Abstract: It is an object to obtain a semiconductor device capable of changing a delay time of an output signal of a PLL circuit with respect to an external clock signal after installed in a system. An external clock signal is inputted to an input terminal (1.) An address value is inputted to an input terminal (3.) A decoder (9) selects one of a plurality of delay times in a voltage-controlled oscillator (8) according to the address value. The phase of a signal outputted to an output terminal (2) is delayed with respect to the external clock signal at the input terminal (1) by the delay time selected. Accordingly, it is possible to change the delay time of the output signal of the PLL circuit with respect to the external clock signal after installation in a system.

Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injection valve for injecting fuel by opening/closing a fuel flow path, includes a valve seat, a valve element for opening/closing the fuel flow path formed between the valve seat and the valve element, and a drive unit having at least one coil for driving the valve element. The drive unit includes a first magnetomotive force generating device using the at least one coil and a second magnetomotive force generating device, the first magnetomotive force generating device and the second magnetomotive force generating device being composed so that the first magnetomotive force generating device generates and raises its magnetomotive force at a larger rate of change in time in comparison with the second magnetomotive force generating device. A valve open state is held by the second magnetomotive force generating device which uses a smaller current flow in comparison with the first magnetomotive force generating device.

Abstract: A method of driving the liquid crystal display device includes the steps of preparing a first drive voltage circuit formed by plural first output circuits having a latch circuit for latching display data and being connected to the latch circuit and outputting LC driving voltages of positive polarity and second output circuits having a latch circuit for latching display data and being connected to the latch circuit and outputting LC driving voltages of negative polarity arranged alternately, and a second drive voltage circuit formed by plural first output circuits having a latch circuit for latching display data and being connected to the latch circuit and outputting LC driving voltages of positive polarity and second output circuits having a latch circuit for latching display data and being connected to the latch circuit and outputting LC driving voltages of negative polarity arranged alternately in opposite polarity.

Abstract: A weft removal device removes a waste weft using a catch cord yarn without a shed motion. The device includes a spindle having a cling part formed at its one end portion for entangling a thread to a cord, and a bracket supporting the spindle. The device further includes a weft pusher, a weft pusher carrier, and a housing for containing the pusher and the carrier. The housing is positioned on a weft guiding plate having a plurality of reed holes. As the spindle is rotated, the waste weft clings to the cling part of the spindle and is entangled with the catch cord yarn. The entangled weft and yarn is collected in a box.

Abstract: The electric power breaker for breaking the electric power is placed on the midpoint of the electric power line from the battery power supply, and the electric power line is extracted from the electric power breaker. In addition, the electric power supply terminal is placed on the midpoint on the electric power line, from which the electric power is supplied to the individual electric loads. The electric power distribution and the electric power supply operation to the electric loads are controlled by the multiplex communication. A semiconductor device having a self protection function is used as the switching device for supplying the electric power. The electric power line covered by the electric conductive material is arranged in a loop topology so as to start from the connection point to the battery and pass through the designated positions in the vehicle and return to the battery.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a ball valve element includes a recess forming step in which a press die is used to form two stem recesses in an outer peripheral surface of pipe material cut to a prescribed size, the stem recesses being formed at positions that are symmetrical with respect to the center axis of the pipe material, and a ball-shaped element forming step in which the pipe material in which the stem recesses have been formed is placed in a split die having substantially spherical forming surfaces, with the openings in the pipe material facing the spherical forming surfaces of the split die, and pressure is exerted by the split die to uniformly and symmetrically deform the pipe material into a sphere.

Abstract: A device and method for positioning a resin-sealed lead frame that includes semiconductor devices and resin for sealing the semiconductor devices on the lead frame. A break unit is provided for moving the resin-sealed lead frame to a break table. The break unit includes a vacuum suction portion to hold the resin-sealed lead frame during movement and to release it when the resin-sealed lead frame is brought into a receiving opening associated with the break table. The receiving opening is defined by a plurality of guides with the outer tip portions of the guides providing the receiving opening as a space larger than that occupied by the outer configuration of the resin-sealed lead frame. The guides have a slope to position the resin-sealed lead frame onto the break table after it is released in the receiving opening. The break unit further includes push down pins for pushing down and breaking off unwanted extra portions of resin from beneath the resin-sealed lead frame.

