Abstract: A CD replay device, which includes an ejection button for controlling the ejection of a CD and which reads data on a surface of the CD. A disk ejection operation is performed when the ejection button has been depressed for a period of time that is less than a predetermined period. The replaying of a CD begins when the ejection button has been depressed for the predetermined period of time or longer.

Abstract: Polyorganosiloxazane is provided which is capable of being converted into a ceramic material having low dielectric constant. The polymer according to the present invention is characterized by comprising the main repeating units of --(RSiN.sub.3)--, --(RSiN.sub.2 O)--, --(RSiNO.sub.2)-- and --(RSiO.sub.3)--, wherein, R represents an alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkylamino or alkylsilyl group, and by having a number-average molecular weight ranging from 300 to 100,000. The polyorganosiloxazane of the present invention has superior thermal resistance, and a ceramic material obtainable by firing the same at a predetermined temperature shows very low specific dielectric constant of 2.7 or less, making it useful particularly as a material in electronics.

Abstract: The electroplating process of the present invention is a cyclical operation having at least three essentially independent steps in each cycle of operation with the independent steps carried out in sequence and consisting of stirring, sedimentation and electroplating. The sedimentation step occurs over an essentially quiescent time interval with essentially no current flow through the electrolyte and essentially no stirring so as to form a sedimentation layer of loosely contacted particulates on said cathode plate. The electroplating step follows the sedimentation step at a current density of over at least 5 A/dm.sup.2. The stirring step immediately follows the step of electroplating with the stirring operation being sufficiently vigorous to disperse the particulates in the sedimentation layer and to break up particulates bridged by metallic coating formed during the previous step of electroplating.

Abstract: A molecular beam epitaxy effusion cell for growing epitaxial layers upon a semiconductor substrate by control of a collimated beam of molecules generated from a source material in a high vacuum environment in order to control the hyper abrupt stoichiometry of the effusion flux. A heated control assembly is used to control the size of the exit openings of the effusion cell. The control assembly comprises a boroelectric heating member such as a grating having a plurality of holes and a perforated cover which are adjustable relative to one another. The grating includes an internal heating element.

Abstract: The conductor assembly for optical or electrical conductor or fluid line terminals, according to the invention, comprises a socket and a plug, each having a cavity for receiving conductor terminals. Socket and plug are mutually displaceable to engage them, whereby to engage the respective conductors and allow signals to be transmitted between them or to engage the respective fluid line terminals to allow fluid to flow through them, or to disengage them, whereby to disengage said conductors or said fluid line terminals. Each of them is provided with a cover for screening the respective conductor terminals from the environment, when closed, and baring them when open, and with elastic means urging the cover to its closed position. Opening means are provided for bringing said covers to their open positions when socket and plug are engaged, said elastic means bringing said covers back to their closed position when said socket and plug are disengaged.

Abstract: A stator core has 3N salient poles arranged circularly where N is a natural number of four or more but except a multiple of three. Coils are formed around the salient poles where winding directions of the coils is the same for the salient poles. A first, a second and a third crossover are formed between a first and an (N+1)-th salient pole, between the (N+1)-th and a (2N+1)-th salient pole and between the (2N+1)-th and the first salient pole, respectively, to forming a triangle before cutting within the salient poles arranged circularly. An end portion of each crossover is connected to a substrate.

Abstract: An improved color filter and a color image display apparatus employs the filter, the color filter has a hologram device for spectrally diffracting an incident light into plural light beams of different wavelength regions and selectively converging the plural light beams on respective plural picture element electrodes corresponding to the different wavelength regions. The hologram device has such characteristics that S-polarized components of the incident light are diffracted at a maximum diffraction efficiency at a predetermined incident angle of the incident light, and P-polarized components of the incident light are diffracted as such that a difference between the maximum diffraction efficiency of the S-polarized components and the diffraction efficiency of the P-polarized components is not less than 30%, and the diffracted S-polarized components are formed as the plural light beams to be converged on the plural picture element electrodes corresponding to the different wavelength regions.

Abstract: The wire stand of the present invention includes an upper rim of wire steel in a substantially rectangular configuration, a lower rim of wire steel of similar configuration and a pair of wire legs with each formed as an integral unit with each wire leg affixed at one end thereof to the upper rim and affixed to the lower rim such that the upper rim and lower rim lie in substantial parallel alignment to one another and extending below the lower rim to maintain the lower rim a fixed distance above the support upon which the stand is placed.

Abstract: A system for inserting text data (e.g., closed caption data) contained In a user data or image data of an MPEG stream into the scanning line H21 of the Image signal recovered from the MPEG stream through a simplified process. In case of text data in the user data, the image data is decoded compressed image data on the video-CD is expended and stored as video data in the first memory location, and the closed caption data in the user data area is NRZ-modulated and stored in the second memory location. The caption data is read out of the second memory location and output to a bit map pixel data channel during a period of H21 of the output video data stream, and the video data Is read out of the first memory location and output to an video pixel data channel in the periods after H22 of the output video data stream. Thus, the two data are multiplexed on a bus.

