Abstract: The screw of the invention is characterized by a threaded shank of which the foot segment is an elastomer and of which the head segment is a dimensionally stable material, preferably a plastic. The screw comprising an elastomer buffer integrated into it in this manner is used to decouple vibrations from two components to be connected without having to resort to any further accessory means. Preferably the screw is used as a locking screw and foremost is applicable to affix a motor vehicle water radiator to a base.

Abstract: To ascertain in a pseudo-incoming call sequence whether or not a fixed subscriber unit of a user is set to an operation condition to wait for an incoming call, when a pseudo-incoming call is transmitted from a pseudo-incoming call outputting unit of a base station managing apparatus to the fixed subscriber unit through a wireless base station and a radio communication path, the fixed subscriber unit outputs an incoming call response signal to the base station managing apparatus through the wireless base station. Therefore, the base station managing apparatus can recognize that the fixed subscriber unit is set to an operation condition. Thereafter, to prevent a telephone connected with the fixed subscriber unit outputting a ringer sound, in place of a ringer sound urging signal in an incoming call sequence, a sequence interrupting signal is output from an incoming call sequence interrupting unit of the base station managing apparatus to the fixed subscriber unit through the wireless base station.

Abstract: A component supply apparatus includes a rectangular cross-sectional component passage which can house a plurality of chip components in a longitudinal direction, and at a first side surface of the tip of this component passage a rectangular-shaped component discharge opening is formed, and at a second side surface opposing the first side surface of the tip of the component passage a rectangular-shaped pusher insertion opening is formed. Inserting the pusher into the component passage through the pusher insertion opening enables a forefront electronic component to be pushed by the pusher and be discharged outside from the component discharge opening in a predetermined direction.

Abstract: A cap assembly of a battery, comprising: a cap plate for covering the upper portion of a battery case; a positive terminal installed on the cap plate, insulated from the cap plate; a rivet member having a rivet protrusion, through which a vent hole is formed, inserted through holes formed in the cap plate and the positive terminal for riveting them together, the rivet member electrically connected to the positive terminal; a safety member installed at the lower end of rivet member, blocking the vent hole; and a positive tap fixing member attached to the lower end of the safety member and joined to a positive tap of an electrode assembly in the battery case, wherein the safety member is ruptured and separated from the positive tap fixing member by an internal pressure increase of the battery case.

Abstract: The invention provides a rotary-vane machine having a stationary shell including a casing member (2), a camming ring (4) having an internal, noncircular camming surface (6), and a flange member (8); a rotor (10) including at least two first vanes (12) fixedly attached to, or integral with, the rotor (10), a first cover plate (14) fixedly attachable to the rotor (10); a second cover plate (16) fixedly attachable to the rotor and integral with a first shaft (22) supported on its free end by bearing (26) mounted in the casing (2), and being provided with at least four ports (a) for access or egress of a working medium; a second shaft (23) supported by a first bearing (28) accommodated in the first cover plate (14) and by a second bearing (30) accommodated in the second cover plate (16); at least two second vanes (38) fixedly attached to the second shaft (23) and oscillatably accommodated within the rotor (10), and defining, together with the rotor (10), the first vanes (12) and the first and second cover plates

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method for the production of genetic parthenocarpy in plants, which includes the steps of: providing a cassette including a DNA coding for modulation of auxin effects in plants, such as the rolB gene, and a promoter specific for the ovary between anthesis and early fruit development to control the DNA sequence and introducing the cassette into a plant. Preferably, the DNA is introduced by transformation of plant material (including seed derived cotyledons), and regeneration of transformed plants. Preferably the method also includes the step of screening the plant for either facultative or obligatory parthenocarpic characteristics.

Abstract: An electronic cabinet assembly is disclosed which is positioned in an exterior environment, such as a railway tunnel. The cabinet assembly includes an electronic cabinet having a box portion and at least one door together defining an interior space. The door has an open position for providing access to the interior space and a closed position where the door is in sealed relation to the box portion. The electronic cabinet includes one or more vents. A fan is in communication with the exterior of the cabinet, and with the interior space. A pressure sensing device is electrically connected to the fan and is in communication with the exterior of the cabinet and with the interior space for actuating the fan in response to sensing a predetermined pressure differential between the exterior of the cabinet and the interior space.

Abstract: The invention relates to a directly hydraulically damping broadband damper designed as a sequence of Helmholtz resonators with elastomer/gas springs to damp pressure pulses in pressurized liquids and in the audible range frequencies, in particular in hydraulic servo systems.

Abstract: A synthesized picture signal of a dynamic image is produced by combining a long-time picture signal representing a low luminance and a short-time picture signal representing a high luminance, pieces of histogram data corresponding to a plurality of luminance levels are detected from the synthesized picture signal, a sum of values of pieces of histogram data is repeatedly calculated as a summed value of a piece of summed histogram data while the number of pieces of histogram data is increased, and an inclination of a line indicated by a series of summed values is detected as a luminance gradation characteristic.

Abstract: A phosphor powder for producing a high resolution phosphor screen and a phosphor screen are provided. The phosphor screen comprises a substrate, an infrared-absorbing layer, and a phosphor layer coated on the infrared-absorbing layer, wherein the phosphor layer comprises a phosphor powder in which a substantial amount of particles in the powder have a particle size as measured in the longest dimension of greater than 0 and less than about 5 microns. The phosphor screen may also comprise a black, infrared-absorbing substrate with the phosphor layer coated on the substrate. The phosphor powder is formed by preparing a phosphor composition, sintering the composition to form ingots, grinding the ingots to form a powder wherein a substantial amount of particles in the powder have a particle size of greater than 0 and less than about 5 microns, reactivating the powder in an inert atmosphere to a temperature of from about 500.degree. C. to about 550.degree. C.

