Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic capacitor having metal plate terminals that absorb thermal stress and mechanical stress caused by flexure of the substrate. A ceramic capacitor element is provided with terminal electrodes at the two side end surfaces facing opposite each other. The metal plate terminals are each connected to one of the terminal electrodes at one end thereof, are each provided with a folded portion in a middle area and a terminal portion to be connected to the outside toward the other end from the folded portion.

Abstract: An image detection processor of the present invention enhances the processing speed of the calculation of the center of gravity or the like of a target with a simple constitution. The image detection processor arranges a plurality of image detection processing elements 1-1 to 1-64 on a plane. Each image detection processing element includes an adder circuit 15 which converts an output of a photoelectric conversion part 5 into digital signals and can receive the digital signals as an input in a matrix form. Cumulative adders are constituted by connecting the adder circuits 15 for respective rows. Series adders 2-1 to 2-8 which are connected in series respectively receive outputs of final stages of cumulative adders of respective rows as inputs and can cumulatively add these outputs.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device has a hierarchical power supply system for a logic circuit. Inverters are provided with power supply from a main power supply line and a sub-power supply line of a higher potential and a main ground line and a sub-ground line of a lower potential. An internal power supply voltage-down converter is placed to set the voltage of the main power supply line higher than a normal operation voltage of the higher potential. An internal supply voltage boosting circuit is placed to set the voltage of the main ground line lower than a normal operation voltage of the lower potential. When respective power supply lines are short-circuited by a switching transistor, the voltage of each power supply line can be maintained at an operation supply voltage.

Abstract: Shift switches are divided into a plurality of shift switch groups each having the same number of shift switches. The connection direction of each shift switch is switched at the shift switch corresponding to the shift position. The designation of the shift position is carried out by decoding an upper predecoding signal for designating what shift switch group the shift switch corresponding to the shift position belongs to and a lower predecoding signal for designating where the shift switch corresponding to the shift position is located in the shift switches belonging to the same shift switch group. Since the lower predecoding signal can be used as a common signal for each shift switch group, the scale of the decoding circuit for decoding the designation of the shift position can be restrained.

Abstract: A transistor and a Pch circuit are connected in parallel to a power supply node of a CMOS circuit for receiving a power supply potential therefore. A transistor and an Nch circuit are connected in parallel to a ground node of the CMOS circuit for receiving a ground potential. During operation, the transistors are on, and the CMOS circuit operates fast. During standby, the Nch circuit or the Pch circuit is off in accordance with the state immediately before the standby. The Nch and Pch circuits are formed of transistors having larger threshold voltages than that of transistors of the CMOS circuit, so that a sub-threshold current during standby can be reduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic capacitor having metal plate terminals that absorb thermal stress and mechanical stress caused by flexure of the substrate. A ceramic capacitor element is provided with terminal electrodes at the two side end surfaces facing opposite each other. The metal plate terminals are each connected to one of the terminal electrodes at one end thereof, are each provided with a folded portion in a middle area and a terminal portion to be connected to the outside toward the other end from the folded portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic capacitor having metal plate terminals that absorb thermal stress and mechanical stress caused by flexure of the substrate. A ceramic capacitor element is provided with terminal electrodes at the two side end surfaces facing opposite each other. The metal plate terminals are each connected to one of the terminal electrodes at one end thereof, are each provided with a folded portion in a middle area and a terminal portion to be connected to the outside toward the other end from the folded portion.

Abstract: First and second pairs of input/output lines transfer mutually complementary data signals respectively. First and second selection circuits select a signal transfer line having the same potential as that of a signal transfer line not precedently selected from two precedently selected signal transfer lines among first to third signal transfer lines and the signal transfer line not precedently selected and connect first ends thereof to the first pair of input/output lines respectively while connecting second ends thereof to the second pair of input/output lines respectively. Thus, no precharging may be performed for equalizing the potentials of the two signal transfer lines selected for present data transfer with each other, and hence reduction of a data transfer rate can be prevented.

Abstract: For a write operation, a synchronous semiconductor memory device in a single-data-rate SDRAM operation mode selects a memory cell column in accordance with a column select signal produced from a write clock produced in synchronization with an external clock signal without shifting the write clock. In a double-data-rate SDRAM operation mode, the synchronous semiconductor memory device selects the memory cell column in accordance with the column select signal produced from the write clock produced in synchronization with the external clock signal and shifted by selected clocks.

Abstract: When an operation of an internal circuit is initiated, a current is supplied from an external power supply node to a sub-power source line for a predetermined period. A semiconductor device having a hierarchical power source structure is provided, which can have a voltage variation in the sub-power source line reduced and which can recover the varied voltage speedily to a predetermined voltage level in an operating state of the internal circuit.

Abstract: Row decoders RD are provided corresponding to memory blocks, respectively. Row decoders RD each operate receiving an operating power supply voltage from a hierarchical power supply system constituted of a main power supply line and a sub power supply line. With the use of a bank activation signal ACT, the main power supply line and the sub power supply line for all the hierarchical power supply system short circuit and a voltage of the sub power supply line is recovered. Thereafter, the main power supply line and the sub power supply line are cut off for a row decoder RD of a non-selected memory block based on a block selection signal BS supplied through a decoding operation.

