Abstract: An operational remote controller integrates a joystick for bending a bending portion of an inserted portion in an endoscope. A bending lever stands on the joystick. For every automatically returning of the bending lever to a neutral position, a CPU of the operational remote controller detects the neutral position and sets an insensitive band within a predetermined range of the neutral position. Thus, the insensitive band can be set within a relatively narrow range irrespective of variation of neutral positions. The CPU supplies positional information of the bending lever to a control circuit for controlling a motor drive circuit. The control circuit controls a motor drive circuit based on the supplied positional information, and the motor drive circuit drives a motor to bend the bending portion of the inserted portion.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a variable mirror that is readily formable and can be readily and precisely changed into various configurations as desired. A variable mirror 20 according to this invention is a variable mirror having a mirror body 26 formed of an elastic or flexible material and having one surface 26b functioning as a reflecting surface. The mirror body 26 is capable of changing the reflecting surface configuration. The variable mirror is characterized in that the rigidity of the mirror body 26 varies in a direction parallel to the one surface.

Abstract: An operational remote controller integrates a joystick for bending a bending portion of an inserted portion in an endoscope. A bending lever stands on the joystick. For every automatically returning of the bending lever to a neutral position, a CPU of the operational remote controller detects the neutral position and sets an insensitive band within a predetermined range of the neutral position. Thus, the insensitive band can be set within a relatively narrow range irrespective of variation of neutral positions. The CPU supplies positional information of the bending lever to a control circuit for controlling a motor drive circuit. The control circuit controls a motor drive circuit based on the supplied positional information, and the motor drive circuit drives a motor to bend the bending portion of the inserted portion.

Abstract: A food safety administration system for controlling safety of of food handling locations, wherein a mobile inspection terminal measures the temperature of an object under test or receives data on the pass or failure status of the object; a device records the temperature data and the pass or failure data, according to check items on a checklist; and a device controls the safety of the location and of the food therein using the temperature data and pass or failure data provided as test data by the mobile inspection terminal, whereby data is reliably and quickly checked without use of paper based data.

Abstract: An operational remote controller integrates a joystick for bending a bending portion of an inserted portion in an endoscope. A bending lever stands on the joystick. For every automatically returning of the bending lever to a neutral position, a CPU of the operational remote controller detects the neutral position and sets an insensitive band within a predetermined range of the neutral position. Thus, the insensitive band can be set within a relatively narrow range irrespective of variation of neutral positions. The CPU supplies positional information of the bending lever to a control circuit for controlling a motor drive circuit. The control circuit controls a motor drive circuit based on the supplied positional information, and the motor drive circuit drives a motor to bend the bending portion of the inserted portion.

Abstract: The E-mail distribution system which will be distributed to each addressee in a mail server after adding a transmitting person's job administrator to an addressee automatically if an E-mail is sent from the terminal of a computer network system built in the organization. This E-mail distribution system possesses the automatic reading means which comes to have an individual data control area, an organization data control area, and an addressee addition program in the mail server. In this individual data control area, personal information, such as its affiliation post, job class, and an e-mail address, is memorized. In this organization data control area, organization information, such as its post and job class, is memorized based on this personal information. If an E-mail is sent, this addressee addition program will specify a transmitting person's job administrator from an individual data control area and an organization data control area, and will appoint him to be a new addressee.

Abstract: A variable mirror that is readily formable and can be readily and precisely changed into various configurations as desired is provided. The variable mirror includes a mirror body formed of an elastic or flexible material and having one surface functioning as a reflecting surface. The mirror body is capable of changing the reflecting surface configuration. The rigidity of the mirror body varies in a direction parallel to the one surface.

Abstract: A torsional rocker used in an optical scanner comprises a movable element, a pair of torsion spring structures or elastic members for rockably supporting the movable element, and a stationary element which fixes or holds the torsion spring structures. The movable element includes a coil which surrounds its edges and a mirror inside the coil. The opposite ends of the coil are connected individually to electrode pads on the stationary element by means of wires. The torsion spring structure includes a pair of leaf springs which extend parallel to each other, and the torsion spring structure also includes another pair of leaf springs which extend parallel to each other. The four leaf springs have the same thickness.

Abstract: An optical scanner comprises a support member for fixation on a given member, a movable plate provided with a reflection surface for reflecting light, an elastic member coupling the movable plate and the support member, the elastic member comprising a plurality of laminated organic elastic insulating layers, an actuator, provided at least on the movable plate, for producing a driving force between the movable plate and the support member, and an electric element for applying a predetermined electric signal to the actuator and thus producing the driving force, thereby elastically deforming the elastic member and deflecting the movable plate. The electric element is provided between the organic elastic insulating layers of the elastic member.

Abstract: A food safety adminstration system for controlling safety of of food handling locations, wherein a mobile inspection terminal measures the temperature of an object under test or receives data on the pass or failure status of the object; a device records the temperature data and the pass or failure data, according to check items on a checklist; and a device controls the safety of the location and of the food therein using the temperature data and pass or failure data provided as test data by the mobile inspection terminal,whereby data is reliably and quickly checked without use of paper based data.

