Abstract: A reflective type liquid crystal display device in accordance with the present invention includes a reflector film having excellent polarization preservation properties and an anisotropic diffusing film for diffusing only the light polarized in a particular direction. The anisotropic diffusing film is composed of a complex of liquid crystal and a polymer and selectively diffuses incident light. If a liquid crystal layer composed of dichroic dye and liquid crystal is employed, it becomes possible to carry out high contrast display with the anisotropic diffusing film and the reflector film and to prevent reflections of nearby objects appearing on the screen.

Abstract: Formed between an opposing electrode and a toner support by a high voltage applied from a high-voltage power source is an electric field required for the toner carried on the toner support to jump toward the opposing electrode. A shield power source is provided to apply an identical voltage as the surface potential of the toner layer carried on the toner support.

Abstract: Photoreceptor drums for forming color images each have a gear as the drive transmission element at their central shafts. Each gear has an idle gear which in turn is coupled with a first motor via a timing belt. The photoreceptor drum for forming black monochrome images has a gear as the drive transmission element at its central shaft. This gear has an idle gear which is coupled with a second motor.

Abstract: An operating equipment comprises an operating table (9) and a ceiling support carrying the operating table. This equipment achieves the advantage that the essential parts for the operation can be moved without a great expenditure of force to various places of the operating room relative to operating or sterilizing devices thereat.

Abstract: Between two nodes, data in the form of two different signals are transmitted bidirectionally, in accordance with IEEE1394 through one optical fiber cable. At the time of data transmission, data of two different signals is converted to data of one type of signal at one node, and transmitted to the optical fiber cable, and at the other node, the data received from the optical fiber cable is converted to the original data of two different signals, and transmitted to a subsequent processing circuit in accordance with IEEE1394. At this time, in a transmission sequence for requesting and granting priority of transmission over the optical fiber cable between both nodes, the priority of transmission is granted alternately to both nodes.

Abstract: A bone screw (1) having a threaded shaft portion (2) and a head (3) is provided. In order to ensure a good fastening capability of the bone screw even in soft bone material the bone screw has a longitudinal bore (5) extending along the longitudinal axis of the threaded shaft portion (2) and having a portion (7) which flares towards the free end (6) opposite to the head (3). Slits (8) extending parallel to the longitudinal axis are provided in this portion of the threaded shaft portion. An expanding member (20) comprises a top portion (22) forming the top (22) of the bone screw (1) and a shaft (21) adjacent thereto extending into the longitudinal bore (5). The threaded shaft portion is provided with notches at its inner wall adjacent to the flared portion (7) of the longitudinal bore (5), the notches surrounding the longitudinal bore (5) in a defined region thereof.

Abstract: The active solid-state imaging device includes active photoelectric conversion elements each including a photoelectric conversion section and an amplification section for amplifying a signal charge generated by the photoelectric conversion section as a signal voltage, the active photoelectric conversion element being connected to a vertical signal line, the vertical signal line being connected to a common signal line via an impedance conversion section and a switch section, so that the signal voltage at the active photoelectric conversion element is transferred to the common signal line via the vertical signal line, the impedance conversion section, and the switch section, wherein the active solid-state imaging device further includes a reset section for resetting an input of the impedance conversion section at a reference voltage, and the input of the impedance conversion section is reset at the reference voltage by the reset section while the switch section is on and the signal voltage at the active photoel

Abstract: A fastening device has a support layer, an adhesive layer on one side of the support layer, and a removable liner on the adhesive layer opposite to the support layer, the support layer having an opening therethrough. The device facilitates securing of a catheter or like assembly to a patient. A preferred catheter assembly includes the fastening device, a needle, a cannula and a hub attached to the cannula.

Abstract: A prior art temperature sensing element by supporting plates against a fixing roller would detect a temperature lower than an actual surface temperature of the fixing roller, because said heat-conductive supporting plates would be cooled by air flowing along said supporting plate, depriving a part of its heat of the temperature sensing element through the supporting plate.According to present invention, a heat-insulating elastic body is disposed over said two supporting plates at one end threof, said temperature sensing element is placed as being projecting from the surface of the heat-insulating elastic body at the center thereof, the temperature sensing element and supporting plates are fastened (sticked) with the heat-resisting film larger in length and wide than the heat-insulating elastic body and each having an adhesive surface one side thereof, and the other end of each supporting plate is secured to a holder.

Abstract: In a correlating device, two switched-capacitor-type analog signal integrators are connected in cascade. The analog signal integrator in the first stage samples an analog input voltage at a predetermined cycle, determines the sign of the sampled value according to a binary-code sequence, integrates the sampled value, and outputs the resultant value. The analog signal integrator in the next stage samples an input voltage at a reset cycle of the analog signal integrator in the first stage, integrates the sampled value, and outputs the resultant value. This structure can prevent saturation of the correlating device without decreasing the gain of each analog signal integrator to a greet degree even when the sequence length becomes longer.