Abstract: A short protection circuit is provided to periodically supply a reset pulse, turns on an electric power element only during the period of the reset pulse, and decide the presence and absence of a short circuit under the condition that the electric power transistor is forced to turn off when a field coil is short-circuited. In this short portection circuit, while the field coil is short-circuit, the reset pulse cycle is reduced, and hence the number of times the resetting is made per unit time is reduced, thus preventing the electric power element from generating excessive heat when the field coil is short-circuited.

Abstract: The apparatus for reading a luminescence pattern is equipped with a stage on which the sample to be read is mounted. A photoreceptor disk is installed in the lower part of the stage and scans and condenses light from the luminescent pattern of the sample at positions determined by the rotation of a rotary plate. A transport mechanism causes the stage and the photoreceptor disk to undergo relative motion. An optical guide part guides the light from the luminescent pattern to a photoelectric converter. The optical guide part may include mirrors or one or more optical fibers. The photoelectric converter converts the light into an electrical signal. A controller controls how scanning is performed by the photoreceptor disk and transport mechanism and generates a read scanning position signal. A data processor performs data processing by converting the electrical signal into a digital signal and obtains a scanning position signal from the controller.

Abstract: The vacuum-heat processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a vacuum container forming a vacuum chamber; a hopper into which an object to be processed and a processing liquid adjusted to a first temperature are thrown, the hopper being arranged above and communicating with an intake port formed in an upper end portion of the vacuum container; a sealing member arranged between the hopper and the intake port of the vacuum container to keep the vacuum chamber airtight; a transport conveyor installed in the vacuum chamber below the intake port to receive at one end side thereof the object flowing down the hopper from the intake port through the sealing member and carry it to the other end side; a processing liquid showering nozzles installed in the vacuum chamber immediately above the transport conveyor to shower a processing liquid adjusted to a second temperature over the object on the transport conveyor; and a processing liquid tank containing a processing liquid adjusted to a third tempe

Abstract: A combustion state detection system for an internal combustion engine in which a timing signal associated with the rotation of the crankshaft by a predetermined angle is detected and corrected, and a combustion state parameter is calculated from the timing signal. Further, the deviation of the calculated combustion state parameters for normal combustion is detected between the cylinders, and the correction amount of the timing signal is calculated. A reference cylinder is determined by the means for detecting the deviation. The deviation is detected between the combustion state parameter for normal combustion of the reference cylinder and the cylinder opposed thereto and the combustion state parameter for normal combustion of the remaining cylinders. The correction amount is calculated in such a manner as to control the correction amount to not more than a predetermined value or to zero from the detected deviation.

Abstract: In an apparatus of detecting a combustion state of an internal combustion engine, a combustion parameter value of the engine is calculated on the basis of measurement data concerning an engine speed, the value of the data concerning the engine speed is corrected with a correction value, the correction value is calculated to make the calculated combustion parameter fall within a predetermined range, and the correction value is set to a predetermined value when a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A parallel data base management system with a data base divided into a plurality of external memory units is disclosed. A control CPU, upon receipt of a request for access to the data base, decides whether the access request is for storing or searching a record. For a record storage request, the control CPU determines an external memory unit to store the record using a hash function. In the case of a record search request, on the other hand, all the external memory units are searched in parallel without using the hash function thereby to obtain the desired record. The hash function is altered upon addition of an external memory unit.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory having a redundancy circuit includes a judgment device for receiving outputs of first ROMs for storing a defective address therein and judging whether or not a defective memory cell and a spare memory cell to replace the defective memory cell belong to the same memory cell, and also includes a timing adjustment circuit for changing the timing of control signals applied to memory mat control circuits according to an output of the judgment device. When the defective and spare memory cells belong to the same memory mat, the timing of the control signals is made fast.

