Abstract: A breast pump is disclosed comprising a body (50) with an inlet (84) thereto to receive milk expressed from a woman's breast. The body is formed for releasable attachment to a container for collecting expressed milk and houses a deformable diaphragm (51) which is cyclicly moved by manually or electrically driven actuating lever (53, 54) connected thereto to generate and release cyclicly a negative pressure in the nipple region sufficient to stimulate the nipple area to cause lactation. The pump preferably includes valve (80) mounted in the body so that the negative pressure is created in the pump body only and not in the container for the expressed milk when connected thereto.

Abstract: In a bistable memory element including a first inverting circuit of an N channel MOSFET and a P channel MOSFET, and a second inverting circuit of an N channel MOSFET and a P channel MOSFET, a memory cell is formed of a first ferroelectric capacitor having one end coupled to the input of the first inverting circuit and the other end coupled to a fixed potential V.sub.CP and a second ferroelectric capacitor having one end coupled to the input of the second inverting circuit and the other end coupled to the fixed potential V.sub.CP. Since the fixed potential V.sub.CP can be varied to an arbitrary value by an external signal, the intensity of the electric field applied to the ferroelectric capacitor can be set to an arbitrary value.

Abstract: An absorbent pants type article has a front waist-opening marginal stretchable region and a front waist stretchable region having upper, intermediate and lower stretchable subregions. The elongation stress of the front waist-opening marginal stretchable region is greater than the corresponding stress in the lower stretchable subregion. The stress in the lower stretchable region is greater than the stress in the upper stretchable subregion which is in turn greater than the stress in the intermediate stretchable subregion.

Abstract: An internal address signal corresponding to data to be written into a memory cell is held in a latch circuit. The held internal address signal is selected by a multiplexer in the next writing operation and applied to a decoder. Write data is taken in and held by the latch circuit during the period in which data is not being read out from the memory cell array. A comparator compares the held internal address signal and an internal address signal for reading data. If a matching is found between them, the multiplexer outputs data from the latch circuit for external output. Accordingly, delay of a writing operation following a reading operation can be eliminated without increasing chip cost, package cost, and system cost, as a result high speed operation of cache memories is achieved and the speed performance of computers of various levels such as supercomputers, large size calculators, work stations and personal computers can be improved.

Abstract: The invention provides an adjustable spanner having one fixed jaw (11) and one movable jaw (12), the fixed jaw being mounted on or formed integrally with the body or handle (10) of the spanner, and the movable jaw being arranged to slide in the body or handle of the spanner relative to the fixed jaw, in which the movable jaw (12) is provided with a first set of serrations (15) and a locking member (17) provided with a second set of secretions (16) is movably mounted in the body of the spanner to move between a locking position in which said second set of serrations engage with said first set of serrations to lock the movable jaw (12) in an operative position, and a release position in which the second set of serrations are clear of said first set of serrations to allow adjusting movement of the movable jaw; wherein releasable locking means (21) is provided for locking the locking member (17) positively in said locking position.

Abstract: Techniques for converting a two-dimensional motion picture into a three dimensional stereo motion picture are disclosed. Wire frames of objects in the motion picture are constructed using the frames of the two-dimensional motion picture, substituted for the two dimensional view of the object, photorealistically rendered and stereo views generated of the rendered wireframes to create stereo views of the scenes of the original motion picture. Key frame sequences can be generated in stereo automatically from stereo set up of the key frame.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating equines, such as horses, afflicted with equine protozoal myeloencephalitis or EPM. The therapeutic compositions comprise a combination of pyrimethamine and a sulfonamide, preferably, sulfadiazine, in the absence of known therapeutic amounts of trimethoprim.

Abstract: An image-memory stores image data in a form such that the thus stored image data may be used for realizing the corresponding image on a recording medium. A straight-line-vector processing unit processes straight line vectors associated with image data provided thereto so that the resulting data may be used to be stored in the image-memory. A data switching unit switches so that either the data obtained from the straight-line-vector processing unit may be stored in the image-memory or data obtained from an image inputting unit may be stored in the image-memory. A data expanding unit expands the image data provided from a host computer into the corresponding main-scan-direction straight line vectors. A data generating unit generates the start and end addresses associated with the straight line vectors and the relevant density values associated with the image data.

Abstract: A bird's eye view commonly used in a flight simulation is applicable to an apparatus and method for navigating a vehicle running on a set route of travel to a set destination using a (color) display unit according to the present invention. The bird's eye view of a road map surrounding a present position of the vehicle has a viewing point placed at a predetermined position on an upper sky in a direction opposite to the set destination with the present position of the vehicle as a reference and has a line of sight looking down over the road map so that a part of the road map surrounding the present position of the vehicle can be viewed in an extended scale form and the remaining part of the road map remote from the present position and nearer to the set destination can be viewed in a gradually reduction scale form.

