Abstract: A pickup adjusting mechanism is provided with a turntable on which a disk-shaped recording medium is clamped, a disk motor which drives the turntable, a first base which supports the disk motor, a pickup which reads information recorded on the disk-shaped recording medium, a second base which is supported on the first base and movably supports the pickup, and an angle adjusting part which is provided between the first base and the second base, and adjusts an angle of the pickup with respect to the disk-shaped recording medium clamped on the turntable.

Abstract: A disk apparatus includes a disk loading device which loads a disk from an insert/eject position to a read/write position, the disk having a first surface and a second surface. A head device records information to and/or reproduces information from the disk at the read/write position, the head device configured as a pair of upper and lower heads which are brought into contact with the first and second surfaces of the disk when the disk is loaded to the read/write position. A shock absorbing member is movably arranged on the disk loading device and has a shock absorbing effect on the upper and lower heads of the head device. The shock absorbing member is maintained at an active position between the upper head and the lower head when the disk is at the insert/eject position. When the disk is loaded to the read/write position, the shock absorbing member is transferred from the active position into an inactive position where the shock absorbing member does not interfere with the head device.

Abstract: A flash evaporator vaporization vessel for flash evaporating metal under conditions of repeated thermal cycling having a graphite body and an outer layer of pyrolytic boron nitride having a density above 2.15 gm/cc and preferably between 2.19 gm/cc and 2.2 gm/cc.

Abstract: A valve combination for vibration pumps performs multiple functions of self-priming, compensation of negative pressure and protection against over pressure. A body (12) contains a non-return valve (18). A valve (26) releases air and compensates for negative pressure. A safety valve (48) vents accidental over pressure originating, for example, from a boiler source. The valve (26) in order to achieve negative pressure compensation, comprises a plug provided with grooves or incisions (40a-c) for favoring the external flow of air subject to negative pressure.

Abstract: This device comprises a chamber (4) with a pinhole, the walls of the chamber acting as shielding (6) that absorbs radiation. The chamber contains means of forming images of the sources, due to radiation, and the area in which the sources are located, due to visible light from this area. A part (36) of the shielding in which the pinhole (32) is located, is free to move and is fixed to an optical system (34) capable of providing sharp images in visible light over the required field depth by replacing the pinhole for the formation of the image of the area, and vice versa for formation of the image of the sources. Application to localizing gamma radiation sources.

Abstract: An optical audio disc comprises the first pack (A Pack), the second pack (A-CONT Pack), the third pack (V Pack), and the fourth pack (CONT Pack) in which the A-CONT Pack is placed at the head of a data array and a plurality of the A and V Packs follow the A-CONT Pack in each audio contents block unit (ACBU). Information contained in an A-CONT Pack manages audio data contained in the A Pack. The A Pack contains audio data and the V Pack contains other data than the audio data such as closed caption (CC) data as well as video data. A reproduction apparatus for an optical audio disc (DVD-Audio disc) comprises the CONT Pack detector section 1103, the A-CONT Pack detector section 1109, the parameter sections 1108 and 1114, the V Pack buffer section 1104, and the A Pack buffer section 1110. The CONT Pack detector section 1103 and the A-CONT Pack detector section 1109 detect reproduced CONT and A-CONT Packs contained in the DVD-Audio disc 1101 respectively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bag with a shock absorbing unit for protecting the bag's contents from external impacts. In the shock absorbing unit 1, upper and lower panels 2, 3 and the side shock absorbing member 4 include a plurality of air cells 5, 6, each of which is inflated with air and sealed. The shock absorbing unit 1 is either sewed or attached to a bag 10 having a soft or hard side surface in a detachable manner so as to absorb various external impacts from all directions when carrying the bag 10 and to receive the contents safely and conveniently. In addition, it also allows the contents to be easily taken out.

Abstract: A digital audio signal obtained from an analog audio signal indicating a music, pieces of audio reproduction control information respectively indicating the adjustment of a sound quality of the music are added to the digital audio signal, and the digital audio signal is recorded with the pieces of audio reproduction control information as packed data. When a user selects a piece of particular audio reproduction control information from the pieces of audio reproduction control information after the packed data is read out, levels of pieces of audio data of the digital audio signal are adjusted according to the particular audio reproduction control information, so that the user can entertain the music at a desired sound quality.

