Abstract: A method of operating an electron microscope under a high temperature and the electron microscope are provided. The electron microscope can stably set and efficiently heat a sample to observe and measure high temperature physical properties such as phase transformation, phase transition and the like required for development of a heat resistant material. In the method of operating the electron microscope and the electron microscope, a sample to be observed is set so as to position at a central hole of a double spiral flat filament, the detachable heating stage is fixed to the heating holder using screws of a pivot, and the heating stage is tilted by vertical movement of a crank-shaped arm. The heating stage and the arm are insulated from each other by an insulating body, and current from a power source is conducted by a conductor wire to heat the filament.

Abstract: A high voltage semiconductor device is provided with a p layer which forms a main pn-junction, a plurality of p layers which surround the p layer in a ring form, a ring-like n+ layer which further surrounds those p layers, forward field plates extending in the peripheral direction and reverse field plates extending in the inside direction, the field plates being in contact at a low resistance with the p and n+ layers and reaching the surface of an n- layer through an insulating film, the area of the field plates being not less than one half of the n- surface. This arrangement is particularly effective in stabilizing the blocking voltage of a high voltage semiconductor device which is used in a severe environment, and is very effective in improving the reliability of a high voltage control unit.

Abstract: The mechanical seal for a compressor comprises a support member fixed to a rotary shaft for rotating therewith, an annular rotating slide member consisting of hard materials and being fitted to the support member by shrinkage, and a stationary slide member exerting pressure against an end surface of said rotating slide member. In order to prevent damage by shrinkage stress and a displacement of said rotating slide member, said rotating slide member comprises at least one peripheral recess formed by a portion of the periphery of said rotating slide member having a smaller outer diameter than the rest of the periphery and said support member comprises an inwardly extending fitting portion engaging the peripheral recess.

Abstract: To increase the capacity of usable memory of a parallel processing computer system as a whole and effectively utilize the address space without waste, a variable-length Global/Local allocation field is provided in a fixed-length address. When the field is locally set, the address is used as an address of a local memory area to which the local processor refers. When the allocation is globally set, the remaining address is a variable length logical processor number (this number is converted into a physical processor number) and a variable length offset address, for specifying a global memory area belonging to a processor out of the global areas of memories of a group of some of the processors, which global memory can be referred to by all the processors of the groups. A memory access interface executes memory access to the local or global area of the memory of the local processor or to the global area of the memory of another processor.

Abstract: A magnetic storage apparatus includes a magnetic head having sliding front and rear pads on its sliding surface. The front pads are tapered toward their front ends and the height of the front pads are higher than the height of the rear pad. The tapered front pads are coated with a thin film. The magnetic pad is provided with a total of three pads, two pads on its front side and one pad on its rear side. The sum area of the pads is within a range of 0.0003 to 0.02 mm.sup.2. A recording and reproducing operation is performed with the front pads and the rear pad concurrently kept in contact sliding with the surface of a recording medium. A reliable contact sliding is thus performed with the pads kept in contact with the recording medium. The magnetic head reliably operates with its recording and reproducing component kept in close vicinity with the recording medium. Therefore, a reliable magnetic head and a magnetic storage apparatus employing it are provided.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a memory portion and a logic circuit portion formed with a same semiconductor substrate comprising a first logic circuit block, a second logic circuit block disposed in an area different from an area in which the first logic circuit block is disposed, and a pair of memory blocks oppositely disposed so that the second logic circuit block comes in between. Data stored in the pair of memory blocks are transmitted to the second logic circuit block for processing via a memory peripheral circuit provided on the second logic circuit block. A result of the data processing is transmitted to the first logic circuit block or an external device via an input/output circuit provided in the second logic circuit block.

Abstract: A magnetic domain controlling film for controlling the magnetic domain of a magnetoresistive film is formed by the patterning technique on a lower insulating film formed on a lower shield film. The magnetoresistive film is formed on the magnetic domain controlling film for converting a magnetic signal from a magnetic recording medium into an electrical signal using the magnetoresistive effect. A resist pattern is formed by the lift-off method on the magnetoresistive film in such a fashion as to leave a region of the magnetoresistive film corresponding to the tracks of the magnetic recording medium. A magnetoresistive element is formed by ion milling leaving only the portion of the magnetoresistive film corresponding to the tracks.

Abstract: An optical recording medium includes grooves and lands on a substrate in which prepits are disposed on an extension of the boundary between a groove and a land such that they are located uniformly on both sides of the center line of the groove or the land and that they do not exist on the both sides of any specific position of the center line of the groove or the land. Through this, address data would be obtained with ease and tracking offset would be decreased.

Abstract: A load sharing method for a parallel computer system having a computer group including a plurality of computers and an operation management mechanism which is a computer for managing the operation of the computer group.

Abstract: By receiving a key signal for descrambling before reproducing a program signal so as to record the scrambled program signal as it is and descramble and view it by a decoder at the time of reproducing or by reading and reproducing the record, a signal recording/reproducing method and apparatus therefor wherein a possibility that a program which is distributed for specified viewers with payment is viewed by the public at an optional location without payment is eliminated and on the other hand, a viewer can view a broadcasted program freely at any time he wants is provided.

