Abstract: The exhaust gas purifying catalyst-supported member comprises a metal carrier layer and a catalyst layer which includes an exhaust gas purifying catalyst and silicon oxide and is directly formed on a surface of the metal carrier. Silicon oxide is contained in the catalyst layer, and therefore, the adhesion of the catalyst layer to the surface of the metal carrier is excellent, so that the catalyst layer resists peeling from the metal carrier even when subjected to oscillations, such as when the exhaust gas purifying catalyst-supported member is used as a catalyst for purifying an exhaust gas from, for example, an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A hologram screen 1 displays an image by diffracting and scattering image light 31 projected from an image projection apparatus 2. An upward/downward light scattering device 13, which scatters light incident from an upward/downward specific angle range spreading obliquely upward or downward, is placed on the image projection apparatus side of a hologram device 12 in the hologram screen 1. A leftward/rightward light scattering device 14, which scatters light incident from a leftward/rightward specific angle range spreading obliquely leftward and rightward, is placed between the hologram device 12 and the scattering device 13. The construction is such that the upward/downward specific angle range contains the incidence angle of the image light 31 on the hologram screen 1, and thus provides a hologram screen having good color reproducibility and which permits viewing of the background.

Abstract: The oxygen concentration detector of the present invention includes a sensor element having a solid electrolyte and having an external electrode and an internal electrode provided on the external surface and the internal surface, respectively, and a heater provided adjacent to the internal surface of the sensor element, in which a high-emissivity layer consisting of a material having a high emissivity is provided on the internal surface of the sensor element and/or the surface of the heater.

Abstract: The present invention provides an active control type noise reducing device that is disposed at a sound barrier and with which can be obtained an excellent noise reduction effect with respect to moving sound sources. Linear array of flat loudspeakers are arranged in ascending order from an incoming side of automobiles towards an outgoing side. Delay times of 0, ?, 2?, . . . , 8? are respectively given in the arrangement order to the linear array of flat loudspeakers. By delaying signals in correspondence to the arrangement order, the wavefront of a control sound can be slanted in a diagonal direction. Namely, “line sound sources”, where sound sources are linearly arranged, arc pseudo-realized.

Abstract: A polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber 10 includes six thin holes 4a and 4b adjacent to a core 1. Among these holes 4a and 4b, a pair of holes 4b at opposite sides of the core 1 have a diameter greater than that of the other four thin holes 4a, and therefore, the polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber 10 has polarization-maintaining ability. An overclad layer 3 exists around the clad layer 2 which includes a large number of thin holes 4a and 4b around the core 1. The overclad layer 3 includes a pair of marking portions 5 at opposite sides of the core 1. The marking portions 5 are holes which can be seen at positions different from the clad layer 2 when the fiber 10 is viewed from a position right above the fiber 10 in the drawing. In this way, the direction of the polarization plane of the polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber 10 is identified.

Abstract: A polarization-maintaining optical fiber and absolutely single-polarization optical fiber are provided which enable long distance transmission maintaining a polarization state of signal light. The polarization-maintaining optical fiber includes a core, photonic crystal cladding, and jacket. The photonic crystal cladding is divided into four segments by broken lines from the center to the periphery. Among a plurality of grating holes in a pair of segments opposed to each other with respect to the core, the diameter of grating holes close to the core is greater than the diameter of grating holes in another pair of segments opposed with each other, and than a grating constant.

Abstract: A ceramic laminate includes a first ceramic layer and a second ceramic layer which are laminated with each other via a bonding layer. The first ceramic layer has gas permeability. The second ceramic layer has gas impermeability. A method for forming this ceramic laminate includes a step of forming first and second ceramic layer forming green sheets, a step of coating a bonding layer forming paste on the second ceramic layer forming green sheet, and a step of integrally bonding the first ceramic layer forming green sheet with the bonding layer forming paste into a laminated body and then sintering the laminated body.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram screen which is capable of preventing separation, and damage to, a hologram film and which permits the hologram film to be reused easily. The present invention relates to a hologram screen that is comprised of a hologram film having the function of diffracting the light projected from a projector, and first and second transparent members that together sandwich the hologram film from the front and back surfaces thereof so as to cover the same.

Abstract: A suspension supporting a magnetic head is formed by a member different in material from gimbals. As a result, the characteristic of the gimbals minimizing electric power loss in supplying current while sufficiently elastically holding the magnetic head can be compatible with the characteristic of suspension suppressing variation and impact from the outside or rotational displacement although both characteristics are different from each other. This allows the displacement of the magnetic head caused by the vibration and the impact from the outside or the horizontal displacement associated with the vertical displacement of a recording medium to be decreased, so that inductance of the magnetic head can be decreased and recording speed can be improved.

Abstract: A hologram screen is produced by using a transmission-type hologram film, permitting images to be seen from the side of the projector. The hologram screen has a transparent member and a hologram film stuck to the transparent member, and produces the image by projecting image-forming light from the projector. The hologram film is of the transmission-type. The hologram screen also has a reflector for reflecting the image-forming light arranged on the back surface side of the hologram film.