Abstract: The container section 18 comprises the contacting section (first contacting section) 18e1 of contacting with the top surface of the magnet 19, the stopper section (second contacting section) 18d1 of contacting with the tip of the top end of the magnet 19 and the first tongue 18c having flexibility, which contacts with the edge composed of the top end and the bottom surface of the magnet 19 and presses the magnet 19 to both the stopper section 18d1 and the contacting section 18e1. The projection 18f provided on the tip of the tongue 18c engages with the notch 19a provided on the magnet 19, so that the magnet 19 is allocated in the lateral direction.

Abstract: A recording medium includes first information selected from a plurality of information patterns and second information selected from another plurality of information patterns for the true-false judgement. A true-false judging device performs a statistic analysis when any coincidence is found between the readout combination of the first and second information and registered combination patterns, to identify an inspected recording medium as a forged product based on the result of the statistic analysis.

Abstract: An improved control system for die casting or similar machines wherein a closed loop velocity feedback circuit is supplemented with an integration circuit and two filtering circuits to compensate for the frequency response of the pilot valve in the die casting machine. The integration circuit serves to more accurately cause the velocity of an element being controlled to match the desired/commanded velocity, and also caused the velocity to more rapidly match the desired/commanded velocity.

Abstract: A work vehicle is provided that permits easy routine daily inspection services of a rear mounted engine in the vehicle. The vehicle has a cab covering a rear engine compartment. The cab is pivotally mounted on the frame of the vehicle. An engine hood is in turn pivotally mounted on the cab and covers the engine in the engine compartment. Accordingly, the hood can be pivoted or rotated to expose the engine for routine daily maintenance while the cab and the engine hood can be pivoted or rotated to expose the entire engine compartment for periodic heavy duty maintenance.

Abstract: A head carriage lock mechanism for a magnetic disk drive has a lock member, a lifter, a link member and a solenoid. The lock member is shaped in the form of a quadrilateral frame, with arms extending perpendicularly from a front panel and a rear panel so as to connect the two panels. The right arm of the lock member, which approaches the head carriage, has a rack that engages an engaging portion of the head carriage so as to lock the head carriage in place so as to prevent damage to the head carriage during transport. The solenoid that drives the lock mechanism is positioned inside the space enclosed by the frame of the lock member, making more efficient use of the space inside the disk drive and making it possible to make the disk drive more compact.

Abstract: A method of producing a polyester from high-purity bis-&bgr;-hydroxyethyl terephthalate as a raw material containing cations and anions in trace amounts. Polyester production raw materials including bis-&bgr;-hydroxyethyl terephthalate containing cations and anions in a total weight of not more than 50 ppm, ethylene glycol and antimony trioxide and/or germanium dioxide as a polymerization catalyst are heated without substantially distilling off ethylene glycol and then heated under reduced pressure to be polycondensed while ethylene glycol is distilled off.

Abstract: The present invention involves a process and system for producing spherical BNxOy particles that are converted to crystalline BN. The process involves adding a boron compound to an aqueous solution, creating an aerosol spray from the solution in the form of aerosol droplets using an aerosol generator. The aerosol droplets are fed with an inert carrier gas into a heated furnace at a preset flow rate while simultaneously injecting a gaseous nitriding agent into the heated furnace in a direct proportion to the flow rate of the carrier gas containing the aerosol droplets whereby a precursor of spherically shaped BNxOy particles are formed which are further heat treated into particles of spherically shaped BN having a turbostratic or hexagonal structure.

Abstract: A method for mapping 2N message N-tuples into 2N+1 codeword (N+1)-tuples is developed. The 2N+1 codeword (N+1)-tuples are categorized into M subsets of codeword (N+1)-tuples, wherein M is an integer larger than 1, each subset G has NG codeword (N+1)-tuples and the total number of codeword (N+1)-tuples in the M subsets is 2N. Each subset G has a predetermined number KG of lower bits and a predetermined number (N+1−KG) of higher bits, and the number of lower bits in every codeword (N+1)-tuple in any subset is not equivalent to that of lower bits in every codeword (N+1)-tuple in any other subset. The 2N message N-tuples are matched with the 2N codeword (N+1)-tuples in the M subsets, respectively, in one-to-one correspondence to generate a lookup table.

Abstract: A vapor-liquid contacting tower having a tray deck, at least one downcomer and a structure packing layer in the space under the vapor-liquid bubble contacting tray wherein the tray deck has an opening such that vapor ascends upward through the opening to come into contact with the liquid flowing across the tray deck to form a froth in which the vapor and the liquid on the tray deck creates cross-flow bubble contact and with the structural dimensions of the tray deck and downcomer providing for at least 90 vol % of the total liquid flowing across the tray deck flows downwardly through the downcomer to the adjacent deck.