Abstract: A sheet supplying device supplies a sheet to a sheet supplied apparatus which designates the size and transport direction of the sheet. The sheet supplying device includes a movable cassette for placing the sheet thereon and movable to at least two transport positions so as to transport the sheet therefrom in at least two transport directions, a fixed cassette for placing the sheet thereon and fixed in one transport position so as to transport the sheet therefrom in one transport direction, a transport device for transporting the sheet from each of the movable cassette and the fixed cassette to the sheet supplied apparatus.

Abstract: A facsimile apparatus including image data conversion unit for converting image data corresponding to an image to be printed in such a manner that two adjacent dots on a main scanning line of the image data are converted into one dot a smoothing unit connected to the conversion unit for modifying converted image data in such a manner that, if a pattern of a region formed by a predetermined number of converted dots coincides with a predetermined pattern, the converted image data is changed to have a pattern corresponding to the predetermined pattern in the region; and selection unit connected to the image data conversion unit and the smoothing unit and adapted to select an output of the image data conversion unit as printing data if it is detected that the image data has been transmitted in a fine mode, and select an output of the smoothing unit as printing data if it is detected that the image data has been transmitted in a standard mode.

Abstract: A facsimile device having a keyboard for designating a transmitting time and a call number of a remote receiver, and a function of automatically calling a call number of a remote receiver at the designated time and receiving a reference response signal from the remote receiver when a line is connected thereto, thereafter automatically transmitting specified information to the remote receiver, which comprises a memory confirming presence or absence of a reference response signal when the line is connected to a remote receiver, for storing the call number of the remote receiver if the reference response signal from the remote receiver is absent, and a printer for outputting an alarm to inform impossibility of transmission in the case that the call number of the remote receiver designated by the keyboard corresponds with the call number stored by the memory.

Abstract: A ceiling sign installation pole having a slot for carrying an anchor and an intersecting slot for permitting the exiting of a hook hung from the anchor. The installation head has a flat surface with two bumps for lifting adjacent ceiling tiles out of the way during the installation process. The walls of the exit slot bevel outwards towards the bottom of the installation head. Additional slots may be provided for different sized anchors. A flexible joint is used to connect the installation head to an elongated pole.

Abstract: A locating system and method in which a network of communication stations are spread over a surveillance area. Each moveable element is provided with a transponder having an associated identification code. A paging signal sent out over the surveillance area is picked up by the transponders and the one with the identification code provided in the page responds. The response is made at a frequency different from the page. The response is picked up by the nearest communication stations. A master station communicates with the communication stations at a frequency different from that used by the paging signal or the transponder. The master station which interrogates all the communication stations locates the paged transponder to within a sector bordered by the communication stations that received the response from the transponder. The communication stations can be subdivided into three or more interspersed arrays.

Abstract: A blood containment device including a housing with an opening through which an adhesive ply of multi-ply material is exposed. Blood is expelled from a syringe onto the exposed material. The housing has two chambers, one for the clean material and one for containing a take-up reel onto which the bvlood stained material is wound. A removable tension plate is supported within the housing to hold the absorbent material taut beneath the opening in the housing.

Abstract: A connection electrodes producing method has a step of forming resin layer which can be softened after hardened, on a circuit substrate on which an electrode pattern is formed. Then, only the resin layer material on the electrode pattern is cured and left. Thereafter, conductive particles are adhered to only the resin layer on the electrode pattern by softening the resin layer and by scattering the conductive particles on the circuit substrate with the softened resin layer.

Abstract: A method for powering up an integrated circuit and circuit for implementing the method. A first charging current is used to slowly charge a capacitor used in the integrated circuit upon connecting the power. A power-up signal is provided to initialize digital circuitry until the first charging current raises the voltage of the capacitor above a threshold value. Once a capacitor is charged to another predetermined threshold, a second charging current is activated. The two charging currents are thereafter used as the total charging current on the capacitor. If the capacitor is grounded, the initial power-up scheme is re-initiated.

Abstract: A multiuser display system in which the bit planes are shared by a plurality of user stations. A bus carries a superpixel containing bits from each of the bit planes in this system. Each user station is assigned particular bit planes and extracts the bits corresponding to the assigned bit planes from the superpixel. Double buffering within a window is made possible by providing two sets of bit plane identification registers.

