Abstract: After sintering of a CO sensor using an SnO2-based metal oxide semiconductor, Ir and Pt are added to the sensor at 5˜500 &mgr;g/g SnO2 each, the weight ratio of Ir and Pt being 5˜1/5. This addition is made by impregnating a mixed aqueous solution of an Ir salt and a Pt salt into the SnO2 sintered body and thermally decomposing these salts. Next, an aqueous solution of thiourea is impregnated into the SnO2 sintered body to add thiourea at 0.01˜10 mg/g SnO2 in reduction to simple S element. The temperature and humidity dependency of the CO sensor is suppressed, the CO concentration dependency of the output is increased, and the sensor resistance is brought to a more convenient range of use.

Abstract: A character recognition apparatus, in which a type of each of accounts, a type of each of marks, and characteristic data indicating a string of characters recognized when any of the marks is written in each account are previously registered for each group of the types of accounts in correlation to each other in an account-type database; a mark is estimated according to a result of verification between the account-type database and a result of ordinary character recognition according to a character recognizing program; and a type of account having the estimated mark is determined as a selected account name according to a result of recognizing characters in accounts other than the account having the mark.

Abstract: An indoor space is externally enclosed and thermally insulated by an underfloor insulating layer, a wall insulating layer and a ceiling insulating layer. An underfloor ventilation layer is defined between a floor and the underfloor insulating layer, and a ceiling ventilation layer is formed between a ceiling and the ceiling insulating layer. Communication is established through the underfloor ventilation layer, the indoor space and the ceiling ventilation layer, via floor vents and ceiling vents. Outdoor air is drawn into the indoor space from an air intake. Air is expelled from the ceiling ventilation layer into an underroof space by ventilation fans and then discharged outdoors from underroof outlets. A heat exchange ventilator is disposed in the ceiling ventilation layer, whereby heat exchange takes place between air in the ceiling ventilation layer and incoming fresh outdoor air. After the heat exchange, the incoming air is delivered into the underfloor ventilation layer.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for processing communication data transmitted from a data center such as a sing-along data center to a terminal communication apparatus such as a communication type sing-along apparatus via a communication line.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a clock buffer circuit receiving a clock signal, a data buffer circuit receiving a data signal, an output circuit outputting the data signal from the data buffer circuit in accordance with the clock signal from the clock buffer circuit, and an adjustment circuit adjusting timings of the clock signal and the data signals.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first plate cylinder and a second plate cylinder. Each plate cylinder supports a plate mounted peripherally thereof having two image areas. Four ink feeders contact and feed inks to the image areas on the plate when mounted on the first and second plate cylinders. A first blanket cylinder has a diameter equal to a diameter of the first plate cylinder and is contactable therewith. A second blanket cylinder has a diameter equal to a diameter of the second plate cylinder and is contactable therewith. An impression cylinder having a diameter half the diameter of either the first and second plate cylinders as well as the first and second blanket cylinders, is contactable with the first and second blanket cylinders. A pair of grippers that each hold an end of the printing paper maintain two sheets of printing paper peripherally of the impression cylinder. A paper feed cylinder feeds the printing paper to the impression cylinder.

Abstract: A semiconductor device which receives addresses in synchronism with a clock signal and receives data in synchronism with a strobe signal includes address-latch circuits, a first control circuit which selects one of the address-latch circuits in sequence in response to the clock signal, and controls the selected one of the address-latch circuits to latch a corresponding one of the addresses in response to the clock signal, and a second control circuit which selects one of the address-latch circuits in sequence in response to the strobe signal, and controls the selected one of the address-latch circuits to output a corresponding one of the addresses in response to the strobe signal.

Abstract: A blind having plural rudder cords each of which is formed of a pair of vertical strings and plural lateral strings joining the vertical strings together, and each of which is brought down from a head box in the vertical direction, and plural pieces of slats extending horizontally on the lateral strings of the rudder cords, retained in parallel with one another and adapted to be turned by the operations of the rudder cords, whereby the blind is opened and closed, comprising openings provided in the portions of each of the slats which are in the vicinity of the rudder cords, and drawing strings which are capable of being pulled up, and which are brought down from the head box along the rudder cords, inserted through the openings of the slats and made connectable at lower end portions thereof to the portions of either one of the respective pairs of vertical strings of the rudder cords which are in positions of an arbitrary height.

Abstract: According to the present invention, access to a password area in a nonvolatile memory cannot be granted by simple supply of an address in a normal order. According to one preferable mode, for instance, a trap address is set in the password area so that reading information from the password area is permitted only when the password area is accessed without accessing the trap address, whereas when the password area is accessed through the trap address, information reading is inhibited, or meaningless data is output or the information in the password area is destroyed. According to another preferable mode, the order in which access is made to the password area can arbitrarily be set so that accessing the password area in this order alone can permit the password area to be read, whereas when access to the password area is made in a different order, information reading is inhibited, or meaningless data is output or the information in the password area is destroyed.

