Abstract: In a rolling mill facility having a strip shape detection equipment, making it possible to measure the strip shape of metal strip after rolling easily and with a simple construction. In a rolling mill facility consisting of a single or plural rolling mills 4 having a pair of top and bottom work rolls 2 and 3 that roll strip steel 1 and strip shape detecting devices 5 and 6 installed at least on one side of the inlet and outlet sides of the rolling mill 4, said strip shape detecting devices 5 and 6 consist of a single roller 14 on which the metal strip 1 gets wound, and at least two bearing boxes 9A and 10A on one side or four bearing boxes on both sides with said bearing boxes 9A and 10A supporting the roller in a free-to-rotate manner, and at least two load cells 11A and 12A on one side or four load cells on both sides for measuring the supporting load of each of the bearing boxes 9A and 10A.

Abstract: In the conventional diversity reception, information included in each non-selected signal does not contribute to an improvement in the reliability of communications, and transmitting power has been dissipated to satisfy required communication quality. Owing to the setting of encoding in respective base stations to injection, signals each including the same contents, which are received by a mobile station, are used for increasing the reliability of communications without depending on the number of the signals which were capable of being received by the mobile station, to thereby reduce transmitting power for satisfying required communication quality.

Abstract: A center core 1, a secondary coil 3 wound at a secondary bobbin 2 and a primary coil 5 wound at a primary bobbin 4 are placed concentrically inside a coil case 6 in sequence from the inside of the coil case. One end of the secondary coil 3 is connected to the primary coil side and becomes a low-voltage side, and the other side becomes a high-voltage side due to an induced voltage and used with connection to the individual ignition plugs of the internal combustion engine. The radial thickness of the bobbin at the low-voltage side 3a and the high-voltage side 3c of the secondary coil, each located at the both ends of the secondary coil, is made larger than the radial thickness of the bobbin at the center part 3b of the secondary coil. The radial thickness of an insulating layer 8 between the secondary coil 3 and the primary coil 5 at the low-voltage side 3a of the secondary coil is smaller and the radial thickness of the insulating layer at the high-voltage side 3b of the secondary coil is larger.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display controller device and method which provides for a full and/or partial display with good display quality and/or low power consumption based on the scanning period for an active scan line being dependent upon a number of reference clock pulses. Some embodiments of the present invention include one or more of the following features: keeping the frequency substantially constant for different numbers of active scan lines, allowing change of the frequency due to characteristics of the LCD, displaying gradation with near linear effective voltage characteristics, displaying graduation data with lower power, or displaying a partial or full screen in a mobile device, for example, a cell phone.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device such as a high-frequency power amplifier module, a plurality of amplifying means are formed on a semiconductor chip which is mounted on a main surface of a wiring substrate, and electrodes of the semiconductor chip are electrically connected by wires to electrodes of the wiring substrate. In order to make the high-frequency power amplifier module small in size, a substrate-side bonding electrode electrically connected to a wire set at a fixed reference electric potential is placed at a location farther from a side of the semiconductor chip than a substrate-side output electrode electrically connected to an output wire. A substrate-side input electrode electrically connected to an input wire is located at a distance from the side of the semiconductor chip about equal to the distance from the side of the semiconductor chip to the substrate-side output electrode, or at a location farther from the side of the semiconductor chip than the substrate-side bonding electrode is.

Abstract: In order to occur a collision warning to prevent the collision in accurate by detecting the preceding vehicle or target, a vehicle lane position estimation device comprising a means for measuring a distance between said host vehicle and said preceding vehicle or a oncoming vehicle, a direction angle from said host vehicle, an angular velocity and a velocity of said host vehicle, a means for calculating lateral and longitudinal distance between said host vehicle and said preceding vehicle or said oncoming vehicle, a means for capturing a front stationary object, a means for obtaining movement of the preceding vehicle or position of the oncoming vehicle, and a means to estimate a lane position of said front stationary object from a relationship of the stationary object being captured and the preceding vehicle being obtained and a positional relationship with the oncoming vehicle.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a low-cost combustion state diagnosing system and a combustion state diagnosing method capable of accurately detecting misfires which occur at a low frequency while a multiple-cylinder engine is operating at a high engine speed under a low load.

Abstract: The present invention provides a file system capable of reducing time taken to switch I/O paths, and hiding the process of switching the I/O paths from the user.

Abstract: To perform with high accuracy the analog-to-digital conversion of signals of an air flow meter irrespective of fluctuation of a reference voltage of an analog-to-digital conversion circuit. A thermal type air flow meter including means for measuring an intake air flow rate by heating and controlling a heating resistor and means for performing analog-to-digital conversion of an air flow rate signal of the air flow rate measurement means, which inputs a reference voltage to the analog-to-digital conversion circuit so that the reference voltage can be converted from the analog signal to the digital signal by the analog-to-digital conversion circuit, and the air flow rate signal can be corrected in accordance with the value of the reference voltage. A/D conversion of the air flow rate signal can be executed accurately even when the voltage of the reference voltage source of the A/D converter in an electrical control unit is fluctuating.

