Abstract: A roll bar for vehicles, especially motor vehicles, comprises two vertical segments mounted on opposite sides of the body which are connected together by at least one cross member. Each segment comprises, according to a preferred embodiment, two elements of the same profile which withstand deformations that increase the section modulus, said elements being formed by roll sections assembled to form a hollow member and connected to one another by welding, gluing, or the like. According to a particularly advantageous arrangement, each segment, as viewed in cross section, comprises two tubular structures that are joined to a common rib.

Abstract: A color picture tube with an in-line multi-stage focusing type electron gun assembly which can suppress generation of spark discharges and which can be improved in withstand voltage characteristics. The electron gun assembly comprises a metallic shielding member facing the fluorescent screen and maintained at the anode potential. The shielding member is displaced, in the direction of a tube axis and toward the base, from an edge facing the base of an inner graphite coating formed on the inner wall of the neck tube by a predetermined distance or more. The metallic shielding member shields electrostatically the edge of the inner graphite coating from the grid electrodes and cathode electrode close to the base and at lower potentials. At least one of focusing voltage feed conductors for third and fifth grid electrodes is wired so as to run through a gap between the inner wall of the neck tube and a bead glass for supporting the electrodes of the electron gun assembly.

Abstract: A sliding roof for automobiles with a sliding top for closing a roof aperture in its closed position and which can be selectively lowered from its closed position and pushed underneath a fixed rearward roof section or can be swung out in an upward direction is provided with constraining or guide plates which are adjustable in the longitudinal direction of lateral guides for the sliding top. During closing of the sliding top, a guide member fixedly joined to the sliding top contacts these guide plates to direct the closed sliding top into its forward end position. Since these guide plates must be set in their proper positional relationship with the sliding top in its closed position, but can only be fixedly secured with the top in an open position, in accordance with a preferred embodiment, detent elements are provided which act to at least temporarily retain the guide plates in a position to which they have been adjusted without the securing element for the guide plates being engaged.

Abstract: A centrifugal separator comprises a centrifugation chamber, gas inlet ports for introducing a gas into the centrifugation chamber so as to whirl the gas, a clean gas discharge pipe provided on the upper portion of the centrifugation chamber, and a guide member secured to the lower portion of the centrifugation chamber. The guide member has an annular groove, outer fine holes made in the groove, a guide portion projecting conically inward the centrifugation chamber, and an inner hole made in the center of the guide portion. A gas including particles is introduced into the centrifugation chamber, in which the particles are separated. The separated particles are trapped in the groove with gas, then discharged from the outer holes. The clean gas removed of the particles is guided by the guide member to direct to the gas discharge pipe, at the same time the particles with gas toward the guide member also are guided by the guide member to be subjected to the centrifugal force.

Abstract: When an ink stream spouting from a nozzle is subjected to mechanical vibrations of a certain magnitude, the fore end of the ink stream alternately separates into larger and smaller ink droplets in synchronism with the vibrations. This invention varies the flight velocity of the small-diameter ink droplets relative to that of the large-diameter ink droplets according to information to-be-recorded and thus controls the union between the large- and small-diameter ink droplets. By exploiting the difference between the amounts of deflection of the large-diameter ink droplet and a united ink droplet created by the union of the large- and small-diameter ink droplets, the information is recorded on a recording medium.

Abstract: A heating system in which the rpm of the combustion air blower can be selectively decreased by an especially simple and economical arrangement and is achieved by selectively connecting an incandescent plug, utilized for igniting the fuel-mixture only during the starting period, as a series resistor to the electric motor driving the combustion air blower after completion of the starting period. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, connecting of the incandescent plug as a series resistor is produced by way of a relay operated contact and an actuating circuit therefor, a selectively closable switch and a contact of a combustion monitoring thermostat being located in the actuating circuit for controlling activation of the relay operated contact.

Abstract: An electrical heating element for fluid media, more particularly for hot air appliances, comprising a support member of insulating material and at least two heating conductors which are made of resistance wire and which surround the support member, the heating conductors being wound as helical coils and supported on supporting edges of the support member, the coils being wound with radial spacing from one another. The heating conductors may comprise an outer coil consisting of a resistance wire of high specific power consumption and an inner coil consisting of a resistance wire of low specific power consumption. The support member may comprise a tubular body with ribs projecting radially at the periphery, said ribs forming the supporting edges. The outer ribs may be U-shaped extending from end to end of the tubular body and forming passages through which the turns of the inner coil pass. The ribs preferably comprise mica strips; various mounting means for such strips are described.

Abstract: An ink-jet printing apparatus having a plurality of nozzles for projecting ink droplets which are selectively deposited on a printing medium in accordance with an information signal so as to form a printed pattern, such ink-jet printing apparatus comprising means for causing ink droplets used for printing to project from each nozzle in accordance with an information signal, a common power source for supplying a desired voltage to the ink-drop forming means provided at each nozzle thereby operating them, and switching means connected between the ink-drop forming means and the common power source and controlled by the information signal, the output of the power source being selectively supplied through the switching means to the ink-drop forming means, so that the driving system for driving the ink-drop forming means and the control system therefor can be separately provided, thus enabling a number of nozzles to be effectively controlled by a lowest control voltage.

