Abstract: A hybrid vehicle has a generator motor coupled to the output shaft of an engine through a transfer shaft, for transmitting an assistive output power for assisting an output power of the engine through the transfer shaft to the output shaft of the engine. A battery stores electric energy regenerated by the generator motor from kinetic energy of the hybrid vehicle transmitted from the output shaft of the engine through the transfer shaft. A generator is mounted on the transfer shaft and has an electric energy generating ability smaller than the generator motor. The generator generates electric energy to energize another device than the battery.

Abstract: A method for regenerating an extrusion die for ceramic honeycomb structural bodies. The extrusion die includes a base metal and a titanium-based hard coating of an abrasion-resistant material which is formed on a surface of the base metal. The extrusion die is immersed in a solution of nitric acid when it has worn, so as to remove a residue of the hard coating from the surface of the base metal. Subsequently, a titanium-based fresh hard coating is formed on the surface of the base metal, and a pattern adjustment of the die is then performed wherein the surface of the fresh hard coating is locally ground so that the sliding resistance of the raw ceramic material becomes substantially uniform over the entire region of the die.

Abstract: A light-bulb-shaped fluorescent lamp accommodates in an outer housing that includes a transparent globe and a case, a bent fluorescent tube that has a pair of electrodes at both ends and contains an amalgam and a rare gas, and an electronic lighting circuit lighting the fluorescent tube. A light-bulb-shaped fluorescent lamp which has high conformity to regular light bulbs and realizes the same brightness as a regular 60 W light bulb while consuming less power than a conventional light-bulb-shaped fluorescent lamp is provided by setting the external diameter of the globe in the range of 55-65 mm, the total length of the globe in the range of 65-80 mm, the internal diameter of the fluorescent tube in the range of 7-11 mm, and the distance between the electrodes in the range of 200-280 mm.

Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine has a canister for adsorbing evaporative fuel generated in the fuel tank, a purging passage extending between the canister and the intake system of the engine, for purging evaporative fuel into the intake system, and a purge control valve arranged across the purging passage, for controlling the flow rate of evaporative fuel supplied to the intake system through the purging passage. An ECU controls the engine, based on at least one predetermined engine control parameter, and a canister temperature sensor detects the temperature of the canister. The at least one predetermined engine control parameter is changed according to the detected temperature of the canister.

Abstract: A pocket type separator for an electrode of storage battery, such separator having a bottom, closed left and right side edges and an open top side. The inner surfaces of front and rear sides of the pocket facing each other include a plurality of parallel, vertical, widthwise spaced ribs in middle regions constituting most of the facing surfacer and a plurality of intersectant vertically spaced ribs on the Widthwise left and right side end portions of the facing surfaces and intersecting front and rear corner edge portion of opposite side edges of an electrode plate contained in the packet type separator.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an organic electrolyte, and the electrolyte comprises a solvent mixture of at least one kind of fluorine substituted propylene carbonates used as a first solvent and at least one kind of low viscous solvents for lowering the viscosity of fluorine substituted propylene carbonates, used as a second solvent. At least one solvent selected from a group of dimethyl carbonate, methyl ethyl carbonate, diethyl carbonate, methyl propyl carbonate and methyl butyl carbonate is preferably used as the second solvent.

Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine has an air-fuel ratio sensor arranged in the exhaust system of the engine, for detecting the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gases emitted from the engine, and various engine operating parameter sensors for detecting operating conditions of the engine. An ECU controls the air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture to be supplied to the engine to a desired air-fuel ratio in a feedback manner responsive to an output from the air-fuel ratio sensor. A first learned value for correcting the desired air-fuel ratio is calculated based on the feedback control when the engine is detected to be in a first predetermined operating condition, and a second learned value for correcting the desired air-fuel ratio when the engine is detected to be in a second predetermined engine operating condition. The air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture is controlled to a value leaner than a stoichiometric value, by using the first learned value.

Abstract: When trying to make a correct connection, a VCR 13, which should be connected to terminal 15, is connected instead to terminal 16 by mistake, so that a signal generator 13a constructed internally within the VCR 13 outputs a test signal, but the switcher 8 selects the signal being input at terminal 15 (where there is no signal present), and provides it to detector 12, but as there is no signal at terminal 15, the CPU 5 determines that the connection is incorrect and displays a user prompt to this effect on the CRT 10.

Abstract: There is provided a control system for an internal combustion engine. An amount of variation in the rotational speed of the engine is detected. A rotational speed variation reference value is calculated based on an averaged value of the detected amount of variation in the rotational speed of the engine. The detected amount of variation in the rotational speed of the engine is compared with the rotational speed variation reference value. The amount of fuel to be supplied to the engine is corrected based on results of the comparison.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory producing apparatus has a data computing section 31, an electron patterning section 33 for patterning a wafer 3 by using an electron beam, a control section 32 for controlling +the electron patterning section 33 on the basis of the result from the data computing section 31. The data computing section 31 prepares binary codes for individual IC chips formed on the wafer 3, and generates coordinate regarding the wafer 3 and the IC chips. The data computing section 31 computes direct draw data for each IC chip based on the binary codes, and generates direct pattern data based on the binary codes and the direct draw data. The control section 32 and the electron-beam patterning section 33 cooperate to perform direct electron-beam patterning on the IC chips in accordance with the pattern data.

