Abstract: According to the present invention, titanium and titanium alloy materials having a fine equiaxed microstructure are produced. A titanium, .alpha. titanium alloy or (.alpha.+.beta.) titanium alloy material is hydrogenated in an amount of 0.02 to 2% by weight. If necessary, the hydrogenated material is subjected to pretreatment [i.e., heated above 700.degree. C. (.beta. transformation point)] and/or working (i.e., working at 450.degree. to 950.degree. C., or temperatures above .beta. transformation point and below 1100.degree. C.). The material is then aged at 10.degree. to 530.degree. C. or 10.degree. to 700.degree. C. (in the case of working at temperatures above .beta. transformation point), and finally dehydrogenated and recrystallized to prepared a material having a fine equiaxed microstructure.

Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device which provides optically undistorted light includes a semiconductor light-emitting element and at least one optical element. The light emitting-element and the optical element are held in a resin which is transparent to light emitted from the light-emitting element so that light emitted from the light-emitting element travels to the optical element along an optical path entirely within the resin, but the light exits a portion of the optical element located outside of the resin.

Abstract: In the production of titanium and (.alpha.+.beta.)-type titanium alloy materials, a material hydrogenated in an amount of 0.02 to 2% by weight of hydrogen is worked at a temperature of 450.degree. to 900.degree. C. at a reduction of more than 60%, and the material is dehydrogenated and annealed in vacuum. The working of the titanium material is carried out at 450.degree. to 800.degree. C., and the working of the (.alpha.+.beta.)-type titanium alloy material is carried out at 550.degree. to 900.degree. C. Furthermore, in the production of titanium, .alpha.-type titanium alloy, and (.alpha.+.beta.)-type titanium alloy materials, a material hydrogenated in an amount of 0.02 to 2% by weight of hydrogen is subjected to a heat treatment wherein the material is heated at a temperature not lower than the .beta. transformation temperature and then cooled, the material is worked at a temperature of 450.degree. to 950.degree. C.

Abstract: A suction head for attachment to a vacuum cleaner, the suction head including a first portion and a second portion, the second portion having a suction port and a bank on the peripheral of the suction port, and a woven cloth disposed on the bank, the woven cloth having cut piles which constitute a brush.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser device submount disposed between a semiconductor laser chip and a metal block for securing them together includes a metallization structure on each of two opposing surfaces of an Sb-doped submount body. The metallization includes a first Au layer on the surface of the body, an AuSb layer on the first Au layer, and a second Au layer on the AuSb layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser device and method of producing the same in which a laser diode chip is mounted on a stem via a heat sink. The cap is fixed to the stem covering the chip and includes a penetrating aperture, a lens for collimating light from the chip into penetrating aperture, and an optical fiber for guiding the collimated light which is fixed to the penetrating aperture after insertion to a desired depth.

Abstract: An object lens driving device causes partial rotation of movable members holding an object lens on an X-Y frame perpendicular to the optical axis of the object lens about a resilient hinge member as a fulcrum. The movable members are supported by base members. The hinge member interconnects the movable members and the base members. Electro-magnetic coils and magnets effectuate relative rotation of the movable members with respect to the base members about the hinge member. A rotational axis passing through the hinge member also passes through the position of center of gravity of the movable members and the balanced position of moment of inertia of the movable members.

Abstract: An improved optical information recording and reproducing apparatus which is capable of detecting recording errors simultaneously with recording function for reduction of recording time, without requiring particular high accuracy for an optical system, and avoiding complication in the construction and consequent large size of the optical system.

Abstract: A submount for a semiconductor laser element includes a substrate and a barrier layer disposed on opposed surfaces of the substrate and including a plurality of layers wherein the outermost layer of the barrier layers is Au and Ag. A metal alloy solder layer comprising Sn, Ag, and Sb is deposited on the barrier layers.

