Abstract: An electric washing machine is provided with a housing with a plurality of lead wires connected to electrical equipment. A panel of the housing is formed of synthetic resin and a plurality of retaining portions are integrally formed with the panel and formed of synthetic resin. The retaining portions are arranged at intervals at the panel so as to hold the lead wires therein.

Abstract: In a measuring device utilizing birefringence effect, there are provided a device for producing laser light having two components polarized in directions perpendicular to each other and respectively having first and second frequencies; and a birefringence device which receives the laser light and delivers an optical output having a phase difference between the two components which is varied in accordance with the measured quantity. A specific component of the optical output is extracted by an optical analyzer, and converted into an electric signal which is processed thereafter into an output signal representing the phase difference and hence the measured quantity.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device with a refresh mechanism having a plurality of memory cells integrated on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of word lines and digit lines each connected to the memory cells, a refresh control circuit for successively selecting the word lines and refreshing the memory cells word line by word line in a refresh period and a time constant circuit connected to the word lines. The time constant circuit is activated whenever the word line connected to it is selected during an access period and emits a "refresh not required" signal until a predetermined time has elapsed. The refresh control circuit receives the "refresh not required" signal and then acts so as to skip the refreshing operation.

Abstract: In an automatic mail processing apparatus, a mail reject mechanism is disposed between a reading and sorting unit and labeling unit. The mail reject mechanism includes a reject member movable between a first position outside of a convey unit and a second position inside of the convey unit and a pneumatic cylinder for normally holding the reject member in the first position and being adapted, when the sorting data stored in a memory relating to a mail stack brought in an opposite position to the reject member is not appropriate to the mail stack, to move the reject member from the first position to the second position for removal of the mail stack from the convey unit.

Abstract: A bundle comprises a label which is placed on the center portion of upper side of a heaped up sheets of paper, on which an information for identification is described, and a transparent tape which is wound with the heaped up sheets of paper in one direction across the label, is made of a heat adhesible material. Both ends of the tape is heat adhered with each other. The tape is heat adhered to the label.

Abstract: A complementary-symmetry metal-oxide semiconductor device is made of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type and well regions of a second conductivity type formed in the surface region of the semiconductor substrate. The well regions consist of a first well region and a second well region having a lower resistance per unit area than the first well region. An input-output peripheral circuit is formed of the second well region and the substrate. An internal circuit is formed of the first well region and the substrate.

Abstract: A static RAM using a flip-flop circuit as a memory cell is disclosed. The gate oxide film of the MOS transistor for selecting the memory cell is thicker than the gate oxide film of the MOS transistor included in the peripheral circuit of the memory matrix.

Abstract: On a single chip microprocessor which has 2.sup.n operation modes, apparatus which permits selecting one mode out of the 2.sup.n operation modes by using only one external pin connection and user program execution. A mode-setting register on the single chip microprocessor can be updated both through the external pin designating one of the two start modes, which are part of the 2.sup.n operation modes, during the reset state of the microprocessor and through a write operation generated by executing a user program during the normal (nonreset) state of the microprocessor.

Abstract: A diagnostic X-ray apparatus emitting pulsed X-ray radiation includes a processor for performing digital X-ray subtraction of a previous mask image from current images. The apparatus includes circuitry for digitization of the video signals from an image intensifier-TV chain, digital subtraction to obtain digital difference signals, and subsequent reconversion of the resultant digital difference video signals to analog signals. Pulsed X-ray exposures are performed during the blanking periods of the TV camera following which the television fields immediately following the pulsed X-ray exposure are scanned and read out, and are supplied to the processor for performing the digital X-ray subtraction.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a sintered ceramic body which has a conductive layer and which is suitable for bonding with a metal member, has the steps of coating at least part of a surface of an unsintered ceramic powder compact with a coating material which has a melting point or decomposition point higher than a sintering temperature of the compact and which is selected from the group consisting of a metal, a metal salt, a conductive inorganic material and a nonconductive inorganic material which becomes conductive after sintering, and sintering a resultant structure, thus forming the sintered ceramic body having a conductive layer on at least part of the surface thereof.

Abstract: A mask-focusing color picture tube comprising an evacuated envelope; means to generate a number of electron beams; a display screen comprising a large number of phosphor stripes luminescing in different colors; a plurality of masks being spaced in the predetermined distance each other, individually having a number of apertures which is arranged in rows and being disposed in the vicinity of said screen, each electron beam being assigned to phosphor stripe of a respective color through said corresponding mask aperture, the improvement comprising, at least one of said plurality of masks having a plurality of projections on at least one side of said mask, said projections being separated each other by the rows of said apertures.

Abstract: A method of forming electric conductive patterns comprising the steps of forming first conductive patterns on a semiconductor substrate directly or through an insulating layer with first insulating film being formed thereon, selectively forming second conductive patterns, forming insulation layers on side surfaces of said second conductive patterns, thereby electrically insulating said second conductive patterns from said first conductive patterns through said insulation layers in a self-aligned manner. An semiconductor device having electric conductive patterns formed by above-mentioned method.