Abstract: A directly heated cathode for electron tube having a stable electron emission characteristic is provided. The cathode comprises a base metal of Ni-W alloy consisting essentially of 20-30% by weight of tungsten, the balance being nickel and incidental impurities, said alloy being free from a reducing agent, and a layer of thermoelectron emission oxides laid directly and baked onto the flat part at the front side of the base metal. The layer of thermoelectron emission oxides is in direct contact with the flat part of the base metal.

Abstract: An installation for resistance-welding of structural parts, especially in the automotive industry, with a half-tong that is pivotal about an axis and longitudinally displaceable; the half-tong supporting thereon the welding electrode is pivotal about all three coordinate axes.

Abstract: In unloading a press, it is desirable to provide automatic unloading without the need for operators, even in situations requiring a definite stacking order in containers located next to the press. To achieve this automatic unloading, extraction grippers and a carrier frame are provided which can be moved in three directions which are at right angles to each other by servo drives controlled by a continuous-path numerical control unit.

Abstract: A chroma signal gain control circuit is constructed to include a first band pass amplifier, a second band pass amplifier, a burst gate circuit, a switch circuit and an ACC detecting circuit. The output signal of the first band pass amplifier is fed to the input of the second band pass amplifier, the output signal of which is fed to the input of the burst gate circuit. The switch circuit selectively transmits either the output of the burst gate circuit or the output of the second band pass amplifier to the ACC detecting circuit. The gain of the first band pass amplifier is controlled by feeding the detected output of the ACC detecting circuit to the first band pass amplifier. In order to prevent over-saturation in case the level ratio (C/B) between the color burst signal and the chroma signal exceeds a predetermined value, the switch circuit will selectively transmit the output of the second band pass amplifier to the ACC detecting circuit.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device wherein a MOS sensor is employed for a photosensor part, a CTD shift register is employed for a read-out circuit, first and second transfer gates are connected between vertical signal output lines and the CTD, and a reset gate is connected between a juncture of the first and second transfer gates and a reset voltage line. A method is adopted in which signal outputs of a plurality of rows are transferred to the CTD in a horizontal blanking period, and signals of a plurality of rows are simultaneously read out in a horizontal scanning period. At the signal transfer, bias charges are dumped into the vertical signal output lines from the CTD, and mixed charges consisting of the bias charges and signal charges are transferred to the CTD. Thereafter, the signals are read out.

Abstract: Dielectric isolation through electron beam irradiation is applied to a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. Upon forming an insulated gate field effect semiconductor device (FET) in a semiconductor layer on an insulation substrate, the insulated gate electrode is formed to extend over the semiconductor layer region around a semiconductor region in which FET is to be implemented. A semiconductor layer pattern underlying the extension of the gate electrode is enclosed by linear dielectric layers formed along the periphery of the electrode extension through electron beam irradiation. The pattern formation can be accomplished in a short time by virtue of arrangement such that the semiconductor layer pattern is enclosed by the linear dielectric layers. Electric coupling such as capacitive coupling between the gate electrode and other conductor layers is significantly reduced.

Abstract: An instrument for locating the position of hidden live continuous or broken wires utilizes an indicator such as a series of light emitting diodes to indicate the adjacency or the strength of the electrostatic field surrounding the wire. By watching the number of light emitting diodes lit, the instrument can be brought directly to the wire. The instrument is comprised of an antenna connected to the high input impedance of an amplifier, a low pass filter connected to the output of the amplifier, a lamp operation circuit and an indication means connected to the lamp operation circuit.

Abstract: A magnetic bubble detector according to this invention is constructed of a bubble expander, a bubble detecting element and a bubble sweeper. Moreover, at least the width of soft magnetic material-elements constituting the bubble detecting element as taken in the propagating direction of magnetic bubbles is greater than that of soft magnetic material-elements constituting the bubble expander. As a result, the distances or distance between the magnetic bubble in the bubble detecting element and the magnetic bubbles or bubble in the bubble expander and/or the bubble sweeper increase or increases, so that a magnetic bubble detector of high signal-to-noise ratio is provided.

Abstract: A frequency generator module has a first generator circuit and a second generator circuit, the frequencies of these circuits being variable by a physical parameter, especially a distance or angular value, with two coils arranged coaxially at a mutual spacing on linear or curved, tubular coil holders, the inductance of these coils being variable by a core displaceable in the coil holder. The combined generator module is connected by a control circuit to a changeover switch which alternately switches the output of one of the two coils to the input of the frequency generator module. A short-circuit ring is arranged in an axially normal plane between the two coils, for the duration of a specific number of pulses of the generator circuit formed from the coil and the generator module.

Abstract: A signal lamp apparatus with a lamp burnout detecting circuit has a right turn signal lamp group and a left turn signal lamp group which are connected to a power source through a turn signal switch and a relay contact coupled in parallel with a burnout detecting resistor. Each of the lamp groups includes a plurality of signal lamps connected in parallel with one another. The apparatus includes a comparator which produces an output signal when the voltage across the signal lamp group is higher than a predetermined voltage, and a device which produces a burnout signal when the comparator has an output signal after lights-out, for example, after 20 to 100 m sec since the relay contact is opened. With such an arrangement, the burnout of the signal lamp or lamps may be detected while the signal light lamp group is flashing.