Abstract: A device embodying the invention for a packet time-division switcher comprises essentially a circuit for detecting beginnings and ends of load interruption periods in the switcher, and a period counter. The detecting circuit is connected to a plurality of input buffer quenes of the switcher and detects a load interruption when all queues signal a state of packet emptiness. A time base of the switcher is inhibited at the end of a period of predetermined duration established by the counter and following the detection of a load interruption. Said duration is predetermined so as to complete the switching of a packet that has been begun. Once the time base is inhibited, the operating of the switcher is interrupted and its power consumption becomes very low. The time base is freed as soon as a packet is received by the queues, and the switcher resumes operating.

Abstract: A dynamic semiconductor memory device comprising a substrate having one trench including two capacitors for memory cell capacitances of two bits, and two elements such as transistors for reading, writing, and storing information represented by charge, arranged symmetrically at the central portion of the trench so as to correspond to the memory cells for two bits, and a field oxide film formed at the center of the trench on the bottom and on the side walls for separating the capacitors and elements.

Abstract: An engine starter comprising a motor having a tubular armature rotation shaft, a rotation output shaft arranged on one axial end of the motor and on the coaxial line with the armature rotation shaft and axially slidably supported, a clutch mechanism for transmitting the turning force of the armature rotation shaft to the rotation output shaft and an electromagnetic switch which not only has a shifting member, by means of an electromagnetic force, to push the rotation output shaft in the axial direction to slidably move it, but which brings movable contacts in touch with fixed contacts, thereby to supply power to the motor. The rear part of the rotation output shaft and the front part of the shifting member inserted into the armature rotation shaft tube from opposite directions, the shifting member of the electromagnetic switch, armature rotation shaft and the rotation output shaft are coaxial.

Abstract: A MOS transistor comprises source and drain impurity regions on a surface of a silicon substrate. The source and drain regions have a double diffusion structure including impurity regions of high concentration and impurity regions of low concentration surrounding the high-concentration impurity regions. Outgoing electrode layers of polysilicon are formed on surfaces of the source and drain impurity regions. A gate electrode is formed to partially extend over the outgoing electrode layers for the source and drain impurity regions. The source and drain impurity regions are formed by implanting impurities into the electrode layers and subsequently diffusing the impurities into the semiconductor substrate by thermal diffusion. Those processes of impurity implantation and thermal diffusion are effected after completion of the step of patterning the gate electrode.

Abstract: A clock, the hour and minute hands of which are each bilaterally extending outward from respective mounting shaft and driven to rotate at half speed relative to the hour and minute hands of the conventional clock. A cover plate which has a thermometer, a hygrometer and a digital display timepiece thereon is covered on part of a dial plate permitting parts of the hour and minute hands to expose on such a dial plate for indication of time.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor memory device comprising a MOSFET (16) and a storage capacity element (15) and performing data writing/reading.The MOSFET (16) is formed on a main surface of a silicon substrate (1) and a storage capacity element (15) is formed on a surface of the reverse side of the silicon substrate (1). The MOSFET (16) comprises source and drain regions (3, 4) formed on the main surface of the silicon substrate (1), a channel region (17) positioned therebetween and a word line forming a gate electrode (9a).

Abstract: A molding of modified polyphenylene oxide resin comprises a composite of modified polyphenylene oxide containing polyphenylene oxide having structure expressed in the following general formula (I) as a basic skeleton, which resin composite preferably contains a cross linking agent, more preferably phosphoric ester serving as a cross linking agent, while the molding is cross-linked by irradiation to ionizing radiation: ##STR1## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represents univalent substituents selected from a group of hydrogen, alkyl group, halogen, alkoxyl group and haloalkoxyl group, and n represents a natural number.

Abstract: A high-frequency dielectric oven uses a plurality of oscillating circuits, which are caused to operate in a predetermined phase relationship, to produce a higher voltage distribution within a load capacitor, thus permitting an increase in the space between the electrode plates of the load capacitor to enable use of the oven for heating commercial quantitites of foodstuff. The generated electric field has a distribution which minimizes the number of nodes of a standing wave, thus reducing the occurrences of cold spots in the heating cavity. A plurality of tray levels are provided, each level having a separate pair of electrodes generating the electric field therefor. The electrodes may be shaped to provide direct support for the trays. Power transferred to the foodstuff is controlled by a variable air gap capacitor and the power tube operates at a substantially constant power level, irrespective of the power being transferred to the foodstuff.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for automatic surveillance of a site by recording data collected by a video camera 3 upon the occurrence of an incidental event (e.g. a road accident). The apparatus comprises an accident detector and a video tape recorder equipped with a controller device that causes the recorder to operate on successive sections of the magnetic tape, each section corresponding to a sequence of predetermined length. At the end of recording on each section, the controller determines whether to continue recording images either repeatedly on the same section after returning to the beginning thereof, in the case of there being no accident or, in the case of an accident, recording the images onto the following section. The autonomy of the magnetic tape recorder is thereby considerably increased.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of prepressed cheese curd blocks (38), where a curd (2) comprising a mixture of curd grains (42) and whey is fed to a conveyor belt (19) and the curd grains (42) are collected and shaped during continuous movement of the belt by being subjected to prepressing means (27) and side-limiting walls (18). The resulting cheese body (30) is cut into suitably dimensioned blocks at a cutting station (37). The curd (2) is fed to the continuously moving conveyor belt (19) below the surface (40) of a whey pool (39) and during the movement of the conveyor belt (19) said curd is conveyed along an oblique path above the surface (40) of the whey pool (39) simultaneous with it being subjected to prepressing means (27). The whey pool is contained in an obliquely installed vat (7), the conveyor belt (19) being introduced at the bottom end of said vat and leaving it at its top end ( 20).

