Abstract: A position information acquiring apparatus for receiving an electric wave and for on the basis of the received signal, acquiring the position information exhibiting the position where the product is kept to record successively the position information thus acquired is packed together with an objective matter of conveyance in a package box and then is operated in the state of being able to be moved to receive an electric wave signal radiated from the GPS satellite group to acquire successively the position information. On the basis of the position information, a map of a part corresponding to the position information is retrieved from map information which is previously obtained to carry out an output for showing visibly the resultant partial map and a symbol with which the position contained in a position history information is shown on the map.

Abstract: A product configuration can be managed on a product basis for each of component parts which include each of products from manufacturing to disposal of the products. A product manufacturer device 15, part manufacturer devices 16, 17, and a device 11 of a customer who possesses a product are interconnected through a communication line. The product manufacturer device includes configuration information on each of component parts which comprises a product on a product number basis, and a function of providing information and services on the product. The part manufacturer device in turn includes configuration information on each of lower parts which include each of the component parts on a manufacturing lot or product number basis for each type of component parts, and a function of providing information and services on each of the parts. When the product configuration is changed, the change in the configuration is reflected to the configuration information of the product and the component parts.

Abstract: The present invention is a heat insulating material being a single unit having superior insulating performance as well as sufficient mechanical strength itself to constitute furnace walls, an electric heating unit having the heat insulating material and a method of manufacture of the heat insulating material and the electrical heating unit. The heat insulating material of the present invention includes an outer layer having mainly refractory inorganic fibers and a core layer supported within the outer layer. The outer layer has greater mechanical strength than the core layer. The core layer has a composition having a better insulating performance than the outer layer and extends in a plane substantially perpendicular to the thickness of the heat insulating material. The electrical heating unit of the present invention has a heating element embedded in the heat insulating material.

Abstract: A method for removing carbon dioxide from a combustion exhaust gas under atmospheric pressure by the use of a mixed solution of a specific amine compound X having an alcoholic hydroxyl group and a primary amino group which is bonded to a tertiary carbon atom having two unsubstituted alkyl groups and another amine compound Y being a diaminotoluene (DAT) selected from the group consisting of 2,3-DAT, 2,4-DAT, 2,5-DAT, 2,6-DAT, 3,4-DAT and 3,5-DAT.

Abstract: In a digital phase locked loop, a coarse stepsize variable delay line and a fine stepsize variable delay line are connected in series for receiving a reference clock pulse and imparting thereto variable delays in accordance with higher significant bits and lower significant bits. The delayed clock pulse is delivered to the input of a clock tree through which the clock pulse propagates and are supplied to various parts of an integrated circuit chip. A phase detector provides a phase comparison between the reference clock pulse and a delayed clock pulse appearing at one of the outputs of the clock tree. A delay controller counts the reference clock pulse to produce a count value, and increments or decrements the count value in accordance with the output of the phase detector.

Abstract: A heat pipe includes: a pipe barrel; and a large number of fins disposed on the peripheral surface of the pipe barrel at least on either a heat collecting section side or a radiating section side, each of the fins is attached to the pipe barrel on a plane perpendicular to the axis of the pipe barrel, and each of the fins is composed of a metal plate and net-like material adhered to both surfaces of the metal plate.A heat exchanger of gas-liquid contacting plate type includes: a plurality of heat transfer plates, disposed vertically at certain intervals, defining air flow passages therebetween which allow air to rise, and each of the plates has a heat medium flowing passage thereinside for allowing a heat medium to flow therethrough while the side surfaces of each of the heat transfer plates, which define the air flow passages, are adhered with nets for allowing a liquid to flow downward along the nets and plates.

Abstract: A method for recovering carbon dioxide by absorbing carbon dioxide present in a combustion exhaust gas using an aqueous alkanolamine solution, comprising the step of bringing a combustion exhaust gas from which carbon dioxide has been absorbed and removed into contact with water containing carbon dioxide. A method for treating a combustion exhaust gas for denitration using ammonia as a reducing agent and for removal of carbon dioxide by absorption with an aqueous alkanolamine solution, which method comprising the steps of recovering ammonia present in the combustion exhaust gas after the carbon dioxide removal, and using the recovered ammonia as a reducing agent for the denitration. A method for removing CO.sub.2 from a combustion exhaust gas comprising the step of bringing the combustion exhaust gas into contact under atmospheric pressure with an aqueous monoethanolamine solution having a concentration of 35% by weight or more.

Abstract: A contact type image sensor including a plurality of photodiodes for converting a light signal into an electric signal according to the intensity of the light and a plurality of blocking diodes, arranged in either a back-to-back or a front-to-front connection with the photodiodes, for functioning as switching elements to have the information stored on the photodiodes read out, and adapted to be driven by a matrix drive system. For a back-to-back connection of the blocking diodes and photodiodes, a control circuit maintains the potential difference between cathodes of the photodiodes at zero volts at all times. Similarly, for a front-to-front connection of the blocking diodes and photodiodes, a control/drive circuit maintains the potential difference between the anodes of the photodiodes at zero volts at all times.

