Abstract: A hub for a wheel having a buffer mechanism internally of a hub barrel, in which the great shock caused by a difference in level is relieved to enhance the comfort to ride and the durability, and the left and right lateral torsion in the direction of an axle of a wheel is eliminated to improve the safety

Abstract: A composite substance for forming a conductive paste, comprises a solvent being compatible with an organic component included in the conductive paste, and metal particles wetted by the solvent. The conductive paste comprises an organic binder, the composite substance and an organic solvent mixed with the organic binder and the composite substance. The method for manufacturing the composite substance comprises the step of adding the solvent to undried metal particles having been washed with water, the solvent being compatible with the organic binder included in the conductive paste and incompatible with water so that the water is replaced by the solvent. The method for manufacturing the conductive paste comprises the step of mixing an organic binder and an organic solvent with the composite substance.

Abstract: The present invention provides a space-saving and low-cost emergency power system, which can be installed on a narrow place having limited space and employs a battery that is long in service life and low in frequency of replacement. This emergency power system comprises a circuit having a DC load, a rectifier, and a battery, which are electrically connected to one another. This circuit is adapted so that normally, DC power is supplied from the rectifier to the DC load, and the battery is charged, and that in an emergency, such as a power failure, in which an outage of the rectifier occurs, electric power is automatically supplied from the battery to the DC load. In this system, a sodium sulfur battery is employed as the battery.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic head construction, a connection method and a connecting device by which excellent electrical connection can be carried out between a core electrode and a substrate land face on a flexure in a magnetic head employing the piggy back system. In order to attain the object of interest, in the present invention, a fine adjustment actuator is arranged between a core and a flexure; a projection portion which is projected from the fine adjustment actuator when viewed from the flexure is provided in the core; a hole is provided in the position, on the flexure, corresponding to the projection portion; only the core is fixed by a support portion provided through the hole portion and a clamp pin without applying any load to the fine adjustment actuator; and while maintaining this fixing state, an electrode and a substrate land are bonded to each other with a wire.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a leak reducing structure in a steam turbine having high pressure, intermediate pressure, and low pressure turbine sections in a single casing, in which steam leaking from the high pressure side to the intermediate pressure side is recovered to be used effectively. The high pressure, intermediate pressure, and low pressure turbine sections are arranged along a rotor in an external casing. High-pressure steam from a high-pressure steam inlet port passes through a nozzle chamber formed integrally with a dummy ring, and flows into the high pressure turbine section to do work. On the other hand, some of high-pressure steam attempts to leak from a seal portion of the dummy ring to the intermediate pressure turbine section side. However, the leaking steam flows from point X of an external pipe to point Y on the high pressure side to be recovered.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hard molybdenum alloy which exhibits an excellent wear resistance against sliding wear and adhesive wear in a high temperature nonlubricating atmosphere, comprising at least one of nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) in an amount of from 14.0 to 43.0% by weight, silicon (Si) in an amount of from 3.0 to 8.0% by weight and molybdenum (Mo) in an amount of not less than 20.0% by weight. Also disclosed is a wear resistant alloy which includes the above hard molybdenum alloy as a reinforcing phase.

Abstract: A plurality of internal power supply voltage generating circuits generate internal power supply voltages. A column select signal at the same voltage level as a first internal power supply voltage applied to a sense amplifier is generated to an I/O gate circuit connecting a bit line pair and an internal data line pair together. A current driving capability of an I/O gate circuit is made relatively small, so that rapid change in potential on a sense node of a sense amplifier is prevented. Thereby, inversion of latched data of the sense amplifier due to collision of data is prevented in such a case voltages on the internal data line pair are not equalized sufficiently.

Abstract: A high-modulus iron-based alloy containing at least one boride dispersed in an iron or iron-alloy matrix. The boride may be one of a Group IVa element, or a complex boride of at least one Group Va element and iron. A mixture of an iron or iron-alloy powder and a powder of at least one boride containing a Group IVa or Va element is compacted and sintered to make a shaped high-modulus iron-based alloy product.

Abstract: A demagnetizing device for a cathode ray tube having a screen portion and a funnel portion, comprising:an outer magnetic shielding member which is arranged so as to surround a funnel portion of a cathode ray tube, and which is formed of a magnetic sheet; anda demagnetizing coil which is arranged so as to encircle a screen portion of the cathode ray tube;wherein the demagnetizing coil is arranged so as to be apart from the outer magnetic shielding member by not less than 9.5 mm.

Abstract: A sliding member usable in dry and wet states includes a synthetic resin coated filler powder composition obtained by polymerizing a polyethylene based composition in the presence of a filler having a friction-reducing and/or wear-resisting property, uniformly dispersed in a matrix made of a waterproof synthetic resin, and optionally a reinforcing material as needed.

