Abstract: A magnetic recording disk cartridge comprises a recording disk and a casing for accommodating the recording disk. The casing is provided with a pair of magnetic head receiving openings in the front and rear side walls thereof. The magnetic head receiving openings are normally closed and are opened when the cartridge is loaded in a recording-reproducing system. The shutter member for closing the magnetic head receiving openings is formed by bending a single plate material and comprises a pair of arm portions connected with each other by a bight portion. A pair of shutter portions for closing the respective magnetic head receiving openings are formed on the respective arm portions at an intermediate portion thereof. The free end portions of the arm portions respectively form bearing portions which are engaged with engaging ribs projecting inwardly from the front and rear side walls of the casing and support the shutter member for rotation about the ribs.

Abstract: A videodisc playback system is equipped with a reading device that sequentially reads the key code signals recorded on a videodisc in order to discriminate field, frame, or track. A mistracking pulse generator temporarily stores two key code signals that were consecutively read from the reading device, compares the two stored key code signals and detects the occurrence of mistracking from the two key code signals, and at the same time, generates mistracking pulses in an expanded blanking time, in a number that corresponds to the number of tracks travelled in the opposite direction to the playback shifting direction when the mistracking was detected. A forced driving device forcibly shifts the playback tracks one track at a time in the playback shifting direction with every mistracking pulse impressed from the mistracking pulse generator.

Abstract: A magnetic recording disk cartridge comprises a recording disk and a causing for accommodating the recording disk. The cartridge is provided with a shutter member for closing the magnetic head receiving openings in the casing. The shutter member is mounted in the casing for pivotal movement along the inner surface of the casing between an operative position in which it closes the magnetic head receiving opening and an inoperative position in which it opens the same. The shutter member is provided with projections on the surface facing the inner surface of the casing and slides on the projections along the inner surface of the casing when it is moved between the operative position and the inoperative position.

Abstract: An enclosure (17) contains two ovens (18, 19) each containing a semiconductor metal oxide (SnO.sub.2 or NiO) sensor (13) previously activated using H.sub.2 S or SO.sub.2. The sensors (13) are heated to different temperatures the lower of which corresponds to a peak on the sensor conductivity curve characteristic of the gas. The signals produced are applied to a comparator (30). For many toxic gases this peak occurs at concentrations below their toxicity threshold in air.

Abstract: A labeling device is described by means of which adhesive labels can be printed, dispensed, and applied on an article. During each operating cycle an adhesive label is printed in the device and transported into a dispensing position below an applicator roll which is mounted for rotation on an elastically deformable axle. In order to render the applicator roll yieldable to a degree desirable to make it conform to the surface to be provided with an adhesive label, the applicator roll is supported on the axle in a central region of its longitudinal extension, while on either side of said central region there follow axle bore regions extending up to the end faces of the applicator roll in which the latter surrounds the axle with a clearance.

Abstract: A radiation image recorded in a stimulable phosphor is read out by stimulating the phosphor with a stimulating ray to have the phosphor emit light and detecting the emitted light with a photodetector. A radiation image information thus obtained is read out by a photodetector by way of a light guide member which collects the light emitted by the phosphor and guides the collected light to a photodetector. The light guide member is made of a transparent sheet having smooth surfaces for effecting total reflection. The light guide member has a linear or arcuate end to be located adjacent to a scan line of the stimulable phosphor to receive and guide the light emitted by the phosphor and an annular end to be located adjacent to the light receiving face of the photodetector. The light entering the light guide member through the flat end is guided to the annular end by repeated total reflection.

Abstract: An automobile seat comprising a seat bottom rotatable around a transverse axis approximately parallel to a car body floor, a seat back mounted on the seat bottom and capable of being inclined forwards, a seat bottom lock for releasably locking the seat bottom to the floor, a seat back lock for releasably locking the seat back to the seat bottom, and a lock releasing and linking mechanism for linking the forward inclination of the seat back and the rotation of the seat bottom to each other so as to conduct both seat back forward inclination and seat bottom rotation by a single operation. The lock releasing and linking mechanism is provided with an actuation piece for detecting the rotation of the seat bottom and a drive member for releasing the seat back lock by the actuation of the actuation member. Or, the mechanism is provided with an interlocking member for releasing the seat bottom lock in a manner interlocked with the forward inclination of the seat back.

Abstract: In a computed tomographic method in which a tomographic image of an object is composed from many X-ray projection distribution images obtained by exposing a section of the object to X-rays in many different directions, the X-ray projection distribution images obtained by respective exposures to X-rays are once stored at positions different from one another on a stimulable phosphor sheet, the stimulable phosphor sheet is then scanned with a stimulating ray, and a tomographic image of the object is composed by use of electric signals obtained by photoelectrically reading out light emitted from the stimulable phosphor sheet upon stimulation thereof. The stimulable phosphor sheet and an X-ray source are integrally rotated around the object, while the stimulable phosphor sheet is moved approximately at right angles to the plane formed by the rotation thereof.

Abstract: A brushless motor comprising seven or more armature windings mounted on a stator, a field magnet mounted on a rotating shaft to rotate therewith with respect to the armature windings, a plurality of semiconductor commutating devices, each being connected to one of the armature windings, and Hall sensors for detecting the polarity of magnetic fields immediately opposite the windings. Each commutating device controls the direction of the electric current to be fed to its respective armature winding, according to the magnetic polarity detected by the Hall sensors. The armature windings are connected together at one end thereof and are connected to respective commutating devices at the other ends thereof.

