Abstract: A novel probe for detecting Salmonella comprises:a labeled substance, anda DNA or RNA fragment which hybridizes with a base sequence having the following formula (I), or (II) being complementary to the formula (I).5'-GCTCAGACGTATGGCGGTA-3' (I)3'-CGAGTCTGCATACCGCCAT-5' (II)This invention also provides a method for detecting Salmonella by using the probe.The probe reduces the time required for detecting Salmonella.

Abstract: In a hydraulic active suspension system, a plurality of actuators having working fluid chambers are provided corresponding to vehicle wheels. Each actuator is adapted to increase and decrease vehicle height as the results of the supply and the discharge of working fluid to and from its working fluid chamber, respectively. Supplying and discharging devices supply working fluid to and discharge from the working fluid chamber. Vehicle height sensors detect the vehicle heights at the locations corresponding to the vehicle wheels. A control device is further provided. The control device controls the supplying and discharging devices so that the pressure within the working fluid chamber in each actuator may be a value corresponding to the sum of a basic pressure determined according to the running conditions of the vehicle and a compensating pressure determined based upon the integral value of the difference between a standard vehicle height and an actual vehicle height.

Abstract: A piston structure includes protection of the peripheral edge portion of a lubricant injection nozzle receptacle cut-out. The piston structure employs mechanisms for reinforcing the peripheral edge portion of the cut-out to an extent that can avoid concentration of the stress and thus can avoid the formation of cracks.

Abstract: A printed circuit dispersive transmission line structure is disclosed comprising an insulator, a ground plane formed on one surface of the insulator, a first transmission line formed on a second surface of the insulator, and a second transmission line also formed on the second surface of the insulator and of longer length than the first transmission line and periodically intersecting the first transmission line. In a preferred embodiment, the transmission line structure exhibits highly dispersive characteristics by designing the length of one of the transmission line between two adjacent periodic intersections to be longer than the other.

Abstract: A data drive type air conditioner control apparatus includes a main controller for controlling an air conditioner having a plurality of control modes and including an operation procedure memory for storing control operation procedures corresponding to the respective control modes of the air conditioner, and a control data memory for storing numerical data to be used for the control of the air conditioner and including a numerical data memory for initially storing numerical data to be used for controlling the drive of the air conditioner, such that the main controller drives the air conditioner in accordance with the numerical data stored in the control data memory.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a clock signal supplying device provided with an automatic phase regulating function for preventing errors in the phase regulation due to noise. In the device according to the present invention, there is disposed a reference signal serving as a phase reference, and transmission lines for clock signals and a transmission line for the reference signal are disposed from a clock signal supplying source to devices which are destinations of the distribution of clock signals. The transmission line for the reference signal is adjusted in advance so as to produce no skew. In the device, which is the destination of distribution of the clock signal, there is disposed a variable delay circuit for regulation of the phase of the clock signal and a phase comparing circuit for comparing the output of the variable delay circuit with the phase of the reference signal to output the result of the comparison.

Abstract: A video camera apparatus is arranged such that an electronic viewfinder and a grip portion incorporating a driving circuit therefor are installed rotatably on a video camera body so that an angle of installation of the grip portion is made changeable with respect to the video camera body.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is provided with a first adder which outputs a sum signal by adding a first luminance signal produced from the signals of odd-numbered lines of a solid-state image sensor and a second luminance signal produced from the signals of even-numbered lines of the solid-state image sensor, a first subtracter which outputs a difference signal by subtracting the first luminance signal from the second luinance signal, a noise reducer which reduces noise in the difference signal, a second adder which outputs a third luminance signal by adding the difference signal with its noise reduced to the sum signal, and a second subtracter which outputs a fourth luminance signal by subtracting the difference signal with its noise reduced from the sum signal. A frame still picture is formed from the third luminance signal and fourth luminance signal.

Abstract: A benzamide derivative of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen or methyl, and R is hydroxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkoxy, alkenylalkoxy, alkoxyalkoxy, amino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 monoalkylamino, monoalkenylamino, dialkylamino or O-cat wherein cat is a metal, ammonium or an organic cation.

Abstract: A clock spring which is used in a steering system of a vehicle and which electrically connects, by means of a cable, a stationary member with a movable member supported in such a manner as to be rotatable relative to the stationary member. Cable members are received in a receptacle defined by the stationary and movable members, and a pair of rotary members having mutually communicating openings are rotatably interposed between the stationary and movable members, with the receptacle being bisected into two compartments by the rotary members. Each flexible cable has a first section which is wound in either of two opposite directions and is capable of being received in either of the two compartments, and a second section which is passed through the openings, wound in the other direction and capable of being received in the other compartment.

Abstract: A substrate potential generating circuit of the present invention includes a first charge-pump circuit which produces a higher-potential voltage whose polarity is the same as that of and whose potential is higher than that of the power supply voltage and a second charge-pump circuit to which is supplied as a power source voltage the higher-potential voltage produced by the first charge-pump circuit and which generates a predetermined substrate potential to be supplied to a substrate of a semiconductor integrated circuit. The polarity of the substrate potential is opposite to that of the higher-potential voltage. The circuit of the present invention has enough capability of stably supplying the necessary substrate potential to the substrate without increasing the size of any transistors or capacitor constituting the second charge-pump circuit.

Abstract: A rotation control system for disk player in which the player detects the size of a disk housed in the player, varies the starting torque to be given to the disk motor in response to the detected size, and controls the disk motor so as to require substantially the same length of time before a prescribed rotational frequency is attained, irrespective of the size of the disk.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser device and a method for the production of the semiconductor laser device are provided, which semiconductor laser device includes a striped channel formed in a semiconductor substrate through a current blocking layer on the substrate and at least two dummy grooves formed in the current blocking layer on each side of the striped channel. Also provided are a semiconductor wafer prepared for the purpose of producing optical devices with an optical waveguide, and a method for the production of the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor wafer includes a semiconductor substrate, the surface of which has an orientation inclined from the [100] direction to one of the [011] and [011] directions of an angle .theta. satisfying the relationship 0.1.degree.<.vertline..theta..vertline.<4.degree.

Abstract: A shaped article of gypsum possessing heretofore unattainable high strength, a method for the production of the shaped article, and a method for the production of inclusion water indispensable to the hardening by hydration of the production of the shaped article of gypsum are disclosed.

Abstract: A fluoroelastomer composition comprising a fluoroelastomer, a fluorine-containing surfactant and optionally a vulcanizing agent which has improved processability, particularly mold releasability and mold contamination proofness.

Abstract: In a solid state image sensing device of p-conductivity type well, photo-electro converting region (1) are configurated to have larger area as depth increases, so that excessive electric charges generated in the p-conductivity type well are easily transferred from expanded peripheral parts (7) at the bottom (1b) to channel (3), without being undesirably transferred downward through thin p-conductivity type region 6 to substrate (4), and smear electric charges which has been generated in a thin p-conductivity type well under the photo-electro converting region in the conventional device is suppressed, to effectively decrease the smear phenomenon.

Abstract: The inventive multilayer semiconductor integrated circuit has a columnar semiconductor region provided between adjacent two layers and a control electrode provided in the vicinity of the columnar semiconductor region. The transference of a signal between the adjacent two layers is carried out through the columnar semiconductor region the electric conductivity of which is controlled by a control signal applied to the control electrode. That is, the area corresponding to the columnar semiconductor region functions as an active element.