Abstract: To prevents a displacement of a screen mask accompanying with a movement of a squeegee and an oxidization of a printing agent, a printing agent sweeping drum (1) has closed both end portions, has a supporting shaft (2) inserted to a center portion thereof, has a lower end portion partly opened, is made rotatable with respect to the supporting shaft, oscillates along a moving direction of the squeegee via a movement of the supporting shaft (2), moves downward at a movement starting end position, moves upward at a terminal end position, and rotates at a predetermined angle in an opposite direction at a predetermined timing at the starting end position and the terminal end position, a squeegee (4) inclined at a predetermined angle and moving upward and downward at a predetermined timing being arranged within the printing agent sweeping drum 1, a squeegee (10) and a printing agent extruding plate (11) being attached to a lower end of the squeegee holder (4) and a nitrogen gas (17) being charged into the printing

Abstract: A paper feed apparatus comprises primary paper feed device 3 sequentially transferring only an uppermost print sheet P on a paper feed tray, and secondary paper feed device 4 guiding a tip end of the print sheet P transferred by the primary paper feed device 3 by a pair of guide members 12 and 13, introducing the print sheet P to a portion between a pair of secondary paper feed rollers 10 and transferring the print sheet P introduced to the portion between the pair of secondary paper feed rollers 10 to a transport downstream side according to rotation of the pair of secondary paper feed rollers 10. The paper feed apparatus is provided with a guide distance adjustment device 14 for making a distance between the pair of guide members 12 and 13 variable. The guide distance adjustment device 14 rotates eccentric cams 22 by rotation of an operation member 20.

Abstract: A picture target amount-of-code calculating unit calculates a target amount of codes for each picture type that corresponds to an encoding rate that has been determined by an audio/video encoding rate determining unit. An amount-of-code controlling unit controls the quantizing scale of a quantizing unit so as to make the target amount of codes for each picture type match with a total amount of codes of a unit as a whole. A unit address calculating unit calculates the addresses used when a search is made, as navigation data, on the basis of the target amount of codes for each picture type and the encoding rate. A unifying unit makes a construction of the unit while, on the other hand, a navigation data producing unit depicts navigation data at a foremost position of the unit.

Abstract: Apparatus for diagnosing lesion severity of a lesion in an arterial lumen supplying blood to a muscle in its non-hyperemic state of a human subject based on processing information relating to the shape of the dicrotic notch of at least one pressure pulse of his proximal non-hyperemic pressure waveform and either the absence of dicrotic notches along his distal non-hyperemic pressure waveform or the shape of the dicrotic notch of at least one pressure pulse of his distal non-hyperemic pressure waveform if present to calculate the value of a PTC parameter indicative of the severity of the lesion.

Abstract: In a video signal processing method of processing a luminance signal of a video signal generated by causing a CCD to receive light transmitted through color filters, a control signal yf1 is generated by calculating Cy/Y using a complementary color signal Cy and a luminance signal Y, and coring correction is performed to the luminance signal by using the control signal yf1. The characteristic difference between the color filters is suppressed, and, as a result, flickers are suppressed from being generated.

Abstract: A micro porous plastic sheet is stencil plate made by a method for stencil plate making of a stencil sheet for stencil printing under the following conditions: heat is provided to form a negative image with TPH at −30≦Tp−Tm≦300° C. (Tp is heating peak temperature and Tm is melting temperature (melting point) of the sheet) and in 10≦To×100/Ts≦80% (To is current-carrying time period and Ts is current-carrying cycle), micro pores are closed by the pressure for stencil plate making of 0.1≦P≦1.0 MPa, and the thermal shrinkage rate of the sheet measured by TMA is set to 1≦STm-30≦20% (STm-30 is a thermal shrinking rate of the sheet at a temperature 30° C. lower than the melting point TM).

