Abstract: The present invention provides spring steel used for spring steel wire achieving both high strength and cold coilability and spring steel wire, that is, spring steel containing, by mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.70%, Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.015% or less, N: 0.0015 to 0.0200%, and t-O: 0.0002 to 0.01 and further limiting Al?0.01% and Ti?0.003%. Further, it is characterized by satisfying the following regarding the cementite-based spherical carbides present at an observed plane, an occupied area ratio of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 ?m or more of 7% or less, a density of presence of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 to 3 ?m of 1/?m2 or less, and a density of presence of grains with a circle equivalent diameter 3 ?m or more of 0.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high strength heat treated steel wire for spring having a tensile strength of 2000 MPa or more which is coiled in the cold state and can achieve both sufficient atmospheric strength and coilability and spring steel used for that steel wire, that is, a high strength heat treated steel wire for a spring characterized by comprising, by mass %, C: 0.5 to 0.9%, Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 1.5%, Cr: 1.0 to 2.5%, V: over 0.15 to 1.0%, and Al: 0.005% or less, controlling N to 0.007% or less, further containing one or two of Nb: 0.001 to less than 0.01% and Ti: 0.001 to less 0.005%, and having a tensile strength of 2000 MPa or more, having cementite-based spheroidal carbides and alloy-based spheroidal carbides in a microscopic visual field satisfying an area percentage of carbides with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.

Abstract: The present invention provides spring steel used for spring steel wire achieving both high strength and cold coilability and spring steel wire, that is, spring steel containing, by mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.70%, Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.015% or less, N: 0.0015 to 0.0200%, and t-O: 0.0002 to 0.01 and further limiting Al?0.01% and Ti?0.003%. Further, it is characterized by satisfying the following regarding the cementite-based spherical carbides present at an observed plane, an occupied area ratio of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 ?m or more of 7% or less, a density of presence of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 to 3 ?m of 1/?m2 or less, and a density of presence of grains with a circle equivalent diameter 3 ?m or more of 0.

Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus for an automotive vehicle includes a case having an opening which is formed at a side wall of the case. A heater core is installed in the case; and a mix door assembly detachably is installed in said case through the opening. The mix door assembly is adapted to vary a ratio of quantity of air passing through said heater core to a quantity of air bypassing said heater core. The mix door assembly including a housing, a mix door installed in the housing, and a slide mechanism installed in the housing. The slide mechanism is adapted to receive a rotational force and slide the mix door with respect to the housing according to the received rotational force to vary the ratio.

Abstract: An image processing device detects the correlation between a pixel to be removed in thinning pixel blocks generated by using a delay in horizontal and vertical directions and an adjacent pixel. The device then determines a coefficient corresponding to the correlation. From the pixel to be removed and the adjacent pixel, pixel data is generated by using a predetermined calculation equation. Thinning and reduction of each pixel block in the horizontal and vertical directions thus occurs.

Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus for an automotive vehicle includes a heater core and a mix door assembly installed in a case. The mix door assembly is detachably installed in the case through an opening formed at a side wall of the case. The mix door assembly constitutes a housing, a mix door and a slide mechanism. The slide mechanism is arranged to slide the mix door according to a received rotational force so as to vary the ratio of warm air to quantity and cool air quantity.

Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus for an automotive vehicle is comprised of a heater core and a mix door assembly installed in a case. The mix door assembly is detachably installed in the case through an opening formed at a side wall of the case. The mix door assembly is constituted by a housing, a mix door and a slide mechanism. The slide mechanism is arranged to slide the mix door according to a received rotational force to vary a ratio of warm air quantity and cool air quantity.

Abstract: An electronic device having a circuit board, a shielding plate disposed thereon and a three-terminal regulator is provided with a heat sink positioned on the outer side of the circuit board and connected to the three-terminal regulator. The heat of three-terminal regulator is radiated from the heat sink, thus making it possible to prevent heating of the shielding plate. In this way, electronic device elements that do not stand up very well to heat, such as an optical pickup unit, can be placed directly on shielding plate, so that the heat of three-terminal regulator is efficiently dissipated and the size of the electronic devices may be reduced.

Abstract: An electronic device having a circuit board, a shielding plate disposed thereon and a three-terminal regulator is provided with a heat sink positioned on the outer side of the circuit board and connected to the three-terminal regulator. The heat of three-terminal regulator is radiated from the heat sink, thus making it possible to prevent heating of the shielding plate. In this way, electronic device elements that do not stand up very well to heat, such as an optical pickup unit, can be placed directly on shielding plate, so that the heat of three-terminal regulator is efficiently dissipated and the size of the electronic devices may be reduced.

Abstract: An integral microphone holder-connector made from a rubbery material is disclosed, which is used in assemblage of a compact electronic instrument such as a portable telephone having a built-in capacitor microphone and which greatly improves the productivity in the mounting work of the microphone and reliability of microphone holding and positioning as well as electrical connection thereof with the mounting circuit board without necessitating soldering. The integral microphone holder-connector consists of a rubber-made microphone holder in the form of a cup for holding a microphone in the cavity thereof and a connector body forming the bottom of the cup-formed microphone holder, the connector body consisting of a rubbery connector base and a plurality of fine metal wires embedded therein in a parallel alignment running in the direction perpendicular to the bottom of the cup-formed microphone holder to extend out of the surfaces of the connector base to serve as the contacting terminals.

