Abstract: The invention provides an optical disk device capable of preventing noise from being generated when removing the optical disk from a clamp portion clamping the optical disk. The optical disk 2 is fixed horizontally on a clamp portion 4 of a turntable 3 capable of being moved in an arc. A mounting surface 10A of a tray 10 on which the optical disk 2 is placed is inclined. Thereby, when the optical disk 2 is moved in an arc and pressed onto the tray 10 to be detached from the clamp portion 4, the mounting surface 10A is inclined so that the optical disk maintains contact with the mounting surface 10A of the tray when being detached from the clamp portion 4, by which the generation of noise caused by the optical disk 2 being lifted from the tray 10 and falling on the tray 10 by its own weight can be prevented.

Abstract: The invention provides a display device having an improved exterior appearance by covering a bracket including a display unit with a back cabinet, capable of having a stand attached thereto and removed therefrom without taking off the back cabinet. A display unit 1 is fixed inside a cabinet 5 composed of a front cabinet 5A and a back cabinet 5B. An opening 28 is formed to the back cabinet 5B having an inner diameter D1 greater than an outer diameter D of a head portion 25A of a fixing screw 25. Thus, the stand 15 can be disassembled from the display unit 1 without taking off the back cabinet 5B, by removing a disengaged fixing screw 25 through the opening 28 to the exterior.

Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of mounting a recording/playing device of a DVD etc. on a casing of the liquid crystal display device easily at low cost, the device capable of having the recording/playing device and recording/playing device manipulation buttons etc. mounted easily thereto by changing a part of the design of a mounting cover attached to a casing of the liquid crystal display device. A mounting cover 14 for fixing an LCD device 13 inside a casing 5 of a liquid crystal television receiver 1 is provided, the cover 14 provided with LCD manipulation buttons 10 for manipulating the LCD device 13.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for preventing a half mirror used as a decorative panel of an electronic device from being burned by charged static electricity and having deteriorated appearance, by providing a practical method for providing a ground connection of the half mirror using a soft elastic conductive member to prevent the half mirror from being damaged and to enable easy connection with a rough size accuracy. An electronic device comprises a conductive chassis and a half mirror constituting at least a portion of a decorative panel formed on a front face thereof, wherein an elastic conductive member compressed between a vapor deposited layer formed to an inner surface of the half mirror and a contact surface of the chassis is arranged so that a static electricity charged in the half mirror is conducted via the elastic conductive member toward the conductive chassis.

Abstract: To provide an electronic device with a built-in disk device including a disk device and disk device control substrate arranged side by side capable of reducing problems caused when a flexible flat cable connected to a pickup section which is a movable section touches other members inside the device and reducing a load applied to a connection of the flexible flat cable. In an FFC 23 provided with a slack portion 23a to absorb the moving distance of a pickup section 11a, the slack portion 23a is provided with a bending section 23b and bending section 23c bent in mutually opposite curving directions and the bending section 23b is stopped by an L-figured stopper 40 to thereby prevent a connection 12a from being affected by sliding of the pickup section 11a (load caused by the movement of the FFC near the connection).

Abstract: To provide a digital recording and reproducing device and a method of displaying information on the digital recording and reproducing device capable of easily comprehending recorded contents to be previewed by displaying information on a plurality of recorded contents recorded in a large-capacity recording medium such as a hard disk and optical disk through accurate and simple operations. A digital recording and reproducing device 1 records recorded contents information such as titles and recording dates and times of contents recorded in a recording medium 70 into an information storage area, reads the information and stores in an internal memory 42, etc., and when reproduction of recorded contents which has been suspended is resumed or at the time of switchover between a plurality of recorded contents of the recording medium 70 or the like, the digital recording and reproducing device 1 reads the recorded contents information of recorded contents to be reproduced from now from the internal memory 42, etc.