Abstract: A data receiving apparatus comprising: a receiving portion for receiving a desired radio wave signal including a desired baseband signal and an interference radio wave signal including an interference baseband signal, the desired radio wave signal and the interference radio wave signal having substantially the same frequency; first weighting circuit for weighting an output of the receiving circuit with a first coefficient adaptively renewed such that the desired baseband signal is reproduced; a subtracting circuit coupled to the first weighting circuit; a first judging circuit coupled to the first subtracting circuit; a second weighting circuit for weighting the baseband signal with a second coefficient adaptively renewed such that the interference baseband signal is reproduced; a second judging circuit coupled to the second weighting circuit; and a supplying circuit for supplying the reproduced interference baseband signal to the subtracting circuit, the subtracting circuit effecting a subtraction between an

Abstract: A high-concentration ozone gas having a concentration of at least 50 VOL % of ozone in the ozone-oxygen system is acted within the temperature range of a normal temperature to 60.degree. C. on an ultrapurity-gas piping system for use in a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and the like or on a metal component part for use in an ultrahigh-vacuum apparatus to form a passivation film on the interior metal surface thereof.

Abstract: In a mobile satellite system, a mobile communication system includes a fraud detection and user validation system and method for commissioning the mobile communication system in the mobile satellite system. The method includes the steps of generating a first input signal by the mobile communication system upon initialization, and transmitting the first input signal from the mobile communication system to the central controller. The method also includes the steps of generating a first security key in the central controller using the first input signal, and generating a second security key in the mobile communication system using the first input signal and transmitting the second security key to the central controller. The central controller verifies the mobile communication system that transmitted the first input signal to commission it in the mobile satellite system. The verification process is responsive to a comparison of the first security key with the second security key.

Abstract: A method is provided for securing stored files in a system having a plurality of system users with each system user having an associated asymmetric crypto-key with a public key portion and a corresponding private key portion. Each public key portion is accessible to the plurality of system users. Each private key portion has a first private key portion known only to the associated user and a corresponding second private key portion known only to a security server. Data to be stored is identified. A symmetric crypto-key is encrypted with only the second private key portion of a first user crypto-key to form an encrypted key message, thereby restricting access to the symmetric crypto-key to only the first user. The symmetric crypto-key is obtained by the first user by applying the first private key portion of the first user crypto-key to decrypt the encrypted key message.

Abstract: An improved semiconductor memory device in which an electric circuit operates normally is provided. A block of memory cells of a dynamic random access memory is provided on a semiconductor substrate. A dummy storage node is provided near a corner portion of the memory cell block. A dummy cell plate is provided such that it covers the dummy storage node and is electrically insulated from a main cell plate of the DRAM.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for shading inside of a car from the sun in summer, and preventing the windshield from being frozen due to frost or the like in winter. The apparatus is free from disadvantages of being blown away by the wind, being stolen, obstructing driver's sight at the time of driving the car or occupying a large space inside the car. The apparatus comprises a mounting plate located on reverse side of a bonnet; a cover capable of being unfolded and folded vertically. Accommodating holders are attached to the front end of the mounting board for accommodating the cover when folded. An elongated, flexible slide arm is fixed to a front end of the cover and is supported for performing freely reciprocating motion in longitudinal direction to move linearly along the external surface of the windshield and upper side of said mounting place. Arm drives are fixed to the mounting plate. A switch for driving the arm is located inside of the car.

Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus includes a data input portion to which input data which is a speech pattern is applied, a score calculation portion calculating a score indicating a possibility of recognition of a partial pattern of the speech pattern based on the estimate of a posteriori odds, an optimization design portion designing optimized parameters for calculating the estimate of the a posteriori odds in the score calculation portion and/or optimized parameters of pruning functions controlling calculation amount in the pruning processing portion, a pruning processing portion pruning the score for making operation efficient, an accumulated score calculating portion accumulating pruned scores to calculate an accumulated score, a recognition result decision portion classifying input data for every class based on the accumulated score and deciding a recognition result, and a recognition result output portion providing the recognition result.

Abstract: An essentially particulate-free, non-toxic, odorless and colorless gas is generated in a pyrotechnic inflator device by using a eutectic solution of ammonium nitrate, guanidine nitrate and/or aminoguanidine nitrate, and minor amounts of polyvinyl alcohol and either potassium nitrate or potassium perchlorate. Ballistic modifiers such as triaminoguanidine nitrate (TAGN) or nitroguanidine (NQ) may be used as needed.

Abstract: An optical scanning apparatus has an F-.theta. function with one aspherical lens having a toric configuration that compensates for the vibration of a rotating polygon mirror. The optical scanning apparatus includes a laser diode as the source of light, a collimator lens, a compound prism, a rotating polygon mirror, and a scanning lens system. The compound prism is located between the rotating polygon mirror and the laser diode so that the laser diode and an optical axis form a right angle. The scanning lens is composed of one lens with magnification in mainscanning/subscanning directions. With such a construction, by providing an F-.theta. function and compensating for the vigration of the rotating polygon mirror, the number of lenses is mnimized, the manufacture and assembly/adjustment of the lens are simplified, and the number of manufacturing steps can be reduced.

Abstract: An arrangement and method for optimizing the recorded signal to noise ratio in contact recording systems reduces the contact pressure of the write transducer head and media interface. This reduction in contact pressure reduces the noise recorded onto the media.

Abstract: The use of ginsenoside R.sub.0 or a plant extract containing same to prepare a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition, particularly a skin care composition, for promoting collagen synthesis, particularly collagen I and/or collagen III synthesis. Said cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition is administered to a mammal, particularly a human being, in order to promote collagen synthesis. A method for promoting collagen synthesis in fibroblast growth media is also disclosed.