Abstract: A routing control communication system includes a circuit switched network provided with a service control information database having a telephone numbers table, an interconnection network provided with a network communication protocol and an information terminal, and a network interworking equipment provided with one terminal connected with the circuit switched network and the other terminal connected with the interconnection network. The information database is connected with the interconnection network, and the information terminal of the interconnection network is constituted so as to obtain a transferred terminal number corresponding to a called telephone number from the service control information database.

Abstract: A cup type plating apparatus in which plating is carried out by supplying plating solution to a wafer placed on an opening at a top of a plating tank while an anode and the wafer connected to a cathode provided in the plating tank are electrically connected, and the anode and the cathode are separated by a diaphragm provided in the plating tank, provided with a division wall between the anode and the wafer formed in a shape capable of separating the anode and the wafer from each other and having a plurality of openings covered with a diaphragm. The concentration of the plating solution supplied to the plating tank separated by the division wall is made to be appropriately controllable. Further, a unit for stirring is provided capable of forcibly altering the flow of plating solution at the target surface of plating.

Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine having an exhaust system provided with a catalyst is provided. The control system comprises a catalyst temperature rise accelerating control in which the intake air amount is increased and the ignition timing is retarded according to the engine rotational speed. A transient control from the catalyst temperature rise accelerating control to the normal control, is started when the speed of a vehicle driven by the engine reaches a predetermined vehicle speed or higher during the catalyst temperature rise accelerating control. During the transient control, the intake air amount is gradually reduced and the ignition timing is set according to the vehicle speed.

Abstract: A current pulse receiving circuit suitable for converting a current pulse converted by a photodetector from a light pulse received in optical communications and outputting a logic level voltage pulse with an accurate pulse width is disclosed. When an output signal from a current-to-voltage converter circuit is detected to have a large amplitude by a large signal detection circuit, an amount of offset cancellation of a DC cancellation circuit is decreased to limit the amplitude of the output signal from the current-to-voltage converter circuit. Since the amplitude of an input signal of an amplifier circuit is limited, tail characteristics at a trailing edge of a pulse are small and an output is provided at an output terminal with an accurate pulse width.

Abstract: The inverter functioning as a comparator, dummy inverter having the same electric characteristics as the inverter, and control circuit are provided. Vth detecting input voltage output from the control circuit is input into the dummy inverter, Vth detecting output voltage output from the dummy inverter is input into the control circuit, and the threshold voltage of the dummy inverter is detected. The threshold voltage of the inverter is controlled by controlling the back gate voltages of the MOS transistors of the dummy inverter and the inverter in such a manner that the threshold voltage of the dummy inverter coincide with an external reference voltage.

Abstract: An IC card may externally display a response state in a data communication performed in response to externally applied data. IC card (100) is provided with a data protecting memory (3) for data holding memory (2). An abnormality determination circuit (1) determines how data in data holding memory (2) has been processed. If abnormality determination circuit (1) determines that the externally applied data has been normally written in data holding memory (2), a response state display (7) gives a normal communication completion indication in response to an instruction from a main control circuit (11). Meanwhile, if the presence of an abnormality is determined in the state of writing data, and the data in data holding memory (2) has been recovered using data in data protecting memory (3), response state display (7) gives a data recovery indication. If the recovery of the data is not successful, a communication abnormality indication is made.

Abstract: There is described a process for the extraction of a least one relatively polar component form a material which may be naturally occurring or a synthetic mixture, the process comprising the steps of: (a) contacting the material with a solvent mixture comprising C1 to C4 fluorinated hydrocarbon, especially 1,1,1,2-tetrafluorethan and a co-solvent having a dielectric constant (at 20° C.) of at least 6 so as to charge the solvent mixture wherein the co-solvent is selected from the group consisting of amides, sulfoxides, alcohols, ketones, organic acid, carboxylic acid derivatives, cyanide derivatives, ammonia sulfur containing molecules, inorganic acids and nitro derivatives and separating the charged solve mixture from the material to isolate the polar component.

Abstract: Optical flow is calculated for each patch on the basis of two images, and then a region having low confidence and a region having high confidence are separated depending on confidence of the optical flow, and the optical flow in the region having low confidence is interpolated using the optical flow in its surrounding regions.

Abstract: In the case of providing a contact hole (2a) in an insulting film (2) on the substrate (1), and forming a wiring on the insulting film to be connected to an exposed portion by the contact hole, a tin film (4) is formed on a location where the wiring is formed, and a paradium film (5) is formed on a location where the wiring is formed by immersing a portion where the tin film is provided in a solution containing a paradium ion (Pd2+). Then, the paradium film is used as a reaction start layer to form a copper film (6) by the electroless plating method. Furthermore, a second copper film may be formed by the electroplating by using the copper film as the feeder layer. By doing so, there is provided a semiconductor device wherein the diffusion of elements of the reaction start layer (the seed layer) into the film is prevented, a copper film having a small specific resistance and excellent conductivity formed with good reliability, and a higher integration can be provided with further fine wiring.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photovoltaic device comprising on a substrate (1) a plurality of photovoltaic elements (10) each composed of a lamination body of a first electrode (2), a photovoltaic conversion layer (3), and a second electrode (4), the thickness of a side end (B) in the first electrode (2) in the vicinity of a separating trench (S) existing between the first electrode (2) and the adjacent first electrode (2) being larger than the thickness of an element region (A) in the first electrode (2).

