Abstract: In the vehicle-lamp lighting-on device, a body case has a connection opening formed in the front end thereof. A lighting-on transformer is disposed within the body case. The transformer includes a core housing with an iron core and a coil bobbin with a secondary coil wound thereon. The connection opening of the body case is shielded at the front end of the lighting-on transformer. A socket for receiving a vehicle discharge lamp includes a high-voltage terminal and low-voltage terminals. When the socket is inserted into the connection opening of the body case, the high-voltage terminal of the socket is connected to the high-voltage side terminal of the lighting-on transformer, and the low-voltage terminals are connected to the low-voltage side terminals. The connection opening of the body case is shielded by the front surface (made of insulating material) of the lighting-on transformer.

Abstract: An underwater laser processing method is carried out by irradiating, through a laser beam irradiation apparatus, a laser beam having a high output, a short pulse and a visible wavelength to a surface of a structure immersed in a water to improve residual stress of a material of the surface of the structure and remove a crack or a CRUD thereof. The laser beam irradiation apparatus comprises a pulse laser device suspended into a water in which a metal material is accommodated from an upper side thereof for irradiating a laser beam having a visible wavelength to a processing position, a beam strength adjusting device for adjusting an output per 1 pulse of a laser beam generated by the pulse laser device and a mechanism for adjusting a spot diameter and a multiplexing ratio of an irradiated beam.

Abstract: A video coding device capable of making coded data have a hierarchical structure, a specified area of each frame is selected. The position and the shape of the selected area are encoded, a pixel value of the selected area is encoded as slower-layer coded data, a pixel value of a whole image is encoded as first upper-layer coded data by using pixel values of already decoded images of the lower-layer and the first upper layer and a pixel value of the selected area is encoded as second upper-layer coded data by using pixel values of already decoded images of the lower-layer and the second upper layer.

Abstract: In a cooling water circuit system, cooling water pumped by a mechanically-driven first water pump circulates in a cooling water circuit, and flows through a radiator and a heater core in parallel in the cooling water circuit. An electrically-driven second water pump is disposed in the cooling water circuit at a position where cooling water to be supplied to the radiator from the first water pump and cooling water to be supplied to the heater core from the first water pump flow together. A check valve is provided in the cooling water circuit in parallel with the second water pump so that cooling water flows in one way from a water suction side of the second water pump toward a discharge side thereof. Thus, when the second water pump is operated, a total amount of cooling water pumped by the first water pump and the second water pump can flow through the radiator and the heater core.

Abstract: A tape-connected fastener comprising a plurality of fasteners and a tape. The fasteners are aligned in parallel, and the tape is pasted onto opposite sides of shaft portions of the fasteners so as to connect the fasteners. The tape has tear-guiding means extending from a lower end portion of one fastener arbitrary selected from the fasteners to an upper end portion of a fastener adjacent to the fastener.

Abstract: An electrically controlled sewing machine includes a needle bar, a needle plate, a feed dog, a feed dog vertical drive mechanism, a feed dog front/rear drive mechanism, an embroidery drive mechanism, and a feed dog retraction mechanism. The feed dog retraction mechanism includes a switching operation lever. The feed dog vertical drive mechanism includes a normal sewing drive cam and a retraction drive cam, which are switched between using the switching operation lever. The retraction drive cam drives the feed dog to rise upward by about 1 mm when the upper thread is being tightened, that is, at about 40.degree. to 90.degree. phase at the end of the thread tightening operation by the upper thread take-up lever. Because the feed dog moves upward only about 1 mm, it remains retracted below the level of the needle plate and will not interfere with movement of a workpiece cloth mounted in an embroidery frame.

Abstract: A photothermographic material for a photomechanical process which is high in sensitivity and high in contrast and can provide an image low in Dmin by UV light, comprising a support having provided thereon a light-insensitive organic silver salt, a light-sensitive silver halide formed independently of the light-insensitive organic silver salt, and a binder, wherein the main binder of an image formation layer containing the light-sensitive silver halide is a polymer latex having a glass transition-temperature of 40.degree. C. or less, said image formation layer is formed by applying a coating solution in which 60% by weight or more of a solvent is water, and the light-sensitive silver halide is gold-sensitized silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of 80 mol % or more per silver halide.

Abstract: This discloses an electronic component of a miniature size to be used as e.g. automobile engine peripheral components, such as an exhaust gas oxygen sensor, a heat sensor, and a heater. More specifically, the invention provides an electronic component integral with a heat resistant terminal that is pressure-fitting or shrink-fitted on a ceramic element of the electronic component. This electronic components shows great mechanical and electrical performance, withstanding the high temperature environment over 400 and up to 800.degree. C. to which the ceramic element of the component required expose.The terminal incorporated in this high temperature electronic component comprises a plurality of metal wire leads that electrically connect to a surface of a bar-like ceramic element, at least two ceramic insulators that surround the leads, and a thermal resistant metal ring that shrink-fits or pressure-fits around the ceramic insulators so that the metal leads press in a radial direction holding the element firmly.

Abstract: Apparatus and corresponding method for recording and reproducing video data to and from a record medium operate to communicate with plural external devices. The recording/reproducing apparatus includes plural audio/video data input/output devices each of which is programmable and coupled to a respective external device for receiving video data therefrom and transmitting reproduced video data thereto. Each input/output device is operable to receive a recording or reproducing external request signal from the respectively coupled external device, generate a respective recording/reproducing request signal in response thereto, output the request signal, receive data reproduced from a record medium during a reproducing operation and supply the reproduced data to the external device, and receive video data from the external device during a recording operation and supply the video data for recording on the record medium.

