Abstract: A photo-magnetic (magneto-optic) recording device having recording medium in the form of a rotating magnetic disc having magnetic characteristics in a direction perpendicular to its surface has a pickup head (7) disposed on one side of the disc and movable radially of the disc to scan selected areas of the disc. On the side of the disc opposite to that on which the pickup head is located, there are provided a plurality of coils (8) generating a bias-magnetic field applied to the disc. The coils are disposed in overlapping arrangement with their centers disposed on a line extending radially of the disc. The coils are energized by electric circuitry which comprises means for sensing the position of the pickup head and energizing a respective coil located in position to apply a bias-magnetic to the area of the disc scanned by the pickup head.

Abstract: With the screw driven into the female-threaded hole which radially extends through the hollow roller and opens to the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion forming a part of the sprocket, the hollow roller is coupled to the sprocket and functions as a drive roller adapted to rotate integrally therewith. When both female-threaded holes have no screw received therein, the hollow roller functions as a free roller which is rotatable with respect to the sprocket.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of a food product, that in particular is usable as a bread spread, creamy food and/or a base material for the production of specialties, consisting predominantly of milk protein, oil and water. It is the object of the invention to create an easily produced pure natural product of creamy to solid consistency which contains little fat and much protein and is usable in a variety of ways as a bread spread and as a food product. In the process of the invention, curds, yogurt or other milk protein in flocculent form is dehydrated, to the dehydrated product an edible oil is added and then stirred until a product of creamy to solid consistency is obtained. This obtained product is usable as a bread spread as well as a creamy food in a variety of tastes through the use of additives of particular kinds such as sugar, fruit sugar, fruits, herbs and vegetables, but also meat and cheese.

Abstract: Frame unit for an electrolyser of the filter-press type, comprising a vertical metal sheeting (1), a peripheral frame made up of two vertical uprights (2, 3) and of two horizontal lengthwise members (4, 5) and a metal sheet (6) covering the sheeting (1) and the two uprights (2, 3), the two lengthwise members (4, 5) being made of the same material as the sheet (6), being inserted between the uprights (2, 3) and being firmly attached to the sheet (6). Electrolysers of the filter-press type comprising this frame unit.

Abstract: Electrolyzer comprising at least two elementary electrolysis cells (1), coupled in electrical series along a common vertical wall (6) which comprises two vertical metal plates (10, 11), arranged on either side of a peripheral frame (12) so as to define a vertical chamber (16). One of the plates (10) carries an anode (13) of one of the cells and the other plate (11) carries a cathode (14) of the other cell. The chamber (16) contains a metal mass whose melting temperature is lower than the temperature prevailing in the said chamber when the electrolyzer is in operation. The electrolyzer is suitable for the electrolytic production of sodium chlorate.

Abstract: A calender for producing packing sheets has a heated cylinder of large diameter and an unheated pressure cylinder of smaller diameter which is movable toward and away from the heated cylinder to vary the width of a gap between the cylinders. A plastic mixture plasticized by a solvent is fed to the gap between the cylinders and is formed into a sheet on the heated cylinder, where it is vulcanized. Two temperature sensors on a common support are positioned to measure the temperature of the outer surface of such sheet and transmit the temperature measurement to a procesor which is programmed to control operations of the calender. A further sensor measures the thickness of the sheet on the heated cylinder and the thickness measurement is transmitted to the processor as a further parameter in control of operation of the calender.

Abstract: A rod with an increased capacity for buckling under length-wise load has a central portion bent in the form of an omega with a central bend joined to end portions by elbows. The cross-section of the central portion is formed, for example by plastic deformation, into the shape of a bow-tie or the mathematical symbol "infinity" which consists of two lateral lobes connected by a thin central core and which is inscribed in a rectangle of which the length is equal to at least twice its width. Such rod is used as a shaft in a motor vehicle safety steering column.

Abstract: Electrolyser for the production of a gas, comprising a stack of vertical frames (1, 2) defining electrolysis chambers (4, 5), a degassing chamber (17) above the stack, a conduit for allowing electrolyte to enter (23) the degassing chamber, a vertical pipe (18) connecting the degassing chamber to the lower part of the electrolysis chambers and a nozzle (20) arranged around the pipe and connecting the degassing chamber to the upper part of the electrolysis chambers, the pipe (18) communicating with the degassing chamber (17) through a connecting conduit (19, 21) passing through the nozzle (20).

Abstract: A pumping light source drive system is disclosed for driving pumping light sources of an optical amplifier which is composed of a rare earth doped optical fiber doped with a rare earth element and said pumping light sources. The pumping light sources are always held in operation. The output signal power at the output of the rare earth doped optical fiber or the combined power of the pumping light sources is detected and compared with a predetermined reference power to control the output power of the pumping light sources, so that the output signal power or the combined power of the pumping light sources reaches a predetermined value.

Abstract: An improved biological conversion of a nitrile such as acrylonitrile or a cyanopyridine into the corresponding carboxylic acid such as acrylic acid or a nicotinic acid by the action upon the nitrile of a nitrilase enzyme, in which the improvement resides in the use as the source of the enzyme of a microorganism of Rhodococcus, such as Rh. rhodochrous J-1, FERM BP-1478, which is cultured in the presence of a lactam compound.