Abstract: A phase shift circuit that generates a phase shift signal whose amplitude matches at a plurality of frequencies without increasing the circuit area. The phase shifter circuit includes first and second differential amplifiers which generate first and second first phase shift signals having a first amplitude at a first frequency. A third differential amplifier is connected in parallel to the first differential amplifier. The third differential amplifier generates a third phase shift signal having substantially the same amplitude as the first amplitude at a second frequency. The first differential amplifier is activated in accordance with the first frequency and the third differential amplifier is activated in accordance with the second frequency.

Abstract: A torque transducer having a rotating shaft with first and second substantially rigid torque input members connected by a torsionally compliant coupling that enables angular deflection of the first torque input member relative to the second torque input member as a function of the magnitude of the torque in the shaft. First and second grating elements are attached to or integral with first and second torque input members, respectively. The grating elements have surfaces with alternating regions of high and low reflectivity connected by a torsionally compliant coupling. The surfaces are illuminated by a source of electromagnetic radiation (EMR), which generates patterns on one or more arrays of detectors sensitive to the EMR. The disposition of the patterns is a function of torque applied to the shaft, and the output of the one or more arrays can be processed to produce a measure of the torque applied to the shaft.

Abstract: A process produces a resin intake member by injection moling. The intake member has a hollow generally cylindrical main section and a subsidiary section integrally connected to an outer periphery of the hollow main section. The process includes a primary molding step which forms the hollow main section in a primary molding die and a secondary molding step which subsequently inserts the formed hollow main section into a secondary molding die to integrally form the subsidiary section with the hollow main section in the secondary molding die.

Abstract: The values of parameters of a model of an object exhaust system including a catalytic converter are identified from the data of outputs from an air-fuel ratio sensor and an O2 sensor which are disposed respectively upstream and downstream of the catalytic converter while an internal combustion engine associated with the catalytic converter is in operation. A deterioration evaluating parameter representing the degree of variation of time-series data of the identified parameters is determined from the time-series data of the identified parameters. The deteriorated state of the catalytic converter is evaluated based on the deterioration evaluating parameter.

Abstract: The constant-current generator comprises a bias transistor whose drain and gate are connected to each other, and an outputting transistor. The threshold voltage of the outputting transistor is smaller than that of the bias transistor. The outputting transistor has the same source voltage and the same gate voltage as those of the bias transistor. Therefore, the gate-to-source voltages of the outputting transistor and the bias transistor are always kept equal. On the other hand, the drain-to-source current of the outputting transistor becomes larger than that of the bias transistor in accordance with the difference between the threshold voltages of the outputting transistor and the bias transistor. Accordingly, the outputting transistor can output a stable drain-to-source current even when the drain voltage of the bias transistor has shifted to lower the gate-to-source voltage thereof.

Abstract: In an air-conditioning refrigerant receiver having an annular clearance defined between an outer periphery of a lower cover supporting a contained assembly from the below and an inner periphery of a casing, a guide tube extends downwards to define an annular passage connected to the annular clearance between the guide tube and an inner surface of the casing, and is connected at its upper end to an outer periphery of the lower cover. Thus, a refrigerant, which has passed through the annular clearance, can be guided to a lower portion so as to quietly flow down along the inner surface of the casing, and hence, it is possible to inhibit to the utmost the refrigerant from leaving the inner surface of the casing and to become scattered, thereby more reliably preventing the occurrence of bubbling.

Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle powered from an engine and an assist motor for supplying electric power in an amount predetermined according to running conditions of the vehicle further includes means for detecting a catalyzer temperature and correcting the predetermined assist power value according to the detected catalyzer temperature when accelerating and means for preventing the idling engine from being cut off when detected catalyzer temperature is lower than a preset temperature. This control device thus realizes rapid heating of the catalyzer device to a temperature necessary for activating the catalyzer therein by adequately correcting the assist power value of the motor according to the current catalyzer temperature when accelerating and by preventing the idling engine from being cut off while the catalyzer device has a low temperature.

Abstract: An image-sensing semiconductor device has, in addition to a plurality of photodiodes, a dummy photodiode. The dummy photodiode is fed with a bias repeatedly with a predetermined period, and the plurality of photodiodes are fed with a bias sequentially with a predetermined cycle. The differences between the individual output signals of the plurality of photodiodes and the output signal of the dummy photodiode are calculated sequentially by a differential amplifier.

Abstract: By a gain control circuit which has: a first differential input circuit comprising a differential pair of transistors Tr1 and Tr3 in which transistors Tr2 and Tr4 connected to diodes are inserted; a second differential input circuit comprising a pair of the transistor Tr3 and a transistor Tr5; and a current source circuit comprising a transistor Tr6 and an emitter resistor R3, and to which first to third individual control input signals VCLS1 to VCLS3 each having a predetermined inclination and an offset value, obtained by shifting the level of a control input signal VCNT are supplied, gain control signals VAGC having a linear characteristic, a monotone increase characteristic of which curve opens upwards, and a monotone increase characteristic of which curve opens sharply upwards are supplied in accordance with a monotone increase region of which curve opens upwards, a linear region, and a monotone increase region of which curve opens downwards, respectively, of a differential pair of transistors Tr11 and Tr