Abstract: A flexure transducer element used in an acceleration sensor for sensing an acceleration applied thereto and the method of making the same. The flexure transducer element comprises a frame, a sheet member, a weight, and a support member.

Abstract: A film cartridge loader for a camera includes a film cartridge chamber having an opening into which a film cartridge can be loaded, a film cartridge chamber lid, a lid locking unit, a lid close detecting unit, an ejecting unit, a film cartridge interceptive door opening/closing unit, a moving unit, a movement detecting unit, a driving source, and a driving control unit. The film cartridge chamber lid is movable for opening or closing the cartridge chamber opening. The lid locking unit locks the film cartridge chamber lid in a closed state. The lid close detecting unit detects that the film cartridge chamber lid is locked by the lid locking unit. The ejecting unit ejects the film cartridge from the film cartridge chamber. The film cartridge interceptive door opening/closing unit opens or closes the interceptive door of the film cartridge. The moving unit moves the ejecting unit responsively to opening actions performed by the film cartridge interceptive door opening/closing unit.

Abstract: Heavy oil or crude oil spills in sea water are recovered without polluting environment. A natural rubber latex and a coagulant are scattered around lumps of oil spills to coagulate the latex with the coagulant, so that a membrane of the latex is formed around the oil lumps.

Abstract: A camera uses a film cartridge for automatically guiding out a film when the film cartridge is mounted into a film cartridge chamber. A film cartridge unit has the film cartridge chamber. A rail plate unit is formed independently of the film cartridge unit and is also mechanically connected to the film cartridge unit. The rail plate unit faces the film for guiding the move of the film from the film cartridge chamber. The film cartridge unit has a guide route for securely guiding the film from the film cartridge chamber to the rail plate unit.

Abstract: In order to eliminate the unnecessary power consumption caused by the increase in frequency associated with wireless communication systems using electromagnetic induction techniques, the wireless communication system of the present invention modulates and transmits a magnetic field in accordance with information. A close-range receiver is provided with an amorphous magnetic impedance element having an impedance which varies in accordance with the modulated characteristic of the magnetic field. Use of an amorphous magnetic impedance element in the receiver results in a reduction in power and increase in sensitivity of the device.

Abstract: There is provided a condition; n.times.T.ltoreq.P.ltoreq.(n+0.4).times.T between a pulse width P of the driving voltage that is to be applied to said piezoelectric element 7 of a piezoelectric plate 6 and a time T needed for that a pressure wave of ink, which generates when the ink chamber 2 is pressurized through the piezoelectric element 7, travels through the ink chamber by a length thereof. Under the condition, each of the piezoelectric elements 7 is driven. Here, the "n" is an integral odd number (preferably, 1 or 3).

Abstract: A lock device includes a frame which has an opening and a fixed portion internally provided therein. A lid member is hinged to the frame, the lid member being rotatable between an open position and a closed position, the opening of the frame being opened by the lid member at the open position and closed by the lid member at the closed position.

Abstract: An ink jet output apparatus for performing recording operation by ejecting ink from a nozzle section onto a material to be recorded, comprises an input system for setting a type of the material to be recorded, a memory system for storing an optimum viscosity and an optimum droplet amount of the ink to be ejected onto the recording material according to types of materials to be recorded, a control system for regulating the viscosity of the ink to be ejected onto the recording material into an optimum viscosity stored in the memory system in accordance with the material type set in the material type input system, and a regulation system for regulating an amount of an ink droplet to be ejected in accordance with the material type set in the material type input system into an optimum droplet amount stored in the memory system.

Abstract: A pole incorporating solar cells has a lighting device or like electric device attached thereto, and a required number of solar cell modules arranged approximately vertically on at least one portion of peripheral wall of the main body of the pole. The arrangement of solar cell modules has the function of generating the electric energy to be consumed by the electric device for one day, utilizing solar radiation afforded by at least scattered sunlight selected from scattered sunlight or direct sunlight. A storage device is provided in the pole main body and has a capacity to accumulate therein the electric energy to be consumed by the electric device for one day, and is repeatedly charged and discharged every day.

