Abstract: When creating other tool path from two tool paths for cutting a work accurately and efficiently, the data on the first tool path is composed of a position vector and a direction vector of a tool for use when the work is cut while moving the tool. The data on the second tool path is composed of a position vector and a direction vector of the tool for use when the work, which has been cut according to the first tool path, is further cut. A computer uses the first tool path data and second tool path data to calculate a position vector and a direction vector of a medium tool path that is between the first tool path and second tool path.

Abstract: A dummy piezoelectric element (7) is disposed at least at one of the ends of an array of piezoelectric vibration elements. A region not including internal electrodes is provided in the vicinity of the outer side surface of the dummy piezoelectric vibration element 7 to be formed. When the outer side surface of the dummy piezoelectric element 7 is cut, a shift of a cutting line from a correct cutting line, which is due to high hardness of the internal electrodes, is minimized.

Abstract: To a sample bed 30 having a transparent bottom face 30A, a cover member 32 is attached in an openable/closable manner by means of a hinge 31. In this cover member 32, there is mounted a plurality of bar-shaped light sources 36 which are made of fluorescent lamps or the like. Between the bar-shaped light sources 36 and the sample bed 30, there is arranged an oblique ray louver 38 which is arranged in parallel with the bottom face of the sample bed 30 for homogenizing the direction of lights emitted by the bar-shaped light sources 36, obliquely so that grains placed on the sample bed 30 may be irradiated with the lights in the inclined direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor chip having a quadrangular main surface, a wiring substrate with the semiconductor chip disposed on a main surface thereof, a resin seal member for sealing the semiconductor chip, the resin seal member having a quadrangular main surface which confronts the main surface of the semiconductor chip, and a gate cut trace portion formed on a side face extending along a first side of the main surface of the resin seal member, wherein the first side of the main surface of the resin seal member extends along a first side of the main surface of the semiconductor chip, the main surface of the resin seal member has a second side intersecting the first side thereof, the second side of the main surface of the resin seal member extending along a second side of the main surface of the semiconductor chip which second side intersects the first side of the chip main surface, and in a section orthogonal to the second side of the main surface of the semiconductor chip, a sectional

Abstract: To provide a numerically controlled curved surface machining unit, and a method or program thereof, which, by moving a tool smoothly along a NURBS (non-uniform rational B-spline) curve, enables not only to improve the machining surface roughness and machining surface accuracy but to achieve high-speed machining so as to be able to eliminate hand finishing and reduce machining steps drastically.

Abstract: A dummy piezoelectric element (7) is disposed at least at one of the ends of an array of piezoelectric vibration elements. A region not including internal electrodes is provided in the vicinity of the outer side surface of the dummy piezoelectric vibration element 7 to be formed. When the outer side surface of the dummy piezoelectric element 7 is cut, a shift of a cutting line from a correct cutting line, which is due to high hardness of the internal electrodes, is minimized.

Abstract: A focus control device to perform focus control for a multi-layer recording medium having a plurality of recording layers. The focus control device includes an illuminating device to illuminate an information recording medium having a plurality of recording layers with a converged light beam, a focusing device to set a focus position of the converged light beam in a direction perpendicular to the recording medium surface, and a tracking device to set an illumination position of the converged light beam in a radial direction on the medium. A control unit controls the focusing device and tracking device to perform a seek operation to move the illumination position of the light beam to a target track of a target recording layer.

Abstract: A powder coating booth for performing therein powder coating onto an article to be coated is divided into an automatic coating zone in which coating is performed only by automatic coating machines and manual coating zones in which coating is performed by a worker. A dry type of first recovering apparatus which recovers only that powder coating material in the automatic coating zone which has not been coated onto the article to be coated is provided separately from a second recovering apparatus which recovers that powder coating material in the manual coating zones which has not been coated onto the article to be coated. In this manner, the ratio of reuse of the recovered uncoated powder coating material is improved.

Abstract: An apparatus which provides a reliable connection of a flexible cable to a transducer unit without damaging the transducer unit. Rounded projections (45) are provided at both ends of the flexible cable (40) when viewed in the direction in which the piezoelectric transducing elements (21) are arrayed, while the rounded projections (45) face a fixing plate (27) onto which the piezoelectric transducing elements (21) are fastened. Each rounded projection has such a height as to prevent the connection terminals of the flexible cable from being inadvertently inserted into the spaces between the adjacent piezoelectric transducing elements of the transducer unit when the flexible cable is located on surface of the transducer unit. At the time of soldering, the connection terminals of the flexible cable (40) are positioned just above the piezoelectric transducing elements (21) of the transducer unit.

Abstract: An engraved picture bearing certificate comprising a specular-surfaced engraving sheet on which an original picture for identification, such as the photograph of face, a fingerprint, a signature, a logo or the like, is engraved by a graving tool of an engraving device. The specularly reflected light from the surface of the engraving sheet is visibly recognized as the engraved picture.

Abstract: A non-steroidal analgesic anti-inflammatory adhesive preparation rendered by coating one surface of support with an adhesive containing S-(+)-2-(2-fluoro-4-biphenylyl)propionic acid and a styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer or S-(+)-2-(2-fluoro-4-biphenylyl) propionic acid and a modified copolymer in which methylmethacrylate is allowed to graft-polymerize on said copolymer, or with an adhesive containing S-(+)-2-(2-fluoro-4-biphenylyl) propionic acid, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and sodium polyacrylate.