Abstract: A pipeline structure with a lining material wherein a hermetic outer tube is disposed at the inner surface of a pipeline, and an inner lining material is disposed at the inner surface of the outer tube, said inner lining being made of a rigid fiber-reinforced plastic wherein a thermosetting resin is reinforced by a fiber reinforcement material.

Abstract: A floating island with a water-purifying effect of the present invention has a floating body and an agent container. The floating body includes a planter made of a foamed resin, soil contained in the planter and plants planted in the soil. A plurality of openings are provided in the bottom of the planter through which water is supplied to the soil in the planter and roots of the plants grow into water. The agent container stores an oxygen-generating agent therein, which is attached on the outside of the bottom of the planter.

Abstract: A cartridge library apparatus that is capable of reducing the workload of an operator who has to handle a high volume of cartridges. The apparatus comprises racks for accommodating a plurality of cartridges, a transport mechanism for transporting cartridges both between a magnetic tape drive unit for reading information from the cartridges and a rack and between individual racks, and a magazine capable of accommodating a plurality of cartridges. Part of the racks compose a magazine rack which is capable of accommodating the magazine in such a way that it can be loaded from the outside or unloaded from within the apparatus, whereas the other part of the racks compose main racks that accommodate the cartridges when they are not stacked in the magazine.

Abstract: In a tape loading device of the invention, a tape is taken out by tape guides mounted on an inclined loading ring, and the loading ring is rotated to wind the tape on a rotary drum from one side thereof. An auxiliary inclined guide is provided between the rotary drum and the leading tape guide. Only during a loading operation, the auxiliary inclined guide contacts the tape, while angularly moved about the leading tape guide. When the loading operation is completed, the auxiliary inclined guide is disengaged from the tape. With the provision of the auxiliary inclined guide, the tape is prevented from being twisted between the rotary drum and the leading tape guide.

Abstract: A cartridge library apparatus adapted to large number of cartridges in one operation, comprising magazines each of which can be loaded with the large number of cartridges, and a magazine rack in which the magazine is detachably accommodated. The magazine is provided with erroneous insertion restraint portions each of which prevents the corresponding cartridge from completely entering the cartridge accommodation space of the magazine when the cartridge lying in an erroneous direction with respect to the magazine is intended to be inserted into the space.

Abstract: One of the cartridge-type magnetic tapes set in a magazine is loaded into a magnetic tape unit, the magnetic tape thus loaded is data processed in the magnetic tape unit, and the data processed magnetic tape is then unloaded from the magnetic tape unit to be received into the magazine. This series of operations is sequentially repeated for all of the magnetic tapes set in the respective magazine steps. It is judged whether or not the data processed magnetic tapes set in the magazine have been replaced with fresh magnetic tapes yet to be data processed in the middle of the series of operations.

Abstract: A magazine in which a plurality of cartridges are contained as vertically moved stepwise by a distance separating two successive ones of the cartridges. The lift has a plurality of lift steps alternately engaged by a latching member. A rotary disk having two pins on its face is arranged adjacent the latching member. During rotation of the disk, one of the pins pivots the latching member out of engagement with a lift steps while the other of the pins supports the disengaged lift step to raise or lower the lift, depending upon the rotational direction of the disk. Further rotation of the disk permits the spring biased latching member to pivot back into a path where it engages the next lift step, thereby accomplishing one step of movement of the lift. Each time the lift is moved by one step, a pinch roller arrangement detects whether a cartridge is in the magazine corresponding to the position currently aligned with the inlet/outlet of the tape changer.

Abstract: An opto-electric hybrid associative memory and corresponding storage and retrieval method employs a pair of spatial light modulators in tandem with polarization analyzer arrangements providing optical multiplication and employs multiple conversions between n.times.n matrices and n.sup.2 .times.n.sup.2 matrices, with the aid of a digital computer and a parallel analog processing circuit, to perform repetitive electrical correlation and conversion operations. Serial scanning of the optical patterns is avoided because the spatial light modulators employ photocathodes, microchannel plates and Pockels cells having back surfaces that are optically-reflective electrical-charge-storing surfaces of long retention capabilities. Repetitive cycling of reference patterns through the memory/method tend to restore missing portions of data.

Abstract: A cartridge magazine capable of holding and releasing a plurality of cartridge magnetic tapes therein and therefrom by using an automatic cartridge changer, characterized in that each cartridge magnetic tape storage member has a first opening from and into which a cartridge magnetic tape can be removed and loaded in a certain direction, at least a second opening from and into which the cartridge magnetic tape can be removed and loaded in a direction opposite to the mentioned direction, and a means for preventing the cartridge magnetic tape from running out from the opening when the magnetic tape is loaded into the storage member, the run-out preventing means being released from a run-out preventing force at a desired time.