Abstract: An appearance change of an information processing device, which has a plurality of operation modes and whose appearance is changed in accordance with change of operation mode, is displayed on a display screen as graphic data representing the appearance. When a memory card is extracted from the information processing device, an operation of the information processing device is reset to avoid a run away phenomenon. Furthermore, in an inquiry and communication operation, only necessary pages of resultant inquiry information are printed out at a time after the communication line is disconnected.

Abstract: In a two-way solenoid vale, a small diameter portion of a nozzle portion is fitted in a small diameter portion receiving part communicating with an output pressure oil passage and a large diameter portion is fitted in a large diameter portion receiving part communicating with a supply pressure oil passage. An opening of a through-hole formed in the nozzle portion faces the output pressure oil passage by way of the small diameter portion receiving part, and an inner end of the through-hole is opened and closed by a plunger and communicates with a drain port. An orifice port communicating with the through-hole is opened to the large diameter portion receiving part and communicates with the supply pressure oil passage. Since the orifice port is disposed in the solenoid valve, a separate plate for an orifice is not required, oil passage is simplified and the solenoid valve can be installed in an optional position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a sheet processing unit for feeding a cover sheet and a folder for folding the cover sheet with a bundle of recording sheets. The sheet processing unit has a cover sheet feeder for feeding a cover sheet facing upward toward an image forming unit, a reversing unit for reversing the cover sheet so that the cover sheet faces downward, and a conveyor for conveying the reversed cover sheet to the folder in a switchback manner so that the front face of the cover sheet faces the folding roller pair. The folder has a thrusting member for thrusting the bundle of sheets toward the folding roller pair and discharging the folded bundle to a discharge tray.

Abstract: A TV broadcast cooperative type data perusal apparatus is provided that can establish connection to websites in which is provided information related to the subject matter of a program that is being broadcast, and can simply peruse the information related to the subject matter from these websites, even when no website address information is appended as descriptor information for searching to the program being broadcast, provided that the information related to the subject matter in the program being broadcast is appended to the program as the descriptor information for searching.

Abstract: A motor and a method for manufacturing thereof use a rotor having permanent magnets and stators. The highest revolving speed of a motor is adjusted by using end plates of different thickness. The end plates are made of a magnetic material and disposed at the end faces of the rotor. The end plates made of a magnetic material provide part of the magnetic flux generated from the permanent magnets with short circuits within the inside of the rotor. The magnetic flux that links with the coil can be adjusted by using end plates of different thickness. Therefore, the highest revolving speed of a motor can be finely adjusted with ease.

Abstract: Light beam is irradiated onto a surface of a substrate to be inspected and scattered lights from the surface of the substrate are received at different light reception angles, so that first and second light detection signals corresponding to the different light reception angles are generated. Reference function defining a correlation in level value between the first and second light detection signals is set, a comparison is made between respective level values of the first and second light detection signals using the reference function as a comparison reference, and it is determined, on the basis of a result of the comparison, which of a plurality of different types of defects, such as a foreign substance and crystal-originated pit, a possible defect present on the surface of the substrate, which is represented by the light detection signals, corresponds to.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an exhaust gas purifying catalyst formed as a single catalyst that has a great deal of flexibility when being assembled into an exhaust system and that is capable of executing both an NOx absorbing function and a three-way function in a desired manner. To attain the this object, an absorbent catalyst layer to which an absorbent agent such as potassium and an acid material such as zeolite are added, an absorbent agent block layer formed of zeolite, and a three-way catalyst layer to which an acid material such as phosphorus is added are bonded together on a cordierite carrier. The acid material in the absorbent catalyst layer and the absorbent agent block layer inhibit the movement of the absorbent agent to the three-way catalyst layer, and transform the absorbent agent into harmless and stable potassium phosphate even if the absorbent agent reaches the three-way catalyst.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus are provided, which make it possible to determine whether the sheet processing apparatus is attached to the image forming apparatus in a short time and without increasing the number of signal lines. The sheet processing apparatus that is attached to the image forming apparatus includes a controller that controls the sheet processing apparatus and a serial communication line that performs serial communication from the controller to the image forming apparatus, with the controller operating in response to supplying of power to the controller to set the serial communication line at a high level.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium has a granular magnetic layer and a nonmagnetic underlayer of a metal or an alloy having a hexagonal closest-packed (hcp) crystal structure. A seed layer of a metal or an alloy of a face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure is provided under the nonmagnetic underlayer. Such a perpendicular magnetic recording medium exhibits excellent magnetic characteristics even when the thickness of the underlayer or the total thickness of the underlayer and the seed layer is very thin. Excellent magnetic characteristics can be obtained even when of the substrate is not preheated. Accordingly, a nonmagnetic substrate, such as a plastic resin can be employed to reduce the manufacturing cost.

Abstract: An accumulator type fuel injection system adapted to prevent engine trouble by making a judgement that fuel injection rate switching change-over valves provided correspondingly to fuel injection nozzles in cylinders, a valve for controlling the pressure in a low-pressure accumulator or means for detecting fuel pressures in accumulators gets out of order, and carrying out when any of these parts break down a control operation of a limp-home mode in which a region of an operation of an engine is limited. To provide such an accumulator type fuel injection system, a control means 8 is formed so that, when a judgement that first control valves 5, a second control valve 34 or pressure sensors 3a, 4a for detecting the fuel pressures in the respective accumulators get out of order is given, the control means 8 sets a discharge pressure of a fuel pump 1 not higher than a permissible pressure in a second accumulator 4, and injects a fuel from fuel injection nozzles 9.

