconductor substrate. The impurity region is activated by performing a high-temperature heat treatment. The semiconductor device is recovered from crystal defects resulting from the high-temperature heat treatment by performing a low-temperature heat treatment after performing the high-temperature heat treatment. According to this manufacturing method, the semiconductor device is recovered from the crystal defects resulting from the ion implantation by the high-temperature heat treatment, and recovered from the crystal defects resulting from the high-temperature heat treatment by the low-temperature heat treatment.

Abstract: A first spring guide fitting the outer periphery of one end portion of a coil spring is provided at an end wall portion of a valve casing, and a second spring guide fitting the inner periphery of the other end portion of the coil spring is provided at a valve element so that the first and second spring guides do no interfere with each other. Further, a valve element of the check valve is provided with an elastic sealing member having a lip portion to be seated on a valve seat portion of the valve casing. Moreover, the valve element is formed with a bypass hole communicating upstream and downstream sections of the check valve.

Abstract: In a process for manufacturing a heat sink comprising a heat dissipating base plate and a multiplicity of tonguelike fins formed on an upper surface of the base plate, a heat sink blank of aluminum extrudate is formed which has a part for forming a thick portion of the base plate, a fin forming portion provided on an upper side of the thick portion forming part integrally therewith, a thin portion of the base plate provided at at least one of opposite sides of the thick portion forming part, and a level reference ridge formed on an upper surface of the thin portion and having an upper end at the same level as an upper surface of the thick portion to be formed. The fin forming portion of the blank is cut to a raised form at the same level as the level of the upper end of the reference ridge to form a multiplicity of tonguelike fins and form a thick portion of predetermined thickness under the fins.

Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a first wiring line and a second wiring line spaced apart from the first wiring line. The first wiring line has a first portion having a surface which faces the second wiring line and is smaller in area than that of the second portion, so that a crosstalk noise between the first portion of the first wiring line and the second wiring line can be reduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink supplying apparatus equipped with an ink tray capable of improving the productivity based upon the labor-saving of an cleaning operation and the shortening of a preparatory time at ink replacement or the like in a printing press, with the ink tray being desirably attachable/detachable to enhance the operational efficiency. In front of an ink fountain, there is provided a fixing device which, for fixing an ink tray in the interior of the ink fountain, presses a bracket of the ink tray against a stopping section situated in the ink fountain.

Abstract: An ultrasound treatment system in accordance with the present invention includes: ultrasonic transducers for generating ultrasonic vibrations; a handpiece including the ultrasonic transducers and serving as an operation unit; a probe connected to the ultrasonic transducers and serving as a vibration conveyer for conveying ultrasonic transducers to a distal member constituting a stationary section of a treatment unit used to treat a living tissue; a sheath serving as a protective member for shielding the probe; a holding member opposed to the distal member at the distal end of the sheath and constituting a movable section of the treatment unit which clamps a living tissue in cooperation with the distal member; a manipulator to be handled for clamping or freeing a living tissue using the holding member and distal member; an operation member for driving the holding member responsively to a movement of the manipulator; and a turning mechanism for turning the treatment unit relative to the manipulator with the axi

Abstract: A magnetic field generator for MRI comprises a pair of plate yokes opposed to each other with space in between. A magnet is provided in each of the opposed surfaces of the pair of plate yokes. A column yoke is connected to the pair of plate yokes. An enhancing member made of magnetic material and having a curved slant face is provided in an inner surface of the connection between the column yoke and the plate yokes at a place farthest from the magnet. A first bolt of magnetic field adjusting bolts is screwed into the plate yoke, with a tip of the first bolt contacting the enhancing member. A second bolt of the magnetic field adjusting bolts is screwed into the plate yoke, with a tip of the second bolt contacting an upper end face of the column yoke. An engaging portion for engagement of the enhancing member with the yoke may be provided.

Abstract: A projection exposure apparatus for projecting a pattern image of an illuminated mask onto a substrate. The optical path can be divided into a plurality of hermetic blocks each having an inert gas sealed therein by a plurality of partition devices. According a one aspect of the invention, a hermetic sealing member is disposed in the space between the substrate-side of the projection optical system and the substrate for replacing the atmosphere existing in the optical path of the illuminating light in that space by a substance other than oxygen. According to another aspect of the invention, a plurality of independent chambers are formed in a frame. Lids, piping, and valves in the chambers are opened or closed in response to the value detected by oxygen density sensors.

Abstract: An on-vehicle distribution box for distributing an electrical power supplied from a power source to a first voltage load operated on a first voltage and to a second voltage load operated on a second voltage differed from the first voltage. The distribution box includes a primary circuit of which an upstream point is connected to the power source and of which a downstream point is connected to the first load. The primary circuit has also a first fuse means. The distribution box also includes a branch circuit branched at an upstream point of the fuse means from the primary circuit and connected to the second load at a downstream side of the branch circuit. A DC/DC converter is provided in the branch circuit for converting the first voltage to the second voltage, and a second fuse means is provided in the branch circuit downstream from the DC/DC converter. The first voltage is higher than the second voltage.

Abstract: In synthesizing a diamond by a vapor-phase growth method, a sputtering method, or a high-pressure and high-temperature synthesis method, N, P or As as an n-type dopant, and H as a p-type dopant are simultaneously doped in a crystal to form a donor-acceptor pair in the crystal, to thereby synthesize a transparent n-type diamond having low resistance.