Abstract: The present invention is relative to a video signal transmitting/receiving system in which digital video signals are transmitted from a transmitter (30) to a receiver (50) using a line (9) as a transmission channel. The transmitter (30) converts the video signals to be transmitted to a bit string longer in data length than a pixel making up the video signals, allocates a plural number of the bit strings to a blanking period during which pixel data in the pixel string is not transmitted and, using these bit strings, transmits the same superposed data a plural number of times. The receiver (50) extracts the specified bit strings indicating the blanking period from the received data and performs majority processing on the results of demodulation of the extracted bit strings to decide on output data. This reduces errors in reception of supplementary data to simplify the circuit structure as well as to ameliorate the error rate.

Abstract: Digital audio data which have a predetermined packet structure are divided into units including a predetermined number of bits; each unit of the divided digital audio data is converted into specific data to be encoded; the encoded data are arranged in blanking intervals of video data; the digital audio data are transmitted as well as the video data using a transmission line for the video data, and the video data and the audio data may be simultaneously and favorably transmitted, adopting an existing video-data transmission format such as the DVI standard.

Abstract: Digital audio data that have a predetermined packet structure are divided into units including a predetermined number of bits; each unit of the divided digital audio data is converted into specific data to be encoded; the encoded data are arranged in blanking intervals of video data; the digital audio data are transmitted along with the video data using a transmission line for the video data, and the video data and the audio data are simultaneously and favorably transmitted, adopting an existing video-data transmission format, such as the DVI standard.

Abstract: A switching device having a central actuator and two outer actuators disposed separately from the central actuator on two sides, wherein the central actuator is a cylindrical dial (23) supported rotatably and depressibly by a pair of spindle bearings (26) included in a base plate; the base plate (25) supporting the dial (23) is fitted in a frame; the outer actuators are pivotable in a direction approximately perpendicular to a direction in which the three actuators are arrayed and about a pivot approximately perpendicular to a direction in which operating surfaces of the outer acutators are pushed to press a contact (30) disposed on the frame; and each of the outer actuators has a to-be-supported piece (34) extending to a position where the outer actuator deviates from a lateral edge of the dial (23) in the rotating direction as viewed from the front.

Abstract: A method of forming a pattern in which production of reaction products in the interface between an organic anti-reflective coating and a radiation sensitive material coating is suppressed, the number of residues of an etchable layer formed after etching is decreased, and which provides a etched pattern having high resolution and good dimensional accuracy. According to the method, an etchable layer (11) composed of polysilicon coating an organic anti-reflective coating (12), and a radiation sensitive material coating (13) composed of a chemically amplified resist material containing as acid generators both (a) onium salt compound and (b) at least one of a sulfone compound and a sulfonate compound are formed on a semiconductor substrate (10), the radiation sensitive material coating (13) is imagewise exposed through the mask (14) and developed to form a patterned radiation sensitive material coating (13b).

Abstract: A communication protocol can communicate data among apparatus by a simple procedure efficiently. In an AV center (1) (D2B control unit (1a), for example, a communication mode thereof is set in the master transmission mode, and a packet of one frame is transmitted to a TV (2). In the TV 2 (D2B control unit (2a)), its communication mode is set in the slave reception mode. When a packet of one frame from the AV center (1) is received by the TV (2), a communication between the AV center (1) and the TV (2) is ended.

Abstract: An electroluminescent semiconductor device comprising bodies of conductive and resistive crystalline gallium nitride (GaN) which are successively epitaxially deposited on a surface of a heat-treated sapphire substrate, and a body of insulative crystalline gallium nitride epitaxially deposited on the resistive body.

Abstract: A device for producing information recording disks comprises a stamper mount for placing a stamper thereon, a stamper-fixing shaft for fixing the stamper, and a pressing plate for pressing a backing plate toward the stamper after a liquid resin is injected in the space between the backing plate and the stamper. Injection is effected via a passage made at the center of the stamper mount, and the injected resin is stretched outwardly radially by pressing the backing plate. An ultraviolet ray is irradiated to the stretched resin through the backing plate to harden the resin. An injection valve movably received in the stamper-fixing shaft may be used so that uninjected resin is prevented from being hardened. The injection valve may have a center projection as well as a flange portion at its top so that machining for making a center hole of the disk is unnecessary. The periphery of the flange portion may be wetted by the resin before the backing plate is placed on the flange portion.

