Abstract: Helical scan recording/reproduction apparatus tape guides which include rotary inclined guides arranged on opposite sides of the head cylinder and leads are provided for regulating widthwise movement of the tape on the cylinder caused when the tape travels on the curved surface of the rotary inclined guides, so that the widthwise position of the tape upon tape travel can be automatically regulated, and the load to the tape drive motor caused by tape friction is reduced.

Abstract: This invention relates to a digital signal encoding apparatus in which the width of the range in selected to be wider for the higher frequency range of the digital signals divided into a plurality of regions and in which the encoded signals are synthesized for the respective ranges, wherein encoding is controlled as a function of the output detecting the characteristics of the components of the divided frequency ranges and the detection time interval is selected to be longer for the lower frequency to enable more efficient encoding to be performed as a function of the properties of input digital signals.

Abstract: A circuit breaker includes a current detector for generator analog voltage signals in accordance with load current of respective phases and a control circuit for executing a tripping operation in response to the analog voltage signals. The control circuit includes an analog switch repeating a time division selecting operation that one of the analog phase voltage signals generated by the current detector is selectively allowed to pass through the same in a predetermined order, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter for converting the analog voltage signal having passed through the analog switch to a corresponding digital signal, and a microcomputer receiving the digital voltage signal from the A/D converter and obtaining the effective load current value based on the digital voltage signals. The microcomputer generates a tripping order when the effective load current value exceeds a predetermined value.

Abstract: A hand-written character recognition apparatus and method in which line element data obtained from an output hand-written stroke is converted to a plurality of sub-strokes satisfying a tracing condition in accordance with a tracing command described in a character dictionary data base, substrokes satisfying the tracing condition are selected in accordance with a selection command described in the character dictionary data base, then on the basis of an assumption that the hand-written stroke is a set of sub-strokes, the hand-written character is recognized by evaluating the shape of the sub-stroke by employing a shape evaluation command and by evaluating a position evaluation command derived from the character dictionary data base, whereby a hand-written character, such as a distorted hand-written character and so on, can be recognized with ease.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transmission system for determining a position of a mobile station by using communication satellites. The determination of the position of the mobile station is effected by one-line signal transmission from the mobile station through one satellite to a fixed station and by two-line signal transmission from the fixed station through two satellites to the mobile station. Thus, the construction of the transmission system can be made simple such that a transmitter for the one-line signal transmission needs to be mounted on the mobile station.

Abstract: A digital audio signal generating apparatus suitable for the application to electronic musical instruments, sound effect generators for amusement machines and the like. This digital audio signal generating apparatus has a signal processing section and a memory used to perform a speech synthesis, wherein the signal processing section utilizes a vacant area of the memory to perform a delay processing to add a reverberation sound. Thus, the number of required memories can be reduced and the arrangement of the apparatus can be simplified.

Abstract: A microcomputer-based control device for microwave ovens includes a timer defining an operation period of a magnetron and incorporated in the microcomputer, an encoder generating electrical pulses, the number of which is in accordance with an amount of angular displacement of an operation knob, the encoder being independent of the microcomputer, first and second semiconductor switches for starting an operation of the magnetron in response to either any one or a plurality of a pulse train generated by the encoder, the semiconductor switches being incorporated in the microcomputer, and a counter for setting, at the timer, a cooking period in accordance with the numer of pulses of the pulse train generated by the encoder.

Abstract: A portable air conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerating circuit comprising a variable capacity compressor and a condenser cooled by water fed from a water tank and a flow of air generated by a fan device, an inverter for outputing a variable driving frequency to the compressor, and a control section for controlling the frequency of the inverter in response to an air conditioning load in a defined space. The control section has a frequency control function by which the driving frequency of the inverter is forcibly decreased irrespective of the air conditioning load to reduce the consumption of water at the condenser when an amount of water is detected to be below a prescribed value in the water tank.

Abstract: A timebase corrector for a video signal is comprised of a reference clock signal generating means for generating, on the basis of a first synchronizing signal separated from a reference signal, a reference clock signal which is input to a first analog-to-digital converter for converting an analog input reference signal to a digital signal, a second clock signal generating means for generating a second clock signal which goes high level during a horizontal blanking period on the basis of a first clock signal whose frequency, multiplied by a desired integer, becomes a frequency of the reference clock signal, a line memory which can store an output signal of a second analog-to-digital converter which converts a correction analog signal to be corrected to a digital signal and a third clock signal generating means for generating a third clock signal by delaying the first clock signal in a timebase direction in which three-value reference phase sampling error, which results from sampling an output of the second ana

Abstract: A washing machine installed with a brushless motor for driving an agitator and an inner tub includes a storage device storing a data table representative of a plurality of preselected rotational speed values and values of voltage applied to the brushless motor driven at each preselected speed with respect to every different load applied to the brushless motor, a load amount determining device, a control device determining the voltage applied to the motor based on the data table when one preselected speed is selected with an operating switch. An amount of load is determined when one preselected speed is selected. A suitable value of applied voltage is selected which value has a predetermined relation to the preselected speed selected in the condition of the determined amount of load. The amount of load is determined by collating the load amount and the number of revolution with the data table.

