Abstract: This invention provides a processing device allowing a plurality of types of processing including electron beam processing to be carried out on a substance disposed in a processing chamber, and processing methods that use such a processing device and allow prescribed processing to be carried out in an advantageous way, the processing device has a processing chamber provided with a support member, an electron beam source provided in the processing chamber and emits an electron beam toward the substance supported by the support member, and an emission gas supply system provided in the processing chamber and supplies an emission gas that emits UV light upon being subjected to an electron beam, moreover, a low pressure system that reduces the pressure in the processing chamber and a process gas supply system that supplies a process gas are preferably provided in the processing chamber, and in the processing methods, such a processing device is used, and by adjusting the pressure in the processing chamber, electro

Abstract: A grounding assembly, preventing discharge induced by charging and thereby suppressing the propagation of noise, comprising a grounding member to be electrically connected to grounding terminals of computers and a conductive member surrounding the grounding member and having a predetermined resistance. The resistance value of the conductive member is set to at least a value preventing contact current when another metal body touches the grounding member, for example, at least 2.5×104 Q. Further, the resistance value of the conductive member is set lower than a value where the conductive member is charged with static electricity, for example less than 1.0×109 Q, so the conductive member is not charged with high voltage static electricity. For this reason, the energy required for a discharge does not accumulate in this conductive member and accordingly noise due to static electricity can be suppressed.

Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a ground layer, a power supply layer divided into a plurality of lands, a dielectric layer disposed so as to cover the plurality of lands of the power supply layer, and a conductor layer disposed so as to cover the dielectric layer. The plurality of divided lands are coupled to each other by electrostatic capacitors formed by each of the lands of the power supply layer and the conductor layer sandwiching the dielectric layer therebetween.

Abstract: In accordance with this invention, there is provided a DNA sequence which can encode an enzyme protein functioning as the rice dihydrodipicolinate synthase (DHDPS). One example of the DNA sequence according to this invention is the DNA having the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 1 of Sequence Listing. Additionally, this invention provides the DNA having the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID No. 5, as well as the DNA having the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID No. 7 of Sequence Listing, as the DNA which is capable of encoding the protein having the DHDPS activity. When cultivation is made of the plant cells in which there has been introduced a recombinant vector having carried therein a DNA fragment containing the DNA of this invention as inserted at downstream of the promoter of said recombinant vector, it is feasible to regenerate from said plant cells a transgenic plant having a high lysine content.

Abstract: A display panel module such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel module in an electronic apparatus is designed to receive a driving signal of a predetermined frequency. An electrically conductive frame or bezel of the display panel module tends to suffer from the transmission of electromagnetic waves which are related to the wavelength of the driving signal. An electrically conductive member is located behind the display panel and electrically connected to the electrically conductive frame. The electrically conductive member serves to diverge the electromagnetic waves out of the electrically conductive frame. This divergence of the electromagnetic waves serves to suppress the electromagnetic radiation out of the electrically conductive frame.

Abstract: An electron beam treatment device is provided for treating a substance located in a processing chamber which includes electron beam tubes arranged such that electron beam windows project into the processing chamber. The electron beam tubes are arranged such that an absorption dose of the entire treatment area of the substance to be treated has a given distribution. The electron beams emitted by the electron beam tubes are advantageously superimposed so that the absorption dose of the entire treatment area of the substance to be treated is shifted into a given distribution condition, and in which thus the entire treatment area of the substance to be treated can be treated as a whole without moving the substance to be treated.

Abstract: An image pickup device is operated in a thinning mode, an image pickup signal is supplied to a liquid crystal display, and a pickup image is displayed (monitoring mode). The image pickup device is operated in a progressive scan reading mode and the image pickup signal is written into a DRAM (first recording mode). After completion of the writing, data compressed by an encoder/decoder is written into a flash memory and the image pickup signal is displayed (second recording mode). The image pickup signal is read out from the flash memory and decoded and written into the DRAM and the image pickup signal is displayed (first reproducing mode). The data is thinned and read out from the DRAM and displayed (second reproducing mode). A switching operation of those modes is controlled by a data switcher and a microcomputer.

Abstract: A solid state image pickup device of an interline system. The device includes a plurality of photosensors, which are arranged in a matrix form, which receive light transmitted through a plurality of color filters, and which are repeated in the vertical direction at a period of “N” pixels. A vertical transfer unit is provided for transferring charges read out from the plurality of photosensors. A horizontal transfer unit is coupled to the vertical transfer unit, and is used to horizontally transfer the charges transferred by the vertical transfer unit. Charges are passed to the vertical transfer unit by a first signal supplying unit and a second signal supplying unit. At least one of the signal supplying units is made up of “m” first photosensor groups arranged in the vertical direction and second photosensor groups numbering “a” times as large as the pixel period “N” and which are also arranged in the vertical direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electron beam processing device capable of preventing the adhesion of contaminants to an exposed irradiation part of an electron beam tube, particularly a window thereof, in a processing chamber, and also capable of controlling the rise in temperature of this irradiation unit, and in this electron beam processing device, the irradiation part of the electron beam tube (1) is disposed in the processing chamber (2) and irradiates an electron beam onto a substance (6) disposed in the processing chamber (2), the irradiation part is constituted by a lid part with an opening (31) for allowing the electron beam to pass therethrough and a window (4) which covers the opening (31) and has a transmission part (41) permeable to the electron beam, and a cooling block (7) is arranged in contact with a part of the irradiation part excluding the transmission part (41).

