Abstract: In a method of adjusting the axis of a car on-board radar, especially, a car on-board mono-pulse radar having the function of transmitting radio waves, light or ultrasonic waves, a car axis and an offset axis are set and the mount angle of an antenna offset-mounted on the offset axis can be adjusted with high precision and with ease through a reduced number of process steps.

Abstract: A multiplexing apparatus multiplexes between processing units and a battery unit of a vehicle which are connected to one another by wire harnesses, by grouping a variety of on-board controlled objects into a plurality of neighboring controlled objects and controlling each of respective processing units. The wire harness has electric conductors of which the outer peripheral portion are covered with a first insulating layer, an electric conductivity layer which covers the electric conductors, a second insulating the peripheral portion of the electric layer which covers conductivity layer, a circuit for applying an electric potential to the electric conductivity layer, and a monitor for the electric potential of the electric conductivity layer.

Abstract: A frequency-hopped mobile communication system is disclosed, in which a mobile wireless station automatically becomes a base station in accordance with the surrounding conditions, thereby automatically reconfiguring a communication network. A control frame is generated by at least one master station, and frequencies are hopped by a plurality of slave stations in accordance with the control frame. Each slave station switches the master thereof to be tracked, in accordance with the receiving conditions of the control frame and the relation between the control frame received from the master station and the status of the slave station and decides in which mode, master station or slave station, the slave station is to operate. The cells are thus automatically reconfigured.

Abstract: There is provided a method of curing an optical disc capable of effectively curing the optical disc without generating a warp phenomenon when optical disc is cured while ultraviolet curing resin material is irradiated with ultraviolet. The method of curing an optical disc comprises overlaying first and second resin substrates onto each other by way of an adhesive made of ultraviolet curing resin material, the method further comprising clamping the optical disc by ultraviolet transmittance plates at both sides thereof, and curing the adhesive while being irradiated with ultraviolet from outside of the ultraviolet transmittance plates.

Abstract: A thermal-type airflow meter comprises an airflow meter body and a measuring part. Both of the frame of a housing which accommodates the electronic circuit, and a sub-passage member which has the heating resistor positioned within a sub-passage, are arranged on a metallic base. Further, the frame, the sub-passage member, the metallic base and the cover are each fixedly attached to at least two respective different members. A connector of the housing, the frame and the sub-passage member are formed in a flat shape to form the measuring module. The measuring module is inserted through an insertion hole to locate the heating resistor within the main air passage, and the fixing flange of the housing is fixedly attached to the airflow meter body.

Abstract: The object of this invention is to reduce shift shocks by controlling the driving torque during gear shift changing so that the driving torque is represented by a smooth, ideal waveform.The driving torque calculating means estimates the output shaft torque of the automatic transmission from the engine torque characteristic or torque converter characteristic and, based on the estimated driving torque, generate a targeted torque pattern during gear shift changing. The engine torque control value calculating means calculates the control value for controlling the engine output torque, i.e., an ignition timing correction value .DELTA..theta.ig, so as to eliminate the deviation between the targeted torque and the driving torque estimated by the driving torque calculating means. This ignition timing correction approximates the driving torque to the smooth targeted torque. This configuration realizes the object mentioned above.

Abstract: A slide-driving device for knuckle presses employs a side link affixed at a base end to the knuckle press, and pivoted at its outer end to a junction between links that drive the slide. The side link maintains a very small slope angle for the lower link, which raises and lowers the slide. The small slope angle prevents thrust force from being generated on the slide, and enables performing high-precision molding of products even with extrusion operations, where the molding is started from a position high above the bottom dead center of the slide. In one embodiment of the invention, the base end of the side link is rigidly affixed to the frame of the knuckle press. In a second embodiment of the invention, a bottom dead center compensation device adjusts the position of the outer end of the side link at bottom dead center to compensate for changes in the linkage.

