Abstract: A display anode connected to a display anode bus bar and a display cathode connected to a cathode bus bar cooperatively constitute a display cell. An auxiliary anode connected to an auxiliary anode bus bar and an auxiliary cathode connected to an auxiliary cathode bus bar cooperatively constitute an auxiliary cell. Each of the display anode is connected in series with a display anode resistance. Each of the auxiliary anode is connected in series with an auxiliary anode resistance.

Abstract: In a DC gas discharge type image display apparatus including: a front glass substrate; a rear glass substrate facing the front glass substrate, interposing a discharge gas therebetween; a set of anodes including a plurality of line electrodes formed on the rear glass substrate; a set of cathodes including a plurality of line electrodes placed on the front glass substrate so as to perpendicularly cross the set of anodes; and a plurality of discharge cells, each being provided so as to correspond to each of the cross points of the set of anodes and the set of cathodes, the apparatus being driven in a refresh driving method or a memory driving method, the set of cathodes are formed by a spraying method. The cathodes are made from aluminum, nickel, an aluminum alloy or a nickel alloy. The discharge gas is a mixed gas of He and Xe.

Abstract: A projection exposure apparatus includes an illuminating device for illuminating a pattern of an original, a holder for holding a substrate, and a projection system for projecting an image of the pattern of the original onto the substrate. The projection system includes a projection optical system and a plane optical element spaced from the projection optical system and disposed opposite to the surface of the substrate. Also provided is a casing having a filled interspace formed between the optical element and the substrate, with the optical element providing an upper cover of the casing.

Abstract: A method for driving a gas discharge display panel consists of the steps of applying a writing pulse on a specific display electrode line selected from display electrode lines arranged side by side in the panel, applying a scanning pulse on a specific scanning electrode line selected from scanning electrode lines which are arranged side by side and cross the display electrode lines to produce writing gas discharge in cooperation with the writing pulse in a specific discharge cell arranged at an intersection space between the specific display electrode and the specific scanning electrode line, and applying a series of maintaining pulses subsequent to the scanning pulse on the specific scanning electrode during only a maintaining period to produce maintaining gas discharge subsequent to the writing gas discharge in the specific discharge cell, the maintaining gas discharge being intermittently produced in synchronism with the maintaining pulses.

Abstract: A shift lever assembly for an automatic transmission, in which a lever knob on top of a lever shaft is formed integral with the lever body and has a width which is smaller than the width of an opening formed in a shift position indication panel. The assembly includes a lever support for pivotally supporting the shift lever body and components such as a shift lock release actuator. This assembly can be secured to a vehicle body. The shift position indication panel is mounted by passing the lever knob through the panel opening. A slide cover and the shift position indicator panel are arcuate in shape with the center thereof constituted by the pivoting center of the lever body. The slide cover is made integral with the lever body. The slide cover has a detent groove formed in its back surface. A shift position indicator support is formed on one side of the slide cover. The shift lock release actuator is provided in the turning plane of the lever body, thus simplifying a lock release mechanism.

Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus having a vibration insulation apparatus with a damper for insulating floor vibrations is so designed that damping characteristics of a damper can be changed. Thus, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus capable of preventing floor vibrations from being transmitted to the apparatus and efficiently attenuating vibrations generated by the apparatus can be provided.

Abstract: A method for driving a gas discharge display panel consists of the steps of applying a writing pulse on a specific display electrode line selected from display electrode lines arranged side by side in the panel, applying a scanning pulse on a specific scanning electrode line selected from scanning electrode lines which are arranged side by side and cross the display electrode lines to produce writing gas discharge in cooperation with the writing pulse in a specific discharge cell arranged at an intersection space between the specific display electrode and the specific scanning electrode line, and applying a series of maintaining pulses subsequent to the scanning pulse on the specific scanning electrode during only a maintaining period to produce maintaining gas discharge subsequent to the writing gas discharge in the specific discharge cell, the maintaining gas discharge being intermittently produced in synchronism with the maintaining pulses.

Abstract: A shift lock device includes a locking mechanism for locking an engagement pin which is required to shift a shift lever from a parking position to a position other than the parking position under a desired condition, an actuator for releasing a locking condition of the locking mechanism, a control switch adapted to detect as to whether the shift lever is positioned in the parking position or not and generate a corresponding signal, and a controller being adapted to receive the signal from the control switch and generate a corresponding signal for controlling the actuator. The locking mechanism, the actuator, the control switch and the controller are enclosed in a housing.

Abstract: A process for producing a spherical zeolite catalyst is disclosed, which comprises dropping a zeolite-containing alumina sol into a surfactant-containing oil phase from a dropping opening directly or through air to thereby form spherical droplets of the sol, and then allowing the droplets to gel in an aqueous alkaline solution phase underlying the oil phase and withdrawing the thus gelled droplets, said dropping of the sol being conducted while the dropping opening is being impulsed to thereby impart a spherical and uniform shape to the resulting zeolite particles containing alumina as a binder, and a novel apparatus therefor.

Abstract: A shift lock device includes a locking mechanism for locking an engagement pin which is required to shift a shift lever from a parking position to a position other than the parking position under a desired condition, an actuator for releasing a locking condition of the locking mechanism, a control switch adapted to detect as to whether the shift lever is positioned in the parking position or not and generate a corresponding signal, and a controller being adapted to receive the signal from the control switch and generate a corresponding signal for controlling the actuator. The locking mechanism, the actuator, the control switch and the controller are enclosed in a housing.

