Abstract: The trip device comprises a system-powered power supply circuit comprising a capacitor for power supply of a trip coil. When the trip device is powered on, the capacitor charges and its voltage is regulated according to a first reference voltage sufficient to activate the trip coil if necessary. After a preset period, regulation of the voltage at the terminals of the capacitor is performed according to a second reference voltage, lower than the first voltage. The reference voltage reverts to the first value during the same preset period when the measured current reaches a preset threshold, which constitutes an indication of the presence of a fault that will lead to tripping being required. The capacitor is therefore generally charged at a lower voltage than that which is necessary for tripping, thus enabling its size to be reduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the raw water-filtering technical field, and is to provide a high speed filtering apparatus which can filter a great amount of raw water containing suspended substances (SS) at a high concentration at a high speed. Floating filter media 2, which are composed of a foamed polymer having an apparent density of 0.1 to 0.4 g/cm3 and a 50% compression hardness of not less than 0.1 MPa and have uneven shapes or cylindrical shapes with sizes of 4 to 10 mm, are charged into an up-flow type filtering tower 1. The raw water containing SS at a high concentration is filtered by passing it through the filtering tower 1 at a linear water-passing speed of 100 to 1000 m/day. While the floating filter media 2 are not compacted, a high SS-capturing percentage can be obtained. Back washing can be also effected at a high linear washing speed of 1.2 to 4.0 m/min.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a printed wiring board, comprising the step of forming a hole by an energy beam such as a laser beam, wherein formation of a resin film by a substrate-material resin oozing to the inner-wall surface of a hole is prevented, by lowering the water-absorption percentage of a substrate material through the dehumidifying step as the preprocess of the hole-forming step for forming a through-hole or non-through-hole for interconnecting circuits formed on both sides or in multiple layers, thereby it is possible to realize high-quality hole-formation by preventing a defective resin film formation and obtain a high-reliability printed wiring board.

Abstract: A ceramic-made filter for capturing the particulates present in the exhaust gas discharged from diesel engines, wherein a ceramic particles layer made of heat-resistant ceramic particles is formed on a filter by coating, the heat-resistant ceramic particles having a BET specific surface area of 300 m2/g or less. In this ceramic-made filter, the melting of the filter caused by the ash remaining and accumulating after the particulates captured by the filter have been burnt, can be prevented easily without using a large system or the like.

Abstract: Quantity of flux coated on fusible alloy of a thermal fuse disclosed can be inspected accurately by an image processing method. The thermal fuse comprises: (a) first insulation film 11 coupled with a pair of metal terminals 12; (b) fusible alloy 13 coupled between ends of the metal terminals 12, being placed above first insulation film 11; (c) flux 14 coated on fusible alloy 13; and (d) second insulation film 15 disposed on first insulation film 11 so that an internal space is formed, being placed above fusible alloy 13, wherein at least either of first insulation film 11 or second insulation film 15 is transparent or translucent, and flux 14 has the Gardner color scale from 4 to 16.

Abstract: A motor is provided that reduces vibration and noise by suppressing the vibration transmitted from a stator to a housing. Also an apparatus loaded with this motor is provided, that is highly efficient with less vibration and low noise. Notches formed at an outer circumference of a yoke are located on outer peripheral sides of slots, the notches are not in contact with the housing, the yoke located on outer circumferential sides of teeth is provided with axially penetrating through-holes, and an outer circumference of the stator core located on outer circumferential sides of the through-holes is in close contact with the housing, thus making it possible to obtain the motor with high efficiency, less vibration and low noise.

Abstract: A piezoelectric vibrator uses aluminum nitride as piezoelectric material and thickness sliding vibration as the primary vibration. A polarization direction of the primary vibration is along the longitudinal direction of its vibrating element. This vibrator eliminates undesired resonance, caused by a width of the vibrating element, from a vicinity of a resonance frequency of the primary vibration. Vibrating element 1 has width W and thickness H defined as follows: 2.0≦W/H≦4.0 or 4.3≦W/H≦5.7 or 6.2≦W/H≦7.8 or 8.2≦W/H≦9.8.

