Abstract: In a sterile environment, metered amounts of a pasta product are sterilized by means of steam, cooked in salted water, freed of all the cooking water, and finally packaged within sealed containers. The end product is a dish of long-term preservation cooked pasta for direct consumption, it having organoleptic properties quite comparable with those of a freshly prepared dish of pasta.

Abstract: For reduction in occupation area, there is provided a programmable logic array circuit fabricated on a seminconductor substrate comprising (a) a plurality of true signal lines arranged in rows, (b) a plurality of complementary signal lines each intervening between adjacent two of the true signal lines, (c) a plurality of product term lines arranged in columns, (d) a first source of constant voltage supplying a first constant voltage level to the product term lines, (e) a second source of constant voltage producing a second constant voltage level different from the first constant voltage level, and (f) a plurality of active device areas each located under that area defined by one of the true signal lines, one of the complementary signal lines adjacent to aforesaid one of the true signal lines and adjacent two of the product term lines, and each of the active device area has two field effect transistors gate electrodes of which can be connected to either of the true signal line and the complementary signal line

Abstract: A multi-articulated robot is disclosed which comprises a base; a first arm rotatably supported to said base; a second arm rotatably supported at a forward end of the first arm; a work shaft provided at a forward end of the second arm; belts provided below the first arm and the second arm, respectively; a motor provided at the base for driving the work shaft; a hollow shaft fixed to the base, the hollow shaft rotatably supporting the first arm, and the motor being fixed to the hollow shaft; a rotary shaft rotatably supported in opposition to an output shaft of the motor, the rotary shaft projecting into a space defined below the hollow shaft; a declerator interposed between the rotary shaft and the output shaft of the motor and a pulley provided at a projecting end of the rotary shaft, one of the belts being laid around the pulley. The belt laid around the pulley is of the endless type.

Abstract: In a constant voltage generating circuit, a predetermined voltage outputted by voltage applying means connected between first and second power source terminals is simultaneously applied to the control electrode of a first MOS transistor of a first polarity and the control electrode of a second MOS transistor of a second polarity which are provided complementarily, and a voltage obtained by subtracting the threshold voltage of the first MOS transistor from the potential at the control electrode of the first MOS transistor is applied to the control electrode of a third MOS transistor of the second polarity while a voltage obtained by adding the potential at the control electrode of the second MOS transistor to the threshold voltage of the second MOS transistor is applied to a fourth MOS transistor of the first polarity, so that each of the third and fourth MOS transistors is operated in the critical state between the conductive state and the non-conductive state, whereby positive or negative noise voltage inclu

Abstract: Multiple wood working machine having a base supporting a work bench having retaining members for the pieces to be worked and for a pattern piece, and an articulated parallelogram work frame carrying working tools for the pieces and a feeler member for the pattern piece.The work frame is constituted by two adjacent half-frames connected to the base and to an upper support structure by means of an articulated arm system including two symmetrical lateral linkages and a central linkage which is inverted relative to the lateral linkages.

Abstract: An iron core for a stationary induction apparatus, such as a transformer or reactor, comprising an alternate laminate of thin amorphous magnetic strips (21a to 21d) and silicon steel sheets (11a to 11d). It is low in electrical loss, and high in workability.

Abstract: A rubber composition having excellent fracture properties and cut growth resistance is disclosed, which consists of 10-95 parts by weight of polybutadiene having a content of cis-1,4 bond of at least 70% and an average chain length of 1,4-sequence of 110-450 and 90-5 parts by weight of at least one diene rubber.

Abstract: A manuscript reader comprises an amorphous silicon film sandwiched between at least one transparent electrode and a plurality of metal electrodes formed on an insulating substrate. If the reader includes a plurality of sensors, the detection circuitry can vary a comparison threshold level during the course of one scanning operation.