Abstract: The present invention provides an improved feeling of flatness of a color cathode ray tube which facilitates the coating operation of a phosphor layer or enlarges an effective area of the phosphor layer. The effective area 4b of the phosphor layer 4 which is formed on an inner surface of a panel and has an approximately rectangular shape is formed in a pincushion shape. At end portions in a diagonal axis D direction of this pincushion-shaped phosphor layer 4b, corner-portion peripheries 4C having a curvature R which are formed in a convex shape outwardly from the effective region 4b are formed in corner regions which connect long-side peripheries sandwiching an X axis and short-side peripheries sandwiching a Y axis.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes in combination an in-line type electron gun assembly and a dot type phosphor screen, wherein an outer panel surface is made substantially flat, an inner surface is curved and a shadow mask has round apertures or holes while having a curved shape with a convex form as projected toward the panel. The display tube is featured in that the shadow mask holes have a horizontal direction pitch Ph and vertical direction pitch Pv, that the horizontal pitch Ph has a value at terminate ends of a minor axis of the shadow mask, which value is at least 5% greater than a pitch value at the center part of the shadow mask, and that a Ph/Pv value at the shadow mask minor axis ends is greater than that at the shadow mask center. With such an arrangement, it is possible to increase the mechanical strength at a part adjacent to the shadow mask minor axis in particular.

Abstract: An illumination unit 6 illuminates a scene object (i.e., mail) 2 moved in a predetermined direction by a transport means (transport conveyor) 1, the imaging distance up to the scene object 2 is detected before imaging, and auto-focusing is made according to distance data detected at the time of the imaging.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has an electron gun, a phosphor screen, and a shadow mask closely spaced from the phosphor screen. The shadow mask has plural strips extending in a direction perpendicular to a horizontal scanning direction of electron beams emitted from the electron gun and plural bridge portions connecting adjacent ones among the plural strips. The shadow mask is formed with an aperture area having plural slot-shaped electron beam apertures therein. The shadow mask is provided with at least one wire held under tension in the extending direction of the plural strips so as to be superposed on a surface of one of the plural strips in the aperture area. The surface of the one of the plural strips is a surface of the one of the plural strips facing the electron gun.

Abstract: A magnetic head includes a suspension; a slider mounted on the suspension and having a magnetic head element; and an integrated circuit bare chip mounted on the suspension and having a control circuit for the magnetic head element. The entire surface of the IC bare chip is covered with a photo-curable and thermosetting resin material. The photo-curable and thermosetting resin material covering the IC bare chip is irradiated with light in order to harden the resin surface. Thereafter, the entire photo-curable and thermosetting resin material is heated and hardened.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a shadow mask having an apertured portion, an imperforate portion and a skirt portion. The shadow mask of an iron-nickel alloy is suspended within a support frame, has a descending step portion around the imperforate portion, the skirt portion which is fitted in the support frame is integral with the descending step portion, is provided with plural beads parallel with a height of the skirt portion and protruding inward. The descending step portion satisfies one of conditions (a)-(c) of (a) its height is from 30% to 501 of H0, (b) its width is from 65% to 80% of W0, or (c) its height H and width W are from 30% to 50% of H0 and from 65% to 80% of W0, respectively, where H0 and W0 are its height and width at centerlines of long and short sides of the skirt portion, respectively.

Abstract: After an engine (1) has started, a controller (6) starts determining whether lockup should be prohibited or permitted based on the cooling water temperature of an engine (1) or the oil temperature of a transmission (2). Once it has been determined that lockup should be permitted, the controller (6) stops determining whether lockup should be prohibited or permitted until the next time the engine (1) is started. In this way, once the conditions for determining that lockup should be permitted hold, lockup prohibition or permission based on the engine cooling water temperature or transmission oil temperature is no longer determined, so repeat engaging and disengaging of the lockup clutch (5) due to fluctuations of engine cooling water temperature or transmission oil temperature, is prevented.

Abstract: The vehicle comprises a continuously variable transmission and traction control system (TCS) which controls a driving force. When the TCS is not operating, a controller computes a final target ratio based on a sensor detected vehicle speed. When the TCS is operating, the final target ratio is computed based on an estimated vehicle speed, and the final target ratio is limited by a speed ratio upper limiting value computed based on the sensor detected vehicle speed. The controller controls a speed change actuator so that a real speed ratio approaches the final target ratio.

Abstract: A height-restriction plate having a size in plan view larger than that of an IC chip is bonded to an upper face of the IC chip which is fixed to a FPC formed along a suspension. The IC chip is sealed at the periphery thereof with an adhesive which reaches the height-restriction plate and the FPC.

Abstract: A photocatalyst composite is provided which comprise a substrate having particles of a photocatalyst such as titanium oxide, adhered thereon via a less degradative adhesive such as a fluorinated polymer comprising a copolymer of a vinyl ester and/or vinyl ether and a fluoroolefin, or a silicon based polymer or cement. Furthermore, a process for producing the photocatalyst composite and a coating composition containing the photocatalyst composite are provided.

Abstract: An alarm is emitted when a vehicle attempts to start when the speed ratio of a toroidal continuously variable transmission is small. A sensor (63. 67. 73) detects that the speed ratio is smaller than a predetermined range. A microprocessor (61) controls an alarm (68) to operate when an ignition switch (66) is in a position for starting an engine, while the speed ratio is smaller than the predetermined range.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic head device exhibiting a good bonded state of a piezoelectric element and a load beam, and excellent reliability. The magnetic head device includes a slider provided with a reproducing element for detecting a magnetic signal recorded on a recording medium, and a recording element for recording a magnetic signal on the recording medium, an elastic supporting member for supporting the slider, and piezoelectric elements mounted on the elastic supporting member, for distorting the elastic supporting member to change the position of the slider. The piezoelectric element and the elastic supporting member are bonded together with a photo-curing and thermosetting epoxy adhesive resin having a Young's modulus of 1 GPa or more at 25° C., and a glass transition temperature of 90° C. or more.