Abstract: A cholesteric liquid crystal coating film 13′ is formed on an alignment layer 12 provided on a glass substrate 11 (FIG. 1(a)), and is subjected to a thermal alignment process at a temperature equal to or higher than the liquid crystalline phase transition temperature of a chiral nematic liquid crystal that constitutes the coating film (FIG. 1(b)). Active rays capable of activating optically active groups in the chiral nematic liquid crystal are applied to the cholesteric liquid crystal coating film 13′ to deactivate the optically active groups, thereby forming a cholesteric layer 13 having color-indicating regions with the desired areas and indication colors that have been created according to the active-rays-applied area and to the amount of active rays applied to the area (FIG. 1(c)). Thereafter, this cholesteric layer 13 is subjected to a thermal alignment process at a temperature lower than the liquid crystalline phase transition temperature of the chiral nematic liquid crystal (FIG. 1(d)).

Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device having excellent display quality is provided which is capable of precisely controlling the alignment of liquid crystal molecules and of providing a high brightness display both in a transmissive display mode and in a reflective display mode. The transflective liquid crystal display panel has a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates, pixel electrodes disposed on the surface of one of the substrates facing the liquid crystal layer, a counter electrode disposed on the surface of the other substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, and an alignment film covering the surface of each of the substrates facing the liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrodes, each including an electrode for reflective display and an electrode for transmissive display, are disposed such that the distances to the other substrate from the electrode for reflective display and from the electrode for transmissive display are different.

Abstract: A rear projection screen 3 includes a single Fresnel lens sheet 11 having the function of converging projected light entering from its back side and allowing the converged light to emerge from its observation side, or a combination of the Fresnel lens sheet 11 provided on the back side and a lenticular lens sheet 21 provided on the observation side. The Fresnel lens sheet 11 has a Fresnel lens 12 on its observation-side surface and a matte surface 13 as its back-side surface. The matte surface 13 of the Fresnel lens sheet 11 has a specified degree of matting and shows antireflection properties. Preferably, the Fresnel lens sheet 11 has a haze value in a specified range. More preferably, the matte surface 13 of the Fresnel lens sheet 11 has a gloss in a specified range.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical disk device that reduces a track lead-in time associated with a seek time. A switching means 50 includes a multiplier A 11 for multiplying an output of a speed control means 5 by &agr; and a multiplier B 12 for multiplying an output of a position control means 6 by (1−&agr;), and an adder 13 for adding an output of the multiplier A 11 and an output of the multiplier B 12 to output a result of the addition as control input to an actuator driving means 8. At the time of movement of an optical pickup 3 toward a target track, the multiplier factor &agr; for the multipliers A 11 and B 12 is set at 0, thereby performing control of the actuator driving means 8 by means of the position control means 6.

Abstract: Disclosed are a protective diffusion film, which does not scratch a lens film and a liquid crystal display device, does not become a refuse source or the like, and also has a suitable level of concealment effect, a process for producing the same, a surface light source device, and a liquid crystal display device. This protective diffusion film is used in a surface light source device provided with a lens film wherein the protective diffusion film is provided on a light outgoing surface of the lens film, and comprises: a transparent substrate layer; and a protective diffusion layer which is provided on the transparent substrate layer in its surface at least on the lens film side, has fine concaves and convexes on its surface, protects members which come into contact with the protective diffusion film, and is light diffusive.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Beryl’ characterized by its medium sized blooms with soft orange ray florets and prolific branching; natural season flower date August 25-30; blooming for a period of 5 weeks.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Babita’ characterized by its small sized blooms with orange ray florets and prolific branching; natural season flower date September 8-13; blooming for a period of 5 weeks.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Stella’ characterized by its medium sized blooms with peach colored ray florets and prolific branching, natural season flower date August 11-16; blooming for a period of 5 weeks.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Kepa’ characterized by its medium sized blooms with purple ray florets and prolific branching; natural season flower date September 8-13; blooming for a period of 5 weeks.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Estrada’ characterized by its medium sized blooms with salmon ray florets and prolific branching; natural season flower date September 15-20; blooming for a period of 5 weeks.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Maia’ characterized by its medium sized blooms with pink ray florets and prolific branching, natural season flower date August 18-23, blooming for a period of 5 weeks.