Abstract: A television video signal synchronizing apparatus, which synchronizes an input television video signal to a reference timing mark. The input video signal is digitized and stored in a memory at locations which are provided by a writing address generator. The writing operation is performed in synchronism with the input video signal. A reading address generator produces reading addresses for reading out the stored video signal to deliver an output television signal which is synchronized to the reference timing mark. The reading address generator is controlled to read out an active video portion of the stored video signal after a delay of about one horizontal scanning period (63.5 microseconds in the NTSC system) immediately after the writing operation of the same active video portion. Thereby "lip lag" i.e. a mismatch between the audio and video signals, is avoided.

Abstract: A material-directing chute is slidably mounted on a hopper and is interposed between a discharge port in the hopper and a rotary impeller. The position of the chute is controlled by a handle-mounted lever. By shifting the chute to a relatively advanced position, a peripheral portion of a material-receiving drop area on the impeller is shifted radially inwardly from the peripheral edge of the impeller. Accordingly, a material distribution pattern may be provided which avoids areas such as gardens, shrubbery and driveways on one lateral side of the spreader. In addition, a chute-activated damper is provided to impede the flow of material when the chute is in the relatively advanced position.

Abstract: A pressure developing and balancing circuit for use with chopped glass fibers in reaction injection molding eliminating high pressure drop valving of glass filled liquid component materials which normally create serious heating and valve erosion wear problems.

Abstract: Novel highway trailers can be mounted on railtruck assemblies to form a train of highway trailers, the railtruck assemblies including a conventional railtruck which supports a novel intermodal adaptor. The novel highway trailers include a forwardly extending tongue and coupling structure at the rear to which may be secured the tongue of a following trailer and the intermodal adaptor of a railtruck assembly. The intermodal adaptor is mounted on the center plate bowl of the bolster of the railtruck. The adaptor includes locating structure adapted to be received within the coupling structure of a leading highway trailer, which locating structure permits the leading highway trailer and intermodal adaptor to become aligned with each other upon relative movement.

Abstract: A mechanism for automatically regulating tension of wires employed in a window regulator comprising a drum being provided for rotational movement within said housing, and having a first side surface provided with a first ratchet teeth, a second side surface provided with a first engaging portion for engaging a first wire end, and a peripheral surface as winding surface; a ratchet plate being adjacent to said drum coaxially, and having a surface provided with a second ratchet teeth engaging said first ratchet teeth and a second engaging portion engaging a second wire end; a spiral spring having one end engaged with said ratchet plate and having the other end engaged with said housing, and urging said ratchet plate in such direction that said first ratchet teeth and said second ratchet teeth are moved idly; an elastic member axially urging said drum toward said ratchet plate; and a shaft for operating said drum to rotate by means of engaging with said drum.

Abstract: A positive photoresist metal ion aqueous developer is provided that gives a high contrast to the photoresist.The developer disclosed comprises a formulation of aqueous alkali-base such as potassium hydroxide and a fluorocarbon surfactant. The incorporation of the fluorocarbon surfactant provides the unexpected increase in the contrast of the photoresist. The addition of the fluorocarbon surfactant increases the gamma from a typical photoresist gamma (.gamma.) of 3 or less to a gamma greater than 10.The high contrast photoresist provides linewidth control and affords improved process latitude in photoresist imaging. The linewidth control is particularly critical in cases where fine lines are to be defined in the resist that covers steps or topography on the coated substrate. The higher the contrast, the less affected the resist by the topography, provided the exposure is adequate to expose the resist.

Abstract: A locking mechanism comprising: a frame; a first rotational member being supported on the frame so as to rotate around a first axis and having a guiding portion having a component extending in the radial direction with respect to the first axis; a second rotational member being supported on the frame so as to rotate around a second axis parallel to the first axis and having an engaging portion to be slidably guided along the guiding portion at the position apart in the radial direction with respect to the second axis, wherein the guiding portion has a stopper capable of being in contact with the engaging portion at the position most apart from the first axis, and when the engaging portion is in contact with the stopper, an angle which a straight line tangential to the guide way of the guiding portion forms with a straight line connecting the engaging portion with the second axis is substantially 90.degree..

Abstract: A transmission operating device comprising: a connecting arm of which both ends are connected with ends of two control cables, respectively, and having a first rotational center for rotating the connecting arm in a horizontal plane and a second rotational center for rotating the connecting arm in a vertical plane; a member to be rotated together with the connecting arm, being provided with a splined perforation; a splined shaft being a part of an outer shaft of a transmission, and being inserted into the splined perforation, so that the rotational motion of the connecting arm in the vertical plane is changed into a rotational motion of the outer shaft around an axis of the outer shaft, and a link mechanism being provided between the connecting arm and the outer shaft, so that the rotational motion of the connecting arm in the horizontal plane is changed into a sliding motion of the outer shaft in the direction of an axis of the outer shaft.