Abstract: A mass spectrometer comprising an ionization means for ionizing sample compounds to be analyzed mass spectro-scopically in an atmospheric pressure, a sample solution supply means for supplying a solution containing the sample compounds to the ionization means, means for feeding the ions formed by the ionization means through an aperture disposed in an electrode into a vacuum region and a ion trap type mass spectroscopic means for mass spectroscopically analyzing ions entered through the aperture into the vacuum region, in which an ion decelerating electric field forming means is disposed between the electrode disposed with the aperture and an electrode disposed with an ion entrance opening for entering the ions into the ion trap type mass spectroscopic means for forming an electric field for decelerating the ions, and the ions injected to the ion trap mass spectroscopic means is lowered.

Abstract: A first semiconductor chip (2) is bonded and secured to a second semiconductor chip (3) with a back surface of the first semiconductor chip (2) and a circuit forming surface (3X) of the second semiconductor chip (3) facing each other, and an inner portion of a support lead (6) is bonded and secured to the circuit forming surface (3X) of the second semiconductor chip (3). Such a configuration makes it possible to provide a semiconductor with a reduced thickness.

Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic disk apparatus including a magnetic reproducing head portion, and a magnetic recording head including an upper magnetic core having a end portion and a rear portion. As a resist for a frame which is used for forming the rear portion, a negative resist or an electron beam resist is used, whereby the frame is formed without any adverse effect of halation from a coil insulating film. That is, it is possible to manufacture a magnetic recording head in which the rear portion of an upper magnetic core is not emerged at the face opposed to a medium, and hence to obtain a magnetic disk apparatus exhibiting an areal recording density of 5 Gbit/in2 or more by mounting a magnetic recording/reproducing head including such a magnetic recording head.

Abstract: The I/O terminal positions of a pass transistor logic circuit cell are distributed in the cell, an output amplifier is provided on the end part of the cell, the pass transistor circuit is arranged in the direction in which a potential supply line extends, a signal polarity inverting circuit is laid out in the cell and the arrangement of wells is different from the arrangement of a conventional CMOS logic circuit.

Abstract: The engine disclosed features an engine cylinder provided with an air intake valve, an injector having a fuel injection port which is directed towards an interior of the engine cylinder, and a control unit which is connected to the air intake valve and to the injector, the control unit effecting changes in the air intake amount by controlling the degree of opening of the air intake valve, and, also, controls the air/fuel ratio by changing the amount of fuel supplied by the injector. The engine also has an exhaust valve in the engine cylinder such that the control unit controls the intake valve and the exhaust valve so that an opening period of the intake valve is overlapped with an opening period of the exhaust valve at least when the opening period of the intake valve is maximum. The period of the overlap is longer when a relatively large amount of air is required than when a relatively small amount of air is required.

Abstract: If a speed instruction value is less than a predetermined value, the output current of a power-conversion unit is controlled to be larger than a current value in an ordinary no-load operation, or a frequency instruction value is calculated based on a speed instruction value in place of an estimated speed.

Abstract: An IC card arrangement wherein information which is the standard for transaction conditions such as amount information in an IC card is registered within the IC card, and further included is additional conditional information such as age, sex, etc. information for an owner of the card, or a predetermined contract destination. When a transaction is attempted using the IC card, restrictions and conditions for the owner, etc., are automatically set using the additional conditional information within the IC card.

Abstract: High-grade three-dimensional images can be observed without a bright image of an exit end of an image projector superposed on the three-dimensional images. In a method of reproducing three-dimensional images by a three-dimensional image-reproducing device provided with an image projector and a directional reflective screen for collecting light from the image projector toward a specific position in a horizontal direction and for diffusing the light in a vertical direction, the directional reflective screen and the image projector are positioned with respect to the observer observing the three-dimensional images such that the observer is outside a region traversed by a portion of light rays which enter the directional reflective screen from the image projector, then are reflected by a surface of the directional reflective screen incapable of contributing to the reproduction of the three-dimensional images, and form a mirror image or a conjugate image of the image projector.

Abstract: In order to reduce the consumption of power of an isolator interface and an ADC, it is proposed to operate a calling signal reception or Caller ID signal reception function only with power supplied from the system switch while maintaining the on-hook condition of a telephone. At the time of normal operation, the output of the analogue digital converter is input to an isolator through the isolator interface, and at the time of the calling signal reception or the caller identification information reception, the output of the analogue digital converter is input directly to the isolator.

Abstract: A method of making a gas discharge display panel including the steps of providing a first substrate having a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, laser processing said first electrodes into a rectangular form, forming the second electrodes on the first electrodes and providing a second substrate having a plurality of third electrodes and being opposed to the first substrate.

Abstract: A gamma correction circuit includes a node level setting unit set predetermined level values of video signals from outside, in a case where encoded M-bit (where M is an arbitrary integer) video signals being represented by using predetermined number of sections and the level values of the video signals corresponding to 2n+1 number of nodes (where n is an arbitrary integer) associated with the sections on which the node are specified, and a gamma correction unit for executing gamma correction for the M-bit video signal in accordance with the level values of the nodes set in the node level setting unit, thereby the gamma correction circuit executes gamma correction on various types of display devices.