Abstract: A switching power supply unit which contains a secondary battery for backup and a circuit for controlling the charging and discharging of the secondary battery in its enclosure and which properly manages the charging and discharging of the secondary battery. A switching power supply circuit includes a rectifying and smoothing circuit for smoothing alternating-current input from commercial power supply Vin at normal operation time, a battery pack charged by a DC-DC converter which can continuously output a predetermined direct-current power supply voltage for supplying power supply voltage to the DC-DC converter at the time of a stoppage in alternating-current input, a charging circuit section for controlling the charging and discharging of the battery pack, and a charging and discharging control circuit. The battery pack and circuits, such as the DC-DC converter, are mounted in the same unit enclosure.

Abstract: A curtain coating method which enables the formation of a uniform curtain of coating solution without accompanied by the sagging phenomenon in a range of high flowing-down rates of a coating solution per unit length in curtain breadth, thereby elevating the upper limit of coating speed, is disclosed. In this method, a coating solution as a freely falling curtain is made to impinge on the surface of a continuously moving web, and thereby the coating solution is coated on the web. Therein, the curtain of the coating solution is controlled so that the flowing-down rate thereof per unit length in curtain breadth is from 2.5 to 10 cc/cm/sec, and the web surface to be coated with the coating solution is controlled so as to have a temperature between 22° to 55° C. A curtain coating method which can prevent the air entrainment phenomenon from occurring at the start in the coating operation and enables the formation of uniform coating is also disclosed.

Abstract: In a coating apparatus, a nozzle connects a feed pipe for feeding a coat solution to a manifold of a die with an opening of the manifold. The nozzle satisfies conditions: 1.5≦B/A≦5.0 and 0.8≦C/B≦8.0, when A is an equivalent diameter of an end of the nozzle to be connected with the tube, B is an equivalent diameter of another end of the nozzle to be connected with the opening, and C is a length of the nozzle. The coat solution fed from the feed pipe enters in the nozzle. In the nozzle, the coating solution diverges along with an inner wall of the nozzle to enter into the manifold. In the manifold the coating solution flows in a widthwise direction and flows out through a slit extending from the manifold to a lip of the die, such that a moving web is coated with the coating solution uniformly.

Abstract: A probe for applying a voltage to lines provided on a substrate comprises (a) a conductive sheet, the conductive sheet including a mesh sheet in which linear members are woven into a mesh and a conductive material which coats the mesh sheet, (b) an elastic member for pressing the conductive sheet against the lines, and (c) a holding member for holding the conductive sheet and the elastic member together. The probe has improved electrical connectivity and durability, and achieves a reduction in size and facilitation of operations of an apparatus for manufacturing an electron source.

Abstract: In a simultaneous coating of multiple layers on a web using a slide hopper type coating apparatus, the gelatin concentration of the coating liquid for the bottom layer is set to be lower than the gelatin concentration of the coating liquid for the middle layer by at least 2 points in percentage, the ratio A/B, which is the flow amount ratio of the coating liquid for the bottom layer with respect to the entire multi-layered coating liquid, is set to be between 0.05 and 0.2, and the ratio C/D, which is the viscosity ratio between the coating liquid for the bottom layer and the coating liquid of the middle layer, is set to be between 0.2 and 0.67. Thereby, the flow of the multi-layered coating liquid flowing down on the slide surface can be stabilized.

Abstract: The curtain coating apparatus of the invention comprises a sliding face on which a coating solution flows down, a coating width regulating plate which is located on each of both sides of the sliding face and regulates the width of the flow of the coating solution, and an edge guide which is connected to the width regulating plate, and keeps both side edges of free falling stream of the coating solution from the sliding face, wherein a contact angle of water with the coating width regulating plate is greater than a contact angle of water with the edge guide, and the apparatus has solved problems of streaks and uneven thickness at side end portions of a free falling film caused by contraction and teapot phenomenon (residence), by changing wett properties at a coating width regulating plate and an edge guide.

Abstract: The coating apparatus has an air shielding device to prevent a curtain of coating liquids, which free-falls from a coating head, from being disturbed by an air carried along by a traveling web. The coating apparatus also has a device to move the air shielding device. Before and at the start of coating, the air shielding device is kept far from an impingement position where the free-falling curtain impinges onto the web. Just after the start of coating, the air shielding device is moved close to the impingement position. This prevents the air shielding device from being contaminated with splashes of the coating liquids, and the like.

Abstract: Before the start of coating, a deflector receives a curtain of a coating liquid free-falling from a coating hopper in order to prevent a continuously-running web from being coated with the coating liquid. At the start of the coating, the deflector is moved relatively to the coating hopper, so that the coating liquid can start to be applied to the web. A receding part is formed at the end of the deflector.

Abstract: A curtain coating apparatus includes a hopper with a slide plane on which the coating solution flows and a hopper lip from where the coating solution begins to freely fall down as a free falling curtain. The apparatus also includes at least a pair of outlets disposed in a position along the edge part of the free falling curtain and situated at a fixed distance down from the hopper lip. Auxiliary solutions are introduced from the width directions so as to maintain the curtain in the width direction.

Abstract: A curtain coating method of coating a continuously travelling web with at least two kinds of coating solutions superposed upon one another in layers includes the steps of supplying said coating solutions to flow as a free falling curtain and impinging the coating solutions on the web, in which differences in gelatin concentration and viscosity between a coating solution for a lowest layer and a coating solution for an adjacent layer are adjusted to 0-2 weight percent and 0-20 cp respectively.

Abstract: In a simultaneous coating of multiple layers on a web using a slide hopper type coating apparatus, the gelatin concentration of the coating liquid for the bottom layer is set to be lower than the gelatin concentration of the coating liquid for the middle layer by at least 2 points in percentage, the ratio A/B, which is the flow amount ratio of the coating liquid for the bottom layer with respect to the entire multi-layered coating liquid, is set to be between 0.05 and 0.2, and the ratio C/D, which is the viscosity ratio between the coating liquid for the bottom layer and the coating liquid of the middle layer, is set to be between 0.2 and 0.67. Thereby, the flow of the multi-layered coating liquid flowing down on the slide surface can be stabilized.

Abstract: An optical device functioning as a variable apex angle prism and suitable to be incorporated in an image stabilizing apparatus for an optical apparatus is constituted by a pair of transparent circular plates disposed oppositely spaced from each other, a connecting member attached to the circular plates so as to define a closed space in combination with the circular plates and deformable under application of an external drive force, and a transparent substance disposed within the closed space. The transparent substance comprises at least one compound selected from the group consisting of polyether-modified organopolysiloxane, polyether alcohol-modified organopolysiloxane and fluorine-containing compounds.

Abstract: An angular displacement detecting device is provided with a tubular casing having a chamber in which a liquid is sealed, a floating body disposed in the liquid sealed in the chamber and supported for rotation about a predetermined rotational axis, and a detector for detecting the relative angular displacement between the floating body and the tubular casing about the rotational axis. This device employs a fluoroliquid as the aforesaid liquid.