Abstract: The invention provides a printed circuit board to be subjected to dip soldering process using a dip soldering jig, the board capable of discharging gases generated by the volatilization of flux thereby preventing solder defects, and a method for manufacturing the printed circuit board. Gas venting holes 12 are formed in areas adjacent to lead wire welding components 11 on the forward side of the feeding direction of the printed circuit board in the dip soldering process (board feeding direction 13) and within the area of an opening 23 formed to the dip soldering jig 20. Thereby, gases generated during the dip soldering process are discharged efficiently.

Abstract: When designing and arranging an electronic part such as a PC card connector on a wiring board using a CAD device, it is an object of the present invention to provide a condition display method for a wiring board design with excellent practicability capable of efficiently arranging other electronic parts lower than the height of a gap produced between the card connector and the underlying wiring board in the gap area. The method includes the steps of reading shape/size data of a PC card connector or the like producing a gap in an underlying part from an electronic parts catalog thereof, inputting gap area data and height limits which falls within an allowable height range in the gap area in a CAD menu of the wiring board design CAD device, thereby partitioning and displaying mountable areas with a height limit on a drawing of the wiring board with lines indicating the areas and displaying height limits of electronic parts that can be arranged in the mountable areas.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a plasma display panel which can improve screen quality, by dividing a rear substrate into a plurality of regions and by varying a structure of cells in each region, thereby preventing luminance from being reduced according to a process property and an electric property of a panel.

Abstract: The invention provides a device for suppressing roaring of pet that enables the pet owner to control the action of the pet according to circumstances, with reduced power consumption and low running cost. A receiver 15 detects the barking of a dog, and based on the audio signal, it is set to receive mode for a predetermined period of time. When the pet owner hears the barking and determines that it is an unnecessary bark, he/she manipulates a transmitter 11. If the receiver 15 is at receive mode, when a signal is output from the receiver 15, a vibration unit 10 is activated, applying vibration to the pet and suppressing the roaring of the pet. If no signal from the transmitter 11 is received during the predetermined period of time, the receiver 15 enters a standby status. Thus, there is no need to supply power constantly to the receiver 15, and the power consumption of the receiver 15 can be cut down.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cathode ray tube having a funnel in the shape of a reverse curvature designed to improve the strength for the glass manufacturing process and test specification. In the present invention, a reverse radius is applied to the whole of the rear-side glass, which is the funnel, of the cathode ray tube. Therefore, the cathode ray tube has a high degree of strength for vacuum and a low weight, so that it can have a wide angle of the electric beam in accordance with the enlargement and the flattening plane of the cathode ray tube. The cathode ray tube that has the funnel in the shape of the reverse curvature comprises: a yoke on which a deflection coil is placed; and a body part that extends from the yoke toward an opening terminal attached to the panel.

Abstract: A power supply protection circuit for stopping a power supply to electrical equipments in case a normal power voltage is not outputted from a direct current power supply and an excess voltage or a reduced voltage is outputted. The power supply protection circuit according to the present invention is constituted of a power source line for supplying a direct current power, via relay contacts of a relay, to an electrical equipment, a first circuit for detecting an excess voltage and a reduced voltage, a second circuit, and a relay operation circuit.

Abstract: The invention provides a reproducing device or recording/reproducing device having an off-timer function with improved operability, power saving, versatility and degree of freedom for the user or a video display device incorporating such a reproducing device or recording/reproducing device. During an off-timer function operation, when reproduction of contents is detected (step 201), a contents reproducing time is calculated from TOC information (step 203, step 204), and when this contents reproducing time is shorter than a timer remaining time X of the off-timer, the timer time is regarded as a contents reproducing time (step 206, step 207), and in this way, when reproduction of contents is finished earlier than a predetermined timer time, power is turned off at the end of reproduction of contents and when the set timer time is longer than the contents reproducing time, the power is turned off at the end of the timer time.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a television receiver using a cathode ray tube capable of reducing development and manufacturing costs during a period of transition from analog television to digital television. By forming functional sections common to CRT display devices such as a video signal processing section made up of a chroma section 505, horizontal drive circuit section 506 and vertical drive circuit section 508, a power supply section 503 and fly-back transformer 507 on a TV printed circuit board 50 as a circuit board different from a circuit board provided with functional sections for generating a video signal from each broadcasting signal or the like, and replacing only non-common parts (parts of the separate circuit board), it is possible to construct analog television and digital television, and reduce development and manufacturing costs.