Abstract: A servo device which simultaneously controls plural servo systems, using a digital signal processor (DSP). The servo device includes plural servo systems, plural control subjects, and plural sensors which determine control quantities of the respective control subjects. The servo device also includes a calculation processing device which finds operating amounts of the respective control subjects from the control quantities which have been detected. The calculation processing device measures the gain of each servo system, and during the gain measurement of a given servo system, drops the control band of other servo systems, or sets the other servo systems to OFF or HOLD.

Abstract: An optical disk device that reads and/or writes information to or from an optical disk. The optical disk device includes a recording signal output unit to output a signal to be recorded on an optical disk, an illuminating device to illuminate a recording surface of the optical disk with a light beam, a light generation control unit to control the intensity of the light beam according to the signal to be recorded, a calculating unit to calculate a value according to the level of the signal to be recorded, a light detector to receive the reflected light from the optical disk and to convert the reflected light to an electrical signal, and a gain adjustment unit to adjust the level of the output signal from the optical detector, based on the gain according to the output value from the calculating unit, and a control unit to control the illuminating device according to the output signal from the gain adjustment unit.

Abstract: A non-steroidal analgesic anti-inflammatory adhesive preparation rendered by coating one surface of support with an adhesive containing S-(+)-2-(2-fluoro-4-biphenylyl)propionic acid and a styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer or S-(+)-2-(2-fluoro-4-biphenylyl)propionic acid and a modified copolymer in which methylmethacrylate is allowed to graft-polymerize on said copolymer, or with an adhesive containing S-(+)-2-(2-fluoro-4-biphenylyl) propionic acid, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and sodium polyacrylate.

Abstract: A method and device for pattern processing whereby accurate and effective processing can be carried out as a user desires. A pattern processing device of this invention comprises an information input/output device, an information processing device, and a data storage device; wherein the information processing device comprises pattern processing means, significance describing means, characteristic information input means, characteristic information extraction means, characteristic information describing means, and pattern processing means making reference to characteristic information. Intentions of a user or characteristics of pattern elements or sets of pattern elements are described and added to the pattern data so that this characteristic information can be referred to when pattern data processing is carried out. Thus, it is possible to make accurate representation of pattern data in a computer, and it is also possible to generate or convert patterns as the user desires.

Abstract: In order to generate a display of a surface, an equation or equations are generated corresponding to all or parts of the surface. The equation or equations represent the surface as a physical membrane. Boundary conditions of the surface can thus be specified, and the equation solved using the boundary conditions as outer constraints to generate a display of the surface. A set of points within the boundary of the surface may be specified, which then define inner constraints for the solution of the equation. Where parts of the surface join at a point or line, a further equation can be generated, which further equation represents the area around the join as a physical membrane. Solution of that equation, preserving the boundary of the area around the join, provides a smooth transition between the parts of the surface.

Abstract: The present invention is to output the geometric form characteristic, such as the principal curvature of a geometric model constituted in a computer to meet an image of a user to easily modify the form. In order to achieve the foregoing object, there is suggested an apparatus for displaying a geometric form characteristic that includes a form display device for displaying, on a display device such as a CRT, a geometric model input in the computer, a position instruction device for indicating, on the display screen, an arbitrary point on the displayed form by using a pointing device such as a mouse, a geometric form characteristic calculating device for calculating the geometric form characteristic at the arbitrarily indicated point, and a geometric form characteristic display device for displaying the calculated geometric form characteristic in the form of a graph.

Abstract: An image combining device scans an image on a large document and prints it. The device includes a memory for storing image signals. In accordance with a first aspect of the device, a scanner scans areas of the document which are individually smaller than the area of the entire document, but combines the areas so as provide an eye-readable representation of the image which was on the large document. This is achieved quickly and efficiently by adjusting a magnification ratio applied to scanned image data, so as to allow the data to fit within the memory. In accordance with another aspect of the device, the combination of the images and the printing of the output are achieved by compressing image data using a binarization processor.

Abstract: A drawing information processing method and system adapted to offer a plurality of types of standard display results for each object to-be-displayed through instructions. Data for specifying the form of the object to-be-displayed, and display method data for stipulating a display method showing how the object to-be-displayed is displayed, are stored so as to correspond to each other. The display method data includes data for designating, for example, a display direction, display range, and display position or the like. A plurality of sets of display method data are stored. For displaying, one data which represents a desired status may be selected from a plurality of displaying method data to display the object to-be-displayed in the selected form based on the selected data.

Abstract: A herein is a method of and an apparatus for electrostatically spray-coating a workpiece with electrically-conductive paint. The workpiece is first sprayed with the paint directly subjected to a high voltage from a rotatable atomizing type spray gun so as to electrostatically coat the work with the paint. Thereafter, cleaning liquid is supplied to a rotatable atomizing head through a line for washing after completion of the electrostatic spray coating process so as to clean the rotatable atomizing head. Further, after the rotatable atomizing head has been washed, the line is dried, and the next electrostatic spray coating process is carried out after the line has been dried. The spray gun includes an inner line as a path, for supplying the paint to the rotatable atomizing head, and an outer line as a path used for washing, for supplying the cleaning liquid used to wash the rotatable atomizing head.