Abstract: A torque converter includes a turbine impeller integrally connected to a pump impeller, a side-cover having a boss and covering the turbine impeller, and a turbine shaft extending through the boss and connected to the turbine impeller. A radial bearing and a one-way clutch are disposed axially adjacent to each other between the boss of the side-cover and the turbine shaft. The radial bearing serves to retain the boss and the turbine shaft concentrically, and the one-way clutch connects the turbine shaft and the side-cover to each other, when a back load is applied to the turbine shaft. Therefore, a load received by a clutch element of the one-way clutch such as a sprig between the turbine shaft and the side-cover is equalized. Thus, when a back load is applied to the turbine shaft, a slipping between the turbine impeller and the pump impeller is prevented, thereby providing a good engine brake effect.

Abstract: To eliminate unnaturalness in the display of video signals that are intermittently updated. Video signals recorded in a disk 1 in a compressed manner are reproduced through a pickup 2. The reproduced signals are fed to a reproduction processing unit 3 from where a bit stream is fetched which is then fed to a decoder circuit 4. The decoder circuit 4 produces video signals reconstructed from the compression. The signals from the decoder circuit 4 are fed to an adder 12 which is an adder means through an amplifier 11 which is a weighting circuit having a coefficient of, for example, 0.5. The added signal from the adder 12 is fetched to an output terminal 13, and is fed to a frame memory 14 which is a storage means of, for example, one frame. The signal stored in the frame memory 14 is fed to an adder 12 through an amplifier 15 which is a second weighting circuit having a coefficient of, for example, 0.5.

Abstract: A data access controller has its SRAM adapted to hold two ECC blocks so that the SRAM is used efficiently for multiple kinds of processes. At playback of data, writing of ECC block A from the demodulator and the ECC process for ECC block B begin simultaneously. When the ECC process ends, release of the ECC block B to the outside begins. When the writing of the ECC block A ends, the ECC process for the ECC block A begins and, at the same time, writing of ECC block B from the demodulator begins.

Abstract: A vehicular navigation system is described as including a present position detector for detecting the present position of a vehicle; an input device for inputting information necessary for computing a guidance route; an output device for outputting information for route guidance; an information storage unit containing stored road information including branch data and link data and other data necessary for providing the guidance; a route search section for searching for a guidance route on the basis of the information input by the input means; a route information storage unit for storing the guidance route information registered by the route search section; and guide control section for outputting guidance information for a next guide branch to the output means, on the basis of the guidance route and the present position detected by the present position detector.

Abstract: The layout of a semiconductor IC is determined making use of a first logical cell of an ordinary flip-flop based on a logical net. Logical simulation is performed according to the result of the layout, that is, the layout information. The possibility of erroneous operation caused by timing deviations is verified by comparing the timing information from the result of the logical simulation with the design specifications. Furthermore, the logical cells at points where there is the possibility of erroneous operation caused by timing deviations are replaced by second or third logical cells having delay elements connected to data input or output terminals of the flip-flops. The final layout of the semiconductor IC is then decided.

Abstract: A photosensitive colored composition for a color filter is described, which comprises (A) a pigment, (B) a binding resin, (C) a radiation-sensitive compound, and (D) a solvent, wherein (A) a pigment contains a pigment having an average particle size of from 0.01 to 0.2 .mu.m represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Y represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, a carbamoyl group, an alkylcarbamoyl group, an arylcarbamoyl group, or an alkoxycarbonyl group; and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, or a carbocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic residue.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for moving an optical head to a desired track on a disk shaped recording medium having a pair of spiral tracks. A common address is recorded on the pair of spiral tracks. The addresses of the tracks before and after the access process are compared. Based on this comparison, a judgment is made as to whether the optical head has landed on a spiral track having a common address or a track having another address after the access process.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for locating a desired track on a disk shaped recording medium. The disk has a first pre-group and a second pre-group. At least one of the pre-groups has encoded address information shared by at least one track on the inner side of the pre-group, and shared by at least one track on an outer side of the pre-group. A desired track is located based on changes in address information detected during or after a track jump.

Abstract: A vehicular navigation system includes guide control facilities which acquires stored information of an angle between a road entering and a road departing a rotary branch on a route stored in route information storing means, the angle of a junction to the rotary, and information of the changing angles of individual links forming the rotary. Direction guidance is performed on the basis of this acquired information along with the present position of a vehicle, a destination, and a computed route.

Abstract: A data access controller has an SRAM adapted to hold two ECC blocks so that the SRAM is used efficiently for multiple kinds of processes. At playback of data, writing of ECC block A from a demodulator and an ECC process for ECC block B begin simultaneously. When the ECC process ends, release of the ECC block B to the outside begins. When the writing of ECC block A ends, the ECC process for the ECC block A begins and, at the same time, writing of ECC block B from the demodulator begins.