Abstract: An image sensor apparatus includes a matrix array of optical/electrical conversion elements, switching elements for taking out electric charge stored on the conversion elements, and drive circuits for driving the switching elements thereby to take out image signals from the conversion elements in parallel. A matrix array of noise signal retaining circuits is provided on output sides of the conversion elements for temporarily retaining in parallel, as noise signals, signals produced while the optical/electrical conversion elements are not being driven. Subtracting circuits are provided for subtracting from the parallel image signals in parallel the noise signals retained in the noise signal retaining circuits. A multiplexer converts the parallel output signals from the subtracting circuits into a serial signal in a predetermined sequence.

Abstract: An image sensor module suitable for use in a handy-type image input apparatus comprises an image sensor device which has connection terminals only on one side and the opposite side of the image sensor device is trued up with an edge portion of a module substrate on which the image sensor device is fixed.

Abstract: A complete-contact type image sensor includes matrix-driven sensor elements arranged on a light transmitting substrate. Both input contact members connected with the sensor elements at their input side and output contact members connected with the sensor elements at their output side are formed at one same side on the light transmitting substrate. By virtue of this arrangement, the sensor elements and an original are brought into close contact, thereby improving the MTF (Modulation Transfer Function) and reducing the width of the light transmitting substrate.

Abstract: A photoelectric transducer device including a plurality of sensor elements made up of photodiodes and blocking diodes on a substrate, connected into a linear pattern which extends in a primary scanning direction, the sensor elements to be driven in a suitable sequence to read image data from an original document. Each sensor element include a first lower electrode formed on the substrate, a second lower electrode, formed on the substrate and electrically separated from the first electrode, a photodiode formed on the first electrode, a blocking diode formed on the second electrode for preventing crosstalk, and an upper electrode formed on the photodiode and blocking diode for electrically connecting them. Lead wires for connecting the sensor elements to output circuits extend in the primary scanning direction on the first lower electrodes with an insulating film in between, the first lower electrodes being selectively connected to the lead wires through holes provided in the insulating film.

Abstract: A dry-etched amorphous silicon device which includes an amorphous silicon layer between upper and lower electrodes wherein the adverse effects of dangling silicon bonds on the periphery of the amorphous silicon layer are avoided by cutting back the peripheral surface of at least one of the electrodes to be radially inward of the peripheral surface of the amorphous silicon layer by at least one micron with respect to an axis of the device.

Abstract: A full contact image sensor device comprising sensor elements adapted to macroscopically touch a document to receive reflected light from the document and to generate electric signals in response thereto, wherein a receiving surface of each sensor element has an uneven contour and the device wherein each sensor element corresponding to a pixel comprises a plurality of sensor element blocks is proposed. The devices are easily manufactured and have excellent MTF and sensitivity.

Abstract: A complete close-contact type image sensor which comes into contact with an original and reads information from the original and which includes a sensor element for photoelectro conversion of a light signal reflected from the original and electronic parts such as a driven unit for driving the sensor element and taking out an electric signal stored in the sensor element, the image sensor being characterized in that the electronic parts such as the driving unit are disposed inside a plane including the surface of contact with the original. According to the above construction of the present invention, since the electronic parts, including the driving unit, are disposed inside the plane which includes the surface of contact with the original, the path of transfer of the original can be made rectilinear to stabilize the feed of the original without enlarging the gap between the sensor element and the original.

Abstract: An image sensor device having a plurality of sensor elements connected in a matrix is driven by sequentially applying successive driving pulses, wherein a leading edge of a driving pulse coincides with a trailing edge of a preceding driving pulse and the slew rate at the leading edge is equal to the slew rate at the trailing edge.

Abstract: A controlled type rotation speed difference sensitive coupling is disclosed, which is for use between first and second rotatable members. The coupling comprises a drive housing connected to the first rotatable member, a rotor connected to the second rotatable member and rotatably received in the housing, and driving pistons operatively carried by the rotor having head portions thereof slidably engaged with a cam surface wall formed on an inner surface of the drive housing. The rotor has at its center portion a spool chamber in which a spool is disposed. Balance passages and relief passages extend respectively between working chambers defined by the driving pistons and the spool chamber. Each balance passage has an orifice which is exposed to the spool chamber and closable by the spool. The orifice is non-circular in shape.

Abstract: A limited slip differential is disclosed which includes a first rotary element, a second rotary element, and a hydraulic unit including a plurality of reciprocal pistons in slidable engagement with an internal cam surface of the first rotary element. The hydraulic unit includes an accumulator and a fluid passage in fluid communication with the accumulator and each of pressure chambers defined by the pistons. A variable flow restrictor is provided between the accumulator and each of the pressure chambers to automatically regulate a differential slip limiting torque in response to variation of rotational speed differential between driving wheels.

Abstract: A contact type image sensor device comprises a plurality of photodiodes connected in a matrix, and an equal number of blocking diodes. A capacity ratio of a photo electric part constituting the photodiodes to a diode part constituting the blocking diode is in the range of 2:1 to 30:1. Dynamic range, magnitude of the signal current, light sensitivity and after image characteristics of the image sensor are improved according to the invention.

Abstract: A pin diode having an incident layer which includes 1 to 10% of microcrystallized silicon is formed in a condition where a molar ratio of hydrogen to monosilane is 5:1 to 100:1 and applied power is 0.001 to 0.05 W/cm.sup.2. The pin diode as well as a contact image sensor comprising the same as excellent photoelectric transfer efficiency.