Abstract: A power generation control system for a generator is provided with a smoothing circuit, a voltage control circuit and an exciting current control circuit including a delaying circuit. When a terminal voltage of a smoothing capacitor is higher than a first reference voltage of a first comparator, a switching element is closed to supply current to an exciting coil. When a divided voltage of a voltage detecting circuit is lower than a second reference voltage of a second comparator, the smoothing capacitor is charged so that the terminal voltage thereof is gradually raised. When a detection voltage of the exciting current control circuit is higher than a third reference voltage of a third comparator, the smoothing capacitor is rapidly discharged so that the terminal voltage thereof is rapidly lowered down to a value not higher than the first reference voltage of the first comparator.

Abstract: A multiprocessor system address translation register control device that creates a directory for the handling of various address translation registers, wherein the directory retains processor data indicative of which of a plurality of address translation registers that can be accessed by multiple processors are actually being used by those processors. This device also uses a partial number register for the handling of various address translation registers, wherein the partial space number register retains partial space numbers for the partial space that all of the address translation registers take as input. By setting and resetting processor indicating data numbers to this directory, and by setting partial space numbers to a partial space number register, this device controls the address translation register allotments for the handling of multiple processors.

Abstract: In a roller chain, a plastic bushing sleeve has flanges which are integrally formed on the ends of the sleeve by injection molding. These flanges fit into complementary recesses in the outer faces of the inner link plates of the chain and prevent axial translation of the sleeve. The flanges and recesses may be made non-circular to prevent rotation of the sleeve. Alternatively, complementary projections and depressions can be formed on circular flanges and on the floors of the recesses. A similar sleeve is incorporated into the rollers of the chain.

Abstract: By using a shared register directory having a bit array corresponding one to one to the processor for each shared register, a shared register control portion of a shared register control system in a multiprocessor system monitors to which processor each of the registers shared between processors is currently allocated or if it is not allocated to any of the processors at all (unoccupied condition), and allocates any arbitrary shared register in response to the request from each processor while allowing access to the allocated share register. A task on the processor, which had been initially using the shared register, can be switched even if another task using the same register is being executed on any other processor, and the throughput of the multiprocessor system using the shared register can be increased.

Abstract: A wheel stopper includes a pair of stopper recesses (14) provided on a parking pallet (10) for receiving a pair of front or rear wheels, each recess having a floor plate with a pair of through-holes (18) therein and a pair of support members (15) which are movable upwardly and downwardly within the stopper recesses (14). The support members (15) consist of a support plate (19) and a pair of legs (20) extending downwardly from the support plate (19) through the through-holes (18).

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a display panel unit having a plurality of pixels, and a flat-plate microlens array of a refraction index distribution type. The microlens array is constituted by forming a plurality of microlenses for converging illuminating light onto the respective ones of the pixels, in a substrate by a diffusion process. In the diffusion process, diffusion fronts of the neighboring microlenses of the flat-plate microlens array are fused into each other so as to form one continuous curved surface within the substrate.

Abstract: An automated production line monitoring system is presented to provide; setting and control of process parameters necessary to operate the various automated processing machine units installed on the line; and surveillance of abnormalities which may occur in the line. The line operator, working in a centralized CRT display and control center, monitors CRT screens showing: an operational preparation display consisting mostly of output signals from various sensors; an operational mode display showing a table of control switches; an interlock display showing various interlocked machine units; a product-type display showing processing steps to be performed on current product; an abnormality list display showing causes of various abnormalities on the line; a status display showing the operating conditions of various machine units; step monitor display showing the sequential step numbers of a production cycle; unit stepping display showing the details of the respective steps shown in the unit stepping display.

Abstract: A wear-resistant copper-base alloy having superior self-lubricity includes, by weight %,Ni: 10.0 to 30.0%;Si: 0.5 to 3%;Co: 2.0 to 15.0%;at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Mo, W, Nb and V:2.0 to 15.0%; andthe balance being Cu and unavoidable impurities, and having a structure in which hard phase grains containing 5 vol% or more of silicide of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Mo, W, Nb and V are uniformly dispersed in an amount of 10 to 60 vol% in a copper-rich matrix, to which 2.0 to 15.0% of Fe and/or 1.0 to 10.0% of Cr may be further added.

Abstract: In a charging control apparatus for a vehicle for controlling generation of electric power from a vehicle's generator charging a battery, the rate of increase in the field current of the generator is increased when an electrical load is connected to the generator. A switch is connected in series with the field winding, and a mean conduction rate detector detects the mean conduction rate of the switch and generates an output signal having a value which is a function of the mean conduction rate of the switch. A maximum signal generator generates an output signal having a value larger by a predetermined value than that of the output signal of the mean conduction rate detector, and a comparator is enabled to operate while the maximum signal generator is generating the maximum signal. The comparator is preferably enabled again when the value of the mean output signal of the conduction rate detector exceeds a preset value.

Abstract: In a plate microlens of the invention, wherein gradient index lenses each having an optical axis along a normal to a surface of a transparent base and a refractive index profile gradually changing along a direction of the optical axis and a direction perpendicular thereto are formed integrally in the transparent base; a ratio d/a (where d is a thickness of the gradient index lens on the optical axis and 2a is a diameter of the gradient index lens on a surface of the transparent base) falls within a range of 0.46 to 0.78.