Abstract: An automatic document conveying device for an image-processing machine including a housing having on its upper surface a transparent plate on which to place a document to be processed. The device includes an opening-closing frame member mounted on the housing so that it is free to pivot about a pivot axis extending along the rear edge of the transparent plate between a closed position at which it covers the transparent plate and an open position at which it exposes the transparent plate to view; a stationary frame member to be mounted on the housing adjacent to the upstream end of the transparent plate; a document table disposed on the stationary frame member; a document sending unit for sending a plurality of sheet-like documents placed on the document table to a document carrying-in passage one by one; and a document carrying-in unit for introducing the sheet-like documents sent to the document carrying-in passage toward the transparent plate.

Abstract: A video imaging apparatus changes an area of an imaging element (CCD or MOS type) from which a signal is read out as a TV signal. A normal transfer speed is used to read out the signal from the area as the TV signal and a high transfer speed is used to read out a signal from other area so that smooth movement of an image can be attained.Further, when movement of a video camera occurs, the movement can be judged by observation through a view finder, that is, which partial area of the whole area of the imaging element is produced as the TV signal can be recognized.

Abstract: A color image processing apparatus includes line sensors and an A/D converter for entering color-sequential image data in which plural color component signals are sequentially arranged, a first converter for converting the color-sequential image data into parallel image data, a color image processor for effecting color image processing on the parallel image data obtained from the first converter, a second converter for converting the parallel image data into color-sequential image data, and a device for supplying the color-sequential image data converted by the second converter to the color-sequential image data processor at a next stage in the processing of the color component signals.

Abstract: An air feeding system for a vehicle engine equipped with a supercharger comprises an inlet passage provided in an engine room with its first section interconnecting an air cleaner and a throttle valve, its second section interconnecting the throttle valve and the supercharger, and its third section interconnecting the supercharger and an engine body of the vehicle engine for feeding a cylinder in the engine body with intake air introduced through the air cleaner into the first section. The air cleaner is disposed at a front portion of one side half of the engine room and the supercharge is disposed in the other side half of the engine room. A part of the inlet passage including the first and second series is arranged to extend backward from the air cleaner and then to extend further along a dash panel forming a rear end of the engine room from one side half to the other side half of the engine room so as to reach temperature.

Abstract: An automatic document conveying device for use with an image processing machine having a transparent plate on which to place documents. The device includes an opening-closing frame and a document table. A conveyor roller is rotatably mounted in the opening-closing frame. A document delivery device is provided for delivering sheet-like documents from the document table. The document delivered from the document table is introduced into a required position on the transparent plate by the conveyor roller. The rotation of the conveyor roller in the introducing direction is stopped while the introduced document is still between the conveyor roller and the transparent plate. A guiding device which permits advance of the document from the document table to the transparent plate but hampers movement of the document from the transparent plate toward the document table and defects it upwardly, is provided between the document table and the conveyor roller.

Abstract: A delay circuit delays an input signal having a predetermined frequency by a time corresponding to a control signal. A delay amount detector detects a signal delay amount of the delay circuit. A charge pump circuit generates a DC voltage corresponding to a pulse width ratio between the input signal and a detection signal of the delay amount detector. This DC voltage is fed back to the delay circuit as a control signal.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus or a process kit detachable relative to such an apparatus in which the contact pressure of a blade-like charging member to an image carrying member is made smaller than the contact pressure of a blade-like cleaning member to the image carrying member. This relationship reduces abrasion and damage of the image carrying member, and makes it possible uniformly and stably to charge the image carrying member.

Abstract: A workpiece folding device for a sewing machine which can fold the peripheral edge of a fabric such as pocket cloth, comprising a gage plate on which the pocket cloth is placed, a press plate superimposed on the gage plate for folding down the edge of the cloth along the contour of the gage plate, a folding-pieces support member surrounding the periphery of the gage plate, a plurality of folding pieces provided on the folding-pieces support member and shifted between two positions: an operational position under the gage plate for folding down the peripheral edge of the cloth and a preparatory position apart from the gage plate, and a plurality of pinching pieces for pinching the gage plate, the cloth and the press plate in cooperation with the corresponding folding pieces in the operational position.

Abstract: A drive ring drivable by a stepping motor is normally urged by a spring to turn in one direction around a lens aperture. When not in use, the stepping motor is not subjected to the resilient force from the spring since the drive ring is locked against rotation by a ratchet wheel engaged by an engagement lever. The stepping motor is therefore not subjected to undue stresses and is prevented from malfunctioning. Consequently, focusing failures and exposure adjustment failures which could otherwise arise from malfunctioning of the stepping motor are prevented from occurring. In operation, a solenoid is energized to move the engagement lever out of engagement with the ratchet wheel, which is then freed to allow the drive ring to be turned by the stepping motor.

Abstract: An automatic cut-sheet feeding apparatus includes a feed roller which rotates in a direction so as to feed in and feed out an upper most cut-sheet, and means for stopping the feeding of excessive cut-sheets which should not be fed out together with the uppermost cut-sheet when a plurality of cut-sheets are fed in together by the feed roller, and thereby automatically feeding cut only the uppermost cut-sheet of the stack of cut-sheet one by one, the stopping means includes a holder pressed against said feed roller, a push-piece supported on the holder and pressed at a position preceding a position where the holder makes contact with said feed roller along a direction in which the cut-sheet is transported thus causing excessive cut-sheets to curve downwards when a plurality of cut-sheets pass between the feed roller and the push-piece, and a stop surface disposed to confront a leading edge of the curved excessive cut-sheet and engage the leading edge thereof.