Abstract: A batch erasable single chip nonvolatile memory device and a method therefor of using the same provided with memory cells which are adapted to execute an erase operation by ejecting an electric charge, accumulated at floating gates by a program operation (including a pre-write operation) carries out, in sequence a first operation for reading memory cells of an erase unit and carrying out a pre-write operation on those nonvolatile memory cells at the floating gates of which electric charge is not stored, a second operation for carrying out a batch erase operation at a high speed for the nonvolatile memory cells of said erase unit with a relatively large energy under a relatively large erase reference voltage, a third operation for carrying out a read operation of said all erased nonvolatile memory cells and a write operation on those nonvolatile memory cells which are adapted to have a relatively low threshold voltage, and a fourth operation for carrying out a batch erase operation at a low speed for the nonvo

Abstract: A voltage of an intensity corresponding to information to be recorded is applied to a recording medium which comprises a film containing a charge generating material. The film is sandwiched between two electrodes. Electric charges are accumulated in the recording medium upon application of the voltage so that information is recorded. When light is irradiated to the recording medium, the stored charges are converted into photo-current. The recorded information is read out by detecting the photo-current. When the electrodes are short-circuited, the recorded information is erased.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes an electron gun for generating and focusing three in-line electron beams, a deflection device for deflecting the three electron beams in the horizontal and vertical directions, and a phosphor screen which luminesces when the electron beams impinge thereon. A pair of electrodes of a plurality of electrodes form a final main lens between single openings provided in opposing ends of the pair of electrodes, each of the single openings being common to the three in-line electron beams, and a size of an aperture for a center electron beam of the three in-line electron beams in at least one of the first grid electrode and the second grid electrode is smaller than that of an aperture for a side electron beam of the three in-line electron beams in the at least one of the first grid electrode and the second grid electrode.

Abstract: A virtual machine system capable of considerably improving its performance by preventing a variation of time slice values of logical processors and strictly ensuring the concurrent running of a plurality of logical processors belonging to the same virtual machine, in the configuration and management of virtual machines of a multi-processor structure having a plurality of logical processors. A method of controlling a virtual machine running time in the virtual machine system includes collectively storing time slice values of logical processors in a virtual machine to which the logical processors belong, and making a virtual machine control program for supervising and controlling the logical processors to store and manage the time slice values.

Abstract: A fluid jet nozzle has a water chamber accommodating therein pressurized fluid, an orifice communicating with the water chamber and contracting the fluid from the water chamber, a throat communicating with the orifice and through which the fluid from the orifice passes, a multiplication chamber communicating with the throat and receiving the fluid from the throat for multiplying cavitation, and a diffusion chamber receiving the fluid from the multiplication chamber for diffusing the fluid.

Abstract: A multiplex conversion unit is configured with the functions required for a specific network to which it is applicable more economically. Each OC-12IF circuit pack includes a switch for performing time slot assignment (TSA) between a plurality of high-speed transmission lines accommodated in the OC-12IF circuit pack and at least a low-speed transmission line accommodated in at least a DS3IF circuit pack. An ADM circuit pack includes a switch for performing time slot interchange (TSI) between the high-speed transmission lines and the low-speed transmission line. In an application to a network requiring the TSI function, the switch of the OC-12IF circuit pack performs only the add/drop multiplex (ADM) operation between the signals input/output by the high-speed transmission lines and the ADM circuit pack, and the switch on the ADM circuit pack performs the TSI operation.

Abstract: In an engine system, an ignition timing is changed in accordance with operation parameters of an engine. The engine system includes an exhaust gas clarifying equipment with a catalyst to clarify the specified components in the exhaust gas, catalyst temperature detecting unit for estimating or detecting the temperature of the catalyst, torque fluctuation detecting unit for detecting the state of fluctuation of an output torque of the engine, and ignition timing calculating unit for calculating the final ignition timing on the basis of the detected results of the torque fluctuation detecting unit and the catalyst temperature detecting unit.

Abstract: In order to provide a semiconductor device of high reliability which suppresses a degradation of the fatigue strength of solder connection portions and warping of a tape-type wiring substrate forming the cause of the inferior contact between solder bumps and an external substrate, and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device, a frame-like member is disposed on the inner peripheral part of the tape-type wiring substrate so as to relax constraint on the thermal deformation of the tape-type semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A virtual computer system of a multi-processor arrangement reduces the overhead of XPTLB processing. The processing of a PTLB (translation look-aside buffer processing) is controlled using IP dispatch information about virtual computers that is stored a hardware share area (HSA). A control unit (CU) has a group of bit-map BIM (broadcast IP mask) latches which correspond to the configured IP's and in which the IP dispatch information is set upon purging of a translation look-aside buffer. Through AND gate logic provided in the CU, whether or not an IP is to receive a PTLB request is determined on the basis of the information set in the BIM masks. Specifically, the AND gates compute the logical AND of each of the BIM masks with the control line of a XPTLB REQ from an IP being dispatched by a particular virtual computer.