Abstract: An ammoxidation method in a fluidized-bed reactor, in which, when a starting material to be ammoxidized is ammoxidized by means of vapor-phase catalytic fluidized-bed reaction, the reaction is carried out in a fluidized-bed reactor to which an oxygen-containing gas is fed through feed openings provided at the bottom thereof, and a starting material to be ammoxidized is fed through feed openings provided above the feed openings for the oxygen-containing gas, the distance between the feed openings for the oxygen-containing gas and those for the starting material being from 30 to 250% of the height of a fluidized solid matter in a static state so as to form such a fluidized bed that the density of the fluidized solid matter at the feed openings for the starting material to be ammoxidized is in the range of 50 to 300 kg/m.sup.3 and that the gas velocity is 1 m/s or lower.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a video camera which comprises an image sensing device for sensing an incident light to generate charges and supplying an output signal corresponding to the charges, the output signal comprising a recurrent vertical scanning period and a recurrent vertical blanking period, the vertical scanning period including a plurality of horizontal scanning periods, a comparator for comparing a level of the output signal with a reference level to generate a compared output signal, a circuit for generating a first clock pulse having the same frequency as a horizontal scanning period, a circuit for generating a second clock pulse having a frequency higher than that of the first clock pulse, and an exposure time controlling circuit for receiving the compared output signal and controlling an exposure time of the image sensing device in synchronism with the first clock pulse according to the compared output signal when the exposure time is within the vertical scanning period, and the expos

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a video camera which comprises an image sensing device for sensing an incident light to generate charges and supplying an output signal corresponding to the charges, the output signal comprising a recurrent vertical scanning period and a recurrent vertical blanking period, the vertical scanning period including a plurality of horizontal scanning periods, a comparator for comparing a level of the output signal with a reference level to generate a compared output signal, a circuit for generating a first clock pulse having the same frequency as a horizontal scanning period, a circuit for generating a second clock pulse having a frequency higher than that of the first clock pulse, and an exposure time controlling circuit for receiving the compared output signal and controlling an exposure time of the image sensing device in synchronism with the first clock pulse according to the compared output signal when the exposure time is within the vertical scanning period, and the expos

Abstract: There is provided an exposure control circuit apparatus of a structure such that a momentary change of luminance level can be equivalently disregarded, and a response of an iris can be closer to that of the eye of a human being.

Abstract: A timing pulse generator for generating timing pulses exhibiting vertical and horizontal scanning frequencies of the type found in video signals, particularly adapted for use with a CCD imaging device. A first counter counts reference pulses having the horizontal scanning frequency to produce address counts that are used to read out timing pulse data stored in a first ROM, the read out data constituting a portion of the timing pulses. A second counter counts reference pulses of a frequency substantially higher than the horizontal scanning frequency to produce second address counts which are used to read out pulse data stored in a second ROM, the read out data constituting another portion of the timing pulses. Two separate ROMs are used to produce timing pulses of the horizontal and vertical scanning frequencies for driving and reading image data from the CCD device.

Abstract: A method for producing titanium alloy by the reduction of titanium tetrachloride and alloy components with a reducing metal agent, capable of continuously producing titanium alloy on an industrial scale. The temperature and pressure of the reaction zone for the reduction are kept above a melting point of the titanium alloy and above the vapor pressure of the reducing metal agent at that temperature respectively, so that the reducing metal agent and its chloride may be kept in a molten state but without boiling.

Abstract: A method for producing metal by the reduction of a metal halide by a reducing metal agent capable of continuously producing homogeneous metal of high purity. In the method, particles of the same metal as the metal to be produced are charged into a reaction vessel and the metal halide and the reducing metal agent both in vapor form, are ejected upwards into the reaction vessel from its lower portion to form a fluidized bed of the metal particles in the vessel. The reducing reaction between the two vapors takes place on the surface of the metal particles at a temperature below the melting point of the metal product and at a pressure below a vapor pressure of each of the reducing metal agent and the metal halide at that temperature, resulting in depositing and growing the metal product on the surface of the particles.

Abstract: Iron-antimony metallic oxide catalysts which have become deactivated after being used for the production of aldehydes, acids, nitriles, or dienes through oxidation, ammoxidation, or oxidative dehydrogenation of organic compounds in fluidized-bed reactors are regenerated by adding to the catalyst a molybdenum-enriched catalyst formed by supporting a molybdenum component which is volatile or capable of forming a volatile compound under reaction conditions on a metallic oxide catalyst. The metallic oxide catalysts contain as essential components (I) Fe, (II) Sb, (III) at least one element selected from the group consisting of V, Mo and W, and (IV) Te.

Abstract: Iron-antimony metallic oxide catalysts which have become deactivated after being used for the production of aldehydes, acids, nitriles, or dienes through oxidation, ammoxidation, or oxidative dehydrogenation of organic compounds in fluidized-bed reactors are regenerated by adding to the catalyst a solid molybdenum component which is volatile or capable of forming a volatile compound under reaction conditions. The metallic oxide catalysts contain as essential components (I) Fe, (II) Sb, (III) at least one element selected from the group consisting of V, MO, and W, and (IV) Te.

Abstract: A differential-pressure control device for fuel cell comprises three liquid tubs allowed to communicate with each other at their respective bottom portions through a sealing liquid having free surfaces, gas pipe means which connect the liquid tubs to gas outlets of the fuel cell respectively to introduce the gas flows from an anode, a cathode and a cell container of the fuel cell into the sealing liquid of the liquid tubs, each of the gas pipe means being formed with gas blow out section opened in the sealing liquid at the end portion thereof, the gas blow out sections having relative heights set at the value corresponding to predetermined differential pressure among the electrodes and the cell container, and gas conduit means for guiding the gas to the outside of the device from the gas chambers defined by the liquid tubs and the free surfaces of the sealing liquid respectively and located at the tops of the liquid tubs respectively.