Abstract: In a ratchet type chain tensioner, having a toothed rack on its plunger and a pawl cooperable with the rack, a recess is provided between the front end of the rack and the protruding end of the plunger. In the initial stages of operation of the tensioner, the pawl can enter the recess while permitting the plunger to protrude and retract freely within a limited range. Thereafter, when the chain controlled by the tensioner becomes elongated, the pawl cooperates with the rack to limit retraction of the plunger.

Abstract: In a ratchet type chain tensioner, having a toothed rack on its plunger and a pawl cooperable with the rack, a recess is provided between the front end of the rack and the protruding end of the plunger. In the initial stages of operation of the tensioner, the pawl can enter the recess while permitting the plunger to protrude and retract freely within a limited range. Therafter, when the chain controlled by the tensioner becomes elongated, the pawl cooperates with the rack to limit retraction of the plunger.

Abstract: A guide for an engine timing chain comprises a shoe mounted on a guide body, and having opposed, chain-restricting, side walls integrally molded with a chain-contacting shoe bottom. Each wall comprise a low portion, and an outwardly stepped high portion. The height of the low portion less than the distance between the connecting pins of the chain and the chain-contacting surface of the shoe bottom. The height of the high portion, however, is greater than the distance between the connecting pins and the chain-contacting surface. The high portion of each wall is stepped outward sufficiently to provide a clearance between the end of a connecting pin and the inwardly facing side of the high portion when the adjacent outer link plate of the chain is in contact with the corresponding low portion. The height of the high portion, however is greater than the overall height of the timing chain.

Abstract: In a sliding contact chain guide of the kind used in the timing transmission of an internal combustion engine, the back of the guide shoe, which engages a metal guide base, is formed with two, spaced longitudinal ribs, having between them a set of ribs formed in a lattice. The longitudinal ribs are wider than the ribs of the lattice.

Abstract: In a pivoted tensioner lever for maintaining tension in an automobile engine timing chain, an arc-shaped shoe on which the timing chain slides, comprises a guide region, which guides and controls the part of the transmission chain approaching the end of the lever near the pivot axis, and a pressing region, which is continuous with the guide region, and which absorbs the looseness of the transmission chain moving away from the tip of the lever. The radius of curvature of the pressing region is smaller than the radius of curvature of the pressing region.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to enable a maintenance work to be executed with appropriate timing. When jam occurrence is detected by jam sensors placed in a plurality of positions in a sheet transporting path, a control section changes a display state such as a shape and a blinking period of a mark in a display section, in accordance with history information which is stored in a storage section. When the display contents of the display section is visually checked, the part where the jam has occurred can be identified from the display position of the mark, and the jam occurrence history in the part can be known from the shape and the blinking period of the mark. Therefore, it is possible to correctly judge the necessity of a maintenance work.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to enable a maintenance work to be executed with appropriate timing. When jam occurrence is detected by jam sensors placed in a plurality of positions in a sheet transporting path, a control section changes a display state such as a shape and a blinking period of a mark in a display section, in accordance with history information which is stored in a storage section. When the display contents of the display section is visually checked, the part where the jam has occurred can be identified from the display position of the mark, and the jam occurrence history in the part can be known from the shape and the blinking period of the mark. Therefore, it is possible to correctly judge the necessity of a maintenance work.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device which can reduce the number of test processes at the time of full-function test. The semiconductor device connects a pair of pins of a semiconductor chip with a pair of terminals provided in the semiconductor chip by way of a changeover circuit, and controls the changeover circuit according to a control, signal (M_ENA signal) input from the outside of the semiconductor chip, and switches connection between the pair of pins of the semiconductor chip and the pair of terminals provided in the semiconductor chip, and the device includes a switching action test circuit which tests the switching action of the changeover circuit.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device latches externally applied signals received through input/output pads at registers. Signals output from registers are applied to an internal circuit through a switching circuit. Switching circuit is controlled by a signal MIRROR/EN to invert mirror-symmetrically the relation of the signals applied to the internal circuit and the input/output pads.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of sense amplifier groups, a sense amplifier drive circuit, a row decoder, and a memory array with a plurality of memory cells. Each sense amplifier group is activated according to a sense amplifier drive signal from the sense amplifier drive circuit. According to the timing of a word line selection in the row decoder and change in the sense amplifier drive signal, the semiconductor memory device has data of some memory cells connected to word line WLi copied speedily and selectively to other memory cells.

Abstract: Gamma-butyrolactone is prepared by catalytic dehydrogenation of 1,4-butanediol in a gaseous phase in the presence of a catalyst comprising copper, chromium, and manganese and/or barium. Improvement is in that the catalyst further contains sodium and/or potassium, whereby formation of by-products is suppressed and high yield, high selectivity and prolonged catalyst life are attained.