Abstract: The yarn manufacturing process is monitored by detecting a yarn tension while the yarn spun by a spinning device is wound by a winding device. The yarn tension detected by the yarn tension sensor is corrected based on the rate of change in a winding condition such as a traverse speed or a winding speed, and whether the yarn manufacturing process is in a normal condition or not is judged based on the corrected tension. Also, an abnormal judging reference is corrected based on the rate of change in a winding condition, and whether the yarn manufacturing process is in a normal condition or not is judged based on the corrected abnormal judging reference.

Abstract: A D/A-converter-built-in integrated circuit which is provided with counter responsive to a count mode switching signal to switch between a count mode of repeating a count-up operation and a count mode of repeating a count-down operation, a D/A converter for converting a digital signal to analog form, and control means which, when supplied with a test enable signal for starting a test, causes the counter to start its counting and a selector to select and output a digital signal from the counter and then outputs the count mode switching signal to switch the count mode from the one to the other.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve visual picture quality. A picture signal is divided into a plurality of macro blocks and coding is conducted in macro block units. The coding is conducted including quantization process by a quantization portion. A motion compensation portion outputs the quantity of motion, L, in macro block units. An average quantity of motion, L.sub.ave, of a reference picture stored in a frame memory is outputted from a division portion. A control portion compares the quantity of motion L with two reference values relative to the average quantity of motion L.sub.ave and makes a correction to lower the quantization step in the quantization portion for macro blocks whose quantity of motion L is between the reference values. Accordingly, picture quality is improved in part of picture where motion is small and deterioration of visual picture quality is noticeable.

Abstract: The liquid-crystal display control apparatus provided by the present invention comprises a display RAM unit 21 for storing character codes, character-generator RAM and ROM units 22 and 23 for storing character font patterns and a segment RAM unit 24 for storing picture patterns such as marks and icons. When displaying a character, the following display control is carried out. First of all, a character code is read out from the display RAM unit 21 at a display address generated by a display-address counter 25. The character code is then used in conjunction with a raster address output by a line-address counter 26 for reading out a character font pattern from the character-generator RAM unit 22 or the character-generator ROM unit 23. When displaying a picture pattern such as a mark or an icon, on the other hand, the following display control is carried out. Display control information is read out from the segment RAM unit 24 at an address generated by the display-address counter 25.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for a disk texturing operation in which laser pulses are successively bombarded against a delimited surface area on the face of a rotating disk, from an optical laser pulse irradiating means which is put in movement in a radial direction relative to the disk to provide a textured zone of a predetermined width on the disk. A pulsed laser beam from a laser light source is adjusted to an optimum power level for an aimed bump diameter. The laser beam is then transformed into an annular beam of a collimated light flux having specified inner and outer diameters, and the resulting laser pulses are successively bombarded on the texturing zone through an objective optical system condensing said laser pulses into a specified spot diameter thereby to form minute bumps of predetermined shape and diameter uniformly on the surface of the disk.

Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus for exhaust gas clarification apparatus for internal combustion engine diagnoses the individual catalyst independently by an air/fuel ratio sensor mounted before and after the individual catalyst. The individual catalyst is diagnosed by estimating the correlation of the output signals from the air/fuel ratio sensors mounted before and after the individual catalyst. The individual diagnosis operation is performed at distinctive operation regions adequate for their corresponding diagnostic mode. A by-pass route is provided for by-passing the exhaust gas from the upstream catalyst, and a by-pass valve switches the exhaust gas flow into the upstream catalyst or into the by-pass routes. A cross-correlation function calculation valve based upon outputs from air/fuel ratio sensors permits diagnosis of degradation of the overall catalyst.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted emulsion dispersing device including a dispersing nozzle that is opened and closed by an opening/closing device, an emulsion tank that stores emulsion, and an emulsion pump for pumping emulsion from the tank to the nozzle and spraying the emulsion from the nozzle. A control device controls the emulsion pump and the dispersing nozzle so that the rate of emulsion dispersion coincides with a set value. A method of dispersing emulsion using the emulsion dispersing device wherein the control device intermittently disperses the emulsion by intermittently opening and closing the opening/closing device so that the area of dispersed emulsion is continuous from front to back.