Abstract: A transmission operating device comprises: a frame a change speed lever supported on the frame by a first ball joint, a first control cable and a second control cable extending in the plane crossing with an axis of the change speed lever and being arranged substantially parallel to each other, a bell crank being provided on the frame so as to rotate around a first axis extending substantially parallel to the change speed lever and having a first arm extending in the direction crossing with the first control cable and a second arm extending substantially parallel to the second control is connected with the change speed lever so as to rotate around a second axis crossing with the axis of the change speed lever, has the other end connected with the second arm by means of a second ball joint, and extends in the direction crossing the second arm. One end of the first control cable is connected with the first arm, and one of the second control cable is connected with the change speed lever.

Abstract: A driving device employed in a window regulator comprising: a driving member including a shaft and an associating member having at least a notch portion; a drum adjacent to said associating member and having an associating projection capable of associating with said notch portion with some play in the rotational direction; and an elastic member urging said associating member in the rotational direction. According to the present invention, the shaking of the crank lever can be surely inhibited.

Abstract: A pneumatic controller for use in controlling airflow in a conditioned air distribution system is adjustable to accommodate different types of damper actuation and thermostats in different systems. The four-function controller can be manually reconfigured to be a direct acting/direct reset controller, a reverse acting/reverse reset controller, a direct action/reverse reset controller or a reverse acting/directing resent controller, all using a single diaphragm valve responsive to differential pressure between total air and static air inputs. A reset unit on one end of the controller can be mounted in four different positions, two upright and two inverted, to provide the four functions, with total air and static air inputs being reversed in position when the controller is in a reverse acting mode. A differential pressure responsive valve at the heart of the system is controlled by a spring which can act as either a tension spring, for direct acting, or as a compression spring, for reverse acting.

Abstract: Selected interference frequency signals are inserted into the video or RF signal at the transmitter for scrambling purposes, either singly or in pairs. At the receiving end the signals are decoded by use of filters matched to the transmitted signal. The system allows different scrambling for each pay program thereby increasing the security relative to the prior art single frequency system.

Abstract: A transmission operating device for performing a shifting operation and a selecting operation of a transmission by pushing or pulling two inner wires of two control cables, comprising: a change speed lever; a connecting arm with which the two inner wires are connected at both ends of the arm; and a cylindrical casing provided at a middle point between the two points where the two inner wires are connected with the connecting arm, wherein the change speed lever is perpendicularly provided to the connecting arm by the cylindrical casing, the connecting arm is made to move in the direction that the inner wires are pushed or pulled by operating the change speed lever in one direction and is made to swing in the direction perpendicular to the direction that the inner wires are pushed or pulled by operating the change speed lever in the other direction, and the connecting arm has a rotational center so that the swinging motion of the connecting arm in the direction perpendicular to the direction that the inner wire

Abstract: Improved results can be obtained in lamella separators having a liquid feed at the base of the lamella which introduces liquid in horizontal direction perpendicular to the direction of lamellar flow by provision of a throat restriction at the point of influx and, where the feed prior to reaching the point of influx flows downwardly in an inverted V-shaped influent chamber, providing said chamber with a baffle extending across one wall of said chamber.

Abstract: Improved control over the distribution pattern and the amount of fertilizer, grass seed or the like dispensed by a broadcast spreader is accomplished by mounting a variable rate control device in a material directing chute secured below a basin wall of a hopper. A web or ramp portion of the chute is spaced below a discharge port in the hopper, and the rate control device is rotatably mounted in a housing formed in the rear of the chute to engage a shutter that is slidably mounted under the discharge port.

Abstract: A weighted cable cap, comprising a cable cap provided on one end thereof with a hole-W for inserting an outer casing, having a bottom, and on the other end thereof with a hole-X for inserting an inner cable; the hole-X being perforated through the bottom so that the hole-W and hole-X are concentrically located each other; and a weight having a hole-Y for inserting the outer casing and being fixed on one end of the cable cap so that the hole-W and hole-Y are concentrically located each other, whereby vibration transmitted to the control cable from external is favorably prevented.

Abstract: A control device for control cables comprising a housing, a spherical bearing provided with the housing, a main shaft inserted into the spherical bearing, a lever base to which both ends of the main shaft are fixed, ball joints which are pivotally provided with the lever base at positions in the axial direction of the main shaft and in the perpendicular direction to the axis center of the spherical bearing, and a guide stopper for restricting a rotational motion of the main shaft around the spherical bearing, whereby at least two control cables connected to the ball joints can be independently together or simultaneously operated by means of a single lever fixed to the lever base. The control device is small, light and inexpensive to manufacture.

Abstract: A window regulator employing a flexible control cable as a transmission means, comprising a bracket secured to a window glass, an operating means and an inner cable connecting the bracket and the operating means through conduits, and both end portions of the inner cable being respectively wound up and off in the operating means to slidably move the bracket along a guide rail in order to perform an opening or closing action of the window glass, whereby a light, small and simple regulator is provided.

Abstract: A wire-driving device for a window regulator comprising a worm wheel rotatably contained in a housing, first and second pulleys arranged at both sides of the worm wheel respectively, means for transmitting torque from worm wheel to the pulleys and a worm meshing with the worm wheel and being driven by a motor, whereby first and second wires wound round the pulleys respectively are driven. The motor driven wire-driving device is thinner than conventional devices.