Abstract: Disclosed is a thermal print head in which heating resistance elements are arranged with high density. The thermal print head comprises a head substrate, formed of a single-crystal silicon wafer, and a print driver circuit element. The print driver circuit element, which is formed by doping the head substrate directly with an impurity, is composed of an MOS FET. A FET used to form the single-crystal silicon substrate has high electrical mobility, and serves to improve the operating speed of the thermal print head. Each heating resistance element, whose base material is polycrystalline silicon, is adjusted to a predetermined resistance value by being subjected to diffusion of an impurity. The resistance elements are formed on a protuberance which is formed on the head substrate. Thus, the portion of an insulating protective film which corresponds to the protuberance projects outward from the rest, thereby ensuring contact with a printing sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a chord progression by connecting or chaining chord patterns. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus includes as a source of musical knowledge, a database of musical structure of various music pieces and a database of chord patterns. In operation, from the musical structure database, a multi-leveled structural feature of a music piece is selected and determined level by level, either automatically, semi-automatically, or manually, through a dialogue conducted between the apparatus and the user. Thereafter, chord patterns are chosen one at a time from the chord pattern database in a similar dialogue manner. A concatenating module controls the concatenation of the chosen chord patterns to be commensurate with the characteristic musical structure previously determined, thereby to provide a chord progression with musicality, naturalness and well-balanced unity and variety.

Abstract: In an electronic still camera employing a CCD, an automatic exposure control and an automatic focusing control are carried out by utilizing an image signal derived from CCD to photograph a subject. A liquid crystal display unit is provided within a viewfinder. A designation is performed on a subject image to be automatically controlled for the exposure and focusing operations by utilizing a frame displayed on the liquid crystal display unit. The automatic exposure control and automatic focusing control are executed with respect to the subject positioned within the frame displayed on the liquid crystal display unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a double-sided wiring substrate wherein fine wiring patterns having a low resistivity are formed on both surfaces of a substrate. An insulating substrate having upper, lower, and side surfaces is prepared. The inner wall of a through hole formed in the insulating substrate or a side edge portion of the substrate is used as the side surface. A thin metal film is formed on the entire surface of the insulating substrate including its side surface by a deposition. The insulating film is covered with a resist film except for a wiring pattern region to be formed, and plating is performed. When the resist film is removed, the thin metal film is exposed outside the wiring patterns formed by the thick metal film. Etching is performed for a short period of time to remove a surface layer of the thick metal film and exposed region of the thin metal film.

Abstract: Partial forms constituting parts of a slip or the like are stored in a printing apparatus side. A partial form corresponding to the type of data output from a computer is read out, and the data is overlaid with the partial form to be printed. One slip is formed by combining a plurality of partial forms. Therefore, a slip can be formed in accordance with the number and type of data, and data can be properly fitted in a form and printed. A large variety of types of forms can be printed in accordance with the type or the like of data to be printed.

Abstract: An electronic wrist watch having a sound producing unit and an electrooptic data display unit, has a single flat plate member a lower surface of which is contacted with a user's hand, and a case member which is attached to one end of the plate member so as to be freely opened and closed over the plate member. A switch input section for data input is mounted on an upper surface of the plate member. An analog display unit for displaying time with hands, and a sound emitting section are mounted on the upper surface of the case member so as not to overlap each other. An electrooptic data display unit for displaying data is mounted on the lower surface of the case member. A sound producing unit and an electronic circuit for driving the analog display unit and the sound producing unit are housed in the case member.

Abstract: An input waveform signal is converted in an A/D converter into a digital signal to be written in a waveform memory under control of a tone generation control unit. The written digital signal is read out from the waveform memory with a designated delay time. The input waveform signal and the digital signal read out from the waveform memory are converted in a D/A converter into analog signals which are fed through VCFs and VCAs so as to be sounded. Further, in the above arrangement the timbre and tone volume controls are done independently for the individual waveform read/write channels through VCFs 12a to 12d and VCAs 13a to 13d. Thus, it is possible to obtain a further effected sound.

Abstract: A liquid crystal projector includes a liquid crystal panel, a light source for illuminating the liquid crystal panel, a back-projection type screen having on its surface a lenticular lens in which many vertical or horizontal stripe lenses are arranged in parallel, a projection lens for enlargedly projecting light transmitted through the liquid crystal panel onto the back-projection type screen, a light-falling polarized plate arranged between the light-falling plane of the liquid crystal panel and the light source, for transmitting the light from the light source, and oscillating in a predetermined direction, to fall on the liquid crystal panel, and an image-forming polarizing plate arranged between the light-outgoing plane of the liquid crystal panel and the projection lens or in a projection path from the projection lens to the screen, to allow the liquid transmitted through the liquid crystal panel, and oscillating in a predetermined direction, to pass through, thereby forming a light image.

Abstract: A vibration of a string is picked up by a pickup to be converted to an electric signal. A pitch extracting circuit obtains pitch data expressing a pitch or a duration of the string vibration from the electric signal. A musical tone generating circuit generates a musical tone having a corresponding tone pitch in accordance with the pitch data. An envelope extracting circuit extracts an envelope from the electric signal detected by the pickup and supplies a signal expressing the envelope to a multiplier. Furthermore, a signal expressing the musical tone is supplied to the multiplier to be multiplied by the signal expressing the envelope. Thus a musical tone having a controlled envelope determined by the extracted envelope is generated.

Abstract: A paging receiver includes a receiver main body and a card-like ROM. The receiver main body includes a receiver circuit for receiving a paging signal, reception controllers for ON/OFF-containing the receiving circuit on the basis of reception control data, address comparators for checking whether a calling signal received in accordance with a reception control signal is assigned to the receiver, a CPU for fetching a message following the calling signal determined to be assigned to the receiver by the address comparators, a message memory for storing a received message, and a display for displaying the message stored in the message memory. The card-like ROM is detachably mounted in the receiver main body, stores at least a part of the reception control data, and supplies the reception control data stored therein to at least one of the reception controller and the address comparator while it is mounted in the receiver main body.

Abstract: An improved tape automated bonding is disclosed. A heater head employs a heat conducting member and a bonding tip member. The heat conducting member formed of a material, such as molybdenum or tungsten, has a U-shaped contour which comprises a pair of halves and an interconnection for generating bonding heat by undergoing high frequency electric current. The bonding tip member is bonded to the interconnection of the conducting member. The tip member is formed of material, such as diamond or cubic boron nitride, which is higher in resistivity and thermal conductivity than the conducting member.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument can execute a musical performance with two timbres mixed together by operating a single key, for example. Of the two timbres, a master timbre is set in normal mode and is stored in a first memory, while a slave timbre is selected in tone mix mode and is stored in a second memory. Each timbre can be altered as desired. To alter the master timbre, timbre switches are operated after the mode is temporarily changed to normal mode. To alter the slave timbre, the timbre switches are operated in tone mix mode. When the tone mix mode is set, this electronic musical instrument can permit a player to easily alter tone parameters such as the volume, pitch and attack delay time of each timbre.

Abstract: An elongated X-shaped prism comprising an X-shaped combination of four transparent plates and one central rectangular solid block member. The four transparent plates are disposed in an X-shaped state and each has one side edge adhered to a corresponding side-face of the central member, the width of each side-face of the central member being equal to thickness of each of the four transparent plates. The central member has a refraction index which is higher than the refraction index of the transparent plates. One side surface of the transparent plates is coated with an optical layer.