Abstract: A color masterbatch resin composition for a packaging material for a photographic photosensitive material which does not adversely affect photographic properties of the photographic photosensitive material, comprising a light-shielding material in a concentration thrice as much as or more that of the packaging material for a photographic photosensitive material, and a thermoplastic resin of which 50 wt. % or more is the same type as a thermoplastic resin occupying 50 wt. % or more of the total thermoplastic resin composing the packaging material for a photographic photosensitive material, production thereof, a packaging material for a photographic photosensitive material formed of a color masterbatch resin composition, and production thereof.

Abstract: A clock control circuit is provided in a flip-flop circuit, since a first clock signal supplied to a master latch circuit is generated by an OR logic between a reference clock signal and a skew adjustment clock signal, a second clock signal supplied to a slave latch circuit is generated in accordance with the reference clock signal, the first clock signal has a phase advanced from the second clock signal by exactly an amount of a skew margin. An input signal is fetched into the flip-flop circuit at the rising edge of the first clock signal, then is output at the rising edge of the second clock signal. By this, malfunction due to the clock skew is prevented. The flip-flop circuit can operate as in the normal mode by holding the skew adjustment clock at a logic "0".

Abstract: A back light detecting method, a back light detecting device and an image pick-up camera for detecting a back light state in view of the pick-up state of a subject. Concerning a pixel other than the pixel within the brightness level between two slice levels given from the outside, its brightness level is integrated to distinguish a subject area AR.sub.M from a background area AR.sub.L. A back light state BLS is estimated from the area HIST.sub.M and the brightness level Y.sub.M of the subject area AR.sub.M. Thereby the back light state can be detected more correctly.

Abstract: The semiconductor memory device is provided with a readout mode in which a plurality of word data are read out from a memory cell array as a group and are subjected to a time division operation to be continuously output. The device includes a redundant unit which replaces a bit data of a defective bit present in the respective word data with a replacement data on a basis of the word data during said readout mode, thereby reconfiguring the plurality of word data.

Abstract: A simple device and method for accessing a desired track of an optical disk device or the like, wherein address information is encoded on at least one of two pre-groups. One or more tracks adjacent to the pre-groups have the same address. Tracks are located and identified based on changes in address information detected during or after a track jump.

Abstract: In a camera having a line-of-sight detecting device for continuously detecting line-of-sight information which is information on a line of sight of a user of the camera, a predetermined action is performed when the user is determined on the basis of the detected line-of-sight information to be looking at a specific visual mark, wherein, until the line-of-sight information varies after the predetermined action is performed for the first time, the predetermined action for the second time is inhibited from being performed.

Abstract: A photosensitive sheet favorably employable for covering a pixel sheet is composed mainly of a support and a photosensitive colored resin layer containing a dye whose color disappears by application of heat or light. The coverage of the pixel sheet can be performed by combining the pixel sheet and the photosensitive sheet which has been examined for checking evenness of the surface of the colored resin layer under the condition that the pixels are brought into contact with the colored resin layer to give a combined body; separating the support of the photosensitive sheet from the combined body, leaving the colored resin layer on the pixel sheet; exposing to light the photosensitive colored resin layer on the pixel sheet so as to cure the photosensitive colored resin layer and possibly to make the resin layer colorless; and heating the light-exposed colored resin layer so that the colored resin layer is made colorless or the curing further proceeds.

Abstract: In a weld-coupling portion 3 which is formed by fitting an inner peripheral surface 2b of an end portion of a pump shell 2 to a lower-step surface 4a of a stepped portion 4 formed on an outer peripheral surface of an end portion of a front cover 1 of a torque converter and then welding them together while abutting an end surface 2a of the end portion of the pump shell 2 with a stepped surface 4a of the stepped portion 4 of the front cover 1, the weld-coupling portion 3 is cut down to a level of the lower-step surface 4a of the front cover 1 in such a predetermined cutting width as to evenly cut a front cover side and a pump shell side of the weld-coupling portion 3 in order to separate the front cover 1 and the pump shell 2 apart.

Abstract: A color masterbach resin composition for a packaging material for a photographic photosensitive material which does not adversely affect photographic properties of the photographic photosensitive material, comprising a light-shielding material in a concentration thrice as much as or more that of the packaging material for a photographic photosensitive material, and a thermoplastic resin of which 50 wt. % or more is the same type as a thermoplastic resin occupying 50 wt. % or more of the total thermoplastic resin composing the packaging material for a photographic photosensitive material, production thereof, a packaging material for a photographic photosensitive material formed of a color masterbatch resin composition, and production thereof.

Abstract: An alkali-developable photopolymerizable composition is disclosed, comprising (1) a photopolymerization initiator or a photopolymerization initiator system, (2) an addition polymerizable monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, and (3) a resin obtained by reacting a copolymer comprising at least a repeating unit represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Ar.sup.1 represents a phenyl group or a phenyl group substituted with an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an aryl group having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms, an aralkyl group having from 8 to 12 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, or a combination of two or more of these substituents; and x represents a molar content of the repeating unit in the copolymer, ranging from 0.85 to 0.55,and a repeating unit represented by formula (II): ##STR2## wherein y represents a molar content of the repeating unit in the copolymer, ranging from 0.15 to 0.