Abstract: Inclination measurement apparatus for measuring the inclination of a surface to the horizontal. The apparatus includes (a) a base plate for mounting the apparatus on the surface; (b) a ball bearing with i) a housing washer rigidly mounted on the base plate, and having a flat upper bearing surface, ii) a ball and cage thrust assembly set on the upper bearing surface, and iii) a shaft washer having a flat lower bearing surface set on the ball and cage thrust assembly, and being rotatable thereon between a first pair of diametrically opposite orientations defining a first measurement axis on the horizontal to the local gravity vector prevailing at the location of the apparatus; and (c) a first clinometer mounted on the shaft washer for obtaining an inclination measurement in each of the first pair of diametrically opposite orientations whereby the true inclination of the surface to the horizontal along the first measurement axis is determinable from the difference between the pair of measurement inclinations.

Abstract: In a telecommunication network, a method for managing varying traffic load by establishing an instantaneous demand for bandwidth at a pre-defined location of the telecommunication network. The total number of bits required is compared with a number of bits available for use in that pre-defined location, and a bit rate adjusting mechanism is applied to each one of the algorithms associated with an active channels when required. The bit adjusting mechanism is based on pre-defined functions that describe the number of bits that will be allocated for each active algorithm under varying loads of the network. Thus, the bit adjusting mechanism allow the adjustment of the number of bits for each one the network channels, obeying to the constrain that the total number of bits allocated to all channels shall not exceed the total number of bits available.

Abstract: An invalid frame in 60P images supplied from a 60P camera head is delayed by a single frame by a 1-frame delay circuit. A differential between the delayed invalid frame and the valid frame is computed by a subtracting circuit. Of the differential signal, only a portion over a predetermined value is picked out by a level filter. The picked out signal is attenuated to ½ by a ½ attenuator. By adding that attenuated signal to the valid frame by an adder, the invalid frame is superimposed on that valid frame. As a result, a natural picture is obtained.

Abstract: A device for preparing beverages of the type having a closed compartment, an open compartment, an ascension pipe connecting the two compartments and a location for a filtering device between the ascension pipe and the open compartment. The closed compartment has a bottom that has at least a first and a second area which are at different levels and has a member for separating the two areas. The first area is larger than the second area, is heated, and is at a higher level than the second level and than the end of the ascension pipe. The second, smaller area is unheated and is located near the ascension pipe, but at a level that is below the end of the ascension pipe. In one embodiment the separating member is a rim and in a second embodiment the separating member is an inclined bottom.

Abstract: A frame/field converter circuit addition-processes image data constituting respective fields in a ratio corresponding to an image pickup mode or the like and outputs the resulting image data. As a result of this, it is possible to perform addition processing on image data constituting respective fields in an optimum ratio corresponding to an image pickup mode or the like and output the resulting image data. This makes it possible to improve the frequency characteristic and S/N ratio of the image and thereby enhance the quality of the displayed image. A contour compensation circuit performs contour compensation processing with respect to the frequency band of the image data in correspondence with the zoom magnification. As a result of this, it is possible to mitigate the level of the return noises generated in correspondence with the zoom magnification and thereby prevent the deterioration of the frequency characteristic and S/N ratio of the image to thereby enhance the quality of the image.

Abstract: A wireless carrier sense multiple access/collision detection (CSMA/CD) communication system (1) is disclosed which includes a repeater station (R; 10) and a plurality of terminal stations (E, F, G; 30). A wireless uplink communication channel (Fu) provides for one-way communications between each terminal station and the repeater station and a wireless downlink communication channel (Fd) provides for one-way communications between the repeater station and each of the terminal station. The uplink and downlink communication channels operate at different transmission wavelengths. A bit pattern (18) received by the repeater station via the uplink channel is retransmitted via the downlink channel.

Abstract: A stencil making and printing machine outputs a busy signal indicative that the stencil making and printing machine is a busy state, and then, gives the busy signal as an answer to the external computer system via the controller for a predetermined time after the stencil making process and for a predetermined time after a printing process, and thereby, an intervention operation from the external computer system is limited. By doing so, the present invention provides a stencil making and printing system and a stencil making and printing machine, which can improve an operability of stencil making and printing process, and has a high processing efficiency.