Abstract: In a disk drive system which uses as stepper motor, overshooting of the desired final position is reduced by short-circuiting the windings of the stepper motor which normally remain open-circuit or are switched off. This short-circuiting provides a current path for any EMF induced in the unused windings. This effect is achieved by connecting a pair of transistors in parallel with each other and with each respective winding. The transistors are connected in opposite polarity to provide a short-circuit regardless of the polarity of the EMF across the windings. The transistors are connected to a microprocessor which is programmed such that the windings are selectively short circuited and the short circuits are applied at a predetermined time with regard to the step so that `damping` is optimized. The microprocessor may be programmed to switch the transistors on and off as desired giving flexible timing to suit different conditions. One or more stepper motor steps may be treated in this manner.

Abstract: A moisture sensor comprises a moisture-sensitive layer formed from the oxide of highly resistive porous low density tantalum on a moisture-insensitive substrate. Between the substrate and the moisture-sensitive tantalum oxide layer there is a base electrode of an anodically oxidizable metal, preferably tantalum, of a density higher than the density of the low density tantalum from which the tantalum oxide layer is formed. A covering electrode partially covering the tantalum oxide layer has windows through which the water vapor containing medium can penetrate into the moisture-sensitive tantalum oxide layer. The inactive regions of the tantalum oxide layer disposed below the windows are removed to increase the rate of response.

Abstract: A level meter circuit for displaying the level of an input signal by the use of a number of light emitting diodes. The circuit has a parallel circuit of a plurality of unit circuits each having a diode circuit and a current control transistor connected in series with the parallel circuit and controlled by the input signal, the level of which is to be displayed. In accordance with the input signal level to be displayed, one or more of the diodes are activated to emit light, thus providing a display of the input signal level.

Abstract: A label strip including a carrier strip and labels adhering in series to the carrier strip by means of an adhesive layer. The label strip is for use in label printing or dispensing apparatuses, in which the carrier strip is drawn by a pull-off device progressively around a deflection device where the labels are released from the carrier strip. The labels are made from a material stiffer than paper. The side of the labels facing the carrier strip is adhesive-repellent while the side of the carrier strip facing the labels has an adhesive-retaining surface. Moreover, the adhesive layer is applied as at least one narrow band to the carrier strip so that the areas of the side of the carrier strip which come into contact with the pull-off device are adhesive-free.

Abstract: A light beam projecting system comprising a light source and a condenser lens system is mounted on a rotator to project radially outwardly a light beam modulated by a desired modulating signal representing information to be recorded while rotating together with the rotator. The rotator is mounted for movement in the direction parallel to the rotational axis thereof whereby the light beam emitted from the light beam projecting system is caused to scan a recording medium opposed to the peripheral surface of the rotator to record the information thereon.

Abstract: A method of making a magnetic film target for use in sputtering characterized by forming a film of a magnetic material on a substrate by ion-plating a raw magnetic material thereon. The raw magnetic material is either identical with the magnetic film material or an ingredient or ingredients for constituting it. In the latter case, one or more metallic ingredients are simultaneously ion-plated in the same system to form a magnetic alloy or compound film on the substrate. To prepare a magnetic alloy target in which the composition changes in the thickness direction, the ion plating ratio of respective metallic ingredients is changed with time.

Abstract: A method for recording an image by scanning a photosensitive recording medium with a light beam wherein a number of image region are designated on an original image and the image regions are electrically processed using certain image processing conditions which are different for each designated image region in said original image. The image processing conditions comprises different gradation, sharpness, magnification or halftone mode adjustments for each of the designated image regions or any combination of two or more of said image processing conditions.

Abstract: An improvement in a transceiver having first and second carrier frequency oscillators for demodulation, a change-over device for making change-over of oscillation outputs between the first and second carrier frequency oscillators, a mixer for mixing the oscillation outputs from the first and second carrier frequency oscillators, and a switching circuit for connecting and disconnecting the input signal into, or output signal from, said mixer by on-off operations of the telegraphic transmission key to apply the signal to a low frequency amplifier of the transceiver.

Abstract: Feedback control is carried out to maintain the rotational speed of an internal combustion engine during idling at a desirable speed determined according to the operating conditions of the engine by controlling an adjusting valve for controlling the amount of air to be fed to the engine. The actual rotational speed of the engine and the actual opening angle of the throttle valve are detected and when the actual rotational speed is lower than a predetermined value and at the same time the actual opening angle of the throttle valve is smaller than a predetermined value, the feedback control is carried out. Further, whether or not the driving power of the engine is operatively transmitted to the driving wheels is detected, and the predetermined value for the rotational speed of the engine is set at a higher value when the driving power is not transmitted to the driving wheels than when the driving power is transmitted to the driving wheels.

Abstract: A voltage switching amplifier circuit has a comparator which, after comparing signal amplitude to a comparison voltage, switches on a high voltage or low voltage amplifier depending upon whether the comparison voltage is exceeded or not. After the predetermined comparison voltage is exceeded, a positive feedback circuit reduces the comparison voltage enabling the high voltage amplifier to continue operation at least until the signal amplitude drops below the reduced comparison voltage. In a preferred embodiment, a time constant circuit maintains the high voltage amplifier in operation for a predetermined period of time during which the signal amplitude has dropped below and remained below the reduced comparison voltage.