Abstract: An unprocessed substrate is conveyed to a film-processing chamber at the same time a processed substrate is conveyed to a substrate preparation chamber, reducing the substrate processing cycle, thereby increasing the yield per unit time. The substrate preparation chamber has a two-tiered structure for receiving processed substrates and unprocessed substrates. A two-tiered transfer robot allows the substrates to be removed or placed into the preparation and process chambers at the same time, thus decreasing the cycle time for processing a substrate.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a sealed type container body (50) capable of storing molten metal; a flow passage (57) capable of flowing the molten metal, the passage is formed extended to an outside of the container, and the passage is formed towards an upper portion (57b) from an opening (57a) provided at a position on an inner and near a bottom portion (50a) of the container body (50); and means (101, 0313) for controlling the pressure in the container body. This makes it possible to provide a container or the like requiring no replacement of parts such as a stoke and the like.

Abstract: A gas sensor element comprises a solid electrolytic sheet provided with a pair of electrodes so as to constitute an electrochemical cell, at least one another sheet disposed so as to oppose to the solid electrolytic sheet, a spacer disposed between these sheets so as to define a gas chamber therebetween in which gas contacts the electrodes, and a support member disposed in the gas chamber so as to support a pressing force applied in a direction of lamination of the solid electrolytic sheet and the other sheet.

Abstract: A gas sensor element is provided which is designed to measure the concentration of hydrogen-containing gas accurately. The sensor element includes an oxygen pump cell working to keep the concentration of oxygen contained in measurement gasses entering a measurement gas chamber at a low concentration level and a hydrogen-containing gas measurement cell. The hydrogen-containing gas measurement cell is made up of a proton-conductive solid electrolyte body and a first and a second gas measurement electrode affixed to the proton-conductive solid electrolyte body. The first gas measurement electrode is exposed to the measurement gas chamber and serves to produce a signal between the first and second gas measurement electrodes as a function of the concentration of the hydrogen-containing gas.

Abstract: A part management system used for part management of parts of an apparatus. The part management system is composed of a database system including one or more databases, and a data check computer system. The databases stores data on the parts, the data including an electronic parts list describing part numbers of the parts. The data check computer system checks whether the data stored in the at least one database complies with a predetermined rule and to produce a warning in response to the check.

Abstract: In an aspect of the present invention, a parts list system includes a figure generator (12), a information database (13-2), a figure controller (11), a part table database (16-1) and a part table controller (15). The figure generator (12) generates a CAD figure (20) relating to a unit which includes a plurality of parts, the CAD figure (20) containing at least a figure of the unit and first character strings. The information database (13-2) stores an attribute of at least a second character string relating to each of the plurality of parts. The figure controller (11) extracts as a third character string from the first character strings, the third character string corresponding to the attribute of the second character string. The part table database (16-1) stores a parts list for managing the parts used for the unit. The part table controller (15) registers the third character strings on the parts list.

Abstract: There is provided a magnetooptical recording apparatus which records information by applying a magnetic field for recording from a magnetic head while irradiating an light beam onto a magnetooptical disk from an optical pickup, the apparatus comprising an optical pickup, a magnetic head having a slider that moves in a radial direction of a magnetooptical disk together with the optical pickup and is abutted against a recording surface of the magnetooptical disk and first and second elastic members that support the magnetic head, wherein a base end portion of the first elastic member is fixed to a given position of a substrate that supports the magnetic head, the second elastic member is folded with respect to the first elastic member, and a base end portion of the second elastic member is fixed to the slider, and a displacement of the magnetic head in the tangential direction due to vertical displacement of the magnetooptical disk is canceled by displacements which are respectively caused by the first and seco

Abstract: A enameled wire having 100 parts by weight of a polyamide-imide resin, 1 to 5 parts by weight of a lubricant, 1 to 200 parts by weight of a masking agent-stabilized isocyanate, and 1 to 30 parts by weight of a silane coupling agent are dissolved or dispersed in a solvent to prepare a coating composition. The coating composition is then coated directly or through other insulator on the circumference of a conductor, and the coating is then baked to form a lubricating layer.

Abstract: A gas sensor includes a measurement gas chamber into which a measurement gas is introduced. An oxygen pumping cell adjusts an oxygen concentration in the measurement gas chamber. An oxygen monitor cell has a monitor electrode exposed in the measurement gas chamber. The monitor electrode has an oxidizing activity with respect to a specific component of the measurement gas. A sensor cell has a sensor electrode exposed in the measurement gas chamber. The sensor electrode has an oxidizing activity with respect to the specific component of the measurement gas which is lower than the oxidizing activity of the monitor electrode. An oxygen-ion current in the oxygen monitor cell is detected. An oxygen-ion current in the sensor cell is detected. A concentration of the specific component of the measurement gas is detected from a relation between the detected oxygen-ion currents in the oxygen monitor cell and the sensor cell.

Abstract: A hologram screen 1 for displaying an image by diffracting and scattering image light 31 projected from an image projection apparatus 2. An upward/downward light scattering device 13 for scattering light incident from at least one upward/downward specific angle range spreading obliquely upward or obliquely downward is placed on the image projection apparatus side of a hologram device 12 in the hologram screen 1, and a leftward/rightward light scattering device 14 for scattering light incident from a leftward/rightward specific angle range spreading obliquely leftward and obliquely rightward is placed between the hologram device 12 and the upward/downward light scattering device 13 or on the image projection apparatus side of the upward/downward light scattering device 13.