Abstract: A lubricating oil supply system for an infinitely variable transmission wherein the infinitely variable transmission has a transmission shaft provided with a lubricating oil path and is rotatably mounted through the wall section of a casing. The infinitely variable transmission is housed in a transmission case partly defined by the wall section. An input rotary member is provided that is relatively unrotatably connected to the transmission shaft on the outside of the transmission case. An oil pump is provided for supplying lubricating oil to the lubricating oil path. The oil pump is located in the casing. In this infinitely variable transmission, the oil passage from the oil pump to the lubricated portion of the infinitely variable transmission is simplified in structure and the oil passage is substantially reduced in length, thereby enabling a decrease in the length of the transmission shaft. The oil pump which is driven by the transmission shaft is located on the wall section.

Abstract: A liquid crystal compound, preferably a molten iodine salt, an electrolyte comprising the same, and a photo-electrochemical cell are disclosed. The electrolyte is little volatile and excellent in charge transporting performance and provides a photo-electrochemical cell which exhibits high photoelectric conversion efficiency and excellent durability.

Abstract: The head mount display providing a comfortable fit to the head of the viewer even when the viewer moves his/her head during use comprises a forehead frame supporting two image display means and covering the forehead and the parietal portion of the viewer, a left occipital frame for covering the left occipital portion of the viewer which is movably connected to said forehead frame by a connecting means and supporting one of a signal processing means and one of a sound regeneration means, and a right occipital frame for covering the right occipital portion of the viewer which is movably connected to said forehead frame by a connecting means and supporting the other of the signal processing means and the other of the sound regeneration means.

Abstract: A change lever mechanism for manipulating a change lever, and more particularly to a change lever mechanism of a vehicle constructed and arranged to provide a good shifting feel to a change lever and to absorb vibrations transmitted from engine to thereby prevent transmission of the vibration from a body of the vehicle.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for speech compression includes dividing the speech spectrum into a plurality of frames, assigning frame classifications to the plurality of frames, and determining the speech modeling parameters based on the assigned frame classification. The voiced part of the speech spectrum and the unvoiced part of the speech spectrum are synthesized separately using an Analysis by Synthesis allowing a correct correspondence between voiced and unvoiced parts of the reconstructed signal. Particularly, a frequency response of a special simulated signal based on the previous and current frames is used as an approximating function. The simulated signal is synthesized at the encoder side in the way it will be generated at the decoder side. Also, a better of two encoding methods is selected to encode the spectral magnitudes. A wavelet encoder and an inter-frame predictive encoder illustrate the invention's efficient, yet accurate reconstruction of synthesized digital speech.

Abstract: A process of the invention produces a vinyl acetate polymer based emulsion by seed polymerization of vinyl acetate in an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer based emulsion. This process includes a step of performing seed polymerization while adding vinyl acetate to a system, and, prior to or subsequent to the step, a step of adding a polymerizable unsaturated monomer other than vinyl acetate to the system. The amount of the polymerizable unsaturated monomer other than vinyl acetate is, for example, about 0.05 to 10 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of vinyl acetate. At least one monomer selected from acrylic esters, methacrylic esters, vinyl esters, and vinyl ethers can be used as the polymerizable unsaturated monomer other than vinyl acetate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a layered product comprising a skin layer and a cushioning layer and/or a reinforcing layer, said skin layer being a thermoplastic elastomer composition which comprises (A) 1-99 parts by weight of. an ethylene-&agr;-olefin copolymer produced by polymerizing ethylene and an &agr;-olefin of 3-12 carbon atoms using a metallocene catalyst and (B) 1-99 parts by weight of a propylene resin [total amount of (A) and (B) being 100 parts by weight], said ethylene-&agr;-olefin copolymer being partially or completely crosslinked. According to the present invention, a layered product can be provided which is excellent in flexibility, has a rubber-like or leather-like appearance, and is excellent in abrasion resistance, mechanical strength and environmental resistance.

Abstract: The outer covering of the camera can be machined and molded with high dimensional accuracy and has high rigidity by forming reinforcing portions by drawing at the top and bottom of a metal cover which constitutes a curved surface of the outer covering. The reinforcing portions are integrally formed by drawing at the top and bottom of the grip portion of the metal grip cover formed in an arcuate shape. This allows a curved surface portion to be machined and molded with high dimensional accuracy. The machined metal cover can obtain high rigidity by the reinforcing portions.

Abstract: A flat display panel and a flat display device are realized in which sealing layers can sufficiently alleviate and absorb strain stress between two substrates which is caused by internal stress of the substrates during sealing process and after cooling process, and which can cancel out disadvantages of an amorphous glass paste and a crystallized glass paste, and a flat display panel manufacturing method is realized which can prevent application of excessive or insufficient pressure to the sealing layers. In a flat display panel formed with at least two substrates (1A) and (1B) sealed together, sealing layers (21a) are formed as a stacked structure containing a plurality of layers or formed in a region containing a plurality of stripes, so as to obtain a stable seal. The sealing layers (21a) are formed of a crystallized glass paste (2A) and an amorphous glass paste (2B). A pressing force applied in the sealing process is positioned near the sealing layers and inside the position of the sealing layers.

Abstract: Screen printing is performed by using a pressure squeegee, a main squeegee, and a scraper squeegee. Since a screen is pressed by the pressure squeegee in advance, an angle between the main squeegee and the screen is kept constant. After printing is finished by the main squeegee, the scraper squeegee scrapes a remaining ink.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon: at least one yellow-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; at least one magenta-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; at least one cyan-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; and at least one light-insensitive non-color-forming hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein at least one layer of said at least one cyan-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one cyan-dye-forming coupler having a pKa of not more than 8.

