Abstract: A lithography pattern data generation method of this invention includes steps of dividing a predetermined area where said plural design data are arranged, which corresponds to an area where design patterns are to be formed, into plural partial exposure areas each in the shape of a stripe with a width corresponding to a deflection width of an exposure beam; extracting, from the plural design data, design data each falling within any of the plural partial exposure areas as a first design data group and extracting design data each extending over two or more of the plural partial exposure areas as a second design data group; generating first lithography pattern data of each of the plural partial exposure areas from the design data belonging to the first design data group; and generating second lithography pattern data of each of the plural partial exposure areas from the design data belonging to the second design data group.

Abstract: An air conditioner which can be installed easily at a corner of a room is presented. This is an air conditioner which can be installed at a corner between a first wall and a second wall of a room. It has a frame body having an upper part, a lower part, and side parts, a blower for circulating air, a heat exchanger for exchanging heat with the air, an air diffuser for blowing out the air into the room, a space positioned at an edge of the corner, and a piping connected to the heat exchanger. The connection port of the piping is placed at least at one of (a) a position projecting into the space and (b) a place near the space. This is an installation tool for installing an air conditioner main body having a first side surface and a second side surface at a corner of a first wall and a second wall of a room. The tool includes a first installation board having a first base part and a first stopping part, and a second installation board having a second base part and a second stopping part.

Abstract: A time code generator for a time code recording apparatus, in which, when recording video signals at a speed of N times, a corresponding time code is generated. The time code value is incremented from the initial value of time code at N frame steps, the time code value skipped at this time is interpolated, and the incremented time code value and the interpolated time code value are arranged and issued in a specified sequence.

Abstract: The present invention provides an encoder and a decoder of digital picture data, and the encoder/decoder can realize high precision transform with less quantity of transferred data, when a parameter of the digital picture data is not an integer but has numbers of digits, to which the Affine transformation can be applicable. The encoder/decoder comprises the following elements: (a) picture compression means for encoding an input picture and compressing the data, (b) coordinates transform means for outputting coordinate data which is obtained by decoding the compressed data and transforming the decoded data into a coordinate system, (c) transformation parameter producing means for producing transformation parameters from the coordinates data, (d) predicted picture producing means for producing predicted picture from the input picture by the transformation parameter, and (e) transmission means for transmitting the compressed picture and the coordinates data.

Abstract: A fluorescent lamp includes an arc tube 2 made of a glass, a holder 3 made of a heat-resistant resin for supporting the arc tube, and a case 5 having a base 6 and combined with the holder. The glass of the arc tube has light transmittance of 70% or less with respect to a wavelength of 340 nm, 50% or less with respect to 330 nm, and 15% or less with respect to 310 nm. The glass suppresses vaporization of the resin of the holder due to heat and ultraviolet ray emitted from the arc tube, thereby preventing adhesion of scattered resin to the inner surface of a globe of a lighting fixture.

Abstract: A disk loading apparatus is provided which stops disks, even if the disks have different diameters, when disk center holes have been ejected to the substantially same positions out of an apparatus body during the ejection. The disks can be pulled out without soiling a recording surface of the disk. One disk-pass detecting switch detects a pass of the last end of each disk and discriminates sizes of the disks. In addition, a rotation time of a roller after the detection of the pass is controlled depending on disk diameters.

Abstract: The invention has an object to reduce the impedance and to improve the responsiveness at high frequencies in an electrolytic capacitor having an conducting polymer layer as the cathode. A cathode current collector is directly joined with the surface of the dielectric of a valvular metal porous body for anode using an conducting polymer layer but not through various binding layers (for example, a carbon layer and a silver layer) thereby reducing the impedance. A cathode current collector is disposed adjacent and opposite to a porous valvular metal foil for anode. This structure ensures that the collecting area is enlarged. In this case, a cathode current collector may be directly joined with the surface of the dielectric of a valvular metal porous body for anode using an conducting polymer layer but not through various binding layers thereby reducing the total impedance.

Abstract: A plurality of liquids, the flow of each controlled by a volumetric flowrate controller, are mixed in a mixer to form a final precursor that is misted and then deposited on a substrate. A physical property of precursor liquid is adjusted by adjusting the volumetric flowrate controllers, so that when precursor is applied to substrate and treated, the resulting thin film of solid material has a smooth and planar surface. Typically the physical property is the viscosity of the precursor, which is selected to be relatively low, in the range of 1-2 centipoise.

Abstract: An angular rate sensor driving circuit shortens a start-up time without increasing a maximum level of amplification factor of a variable gain amplifier beyond a predetermined degree An output signal of a first amplifier is input to a positive input terminal of a third amplifier, a first resistor is inserted between a negative input terminal of the third amplifier and an output terminal of the third amplifier, a voltage having a potential in the vicinity of ½ of a power supply voltage is impressed on the negative input terminal of the third amplifier through a capacitor, a second resistor and a switch are connected in series between the output terminal of the third amplifier and an input terminal of a second amplifier, and the switch is activated by an output of a level judgement circuit.

Abstract: The invention provides a detector to detect pseudo-contour noise that appears when gradation display is performed in the subfield method on the display apparatus such as a plasma display panel. The invention also provides a display apparatus which makes use of the detector. The detector detects the probability of pseudo-contour noise appearance as a noise quantity (MPD value), which comprises an MPD calculator to calculate the MPD value, an exclusion area detector to detect an area in which diffusion processing is not performed; and a subtractor to remove an exclusion area from an area for which the MPD value has been determined. The display apparatus comprises the detector and a noise diffussing device to reduce appearance of pseudo-contour noise based on the MPD value.

