Abstract: A gluing device having therein a pressuring means which presses a glue container containing a liquid glue to eject contained glue from an ejection opening, a supply tube through which the ejected glue is transported from the glue container, a connecting means on the glue container side which connects the supply tube to the glue container, a connecting means on the supply tube side which detachably connects the connecting means on the glue container side to the supply tube, and a glue discharging means which receives the glue transported through the supply tube and delivers them from a nozzle opening, wherein there is provided a valve member provided inside the connecting means on the glue container side that makes the ejection opening to be opened and closed, and a protrusion is provided inside the connecting means on the supply tube side so that the protrusion presses the valve member to open the ejection opening when the connecting means on the supply tube side is connected to the connecting means on the su

Abstract: A display panel driving system, constituted in such a manner that the occurrence of a display irregularity on the display panel can be suppressed without regard to the characteristics or the driving condition of the display panel, is disclosed. An up-counter counts the number of the picture elements which emit light when the EL display panel is horizontally scanned, and the counting result thus obtained is outputted as an addressing signal to an EEPROM. Stored in the EEPROM are data maps MAP, MAP in which pulse width data are written at a plurality of addresses corresponding to the counting ranges of the up-counter. A signal generation means outputs a blank signal BLK which determines the pulse width of a data voltage on the basis of the pulse width data addressed by the up-counter.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for preventing a computation error of band-by-band bit allocation between an encoder and a decoder. In the encoder, an input LSP (line spectrum pair) coefficient is quantized by a quantization device, and a quantized output is output. In a codebook referring section, the look up of a codebook in which computation results are prestored is performed by using an LSP index of the first stage, and band-by-band bit allocation information is created. LSP indexes for each quantization stage are supplied to a decoder. In the decoder, the look up of the codebook is performed using the LSP index, and dequantization is performed on the basis of the created band-by-band bit allocation information.

Abstract: A first metal film of a first metal is deposited on a silicon-containing film containing silicon as a principal constituent, and a second metal film of a nitride of a second metal is deposited on the first metal film. Thereafter, a metal film with a high melting point is deposited on the second metal film, so as to form a multi-layer film of the silicon-containing film, the first metal film, the second metal film and the metal film with a high melting point. The multi-layer film is then subjected to annealing at a temperature of 750° C. or more. In this case, the first metal is nitrided to be changed into a nitride of the first metal and a silicide layer of the first metal is not formed in a surface portion of the silicon-containing film before the annealing.

Abstract: In a variable intake apparatus for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, each cylinder is allowed to communicate with each other through air intake passageways including at least a pair of air intake passageway portions. Further, an air intake control valve integrally provided with a pair of valve bodies is disposed at an opening which is formed at a partition wall. The partition wall is formed between the intake air collecting chamber and the air intake passageway. Further more, the air intake control valve is actuated according to engine speeds of the internal combustion engine such that the air intake passageway portion is opened and closed by one of the valve bodies whereas the opening in the partition wall is opened and closed by the other of the valve bodies.

Abstract: There is provided a highly reliable rotary compressor which uses polyalkylene glycol as a lubricant or polyalfa olefin as base oil in a compressor utilizing as a refrigerant carbon dioxide which is a natural refrigerant, and prevents abnormal abrasion of a roller and a vane.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a pair of bead portions, a pair of sidewall portion, a tread portion, a radial carcass of at least one ply, and a belt, wherein the tread portion is provided with two or more circumferential main grooves formed in a tread rubber at an inner region sandwiched by both shoulder regions and one or more circumferential ribs defined by two adjoining circumferential main grooves, and at least two circumferential fine grooves are formed in the circumferential rib.

Abstract: An automatic analyzer which includes a storage means which stores test order information, a first identification means which reads sample identification information, a work list preparing means which prepares a work list on the basis of the sample identification information, a loading order determination means which determines the order in which sample cups and reaction cups are loaded from the work list, a second identification means which automatically reads specification component information and a collating means which compares the specific component information with the work list.

Abstract: A metal hydride is supplied into a reactor while being converted into fine particles. By injecting water from an injector, the metal hydride is hydrolyzed to generate hydrogen. The water supplied to the reactor is water generated by a fuel cell. This allows omission or a size reduction of a water tank for the hydrolysis, and therefore allows a size reduction of the system as a whole. It is possible to adopt a construction in which waste heat from the fuel cell is supplied to pyrolyze the metal hydride, a construction in which heat generated by the hydrolysis is used to pyrolyze another metal hydride, etc.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing system has a vacuum chamber which is provided with a cathode electrode for holding a substrate to be processed and into which a reactive gas for generating discharging plasma by the application of a high-frequency electric power is introduced, a measuring circuit which measures at least one of the impedance of a system including the plasma, the peak-to-peak voltage of a high-frequency signal applied to the plasma, and a self-bias voltage applied to the cathode electrode, and a sense circuit which compares the measured value from the measuring circuit with previously prepared data and senses the change of processing characteristics with time for the substrate in using the discharging plasma or the cleaning time of the inside of the vacuum chamber.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photopolymerizable composition containing a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, a compound represented by the following general formula (I), and a radical generating agent capable of generating a radical by interacting with the compound represented by the following general formula (I).

Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor having an electrode rolled body contained in an outer packaging can is disclosed. The electrode rolled body comprises a positive electrode plate having a positive electrode foil, on both sides of which an active substance is applied, a negative electrode plate having a negative electrode foil, on both sides of which the active substance is applied, and a separator interposed between these electrode plates, and is obtained by winding the above parts. The negative electrode foil is electrically connected directly to a bottom of the outer packaging can so that heat generated in an interior of the electric double layer capacitor is efficiently transferred to the outer packaging can from the negative electrode foil. The negative electrode foil has a greater thickness than that of the positive electrode foil, which is not electrically connected to the outer packaging can, so that heat quantity transferred is made large.

Abstract: The ion implanting apparatus is provided with a control device which controls the operating state thereof in a period during which ion implantation is not carried out for a substrate in the state in any mode selected from the above (a) twilight mode in which the flow rate of the raw gas supplied to an ion source and the power supplied from a plasma producing power source are reduced to values capable of keeping plasma production in the ion source, (b) magnet-off mode in which in addition to the state in the twilight mode, the outputs from an energy separating magnet power source, scanning magnet power source and beam paralleling magnet power source are stopped, and (c) shut-down mode in which the supply of the raw gas is stopped and the outputs from the power sources are stopped.

Abstract: An active-matrix addressing LCD device using lateral electric field realizes a higher transmittance and a higher fabrication yield and improves the aperture ratio without raising the fabrication cost. A first one of the common electrode lines, a first one of the pixel potential layers, and an intervening dielectric layer constitute a first storage capacitor for each of the pixels and at the same time, a second one of the common electrode lines, a second one of the pixel potential layers, and the intervening dielectric layer constitute a second storage capacitor for the same pixel. The first and second pixel potential layers are electrically connected to each other by way of a corresponding transparent pixel electrode. Therefore, the rotation of the liquid crystal molecules caused by applied electric field makes full contribution to the panel transmittance, preventing the obtainable total panel transmittance from lowering. This means that a higher transmittance is obtainable.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a compound of the formula: 1

Abstract: A wireless relay system (1) comprises a wireless camera (11) and a reception relay station (12). The reception relay station (12) comprises a plurality of external reception units (13) arranged at spatially different positions and an internal reception unit (14). Each reception section (16) in the internal reception unit (14) demodulates a signal received in the external reception unit (13) and outputs a transport stream. At this time, each reception section (16) sets an error indicator flag to 1 for a TS packet causing a transmission error which exceeds the error correction capability. A TS synthesizer section (17) in the internal reception unit (14) completely synchronizes a plurality of input transport streams by referencing synchronization bytes, PID, and CC values, and selects to output a TS packet having the error indicator flag not set to 1.

Abstract: A switching power supply unit includes an overcurrent protection circuit section and a latch-stop release signal output circuit section. The overcurrent protection circuit section performs an overcurrent protection operation for latching and stopping the switching operation of a main switch during an overcurrent state. The latch-stop release signal output circuit section outputs a signal, only in a predetermined latch-stop release period, for releasing the latch stop after a certain waiting time has elapsed from the time of the latch stop. This arrangement can virtually perform a hiccup-mode overcurrent protection operation at the time of overcurrent, and expands the scope of application of a switching power supply unit. Switching power supply circuits are interconnected by simultaneous starting connections. Switching controllers for the main switches are connected to match hiccup mode restart timings.

Abstract: A frequent customer point management method for giving frequent customer points corresponding to use of goods from a goods provider to customers inclusive of purchasers and users of goods, using a point management system including at least a bill payer information storage portion for storing information of a payer of a bill of goods and a point information storage portion for storing information of application of a point corresponding to the goods. Bill payer information stipulating a payer of a bill of the goods is received from the customer, the bill payer information storage portion is retrieved on the basis of the bill payer information so received, and the point information storage portion is updated to stipulate the bill payer as the point acquiring party corresponding to the goods when the bill payer is found registered to the bill payer information storage portion.

Abstract: A piezo actuator is provided between a suspension spring and a head carriage. When a predetermined track of a magnetic disk is accessed by positioning a magnetic head in the predetermined track, the piezo actuator maintains the magnetic head in an ON track state by dynamically moving a light weight head cartridge according to a servo information or dynamically moving a head assembly in the head cartridge according the servo information.

Abstract: The present invention provides flame retardants which can provide high flame retardancy by means of silicon compounds.