Abstract: A tile-mount for mounting tiles on a wall surface. The mount plate has at least one projection extending in a longitudinal direction thereof and base portions. The top surface of the projection has vertically spaced engaging members, and, each of tiles has an engaging portion which engages with the engaging members, and when the base portions are connected to a surface of a foundation, a longitudinally extending passageway is formed between the foundation and the mount plate, which passageway allows rain water or condensation to be exhausted therefrom.

Abstract: A torque converter system is provided with two differential gears, the cage of the first differential gear receiving the power from the engine motion input shaft and the output shaft of the second differential gear cage driving the system output shaft. The two differential gears have their four planetaries coupled two by two, wherein:the engine motion input shaft and the system power output shaft are coaxial;the motion is transmitted through each differential gear by planetary shafts which are coaxial to each other and coaxial to the shaft respectively connected to the input cage and the output cage,a mechanism is provided for the staging of fixed ratios between the rotation speeds at the input and the output; a rotation of the converter system output shaft in one direction and in the other; a disconnection of the output shaft in order to obtain a dead point, and the blocking of the output shaft rotation.

Abstract: A switching device comprising a rubber switch, an operating member displaceable between at least two operative positions and a neutral position, and a cooperating member shiftable between the at least two cooperative positions and neutral position in response to displacement of the operating member. The operating member and the cooperating member are held in their neutral position due to the resilience of the rubber switch, while one contact is brought into engagement with a corresponding conductive element in the rubber switch when the corresponding cooperating member is shifted to one of the cooperative positions in response to the displacement of the operating member against the resilience of the rubber switch.

Abstract: An apparatus for guiding the movement of flowing materials, particularly in the operation of emptying grain from a silo. The apparatus of the invention is provided with a path for guiding the flow of material. The path incorporates an aperture which admits air to the path in the direction of the flowing material.

Abstract: An electromagnetic shutter of a camera in which a lens is moved to a focal position by a rotation of a single reversible motor in one direction and the exposure control is effected by the reverse rotation of the same motor in the opposite direction, including a first rotating member which is continuously associated with the rotation of the reversible motor in the forward and reverse directions, a second rotating member which comes into contact with the first rotating member at a specific rotational position to rotate together when first rotating member rotates in the forward direction, a focus adjusting lens barrel which moves in the optical axis direction in association with the rotation of the second rotating member, a lens shutter which is supported by the second rotating member and which is opened and closed by the relative rotation of the first rotating member with respect to the second rotating member, a one-way clutch which allows the second rotating member to rotate only in one direction from its init

Abstract: A still camera has a taking lens and a light emitting device for indicating actuation adapted to project an indication light to a projection area generally coincident with a taking area of a taking lens during actuation of a self-timer.

Abstract: A scan-type optical reader having a laser source used for reading information on a subject such as, for example, a bar code. A deflecting optical member deflects a laser beam emitted from the laser source to the subject to be scanned. In the reader there is a projecting lens displaced between the laser source and the deflecting optical member. A light-receiving member receives the laser beam reflected by the subject matter scanned in order to read the information on the subject matter. An optical member, such as a plane parallel plate, is moved back and forth in the beam of the laser source to change the beam waist of the laser beam.

Abstract: A camera including a variable illuminating angle strobe device, includes a zoom lens which has a group of variable power lenses for stepwise or successively varying the focal length; a light emmitter which has a condenser lens, a light emitting tube and a reflecting shade and which is movable between a received position in which the light emitter is received in a camera body and a projected position in which the light emitter projects from the camera body; and an illuminating angle varying mechanism which varies a relative position of the condenser lens, the light emitting tube or reflecting shade in accordance with the change in the focal length of the zoom lens to vary the illuminating angle, regardless of the position of the light emitter.

Abstract: A rapid thermochemical treatment automatic installation for a charge constituted by parts, intended particularly for the mechanical industry, which includes a plurality of treatment modules such as an induction preheating module, thermochemical treatment modules, a quenching module, a device for carrying out the loading and unloading of the parts stacked in columns and a transfer device of the columns of parts between the various treatment modules.

Abstract: There is provided an electrode device for making contact with a living body surface, comprising an electrical current conductive element configured to have a face with a restricted cross-sectional area and including a current insulating material affixed to the face and an electrical terminal means affixed to the element, a current conductive member having a first and a second face, a current insulating material affixed to the first face and an electrical terminal means located on the second face, and means for supporting the element and the member in proximity to each other and with the insulating material facing in the same direction to form a surface for making contact with selected points on the living body surface. An electronic apparatus incorporating the electrode device is also described.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of (a) depositing a first insulating film by an isotropic deposition method over the entire surface of a semiconductor substrate which is provided with a narrow trench having an opening width in submicrons and a broad trench having an opening width larger than 1 .mu.

