Abstract: The present invention relates to a cue signal recording method in which multi-audio tracks are formed by dividing a magnetic tape in a widthwise direction, and PCM data is recorded in a scanning track segment of an audio track of the multi-audio tracks by a helically scanning rotary head. A cue signal is then recorded in a remaining area of the scanning track segment except for the area recorded with the PCM data, such as in the after-recording-margin area or the track-guard area which is immediately after the PCM data area.

Abstract: A VTR of helical scan type includes a rotary magnetic head fixed on an electro-mechanical converter made of a piezoelectric element and adapted to be displaced along the width of a recording track. In this type of VTR, the rotary head can follow the curving of the recording track, and therefore a superior reproduction output is always produced. Also, a noiseless reproduction image is provided at the time of special reproduction with a tape feed rate different from the recording speed. When the electro-mechanical converter is driven, the average DC component of the drive voltage is desirably reduced to zero to secure a dynamic range effectively. Especially this consideration is necessary to maintain the service life of the piezoelectric element which may make up the electro-mechanical converter.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rear wheel suspension device for a front and rear wheel steering vehicle wherein rear wheels are steered in an opposite phase relationship relative to the front wheels at least under a certain condition. The structure of the suspension for the rear wheels is so determined that a caster angle of each of the rear wheels relatively sharply increases as the distance between the vehicle body and the rear wheel is increased from a neutral state and maintains a smaller positive value as the distance between the vehicle body and the rear wheel is decreased from the neutral state. This can be accomplished by pivotably connecting the knuckle for each of the rear wheels by an upper arm and a lower arm to the vehicle body, respectively, and a rotational axial line of the upper arm inclines downward at its forward portion while the rotational axial line of the lower arm extends substantially parallel to the length of the vehicle.

Abstract: A suspension for a motor vehicle has a link structure and a spring interposed between the link structure and a vehicle frame. The link structure comprises a trailing arm extending substantially longitudinally of the vehicle frame and having a front end pivotally coupled to the vehicle frame and a rear end supporting a wheel, upper and lower arms extending substantially transversely of the vehicle frame and each having one end pivotally coupled to the vehicle frame and an opposite end pivotally coupled to the trailing arm in the vicinity of a rear end thereof, and a compensation link having one end pivotally coupled to the vehicle frame and an opposite end pivotally coupled to the trailing arm. The suspension is relatively lightweight, inexpensive to construct, and has excellent performance.

Abstract: In a lock control for a shared storage, each storage controller (SC) includes circuitry (LKA) for holding the addresses locked by any of the storage utilizing units connected thereto and circuitry (FLKA) for holding a copy of the contents of LKAs of the other SCs. When one storage utilizing unit connected to one SC issues a storage access request, its requested address is compared with the contents of the LKA and FLKA in the associated SC, thus determining whether or not the requested address is locked by any other storage utilizing unit connected to that particular SC or by any of the storage utilizing units connected to the other SCs. Each storage utilizing unit may include a FLKA.

Abstract: An access control system for controlling the access to a storage which is divided into a hardware area inaccessible to ordinary programs and a software area for storing the ordinary programs, includes an address registration device and access controller. The address registration device has a plurality of entries, each of which holds a previously-used address of the storage and a flag for indicating whether the previously-used address is included in the hardware area or not. Further, the address registration device indicates whether an address at which the storage is to be accessed, is present in the address registration device or not. The access controller controls the access to the storage in accordance with the flag from the address registration device, a signal indicative of whether the to-be-accessed address of the storage is present in the address registration device or not, and the access mode which is now used.

Abstract: A suspension for a motor vehicle has a link structure and a spring interposed between the link structure and a vehicle frame. The link structure comprises a trailing arm extending substantially longitudinally of the vehicle frame and having a front end pivotally coupled to the vehicle frame and a rear end supporting a wheel, upper and lower arms extending substantially transversely of the vehicle frame and each having one end pivotally coupled to the vehicle frame and an opposite end pivotally coupled to the trailing arm in the vicinity of a rear end thereof, and a compensation link having one end pivotally coupled to the vehicle frame and an opposite end pivotally coupled to the trailing arm. The suspension is relatively lightweight, inexpensive to construct, and has excellent performance.

Abstract: A shock absorber/coil assembly in a motor vehicle suspension includes a fluid cylinder, a piston rod movable into and out of the cylinder, a vibration isolator mounted on an end of the piston rod, and a coil spring disposed around the fluid cylinder and the piston rod. A mount assembly for mounting the shock absorber/coil assembly includes a retainer adapted to be mounted on the vibration isolator and to be attached to a motor vehicle frame, a spring seat adapted to engage an end of the coil spring, and a thrust bearing interposed between the retainer and the spring seat and adapted to extend around the vibration isolator, the thrust bearing including a pair of first and second races and a plurality of balls rotatably disposed between the first and second races, the first race engaging the retainer and the second race engaging the spring seat.

Abstract: A trailing arm joint structure includes a knuckle for supporting a wheel and a substantially plate-like trailing arm lying in a vertical plane and having a front end adapted to be pivotally coupled to a vehicle frame and a rear end pivotally coupled to the knuckle. The knuckle has a front bifurcated portion composed of first upper and lower joint fingers extending forwardly and spaced vertically from each other, the knuckle having a link joint positioned between the first upper and lower joint fingers. The rear end of the trailing arm has a rear bifurcated portion composed of second upper and lower joint fingers extending rearwardly and spaced vertically from each other, the front and rear bifurcated portions being held against each other with said first and second upper and lower joint fingers being fastened together.