Abstract: A mobile navigation system using a communication system between at least one mobile object and a key station. The navigation system includes a unit mounted on the mobile object for determining the position of the mobile object, and a unit mounted on the mobile object for transmitting data representative of the determined position to the key station via the communication system. The navigation system further includes a data base unit mounted in the key station for storing map data, a unit mounted in the key station for deriving map data of an area including the position of the mobile object from the data base unit, in response to the transmitted position data, a unit mounted in the key station for transmitting data including the derived map data to the mobile object via the communication system, and a unit mounted on the mobile object for displaying a composite image composed of the position data of the mobile object and the map data, in response to the transmitted data from the key station.

Abstract: A system and method for sensing a target substance in a medium by directing at least first and second beams of radiation to intersect within the medium and establish one or more sensing volumes. The beams have different frequencies to generate a beat frequency at the sensing volume. A selected optical effect, based on an optical property of the target substance within the sensing volume, on the first and second beams is detected at at least one selected spectral line. A signal is generated representative of the selected optical effect, such as absorbance or fluorescence, and the portion of the signal which is substantially at the beat frequency is combined with at least one selected value to determine the amount of the target substance.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnetic head includes a first step of forming rectilinear V grooves on the top surface of a substrate, a second step of forming magnetic films on slant faces of the V grooves, a third step of leveling the top surface of the substrate after filing the V grooves with glass, a forth step of dividing the substrate into first and second substrates, a fifth step of forming grooves for coil winding on the top and bottom surfaces of each substrate, a sixth step of melting the glass of each V groove and bonding the first and second substrates, and a seventh step of slicing the bonded body, the first step including a step of forming the V grooves by means of a first grinding wheel and a step of finishing one of slant faces of the V grooves by means of a second grinding wheel, of which end is V-shaped, so that the slant has smaller surface roughness, the second grinding wheel being shaped such that one of the grinding wheel surfaces comes into contact with one of the slant faces of the V gro

Abstract: A communication link interface having an assembly register which is loaded in response to a transmitter's clock rate and unloaded in response to a receiver's clock connected to the interface. The assembly register holds a series of data words received from the communication link. Logic gates or flip flops are provided to insure a time delay between loading the assembly register and unloading it.

Abstract: A positive temperature coefficient current source having reduced reference current requirements. The output transistors are each buffered by another transistor in a Darlington pair configuration. The reference current required for the circuit is reduced while maintaining a positive temperature coefficient for the current source.

Abstract: An infustion pump fluid source cartridge having a pump interface portion and a fluid source portion. The top edge of the cartridge is bevelled in the fluid source portion to permit bending of the fluid source portion to securely position the pump interface portion against the pump without distorting the pump interface portion. A pump tube mount is provided for insertion into such cartridge. The pump tube mount includes a uniquely shaped front wall and a rear wall which extends downward in order to butt up against a ledge. Tabs extend from the rear wall in order to snap into an opening beneath the ledge. A compressible tube is mounted in the tube mount by providing a cylindrical fitting having an indentation. The tube may be held in the indentation by a collar surrounding the tube in alignment with the indentation.

Abstract: A blood containment device including a housing with an opening through which absorbent material is exposed. Blood is expelled from a syringe onto the exposed material. The housing has two chambers, one for the clean material and one containing a take-up reel onto which the blood stained material is wound.

Abstract: A dial lock comprises: a slide bar (10) which is controlled of its movement by engagement with a lock pin (2), dials (3) for controlling movement of the lock pin (2) with respective optional retrieving number, return-to-zero gears (6) to return the dials (3) to these zero-indicating positions at the time of locking and unlocking, and anti-locking means for enabling the locking only after a case when at least one of the dials is set to indicate a number other than zero, whereby optional unlocking number can be set without fail in locking operation.

Abstract: A power factor correction circuit in which a divided-down version of a rectified input waveform is sampled approximately at its peak by a sample-and-hold circuit. The peak value is then processed to produce a correction signal which is subtracted from the original divided down rectified signal. This produces a reference signal which is then multiplied by the output of an error amplifier to produce a sinusoidal reference signal for the input current. The output of the error amplifier which is used is that which is sampled periodically when the divided-down rectified signal approaches zero volts. The sinusoidal reference is used by peak and valley comparators whose other inputs come from a current sense amplifier. The outputs of the comparators are used to switch a shunting transistor which controls the input current to achieve near unit y power factor.