Abstract: The invention is intended to connect a various kinds of movable bodies capable of reciprocating in linear fashion, such as a piston of a compressor, directly to a piston of an internal combustion engine, for effecting efficient power transmission.A cylinder 4a of an internal combustion engine E and a cylinder 4b of a compressor C are arranged in alignment with each other along a rectilinear line. An internal sun gear 8a is fixedly arranged, which has a center O at a position intermediate the internal combustion engine E and the compressor C on the rectilinear line. A planetary gear 10 is arranged, which is meshed with the internal sun gear 8a for rotation about its center and for revolution around the center O. The planetary gear 10 has a pitch circle diameter half that of the internal sun gear 8a. A crank member 14 is arranged, which includes a shank 14a rotatable about the center O. The planetary gear 10 is rotatably supported, at its center, by the tip of the arm 14b of the crank member 14.

Abstract: The invention relates to an installation for coating a metallic band by guiding the latter through an electrolytic bath (12), while passing in front of at least one anode plate (13) constituted of a set of bars arranged beside one another along a direction transversal to the forward direction (A) of the band (23) and carried by an anode bridge (14), whereas each bar forms an anode section (18). According to the invention, each anode bridge (14) comprises a carrier beam (31) along which have been arragned, one after the other, a number of live pins (32) isolated electrically from one another and linked separately to the source of current by an individual switching device (35), in order to enable fractional electric power supply of each of the anode sections (18).

Abstract: The method for exterminating plants pests comprises making an adjustment for causing the aqueous solution for exterminating pests to have the concentration within the range between the upper limit of being, by 0.4 mol/l, higher than the concentration of the said cell sap of plants and the lower limit of 0 concentration, and dipping the said plants in the said aqueous solution adjusted at the above concentration for a period of time required for exterminating pests.When the concentration of the said aqueous solution is adjusted within the ranged mentioned above, the pests gathering on the said plants may be suffocated to death without doing any harm to the plants dipped in the said aqueous solution.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cells located at intersections of the word lines and the bit lines, each of the memory cells having a capacitor for storing information and a transfer transistor for reading information from and writing information into the capacitor, the gate of the transfer transistor being connected to a word line, the source of the transfer transistor being connected through a bit line contact area to a bit line, the drain of said transfer transistor being connected through a storage capacitor contact area to the storage electrode of the capacitor. A memory cell pair is formed by two nearby memory cells and these two memory cells of the memory cell pair have a common bit line contact area. In a unit region defined by word line Nos. "i" and "i+1" and bit line Nos. "j" and "j+4", there are provided bit line contact areas and storage capacitor contact areas with a ratio of 1:2 between the number of the bit line contact areas and the storage capacitor contact areas.

Abstract: A method and mechanism enables viruses invading from a network to be erased prior to arrival at the server; and hackers are prevented from making remote control on the server. A storage device is provided between a server and a network connected to the server, so that data may be temporarily stored in the storage device. Also, a switching device is provided on the input and output sides of the storage device respectively. The switching device is capable of performing on-and-off switching operations in the state of being isolated electrically. The switching device is so controlled as to input data in the storage device while the switching device turns ON on the input side, and while the switching device turns OFF on the output side of the storage device and process the data thus inputted in the storage device while the switching device turns OFF both on the input and output sides of the storage device.

Abstract: An Internet information displaying apparatus comprising character signal generating means for generating a character signal and displaying it on the screen of the displaying means, and character signal generation controlling means for detecting the state of transmission and reception of digital data of the digital data transmitting and receiving means, and controlling the character signal generating means so as to generate a character signal to indicate the transmission or reception state. The state of transmission or reception of the digital data of the digital data transmitting and receiving means, in other words, the state of connection to the provider is displayed on the screen.

Abstract: Contact between the top portion and the spherical seat of the piston is avoided through a simple arrangement and even if the swash plate angle is increased, a suitable contact portion is obtained. To this end, the top portion of a shoe for swash plate type compressors is composed of a partial spherical surface having a larger radius of curvature than that of the outer peripheral surface which contacts a seat surface formed in the piston, the top portion being smoothly continuous with the outer peripheral surface. Further, the generatrix of the outer peripheral surface of the shoe in contact with the seat surface is an arc whose center of curvature is radially spaced from the centerline of the shoe and whose radius of curvature is shorter than that of the seat surface, whereby the outer peripheral surface of the shoe contacts the seat surface of the piston at a predetermined position; this makes it easier to control the contact of the shoe for swash plate type compressors.

Abstract: A linear guide device with which it is possible to prevent leakage of lubricant introduced into a slider and thereby reduce an amount of lubricant consumed and to surely lubricate rolling elements and an endless circulation passage thereof, and with which furthermore this can be achieved by means of a simple construction.

Abstract: Dispensing device for dispensing small quantities of fluid comprising a compressible balloon with an end-to-end capillary inserted within the walls of the balloon in such a way that the one end of the capillary communicates with the interior of the balloon and the other end of the capillary communicates with the exterior space. The balloon has at least one opening through which the interior space of the balloon communicates with the exterior space. The at least one opening has a flow resistance that is designed so that a fluid contained in the capillary is expelled when the balloon is compressed. The present invention also comprises a system and method for the metered dispensing of fluids.

