Abstract: A device for applying and removing threaded caps to and from threaded filler necks of containers includes a centering device, a rotatable grasping member mounted within the centering device for grasping a cap and turning the cap to thread it relative to the filler neck, a driver within the centering device for rotating the grasping member, and a resilient arrangement in a frame to resiliently hold the centering device relative to the frame and permit the centering device to move axially and radially relative to the frame. The frame and the centering device have sufficient clearance between them to permit axial and radial movement of the entering device relative to frame.

Abstract: A driving circuit for a five-phase stepping motor includes five phase-windings each having a starting end and a terminating end in which each of the starting ends is successively connected to each of the terminating ends to form a ring, pairs of switching elements connected in series to each other and each pair of which includes a connection therebetween which is connected to each of junctions between the phase-windings and in which one of each pair of the switching elements is connected to the positive pole of a driving power source and the other of each pair of the switching elements is connected to the negative pole of the power source so that the switching elements are turned on and off to connect the junctions to the positive or negative pole of the power source or not to connect the junctions to any pole of the power source, and the junctions connected to the positive pole and the negative pole of the driving power source are changed when the stepping motor is driven so that various controls are attaine

Abstract: In the disclosed method, an X-ray mask is made by forming a semiconductor wafer having a first coefficient of expansion, doping a surface of the wafer, metallizing the wafer, metallizing a washer shaped ring having a lower coefficient of expansion, bonding the ring to the doped surface at the periphery of the wafer at or above room temperature, and processing the wafer by removing the undoped substrate and depositing metallic material on the wafer.

Abstract: An integrated circuit for a CD player includes an EFM decoder which converts an EFM signal inputted from a compact disc into symbols. Subcode data which includes first, second and third areas is outputted from the EFM decoder and stored in a first shift register. Data in the first area of the subcodes can be wholly stored in a memory circuit which is controlled on the basis of data in the second area of the subcodes and a signal applied from an external source, for example, a microcomputer by an R/W control circuit. Data in the third area of the subcodes is applied to the memory circuit as a writing address and address data inputted from the microcomputer is applied to the memory circuit as a reading address. One of data read from the memory circuit and data of the subcodes is selectively outputted from a selector to a second shift register which outputs the inputted data in response to clocks from the microcomputer to the same in a bit-serial fashion.

Abstract: A ballistic missile about to re-enter the atmosphere is destroyed by explosively dispersing for large quantities of inherently-light C.sub.60 molecules in clouds in the path of the missile. The sharp edges of the molecules scar the missile and subject it to destruction from the heat or re-entry.

Abstract: The disclosed method and apparatus measures radial deviations along the axial length of a work roll with a number of axially spaced displacement detectors and at least three axially spaced motion detectors mounted ona detector mount that moves axially along the roll. A calculator responds to the motion detectors to determine errors in the motion of the mount to correct the output of the detectors and sums the deviators to generate overall deviations.

Abstract: There are disclosed a dry cleaning method and apparatus using organic solvents in which two types of solvents melted to each other, one of which is a solvent (for example, perchloroethylene or 1.1.1 trichloroethane) having large washing power and the other of which is a solvent (for example, fleon R113 or terpene) having high safety for clothes can be simultaneously possessed and mixed to a predetermined mixture ratio in the range in which the respective characteristics of both the solvents do not interfere with each other by a fractionating device of the solvents, whereby almost all materials for clothes can be cleaned.With the structure, a single dry cleaner can clean almost all material for clothes and can increase the generality greatly as compared with the prior art cleaner.

Abstract: A lumber door and manufacturing method thereof which is constructed by perforating the plurality of the pipe inserting holes at each of the unit lumbers in the direction of transverse and thickness with the predetermined diameter, depth and location, inserting the plurality of the metal pipes into the pipe inserting holes, and assembling the unit lumbers and the pipes one by one with spreading over the adhesive resin to both of the surfaces of the pipes and to the contacting surfaces so as to be adhered each other to form a single integrally formed lumber door, and pressing at once the plurality of the lumber door assembly piled up one above one within a press machine for about two hours, and forming the engraving patterns on the surfaces of the lumber door within the region where pipes are not arranged, so that a single integrally formed lumber door can be prevented or excluded from the bending, twisting and cracking phenomena due to the changes of the temperature and the humidity of the environment, thereby

Abstract: A connector backshell adaptor comprises a body portion (1) and a rotatable coupling nut (2) at one end. The body portion is provided with annular flanges (5,6), a sheathing (7) being clamped in the zone (4) between the flanges by means of at least one steel spring (8) which provides a constant pressure 360.degree. around the body portion. Where two springs are provided these may be wound in either the same or opposite directions. In the constructions described the adaptor is re-usable, since the sheathing can be removed by releasing the constant pressure provided by the spring or springs.

Abstract: In an automatic focusing circuit of a video camera, automatic focusing operation is performed by a focus evaluating value formed in response to a video signal obtained by an image sensing circuit (4). A first focusing motor control circuit (15) controls the rotation of a focusing motor (3) so that a focusing lens (1) is once fixed in the position where the focus evaluating value takes the maximum value. A second focusing motor control circuit (17) changes the focusing motor (3), by a predetermined very small amount, to determine the slope of the focus evaluating value, which change is repeated until inversion of the slope, that is, the maximal point is detected. As a result, the position of the focusing lens is corrected at the maximal point of the focus evaluating value. When the correction amount exceeds a predetermined value, first automatic focusing operation by the first focusing motor control circuit (15) is resumed.

