Abstract: A navigation system and a voice guidance method for carrying out a voice guidance of an intersection on a drive route when the user demands the voice guidance while a motor vehicle is running according to a preset drive route. In response to the output demand of the guidance information through an inputting unit, a control unit obtains a distance to the intersection and an advancing direction in the intersection and further reads out the corresponding sound data from a sound storing unit. This sound data is outputted through a speech synthesizing unit and a voice outputting unit.

Abstract: In order to optimize combustion in a four-stroke spark-ignition engine with direct fuel injection, the conditions of charge flow are improved by providing the top surface of each piston with an essentially U-shaped guiding rib, which is open towards the exhaust side of the combustion chamber, fuel injection taking place into the concave area inside the guiding rib. The nozzle opening of the fuel injection device as well as the ignition source are positioned in the area of the cylinder center, i.e., preferably on different sides of the longitudinal center plane of the engine.

Abstract: A spark plug with an insulating body held in a casing and containing an inner electrode is provided with a force-measuring element for measuring the pressure acting on the spark plug, the insulating body resting against the casing via the force-measuring element when pressure is applied in an axial direction. To prevent the entrance of noise signals an axially-elastic sealing element is provided on a side adjacent to the combustion space, the sealing element additionally lending radial support to the insulating body resting against the casing of the spark plug.

Abstract: In a hydraulic operating mechanism for a convertible top, a pressure sensor (12) is incorporated into a common pressure circuit (P) of the hydraulic cylinders (1 through 4) and connected with a control unit which is connected to the switching elements (V1 through V4) of the hydraulic cylinders (1 through 4), and its output signal in relation to time, together with the preset switching sequences of the individual switching elements (V1 through V4), serves to control the end positions of the individual hydraulic cylinders (1 through 4). The control can thus be incorporated in the operating mechanism without expensive separate end position switches at each hydraulic cylinder (1 through 4) or appurtenant actuation element, simplifying the overall design.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the separation of lactulose from a mixture of lactulose and lactose in the presence of a weak acid capable of reversibly forming a complex with lactulose, by using an electrodialysis equipment including an anode and a cathode compartment separated by a plurality of parallel compartments comprising alternating diluate and concentrate compartments, wherein adjacent compartments are separated from each other by permselective membranes; which process is characterized by:(a) continuously passing an alkaline aqueous solution of lactulose, lactose and said complex forming weak acid through the diluate compartments, each diluate compartment being bound by a bipolar membrane at its lateral side facing the cathode and at its opposite lateral side by an anion exchange membrane, separating said compartment from its adjacent concentrate compartment;(b) continuously passing a carrier fluid through the concentrate compartments, each concentrate compartment being bound at its lateral si

Abstract: A color filter comprising a transparent substrate, more than one transparent, electrically conductive circuit provided on a surface of the transparent substrate, window-shaped, colored coating films on the more than one transparent, electrically conductive circuit, and frame-shaped light-screening coating films interlaced between the window-shaped, colored coating films, the frame-shaped light-screening coating films having a larger film thickness than the window-shaped, colored coating films, which is free from the leakage of light from around each of the colored coating films so that it provides high contrast image and its method of manufacture.

Abstract: The invention discloses a connection device for the electric connection between the poles of accumulators which comprises: a connecting electric cable (2) ending at each of its extremities with a conductor ring (3), the hole (4) of which lodges a connecting screw (5) connecting said cable to an electric pole (6) of the accumulator; an insulation coating made of plastic material (1), wherein the part having a smaller diameter is sealed with a lid and the part having a larger diameter rests on the surface (9) of the lid of the accumulator and having a first annular wall (11) in form of a cylinder of the same diameter as the head of the connecting screw (5) having its base on the surface of the conductor ring in contact with said head (52) of the connecting screw (5); a lid (90) for sealing each insulation coating.

Abstract: The invention implements a run-length file format with improved space-sav qualities. The file starts with a header in ASCII format and includes information such as the file format, maximum X and Y values, and a color palette. The binary raster data include at least one byte for each pixel run to indicate the color selected from the color palette and the run length. Concatenation flags demarcate groups of bytes. According to a first embodiment, each run is indicated by a variable-length sequence of bytes with the color in a fixed-length field and the repeat number in a variable-length field. According to a second embodiment, the color and run length are given in separate byte strings, each having a variable length. The file also includes line offset pointers to permit navigation of the file without decompressing it and thus to facilitate operations such as panning and zooming.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescence device having a light emitting layer or a light emitting layer and a charge transport layer disposed between a pair of electrodes at least one of which is transparent or semi-transparent, the light emitting layer comprising a conjugated polymer having a repeating unit represented by the general formula (1):--Ar.sub.1 --CH.dbd.CH-- (1)where Ar.sub.1 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 14 carbon atoms or a nuclear-substituted group in which the aromatic hydrocarbon group is substituted by one or two selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbon groups having 1 to 22 carbon atoms and alkoxy groups having 1 to 22 carbon atoms. According to the present invention, the use of a polymer intermediate of the conjugated polymer or the conjugated polymer soluble to a solvent as a light emitting material, a charge transport material or a buffer layer to an electrode enables an EL device having a large area to be easily made.