Abstract: A first switch (2) which can select a manual mode, and a second switch (5, 6) which can select one of an upshift and a downshift, are provided. A microprocessor (1) varies a speed ratio of an automatic transmission (10) according to the specification of the second switch (5, 6) when the first switch (2) has previously selected the manual mode, and the second switch (5, 6) subsequently specifies one of the upshift and the downshift (S20, S21, S33, S40, S41, S34, S36, S37, S53, S54, S55). On the other hand, variation of the speed ratio of the automatic transmission (10) according to the specification of the second switch (5, 6) is prohibited when the second switch (5,6) specifies one of the upshift and the downshift at a timing not later than a timing at which the manual mode is selected by the first switch (2) (S20, S22, S33, S40, S38, S34, S36, S38, S53, S54, S56).

Abstract: To provide a flat panel type color cathode ray tube which has a favorable feeling of flatness and can improve the drop strength of a shadow mask, a curvature along a diagonal direction of an outer surface of a panel 1 approximates to flat, an equivalent radius of curvature Rox along an X axis on the outer surface of the panel 1 is made smaller than an equivalent radius of curvature Roy along an Y axis on the outer surface of the panel 1 and an equivalent radius of curvature Rix along the X axis on an inner surface of the panel 1 is made larger than an equivalent radius of curvature Riy along the Y axis on the inner surface of the panel 1. Further, the optimum value of a ratio between the equivalent radius of curvature along the Y axis on the inner surface of the panel 1 and the equivalent radius of curvature along the X axis on the inner surface of the panel 1 is set to fall within the range of 0.7<(Riy/Rix)<1.0.

Abstract: An information serving system includes a broadcasting station module (TV), user module (RV), and advertising agency module (AD). The broadcasting station module (TV) broadcasts pieces of broadcast information including at least video information. The user module (RV) receives the broadcast information, selects an image component composing an image from the received broadcast information, and produces specification information indicative of the selected image component. The user module (RV) transmits the produced specification information, while receiving component information to represent the received component information. The advertising company module (AD) acquires the specification information, and transmits to the user module (RV) the component information indicating an image component specified by the acquired specification information.

Abstract: A speed change control device for an automatic transmission wherein the speed ratio is automatically varied according to a running state when an automatic shift mode is selected, and the speed ratio is varied based on a manual operation when the manual shift mode is selected. When there is a change-over from the automatic shift mode to the manual shift mode, a speed ratio immediately after the change-over is set to a speed ratio such that a transmission input rotation speed after the change-over increases by at least a predetermined rotation speed compared to the transmission input rotation speed before the change-over. In this way, the effectiveness of engine braking is enhanced immediately after a change-over to the manual shift mode, or a downshift for acceleration can be definitively performed.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a data-storing device, which is coupled to a personal computer through an interface and can enlarge a number of and a kind of devices connectable to the personal computer. The data-storing device includes an interfacing circuit that includes a data communication path through which the data can be bilaterally communicated between the device and an external device, which is coupled to the device with an interface cable, and a power-supplying path through which a power current can be bilaterally supplied between the device and the external device, wherein the interface cable also includes the data communication path and the power-supplying path; a data-storing unit to store the data sent from the interfacing circuit; and a plurality of interface connecting ports serving as input/output terminals of the interfacing circuit, wherein the interface cable can be connected to one of the interface connecting ports.

Abstract: In a color cathode ray tube having a flat panel exterior surface, the screen distortion and the convergence give rise to problems. To overcome these problems, by arranging bar magnets in such a manner that they are disposed parallel to a screen and are shifted from upper and lower ends of a horizontal deflection coil of a deflection yoke by not less than 10 mm in the direction perpendicular to a tube axis, the distortion of the screen and the characteristics of the convergence can be simultaneously improved.

Abstract: When a slip control system starts operating, a vehicle speed VSP used for speed change control is simultaneously changed over from a sensor detected vehicle speed VSPSEN to an estimated vehicle speed VSPFL. On the other hand, when the slip control system has stopped, it is first determined whether a speed ratio variation amount, due to the change-over of the vehicle speed used for speed change control from the estimated vehicle speed VSPFL to the sensor detected vehicle speed VSPSEN, is less than a permissible amount. When it is determined that the speed ratio variation amount is smaller than the permissible amount, the vehicle speed used for speed change control is changed over from the estimated vehicle speed VSPFL to the sensor detected vehicle speed VSPSEN. By performing this change-over, a sharp variation of the vehicle speed used for speed change control is suppressed, and a sharp variation of the speed ratio leading to shocks or slipping is suppressed.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a generally rectangular shadow mask structure in which a skirt portion of a shadow mask is secured to a support frame. The shadow mask is formed by an apertured portion having a large number of electron beam transmission apertures, an imperforate portion disposed around the entire periphery of the apertured portion, a skirt portion being bent back and drooping from the entire periphery of the imperforate portion, and a support frame including a rectangular frame portion. The skirt portion of the shadow mask is secured to the inside of the rectangular frame portion, and a bent portion of the shadow mask, which defines a transitional region between the imperforate portion, and the skirt portion is formed in a shape where long sides are recessed inwardly and ends of the long sides of the skirt portion come into contact with the frame portion.