Abstract: A magnetic disc apparatus capable of selectively driving at least two types of the magnetic discs having signal recording portions on their major surfaces and having different recording densities. The magnetic disc apparatus includes a main head carriage mounted for movement on a base block, a supporting arm having its one end supported by a main head carriage, and a magnetic head having a first transducer having a slider, and a first core and adapted for accessing information signals at a first recording density, and a second transducer having a second core and adapted for accessing information signals at a second recording density higher than the first recording density. A magnetic gap for the first transducer and a magnetic gap for the second transducer are formed on the surface of the magnetic head facing the major surface of the magnetic disc.

Abstract: In order to facilitate pupil distance adjustment, diopter adjustment and convergence adjustment, in a spectacle type display arrangement which utilizes of a pair of image generating units for projecting images on left and right eyes respectively, a pair of shafts are installed in a housing by way of a frame, and a pair of lens and mirror units are reciprocally mounted on the shafts so as to movable toward and away from each other. A slide plate which forms part of a backlight is disposed on the frame so as to be slidable in the fore-and-aft direction. A pair of shafts are disposed one above the other at the upper and lower portions of the backlight. A pair of LCD holders which form a part of the pair of image source means are supported on the shafts so as to be laterally movable toward and away from each other.

Abstract: A multiplex driving method is provided for a liquid crystal cell device having a liquid crystal layer disposed between a pair of substrates, a plurality of row electrodes arranged on one of the substrates and a plurality of column electrodes arranged on the other substrate. The method comprises the steps of sequentially selecting a group of the plurality of row electrodes during a selection period, simultaneously selecting the row electrodes comprising the group, and dividing and separating the selection period into a plurality of intervals within one frame period.

Abstract: A rubber composition comprising a diene rubber, a reinforcing agent and a compound containing radicals capable of being stably present at room temperature in the presence of oxygen in the molecule thereof, selected from the group consisting of nitroxide radicals, hydrazyl radicals, allyloxyl radicals, and trityl radicals and the analogues thereof or a compound having at least one substituent group selected from amino groups, isocyanate groups, hydroxyl groups, carboxyl groups, oxirane groups, and thiirane groups.

Abstract: To provide an ignition device advantageous in cost and space by using an inexpensive small-sized Zener diode having a Zener voltage lower than an induced voltage generated at a primary current supply timing, so as to prevent sparking of a spark plug due to the induced voltage. An ignition device for an internal combustion engine, includes a Zener diode provided on the secondary lower-voltage side of an ignition coil. The Zener diode comes into conduction at a voltage lower than an induced voltage generated at a primary current supply timing.

Abstract: A receiving method in the receiving equipment in, first, a service table composed of channel numbers currently on air is made and, if the channel key is judged to be pressed, a channel number searched from the service table is displayed on the screen. If the channel key is judged to be pressed continuously, only the channel numbers are changed and if the channel key is judged to be released, a channel selection is started. There is thus provideded a receiving equipment capable of swiftly selecting a desired channel of the television broadcasting.

Abstract: A fuel pump comprises a pump unit and a motor unit. The pump unit is a trochoid gear type having rotors in a pump chamber defined by a pair of side plates and a cylindrical housing. A disk plate is attached to the side plate to provide an arcuate-shaped pressure pulsation reducing passage jointly with the side plate. Protrusions or recesses are provided in the passage to cause turbulence in fuel flowing through the passage. This turbulence scatters pressure pulsation in the fuel thereby to reduce the pressure pulsation.

Abstract: A heating apparatus for a vehicle includes a heat exchanger for heating air blown into a passenger compartment by using cooling water for cooling an engine as a heating source, and a combustor for heating cooling water flowing into the heat exchanger. When the combustor is stopped, exhaust gas of the engine is introduced into the combustor so that the exhaust gas of the engine is heat-exchanged with cooling water in the combustor, and is introduced into an intake pipe of the engine. Therefore, exhaust gas of the engine, introducing into the intake pipe of the engine, is cooled in the combustor without an additional heat exchanger provided in an engine compartment.

Abstract: A printing device according to the present invention includes a dye tank for containing a powdered vaporizable dye, an entrance section for liquefying the powdered vaporizable dye and a vaporizing section for radiating a laser light beam onto the liquefied dye transported to it by the entrance section for vaporizing the liquefied dye for thermal transcription of the vaporized dye onto a photographic paper. In this manner, printing may be made without employing an ink ribbon or a thermal head and hence the saving in power and the reduction in size and costs of the printing device may be achieved. Besides, the printing time may be shortened, while the size of the printing paper may be set freely. A photographic paper according to the present invention includes a light absorbing layer between a receptor layer and a photographic paper base.

Abstract: A radiation sensitive resist composition with high sensitivity, capable of forming a highly heat-resistant resist pattern. The radiation-sensitive resist composition contains, together with a resist material, a polymer which is obtained by reacting (a) a xylylene compound, (b) salicylic acid and (c) 9,9'-bis(hydroxyphenyl)fluorene derivatives or diol compounds of 3,3,3',3'-tetramethyl-2,3,2',3'-tetrahydro-(1,1')-spirobiindene, and which has a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 to 5,000 and Tg of 100 to 150.degree. C. Examples of (c) include 9,9'-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)fluorene and 3,3,3',3'-tetramethyl-2,3,2',3'-tetrahydro-(1,1')-spirobiindene-6,6'-diol. As the resist material, any of positive- and negative-working resists may be used, with that comprising an alkali-soluble resin and a quinonediazide photo-sensitizer being preferably used.