Abstract: There is disclosed a liquid-crystal projection apparatus having a lamp device which has such a sealed or closed construction that a sound, produced upon bursting of a light-emitting tube, is suppressed and that the scattering of glass pieces is prevented. In this liquid-crystal projection apparatus, a lamp is sealed by a support member, supporting a concave mirror having two notches and an outer casing and a flat glass panel and an air passage is formed in the support member. The lamp is releasably attached to a lamp fixing member and two open portions are formed in this lamp fixing member and a cooling fan is fixedly connected to one of the two open portions.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing a solid polymer electrolyte electrolyte fuel cell which exhibits higher performances by sufficiently and uniformly contacting the solid polymer electrolyte with a catalyst to increase the reaction area inside the electrode. The method comprises the steps of dispersing a carbon powder supporting a noble metal catalyst in an organic solvent to obtain a dispersion, mixing the resulting dispersion with an alcoholic solution of a solid polymer electrolyte to produce a colloid of the solid polymer electrolyte and simultaneously to obtain a mixed solution in which said colloid is adsorbed to the carbon powder, applying the mixed solution on one side of a gas-diffusion layer to produce an electrode, and pressing the resulting electrode on at least one side of a solid polymer electrolyte membrane to integrate them.

Abstract: (1) Naphthyloxyaetic acid represented by the compound of the formula (I): ##STR1## and non-toxic salts thereof, (2) process for the preparation of the compounds represented by the compound of the formula (I) described hereinbefore,(3) PGE.sub.2 antagonist or agonist containing the compound represented by the compound of the formula (I) as the active ingredient.The compounds represented by the compounds of the formula (I) can be adapted to medicines which possess an inhibitory effect of uterine contraction, an analgesic action, an inhibitory effect of digestive peristalsis, a sleep-inducing effect as PGE.sub.2 antagonists, and an uterine contractile activity, a promoting effect of digestive peristalsis, a suppressive effect of gastric acid secretion, hypotensive activity as PGE.sub.2 agonists. The compounds bind to PGE.sub.2 receptor and have an activity of antagonist or agonist against the action thereof.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a comparator in which a travelling time relating to the printing state on a unit medium by a printer is compared with a preset time when a facsimile data receiver receives a facsimile reception request on a way where the printer is printing or preparing for printing data received by a computer data receiver so that the comparator outputs a reception mode change request; and a controller for shifting a reception mode into a facsimile data reception mode in accordance with the reception mode change request.

Abstract: An optical indicator for determining the activity of an ion in a sample is provided with an ionophor which is capable of selectively binding the ion to be measured. The ionophor has at least two functional groups that can form an electron donor acceptor (EDA) complex, the complex bond being broken up by the attachment of the ion to be determined. This will lead to a change in at least one of the measurable optical properties of the indicator in dependence on the activity of the ion to be measured.

Abstract: There is provided a new and useful combination of a bottle stopper and stopper-remover comprising cylindrical stopper means (10) of resilient material, the stopper means (10) having top, bottom and side surfaces and a deep well (14) extending into the stopper (10) from the top surface (16); a hollow sleeve (30) in and substantially conforming in cross-section to the well (14), the sleeve (30) having top and bottom ends and inner and outer surfaces; a series of protruding interference members (36) on the outer surface, at least one detent member (46) on the inner surface (43,44) spaced a predetermined distance from the top and bottom; a pair of openings (47) through opposite sides of the sleeve (30) adjacent the detent (46) on a side of the detent (46) remote from the top end; a pair of longitudinal slits (45) extending from respective ones of said openings (47) to a position spaced from said top end; and puller means (50) for insertion into the sleeve (30), the puller means (30) comprising a top gripper membe

Abstract: Disclosed in this invention are the phenylpyrimidine derivatives represented by the general formula I: ##STR1## the alcohols represented by the formula: ##STR2## usable as starting material for the preparation of the phenylpyrimidine derivatives, and the processes for preparing such derivatives. The phenylpyrimidine derivatives of the formula I according to the present invention have very excellent properties as a liquid crystal compound and can be utilized effectively for the production of liquid crystal elements.

Abstract: In assembling a stator being divided into a pole portion and a yoke portion and provided with a winding on the insulated pole portion, the yoke portion is forcibly enlarged outwardly, whereafter the tip ends of the projections of the pole portion are fitted in the recesses of the yoke portion. The two opposing surfaces of each recess are made parallel to each other and the bottom surface of the recess is made parallel to the outer peripheral surface of the yoke portion. The thickness of a portion existing between the bottom surface and the outer peripheral surface is not exceeding 3% of the diameter of the yoke portion and is not less than the thickness of an iron plate of the laminated iron core, whereby the press-fitting load applied when the pole portion is fitted into the yoke portion enlarged is reduced. Thus, even a large-sized stator iron core can readily be assembled and an electric motor of improved properties and enhanced output obtained.

Abstract: A reactive dye composition comprising an anthraquinone compound(I) of the following formula: ##STR1## wherein Z represents --CH=CH2 or --CH2CH2Z.sup.1 in which Z.sup.1 represents a group splitable by the action of an alkali other than a carboxypyridinio group and an anthraquinone compound(II) of the following formula: ##STR2## and a method for dyeing or printing cellulose-containing fiber materials using the same.