Abstract: A linear sensor for sampling vertically opposed pixels of a plurality of vertically arranged sensor rows substantially at a time. A plurality of horizontal transfer registers and a plurality of shift gates are provided to oppose the plurality of sensor rows. A vertical transfer register is provided at one end of the plurality of horizontal transfer registers. In the vertical transfer register, the signal charges which have been transferred by the plurality of horizontal transfer registers are transferred sequentially in vertical direction. A charge/voltage converter unit is provided at the output of the vertical transfer register. The signal charges accumulated in the vertically opposed pixels are sequentially transferred to the charge/voltage converter unit in a repetitive manner.

Abstract: A polyetherketone resin composition comprising 5-100 parts by weight of a carbon fiber having an average fiber diameter of 5-20 .mu.m and an average fiber length of 30-500 .mu.m per 100 parts by weight of a composition comprising 95-50% by weight of a polyetherketone and 5-50% by weight of a liquid crystal polyester, and a carrier for processing or treating a semi-conductor wafer molded from the above polyetherketone resin composition. Said composition is excellent in molding properties and said carrier is excellent in stiffness, dimensional stability and antistatic properties.The above liquid crystal polyester includes, for example, those consisting of repeating structural units (I), (II), (III) and (IV), shown below, in a molar ratio (II)/(I) of 0.2-1.0, a molar ratio ?(III)+(IV)!/(II) of 0.9-1.1 and a molar ratio (IV)/(III) of 0-1.0.

Abstract: A linear sensor for sampling vertically opposed pixels of a plurality of vertically arranged sensor rows substantially at a time. A plurality of horizontal transfer registers and a plurality of shift gates are provided to oppose the plurality of sensor rows. A vertical transfer register is provided at one end of the plurality of horizontal transfer registers. In the vertical transfer register, the signal charges which have been transferred by the plurality of horizontal transfer registers are transferred sequentially in vertical direction. A charge/voltage converter unit is provided at the output of the vertical transfer register. The signal charges accumulated in the vertically opposed pixels are sequentially transferred to the charge/voltage converter unit in a repetitive manner.

Abstract: A liquid crystal polyester resin composition comprising (a) a liquid crystal polyester, (b) an aluminum powders, flakes and/or fibers, and if necessary (c) titanium oxide and/or talc, has high heat resistance and a small thermal storage even when exposed to high temperatures, and thus is useful for producing a lamp reflector hardly deformed by heat from a halogen lamp, etc.

Abstract: A container having a body and a cover, in which the cover can be conveniently opened using only one hand from a latched state of the body and the cover. Engaging members between cover and body are movable under force, when the cover is closed, between an engaging position where the cover is engaged with said body and a releasing position where the cover is not engaged with the body. However, the engaging member cannot be returned to the engaging position while the cover is closed. Lock means prevent the engaging member from moving from the releasing position to the engaging position in spite of application of force. Once the cover is opened the engaging member moves from said releasing position to said engaging position.

Abstract: A computer with a removable cartridge type hard disk drive (14) or other removable device includes a three position slider 26. At one end of the slider is a tab (20A) having a hole (20B) for receiving a lock. When the slider is in a first position, the tab is retracted within the computer housing (2) and the disk drive can be easily removed from the computer. When the slider is in a second position, the tab protrudes from the housing and the disk drive cannot be removed from the computer. In the second position and with the tab protruding from the housing, a padlock can be inserted into the hole in the tab to secure the slider in the second position, thereby locking the disk drive in the computer. When the slider is in the third position, the tab does not protrude from the housing, but the disk drive cannot be removed from the computer.