Abstract: There is provided a filter element for filtering fluids. The element consists of a body member having at least two openings provided, respectively, access and egress for the fluid and a plurality of fibers of a substantially uniform orientation over at least a portion of their active lengths along which portion at least each of the fibers is disposed in close proximity to its adjacent fibers. The invention also provides a flushable filter device incorporating the above described element.

Abstract: Method for covering with snow artificial slopes for downhill or cross-country skiing, comprising the formation of an ice layer forming the bottom of the run, the on site production of snow by machining said ice layer by forming chips having a predetermined thickness, the keeping of the thickness of the ice layer forming the run bottom, the maintenance of the desired characteristics and quality of the snow. The machine for implementing such method comprises: a raisable curved blade (5) which is front-mounted for smoothing the snow surface; as a tool, a cylindrical cutter (7) provided with teeth and driven by a hydraulic motor (8) and housed in a casing (10) of which the bottom forms a vault and opens at the rear to deposit snow on the ground; as reconstitution means, a water sprinkling ramp (12) arranged under the vault; a comb (14) provided with tracers (25).

Abstract: A safety binding adapted to releasably hold a boot on a ski, including a device for securing the binding to the ski, a movable body with spaced lateral arms pivotably connected to the securing device, a jaw pivotably connected to the body which includes a device for engaging and holding a portion of the boot, and a device, which include a rocking lever, for biasing the jaw and the body towards the ski and for increasing the bias on the jaw in response to upward movement of the body. A platform, adapted to connect a safety binding to a ski, includes opposed side recesses adapted to be attached to the binding, and an inclined projection extending upwardly from the platform which includes a device for slidably engaging a device for biasing the binding toward the ski. A safety binding for a ski boot adapted to retain one end of the boot and to free that end when it exerts a force on the binding exceeding a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A safety binding adapted to releasably hold a boot on a ski includes an apparatus for securing the binding to the ski, a movable body with spaced lateral arms pivotably connected to the apparatus transversely to the longitudinal extent of the ski, and a jaw pivotably connected to the body along a transverse axis. The jaw includes a device for engaging and holding a portion of the boot on the apparatus when the boot is positioned on the apparatus and the binding is attached to a ski. The binding includes a device for biasing the jaw and body towards the ski and increasing the bias on the jaw when the body moves upward. A safety binding, adapted to secure one end of a boot to a ski, includes an apparatus for securing the binding to the ski, a body with spaced lateral arms pivotably connected to the apparatus along a transverse axis, and a jaw pivotably connected to the body along a transverse axis. The jaw includes a device for retaining an end of the boot.

Abstract: A system to display a desired design or a pattern by means of a colored gas flame which is colored using a flame reaction of metallic substances in preparing a resonator to vibrate upon application of an electric current into an ultrasonic wave generator, atomizing a water solution of metallic chloride contained within an airtight container to a mist existing in a space above the water solution by means of the vibration of the resonator by using an ultrasonic wave launched from the resonator, and supplying the mist to a burner nozzle together with a fuel gas that contacts the mist with the flame.

Abstract: An electronic air-fuel ratio control apparatus in an internal combustion engine provided with an oxygen sensor emitting an output voltage in response to an oxygen concentration including the same in nitrogen oxides in an exhaust gas from the engine which controls an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture by a feedback correction-control based on a oxygen sensor having the nitrogen oxides-reducing catalytic layer, the detection of a theoretical air-fuel ratio is performed on a richer side comparing with the output on the detection of a theoretical air-fuel ratio by an oxygen sensor without the nitrogen oxides-reducing function and is not changed even though the nitrogen oxides concentration changes. Accordingly the feedback air-fuel ratio control operates to decrease the amount of nitrogen oxides and to stabilize the air-fuel ratio control.

Abstract: An image organizing unit for use in a laser beam printer. The image organizing unit comprises a character generator which has a plurality of character patterns, each of which has a larger number of pattern elements a long the width direction than that corresponding to a resolving power of the printer. A main-scanning clock pulse frequency is also set to be higher than that corresponding to the resolving power of the printer. With the thus constructed image organizing unit, the printing quality can be improved, particularly for oblique lines of characters, with the resolving power of the printer remaining unchanged.

Abstract: A calculi locator is provided using an ultrasound transducer in combination with shock wave generator. Various means are provided for assuring coincidence of ultrasound obtained images of the calculi, the actual location of the calculi and of the target focal point of the shock wave generator means.

Abstract: A camera includes a zoom lens which has a group of variable power lenses for changing the focal length thereof, a variable illumination angle strobe device which has an illumination angle varying mechanism having a condenser lens, a light emitting tube and a light reflecting shade which are relatively movable in the optical axis direction to change the illumination angle. The illumination angle varying mechanism includes a device for controlling the illumination angle in association with the focal length of the zoom lens and a device for controlling the illumination angle independently of the first mentioned device.