Abstract: A sanitary toilet bowl seat envelope including a seat member having a central opening and a tongue extending inwardly from a circumference of central opening, and an elongated strap arranged under the central opening of the seat portion and having two ends connected with respective sides of the seat member, the elongatedstrap being provided with wrinkles.

Abstract: An interactive monitor trouble-shooting device includes a micro-processor based control unit which detects the horizontal synchronization signal and the vertical synchronization signal from the video card of a computer. If no such signals are detected, the control unit displays a series of trouble-shooting steps to be followed by the monitor user for fixing the problem of receiving no such synchronization signals. The trouble-shooting steps may also be displayed in such a manner to test the color display function of the monitor, wherein the monitor screen is divided into at least three sections or areas, each having a background color of one of the three elementary colors. The control unit also allows the monitor to enter a power saving mode when such synchronization signals are cut off during normal operation of the monitor.

Abstract: An extensible hanging device includes a casing holding a winding mechanism controlled reversible cord member, a clip fixedly secured to the casinig at a back side for fastening, a ring for holding personal items, and a connector connected between the ring and the cord member outside the casing, the connector having a spherical knob fixedly connected to the cord member, the clip having a location frame at a bottom side of a fixed end thereof for holding the spherical knob of the connector in place, the locating frame having a longitudinal narrow slot, which allows the neck of the spherical knob to pass, and an expanded front opening, which allows the spherical knob to pass and to be rested on the inside of the location frame.

Abstract: An automatic document feeder feeds documents placed on a document table to a document exposure position, and has a document discharge means having a discharge roller for discharging the document after exposure onto the document table, the document discharge means being movable in the document conveying direction. The automatic document feeder includes a drive pulley mounted on an end portion of the discharge roller; a pair of transmission pulleys disposed outside the moving range of the drive pulley in the document conveying direction, and rotatably supported at a stationary part; a timing belt looped between the pair of transmission pulleys and the drive pulley; and a drive source transmittingly connected to one of the pair of transmission pulleys and disposed at a stationary part.

Abstract: A document feeder which includes a separator mechanism having a first separator member and a second separator member for separating and feeding document originals one by one into a document transportation path. The first separator member is provided in a main body, and the second separator member is provided in a cover which covers a portion of the main body and is adapted to be pivotally opened. With the cover being closed, the second separator member is positioned with respect to the first separator member by a positioning mechanism.

Abstract: The sensor is a small-sized vibratory angular velocity sensor, and making use of anisotropic etching characteristics of single crystal silicon substrate, as shown in FIG. 1, four cantilever beams 103 of leading end load (masses 102) type are disposed in a cross form, and the center of gravity (coupling portion 104) thereof is supported by a bridge 105 to form a vibrator, which is excited by electrostatic force by utilizing electrodes 110, 115 formed above and below the end portion of the masses 102, and the angular rate is detected from the capacitance change.

Abstract: A washing machine with agitator is disclosed. The washing machine with agitator has a washing tub of which a bottom surface protrudes axially and inwardly like a pyramid, wherein the washing tub has at least two slanted portions which slant upwardly from an edge of the bottom surface toward an inside central axis of the washing tub. A washing shaft is rotatably installed and extended vertically from a lower space in the washing machine to the bottom surface of the washing tub. A driving wheel is installed on the washing shaft, wherein a frictional surface is formed on one side of the driving wheel. At least two frictional wheels rotate and contact with the frictional surface of the driving wheel. At least two driven wheels of which a frictional surface formed on one side contacts with the frictional wheels respectively, wherein the driven wheels are rotatably installed on one surface of the slanted portions.

Abstract: The method for manufacturing superconducting elements according to the present invention includes the following steps of: (a) placing a substrate near a target in a chamber so that the substrate is positioned to face a surface of the target, wherein the target comprises a target material of a complex oxide superconducting compounds; (b) irradiating a laser beam to the surface of the target to vaporize or sublime the target material so that the target material is deposited onto a surface of the substrate, wherein the surface of the substrate maintains the position facing the surface of the target; and (c) fabricating the surface of the target material layer on the substrate to form a superconducting element by irradiating a laser beam to the surface of the substrate, without removing the substrate from the chamber.