Abstract: The invention provides an electric apparatus having a printed circuit board with an improved heat dissipation capacity, and, in particular, to provide an electric apparatus requiring plural printed circuit boards that has an improved heat dissipation efficiency and can be produced at a low cost. A main printed circuit board 10 and a sub board 17 are composite-molded, and the sub board 17 is formed at an area close to or immediately below a heat-generating electronic component 23 or a heat dissipation plate 23a. Thus, by separating the sub board 17 off the main printed circuit board 10, a hole serving as a ventilating hole is formed in the main printed circuit board 10 at the area close to or immediately below the heat-generating electronic component 23 or the heat dissipation plate 23a.

Abstract: The objective is to provide a recording/reproducing apparatus where when a disc is inserted into the recording/reproducing apparatus, when administrative information pre-recorded on the optical disc does not coincided with another administrative information retained in the recording/reproducing apparatus, notification of the discordance of the administrative information is made, and it is possible to pre-notify a user that recording/editing into/of the optical disc cannot be performed due to this discordance of the administrative information.

Abstract: To provide a CS digital video receiver with which a audio/video recording device does not start recording when the CS digital broadcast receiver is turned ON by the user, whereby preventing accidental recordings. Multiple external output terminals 4 and 5 for supplying audio/video signals from a tuner 3 to an external monitor 7 and an external recording means 8 are provided, and audio/video signals from the tuner 3 are supplied, not to the external output terminal 5 to connect to the recording means 8 but to the external output terminal 4 to the monitor 8 in the standby mode for programmed recording. Audio/video signals from the tuner 3 are supplied to the external output terminal 5 to the recording means 8 at the start time of the programmed recording in the programmed mode.

Abstract: The invention provides a video recording/reproducing device which allow a user to perform a jump operation to a desired reproduction position simply and speedily. A time information reading section 26 detects a total reproduction time of a video stored in a recording/reproducing medium. A time information division processing section 27 divides a total reproduction time into 10 parts. Numeric keys (ten keys) of a remote control device 30 for tuning a channel are sequentially assigned to 1 to 10 of the divided time areas. In this way, if the total reproduction time is, for example, 120 minutes, a jump is made at intervals of 12 minutes, and if “5” of the numeric keys is pressed, a time jump is simply made to a position corresponding to a lapse of 60 minutes.

Abstract: The prior art CRT type digital television requires overall redesigning of the analog block board and the digital block board. Therefore, development man-hour and board mold cost is a big burden. An efficient board arrangement technique is provided to resolve this problem. This is accomplished with a CRT type digital television in which an analog block board 10 and a CRT board 11 have fixed board arrangements used in combination with multiple digital block boards 12, by which the cost of developing an analog block board is reduced and focus is placed on developing a digital block board, thereby reducing development and mass production related costs. Regarding the board arrangement, a CRT board 11 is provided outside the analog block board 10 to eliminate the vacant area 11a, thereby down-sizing the analog block board 10.

Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display device which allow a plurality of liquid crystal display panels of different mounting specifications to be fixed using a common mounting cover. Mounting sections such as screw holes 13A, 13B, and 13C are provided to allow different first, second, and third liquid crystal display panels 10A, 10B, and 10C to be attached to a mounting cover 2. It is possible to fix the first, the second, or the third liquid crystal display panel 10A, 10B, or 10C of different mounting specifications to a common mounting cover 4, fix any one of different liquid crystal display panels to the mounting cover 2, provide excellent versatility, reduce the number of parts and thereby facilitate parts control and provide excellent cost efficiency.