Abstract: An address generating circuit (13) generates a reading address for reading a buffer memory (16) so that so-called P and Q codes for a CD-ROM which have parameters i and j can be decoded. The reading address is obtainable based on a formula RDA=H+2L+p, where H is a starting address of one block not inluding synchronous signal or pattern, L is a symbolic location of a symbol, and p is a sign for designating that the symbol is included in a LSB byte plane or an MSB byte plane. A first full adder (25) generates the symbolic location L based on the parameter i and j with various constants being given from a constant generator (23) so as to give the symbolic location L to a second full adder (21). The starting address H is given from a writing address pointer (12a). The second full adder adds H, 2L and p to apply the reading address to an address bus.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatic identification and couting of a large number of returned or collected used linens at once by recognizing the shapes of markers that are opaque to X-rays and attached thereto. By numerically processing the shadow images of the markers projected onto an X-ray detector, a many kinds of linens can be identified and counted according to classification instantaneously.

Abstract: In a testing or inspecting apparatus for the detection of objects, which have differently formed surfaces and are moved relative to the testing apparatus, the object (12) to be tested is illuminated in a plane at right angles to the main movement direction (arrow 14) with substantially an identical intensity over a narrow zone extending over the width of the object. A detection device detecting the reflected brightness and/or color values of the object, responding to changes to the detected values in the illuminated plane, supplies an information signal, which is interpreted by a computer (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A foot switch operated by a driver of a vehicle such as a taxicab actuates a circuit which disables the indicating lamps in the taxi's roof light and energizes distress signaling lamps in the roof light so that it flashes on and off. The flashing roof light calls attention to the cab and informs others that the taxi is in a distress situation.

Abstract: A layer of conductive plastic material can be made to exhibit relatively high conductivity with a relatively small amount of electrically conducting particles included in it if the layer is extruded in a lamellate form. Particularly, sublayers having thicknesses of the size of the conducting particles or less being the randomly distributed particles in one sublayer into close proximity with those in adjacent sublayers. Consequently, relatively short conducting paths through the layer are provided. The laminate layer is formed by an extrusion die with a plurality of dividers adapted to divide the extrudate into sublayer prior to recombination for the extrusion of the final layer. The laminate layer can be coextruded with electrically insulating layers to fabricate electrical components such as capacitors.

Abstract: The telephone index has a plurality of selection keys and a spring-operated drawer witha stack of index cards, which is held in the index housing by means of a locking device in such a way that on operating a selection key the drawer locking means is released and consequently the drawer with the selected index card and the index cards below it is extended, while the index cards located above the selected card are held back in the index housing by means of a card hold-back device released by the operated selection key and is constructed in such a way that the unlocking of the drawer on operating a selection key takes place by a drawer position change in such a way that in its front region the drawer is lowered counter to the tension of a spring element and simultaneously the drawer locking means is released on the upper edge of the housing opening for the drawer, so that the drawer can be extended, the drawer locking means comprising a stop cam shaped onto the upper edge of the front drawer terminal ledge and

Abstract: A method for fabricating a write-after-read magnetic head assembly employs rectangular wafers sliced from a block of abrasion-resistive material. The block is prepared, prior to slicing, with pairs of opposed slots extending inwardly from anterior and posterior surfaces. The slots are adapted to include inserts of magnetically soft material. The inserts at the anterior surface also are of high cost abrasion-resistive materials necessary for digital recording systems but represent a relatively tiny amount of such materials. Pairs of wafers are juxtaposed in a manner to form a core equivalent structure and two such wafer pairs are mounted in an assembly which defines write after read heads for two tracks in a manner to preserve azimuth and avoid crossfeed.

Abstract: In the disclosed device, a pair of magnets supported in the ends of a C-shaped yoke bias an armature into one of the two rotary positions. A short pulse to a coil about the center of the yoke induces a short term magnetic field that supplements the polarity at one end of the yoke so as to either maintain the armature in its biased position or swing the armature to its other biased position. A subsequent pulse, producing a field in the opposite direction, returns the armature to its first position. In each case, the magnets retain the armature in its biased position even after the pulse stops. The armature pivots between portions of the yoke magnetized by the same magnet.

Abstract: The turn-on delay of a gas laser is significantly reduced by creating a region of higher electric field intensity between the plasma discharge-confining region of the laser and the laser anode. This is accomplished by creating one or more regions of higher conductivity along the surfaces of the laser tube structure. In one embodiment, a conductive strip is placed upon the surface of the capillary tube containing the plasma discharge. In other embodiments, a second electrode for concentrating the electric field in the preferred region of the tube is included.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing integrated circuits using holographic techniques by interference between an input beam and a reference beam generated from laser sources. A holographic image of the object formed on a mask window, is formed on recording emulsion coated on a glass slab by means of interference between the input beam which has passed through the mask and the reference beam which is reflected from the surface of a prism in contact with the glass slab. In order to reproduce the holographic image on a silicon slice which replaces the mask, the reference beam is replayed in the reverse direction through the prism such that the interference between the input beam and the replayed reference beam causes the holographic image to be created as a real image in the silicon slice.