Abstract: An alternate cigarette is in a form of cigar or cigarette with a moisture content of 12-13%, which is prepared from a composition comprising a herb medicinal mixture of Artemisia vulgaris Linne, Morus bombycis Koidzumi, Ziziphus jujuba Miller, Polygala tenuifolia Willdenow, Asiasarum heterotropoides var. seoulense F. Maekawa, Eugenia caryophyllata Thunberg, Cnidium officinale Makino, Evodia officinalis Dode and Thuja orientalis Linne powders and Arisaema amurense Max var. Serratum Nakai, Angelica koreana Maximowicz and Brassica juncea Cosson extracts, in combination with 1-10 wt % of starch syrup and 0.1-1 wt % of glycerol on the basis of the weight of the herb medicinal mixture.

Abstract: A picture switching apparatus for executing a fade-out/fade-in processing between adjacent video recording files includes a multiplier for multiplying a decoded video data with a multiplication coefficient (1-km), a multiplier for multiplying an output data of a data output circuit with a multiplication coefficient km and a data synthesizer for summing results of multiplication from the respective multipliers. The picture switching apparatus thus constructed performs the fade-out/fade-in processing without modification of the original video data for fading processing, by controlling km at the junction between the files such that the mining ratio of the color data for fading to a decoded color data is gradually increased/decreased.

Abstract: In the present invention, when a signature is formed with a chopper folding device, the conveying force of a sheet etc. conveyed to a position for sheet positioning is reduced, and the sheet etc. is released from restraint of the conveying force, by which the effect of the conveying force is not brought to the subsequent sheet folding process, so that a signature can be formed smoothly and properly.

Abstract: A disc cartridge 1 for installing a rotary disc has a write inhibit tab 57 which is provided to be slid and indicates a writable or nonwritable status of the disc by its position. The write inhibit tab is comprised of a main body 58, upper and lower slide portions 65 through 68 formed respectively on upper and lower side ends of the main body, groove shaped intermediate slide portions 69 and 70 formed between the upper and lower slide portions, first projections 63 and 64 formed at distal ends of elastic arms extended from the main body, and second projections 71 and 72 formed on the intermediate slide portions. When the write inhibit tab is used for a disc cartridge of an unremovable disc, the upper and lower slide portions and the first projections are used, and when the write inhibit tab is used for a disc cartridge of a removable disc, the intermediate slide portions and the second projections are used.

Abstract: The apparatus for the expansion of fluid in the gaseous or liquid state or in double phase is characterized in that it has an expansion compartment comprising:a first spiral (72),a second spiral (70) located within said first spiral,means (52, 63) to permit a circular translation movement without self-rotation of the second spiral within the first spiral during the expansion of a fluid.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a process for breaking an emulsion comprising water and oil, comprising the steps of mixing an emulsion consisting of water and oil with a culture, bacterial cells or a culture supernatant of a bacterium belonging to the genus Alteromonas or the genus Rhodococcus capable of breaking an emulsion comprising water and oil; and consequently separating said emulsion into an aqueous layer and oil layer; and, a process for breaking an emulsion comprising water and oil, comprising the steps of mixing an emulsion comprising water and oil with bacterial cells of a bacterium belonging to the genus Aeromonas capable of breaking an emulsion comprising water and oil so as to form an aqueous layer and an aggregated layer consisting of bacterial cells and oil, and then separating these layers.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus for exposing a photomask pattern onto a photosensitive substrate via a plurality of optical systems includes a source of illumination for irradiating the photomask pattern with beams of light adapted to pass through the pattern and optical systems onto the substrate. A scanning mechanism for synchronously scanning the photomask pattern with the beams of light is included to transfer the pattern to the substrate. A plurality of illumination intensity measuring devices is provided for substantially simultaneously measuring the illumination intensities of the beams of light passing through the optical systems.

Abstract: Medicinal products for the selective control of tumor tissue and a method for control of such tumor tissue by administration of such product to a host. The products comprise: (a) two different compounds having a pH below 7 when the compounds are present in a protonated form, such compounds having the formula set forth below and (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable inert medicinal product carrier. The compounds have the following ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen or a moiety which completes an ester group or an ether group, R.sub.2 is independently selected from the group consisting of an amino group, hydroxyl, an ester group, an ether group and a halogen, and n is an integer of 1 to 4.

Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a tape guide drum (10) composed of a lower stationary drum (10A) supported integrally with a drum shaft (18) and an upper rotary drum (10B), a lead member (12) provided separately from the lower drum and composed of an annular portion (52) having a portion for guiding a reference edge Te of a magnetic tape T and a bottom portion (53). The apparatus further includes pivot means provided inside the drum to support and allow the center axis of the drum to tilt with respect to the annular portion of the tape guide.

Abstract: An ocular optical system for a viewfinder in a camera for observing object image which is formed on focusing glass or its vicinity via eye point. The ocular optical system includes, in order from the focusing glass side, a negative meniscus lens, which has its convex surface facing the focusing glass side, and a positive lens. Visibility compensation is performed by moving the positive lens along the optical axis without moving the negative meniscus lens.