Abstract: A storage control system controls the update operations on two buffer address arrays in a data processing system in which a plurality of processors are connected to a shared storage, at least one of the processors having a buffer storage. The first buffer address array is the directory of buffer storage. The second buffer address array contains the same data as that of the first buffer address array. The storage control system updates first the content of the second buffer address array then that of the first buffer address array in response to a block transfer to the buffer storage of the own processor and a store operation conducted by other processor on the shared storage. The storage control system permits to accept a new access request occurred in the own processor on condition that a block transfer to the own processor is finished and that the first buffer address array is updated in association with the block transfer.

Abstract: In order to guarantee the instruction execution sequence in a pipeline control data processing system, the present overlap detector device detects whether or not the operands overlap each other in access width units by comparing the store address specified by a store instruction with the fetch address contained in a fetch instruction following the store instruction. Moreover, the overlap detector device detects whether or not an overlap occurs in an area of the access width based on the store mark, the address in the access width unit stored in the fetch address, and the fetch data length. The overlap detector device detects the presence or absence of an overlap according to the results of operations for detecting these two overlap conditions.

Abstract: Change bits are provided in correspondence with storage information units (blocks or pages) of a storage, and indicate whether or not a "store" operation has been performed into the corresponding storage information units. The change bits are retained in a first retention device in correspondence with the storage information units, and a copy of the change bits in the first retention device is retained in a second retention device. When the store operation is performed to effect a storing of data into the storage, a control device refers to the change bit retained by the second retention device and controls updating of the change bit of the first retention device in accordance with the indication of the change bit referred to.

Abstract: A ball joint (9) for mutually rotatably interconnecting two members (12, 5), the ball joint (9) including a ball shaft (35) attached to one member (12) out of the aforesaid two members, the ball shaft (35) having at one end thereof a ball (34) rotatably accommodated in a housing (31) attached to the other member (5) out of the aforesaid two members, and a dust boot (50) fitted on the ball shaft (35) to surround the ball shaft (35), the dust boot (50) being fixedly attached at one end thereof to the housing (31) and formed at the other end thereof with a seal lip (54) adapted to come into elastic contact with the aforesaid one member (12). The dust boot (50) has formed thereon a projected portion (53) surrounding the seal lip (54) and facing the side of the aforesaid one member (12) so that a labyrinth (S) defined between the projected portion (53) and the aforesaid one member (12).

Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproduction system of the helical scan type is disclosed. During the recording process, pilot signals for reproduction tracking control are sequentially recorded by the rotary magnetic head in recording tracks in proximity to each other in superimposed relation with the television signal to be recorded. During the normal reproduction process, from the level difference between the crosstalk signals of the pilot signals reproduced from the recording tracks adjacent to the recording track to be reproduced, a tracking error is detected to control the relative positions of the recording track and the reproduction scanning traces of the reproduction magnetic head. During the reproduction process at a speed different from that for recording, on the other hand, a pulse signal is produced at a time point when the crosstalk levels of the pilot signals reproduced from the tracks adjacent to the recording track to be reproduced coincide with each other.

Abstract: A storage system includes a storage for storing data, and a store buffer for temporarily buffering data before storing it into the storage. A store request is applied to the store buffer, and store data accompanied by the store request is applied to the store buffer. When a fetch request for the storage does not exist, the store data buffered in the store buffer is transferred from the store buffer to the storage and is stored therein.

Abstract: In a storage hierarchy system, a part of data stored in a main storage in held as a copy by a buffer storage of a smaller capacity and higher speed than the main storage. A processor fetches data from the buffer storage or stores data in the buffer storage at a high speed. A buffer storage control system includes a first buffer directory and a second buffer directory. The first buffer directory and the buffer storage are accessed by an address for a fetch request, while the second buffer directory and the buffer storage are accessed by an address for store request, whereby competition for the access to the buffer storage between the fetch and store operations is reduced.

Abstract: A suspension arm supporting structure for overhead attachment of an upper suspension control arm to the vehicle body using a pair of bolts, each with a large head protruding downwardly towards the wheel, a hole in each head aligned along the same horizontal axis, and a horizontal bolt extending between the two holes in the heads of the vertical bolts to pivotally connect an upper suspension control arm to the vehicle body.

Abstract: The present memory control system fetches data blocks from memories, fetches data corresponding to the unit of processing in the execution unit from the data blocks, and transfers the data to the execution unit. Data blocks fetched from the memories are held in first hold device. The data blocks held in the first hold device are transferred to second hold device via gate. The gate selectively transfers all or a part of data in data blocks held by the first hold device to the second hold device. When a part of data held in the first hold device is transferred, the second hold device forms data blocks by using the data previously held and the data newly transferred from the first hold device. A data fetch device fetches the data corresponding to the unit length of data processing in the execution unit from the data blocks held in said second hold device and transfers the data to said execution unit.

Abstract: A vehicle suspension system comprising a knuckle arm supporting a wheel, upper and lower arms connecting the knuckle arm to a frame of a vehicle body, and a radius rod and a stabilizer each having an end attached to the lower arm in the vicinity of an end thereof connected to the knuckle arm. The lower arm has an attachment aperture defined therethrough substantially longitudinally of the vehicle body. Either the radius rod or the stabilizer is coupled to one of upper and lower surfaces of the lower arm, the other being inserted in the attachment aperture and coupled to the lower arm therein.

Abstract: This storage system is designed to refer to a translation lookaside buffer, a buffer address array and a buffer storage in parallel. The translation lookaside buffer translates a logical address requesting memory access into a real address. The buffer storage retains part of the data retained in blocks by main storage and outputs data from M blocks in accordance with the logical address to M aligners. The buffer address array retains the addresses in MS of the data stored in each of the blocks in the buffer storage, and outputs M addresses in accordance with the logical address. A comparator compares the real addresses from the translation lookaside buffer with the addresses from the buffer address array, selects one of the outputs from the aligners, and transfers that output to a processor.