Abstract: A cruise control system for an automotive vehicle with a manual or automatic transmission, includes an inhibition circuit. The inhibiting circuit blocks communication between a power supply and an actuator and/or a controller when the manual transmission is set in a predetermined gear or when the automatic transmission is set in a driving range other than the drive range, so as to inhibit the controller from operating in the cruise control mode. When the vehicle is provided with an automatic transmission which is selectively set in first, second, third or fourth gear while the shift lever is set in the drive range position, the cruise control system includes a first inhibiting circuit which blocks the communication when the shift lever is set in a position other than the drive range position, and a second inhibiting circuit which blocks the communication when the automatic transmission is set in either the first or second range while the shift lever is set in the drive range position.

Abstract: A booster circuit comprises first to third MOS-FETs, and a capacitance element. In the first MOS-FET, a gate is connected to a first signal terminal, a drain is connected to an output terminal, and a source is connected to a first power supply. In the second MOS-FET, a gate is connected to a predetermined point, a drain is connected to a signal terminal, to which a first signal being an inverted signal of a signal applied to the first signal terminal is applied, and a source is connected to the predetermined point. In the third MOS-FET, a gate is connected to a second power supply, a drain is connected to a second signal terminal, and a source is connected to the predetermined point. The capacitance element is connected at one terminal to a signal terminal, to which a second signal being an inverted signal of a signal applied to the second signal terminal is applied, and at the other terminal to the output terminal. In operation, a predetermined voltage is obtained with a high speed at the output terminal.

Abstract: A bleaching composition comprises a peroxide and an amphoteric organic per acid precursor. In particular the amphoteric organic per acid precursor is a quaternary ammonium salt has the following formula in which Z is sulfonate or carboxylate and is a new compound.

Abstract: A precharging circuit of a semiconductor memory device has a plurality of precharging transistors arranged in rows and columns and respectively associated with bit line pairs, and each of the bit line pairs is coupled to two of the precharging transistors in the same row, so that these precharging transistors are substantially equivalent in the electric influences of another component conductive strips passing in a direction substantially in parallel to the row direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit device adopting a gate array scheme, having a plurality of layers of wiring formed by a Design Automation system. The device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate having basic cell forming regions, the basic cell forming regions being spaced from each other with wiring channel regions between adjacent basic cell forming regions. The wiring includes at least first-layer wiring lines arranged overlying the wiring channel regions; second-layer wiring lines overlying both the basic cell forming regions and the wiring channel regions; and third-layer wiring lines overlying both the basic cell forming regions and the wiring channel regions. The first-, second- and third-layer wiring lines respectively extend in first, second and third directions, the second direction being different from the first direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-pin chip mounting method and apparatus based on a TAB (Tape Automated Bonding) system in which leads formed on a tape and bumps formed an IC chip are aligned with each other and compress-bonded to each other. An IC chip having bumps formed on a surface thereof and inner leads formed on a carrier tape are disposed opposite to each other at a bonding station. A position of the IC chip on a stage is detected through the inner leads at the bonding station to determine the amount of correction of position of the stage. The inner leads and the IC chip are aligned with each other on the basis of the determined correction amount and are thereafter bonded to each other.

Abstract: A full-size optical sensor device includes a sensor array having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The sensor array is divided into a plurality of groups, each of them having a plurality of the photoelectric conversion elements. The full-size optical sensor also includes a driving circuit for selectively driving the photoelectric conversion elements of the sensor array. The driving circuit includes a shift register and a selector for selecting one of the driven photoelectric conversion elements in accordance with an external control signal and a shifting operation of the shift register. The selector includes a plurality of circuit sets, each of the circuit sets being connected between one of the bits of the shift register and one of the groups having photoelectric conversion elements. Each of the circuit sets selects one of the driven photoelectric conversion elements in accordance with the external control signal and a signal from one of the bits of the shift register.

Abstract: A rubber composition based on a rubbery polymer and a silica-based reinforcing filler can be imparted with a greatly improved workability in roll milling and molding as well as in the mechanical properties of the vulcanizates prepared therefrom when the rubber composition is admixed with an acetylene alcohol or an alkylene-oxide adduct of acetylene alcohol presumably by virtue of the improvement in the dispersibility of the reinforcing filler in the rubbery matrix. The improvement obtained by the addition of the acetylene alcohol compound is not limited to the dispersibility of silica fillers but also to the dispersibility of carbon black when the rubbery polymer is an organopolysiloxane-modified acrylic polymer.

Abstract: A switch structure suitable for a compact switch device is disclosed. The switch structure is formed of a push button, a switch body switched in correspondence with a pressing operation of the push body and a switch base or a switch holder holding these elements unitary, and a spring member which is elastically deformed in correspondance with the pressing operation of the push button is provided between the push button and the switch body. The switch holder has a fixing member detachably engaged with the switch body for fixing the switch body. The spring member provided between the push button and the switch body makes the pressing stroke longer by the amount of elastic deformation of the spring member. A fixing member provided in the holder fixes surely and easily the switch body in the holder.

Abstract: A photoreceptor comprising a photosensitive layer and a support, wherein said photosensitive layer contains a polycarbonate compound binder selected from the group consisting of Formula A and B, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic, or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon ring, provided that at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 has at least 3 carbon atoms, Z represents a group of atoms necessary to constitute a substituted or unsubstituted carbon ring or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocylic ring, R.sub.3 to R.sub.10 in Formulas A and B are independently hydrogen, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic, or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon ring, and n is a number from 10 to 1000.