Abstract: An automatic chemical analyzing apparatus including a cuvette assembly having a plurality of rows of reaction tubes arranged in respective sample magazines, each sample magazine being conveyed sequentially in a direction perpendicular to the transverse row of reaction tubes, and then in a direction parallel thereto so as to complete a reaction channel, during which the samples to be analyzed in the magazine are treated and analyzed a predetermined number of times by passing through a photometer. Adjacent the reaction channel is provided a preparation channel for cleaning and drying of reaction tubes and/or for adding of samples and reagants to the cleaned and dried tubes. Sample magazines are selectively transferrable from the reaction chamber to the preparation chamber upon completion of testing of the samples.

Abstract: In an air conditioning apparatus of the separate-type, an indoor unit is mounted on a wall of a room. The indoor unit is provided with an infrared ray detection unit which has an infrared ray sensor for sensing infrared rays, a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature in the detection unit, and a slit window for restricting a field of view of the detection unit. The detection unit is horizontally swung with a discharge opening of the indoor unit, from which warm or cold air is discharged, so that the room is swept by the field of view and the air. The room temperature distribution is obtained from the output signal from the detection unit and, the amount of the discharged air directed to the respective areas of the room is adjusted in accordance with the room temperature distribution.

Abstract: An ion selective electrode device is used to electrochemically detect several ion concentrations of an ion-containing liquid. The ion selective electrode device comprises a plurality of ion selective electrodes. These ion selective electrodes each include a substrate of insulating material having a small-diameter through hole, a metal layer formed in one body on an inner peripheral surface of the through hole and both major surfaces of the substrate, and ion sensitive layer formed on the metal layer of the inner peripheral surface. Those ion selective electrodes are connected by insulating plates for maintaining electrical insulation between the adjoining ion selective electrodes in such a manner that these through holes define a flow path for liquid to be examined.

Abstract: A device for determining a setting value of a shape operating amount in a continuous rolling mill having shape controlling means therein. As rolling conditions such as thicknesses, width, rolling loads, roll crown, incoming crown, and incoming flatness are inputted, shape operating amounts are set to attain a constant crown ratio corresponding to a product target crown as early as possible in the first n-1 stands or passes such that as many as possible of the final stands or passes maintain the constant crown ratio to improve the final product flatness.

Abstract: A system which detects the operation of a video tape recorder to obtain data related to the operation of the video tape recorder. The system is also capable of determining the dubbing condition of the video tape recorder over the recording of an ordinary broadcast. The system further determines the receiving channel of the video tape recorder or the television set by directly comparing video signals.

Abstract: A double grid anode is characterized in that said anode is comprised of a first cage-like anode made of a metal grid or wire gauze that permits that passage of electrons and that has an open end, a second anode which also consists of a metal grid or wire gauze located at the open end side of said first anode, a hot-cathode filament arranged around the outer periphery of said first anode, and an ion-extraction electrode which faces said anode.

Abstract: A thermal transfer color printer according to the present invention thermal inkribbon having heat-fusible color materials in a plurality of colors divided in the feed direction, a thermal head which moves relative to a print paper in order to cause the selective thermal transfer of the color material on a thermal inkribbon onto the print paper, and a color sensor for detecting the types of color materials on the thermal inkribbon. The distance in the feed direction of the color material portions of the thermal inkribbon is set at one divided by an integral portion of the standard print width of the print paper, while the distance between the color sensor and the thermal head is set the same as the distance in the feed direction of the color materials portion of the thermal inkribbon.

Abstract: This invention relates to a multi-beam antenna and a method of configuring the same, where the antenna consists of a main reflector, a plurality of horns for exciting the main reflector, and separate sub-reflectors for correcting phase errors of respective beams caused by reflection at the main reflector, or an integrated sub-reflector which is substituted for said separated sub-reflectors.