Abstract: Inspection apparatuses of an inspection apparatus group are connected to a network and transfer inspected result to a data collection system. The same wafer selected from a specific process is inspected by the different inspection apparatuses and the inspected data are collected and analyzed to calculate a correlation degree among the inspection apparatuses. On the other hand, the course of occurrence of failures in the same process can be analyzed to thereby calculate an average occurrence frequency of failures. An optimum inspection apparatus and inspection frequency are successively obtained on the basis of calculated results of an inter-apparatus correlation degree calculation process and a failure occurrence frequency calculation process, so that a feeding method of wafers to the inspection apparatus group is indicated through an inspection apparatus group management system.

Abstract: A mechanism for chucking a disk with a first and a second roller includes a base plate provided substantially at a right angle to a surface of the disk, and a first and a second rod that are spaced apart and which move along the base plate either toward or away from the disk. A first block is provided which, when the first rod advances or retracts, moves along the base plate and substantially parallel to the surface of the disk, and a first roller is mounted on the first block. A second block is provided which, when the second rod advances or retracts, moves either toward or away from the first roller and the disk, and a second roller is mounted on the second block. A roller position setting mechanism which is secured to the base plate is provided which allows the first rod to move either toward or away from the disk, thereby causing the first block to move along the base plate such that the first roller comes to a position associated with the size of the disk.

Abstract: The communication control device allows a plurality of data items to be transferred to and from external devices, such as a CPU and a memory, via an external bus having a different data bus width in DMA (direct memory access) transfer mode. DMA transfer is controlled by the DMA controller provided in the communication control device. The DMA controller produces a signal indicating that a plurality of data items are continual.

Abstract: A test data is written in an arbitrary point p on a non-linear characteristics portion of a hysteresis characteristics of a piezo actuator by a write head and the written test data is read out by an MR head using the point p as a reference to detect a maximum read-out voltage to thereby obtain a drive voltage of the piezo actuator corresponding thereto. From the drive voltage of the piezo actuator thus obtained, a position of the MR head whose offset is to be corrected is detected. In a magnetic disk certifier, the position of the MR head is corrected by applying the drive voltage corresponding to the maximum read-out voltage to the piezo actuator and the written test data is read out thereby. Thus, the position of the MR head on the piezo actuator becomes that of the write head when the offset correction value is detected and it becomes possible to correct the offset of the MR head with respect to the write head.

Abstract: An apparatus, for measuring a yarn tension, capable of preventing a filament breakage or loop from being generated while eliminating the necessity of adjustment and keeping a desired precision of measurement. The apparatus is constructed by an unit 1 for an application of a vibration to a yarn being moved, an unit 2 for measuring an apparent transverse wave propagation velocity of the yarn, and a unit 3 for calculating a true transverse wave propagation velocity based on the yarn speed and the calculated apparent transverse wave propagation velocity of the yarn. A control of a winding of the yarn in accordance with a propagation velocity of the transverse wave is also disclosed.

Abstract: A charging circuit includes a programable CPU for supplying a constant voltage and a constant current respectively to a voltage control circuit and a current control circuit so as to obtain function of automatically adjust the charging voltage and fix the current. A voltage checking circuit is provided to coordinate with the CPU for keeping watch of charging operation and checking if a battery being charged is normal or not. If the stored electric volume is less than a quarter (indicating the battery is damaged), if the positive and the negative of the charging circuit are connected reversely with those of the battery, if pinchers of the charging circuit contact each other in a short-circuited condition, or if the pinchers fall off the poles of the battery, the CPU stops at once charging operation so as to protect the charging circuit and batteries.