Patents Represented by Law Firm Craig and Antonelli
  • Patent number: 4349877
    Abstract: An electronic controlled carburetor includes sensors for sensing engine speed, intake air pressure and water temperature. An arithmetic unit digitally processes output signals from the sensors and generates signals for controlling the air-fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to an engine on the basis of the output signals from the sensors. The carburetor system includes means for sensing atmospheric pressure and intake air temperature, and means for adjusting at least one of the amount of intake air of the engine and the amount of fuel. The arithmetic unit digitally processes the output signals from the atmospheric pressure and the intake air temperature sensing means to thereby produce a signal representing air density change and automatically controls at least one of the amount of intake air and fuel on the basis of the air density changing signal, to thereby control the air-fuel ratio of the mixture with higher accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshishige Oyama, Hiroshi Kuroiwa
  • Patent number: 4349310
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: L. Schuler GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Schneider, Burkhard Schumann, Karl Maier, Herbert Hohn
  • Patent number: 4348804
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: VLSI Technology Research Association
    Inventors: Mitsuru Ogawa, Seiichi Iwamatsu
  • Patent number: 4349425
    Abstract: Cadmium-tin oxide films are prepared by d-c reactive sputtering of Cd-Sn alloys in Ar-O.sub.2 mixtures. The films obtained have low resistivity of the order of 10.sup.-3 -10.sup.-4 .OMEGA.-cm and high optical transparency depending upon deposition conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Kiyoshi Miyake
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Miyake, Naoyuki Miyata
  • Patent number: 4349872
    Abstract: In an interrupt control system for a data processing unit for microprogram control including a processor constructed dividedly between an arithmetic unit and a control unit, a signal representing the absence or presence of an interrupt request to be performed is applied to the control unit so that said control unit reads a microprogram for the interrupt processing from a memory in response to said signal, and said arithmetic unit judges an interrupt source on the basis of the microprogram read out from said memory and performs processing in accordance with the interrupt source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sigeru Fukasawa, Sadao Mizokawa
  • Patent number: 4349810
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Kugo, Osamu Igarashi
  • Patent number: 4349699
    Abstract: This PARCOR-type speech synthesizer replaces a ten-stage lattice type filter with a pipeline multiplier and feedback loop, and provides a loss circuit (for bandwidth broadening) using subtraction circuits for multiplication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Public Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Asada, Kazuo Nakata, Kazuhiro Umemura, Hirokazu Sato, Kenya Murakami, Kiyoshi Into
  • Patent number: 4349743
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Ohba, Shoji Hanamura, Toshifumi Ozaki, Masaharu Kubo, Masaaki Nakai, Kenji Takahashi, Masakazu Aoki, Iwao Takemoto, Haruhisa Ando, Ryuichi Izawa
  • Patent number: 4349746
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Horst Grossner, Gunter Weiger, Gunter Schwegler
  • Patent number: 4349718
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke A.G.