Abstract: In nonvolatile semiconductor memory devices, during program write operations for example, writing is accomplished by changing the threshold condition until the output from a memory cell exceeds the read verify level. During read operations, it is determined whether a target memory cell has been programmed or not by sensing whether the output from the memory cell exceeds a prescribed read level. When the data retention capability of a memory cell declines, the threshold condition of the memory cell changes. If the output of the memory cell changes to a level at which the output does not exceed the read level, the wrong data is read out. In the present invention, a monitor level which differs from the read level is established, and in the event that the output from a memory cell changes such as to approach this monitor level, this fact is sensed in advance, thereby preventing readout of wrong data.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory part which stores data, a decoder which decodes a command externally supplied to the semiconductor memory device, and a precharge protection circuit which dynamically determines, based on the command decoded by the decoder, a period necessary to precharge a predetermined circuit part of the semiconductor memory device, so that a precharge operation on the predetermined circuit part can be protected.

Abstract: A printing apparatus having ink feeders for selectively feeding inks to a plurality of image areas on a plate or plates mounted on a plate cylinder. A plate cylinder supports, peripherally thereof, a single plate having a first and a second image areas. A plurality of cams are rotatable synchronously with the plate cylinder, and are arranged in positions laterally of the plate cylinder corresponding to the image areas. A plurality of ink rollers are arranged circumferentially of the plate cylinder for contacting a surface of the plate to feed ink to the image areas. A plurality of ink roller support arms rotatably support the ink rollers. An ink roller support arm swing mechanism includes cam followers for contacting the cams to swing the ink roller support arms successively, with rotation of the cams, between an ink feeding position in which the ink rollers contact the surface of the plate and a retracted position in which the ink rollers are separated from the surface of the plate.

Abstract: In a self-luminous display panel driving system, one field of a composite video signal is divided into N sub-fields, luminance of each pixel is set by a pixel data. The pixel data comprises N bits corresponding to the number of the sub-field. A present pixel data of a pixel is compared with a prior pixel data of a same pixel and a change between a data of a highest luminance and a data of a luminance of a one digit lower is detected. An inter-frame change signal is produced when a change is detected. In response to the inter-frame change signal, the present pixel data is corrected so as to change the sub-field of the present pixel data.

Abstract: A navigation method and apparatus and a navigation program are provided for guiding a vehicle to a destination along a guide route. An off-route detection unit detects an off-route condition when the vehicle is displaced from the guide route and a guide route searching unit searches or determines, when the off-route detection unit detects an off-route condition, a route from a present position of the vehicle to the destination or return point on the guide route. The guide route determining or searching unit includes a weight factor determining unit for determining a weighting value to modify or scale a road parameter used in determining the guide route, a modifying unit for modifying the parameter based on the weighting value, and a calculating unit for calculating a route from the present position of the vehicle to the destination or the return point on the guide route, as a function of the modified parameter. A display is provided for displaying the guide route to the operator of the vehicle.

Abstract: A hard carbon film-coated substrate is disclosed which has between a substrate and a hard carbon film an interlayer principally comprised of at least one selected from the group consisting of Al, Cr, Sn, Co and B, oxides, nitrides and carbides thereof.

Abstract: A high purity isobutane adsorption separation and purification apparatus is provided including a pressure regulator which regulates the pressure of an isobutane-containing gas; the at least one adsorption bed packed with zeolite 5A and carbon molecular sieve arranged downstream of and operatively associated with the pressure regulator; a flow control valve disposed between the pressure regulator and the at least one adsorption bed; a surge tank operatively associated with and for receiving a purified isobutane product from the at least one adsorption bed; a vacuum pump operatively associated with and for removal of impurities from the at least one adsorption bed; and valves disposed between the pressure regulator and the at least one adsorption bed, between the at least one adsorption bed and the surge tank, and between the at least one adsorption bed and the vacuum pump. An adsorptive separation and isobutane purification process is also provided which may be used with the apparatus of the invention.

Abstract: A breather device for an engine comprises a gas-liquid separation chamber communicating with the crankcase chamber through the one-way valve, a breather passage opening the gas-liquid separation chamber into an air cleaner, first and second oil suction holes arranged below and above an inner end of the breather passage opening to the gas-liquid separation chamber, and an oil passage communicating the first and second oil suction holes to an oil reservoir chamber having a pressure lower than that of the gas-liquid separation chamber. This construction enables the oil separated from the blow-by gas and liquefied in the gas-liquid separation chamber to be returned quickly to the oil reservoir chamber through the first or second oil suction holes, irrespective of whether the engine is in an normal upright position or an inverted position.

Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control system for a multi-cylinder engine is provided. An air-fuel ratio sensor is arranged in an exhaust system of the engine for detecting an air-fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to the engine and for generating an output indicative of the air-fuel ratio of the mixture. An adaptive controller determines an amount of fuel to be supplied to the engine with a first predetermined repetition period in a manner such that the output from the air-fuel ratio sensor becomes equal to a desired value. An adaptive parameter-adjusting mechanism adjusts adaptive parameters used by the adaptive controller. In the adaptive parameter-adjusting mechanism, the adaptive parameters are calculated with a second predetermined repetition period longer than the first predetermined repetition period, and output data indicative of results of the calculation is generated.

Abstract: In an exhaust secondary air supply system including an electric air pump and a flow rate control valve disposed in an air supply passage connected to an exhaust passage of an engine, the electric air pump is first driven after the start of the engine, and the flow rate control valve is then opened after a lapse of a predetermined time. At a time after starting the driving of the electric air pump, the abnormality of the electric air pump is detected by comparing a deviation between the current before and after driving of the electric air pump with a predetermined reference value. After opening of the flow rate control valve, the abnormality of the flow rate control valve is detected by comparing the deviation between the current before and after the opening of the flow rate control valve with a predetermined reference value.

Abstract: Plural carrier rails are arranged radially relative to a trick gap, and yarn carriers are made to run on the rails. In the yarn carrier, a feeder rod is mounted on a yarn rod guide so that the the rod can slide up and down. The feeder rod is pushed up by a spring coil, and the feeder rod is pushed down by a catching member toward the trick gap.