Abstract: A paper feed unit has a paper feed tray stacking sheets thereon, a primary paper feed roller and a secondary paper feed member, wherein an uppermost sheet among the sheets stacked on the paper feed tray is transferred toward the secondary paper feed member from the primary paper feed roller, a tip end of the sheet then contacts with the secondary paper feed member, and primary paper feed is then completed while the sheet is being bent. A counter rotation stop mechanism, which allows the primary paper feed roller to rotate in a paper feed direction but prevents the primary paper feed roller from rotating in a counter direction to the paper feed direction, and a rotation stop release mechanism, which releases a state in which the primary paper feed roller is prevented from rotating in the counter direction by the counter rotation stop mechanism, are also provided.

Abstract: In a printing machine, a tip end of a print sheet 22, which is transferred from a paper feed section 5 synchronously with rotation of a printing drum 16 and a pressure drum 17, is clamped by a sheet clamp section 21 at a rotation clamp position upstream of a press portion on which the printing drum 16 and the pressure drum press each other. The print sheet 22 thus clamped is transferred along an outer peripheral surface of the pressure drum 17 and pressed against a stencil sheet on the press portion. Then, printing is done. The printing machine is provided with a sheet clamp guide member 30 guiding the tip end of the print sheet 22, which is transferred from the sheet feed section 5, to a position on which the print sheet 22 is abutted on a sheet abutment face 21a of the sheet clamp section 21 located at the rotation clamp position.

Abstract: In an assembly for cylindrical drill pipes made for the transport of different kinds of fluids, a combined flange assembly can combine the functions and can be assembled under low time consumption and at low cost. Drill rods are connected by axially directed bolts inserted in the outer wall of a first drill rod (1) and extending axially past the end of the first drill rod (1) into internally threaded blind holes (21, 22) in the next drill rod to be connected to the first drill rod. Each terminal surface of a drill rod is made with arrangements (13-17, 23-27) for at least one coupling plug (31, 33) for the transport of different kinds of fluids in the drill string.

Abstract: A vehicle seat slide device includes an elongated lower guide rail adapted to be secured to a floor panel of the vehicle body in its longitudinal direction, and an upper slide rail slidably fitted into the lower guide rail. The lower guide rail has a rail body, side walls, slider rest portions and upper guide walls inwardly extending from upper ends of the side walls to define an elongated guide groove. First hook segments are formed on inner edges of the upper guide walls along the elongated guide groove, and second hook segments are formed on the side walls of the lower guide rail, respectively. The upper slide rail includes a slide body, vertical wall, upper slide walls, and lower side walls. In the upper slide rail, slider rest shoulders, first engaging segments, and second engaging segments are also formed. Either one of the slider rest portions may include a rectilinear portion by which one of the sliders is held in point of contact.

Abstract: A simple and compact device for wet granulation of liquid slag, comprising a granulating basin with a water injection device and a decanting basin that is separate from the granulating basin. A distribution channel for the granulate-water mixture extends above the decanting basin and is provided with outflow means along the entire length and on the lower side thereof for the granulate-water mixture. A vertical inflow shaft that is open towards the bottom is arranged underneath the distribution channel. The outflow means for the granulate-water mixture discharges into said inflow shaft.

Abstract: Transmission of coded signals of different types in a system comprising a plurality of operative telecommunication stations is described. The system allows transmission of different type of signals in their coded form towards a receiving end of the transmission path and ensures that the signals are decoded into their decompressed digital form only in the last operative decoder along the transmission path. Signal classification messages are transmitted along the transmission path and allow operating the system in an environment of various types of signals.

Abstract: A stencil printing machine and a method carrying out a printing operation are disclosed wherein a print sheet is transferred through between an upstream printing drum and a press roller in a pressured state to transfer ink onto an upper surface of the print sheet and is then transferred through between a downstream printing drum and a press roller in a pressured state to transfer ink onto the other surface of the print sheet to perform a both sides printing operation. A printing-drum drive escape mechanism is located to shift the downstream printing drum to a drive escape position to interrupt rotation of the printing drum while retaining the press roller in a separated position away from the shifted printing drum in such a manner that the printing operation under such a condition in a one side printing mode is executed.