    Inventors: Martin Carota, Josef Slootz, Klaus Weiser, Peter Gulich, Milenko Jovanovic
  • Patent number: 4349722
    Abstract: A lock for vehicle closures or flaps, especially doors, trunk lids and fuel tank caps or lids, wherein the cylinder of the lock includes a drain opening in the lower part thereof which communicates with the interior of the cylinder and through which moisture, especially water, can be drained from the interior of the lock. A drain line formed as a moisture absorbing wick provided with an electric heating element powered by the vehicle electric system is connected to the drain opening with the line being guided from the cylinder through an element, such as a door handle, containing the cylinder, to the interior of the closure. A water deflecting shield overlies the portion of the drain line within the closure. The drain line terminates in a vertically disposed drain section from which moisture drained from the cylinder can evaporate or drip off. The drain line may be operatively associated with a vacuum source on the vehicle to assist in drawing off moisture from the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hermann W. Kurth, Rolf Krugener
  • Patent number: 4349766
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Ando, Ko Soeno, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Akira Misumi, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 4348903
    Abstract: First and second magnetic poles are provided, which have end surfaces brought close and in opposition to a material to be examined. These magnetic poles are magnetized by a DC exciter coil such that the magnetic poles have opposite polarities. The first magnetic pole is provided at its end surface with a pair of cumulatively connected transmitting coils, and the second magnetic pole is provided at its end surface with a pair of differentially connected receiving coils. The transmitting coils are connected to a pulser which generates a pulse current, and the receiving coils are connected to a differential amplifier. An electromagnetic ultrasonic wave generated by the transmitting coils are received by the receiving coils, amplified by the differential amplifier, and thereafter supplied to a synchroscope and an automatic detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiya Sato, Kazuo Miyagawa, Yukito Sasaki, Koji Kawamura, Shuichi Sato, Soji Sasaki, Jun Kubota, Susumu Itoh
  • Patent number: 4349250
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for dynamic or static perimetry of the human eye wherein topographical measuring threshold values of eye sensitivity for the eye being tested are obtained and are electronically compared with stored standard values of eye sensitivity corresponding to the testing conditions. An indication is provided of deviations between the measured values and the stored standard values. The apparatus includes a perimetry device, a computer for storing the standard values and at least one program for controlling the perimetry device and for comparing the measured values with the stored standard values and a display arrangement for displaying the values and deviations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Optische Werke G. Rodenstock
    Inventor: Siegfried Gelius
  • Patent number: 4349892
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Suzuki, Keiichi Uehara, Teruaki Takeuchi, Masatoshi Takeshita
  • Patent number: 4348751
    Abstract: An electronic device having an indicator element and a plurality of other electronic parts for electrically driving the indicator element compactly assembled one another, which includes, as fundamental structure, lead conductors for electrically connecting the indicator element and the electronic parts to one another, and resin member completely embedding the lead conductors except the electrical contact portions between each electronic part and the lead conductors and having sections for receiving the electronic parts. This invention may be applied to the module for an electronic wrist watch using the LCD indicator element to thereby enable easy and compact assembly of the indicator element and the other electronic parts into the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Kosaka, Tsutomu Mimata, Tsuyoshi Shimizu, Hideharu Yamamoto, Kaoru Itoh, Yasuhusa Shima
  • Patent number: 4348461
    Abstract: A recording member having a predetermined substrate, and a thin film which is formed on the substrate and which is formed with recesses or pits for recording information when irradiated with a working beam, characterized in that said thin film is formed of an inorganic material which contains at least arsenic, selenium and tellurium, and that a distribution of either of said Se and said Te decreases from a part near the surface of said thin film towards a central part thereof, while a distribution of said As increases from a part near the surface towards said central part, is disclosed. This recording member can afford a high signal-to-noise ratio and a long lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoyasu Terao, Yoshio Taniguchi, Shinkichi Horigome, Masahiro Ojima, Kazuo Shigematsu, Keizo Kato, Yoshinori Miyamura, Seiji Yonezawa
  • Patent number: 4348110
    Abstract: There is provided a photodetector wherein charging current to a photodiode is integrated to determine an amount of discharge due to conduction of photoelectric current through the photodiode and thereby to measure intensity of photon flux incident to the photodiode, so that linearity of light input intensity versus output voltage characteristics can be improved and dynamic range of the measurement can be extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Ito
  • Patent number: 4348726
    Abstract: In the operation of a control computer, an interruption takes place at constant intervals of time, and the driving periods of different kinds of accessory equipment are controlled by utilizing the number of times of interruption occurrence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Igarashi, Masaru Kugo, Shizuhisa Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4348065
    Abstract: A thrust bearing or tapered-land thrust bearing including a plurality of lubricant feeding nozzle holes. At least one of the nozzle holes is disposed in close proximity to the leading edge of a tapered surface of a bearing surface of the thrust bearing. By this arrangement, hot oil carryover can be minimized and the temperatures of a film of lubricant formed between the bearing surface and a thrust collar positioned there-against and a bearing body of the thrust bearing can be reduced. Thus the thrust bearing can withstand uses under high speed and high load conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshioka, Toshifumi Koike