Abstract: A heat pump including an indoor heat exchanger, a main outdoor heat exchanger and an auxiliary outdoor heat exchanger provided underneath the main outdoor heat exchanger and connected between the indoor and main outdoor heat exchangers in a closed refrigerant flow circuit. The refrigerant flow circuit includes a compressor and a reversal valve which can be adjusted (1) during cooling operation to direct the hot compressed gaseous refrigerant from the compressor to the main outdoor heat exchanger and thence to the auxiliary heat exchanger acting as a sub-cooler into the indoor heat exchanger for extracting heat from air of the interior of a building and (2) during heating operation to direct the hot compressed gaseous refrigerant to the indoor heat exchanger to supply heat to the indoor air and then to the auxiliary heat exchanger now acting as a defroster for melting a block of ice which may have accumulated under the main outdoor heat exchanger and into the main outdoor heat exchanger.

Abstract: A first and second strip are provided on a dielectric substrate such that one end of the first strip juxtaposes one end of the second strip and the other end of the first strip juxtaposes the other end of the second strip. A capacitor is provided between the one ends of the first and the second strips and a varactor is provided between the other ends of the first and the second strips.

Abstract: A remote controlled electrical circuit apparatus having a master control device, a slave electrical circuit device capable of providing variable electrical circuit parameters in response to a force applied thereto, a force-transmitting mechanism including a transmitting thin strip member, longitudinally spaced transverse sections overlying different sides of the transmitting member and a pair of thin strip guide members rigidly connected to the transverse sections. The transmitting and guide members both have the same thickness and are disposed on the same plane to permit them to have a same radius of curvature when subject to bending. A connector at each end of the force-transmitting mechanism connects a respective end of the mechanism to one of the master and slave devices.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying droplets of colored liquid to a surface includes a chamber divided into a liquid chamber portion and an air chamber portion. The liquid chamber portion includes an intake channel connected to a liquid supply container and a discharge channel through which the liquid is discharged for deposition on the surface. A pressure producing means is in contact with the liquid chamber portion to produce periodic pressure increases in the liquid in the chamber portion to eject it through the discharge channel to the atmosphere in a series of droplets. The air chamber portion includes an intake channel connected to a source of pressurized air and a discharge channel axially aligned with the discharge channel of the liquid chamber portion to allow the air to be discharged therethrough to the atmosphere at a high speed. The liquid droplets are thus discharged through the two axially aligned discharged channels and accelerated by the stream of air along their passage to the surface.

Abstract: In a solid electrolyte capacitor, a metallic cathode collector layer is in direct contact with an electrolyte layer which is formed of densely accumulated manganese dioxide particles of 0.1 - 50 .mu.m. The manganese dioxide layer is formed by performing pyrolysis of manganese nitrate in a semi-closed heating chamber of a radiant furnace to offer a resistance to the outflow from the chamber of gaseous decomposition products. The collector layer is formed by spraying, preferably by plasma spraying, of a metal powder typified by copper powder.

Abstract: A multiple-load induction heating cooking apparatus comprises two or more induction heating commutation circuits each having the junction between its commutating inductor and capacitor manually selectively connected by corresponding one of a plurality of interconnecting switches equal in number to the commutation circuits to form a series-connected LC circuit to a high frequency energy source. The potential at the common point of connection is compared with a reference potential to produce an error signal which is used to control the frequency of the energy source so that the potential at the common point is maintained constant regardless of the magnitude of induction heating loads.

Abstract: An improved coaxial cavity resonator comprises an enclosed conductor having opposed ends, and a center cylindrical conductor in the enclosed conductor. The center conductor has smaller and larger diameter portions having respective first and second characteristic impedances. The smaller diameter portion is in contact with one end of the enclosed conductor and has a larger characteristic impedance than the larger diameter portion.