Abstract: Disclosed is a gaming machine. According to the gaming machine, when a combination of symbols relating to a winning is displayed on a one line, the symbols constituting the combination of symbols relating to the winning and symbols constituting a combination of specific symbols in accordance with the combination of symbols relating to the winning are respectively arranged on peripheries of reels so that the combination of specific symbols is displayed on a line different from the one line. In addition, an image display unit of the gaming machine displays a specific image representing a corresponding relationship between a prize in accordance with the combination of symbols relating to the winning and the combination of specific symbols in accordance with the combination of symbols relating to the winning.

Abstract: A gate valve has a valve case formed with through holes at facing positions, a valve assembly having a pair of valve plates connected via bellows and arranged inside the valve case, a support rod for supporting this valve assembly at its front end, bellows for sealing the valve case side and support rod side, and air cylinders for making the valve assembly move between the open position and closed position through the support rod. The valve case is formed with an opening through which the valve assembly can pass and has a lid detachably attached to the valve case by bolts so as to close the opening. The bolts are tightened or loosened through the opening so that the valve assembly can be attached to or detached from the support rod.

Abstract: A gate valve having a valve body, a valve rod, a regulation device, a cam mechanism and a drive for supplying a straight-move force to the cam mechanism is provided. The valve rod is held so that it can move in a straight-move direction of opening and closing the valve via a pair of linear guides provided on both sides of the valve rod.

Abstract: A radio base system (1000) is multi-path-connected to a plurality of mobile terminal devices to transmit/receive signals. When a communication channel establishment request is sent from one of the plurality of mobile terminal devices, a control unit (80) detects the presence or absence of a mobile terminal device to which a communication channel is already connected for each of a plurality of slots. When channel allocation has to be performed by path multiplexing on the mobile terminal device which has sent the channel establishment request, control unit (80) permits channel establishment in accordance with a result of detection of an error detecting unit (56).

Abstract: A cavity has a longitudinal hollow having opposite open ends. An excitation source, such as a YAG rod, is accommodated in the hollow of the cavity. A hollow, cylindrical rod holder is inserted into each of the opposite open ends of the hollow and is fitted over a corresponding end of the YAG rod. A seal is fitted into a hollow of the rod holder adjacent to a portion of the rod holder fitted over the end of the YAG rod. The seal includes an annular seal body with a U-shaped section, e.g. made from Teflon®, and fitted over an outer periphery of the YAG rod to grip the YAG rod, as well as a spring fitted in a groove of the seal body provided by the U-shaped section so as to circumferentially surround a gripped portion of the YAG rod.

Abstract: A gate valve having a valve body, a valve rod, a regulation device, a cam mechanism and a drive for supplying a straight-move force to the cam mechanism is provided. The valve rod is held so that it can move in a straight-move direction of opening and closing the valve via a pair of linear guides provided on both sides of the valve rod.

Abstract: A gate valve includes: a valve plate; a valve rod which the valve plate is fixed to and is supported to be able to tilt; a seal bellows and a dust sealing portion; a stopper member; a tilting cam mechanism which converts supplied straight moving force into tilting force, and tilts the valve rod of which the straight movement is restricted at a closed position in the direction where the valve plate 2 seals an aperture; a seal-releasing cam mechanism which tilts the valve rod in the direction to release the sealing of the valve plate; and an air cylinder as an actuator which supplies the straight movement force for the tilting cam mechanism and the seal-releasing cam mechanism.

Abstract: A device for coupling pipelines for running cryogenic liquid has: a pair of flanges which are pierced by coupling units respectively and which support the coupling units with the coupling units freely approaching and separating from each other and which form compartments around the coupling units; a pair of inner cover units which open and shut the insides of the coupling units; a pair of outer cover units which open and shut the insides of the compartments of the flanges; and purge lines for purging the insides of the compartments. The process of coupling pipelines by this device has the steps of: opening the outer cover units with the insides of the coupling units shut by the inner cover units; coupling the flanges to each other; purging the inside of a compartment which is formed in the flanges; opening the inner cover units; and coupling the coupling units to each other with the coupling units isolated from the outside air.

Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent body for use in an absorbent article. The absorbent body includes: fragments of nonwoven fabric including heat-fusible fibers, the heat-fusible fibers being bonded to each other to have three-dimensional structure in advance of formation of the fragments; and hydrophilic fibers. The nonwoven fabric fragments and the hydrophilic fibers are blended.

Abstract: A cavity has a longitudinal hollow having opposite open ends. An excitation source, such as a YAG rod, is accommodated in the hollow of the cavity. A hollow, cylindrical rod holder is inserted into each of the opposite open ends of the hollow and is fitted over a corresponding end of the YAG rod. A seal is fitted into a hollow of the rod holder adjacent to a portion of the rod holder fitted over the end of the YAG rod. The seal includes an annular seal body with a U-shaped section, e.g. made from Teflon®, and fitted over an outer periphery of the YAG rod to grip the YAG rod, as well as a spring fitted in a groove of the seal body provided by the U-shaped section so as to circumferentially surround a gripped portion of the YAG rod.

Abstract: In a digital signal processor for pipeline processing divided into at least three steps, i.e., instruction fetch cycle, instruction decode cycle and instruction execution cycle, a value of a register (A) is put on a data bus assuming the condition is consistent when a condition execution instruction is decoded in an instruction decoder (14). Then, in the instruction execution cycle of the condition execution instruction, a register (B) introduced the value on the data bus when upon consistency of the condition. As a result, even before a condition flag (Z) changes as a result of execution of the instruction for generating the condition in the instruction execution cycle, the condition execution instruction can be decoded. Thus, the processor may omit an instruction other than “condition generation instruction or condition execution instruction” which was conventionally required.