Abstract: A device and method for removal of organic deposit obstructions in blood vessels by use of a supersonic microjet liquid flow for canalizing the organic deposit obstruction to be removed. The device has a bendable tube insertable into a blood vessel in which an obstruction is to be removed. Within the tube extends a pressure-resistant duct having an outlet or nozzle orifice developed therein by a liquid under pressure provided from a pump. A small collapsable balloon, when inflated, centers the outlet and isolates a volume within the blood vessel upstream of the outlet for containing the microjet fluid and matter from the obstruction eroded and abraded from the deposit during canalizing. The volume is evacuated by a suction on the tube taken by a pump and the small balloon is inflated through the bendable tube with which it communicates.

Abstract: An intelligent coding system for a picture signal is disclosed, in which a feature picture representing features of a picture is produced on the basis of an input picture signal, information of the position and the shape of each element forming the picture is extracted from the feature picture and then the information thus extracted is organized concisely by a small number of parameters. According to another aspect of the present invention, consistency (or continuity) of variations in the position and the shape of each element can be held throughout a continuation of frames of motion picture signals.

Abstract: There is disclosed a noise eliminating device for an angle-modulated wave, in which a carrier amplitude fluctuation of an angle-modulated input wave is detected in a frequency difference detector to obtain a frequency variation signal corresponding to a frequency variation arising at an amplitude limiter from the carrier amplitude fluctuation. Noise caused by the amplitude fluctuation is eliminated from the angle-modulated input wave by subtracting the frequency variation signal from an output signal of the amplitude limiter after or before the frequency difference detector.

Abstract: A packing sheet calender comprises a cooled cylinder of small diameter and a heated cylinder of large diameter. The heated cylinder comprises a cylindrical casing and end walls with integral stub shafts projecting centrally from the end walls. At least one of the stub shafts is hollow. Circumferentially spaced axially extending bores are provided in the casing for the flow of hot water which is supplied by a tube system extending axially of the cylinder and comprising an inner tube and an outer tube surrounding the inner tube. Radial bores in one end wall connect the axially extending bores in the casing with the outer tube. Radial bores in the other end wall connect the axially extending bores in the casing with an annular chamber which is connected with the inner tube. The inner and outer tubes are connected through the hollow stub shaft with a device for supplying hot water to one of the tubes and withdrawing water from the other.

Abstract: An avalanche photo diode in which the guard ring portion and the front of the pn junction of the light receiving portion are formed at the same depth from the surface of an InP layer, so that the guard ring performs its desired function.

Abstract: Frame unit for an electrolyser of the filter-press type, comprising a vertical frame (1) defining an electrolysis chamber (13), an electrode in the electrolysis chamber, comprising a pair of vertical metal sheets (6) arranged facing each other, horizontal or oblique metal rails (7) arranged between the sheets (6), and U-shaped or V-shaped vertical metal beams (8) inserted between the rails and the sheets, the beams (8) being arranged in pairs, symmetrically on either side of the rails (7), and being connected to each other by vertical plates (11) which join the rails (7) so as to form vertical ducts (12) in the chamber 13.

Abstract: A quantum well structure is disclosed, which is comprised of a quantum well layer of a thickness substantially equal to the de Broglie wavelength of electrons and carrier confinement layers of an energy gap greater than that of the quantum well layer. A second material of a lattice constant different from that of a first material primarily for the quantum well layer is disposed in the quantum well layer to provide a phase shift in the period of the crystal lattice of the first material, thereby forming energy levels in the forbidden band of the quantum well layer. A semiconductor device which employs such a quantum well structure and is so constructed as to utilize its physical phenomenon which is caused by the energy levels in the forbidden band. In concrete terms, the present invention has its feature in allowing ease in the fabrication of an intermediate infrared or blue light emitting device, for instance.

Abstract: An extruder has a screw rotatable in a housing and an extrusion head having an upper part bolted to the housing and a lower part hingedly connected to the housing for movement between a closed operative position and an open position. The upper part of the extrusion head is located above the screw so that the screw can be removed from the housing when the lower extrusion head part is swung to open position and without removing the upper extrusion head part from the housing. The two extrusion head parts define between them a flow passage directed toward the upper roller of a calender. A movable lip on the lower extrusion head part faces, and is spaced from, the upper calender roller to define a variable gap through which extruded material must pass before reaching the narrowest part of the gap between the calender rollers. The lip is either pivoted at an upper edge or is slidable toward and away from the upper calender roller to vary the width of the gap formed between the lip and the upper calender roller.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus in which one of two workpieces to be polished or abraded which contact each other at respective arcuate or spherical surfaces, is placed on a fixed base and turned or fixed in a horizontal plane with the other workpiece held under pressure by a retainer provided on a gate type frame which can be swung around the center of curvature of the contact surfaces of the two workpieces by a swinging unit capable of varying the range of swinging movement of the gate-type frame. The center of the swinging movement of this frame can be varied by changing the position of two pivot-connected block units vertically in a stepless manner and the position of the retainer to a reference axis can be varied. This enables the apparatus to be applied to workpieces having arbitrary curved surfaces to be polished and of different dimensions.

Abstract: A temperature compensated level detector is disclosed in which a voltage multiplying rectifier is provided for rectifying and smoothing a high-frequency input voltage to obtain a DC output, and a bias voltage generator is added to said voltage multiplying rectifier, for providing a forward bias voltage. The bias voltage generator has a temperature compensating function.