Abstract: A hanger for clothes to be displayed as goods. The hanger comprises a hanger main body including an upper laterally extending member, and a hook to be hanged, connected to the upper laterally extending member. A connecting section integral with the upper laterally extending member of the hanger main body. Additionally, a hanger auxiliary body is integral with the connecting section. The hanger auxiliary body includes a lower laterally extending member which is generally parallel with the upper laterally extending member, and first and second support members for supporting a lower part of the clothes. The first and second, support members are connected respectively with opposite ends of the lower laterally extending member so as to form a generally U-shaped bent portion between each of the opposite ends and each of the first and second support members. Each of the first and second support members extends generally parallel with the lower laterally extending member.

Abstract: This invention relates to a mobile station locating method for locating a mobile station based on a mobile communications system. Radio zones of base stations are dissected into a plurality of search areas (grid sections). A positional relationship between base stations and a concerned search area is defined by mutual time differences in the radio wave propagation between them. The base stations transmit their characteristic signals. Time differences in the propagation of the characteristic signals are caused between transmission of the characteristic signals at respective base stations and reception at a mobile station. Mutual differences in their propagation times are used to identify a search area where the mobile station is present. Thus, the position of the mobile station can be identified by an area not by a point.

Abstract: Electronic chips accumulated at random directions are arranged in an orderly line by a chip part supplier. A chip part feeder transfers the first aligned chip onto a printed circuit board. Chip parts having random directions in a hopper are fed to a discharge channel, organized in a prescribed direction and transferred through the discharge channel before being discharged through the channel bottom end onto a conveying belt before being carried by the belt in a prescribed direction. A clearance forcefully caused between the first chip and next chip separates the two chips completely just before the first chip is picked up. The thus separated first chip part is picked up by a suction head before being transferred to the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A power transfer system for applying backup electrical power to electrical systems is described which applies backup power automatically without power interruption and which is straightforward to implement and inexpensive to manufacture. The power transfer system has a direct current (DC) power bus as a common supply point for protected electrical equipment, thereby making prior art systems which provide power transfer between alternating current (AC) power sources and typically provide an AC power bus in common with the protected equipment no longer necessary.

Abstract: A grooved portion of an apparatus is positioned between a tick and a host's skin. The grooved portion includes a tapered opening extending to a progressively narrowing groove, for guiding a tick towards a distal end thereof having force applying portions. The apparatus includes a fulcrum portion and, upon pivoting thereabout, force applying portions thereof adjacent the groove apply an extracting force to a tick from below, for complete extraction from the host without squeezing, crushing or severing body portions of the tick. The apparatus includes a concave spoon-like portion, with upstanding sidewalls, for retaining a tick after removal from the host.

Abstract: An overlock sewing machine has a movable cutter which is activated in association with rotation of a main drive shaft to cooperate with a fixed cutter provided in the same plane with an upper surface of a needle plate, to thereby cut a work while the work is being stitched. A link mechanism includes a drive link having one end rotatably connected to a mount and the other end is connected to the movable cutter and a swingable link having an arcuate guide groove extending between one end and a center axis thereof around which the swingable link is swingingly moved. The drive link has a point between opposite ends thereof operatively connected to the arcuate guide groove of the swingable link. An operating device includes an operating shaft which is operatively connected to the point of the drive shaft so that the point of the drive link may be substantially moved along the arcuate guide groove of the swingable link between said one end and center axis thereof by manipulation of an operating knob.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus including an imaging device, an iris control circuit, and a gradation compensation circuit is disclosed with the iris control circuit operated with a priority to the gradation compensation circuit. That is, during generating the gradation control data for gradation compensation circuit, if the iris controlling is required, generating the gradation control data is stopped. Generating the gradation control data is started after completion of the iris controlling.

Abstract: A compound bearing apparatus of the present invention comprising a shaft, a sleeve outer ring surrounding the shaft, two rows of rotating bodies disposed between the shaft and the sleeve including a first row of the rotating bodies interposed between an outer rolling contact recess formed directly on the outer periphery of the shaft and a first inner rolling contact recess formed on the inner peripheral surface of the sleeve outer ring, and a second row of the rotating bodies interposed between an outer rolling contact recess formed on the outer periphery of an inner ring fitted onto the shaft and a second inner rolling contact recess formed on the inner peripheral surface of the sleeve, and a pair of inner and outer sealing plates having a through hole at the central portion thereof; wherein at the one side of the apparatus where the first row of the rotating bodies is provided, the sealing plates are mounted between the sleeve outer ring and the shaft with leaving between the plates and the sleeve outer rin

Abstract: Unidirectional and bi-directional fiber optic rotary joints are disclosed for coupling at least one optical signal across a rotary interface. The unidirectional joint includes a stator having a waveguide. A rotor is rotatable through a full 360.degree. revolution and is concentric to the stator. Light transmitters are positioned on a first circumference and connected to one of the stator and the rotor. Each of the transmitters emits an optical signal. Light receivers are positioned on a second circumference and connected to the other one of the stator and the rotor. Each of the transmitted optical signals is emitted tangentially into the waveguide and is reflected in short chordal lengths along the waveguide. Each optical signal is received by at least one of the second plurality of light receivers through the full 360.degree. revolution of the rotor. The number of light receivers is greater than the number of light transmitters. Certain receivers do not receive an optical signal during a portion of the 360.

Abstract: A video signal is divided into a plurality of partial signals. A time code signal is generated which is incremented every field or frame of the video signal. One of predetermined different corrective signals or calibration signals is sequentially selected in response to the time code signal. The time code signal and the selected corrective signal are interposed in segments of the partial signals which relate to a given line of the field or frame to convert the partial signals into composite signals. The composite signals are recorded on the recording medium.