Abstract: A method and system for displaying contents on a client terminal device received over a communication link, such as a computer network (i.e., the Internet) or a mobile telecommunications network, is disclosed. A request is received at a host terminal device from the client terminal device for selected content. A set of font images is then selected from a font library based on the determined frequency of selected font characteristics. The selected set of font images has fewer font images than the font library. The selected set of font images is preferably compressed and sent from the host terminal device to the client terminal device over the communication link. Next, the content, which contains content location information and font pattern codes, is preferably compressed and sent to the client terminal device over the communication link on a page-by-page basis.

Abstract: A gate valve includes: a valve plate 2; a valve rod 6 which the valve plate 2 is fixed to and is supported to be able to tilt; a seal bellows 10 and a dust sealing portion 90; a stopper member 12 as a restriction means; a tilting cam mechanism 31 which converts supplied straight moving force into tilting force, and tilts the valve rod 6 of which the straight movement is restricted at a closed position in the direction where the valve plate 2 seals an aperture 51; a seal-releasing cam mechanism 70 which tilts the valve rod 6 in the direction to release the sealing of the valve plate 2; and an air cylinder 60 as an actuating means which supplies the straight moving force for the tilting cam mechanism 31 and the seal-releasing cam mechanism 70.

Abstract: A device for coupling pipelines for running cryogenic liquid has: a pair of flanges which are pierced by coupling units respectively and which support the coupling units with the coupling units freely approaching and separating from each other and which form compartments around the coupling units; a pair of inner cover units which open and shut the insides of the coupling units; a pair of outer cover units which open and shut the insides of the compartments of the flanges; and purge lines for purging the insides of the compartments. The process of coupling pipelines by this device has the steps of: opening the outer cover units with the insides of the coupling units shut by the inner cover units; coupling the flanges to each other; purging the inside of a compartment which is formed in the flanges; opening the inner cover units; and coupling the coupling units to each other with the coupling units isolated from the outside air.

Abstract: For an engine for which fuel supply is cut off in predetermined deceleration conditions, the catalyst temperature of a catalytic converter is inferred and the amount of intake air is measured. If the catalyst temperature is high and also the amount of intake air is great, then the cutting off of fuel supply is prohibited, and instead fuel combustion is performed under rich conditions. Since during fuel supply cut off the amount of oxygen supplied to the catalytic converter is relatively increased, and the temperature of the catalyst becomes elevated due to reaction between this oxygen and the catalyst within the catalytic converter, accordingly this increase of the catalyst temperature is prevented by prohibiting fuel supply cut off in such conditions in which elevation of the temperature of the catalyst can easily occur.

Abstract: In control apparatus and method for an internal combustion engine, an incremental correction coefficient for a basic fuel injection (supply) quantity is carried out in such a way that an excess coefficient at an inlet portion of a three-way catalytic converter interposed in an exhaust passage of the engine gives a predetermined value and a retardation correction quantity by which a basic ignition advance angle (ADV) is retarded is determined when a secondary air is supplied into a portion of the exhaust passage which is located upstream with respect to the catalytic converter and an engine driving condition falls in an idling state.

Abstract: An engine is equipped with a mechanism for supplying supplementary air into an exhaust conduit upstream of a catalytic converter in order to increase catalytic activity thereof. An incremental proportion for fuel supply during this supply of supplementary air is determined so as to keep the concentration of oxygen upstream of the catalytic converter substantially at a predetermined value which corresponds to an air/fuel ratio on the lean side of stoichiometric. Further, the amount of fuel supplied is corrected according to the greater of this incremental proportion and an incremental proportion which is determined according to the temperature of the engine. By doing this, the oxygen concentration in the vicinity of the intake of the catalytic converter is maintained at the predetermined value which is lean, and the catalyst is activated at an early stage.

Abstract: An excellent optical fiber built-in type composite insulator including at least two insulator bodies each having a penetration bore, at least one optical fiber inserted in the penetration bores, and sealing structures for the penetration bores of the insulator bodies and for a joining layer of opposing end surfaces of adjacent insulator bodies, is provided, which effectively prevents leakage of inner silicone grease, bending and breakage of the optical fiber, leakage of electric current along the penetration bores, short circuited trouble, and destruction of the insulator bodies, improves joining strength of the opposing end surfaces of the insulator bodies, and maintains the joining strength for a long period, affords a change of numbers of the insulator bodies, and facilitates the production. A method of producing such composite insulator is also provided.

Abstract: An excellent optical fiber built-in type composite insulator including at least two insulator bodies each having a penetration bore, at least one optical fiber inserted in the penetration bores, and sealing structures for the penetration bores of the insulator bodies and for a joining layer of opposing end surfaces of adjacent insulator bodies, is provided, which effectively prevents leakage of inner silicone grease, bending and breakage of the optical fiber, leakage of electric current along the penetration bores, short circuited trouble, and destruction of the insulator bodies, improves joining strength of the opposing end surfaces of the insulator bodies, and maintains the joining strength for a long period, affords a change of numbers of the insulator bodies, and facilitates the production. A method of producing such composite insulator is also provided.

Abstract: A washing machine includes a washing tub elastically supported in a body of the washing machine; a sound insulation member covering the bottom surface of the body; the sound insulation member being formed with an opening for inserting packing to prevent the washing tub from moving when the washing machine should be packed; and a lid for opening and closing the opening.