Abstract: The value C defined between the width W1 of the ink chamber 2 and the width W2 of the piezoelectric element portion 7 disposed on the vibrating sheet 5, which is obtained based on an equation; C=(W1-W2)/(2.times.W2), is set in a range of 0.5 to 0.8. This value C=(W1-W2)/(2.times.W2) is an index value of an allowable range of displacement amount of the piezoelectric element portion 7, in which the ink ejecting speed is not influenced by the displacement when the piezoelectric element portion 7 is arranged on the vibrating sheet 5 with the displacement from a center of an upper plane of the ink chamber 2.

Abstract: Disclosed is the ink jet head in which a part of the partition wall of the ink manifold 8 is constructed from the flexible damper membrane 9 which absorbs the pressure wave of the ink by being vibrated therethrough, the damper membrane 9 entirely vibrating under the single vibration mode with the same phase and having the natural frequency so as not to produce resonance with the reflected wave, thereby it can avoid that ink ejecting property is influenced by reflection occurring in the retrograde component of the pressure wave and it can obtain uniform ink ejecting property every ejecting time.

Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) panel cleaning device of the present invention includes a work table and a terminal seat located above the work table. While the cleaning device is in operation, the terminal seat sustains a terminal portion included in an LC panel against a pressure acting on the terminal portion. The terminal seat is connected to ground. This successfully protects the terminal portion from damage and prevents devices built in the panel from being damaged by static electricity.

Abstract: An object of a camera of the present invention is to protect mode change switches, a mode display member, or the like from being damaged or prevent it from malfunctioning, and to improve maneuverability. A center part of a camera body 2 shaped like a rectangular parallelepiped is revealed or hidden by a protective cover 5 that can slide freely between the center part of the camera body 2 and a left-hand part thereof. Arranged on the face, top, and back of the center part of the camera body 2 are a photography lens 3, a strobe 6, and mode change switches 16, a mode display member 17, and the like which are used during photography. These members (photography-time used members) are shielded by the protective cover 5 in a closed state and thus protected from being damaged. Moreover, the incident that the members malfunction can be minimized.

Abstract: Human hepatoma-derived cell line FLC-4 (deposited with the National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology, the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology under Accession Number FERM BP-5165), as well as a method for large-scale production of albumin by culturing the cell line with a radial-flow type bioreactor are provided.

Abstract: A superconducting tube for shielding magnetic fields including a substrate having a tubular wall, a superconducting layer supported by the substrate, and at least two ring-shaped reinforcing members connected to the radially-outer surface of the tubular wall.

Abstract: A coordinate measuring machine and the method of measuring therein wherein the instruction of the geometic shape is prevented from mistaking and the geometic shape of the workpiece is measured without interrupting the joystick operation. The measuring direction of the probe and the measured value of workpiece are taken in the data receiving part. The geometic shape calculation part calculates the errors of each geometic shape based on the measured value from the data receiving part and the formula which was input previously and represents the geometic shape such as "a straight line or circle". And, the geometic shape recognition part compares respective shape errors such as "a straight line and circle" which are calculated in geometic shape calculation part and recognizes the geometic shape having the lowest shape errors.

Abstract: An infrared detecting arrangement includes an infrared detecting element having a heat insulating film and an infrared detector which are disposed between an interior space of a hermetically sealed casing for the element and a cavity formed within a substrate of the element and communicating through a ventilator with the interior space.

Abstract: A fluidized type paint powder tank has a fluidizing chamber for fluidizing paint powder and a storage chamber into which the paint powder in the fluidizing chamber is fed to keep it still. There is also provided a paint supply device for an electrostatic painting apparatus that includes a paint tank for containing paint powder and a painting gun coupled to the paint tank through an injector and a hose. The device includes a discharge member for discharging the paint powder from the paint tank and a hopper for receiving the paint powder discharged by the discharge member. A screw feeder is provided under the hopper. With this arrangement, the paint powder supplied at a uniform rate by the screw feeder is fed into the injector.