Abstract: A helical antenna having an antenna element covered with an insulating layer is formed by monolithically form the insulating layer so that the antenna element is integrated with the insulating layer. To be more precise, first, a cylindrical shell, which received a core pin in its center hole, is inserted into the antenna element along the longitudinal axis of the antenna element. The antenna element is put in a cavity of a molding die. A moulding resin which was heated and molten at a temperature higher than the melting point of the cylindrical shell is injected into the cavity to form an insulating cover over the cylindrical shell and the antenna element. The surface of the cylindrical shell starts softening upon contacting with the molten resin, and sticks around the helically coiled antenna line, whereby the pitch of the antenna element can be maintained substantially constant even if an injection pressure is applied during the molding.

Abstract: The floor of a motor vehicle which is assembled in a floor assembly station is transported to a subsequent station using at least two welding robots on each lateral side of the floor assembly station. These welding robots are constituted into dual-purpose welding robots for performing both welding work and transporting work. After the assembling of the floor has been finished, the floor is supported at four lateral and longitudinal jack-up points through the workpiece receiving member by the cooperation of these dual-purpose welding robots, and is transported from the floor assembly station to the subsequent station.

Abstract: After the engine rotational speed Ne has become below a reference rotaional speed Neo, which is lower than an idling rotational speed of the engine, and after the pressure PL of oil passages 103a and 103b has begun to decrease, for a predetermined time, the currents supplied to electromagnetic valves 45 and 46 are adjusted to generate, in each electromagnetic valve, a second biasing force electromagnetically in a magnitude that can supplement a decrease in a third biasing force which is generated by the back pressure led through an oil passage 107 and 108, respectively, and which decreases as the pressure of the oil passages 103a and 103b decreases. After the above metioned predetermined time has elapsed, the currents supplied to the eletromagnetic valves 45 and 46 are set almost to zero.

Abstract: This invention relates to a printing device that performs fixation after transfer, and which prevents the occurrence of no transfer even when feeding the paper backward starting printing from the next page after the final page. This printing device comprises image-formation units (3, 4) that transfer a toner image, a fixation unit (5), and a control unit (10). The control unit (10) control adjustment of the moisture content on either the final page or leading page. In order to do that, it lowers the fixation energy of the fixation unit (5) for the final page. There is a moisture-adjustment mechanism (16) that reduces the moisture content of the leading page. Heat energy is applied to the leading page by the fixation unit (5). This reduces the difference in the amount of shrinkage between the final page and the leading page, and prevents wrinkling of the leading page.

Abstract: An endoscopic image display system has a recording apparatus for recording an endoscopic image signal, a retrieval apparatus connected with the recording apparatus so as to retrieve an image recorded in the recording apparatus, the retrieval apparatus generating a retrieval-character image signal for an operation to effect such a retrieval, a hi-vision monitor for displaying an endoscopic image from the recording apparatus which has been retrieved by the retrieval apparatus; and an image display control apparatus for outputting to the hi-vision monitor a retrieval-character image signal from the retrieval apparatus, and for controlling the outputting of a plurality of image signals in such a manner that a retrieval-character image is displayed together with the endoscopic image by the monitor on the same screen.

Abstract: The invention concerns a printing mechanism designed for producing an ultra-compact mechanism. The thermal printing mechanism comprises a frame, a motor and a gear assembly driving a roller (7), a thermal printing head (8), a member pressing (9) the head (8) on the roller (7), characterized in that it comprises a member providing at least vertical rigidity (1) to two separate sides of the frame and at least rotational resistance along an axis substantially perpendicular to a third side of the frame, or, at least rotational resistance to two sides of the frame. The invention is useful for printing mechanisms of electronic payment terminals.

Abstract: A semiconductor encapsulating resin composition which is powdery particles of a resin composition comprising an epoxy resin, a curing agent and an inorganic filler, and produced through a series of unit operations inclusive of melt-kneading and pulverization of a raw material mixture, wherein foreign metal having magnetic property originating from metal materials constituting production apparatuses used in the unit operations and contained in the powdery particles are selectively recovered and removed by a drum type metal classification-recovering apparatus. This semiconductor encapsulating resin composition provides a high reliability semiconductor device not containing magnetic foreign metal.

Abstract: A gate such as a tollgate in an expressway for radar-mounted vehicles is disclosed, by which an erroneous operation of the mounted radar apparatus can be prevented and through which the radar-mounted vehicles can smoothly pass. The gate includes two partition walls which limit a passage. The positions of the front ends of the partition walls are separated in front and behind, or the front end of one or both of the partition walls has a structure for suppressing the frontward reflection of each radiated electric, optical, or acoustic beam incident on the relevant front end.

Abstract: In an apparatus for controlling a starting clutch of a vehicle having a function of stopping engine idling so that an engine is automatically stopped under given conditions when the vehicle is at a standstill, the starting clutch being disposed in a transmission of the vehicle in series with a belt type continuously variable transmission mechanism which receives an input of a power from the engine through a power transmission mechanism having built therein hydraulically operated frictional engaging elements, the vehicle start-up from the state of engine stopping is made smoothly at a good response.

Abstract: The present invention provides a centrifugal turbomachinery having a good performance which can effectively reduce the secondary flow in the flow passage of the impeller and minimize the loss caused by the secondary flow without an excessive increase in manufacturing cost. An impeller has a plurality of blades (3) between an inlet (6a) at a central portion and an exit (6b) at a peripheral portion, and a flow passage formed between the blades for delivering fluid from the impeller inlet to the impeller exit by rotation the impeller. The blade (3) is leaned toward a circumferential direction so that the blade at the hub side (2) precedes the blade at the shroud side (4) in a rotational direction of the impeller. A blade lean angle, defined as an angle between the blade and a surface perpendicular to a hub surface as viewed from the direction of the exit, shows a decreasing tendency from the inlet to the exit.