Abstract: An objective lens-driving unit comprising a lens supporting means for supporting the objective lens having an optical axis vertical to a recording medium on which light beams converge through the objective lens so as to attain optical recording, optical playing and optical erasing of information on the recording medium; at least one driving means for driving said lens supporting means in the tracking direction; a driving means for driving said intermediate supporting means in the focusing direction, wherein said tracking direction-driving means comprises a magnetic circuit that produces magnetic flux in the circumferential direction of the recording medium, and a tracking direction-driving coil that is positioned to cross a gap formed in the magnetic circuit to thereby receive an electro-magnetic force due to an interaction between the magnetic field of the magnetic circuit and the current passing through said coil, said tracking direction-driving coil being positioned within the excitation area of the magnet

Abstract: An electrochromic display device comprising a transparent substrate and a counter substrate sealingly joined together to define a cell for accommodating an electrolyte, a transparent electroconductive layer on an inner surface of the transparent substrate, a display electrode layer overlaying the transparent electroconductive layer and a counter electrode layer deposited on an inner surface of the counter substrate is featured by the provision of a transparent insulating layer between the transparent substrate and the transparent electroconductive layer.

Abstract: The ferritic stainless steel sheet involves a problem that the ridging is likely to generate at the forming step, such as the deep drawing step. The ridging is believed to be caused by a band structure in the hot rolled band, which structure exerting an influence on the formability of a cold rolled sheet. The ridging is prevented in the present invention by means of the combination of the three technical measures: incorporating aluminum into a ferritic stainless steel; heating a slab to a low temperature of 1200.degree. C. or less; and, carrying out a drastic hot rolling of at least one pass with the draft of 20%/pass or more. As a result of these technical measures, the structure of a hot rolled band is made and uniform and thus both the formability and anti-ridging property are enhanced.

Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel having excellent formability, for example, in a deep drawing procedure, contains 0.04 to 0.1 weight % of C, 1.0 weight % or less of Si, 0.75 weight % or less of Mn, 10 to 30 weight % of Cr, 0.5 weight % or less of Ni, 0.025 weight % or les of N, 2 to 30 ppm of boron, and optionally, 0.005 to 0.4 weight % of an additional alloy component consisting of Al and, further optionally, a further additional alloy component consisting of at least one member selected from 0.005 to 0.6 weight % of Ti, 0.005 to 0.4 weight % of Nb, V, and Zr, 0.02 to 0.50 weight % of Cu, and 0.05 weight % or less of Ca and Ce, the sum of the contents of C and N being 0.0502 weight % or more.

Abstract: A matrix operation device performs matrix multiplication of an input electrical signal by utilizing a plurality of charge-coupled devices having split electrodes. The multiplication is carried out by the split electrodes of the charge-coupled devices. A signal to be transformed is sampled by a delay circuit in the input of the operation device. The sampled signal is supplied to the operation device in the form of a time series or sequence consisting of the sample signals. Each sample is multiplied by a corresponding coefficient. The split electrodes of the charge-coupled devices have weighting coefficients corresponding to coefficients in the matrix. The samples multiplied by the coefficients are added in the output of the operation device and provided as an output signal, corresponding to the development of the matrix multiplication.

Abstract: In a process for the production of cold rolled ferritic stainless steel sheets or strips, a hot rolled strips has been annealed by a long time batchwise annealing and cold rolling and recrystallization annealing have been repeated usually twice. In the present invention, a hot rolled steel strip of an Al-containing ferritic stainless steel is heated by continuous annealing to a temperature of from 850.degree. to 1100.degree. C., AlN (aluminum nitride) is precipitated in the dispersed state and then cooling the strip to a temperature of 700.degree. to 900.degree. C., performing subsequent cooling to a level not higher than 200.degree. C. at such a cooling rate that a chromium depletion layer, which causes a gold dust defect, is not formed around the chromium carbonitride. Single cold rolling and recrystallization annealing are carried out in combination until the thickness is reduced to the gauge thickness.

Abstract: In an electronic calculator essentially comprising a multidigit display, a keyboard and a data processor unit, a multidigit liquid crystal display is deposited together with integral key actuators of the keyboard on a flexible circuit film which carries electrical conductor leaves in a desired pattern. The conductor leaves to be in contact with terminals of the liquid crystal display are formed to extend in the direction of length of the liquid crystal display to thereby establish room for a battery compartment.

Abstract: Bandwidth-compressed transmission of an NTSC-type video signal is performed by converting the analog composite NTSC signals to digital signals and then orthonormally transforming the digital signals corresponding to each horizontal line period of the composite video signal, in the line direction. The transformed, digital signals then are processed to obtain the sum and difference thereof, for each corresponding horizontal line period with respect to those transformed digital signals corresponding to the next preceding horizontal line period. The sum and difference signals then are predictively coded and sequentially transmitted.