Abstract: A method of purifying an alkaline solution is capable of extremely efficiently nonionizing metallic impurity ions in an alkaline solution at a low cost. A method of etching semiconductor wafers in turn is capable of etching semiconductor wafers using the purified alkaline solution without deteriorating the quality of the semiconductor wafers. A reducing agent having an oxidation potential lower than a reversible electrode potential of metallic ions existing in the alkaline solution is dissolved in the alkaline solution to thereby nonionize the metallic ions existing in the alkaline solution.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for eliciting an onset hastened analgesic and anti-inflammatory response and combating nausea in acute migraine attacks. This method comprises administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising more than one active ingredient, wherein said more than one active ingredient consist essentially of: (i) domperidone or an analogue thereof in an amount sufficient to hasten the onset of the analgesic and anti-inflammatory response and to combat nausea in an acute migraine attack, and (ii) a NSAID, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a pure (−) or pure (+) optical isomeric form thereof in an analgesically and anti-inflammatory effective amount, wherein said NSAID is selected from the group consisting of proprionic acid derivatives, acetic acid derivatives, fenamic acid derivatives, biphenylcarboxylic acid derivatives and oxicams.

Abstract: The invention concerns pyrrolo-[3,2-d]pyrimidine, pyrazolo-[4,3-d]pyrimidine and pyrimidine-furanosides i.e. so-called C-nucleosides of the general formulae I-V or appropriate derivatives as well as processes for their production.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a MR sensor having at least an anti-ferromagnetic layer and a ferromagnetic layer, and to a method for manufacturing a magnetic head with the MR sensor. The sensor utilizes bias magnetic field provided by exchange coupling between the anti-ferromagnetic layer and the ferromagnetic layer. The sensor manufacturing method includes a step of depositing an anti-ferromagnetic layer to have a larger thickness than a target thickness, a step of ordering the deposited anti-ferromagnetic layer, and a step of thinning the ordered anti-ferromagnetic layer to have the target thickness.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape fabric is knitted by the method in which after a setup portion of the three-dimensional shape fabric is formed by use of needles of the both front and back needle beds, a non-rectangular front fabric and a non-rectangular back fabric are knitted by performing a flechage knitting in which a first part of the front fabric and a first part of the back fabric are varied in number of courses from one wale to another so as to put a part of loops into a rested state in the process in which the front fabric knitted in association with the front needle bed and the back fabric knitted in association with the back needle bed are knitted in parallel to each other by use of different cam systems and then loops of the next parts following the forming of loops of final courses of the previously formed parts including the part of the loops as were put in the rested state are formed to join the parts to each other, the knitting process of which is repeated performed, and the loops of the final course

Abstract: The present invention relates to a passive auxiliary circuit for driving power switches connected in series for much higher rating of a power system. The passive auxiliary circuit for an IGBT power switch connected in series with another, comprises two capacitors, which are connected in series across the IGBT; two resistors dividing a voltage applied across the IGBT, each resistor being connected in parallel with each capacitor; and a diode and a third resistor which are connected in series between a gate terminal of the IGBT and a node connecting the two capacitors, wherein the diode is placed such that its cathode is directed to the gate. This passive auxiliary circuit, whose structure is so simple, is able to distribute a supplied high voltage equally over series-connected IGBTs, to reduce additional power loss remarkably, and to relieve transient overvoltage like as a conventional active gate circuit.

Abstract: A lid 24 is constituted by an extending portion 41 of a first carpet 35 extending from the front of a lower portion of a seat cushion 21, a second carpet 43 integrally mounted on the extending portion 41 via a base material 42, and the first carpet 35 is made to function as a hinge 45. In addition, the lid 24 is constructed so as to be retained to a floor 15 with a surface fastener 44.

Abstract: The power transmission shaft 12 is made by applying induction hardening to carbon steel with hardening ratio in a range from 0.25 to 0.50. For the carbon steel, one containing 0.39 to 0.49% of C, 0.4 to 1.5% of Si, 0.4 to 1.0% of Mn, 0.025% or less S, 0.02% or less P and 0.01 to 0.1% of Al by weight as the basic components, with the rest comprising Fe and inevitable impurities is used. This makes it possible to achieve higher strength and lighter weight of the power transmission shaft.

Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes a main switching device and a synchronous switching connected in series between a power supply and a ground, and a drive control circuit for supplying a first drive signal to the main switching device and a second drive signal to the synchronous switching device to alternately activate and deactivate the main switching device and the synchronous switching device. A detection circuit is connected to the synchronous switching device for detecting a malfunction of the synchronous switching device, such as a short-circuit, and generates a detection signal when a malfunction is detected. A protection circuit is connected to the detection circuit and the drive control circuit and inhibits the first and second drive signals in response to the detection signal. The drive control circuit, the detection circuit and the protection circuit are all formed on a single semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A roller leveller has an upper roller assembly 1 made of a plurality of taper rollers 7 each having a small diameter end with a collar 14 and a large diameter end, with the large diameter ends being set on a same side, and a lower assembly 2 made of a plurality of taper rollers 8 each having a small diameter end with a collar 15 and a large diameter end, with the large diameter ends being disposed on opposite sides of the large diameter ends of the taper rollers 7. The center axes of the upper and lower taper rollers 7 and 8 are inclined by a half-apex angle of the taper roller relative to a passing plane of a plate 50, and the upper and lower taper rollers are disposed in a zigzag way. A plate or coil plate 50 is passed between the upper and lower taper rollers to repetitively bend it and remove defective form.

Abstract: A method of controlling a dual fluid fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder, the fuel injection system having at least one delivery injector and a compressed gas supply means for supplying gas to the at least one delivery injector, the method including: determining if there has been a reduction in the compressed gas supplied to the at least one delivery injector below a required supply level; opening the at least one delivery injector when there is a depression in a respective said cylinder such that the pressure within said cylinder is lower than the pressure upstream of the delivery injector if the compressed gas supply is below said required supply level; and delivering fuel to the delivery injector such that the fuel is drawn into the cylinder by virtue of the pressure differential existing across the delivery injector.