Abstract: In a computer comprising a computer body for supporting a keyboard and enclosing electronic circuits, several elements are provided including recesses provided on the bottom side of the computer body, leg members for tilting the computer body, the leg members being positioned in the recesses and being rotatable around a supporting shaft of the leg members and slidable along the direction of the axis of the supporting shaft, a spring for forcing the leg members to rotate so as to open from the recesses and to slide in one direction along the supporting shaft, and engagement apparatus for engaging the leg members with the recesses in spite of the force caused by the spring to rotate the leg members, handling portions for facilitating the slide manipulation of the leg members along the supporting shaft are provided on the exposed surface of the leg members while in the recesses, so that it becomes unnecessary to provide additional members for manipulation.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a variable configuration die by using a plurality of pins is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a pin storing device for storing the pins therein; a pin piling device in which the variable configuration die is to be produced; a robot device for transferring the pins from the pin storing device to the pin piling device for making up the variable configuration die; and a computer-aided control device for controlling the robot means in such a manner that the pins carried by the robot means are placed onto given positions of the pin piling device to cause the variable configuration die thus made of the piled pins in the pin piling device to have a layered structure. The variable configuration die thus made up has a recessed die surface which is defined by one ends of the piled pins.

Abstract: A timing control method and system for performing recording/reproducing operation using timing signals and servo signals prerecorded on a magnetic disk and a timing signal recording system for recording the timing signals on the magnetic disk. Timing signals are identified by a detection circuit in response to a pulse generated by a pulse generator responsive to revolution speed of the magnetic disk and the servo signals are extracted based on the timing signal as a reference, then the various signals for read/write operation, e.g. sector mark signal are generated based on the extracted servo signal. The timing signals are recorded with a single feed quantity smaller than a track width by means of a timing signal recording system having a incrementally movable mechanism for a head and a recording circuit for recording timing signals at respective stop positions.

Abstract: In order to increase the performance of a mold of thermosetting resin, metal powder is dispersed in the resin mold which has a dense and voidless structure. The mold may be mounted on a back-up member of metal. In this case, the bonding between the mold and the back-up member is much assured when metal balls are contained in the mold near the back-up member. Furthermore, the mold may be electrically metal-plated. In this case, the mold is coated with a conductive plastic paint before being subjected to the electric metal plating in an electrolytic solution.

Abstract: Crystalline polypropylene excellent in rigidity, heat resistance and surface hardness is disclosed, having a ratio of weight average molecular weight (Mw) to number average molecular weight (Mn) (Mw/Mn) of 10 or more, an intrinsic viscosity [.eta.] of from 0.8 to 5.0 dl/g as measured in tetralin at 135.degree. C., a cold xylene-soluble content (CXS) of not more than 4% by weight, a density (d) of 0.910 g/cm.sup.3 or more as measured at 23.degree. C., and a long period (L) (.ANG.) as measured at 25.degree. C. by a small-angle X-ray scattering method satisfying relationship:L.ltoreq.LC=6667d-5894wherein d is a density at 23.degree. C.; and Lc is a value (.ANG.) obrained by equation:Lc=6667d-5894.A crystalline polypropylene composition containing the foregoing crystalline polypropylene, which is excellent in rigidity and heat resistance, is also disclosed.

Abstract: The computer is adapted to be used and stored on its narrow bottom surface (24), which has an area which is less than the area of the front surface (25) of the computer. A keyboard (4) is pivotally mounted to the back of a cover on the front surface. A floppy disk drive (3) is pivotally mounted behind the cover and the drive can be operated in the open or closed positions. A movable flat display (2) is positioned parallel to the front surface of the computer when the display is in the retracted position. A frictional mechanism (FIG. 5A) permits the display to be positioned at any angle.

Abstract: A pair of leg members, each of which has a front end forming a curved surface and a recess formed to continue the front end, are provided on both sides of a keyboard respectively, a bottom is formed so that it projects forward at the lower portion of the case, and a pair of recesses are provided on both sides of the bottom respectively. Each of recesses has a receiving surface, on which the curved surface of the front end of the leg members can slide, and an end, which can fit into the recess of the leg member. When the keyboard is pivoted from the upright position to a surface on which an electronic apparatus is positioned, on a predetermined point of the leg member as a fulcrum by sliding the curved surface of the front end of the leg members on the receiving surface formed on the recess in the bottom, the recess in the leg member is fitted into the end of the recess in the bottom to provide a predetermined angle for the keyboard.