Abstract: This invention relates to a multi-beam antenna and a method of configuring the same, where the antenna consists of a main reflector, a plurality of horns for exciting the main reflector, and separate sub-reflectors for correcting phase errors of respective beams caused by reflection at the main reflector, or an integrated sub-reflector which is substituted for said separated sub-reflectors.

Abstract: The invention relates to an audience rating measuring system for a television and a video tape recorder and provides an audience rating measuring system which can give accurate audience data under various conditions, such as when a television and a video tape recorder are used in combination, that can not be measured by the conventional audience rating measuring systems in general use. The audience rating measuring system of the invention comprises means for video tape recorder channel discrimination, video tape recorder operation mode discrimination, and television channel discrimination.

Abstract: In a configuration control system of product material in a strip rolling, to recognize a configuration pattern of a strip material, to clarify the correspondence between control actuators 10, 11 and 12 and configuration defect pattern and to separate local defects, a configuration pattern detected by a configuration detector is converted by an orthogonal function expansion operation device 3 to a series of orthogonal functions, specifically of polynomials, and operation amounts of the respective control actuators 10, 11 and 12 are controlled by coefficients of the respective functions.

Abstract: A multicolored thermal transfer copying system needs an ink film having more than three colors successively. The accurate copying is performed by driving the plural platens via one metal roller, when plural thermal heads are used for transferring each color from the ink film.

Abstract: An ion selective electrode device is used to electrochemically detect several ion concentrations of an ion-containing liquid. The ion selective electrode device comprises a plurality of ion selective electrodes. These ion selective electrodes each include a substrate of insulating material having a small-diameter through hole, a metal layer formed in one body on an inner peripheral surface of the through hole and both major surfaces of the substrate, and ion sensitive layer formed on the metal layer of the inner peripheral surface. Those ion selective electrodes are connected by insulating plates for maintaining electrical insulation between the adjoining ion selective electrodes in such a manner that these through holes define a flow path for liquid to be examined.

Abstract: A beam waveguide feeder in which a feed horn, a pair of revolvable paraboloidal reflectors, and at least one plane reflector are arranged in the order stated so as to form a path for an electric wave, said pair of paraboloidal reflectors facing each other and being equal in focal distance and off-set angle, their zeniths and focuses being on an identical plane, is characterized in that said feed horn can be fixed in position while its equivalent feed horn, i.e., the image of said feed horn focused by the beam waveguide feeder, can be moved into an arbitrary location and turned in an arbitrary direction.

Abstract: A multiple reflector antenna is disclosed that comprises a main reflector formed of a portion of a rotatively symmetrical surface with respect to a rotation axis, a sub-reflector, at least one auxiliary reflector, and at least one wave source, said rotation axis being parallel to or slightly deviated from an aperture plane. This antenna is characterized by such construction that said sub-reflector and auxiliary reflector intentionally cause distortion of an electro-magnetic field distribution to cancel the distortion generated at said main reflector.

Abstract: A process for the production of ethylene oxide by the vapor-phase catalytic oxidation of ethylene with molecular oxygen, which process comprises passing a mixed gas containing ethylene and molecular oxygen through a catalyst bed filled with a silver catalyst and subsequently passing the resultant reaction product gas through a cooling zone filled with a particulate material containing a substance capable of inhibiting the isomerization of ethylene oxide to acetaldehyde carrying at least one metal selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, calcium, strontium, barium and thallium or a compound of said metal to be carried on an inert refractory particulate material.

Abstract: A silver catalyst for the production of ethylene oxide, comprising a granular .alpha.-alumina carrier having a sodium content of not more than 0.07% by weight and a specific surface area within the range of from 0.5 to 5 m.sup.2 /g, a finely divided metallic silver deposited on said carrier in an amount within the range of from 5 to 25% by weight based on the total catalyst, and at least one member selected from the group consisting of alkali metals of Atomic Numbers 19 to 55 and alkali metal compounds said at least one member being in an amount within the range of from 0.001 to 0.05 gram equivalent weight per kilogram of the complete catalyst.