Abstract: An image intensifier has a phosphor screen, the phosphor screen having a mesh-like substrate and a phosphor layer supported by the mesh-like substrate and to be excited by electron rays. The image intensifier provides an output image with high contrast and brightness.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image input device arranged in such a way that a fluorescent X-ray image is imaged by a TV camera, and an image signal thereof is input into a CPU. The image input device is connected to an output of the TV camera, and comprises a difference circuit for determining the difference between two picture signals obtained at a prescribed time interval, an object extracting circuit for extracting an object image in accordance with the results of the difference, a position judging circuit for judging whether or not the object image thus extracted is located within a picture screen, and a camera position controller for controlling the position of the TV camera in accordance with the results of judgement made by the position judging circuit.

Abstract: A tape recorder has a forward/reverse switching mechanism for switching tape travel at normal speed in the forward and reverse directions. Tape guides are disposed at two sides of a recording/playback head of the tape recorder. In response to the switching operation of the forward/reverse switching mechanism, a tape guide drive mechanism is driven. When a tape is driven at normal speed in one of the forward or reverse directions, one of the tape guides which is located in the upstream side of the tape travel with respect to the recording/playback head guides the tape, while the other one of the tape guides does not guide the tape.

Abstract: A monosyllabic recognition apparatus is disclosed which includes a first memory which stores reference vowel patterns respectively representing vowel categories of known reference monosyllables of a preselected language, which are classified in accordance with the type of vowel characteristics of the language, the vowel categories independently including categories corresponding to a contracted sound and a syllabic nasal sound in addition to categories of basic vowels; a second memory which stores reference consonant patterns respectively representing consonant categories of the language, which are classified in accordance with the type of consonant characteristics of the language. A characteristic extracting section generates the acoustic parameter data of the input speech, which is divided by a segment processing section into monosyllabic acoustic parameter components.

Abstract: In the case of the fabrication of semiconductor devices, lead frames are successively transferred to the bonding position where semiconductor chips are bonded to a lead frame. To this end, a lead frame transfer device has been used. According to the present invention, there are provided means for adjusting the distance between a pair of guide rails which define the lead frame transfer passage and means for varying the transfer stroke or pitch of a device for transferring a lead frame along the guide rails. The means for adjusting the distance between the pair of guide rails comprises gage holes and gages or lead screws and nut so that one of the pair of guide rails is moved toward or away from the other guide rail depending upon the width of a lead frame to be transferred. The means for varying the transfer stroke or pitch of a device for transferring a lead frame comprises cams and sensors, and varies them through rotating a screw shaft combined with a nut by a motor.

Abstract: A scanning servo system, that is, a focusing servo system or a tracking servo system, for an optical-disc information reproducing apparatus includes (a) a light source for generating a light beam to scan a selected track location on an optical-disc wherein the information is stored as a series of pits arranged in the form of the track; (b) an objective lens for applying a scanning spot of the light beam to the selected track location; (c) a transducer for converting an optical signal or an image of the pit into an electric signal; (d) an actuator for driving the objective lens in response to the electric signal in a direction vertical or radial to the optical-disc, thereby causing the scanning spot to scan the selected track location accurately, the actuator being variable in its response characteristics in response to the electric signal; (e) a circuit for detecting a dropout of the information on the selected track location and generating a responsive signal to the dropout of information; (f) a circuit for

Abstract: At least one sheet of paper is conveyed in a feeding direction along a conveyance path. A line perpendicular to the feeding direction of the conveyed sheet includes at least first and second distinct view field regions (lengths) separated from one another by the center of the path. The light directed toward the sheet which passes across the path along the perpendicular line is optically scanned, and a value of the dimension a conveyed sheet projects into each of the first and second view field regions is produced for each scan. The sheet is repetitively scanned a plurality of times as it is conveyed along the path, and the values obtained, for each scan, for at least for the first and second regions are summed with a predetermined constant value to produce a sequence of width values representing the widths of the conveyed paper sheet at a corresponding plurality of longitudinal positions along the sheet.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device of the invention comprises the steps of(a) forming a gate insulating film on a surface of a silicon substrate, and a gate electrode on said gate insulating film;(b) forming a self-aligned insulating film at least on a side wall of said gate electrode;(c) forming a self-aligned metal or metal silicide film on a region on which an insulating film is not formed, said region including a source region, a drain region and a diffusion interconnection region which is an extended part of at least one of said source region and said drain region, or prospective regions for said source, drain and diffusion interconnection regions; and(d) forming said source region, said drain region and said diffusion interconnected region which is the extended part of at least one of said source region and said drain region, by doping at least one time said substrate with an impurity which has a conductivity type opposite to a conductivity type of said silicon substrate any time after st