Abstract: Plural regions are defined within a main wing by a plurality of spars and ribs. Of these regions, predetermined regions extending from a main wing connecting portion of the pylon to an internal space of a leading edge skin are used as wiring/piping accommodating chambers for collectively accommodating wiring and piping which provide communication between an engine and a fuselage, a predetermined region adjacent to parts of the wiring/piping accommodating chambers is used as a landing device accommodating chamber for accommodating a landing device and predetermined regions adjacent to other parts of the wiring/piping accommodating chambers are used as fuel tanks. Thus, the maintainability is improved as compared with the case where the wiring and the piping are distributed within the main wing. In addition, because the wiring/piping accommodating chambers are isolated from the landing device accommodating chamber and the fuel tanks, the operational reliability can be improved.

Abstract: In a wing structure for an aircraft, a rib extends in a chord direction for connecting spars to each other with upper and lower stringer through holes through which stringers of skins pass being formed in upper and lower edges of the rib. A bead is formed on the rib so as to extend between the upper and lower stringer through holes. Upper and lower ends of the bead are formed into arcuate shapes so as to surround the upper and lower stringer through holes, respectively. Thus, it is possible to enhance the buckling strength of the rib against a shear load acting on the wing of the aircraft.

Abstract: An illuminator of an electronic endoscope system is provided with a light emission mechanism that consists of a light source emitting white light as general illumination light and an optical chopper that turns a disc at a revolution speed in front of the light source. The disc consists of transparent glass sectors and filter sectors. Each time the general illumination light passes through the filter sectors, the illuminator emits specific illumination light having different spectral characteristics from those of the general illumination light, so a CCD outputs two kinds of image signals under the general illumination light and the specific illumination light. A spectral image producer produces a spectral image of arbitrary wavelength bands from the two kinds of image signals, whereas a general image producer produces a general image from those image signals captured under the general illumination light.

Abstract: The present invention is a system for determining the three dimensional shape of an object, having a first measuring means for measuring a first distance and direction from a fixed first observation point to a first group of measurement points on an object, and a second measuring means for measuring a second distance and direction from a movable second observation point to a second group of measurement points on the aforementioned object, at least one point among said second group of measurement points being the same measurement point as at least one point among the aforementioned first group of measurement points, and said second group of measurement points including at least one measurement point not included in the aforementioned first group of measurement points, and further being provided with a calculating means for calculating the traveling velocity vector of the second observation point from the measurement results concerning the aforementioned same measurement point due to the first and second measur

Abstract: As the hot parison method stretch blow molding, the temperature distribution of the inner side of the body wall of the injection molded preform is changed to the gentle gradient slope shape temperature distribution from the mountain shape not by the external application of heating but by the preform itself so that the bottle which the top load value is improved can be prepared. The preform which is injection molded is mold-released in a high temperature state. The inner side cooling of the preform after mold-release is continued by the injection core. The inner side cooling is terminated by mold-release of the preform from the injection core. The preform is left in a hollow state. The leaving time is made as the temperature-averaging time of the preform. The preform is maintained until the outer surface temperature drops to the stretch blow molding temperature thereafter the peak temperature. In the molding temperature region, the stretch blow molding of the thin-wall hollow molded article is conducted.

Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant DNA comprising DNA coding for smooth-muscle-type myosin heavy chain SM1 isoform protein inserted into vector DNA, a microorganism carrying the recombinant DNA, and an agent for treatment of arteriosclerosis comprising the recombinant DNA. The recombinant DNA of the present invention can be used effectively as an agent for gene therapy of restenosis after PTCA treatment.

Abstract: This invention relates to an image encoding method and apparatus, and particularly has as its object to satisfactorily control the amount of encoded image data. In order to achieve this object, according to this invention, there is disclosed a technique for sequentially controlling the code amounts in accordance with accumulated code amount information and accumulated encoded area information, so that variable-length codes of an image fall within a predetermined memory capacity in a single pass. More specifically, in an image processing apparatus having a compression processor (15) for compressing input image information, and a memory (16) for storing encoded data by the compression processor (15), a code amount controller (14) calculates a reference code amount on the basis of the input image information, and controls the encoding condition of the compression processor (15) on the basis of the calculated reference code amount.

Abstract: This invention relates to an image encoding method and apparatus, and particularly has as its object to satisfactorily control the amount of encoded image data. In order to achieve this object, according to this invention, there is disclosed a technique for sequentially controlling the code amounts in accordance with accumulated code amount information and accumulated encoded area information, so that variable-length codes of an image fall within a predetermined memory capacity in a single pass. More specifically, in an image processing apparatus having a compression processor (15) for compressing input image information, and a memory (16) for storing encoded data by the compression processor (15), a code amount controller (14) calculates a reference code amount on the basis of the input image information, and controls the encoding condition of the compression processor (15) on the basis of the calculated reference code amount.