Abstract: A record carrier for recording, reproducing and erasing information. A circular disc-like substrate has a recording layer thereon such that information is written onto the recording layer by changing the direction of magnetization. A guide groove of a plurality of tracks is formed in advance and extends in the radial direction with intervals therebetween. Each track of the guide groove is divided into a plurality of sectors, each of which includes a header portion in which a header signal containing an address for distinguishing at least said sector is formed in advance with pits of a phase structure and a data portion adjacent to said header portion. The guide groove serves as an optical guide for a light beam which records, reproduces and erases information onto the data portion.

Abstract: A variable-displacement compressor includes a wobble member for driving a pistons, and a rotation member for wobbling the wobbling member, a first support portion for supporting a wobbling member in such a manner that the angle of wobbling of the wobbling member is variable, and a second support portion for supporting said rotation member in such a manner that the angle of tilt of said rotation member relative to a main shaft is variable. With this construction, unbalanced inertia forces can be reduced greatly, thereby providing the variable-displacement compressor which produces less vibrations and noises.

Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor operable with reduced vibration and noise and, hence, suitable for use in automotive air-conditioning refrigeration cycle has a main shaft adapted to be driven by a driving power source; a drive plate fixed to the main shaft; a swash plate main part tiltably engaging through an engaging portion with the drive plate so as to be tiltable with respect to the axis of the main shaft and to make a precessional rotation in accordance with the rotation of the main shaft; a piston support rotatably carried by the swash plate main part so as to make a precessional rotation together with the swash plate main part; pistons having one ends engaging with the piston support so as to reciprocatingly move in respective cylinders in accordance with the precessional rotation of the swash plate main part; and a mechanism for causing a change in the angle of tilt of the swash plate main part with respect to the axis of the main shaft so as to effect a control of displacement.

Abstract: A record carrier for recording, reproducing and erasing information. A circular disc-like substrate has a recording layer thereon such that information is written onto the recording layer by changing the direction of magnetization. A guide groove of a plurality of tracks is formed in advance and extends in the radial direction with flat portions therebetween. Each flat portion between the tracks of the guide groove is divided into a plurality of sectors, each of which includes a header portion in which a header signal containing an address for distinguishing at least a respective sector is formed in advance with pits of a phase structure and a data portion adjacent to the header portion. The guide groove serves as an optical guide for a light beam which records, reproduces and erases information onto the data portion.

Abstract: A mastering machine for an optical disk provided with a closed loop for controlling the incident angle of at least one of the guide groove forming beam and header forming beam which enter a condenser lens, and thereby controlling to a predetermined level the distance between a guide groove forming light spot and a header forming light spot on a photosensitive layer.

Abstract: An optical memory apparatus employs an optical disc having a plurality of guide-grooves in spiral and concentrical form and a plurality of flat tracks each arranged between adjacent two of the guide-grooves for recording information thereon, and the depth of the guide-grooves is suitably selected to increase the degree of modulation of a track cross signal, thereby performing a stable cross track counting by the use of the track cross signal and a tracking signal. One feature of the invention relies in that the modulation degree of the track cross signal is in the range between 30 and 60%. A second feature of the invention is that the guide-grooves are formed into a V shape and have an optical depth of .lambda./6 to .lambda./5 (.lambda. is the wavelength of the light used).

Abstract: A variable displacement compressor comprises a housing forming a crank chamber, a shaft, expansible chambers including pistons, a swash plate connected to the shaft so as to be smoothly changeable in inclination against the shaft and driven to rotate, a wobble plate rotatable on the swash plate, a rotation preventing mechanism including a shoe member slidable in an axial direction, and a pressure control valve which is provided in a refrigerant passage from a suction port of the compressor to the expansible chamber to control the pressure of refrigerant to be sucked responsive to the suction pressure and both to the suction pressure and to the discharge pressure when the discharge pressure is high. The refrigerant passage has a sharply bent portion for separating lubrication oil from a refrigerant flowing therein and communicates with the crank chamber to discharge blow-by gas therefrom.

Abstract: An arrangement for mechanically processing a workpiece having a position detecting pattern or patterns formed thereon has a mechanically processing tool disposed at a predetermined position, a worktable arranged so as to be linearly moved in at least one of the rectangular coordinate X- and Y-axes while holding the workpiece thereon, and a position aligning unit provided with an opto-electric line sensor capable of detecting one of the patterns of the workpiece and issuing pattern detected signals, and an operation/control unit capable of mathematically processing the detected signals from the line sensor to determine a position of the workpiece to be mechanically processed and generating control signals for controlling the movement of the worktable so that the position to be mechanically processed is aligned with the position of the mechanically processing tool. The line sensor may be a CCD type line sensor.

Abstract: A variable displacement compressor has a sleeve axially slidably mounted on an axial drive shaft and a swash plate tiltably connected to the sleeve. The angle of the tilt of the swash plate is variable by an axial movement of the sleeve and a movement of the swash plate along a guiding cam track to vary the compressor displacement. The guiding cam track is provided by a cam groove having a form of a closed loop and formed in a driving plate drivingly connected to the drive shaft and to the swash plate to transmit the torque of the drive shaft to the swash plate. A fulcrum pin is provided on the swash plate and engaged in the cam groove and is movable along the guide groove toward the drive shaft as the angle of tilt of the swash plate is decreased.