Abstract: Chlamydia pneumoniae antigenic polypeptides, which comprise polypeptide A containing a sequence of at least 5 consecutive amino acids in the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 1; DNAs encoding the antigenic polypeptides, or DNAs complementary thereto; a method for production of an anti-Chlamydia pneumoniae antibody, wherein the antigenic polypeptide is used as an antigen; a method for detection and/or measurement of an anti-Chlamydia pneumoniae antibody, which comprise the antigenic polypeptide as an antigen; agents for diagnosis of Chlamydia pneumoniae infections, which comprise the antigenic polypeptide as an active ingredient; fused proteins of an antigenic polypeptide of Chlamydia pneumoniae with dihydrofolate reudctase; a method for production of an anti-Chlamydia pneumoniae antibody, wherein the fused protein is used as an antigen; reagents for detection and/or measurement of an anti-Chlamydia pneumoniae antibody, which comprise the fused protein as an antigen; agents for diagnosis of Chlamydia pneumoniae infect

Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous electrode wire for use in electrical discharge machining and the method of manufacturing the same. The wire improves the machining speed at least 15% compared with a conventional zinc coated wire, which results from an increased cooling ability of the wire with a cooling liquid because of the increase in the surface area of the wire having porous surface morphology. Since the surface of the porous wire presents uniform profile of outer periphery rather than surface protrusions, it does not affect machining accuracy. Further, the porous nature of the wire is expected to improve flushability during the electrical discharge machining, providing spaces to eliminate particles of the machining. Therefore, in accordance with the method of the present invention, a zinc coated wire having improved performance of machining speed and flushability compared with a conventional coated wire can be provided without additional processes.

Abstract: High-purity benzyl benzoate is recovered by distilling the residue remaining after removal of unreacted toluene and benzoic acid from a reaction mixture produced by the oxidation of toluene by molecular oxygen in the presence of a metal catalyst thereby separating a fraction of benzyl benzoate containing 80 wt % or more benzyl benzoate, 10 wt % or less benzoic acid and 10 wt % or less fluorenone, and purifying the fraction of benzyl benzoate by crystallization such as recrystallization. According to this process, it is possible to recover high-purity benzyl benzoate by a simple operation at low cost from the by-product formed in the manufacture of benzoic acid.

Abstract: In the high-frequency receiving device, a frequency dividing circuit of ×1/N divides a sampling clock signal of both A/D converters by the dividing ratio based on a controlling signal outputted from a controlling signal generator, and generates a constant current reference signal whose frequency is equal to a cut-off frequency of a low-pass filter which is to be set. Based on the constant current reference signal, a phase shift circuit, a mixer, a low-pass filter, a DC amplification circuit, and a constant current source perform loop back control so that an output of the mixer is 0, and input an output signal of the DC amplifying circuit as the output signal of a controlling circuit to a constant current source. Thus, the constant current source does not adjust the scale factor, so that a current according to the cut-off frequency which is to be set is inputted to the low-pass filter.

Abstract: When optical disk defects are managed by using non-defective areas in place of defective areas, different criteria are used for detecting the defects, depending on the type of data recorded on the disk. For example, to avoid interruptions of real-time recording, less strict criteria are used when audio or video data is recorded than when computer data is recorded. The criteria themselves may also be recorded on the disk.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for forming a metal capacitor in a damascene process. Before the thin-film capacitor is formed, the underlying interconnections are fabricated with Cu metal by damascene process. The lower electrode is formed in a dual damascene process, which is also used to form the dual damascene structures comprising wires and plugs. An insulator is disposed to isolate the dual damascene structures with each other. In this dual damascene process, an anti-reflection layer is used and formed on the insulator, and the anti-reflection layer is also used as a hard mask layer, a polishing stop layer and an etching stop layer. Then, another insulator and a metal layer are formed on the anti-reflection layer, and encounter a photolithography step and an etching step to obtain an upper electrode and a capacitor insulator. After forming the metal capacitor, the upper interconnections are fabricated with another dual damascene processes.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a radial tire is disclosed, wherein a tread ring is formed separately from a tier main body by the sue of a tread ring forming apparatus. The radial tire comprises a belt having a camber and a band wound thereon. The tread ring is an annular assembly of a raw belt, a raw band wound thereon and a raw tread rubber. The tread ring forming apparatus comprising a belt drum made up of segments defining the drum circumference. In a cross section including the belt drum axis, the radially outer surface of each segment is a straight line parallel to the axis. In a cross section normal to the belt drum axis, the radiallly outer surface is an arc having one radius substantially equal to one half of the drum diameter, but the drum circumference is decreased in the belt edge portion than the central portion by increasing gaps between the segments.

Abstract: A protector for housing a drug administration needle comprised of a winged hub and a cannula bent substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the hub at a longitudinal central portion of the hub. The protector comprises a tubular cannula-protecting portion having a cannula entrance at one end and a bottom at the opposite end; and a hub-mounting portion for attachment of the winged hub, the hub-mounting portion being coaxially formed on the cannula entrance of the cannula-protecting portion.

Abstract: The present invention is related to the development of a new and chromosomally distinct vegetatively propagated frost resisted plant of Cymbopogon flexuosus by genetic selection in open pollinated seed progeny of high yielding variety ‘Cauvery’. The selected plant with stay-green habit withstands prolonged frosting in chilling winter and capable of giving an additional harvest during winter, which is not observed so far in normal varieties.