Abstract: A step-separating shearing tool includes a first handle and a second handle. A first blade portion is connected to the first handle, and a second blade portion, which includes an L-shaped slot, is hinge-connected to the first blade portion and to the first handle. A rocker arm connects the second handle and the first blade portion. The step-separating shearing tool also includes an automatic step-separating mechanism. This mechanism includes: a double-oscillating rod, which is hinge-connected to the rocker arm; a slider on the double oscillating rod, which is received in the L-shaped slot of the second blade portion; and a torsion spring connected between the rocker arm and the double oscillating rod. When the shearing tool is used in a cutting operation for cutting items having a relatively small diameter, the slider is located in a short slot portion of the L-shaped slot during the entire cutting operation.

Abstract: Disclosed is an assembly of flexible metal contact bars for a coin-operated path game unit. The assembly includes a fixed supporting block having a rubber-ring-attached shaft frictionally contacting with a driven sliding block having a rubber-pad-attached top. Two electrodes are fixedly attached to the sliding block and extend toward a rotating spiral path in the game unit. When the path game unit is actuated by an inserted coin, the shaft of the fixed supporting block rotates with the rubber ring thereof frictionally contacting with the rubber pad on the driven sliding block to move the sliding block toward the path, so that the two electrodes separately locate above and below the path. The electrode each is formed from at least two metal contact bars flexibly connected to one another by a spring between them, such that the metal contact bar forming a free end of the electrode may bias in any direction to avoid damage when the electrode collides with the path.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus in which paper sheets are not forgotten in a paper discharging section so provided in the main body of the apparatus so as to open toward the front. An operation panel is arranged in an upper part on the front side of the main body of the image forming apparatus 16, and a side space 16 is provided on the right of the operation panel. An operator can visually confirm paper sheets discharged into a paper discharging section from above through the side space. The paper discharging section is in the main body of the image forming apparatus, whereby economy of space can be achieved.

Abstract: A plasma generating gas and a reactive gas are fed into a vacuum container. A magnetic field and microwaves for plasma generation are applied to the vacuum container, whereupon plasma is generated by ECR, and whereupon, for example, an SiO.sub.2 or SiOF film is formed on aluminum wiring. In the initial phase of film deposition, the level of the radio-frequency power for plasma lead-in applied to the stage is adjusted, for example, to zero (first value includes zero) in advance. Then, after the SiO.sub.2 or SiOF film has been deposited to a thickness of tens of nanometers, for example, the radio-frequency power for plasma lead-in is adjusted to a normal power level (second value) and applied to the stage. Thereupon, an intensive anisotropic plasma is generated, and a potential distribution corresponding to the self-bias is formed in the plane direction of the wafer. Since the thin SiO.sub.

Abstract: A casting element formed of a pliable material and shaped so as to be applied directly to an articulator support component. A casting element set is provided, particularly when the articulator has different configured upper and lower support components to which the casting elements are releasably set in position. The casting elements preferably include a pliable main body such as one of rubber or other conforming material such as silicone and are shaped to conform with the particular articulators' support configuration. This arrangement allows for casting of models for dental prosthesis directly on the articulator.

Abstract: An enclosing mousetrap includes a tubular housing, trap plates at each end, and a hanging hook for connecting the trap plates to the tubular housing. The ends of the tubular housing and the trap plates each contain a pair of holes through which the hanging hooks are engaged to connect the trap plates to the tubular housing. The extended end legs of the hanging hooks clip over cutouts formed in the rim of the tubular housing. The trap plates each have a curved shape and freely swing inward to allow a mouse to have easy access into the interior of the tubular housing. Once inside, however, the mouse cannot exit the tubular housing because the first and second trap plates are disposed such that when the trap plates are pushed outward with respect to the interior of the tubular housing, a lower periphery of the trap plates engages with an inner wall of the tubular housing, which stops the trap plates from swinging outside the tubular housing.

Abstract: In the optical apparatus, the projection lens has a first lens group and a second lens group, the color synthesizing optical system has a transparent plate, dichroic mirrors and a plane mirror, the second lens group is disposed between the color synthesizing optical system and the polarization beam splitters, and the plane including the normal line of the plane of the transparent plate, the color synthesizing planes of the dichroic mirrors and the optical axis of the projection lens is perpendicular to the plane including the normal line of the polarizing and splitting planes of the polarization beam splitters and the optical axis of the projection lens.

Abstract: Mold coatings that are relatively unreactive with titanium and titanium alloys during casting are prepared from yttria slurries, which may contain other refractory materials, an acid and an inert organic solvent.