Abstract: A composite wobbled tracking servo system uses a rotary optical disc which has a header field and a data field alternately arranged along the direction of rotation to provide a sector, and which includes pregrooves formed in at least the data field and at least one pair of wobbled track marks disposed in the header field in a relation wobbled relative to the center of a track. A light spot is directed toward and onto the optical disc to detect a push-pull tracking error signal from the reflection of the light spot diffracted by the pregroove, and a wobbled tracking error signal is detected from the reflection of the light spot traversing the wobbled track marks. The push-pull tracking error signal is corrected on the basis of the wobbled tracking error signal to attain the tracking control with higher accuracy, thereby eliminating an undesirable track offset attributable to tilting or eccentricity of the optical disc.

Abstract: Herein disclosed are a stamper for replicating a high-density data recording disk, wherein there is formed on a substrate a multi-layered metal film, in which a plurality of metals of different kinds are laminated and which has a thickness equal to the depth of a pit, by an etching technique having a selectivity for the kinds of metals and a process for producing that stamper. Since one or more pits having different depths are formed very precisely, the recording density is increased, and the quality of a readout data signal is improved while dispensing with the plating step. As a result, there can be attained an effect that the productivity and economy can be improved.

Abstract: A composite wobbled tracking servo system uses a rotary optical disc which has a header field and a data field alternately arranged along the direction of rotation, and which includes pregrooves formed in at least the data field and at least one pair of wobbled track marks disposed in each of the header fields in a relation wobbled relative to the center of a track. A light spot is directed toward and onto the optical disc to detect a push-pull tracking error signal from the reflection of the light spot diffracted from the pregroove, and a wobbled tracking error signal is detected from the reflection of the light spot passing the wobbled track marks. After attenuating the gain of the wobbled tracking error signal by a low-pass filter so that the gain of the wobbled tracking error signal becomes equal to that of the push-pull tracking error signal at a frequency fe satisfying the relation1/50.multidot.N.multidot.fd<fe<1/5.multidot.N.multidot.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system for controlling the temperature of an atomizer for an element analyzer, said system comprising a birefringent prism arranged on the optical axis of radiant light emitted out of the atomizer, and a light sensor for detecting the radiant light which passes through said birefringent prism.

Abstract: In measuring a change in the polarization state of light attributed to magnetooptic anisotropy, a means for generating optic anisotropy is added to a light source or onto an optical path extending from the light source to a polarization analyzer. This allows high precision analysis of the polarization state of light emergent from the polarization analyzer.

Abstract: In an element analyzer exploiting a magneto-optic effect, when a concentration of the element in a sample material to be detected is high, two peaks are produced in the wave form of the signal obtained during the measurement. The present invention provides a discriminating technique to indicate whether two peaks appear in the wave form of the signal, with the object of reducing the error produced in the element analysis exploiting a magneto-optic effect.

Abstract: This application discloses a spectrophotometer employing a magneto-optic effect which enables quantitative analysis of a sample to be measured by a double beam method. In performing the double beam method for analyzing the sample, a magnetic field is applied to the sample along with linearly polarized light from a light source, the forward scattered light scattered by the sample atoms and the incident linearly polarized light from the sample are converted into two cross-polarized beams of light using an analyzer, and these two beams of cross-polarized light are spectrally analyzed by a single dispersive element. The spectrophotometer of the invention provides an arrangement such that the plane defined by the above-mentioned two beams of light is perpendicular to the plane of dispersion of the dispersive element, and the two beams of light so dispersed are independently detected by separate detectors.

Abstract: A magneto-optic spectrophotometer for detection or identification of atoms or molecules contained in the sample by utilizing phenomena of birefringence or rotation of polarization caused by the atoms or the molecules in a magnetic field is constructed as follows. Linearly polarized lights are incident on a space where atoms or molecules to be detected exist in a magnetic field. The lights having passed through said space are separated into two beams of lights of polarization components perpendicular and parallel to the polarization of the incident lights. The perpendicular components are used as the signal lights, and the parallel components the reference lights. The signal lights and the reference lights are spectrally analyzed by a wavelength selector in which a signal light and a reference light of a wavelength to be selected are incident on an identical dispersive element. The signal lights and the reference lights are detected by respective detectors.

Abstract: A high frequency discharge lamp for a spectral-line source includes a discharge envelope in which a substance contributive to the emission of desired spectral lines is contained and in which one electrode is included, the discharge envelope being made of a material, such as quartz, which is electrically insulating and capable of transmitting the spectral lines. A cylindrical metallic container surrounds the discharge envelope and has at a part thereof an opening for taking out the spectral lines. There is further provided means for applying a high-frequency voltage between the electrode and the metallic container.

Abstract: An electrical contact with a fixed conductor and a movable conductor, comprises a plurality of plate springs, a plurality of contacts, the plate springs and the contacts being mounted into a single unit with an arrangement of those members in a substantial orthogonal relation to each other. The opposite ends of each of the plate springs being supported so as to provide an arrangement of contacts spaced at a fixed interval.