Abstract: A magnetic disk drive provided with a computational control circuit for changing the reference level of the A/D converter so that the outputs of A/D conversion are kept constant at all times, which are obtained from integrated output peak values of the sector servo signals on a track having been read in reading a magnetic disk on which sector servo signals are recorded in advance. For the reference level of the A/D converter, values such that the outputs of the A/D conversion on the innermost and outermost tracks become constant are selected in advance, respectively. Thus, that reference level is obtained on the basis of the above values.

Abstract: An air conditioner for an auxiliary heating apparatus performs an auxiliary heating of a refrigerant flowing through a refrigerant circuit. The air conditioner is provided with a first auxiliary heat exchanger having a built-in first hydrogen-occluding alloy and hydrogen and a second auxiliary heat exchanger having a built-in second hydrogen-occluding alloy and hydrogen, wherein a temperature/hydrogen pressure characteristic of the second hydrogen-occluding alloy is different from that of the first hydrogen-occluding alloy. The air conditioner is further provided with hydrogen piping for circulating hydrogen between the first auxiliary heat exchanger and the second auxiliary heat exchanger, and a fan for heating the second auxiliary heat exchanger. Selector valves are also provided for circulating the refrigerant discharged from a compressor, when the axuiliary heating of the refrigerant is not performed.

Abstract: In a head position control apparatus, a magnetic pole disc mounted on a DC motor has a plurality of opposite magnetic poles arranged on its circumference in a predetermined relationship with tracks on a floppy disk. A sensor located close to the pole disc generates a pulse signal having pulses corresponding to the tracks and a voltage representing the actual speed of the motor. The pulses are counted in an incremental or a decremental mode. The difference between a track position indicating command signal from a keyboard and the pulse count is detected for deriving a direction signal which indicates the direction of the head and determines the count mode, a speed reference variable according to a predetermined transfer function and a switching signal when the difference reduces below a certain limit. A speed control signal is generated representing the difference between the speed reference and the actual speed of the motor.

Abstract: A flow control nozzle with a nozzle body arranged at one side of a joint body and a driver arranged at the other side thereof. The nozzle body comprises a nozzle chip having an orifice at the center of the front end, a cone chip with turning grooves which is in abutting engagement with the tapered face within a cavity of the nozzle chip, and a control rod fitted slidably in an axial through-hole of the cone chip and has one end adapted to close the orifice. The driver comprises an electromagnetic plunger and an electromagnetic coil. The control rod and the electromagnetic plunger are biased toward each other by springs. This nozzle permits the proportional control of the quantity of spray to be performed.

Abstract: An electromagnetic plunger pump of the reciprocating type including a vent valve means which allows only air bubbles in the pump to pass therethrough. This vent valve means is provided in a pressure adjusting plunger fitted in a pressure adjusting cylinder for reciprocating motion. The vent valve means comprises a vent valve rod which is fitted in a through-hole of the pressure adjusting plunger so as to form a passage about the vent valve rod, and a vent valve body which is normally energized by a spring in the direction away from a vent valve seat at a forward end of the pressure adjusting plunger to provide a clearance between the vent valve body and the vent valve seat. This clearance is such that it allows the air bubbles to pass therethrough, while it does not allow a liquid under pressure having a viscosity to pass therethrough with the result that the vent valve means is closed by such liquid under pressure.

Abstract: A pump has a boost-retarding device which comprises a cylinder communicating between the suction side and the discharge side of the pump. A plunger slidably and reciprocatingly fits into the cylinder and a lead passage communicates between the suction side and the discharge sides which are divided by the plunger. An adjustable spring biases the plunger toward the discharge side, and a valve mechanism cuts off the outflow of a liquid, from the discharge side to the suction side, which outflow occurs responsive to a movement of the plunger toward the suction side.