Abstract: A silicone rubber particle-containing aqueous emulsion which comprises polymer particles comprising (A) 0.1 to 45% by weight of a vinyl homopolymer or copolymer and (B) 55 to 99.9% by weight of a silicone rubber, wherein the polymer particles have a number average particle size of 0.008 to 0.1 &mgr;m and a variation coefficient in particle size distribution of at most 65%, and the emulsion contains at most 10 parts by weight of an emulsifier per 100 parts by weight of the silicone rubber (B); and a silicone rubber-based graft copolymer particle-containing aqueous emulsion obtained by graft-polymerizing a vinyl monomer in the presence of the polymer particles.

Abstract: A connector housing has a lock arm for locking a terminal therein. The lock arm deflects in an complete insertion state of the terminal so that a spacer abuts against a side surface of the lock arm. The lock arm is formed with a projection which abuts the incompletely inserted terminal in the spacer advancing direction. The projection may be a plate piece elongated in the longitudinal direction of the lock to be pinched by a pair of a resilient contact plates of the terminal. Alternatively, the lock arm may have a protrusion engaging with an engagement hole formed in the connector housing. The protrusion is a rectangular plate extending from the fore end of the lock arm. An inclined guide surface continuos with the engagement hole may be provided in the connector housing. Alternatively, the connector housing may have an inner embossed wall positioned closely to the deflected lock arm to oppose to the spacer.

Abstract: An exemplified object of the present invention is to provide a toner collection device that may effectively, easily and inexpensively utilize a storage space for waste toner. The toner collection device is provided with a displaceable partition in the storage space, and the partition may contact an agitator that may displace the partition.

Abstract: A downflow reboiler-condenser which can distribute and introduce an evaporating fluid (fluid to be evaporated) uniformly and securely into evaporation passages and which can also achieve simplification of its structure and reduction in the fabrication cost. This reboiler-condenser is provided with a reservoir 36 above a heat exchanger core 34 and with liquid distributors 37 located above evaporation passages 33 respectively. The liquid distributors 37 distribute the evaporating fluid collected in the reservoir 36 into the evaporation passages 33 uniformly.

Abstract: An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus records information on and/or reproduces information from an optical recording medium based on a reflected light beam from the optical recording medium. The apparatus includes a light splitting part having a plurality of light splitting stages which split the reflected light beam from the optical recording medium into a plurality of light beams, and a photodetector unit including a plurality of photodetectors which receive the plurality of light beams from the light splitting part. The photodetector unit includes a plurality of photodetectors which receive light beams used to detect a focal error, at least one photodetector which receives a light beam used to detect a tracking error, and a plurality of photodetectors which receive light beams used to detect magneto-optic information recorded on the optical recording medium.

Abstract: An apparatus for deflecting light of the present invention comprises: (a) at least one pair of transference electrodes arranged facing one another; (b) a drive circuit which applies a voltage among the transference electrodes; and (c) a liquid crystal which is inserted among the transference electrodes, and whose parallel stripes that function as a diffraction grating when the voltage is applied among the transference electrodes are produced at a pitch corresponding to the applied voltage. The light can be scanned if a diffracted light by the apparatus for deflecting light is converted into a scanning light and a voltage value is changed temporally to apply the voltage among the transference electrodes. In a device for reading information, the scanning light is reflected in a bar code and the reflected light is detected by an apparatus for detecting light.

Abstract: A grating surface of a diffraction grating diffracts a laser beam emitted from a semiconductor laser device in ±1st order directions. The grating surface is formed in a rectangular or elliptic shape in such dimensions that a light spot formed on an objective lens by ±1st order diffracted beams is located in an aperture of the objective lens and not displaced from the aperture even if the objective lens is horizontally moved in a tracking operation. A grating surface of another diffraction grating has a width smaller than the width of an overlap region of a light spot on the diffraction grating corresponding to a part of a beam, diffracted in the +1st direction, entering an objective lens and a light spot on the diffraction grating corresponding to a part of a beam, diffracted in the −1st direction, entering the objective lens.

Abstract: It is an exemplified object of the present invention is to provide an inkjet printer having a head drive circuit that can generate a less distorted drive waveform stably using a smaller-size and smaller-capacitance transistor than the conventional.

Abstract: An arrangement comprising a filter cylinder (1) composed of an approximately horizontally extending alternately superposed array of fixed plates (8) having circular or approximately circular openings, and annular floating plates (9) having geometrically similar openings (13) slightly larger in diameter than the openings in the fixed plates and also having circular outer peripheries, with small filtration clearances defined, the row of openings in the fixed plates defining a cylindrical space having a fixed inner peripheral contour (3), it being arranged that when the row of openings in the floating plates is positioned outside the cylindrical space, at least two equi-level regions in the lower portion of the outer periphery of the floating plate are exposed beyond the outer edge of the fixed plate, a screw (2) extending through the cylindrical space, and eccentric shafts (12) contact-wise supporting the exposed outer peripheral portions of the floating plates and eccentrically rotated, so as to swing the floa

Abstract: A semiconductor device has a multilayer interconnection structure including a lower organic interlayer insulation film, an etching stopper film on the lower interlayer insulation film and an upper organic interlayer insulation film covering the etching stopper film, wherein the upper organic interlayer insulation film is covered by first and second etching stopper films of respective, different compositions.