Abstract: A method of laminating disc-shaped substrates which is capable of automatically bonding an adhesive agent to the disc-shaped substrates very effectively and continuously. The method of laminating disc-shaped substrates includes the steps of preparing an adhesive sheet body comprising a plurality of adhesive agents each covered with a release paper and bonded to the adhesive sheet body, peeling off the release paper from the adhesive agent, positioning each adhesive agent over a lower disc-shaped substrate, pressing the adhesive sheet body to bond the adhesive agent to the lower disc-shaped substrate, peeling off the adhesive sheet body from the lower disc-shaped substrate, placing an upper disc-shaped substrate on the lower disc-shaped substrate, and pressing the upper disc-shaped substrate against the lower disc-shaped substrate to integrally laminate the disc-shaped substrates.

Abstract: In a wireless LAN system, each wireless terminal device determines whether or not the wireless terminal device has entered into a wireless LAN domain established by a base station, and if it has entered, transmits an entry terminal identification information update control frame including identification information of its own device to the base station at a predetermined time interval. The base station receives the entry terminal identification information update control frame from the wireless terminal device, stores in a storage the identification information of the wireless terminal device entered into the wireless LAN domain established by its own base station, and when it receives an information frame from a wired transmission line connected to its own base station, relay-transmits only the information frame to the wireless terminal device having the identification information thereof stored in the storage by referring the information stored in the storage.

Abstract: A film for a multiple bag which film is a multiple film comprising at least two sheets of film put one on another and having scattered along its both-side edge portions spot-fused portions by which the at least two sheets of film is partially united.

Abstract: Arranging a pair of temperature control units on both sides of gel 1 and arranging light-transmitting slit 134 on one of the elements, irradiation of an excitation beam over the gel 1 and signal detection are practiced through the slit 134. Introducing dry air onto the slit part, mildew occurrence is prevented on the detecting part. Detecting the power level applied to the gel and calculating the temperature of the temperature control units so that the gel temperature might be a predetermined temperature, on the basis of the detected power level, thereafter carrying out the feedback control of the power level, the gel temperature can be controlled appropriately and strictly during electrophoresis in an automatic fluorescent electrophoresis system, so that high-speed analysis can be done highly reproducibly at a higher voltage applied even by SSCP.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to generate a vector or data from inputted drawing data interactively by suppressing the input cost.When an unknown process occurs in the system during data processing, an inquiry to a user is generated in the case of interactive operation. However, when drawings are handled, the number of inquiries to a user increases and the system operability lowers inversely. The present invention executes the drawing recognition method by cooperation and and competition of a multi-agent on the basis of the basic property of a figure such as adjacent relation. When blurring or a problem portion such as in interruption part or a junction part appears during recognition of a drawing, the linkage relation of line paths is automatically decided by making the recognition agent adjacent to the problem portion cooperate and compete. An inquiry to a user is not made. By doing this, vector data is obtained.The input cost of figure information in a data base can be reduced remarkably.

Abstract: A process is provided for the destruction of organohalogen compounds, such as methyl chloride, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, etc., by mixing the organohalogen compounds with a heated carrier gas, such as nitrogen, argon or air, and either steam or water to form a mixture; supplying the mixture to a catalyst, such as titanium oxide/tungsten oxide, to decompose the organohalogen compounds into halogens and hydrogen halides, such as chlorine, hydrochloric acid, fluorine and hydrofluoric acid; conducting the halogen and hydrogen halide contaminated gas through a bent path, created by a baffle that prevents the entry of mist or droplets into the catalyst chamber, into a cooling section where the halogen and hydrogen halide contaminated gas is sprayed with water to cool the gas to a temperature low enough to prevent the formation of dioxines. An alkaline agent, such as sodium hydroxide, can be added to the cooling water to neutralize the halides and hydrogen halides.