Abstract: An operational remote controller integrates a joystick for bending a bending portion of an inserted portion in an endoscope. A bending lever stands on the joystick. For every automatically returning of the bending lever to a neutral position, a CPU of the operational remote controller detects the neutral position and sets an insensitive band within a predetermined range of the neutral position. Thus, the insensitive band can be set within a relatively narrow range irrespective of variation of neutral positions. The CPU supplies positional information of the bending lever to a control circuit for controlling a motor drive circuit. The control circuit controls a motor drive circuit based on the supplied positional information, and the motor drive circuit drives a motor to bend the bending portion of the inserted portion.

Abstract: An optical scanner comprises a support member for fixation on a given member, a movable plate provided with a reflection surface for reflecting light, an elastic member coupling the movable plate and the support member, the elastic member comprising a plurality of laminated organic elastic insulating layers, an actuator, provided at least on the movable plate, for producing a driving force between the movable plate and the support member, and an electric element for applying a predetermined electric signal to the actuator and thus producing the driving force, thereby elastically deforming the elastic member and deflecting the movable plate. The electric element is provided between the organic elastic insulating layers of the elastic member.

Abstract: A stimulus values direct reading colorimetric instrument comprising a plurality of photoelectric sensors having different spectral responsivities equal or approximately equal to color matching functions X(.lambda.), Y(.lambda.), and Z(.lambda.); and measuring and display device to measure and display the tri-stimulus values X,Y and Z and the chromaticity of the light to be measured by computing the photoelectric sensor output signals caused by the light, wherein the instrument calculates the stimulus values corresponding to the tri-stimulus values and measures the chomaticity by providing at least one corrective photoelectric sensors so as to maximize their spectral responsivities in the vicinity of the transmission threshold wavelengths of each sensor and taking the sum of the output signals from the sensors and the corrective sensor after multiplying each coefficient assigned to the signals by each output signal, respectively.

Abstract: A compact input/output processing IC, which reduces the CPU load, to which microcomputer 100, input/output processing IC 200, and various inputs and outputs are connected. Parallel signals are connected to a high-speed input/output buffer and serial signals are connected from communications control circuit 207 via serial communications circuit 206 to SIO 104. To achieve the proper control, data requiring high speed is handled by parallel communications. Serial communications is handled by shift registers, first bit of each being connected to the last bit of the other, to form a loop, with instruction and input/output data from the CPU exchanged simultaneously, thereby achieving efficient processing. This achieves better organization of the communications for input/output processing, enabling both better control and a compact hardware design.

Abstract: In a control circuit including an A/D converter, a parallel-to-serial input buffer, a parallel input buffer, a serial-to-parallel output buffer and a parallel output buffer which are built in a chip, provided with a microcomputer, an A/D conversion is carried out by controlling a time of an A/D conversion conducted by the A/D converter correspondingly to a condition of an output port of the output buffer, thereby preventing an A/D converted value from being affected by an inversion in the output of the buffer.

Abstract: Airfoil canopy for paragliders made of non-porous cloth and comprised of a number of parallel primary air chambers (12) having upper surfaces (14), lower surfaces (16), open front ends (18), tail ends (20) and ribs (22). Secondary chambers (30) are provided within each primary chamber together with an opening (36) to the secondary chamber and a flap or curtain member (40) for blocking the back flow of air out of the secondary chamber in the event of air pressure loss in the primary chamber.

Abstract: A method of producing desired peptides by transforming mammalian cells and cultivating the transformed cells can be improved by using myeloma cells as the mammalian cells and/or using a vector having the SV40 early promoter sequence on both the 5' upstream and 3' downstream sides of the gene coding for the desired peptide.

Abstract: An electronic hygrometer and an electronic thermohygrometer both comprising oscillation means and digital operation processing means. The oscillation means of the hygrometer includes a square-wave pulse signal generator, a humidity sensor connected to the generator and which exhibits characteristics variable with the humidity change of the atmosphere, and a passive element connected to the generator and which forms a time constant circuit with the characteristics of the humidity sensor, the passive element being of a type different from the humidity sensor. The oscillation means produces square-wave pulse signals corresponding to changes in the characteristics of the sensor. The digital operation processing means of the hygrometer counts the frequency of the square-wave pulse signals output from the oscillation means and determines the humidity of the atmosphere on the basis of the counted value.

Abstract: A pure water manufacturing apparatus for producing ultra pure water to be used in the electronic and medical industries. This apparatus comprises a pure water circulation system consisting of a pure water storage tank, a first heat exchanger arranged at the downstream side of the tank for thermally sterilizing pure water, a filter arranged at the downstream side of the first heat exchanger for removing dead bacteria, a pure water circulating means, and a second heat exchanger for cooling pure water disposed between the filter and a terminal device at which pure water is required. The ultrapure water is supplied to the terminal device from the downstream side of the filter through the second heat exchanger.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes pouch-shaped (in sectional view) isolation regions made of dielectric material consisting of boron and phosphor doped silicate glass. A circuit component is formed in an active region surrounded by adjacent isolation regions. Each pouch-shaped (in sectional view) isolation region is made using an anisotropic etchant and an isotropic etchant successively. There is a method for manufacturing the above device with high integration density and high operating speed.