Abstract: A stable and durable electrode assembly for a lead-acid storage battery to provide a longer-life lead-acid storage battery is described. A synthetic resin-made separator and a glass mat, which is wider than the separator, are coordinately stacked together and then folded in such a manner that the separator is positioned within the glass mat and the side edge portions of the separator overlap and the side edge portions of the glass mat overlap. The overlapped side edge portions are respectively seal-bonded to each other to provide a pocket-type electrode assembly wherein the outer surface thereof is a pocket-type glass mat which surrounds a pocket-type separator.

Abstract: The present invention includes reproducing digital image signals recorded on magnetic tape, discriminating a field or frame whereto the signals reproduced from the magnetic tape belong, selecting either of alternate fields or frames of the digital image signals and remaining alternate fields or frames on the basis of result of the discrimination, and writing only the reproduced signals belonging to the selected fields or frames into a specified writing area of the memory.

Abstract: A battery container is provided with a battery cover having side walls so that a gap is formed between the side walls of the container and the side walls of the cover. The upper end portion of a bottomed heat-shielding case is inserted into this gap so that the heat-shielding case is detachably attached to the battery container and covers the container and forms a space between the container and the case. The space between the container and case is closed to air outside the case and air convection between the outside air and the air inside the space can be prevented thereby increasing the heat-shielding effect for protecting the storage battery from high temperatures. Additionally, the heat-shielding case is designed to be attached securely to the battery container (1) to make one body therewith, making it easier to mount and dismount them in an automobile engine compartment.

Abstract: A signal reproduction and method therefore device for a digital signal reproduction apparatus, which reproduces digital signals recorded on a recording medium with a reproduction head. The device includes a first memory circuit which sequentially stores digital signals reproduced by the reproduction head, a circuit which identifies the attribute of a reproduced digital signal and a write control circuit which judges, based on the result of the identification provided by the identification circuit, whether digital signals of a prescribed unit length included among digital signals stored in the first memory have the same attribute, and produces a write signal in response to the judgment. Also provided is a second memory which is connected to the first memory and stores the digital signals which have the prescribed length and are judged to have the same attribute in response to the write signal.

Abstract: A VTR incorporating a video printing controller comprising at least one rotary magnetic head for scanning recording tracks formed on a magnetic tape to reproduce a video signal recorded on a recording track specified by a marker signal, a marker signal detector for detecting the marker signal specifying the recording track carrying the video signal to be printed, and a system controller connected to the marker signal detector and to a video printer connected to the VTR. The system controller gives a video printer control signal to the video printer upon receipt of a marker signal detection signal from the marker signal detector to control the video printer for printing out in a hard copy the video image reproduced from the recording track specified by the marker signal. Thus, the recording track storing the video image desired to be printed is located automatically by searching the recording tracks for the marker signal, and then the desired video signal is printed out automatically.

Abstract: In an apparatus, for example, an 8-mm format VTR, for selectively reproducing video data and digital data, such as, PCM audio data, recorded on a magnetic medium with any one of a plurality of recording densities, the recording density of the digital data is detected on the basis of a characteristic of the reproduced digital data, such as, a characteristic clock frequency regenerated therefrom, and the processing to which the reproduced digital data is subjected is selected automatically in accordance with the detected recording density thereof, thereby facilitating the use of the apparatus for reproducing digital data recorded with different densities.

Abstract: An apparatus for recording an information signal on a track scanned by a rotary head on a record medium in which the track is divided into a plurality of areas. A pilot signal for tracking is recorded in a predetermined area on the track. A circuit is provided for reproducing the pilot signal for tracking from the predetermined area. Also, a circuit for recording the information signal on the track and a circuit for controlling the tracking of the rotary head by the predetermined pilot signal are provided.

Abstract: A fuel supply control system for an internal combustion engine in which an accelerating fuel increment of fuel supplied to the engine is set in response to the detected change rate in the opening degree of the throttle valve. Further, the accelerating fuel increment is set in such a manner that it is smaller as the detected reduction gear ratio of the transmission is larger. Advantageously, the accelerating fuel increment is set to increase at a smaller rate as the above detected change increases within a region within which the change rate is smaller than a region in which the change rate is larger.

Abstract: In an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing an information signal in successive slant tracks on a record tape; an information signal is recorded by a rotary head in only a part of a respective slant track scanned by the head on the tape, coded index data formed of a plurality of blocks is generated to identify a respective recorded information signal, such as, by an absolute tape-position address counted from an end or other reference position on the record tape, a "0" index signal is provided with a predetermined number of bits representing consecutive "0" values which can be detected for identifying the beginning of an event or program defined by the information signals recorded in a number of the slant tracks, and the "0" index signal and at least one block of the coded index data are supplied to the rotary head for recording by the latter in an index area of a slant track where no information signal is recorded.

Abstract: A data reproducing apparatus for demodulating data recorded on a magnetic tape by a biphase-mark system performs equalization processing using an equalizer so that an eye-opening ratio of an eye-pattern of a picked-out output is maximized, thereby reducing the bit error rate even when different tapes are used as a recording medium.