Abstract: A semiconductor device, such as a pin diode, includes a first drift layer, a second drift layer, an anode layer on the first drift layer, and a buffer layer formed between the first and second drift layers. The shortest distance from the pn-junction between the anode layer and the buffer layer, and the thickness of the buffer layer are set at the respective values at which a high breakdown voltage is obtained, while reducing the tradeoff relation between the soft recovery and the fast and low-loss reverse recovery.

Abstract: For both an automatic chord correction and an automatic composition, it is required to correct a part of a series of given chords in order to have a musically natural connection between adjacent chords. A series of chords “a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, “e”, “f” (each letter means one kind of chords) for a music is selected by a user. If two chords “c” and “d” among the series of chords “a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, “e”, “f” are changed into different ones, according to the user's preference or to make them more appropriate to the motif melody, the chord “b” adjacent to the changed “c” is automatically corrected into “b*” so that both chord connections from “a” to “b*” and from “b*” to the changed “c” can be more musically natural.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas purifying catalyst, an acid material with a high affinity with respect to an absorbing agent is dispersed and mixed in a catalyst layer, to which the absorbing agent is added, or a layer of the acid material is formed inside the catalyst layer in order to prevent the absorbing agent from moving from the catalyst layer into the carrier. This reduces the permeation of the absorbing agent added to the catalyst layer into a carrier, the evaporation and splash of the absorbing agent from the catalyst, and the deterioration in the durability and the exhaust gas purifying performance of the catalyst.

Abstract: There are provided an image display apparatus and method which are always capable of displaying the whole of menus at a plurality of hierarchical levels and realize a user-friendly interface, a menu display system including at least one menu display apparatus of the above type, and a computer-readable storage medium storing a program for executing the menu display method.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a CIS disposed in an area where a sheet passes in such a fashion that read pixels of the CIS are arranged in a direction perpendicular to the feeding direction of the sheet. A part of the read pixels (e.g., 1000 pixels) that corresponds to {fraction (1/7)} of all the read pixels are repeatedly read with a short period (TS) to detect the position of the leading edge of the sheet being fed. After waiting a predetermined period of time after the timing of detection of the leading edge position of the sheet, a laser beam is irradiated onto a photosensitive drum to start writing an image in the subscanning direction. Further, read pixels (e.g., 6000 pixels) that corresponds to {fraction (6/7)} of all the read pixels are repeatedly read with a long period (TL) to detect the position of the side edge of the fed sheet.

Abstract: This invention clarifies the effects of parameters and enables the mass production of a super-junction semiconductor device, which has a drift layer composed of a parallel pn layer that conducts electricity in the ON state and is depleted in the OFF state. The quantity of impurities in n drift regions is within the range between 100% and 150% or between 110% and 150% of the quantity of impurities in p partition regions. The impurity density of either one of the n drift regions and the p partition regions is within the range between 92% and 108% of the impurity density of the other regions. In addition, the width of either one of the n drift regions and the p partition regions is within the range between 94% and 106% of the width of the other regions.

Abstract: There is provided a sheet processing apparatus that is capable of preventing sheets conveyed to the sheet processing apparatus from being skewed, wrinkled, damaged, or jammed, and prevent sheets stored in the sheet processing apparatus from being misaligned. The sheet processing apparatus receives a sheet discharged from an image forming apparatus comprising fixing rollers that hold and convey a sheet on which is formed an image at a first conveying speed and with a first conveying force, discharge rollers disposed downstream of the fixing rollers in a sheet conveying direction, for conveying the sheet at a second conveying speed higher than the first conveying speed and with a second conveying force smaller than the first conveying force, and a controller that determines whether a trailing end of the sheet is released from the fixing rollers.

Abstract: A substrate with a transparent condcutive film is provided, which has a high work function and an excellent surface smoothness as well as a reduced specific resistance to thereby ensure a reduced power consumption and enhanced display quality. An ITO film 2 is formed on a glass substrate 1 by an ion plating method by using an ITO sintered compact with an SnO2 content of 4 to 6 wt %. The ITO film 2 obtained as above has a surface having a work function of 4.9 to 5.5 eV, a surface roughness of 1 to 10 nm, and a specific resistance of 1.6×10−4 &OHgr;·cm or less. An organic EL device using the substrate is provided, in which an organic multilayer film (hole transport layer 5, light-emitting layer 7, and electron transport layer 6) is laminated on the surface of the ITO film 2, and further a metal thin film layer 4 is laminated on the surface of the organic multilayer film.

Abstract: In an actuator having a coil disposed between yokes opposing to each other via a specified space, stepped portions are formed at the inner sides of two arms which support the coil, and at the stepped portion are formed through-holes whose diameter is gradually reduced from the bottom to top of the stepped portion. The coil and the arms are joined together by filling the stepped portions and through-holes with a holding member made up of resin. By this configuration, in an actuator used for a disk unit or the like, it is possible to completely secure a coil on a carriage while reducing the unit in thickness.

Abstract: A toy component can be made of a fluorescent material, such as fluorescent acrylic, where the property of the material is such that the peripheral end glows when light is incident on the planar surface. To enhance the glow effect, the peripheral end is routed smooth and/or flame polished. The toy component can have various configurations, including an angled configuration, which can be formed by bending a planar acrylic sheet with heat. The toy components can be packaged economically and compactly.