Abstract: A compound bow is disclosed that is fully adjustable for draw weight, draw length and let-off. The disclosed bow includes a frame assembly, a pair of bow limbs adjustably coupled at a first end thereof to the frame assembly to provide adjustment of the draw weight of the compound bow, an eccentric wheel coupled to a second end of each of the bow limbs, each eccentric wheel having a top cable travel groove and a bottom cable travel groove, wherein the bottom cable travel groove includes a let-off channel and a bow grip assembly coupled to the frame assembly. The frame assembly is mounted via a pivot pan assembly to draw length bar so that the draw length of the bow is fully adjustable.

Abstract: An image signal (PS) or a screen threshold value (D) is converted by a plurality of conversion functions (F.sub.i, G.sub.i, f.sub.i, g.sub.i). The number (N.sub.ST) of reference solid pixels, which should be exposed to attain a halftone area rate specified by a given image signal, is calculated for each quarter block (QB) which is a quarter of one unit block for one halftone dot. The numbers (N.sub.RS) of virtual solid pixels, which would be exposed if the converted image signal or the converted screen threshold value were used, are calculated concerning respective conversion functions for each quarter block. The number (N.sub.RS) of virtual solid pixels which is the closest to the number (N.sub.ST) of reference solid pixels is selected and the conversion function corresponding to the selected number (N.sub.RS) is also selected for each quarter block (QB).

Abstract: A poly(arylene sulfide) sheet excellent in planarity and smoothness is formed of a composition composed at least principally of a substantially linear, high molecular poly(arylene sulfide) having a melt viscosity of at least 1,000 poises. It has an elongation at break of at least 10% at 23.degree. C. and a Young's modulus of at least 5 kg/mm.sup.2 at 200.degree. C., and per area of 1 cm.times.2 cm on at least one of its surfaces, contains not more than 1 convexity or concavity whose angle of elevation or depression is at least 2.degree. and whose height or depth is at least 10 .mu.m. The sheet is produced by melting the composition, extruding the melt through a slit die, cooling and solidifying the extrudate into a sheet, preheating the sheet for 3-100 seconds in a temperature range of from a temperature 20.degree. C. lower than the glass transition temperature of the polymer to a temperature 25.degree. C.

Abstract: A metal-made carrier body is provided for carrying thereon an exhaust gas cleaning catalyst. The carrier body is formed by superposing a sheet-like metal band made of a thin metal sheet and a corrugated band made from another thin metal sheet one over the other in a contiguous relation into a multi-layered composite body defining many network-patterned gas flow passages along a central axis thereof and then enclosing the multi-layered composite body within a cylindrical metal casing. The cylindrical metal casing has a double-layer structure composed of an inner portion made of a metal material having a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to that of the constituent members of the multi-layered composite body and an outer portion made of another metal material having greater heat- and corrosion-resistance than the metal material of the inner portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to Lactobacillus helveticus AGCl, a sample of which has been deposited on 29 September 1988 at The National Collections of Industrial And Marine Bacteria Limited under the accession number NCIB 40051, or a mutant or derivative thereof. This strain is useful as part of a starter culture addition to cheese milk, for accelerated ripening of cheddar style cheeses.

Abstract: An arrangement for providing a compensation of capacitance coupling between word lines and bit lines in a memory structure including twisted bit lines. Two dummy word lines maintained at a predetermined potential are formed at a twisted portion of a pair of bit lines. Dummy cells are provided at respective twisted portions of the dummy word lines and the bit lines. A plurality of word lines are formed in a direction intersecting with the bit lines and the word lines are divided into four word line groups according to positions of the twisted portions of the bit line pairs. When an arbitrary word line is selected, a potential of at least one dummy word line corresponding to the word line group to which the selected word line belongs is lowered. Consequently, the rise of the potential of the bit lines caused by the selection of the word line is compensated for by the lowering of the potential of at least one dummy word line, making it possible to decrease errors in reading.

Abstract: A building wall system comprises spaced, parallel exterior and interior walls formed from elongated stacked wooden beam members having opposite ends received in vertical channels secured to vertical elongate wooden supports extending upwardly from a subfloor or bottom plate. Upper end portions of the vertical supports are connected together by a top connecting chord extending between the exterior and interior walls. A top plate is secured to uppermost stacked beams to complete the wall structure. A space defined between the top plate and top chord located therebelow allows for settlement of the stacked wooden exterior and interior beams to occur after constructions without the top plate descending into destructive contact with the top connecting chord. The channels are either straight or ribbed channels and wooden connecting structures connected to allowing for settling of the stacked wooden beams are also disclosed.