Abstract: A method for driving a plasma display panel comprising a plurality of first electrodes disposed in parallel with each other, a plurality of second electrodes disposed in parallel with each other and perpendicular to the first electrodes, the second electrodes having a plurality of blocks, and a driving means to apply pulses to the second electrodes, wherein the different electrodes belonging to the different blocks are successively scanned in the predetermined order. Alternatively, the different electrodes may be scanned by repeating applications of pulse to a second electrode belonging to a certain block and to a second electrode belonging to either of the adjacent blocks.

Abstract: In a wafer transfer device for transferring wafers from a first basket to a second basket, a carriage carries a lifting member which is vertically slidably supported by a carriage main body, and a plurality of wafer support plates are carried by the lifting member. As the wafer support tables carried by the carriage move through the second basket and enters the first carriage, the lifting member is lifted by a cam slot engaging with a cam follower provided in the lifting member so as to lift the wafers received in the first basket clear from their supporting surfaces supporting their side edges. The carriage is then reversed, and when the wafer support plates are placed into the second basket, the cam slot causes the lifting member to be lowered so as to rest the side edges of the wafers the corresponding supporting surfaces.

Abstract: An alignment apparatus includes a first off-axis alignment optical system having a magnification, and a second off-axis alignment optical system having a magnification higher than that of the first off-axis alignment optical system, wherein the apparatus is operable in a global alignment mode using the second off-axis alignment optical system. In another aspect, an alignment apparatus which includes a first off-axis alignment optical system having a magnification, a second off-axis alignment optical system having a magnification higher than that of the first off-axis alignment optical system, and a TTL alignment optical system, wherein the alignment apparatus is operable in a global alignment mode using the second off-axis alignment optical system and is operable in another global alignment mode using the TTL optical alignment system.

Abstract: A process for producing a spherical zeolite catalyst is disclosed, which comprises dropping a zeolite-containing alumina sol into a surfactant-containing oil phase from a dropping opening directly or through air to thereby form spherical droplets of the sol, and then allowing the droplets to gel in an aqueous alkaline solution phase underlying the oil phase and withdrawing the thus gelled droplets, said dropping of the sol being conducted while the dropping opening is being impulsed to thereby impart a spherical and uniform shape to the resulting zeolite particles containing alumina as a binder, and a novel apparatus therefor.

Abstract: A reduced-pressure fryer machine adapted to fry a food material in a food container case by immersing same in heated oil in a reduced-pressure frying vessel, the food container case being constituted by an open-topped container body substantially unperforated except its bottom side and a substantially unperforated lid for opening and closing the open top side of the container body.

Abstract: The DRAW type optical recording medium which can record optical information by forming information pits in the recording layer by irradiation of an energy beam such as laser beam, and yet can reproduce the information immediately after writing without requiring any step of developing processing after writing of information. The optical recording medium includes a recording layer (3) for forming information pits through the occurrence of physical deformation by irradiation of an energy beam and a sensitizing layer (4) for augmenting the physical deformation in the recording layer (3) laminated on a support (2). By the presence of the sensitizing layer, recording sensitivity is improved and also stability of the medium with lapse of time becomes excellent.

Abstract: A condensation curable organopolysiloxane composition, capable of curing in the presence of moisture in air to become a rubber-like elastic material, comprising a compound having at least one carbon-bonded hydroxyimino group in its molecule. The composition is capable of inhibiting effectively, and for a long time, the propagation of any of a variety of fungi on the surface of a cured product of the composition.

Abstract: A method for determining the sequence of arrival or the racing time of a large number of participants in the track and field events, the method comprising steps of bar-coding a racing number of each participant; causing a bar-code label to be carried by each participant; sequentially reading, by a bar-code reader, the racing number on the bar code label carried by each participant who has passed the finish line; and introducing, as inputs, into a computer with timers being incorporated therein, those data as read by the bar code reader.

Abstract: A method for operating a plural number of batch type reduced-pressure fryer units, the method including: connecting the fryer units, through a switch means, with vacuum pump lines including an initial vacuum pump line serving to reduce the frying bath pressure of a selected one of the fryer units in the stage of an initial frying treatment and a finish vacuum pump line serving to maintaining the frying baths of a plural number of the frying units simultaneously in reduced pressure condition in the stage of a finish frying treatment; while holding the respective vacuum pump lines in operation, switching the vacuum pump lines to connect the initial vacuum pump line with a selected fryer unit to reduce the pressure of the frying bath thereof for the initial frying treatment; switching the vacuum pump line to connect the selected fryer unit with the finish vacuum pump line for the finish frying treatment upon completion of the initial frying treatment; switching the vacuum pump lines to disconnect the selected fr

Abstract: An alignment apparatus includes a first off-axis alignment optical system having a magnification, and a second off-axis alignment optical system having a magnification higher than that of the first off-axis alignment optical system, wherein the apparatus is operable in a global alignment mode using the second off-axis alignment optical system. In another aspect, an alignment apparatus includes a first off-axis alignment optical system having a magnification, a second off-axis alignment optical system having a magnification higher than that of the first off-axis alignment optical system, and a TTL alignment optical system, wherein the alignment apparatus is operable in a global alignment mode using the second off-axis alignment optical system and is operable in another global alignment mode using the TTL optical alignment system.