Abstract: A dielectric resonator of the invention includes a cavity having a first threaded hole; a dielectric block provided in the cavity; a coupling device coupled with an electromagnetic field produced in the cavity; a frequency tuning member having a screw portion which is spirally engaged with the first threaded hole of the cavity, a distance between the dielectric block and the frequency tuning member being changed by rotating the frequency tuning member, for tuning a resonance frequency of the cavity depending on the distance; and fixing means for fixing a relative positional relationship between the frequency tuning member and the cavity, wherein the fixing means prevents the frequency tuning member from rotating due to a frictional force caused between the first threaded hole of the cavity and the screw portion of the frequency tuning member, the fixing means including a lock nut having a second threaded hole which is spirally engaged with the screw portion of the frequency tuning member.

Abstract: A highly reliable and high-speed data transmission is made by using an FH or MFSK mode as suitably selected according to the usage of channels. When a reception signal is entered into a receiver through a transmission line, (i) a signal processing unit supplies the spectrum intensity values of carrier frequencies, (ii) a channel detection unit controls the phase of a time slot based on the spectrum intensity values, selects the MFSK or FH modulation mode, and supplies reception code data corresponding to detected carrier frequencies, and (iii) a decoder supplies reception information data based on the reception code data.

Abstract: A rotary compressor comprises a cylinder having an inner space and a groove, a roller sliding along the inside of the inner space of the cylinder, a vane penetrating through the groove, and refrigerant. The groove penetrates through the outside and inner space of the cylinder. The vane slides on the roller, and the vane also slides in and out of the groove. The vane includes stainless steel formed by sintering of powder material, a nitrogen diffusion layer disposed on the surface of the stainless steel, and a compound layer of iron and nitrogen disposed on the surface of the nitrogen diffusion layer. The stainless steel has a plurality of fine pores formed by sintering of powder material. The plurality of fine pores have a porosity of 15% or less.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided with a component feeding member for feeding electronic components having lead wires in a tape-bonded state, an insertion head for separating the electronic components fed from the feeding member from the tapes and inserting to holes of a board, and a fixing head facing the insertion head via the board for cutting and folding the lead wires of the inserted electronic component in the board thereby fixing the electronic component to the board. AC servo motors operating independently of each other are individually set in the insertion head and the fixing head, which are controlled by a device so as to be synchronous with each other.

Abstract: A highly reliable and high-speed data transmission is made by using an FH or MFSK mode as suitably selected according to the usage of channels. When a reception signal is entered into a receiver through a transmission line, (i) a signal processing unit supplies the spectrum intensity values of carrier frequencies, (ii) a channel detection unit controls the phase of a time slot based on the spectrum intensity values, selects the MFSK or FH modulation mode, and supplies reception code data corresponding to detected carrier frequencies, and (iii) a decoder supplies reception information data based on the reception code data.

Abstract: A selective caller receiver which can facilitate easy setting of a test mode without using an exclusive jig and also easy management and adjustment of a receiving unit. In the selective caller receiver, a memory for storing therein test mode setting data is provided and turning ON of a control switch causes the data to be read out from the memory. When a test mode is judged to be present on the basis of the read-out data, a battery saving operation is released and the receiving unit is continuously operated to set the receiving unit in the test mode. When a test mode is judged not to be present, the receiving unit is operated in its battery saving mode.

Abstract: A fluorescent lamp ensures categorical color perception for surface colors of at least red, green, blue, yellow and white, while improving the luminous efficiency in scotopic vision and mesopic vision or in a wide visual field, wherein dominant radiation is obtained from a phosphor which has peak emission wavelength in a wavelength region from 530 to 580 nm and a region from 600 to 650 nm, flux ratio of a phosphor having peak emission wavelength in a wavelength region from 420 to 530 nm is set to 4 to 40% of the total flux radiated in the dominant wavelength band, correlated color temperature of the lamp light color is set to 3500 K to ∞ and Duv (Duv=&Dgr;uv×1000, &Dgr;uv is the distance of color point from Plankian locus on the CIE 1960 uv chromaticity diagram) is set within a range from 5 to 70.

Abstract: Information about an exclusive operation among a plurality of blocks and interconnection information about a sharable resource within each of these blocks are defined. Based on the sharable resource information and the inter-block exclusive operation information, a resource sharable among the blocks is extracted. Module specifications, in which information about interfaces, power dissipation, operation models and top-level hierarchy interconnection is stored, exclusive operation information describing an exclusive operation rule among the blocks, and prioritized function information used for preventing respective functions from being enabled at the same time are input to an generator, which is an automatic generating tool.

Abstract: A rewriteable type optical recording medium for recording information has an information recording area for recording information and a recording/reproduction condition recording area for recording at least one recording/reproduction condition to be used in a recording/reproduction apparatus and at least one set of manufacturer information for identifying a manufacturer of a recording/reproduction apparatus which uses the at least one recording/reproduction condition. A plurality of recording/reproduction conditions and a plurality of sets of manufacturer information, each one the plurality of sets of manufacturer information corresponding to one of the plurality of recording/reproduction conditions, can be recorded on the rewriteable type optical recording medium and overwritten on the rewriteable type optical recording medium.

Abstract: Speech input supplied by the user is evaluated by the speaker verification/identification module, and based on the evaluation, parameters are retrieved from a user profile database. These parameters adapt the speech models of the speech recognizer and also supply the natural language parser with customized dialog grammars. The user's speech is then interpreted by the speech recognizer and natural language parser to determine the meaning of the user's spoken input in order to control the television tuner. The parser works in conjunction with a command module that mediates the dialog with the user, providing on-screen prompts or synthesized speech queries to elicit further input from the user when needed. The system integrates with an electronic program guide, so that the natural language parser is made aware of what programs are available when conducting the synthetic dialog with the user.