Abstract: A fluid compressing apparatus includes a casing, a compressing unit disposed in the casing, a motor-drive unit located in the casing for driving the compressing unit, and a bearing unit for rotatably supporting the rotational shaft of the motor-drive unit. The fluid compressing apparatus also includes a refrigerant of HFC-134a (CH.sub.2 FCF.sub.3) and a prescribed amount of polyglycol, as a lubricating oil, stored in the casing. The bearing unit and the rotational shaft satisfy the following relationship:C2.ltoreq.2.times.Sowherein C2 is a gap between the rotational shaft and the bearing unit in a radial direction, and So is a total surface roughness of the outer surface of the rotational shaft and the inner surface of the bearing unit.

Abstract: This invention relates to a laser scanning apparatus which raster-scans a laser beam by using an acousto-optic deflector. In this laser scanning apparatus, the laser beam is horizontally scanned by a pair of acousto-optic deflectors. Thus, a laser scanning apparatus can be realized, which is low in noise, excellent in durability, small in size, light in weight and which can display a picture of high quality at high speed.

Abstract: An apparatus for looping or data-compressing sampled waveform data digitized from musical sound signals (or the like) to produce sound source data, recording the sound source data on a storage medium, and reading out the sound source data from the storage medium for reproduction. To eliminate amplitude discontinuities at repetition points during looping, two connection samples of repetitive waveform portions having values closest to each other are selected from actual samples and interpolated samples. An interpolation filter performs multiple oversampling to produce the interpolated samples. The interpolation filter includes a filter for each degree of oversampling, and all the filters have the same amplitude characteristics. By asserting pulse code modulated data at the beginning portion of a looping domain, adverse compression effects can be avoided without the necessity of providing compression parameters.

Abstract: An automatic telephone answering machine which is capable of selecting a new outgoing message or an old outgoing message. If a new OGM is unsatisfactory, the operator may retain an old OGM and discard the new OGM. Both a semiconductor memory and a magnetic tape are utilized in switching the OGM's from one to the other. The OGM stored in the semiconductor memory is automatically checked and read out at least once at an end of storage of the OGM in the semiconductor memory, and thereafter the OGM is automatically read out again and transferred to and recorded in an area of a magnetic tape.

Abstract: In a vibratory parts feeder, an output power of an inverter supplying AC voltage to each vibration generator (electric power supplied to the vibration generator) or input power to the inverter is controlled so as to reach the maximum during the feeding operation so that the operational frequency is automatically adjusted to the resonant frequency. That is, upon increase or decrease of the operational frequency at predetermined intervals, the value of power supplied to each vibration generator or the inverter input power is obtained. The obtained value is compared with the last obtained value whose data is stored in a storage.

Abstract: An ultraviolet radiation projector of this invention includes a focusing optical member arranged between an exposure surface of an ultraviolet sensitive material and a panel surface of a CRT for emitting an ultraviolet beam to expose the exposure surface which is kept separated from the focusing optical member, thereby preventing contact between the exposure surface and the focusing optical member. An optical image forming apparatus of this invention can form a high-precision two-dimensional image for an electronic circuit pattern by exposing the exposure surface with a pattern corresponding to a desired electronic circuit pattern using the ultraviolet radiation projector as a light source. In addition, sheet-like resins cured by the exposure with the ultraviolet beam using the ultraviolet radiation projector as a light source are sequentially stacked to form a desired high-precision three-dimensional image.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing method and corresponding apparatus are provided, in which in phase monaural audio signals are separately mixed with a clock signal and a data signal, which are opposite in phase to each other, and the mixed signals are recorded in separate channels on a recording medium. Upon reproduction and recombination of the signals recorded in the two channels, the clock signal and the data signal cancel each other out so that the listener hears only the combined monaural audio signals but the clock signal and the data signal can be separated from the reproduced two channel recorded signals prior to their recombination and be used to generate visual display data concerning the recorded signals.

Abstract: A convergence measurement apparatus for a color CRT comprising a light sensor which is placed on the face of a CRT to be tested, a CPU, and a pattern generator which causes a plurality of luminescent lines of a primary color to be displayed on one area of the CRT screen and a plane area comprised of a composite of the two other primary colors to be displayed on another area of the screen. The plurality of lines are shifted at a given rate along the designated area of the screen, the color of the displayed lines successively changing to show each primary color. The light sensor receives light intensity information from the generated pattern and the CPU calculates a mis-convergence value based on the light intensity data. The apparatus further includes a self-inspection feature by which the processing is executed for successive measurement of the same primary color.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a method for modulating and recording data, in which the data are modulated in such a manner that m-bit data are converted into n-bit data, where m and n are real integers and m<n, p-bit merging bits are inserted between the n-bit data and the number of consecutive "0"s in the alternate concatenation of these n-bit data and p-bit merging bits is not less than a predetermined number d and not more than a number k which is larger than d, wherein the merging bits of the bit pattern consistent with a digital sum value of recording data are inserted between the n-bit data and the DSV is reset at each data block as one unit to facilitate data control for each data block as a unit. The present invention also provides a data recording medium on which are recorded data following this method.

Abstract: The invention discloses a telephone set and a method for its operation for storing a message and a telephone number of each telephone set to which a message is transferred, and reading out the telephone number to perform dialing for the destination telephone set. If a continuous period of silence is sent back from the destination telephone set for a predetermined time interval within a larger predetermined time interval after the connection is established, the telephone set reproduces the recorded message and sends it over the telephone lines to the destination set, otherwise the telephone set disconnects from the telephone line. The operation is automatically repeated for each designated destination telephone set, thereby automatically transferring the same message to a plurality of destination telephone sets.