Abstract: A socket for the inspection of semiconductor devices is disclosed which has laterally extended leads. The device is mounted in a mounting seat of the socket body and results in improvement of the inspection process because difficult steps such as soldering can be omitted. The socket is composed of a socket body which is mountable on a circuit board having a mounting seat therefor, a lead frame intervening between the socket body and the circuit board and an anisotropically electroconductive elastic connector sheet.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a charging member, image transfer member or similar contact member contacts an image carrier implemented as a photoconductive element. Even when a voltage is applied to the contact member in a relatively low temperature environment, the contact member is provided with an adequate charge potential or an image transfer potential.

Abstract: A system for cleaning a charge inducing member comprising a cleaning element for establishing relative lineal as well as rotary movement between the cleaning element and charge inducing member. Embodiments include various mechanisms for imparting axial reciprocal motion to the cleaning element and for disabling reciprocation of the cleaning element or separating the cleaning element and charging member from each other during sensitive portions of a photoduplication cycle.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus having a charging member for charging a photoconductive element in the form of a drum or a belt in contact therewith, a cleaning member cleans the surface of a charge roller contacting the photoconductive element. The cleaning member is usually spaced apart from the surface of the charge roller, but the former is caused to contact the latter only for a predetermined period of time at predetermined intervals. This frees the charge roller from excessive cleaning due to the cleaning member and, therefore, obviates defective images. The time for causing the cleaning member to contact the charge roller may be changed on the basis of the degree of contamination of the charge roller in order to cope with accidental smears brought about on the charge roller.

Abstract: A first reproduced color under signal is delayed by one or two horizontal periods by a delay circuit, and this delayed second reproduced color under signal and the aforementioned first reproduced color under signal have their frequencies converted individually by first and second frequency converters into standard color signals. An oscillatory frequency signals of 2n of carriers for the aforementioned frequency conversions are divided to have the aforementioned carrier frequencies and to produce four carriers having phases of 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees. These carriers are selectively fed to the first and second frequency converters by switches so that the two frequency-converted signals are subtracted or added in phase or in opposite phase to clear the noise (or crosstalk component), which is caused by the crosstalk between the tracks.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive body. A charge member is held in contact with the photosensitive body and charges the photosensitive body by applying a voltage thereto. An exposure device exposes a surface of the photosensitive body charged by the charge member and forms an electrostatic latent image. A developing device attaches toner to the electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive body and visualizes the electrostatic latent image. Further, a particle diameter of fine powder which is the toner used in the developing device is equal to or less than 3 .mu.m, and a containing rate of the fine powder is equal to or less than 5%. Further, an angle of spatula of the toner used in the developing device may be at least 25 degrees. A cohesiveness of the toner may also be at least 9%.

Abstract: An improved elastomer-based connector sheet for use to electrically connect electrode terminals is proposed which comprises, in the form of an integral sheet: (a) a matrix in the form of a sheet made from an electrically insulating rubber having a specified rubber hardness; and (b) a multiplicity of straightly extending wire segments of a metal having a specified volume resistivity and having a diameter in the range from 20 to 90 .mu.m embedded in the matrix of the rubber substantially in parallel each with the others in such a direction that the bias angle formed with the direction perpendicular to the surface of the sheet is in the range from 20.degree. to 60.degree. in such a fashion that each of the wire segments has the ends exposed on the surfaces of the matrix sheet and the distance between the surfaces of adjacent wire segments is at least 10 .mu.m, the distribution density of the ends of the wire segments exposed on the sur-face of the matrix sheet being in the range from 70 to 1000 per mm.sup.2.

Abstract: An improved elastic interconnector is proposed which consists of, different from conventional rubber-made interconnectors having a structure of alternate stratification of insulating rubber layers and electroconductive rubber layers, an insulating block made from a silicone rubber and a plural number of gold-plated fine metal wires embedded therein in a parallel alignment, each end portion of the metallic wires being protruded out of the surface of the insulating rubber block to ensure reliable contacting with electrode terminals.

Abstract: When a semiconductor integrated circuit device having a wiring structure of three or more layers is hierarchically considered as a collection of a plurality of functional blocks, each functional block is internally connected by wirings in the first wiring layer, in which wirings have their main extended direction prescribed to be the X-direction, and wirings in the second wiring layer, in which wirings have their main extended direction prescribed to be the Y-direction, formed over the first wiring layer. Wirings in the third wiring layer, in which wirings have their main extended direction prescribed to be the same as the wirings in the second wiring layer, formed over the second wiring layer, together with wirings in the first and second wiring layer, are used as signal wirings between functional blocks, while the wirings in the third wiring layer are used as power supply wirings for providing power supply to functional blocks.

Abstract: Disclosed is a novel semiconductor integrated circuit device for use in a color VTR (Video Tape Recorder). Concretely, the semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises a substantially rectangular semiconductor chip which has a principal surface, a luminance signal processing unit and a color signal processing unit which are disposed at the positions of the principal surface opposing to each other, and a semiconductor region which is provided in the interspace of the principal surface between the luminance signal and color signal processing units opposing to each other and which is supplied with a bias stable A.C.-wise. Further, the semiconductor region is located substantially at the central portion of the semiconductor chip and is extended so as to intersect with one set of opposing sides of the rectangular semiconductor chip.