Abstract: A decorative barge board system 1 comprising at least two discrete decorative members 3,3' of different patterns which are secured to a gable end ladder 2 by fixing means 5,5' which comprise screws 8,8' passing through apertures 7,7' provided in extensions 6,6' of the decorative members 3,3'. The extension 6 of member 3 is of identical outline to the rear face of the adjacent decorative member 3' which is secured over the extension 6 to conceal the fixing means 5. The decorative members 3,3' are jointed one to another by joining means which comprises a male clip attachment located on one end of the decorative member and a female clip attachment located on the opposite end of the decorative member whereby the female clip attachment of one decorative member receives the male clip attachment of an adjacent decorative member.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention has an arrangement wherein between (a) a liquid crystal display element prepared by inserting a liquid crystal layer to a spacing between a pair of electrode substrates and (b) a pair of polarizers provided on the both sides of the liquid crystal display element, there is provided at least one phase difference plate having a negative refractive index anisotropy whose optical axis is inclined with respect to a direction normal to the surface thereof, and a change, with a wavelength of light, in the refractive index anisotropy of a liquid crystal material constituting the liquid crystal layer is set in a range which does not generate viewing-angle-dependant coloration on a liquid crystal screen.

Abstract: An image processing circuit of the present invention includes a succession calculating circuit. In the succession calculating circuit, an average value calculating circuit determines an average value of image data, inputted via line memories, in a specific region, and a multivalue-binary converting circuit converts, in accordance with the average value, the image data into binary data in which the entire image data in the specific region are separated into black pixels and white pixels. A succeeding black pixels calculating circuit calculates the number of succeeding black pixels each in a main scanning direction and in a sub scanning direction, and determines respective maximum values in the main scanning direction and in the sub scanning direction so as to output the respective maximum values as a main scanning direction maximum succession and a sub scanning direction maximum succession.

Abstract: A conventional image forming device having a plurality of image optical scanning recording sections has had a drawback of being incapable of correcting printing positions of the image optical scanning recording sections with high precision by using a small-scale circuit. In the case of an image forming device of the present invention, a variable clock generator 114 having a voltage control oscillator (VCO) 114a is provided therein as reference clock signal generating means of laser control system of each of image optical scanning recording sections (LSU) for cyan, yellow, and magenta. By so doing, during an invalid printing period prior to a valid printing period, frequencies of the reference clock signals of the LSUs for cyan, yellow, and magenta are adjusted in accordance with offsets of printing start positions of these LSUs with respect to that of the LSU for black, so that printing offsets are eliminated.

Abstract: An amplified photoelectric transducer of the present invention includes: a photoelectric transducer section for photoelectrically transducing incident light into an electric signal; a first MOS transistor for amplifying the electric signal; a second MOS transistor for resetting the photoelectric transducer section; and a third MOS transistor for reading out to a signal line the amplified electric signal. The photoelectric transducer section includes a signal charge storage section for storing a charge corresponding to the electric signal and a potential change detection section for detecting a potential change of the electric signal. The amplified photoelectric transducer further includes a fourth MOS transistor for switching the potential of the potential change detection section to a semiconductor substrate potential in response to an operation of the third MOS transistor.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus in which each test image formed in a plurality of image forming sections is transferred onto a transfer carrier belt by transfer means respectively provided corresponding to the plurality of image forming sections, and the transfer state is detected to control the image forming conditions, wherein the transfer condition of the respective transfer means is different when the test image is transferred onto the transfer medium and when the test images already formed and transferred in other image forming sections pass through the transfer means.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to obtain brighter display in a liquid crystal display apparatus. Light of all the wavelengths in the visible range is converted into circularly polarized light by a first polarization condition converting member, converted into linearly polarized light by a second polarization condition converting member and is modulated by a liquid crystal display device. Then, transmission and block of the light is controlled by a polarizer. Specifically, one of the dextrorotatory circularly polarized light and the levorotatory circularly polarized light is reflected by a spectral member included in the first polarization condition converting member, converted into the other circularly polarized light by a reflecting member included in the first polarization condition converting member and supplied again to the spectral member. The other circularly polarized light is transmitted by the spectral member.

Abstract: An oral pharmaceutical modified release multiple-units composition for the administration of an analgesically effective amount of an opoid. The composition comprises at least two fractions wherein individual units containing an opoid are coated with a sustained release coating. A first fraction is adapted to relatively fast release while a second fraction is adapted to a delayed release. Such compositions make possible to obtain both a relatively fast onset of the analgesic effect and the maintenance of analgesically active plasma concentration for a relatively long period of time. The invention further relates to a process for the preparation of a composition according to the invention.

Abstract: An original is moved by a feed motor so as to read the original by the combination of a light source and a CCD. The image information thus read is stored into the memory. The image information stored in the memory is sent out via a modem to the phone line. The amount of data stored in the memory is detected: if the amount of data exceeds the first predetermined amount, the speed of movement of the original is gradually reduced while if the amount of data becomes equal to or smaller than a second predetermined amount which is smaller than the first predetermined amount, the speed of movement of the original is gradually raised.

Abstract: In signal processing circuitry using active devices, non-linearity of the device causes distortion of pure tones and the generation of intermodulation products for more complex signals. The transfer characteristics of such active devices may be considered as the accumulated characteristics of input and output filter stages separated by a non-linear region. To compensate for non-linearities and reduce intermodulation products, a drive circuit comprises pre- and post-correction filters separated by a compensating amplifier. The frequency response of the pre-correction filter corresponds to that of the input filter stage but is reversed in the frequency spectrum; with conventional I.F. the transfer characteristic of the amplifier and frequency response characteristic of the post-correction filter are the respective complements, of those of the non-linear region and pre-correction filter.