Abstract: The objective is to develop a device that generates power with high efficiency and utilizes the obtained electrical energy effectively without external combustion energy such as fossil fuels or the like. Electrical energy is obtained by carriers passing through a potential barrier due to a field effect, and thus energy is pre-supplied to the carriers to increase the number of carriers contributing to electrical energy generation, whereby a highly efficient field power generation device can be realized.

Abstract: The objective is to develop a device that generates power with high efficiency and utilizes the obtained electrical energy effectively without external combustion energy such as fossil fuels or the like. Electrical energy is obtained by carriers passing through a potential barrier due to a field effect, and thus energy is pre-supplied to the carriers to increase the number of carriers contributing to electrical energy generation, whereby a highly efficient field power generation device can be realized.

Abstract: Included in the digital filtering equipment for extracting a feature quantity from a speech signal in order to execute a speech recognition based on an inputted speech signal are: a) an waveform determining section for obtaining an inputted speech signal and quantizing the speech signal waveform; b) a division value operating section for summing a quantized signal data in a prescribed adjoining region to divide the summation value by the number of summed data, with respect to a data quantized at each point by the waveform determining section, whereby a division value is obtained with the data being centered; c) a comparison section for comparing a division value calculated by the division value operating section and the quantized data calculated in the division value operating section to output logical truth of a comparison result, with respect to each data; and d) a conversion section for converting the quantized data into the selected data points based on an output from the comparison section.

Abstract: Included in the digital filtering equipment for extracting a feature quantity from a speech signal in order to execute a speech recognition based on an inputted speech signal are: a) an waveform determining section for obtaining an inputted speech signal and quantizing the speech signal waveform; b) a division value operating section for summing a quantized signal data in a prescribed adjoining region to divide the summation value by the number of summed data, with respect to a data quantized at each point by the waveform determining section, whereby a division value is obtained with the data being centered; c) a comparison section for comparing a division value calculated by the division value operating section and the quantized data calculated in the division value operating section to output logical truth of a comparison result, with respect to each data; and d) a conversion section for converting the quantized data into the selected data points based on an output from the comparison section.

Abstract: A thermal electric power generator 100 is installed at a location to which heat based on the heat generation by the engine 50 of a motor vehicle with thermal electric power generator 200, 300 is transmitted, the thermal electric power generator 100 comprising an electron emitter 2 for emitting electrons when heat is applied to the electron emitter 2 and an electron collector 3 for collecting the electrons emitted from the electron emitter, wherein by using the electron collector as a negative electrode and the electron emitter as a positive electrode, the electrons are caused to migrate from the electron collector to thereby generate electric power, and the electric power generated by the thermal electric power generator is supplied to the motor vehicle with thermal electric power generator.

Abstract: A carbon nanotube manufacturing method is employed, in which a carbon nanotube manufacturing apparatus (1000, 2000, 3000) comprises an ionizing means (e.g., a negative ion generator (10)) for ionizing a vapor of a certain carbon-containing compound, an electric field generating means (e.g., a direct-current power supply (21), a cathode (22) and an anode (23)) for generating an electric field and a heating means (e.g., a high-frequency heater (30)) for heating a growth substrate (50, 55) disposed within the electric field generated by the electric field generating means, and in which a vaporized gas of the carbon-containing compound, the vaporized gas being ionized, is caused to pass through the electric field and to come into contact with the heated growth substrate, so that a well aligned growth of carbon nanotube (4) on the growth substrate can be obtained.

Abstract: A microphone is provided with a simple structure by which a lead wire is not required to detect displacement of a vibrated film. The microphone is equipped with a vibrated film 2 to receive sonic waves on either surface and to receive electro-magnetic waves on other surface, a device 4 to receive and transmit the electro-magnetic waves reflected by the vibrated film, a counter to count pulses from the device to receive and transmit electro-magnetic waves, a processing logic 5 to count the pulses output from the counter. Displacement of the vibrated film is converted into electric signals by counting the processing logic the frequency and amplitude of the electro-magnetic waves reflected by the vibrated film 2.

Abstract: A solar energy converter includes: a light-concentrating instrument; an electron emitter in an insulated vacuum vessel, emitting electrons in a vacuum as a temperature rises by sunlight; an electron accelerator within the light-concentrating instrument; a cathode on a surface of the electron emitter opposite to a surface which is irradiated by sunlight, and electrically connected with the electron emitter; an electric field supplier having a positive terminal and a negative terminal; and an electron collector in the vacuum vessel, collecting the emitted electrons flying from the electron emitter toward the electron accelerator; wherein the electron accelerator is connected with the positive terminal and the cathode is connected with the negative terminal to generate an electric field, and the electron collector is used as a negative generator electrode and the cathode is used as a positive generator electrode in which the collected electrons migrate to the electron emitter to generate electricity.

Abstract: The solar energy converter comprises an electron emitter and an electron collector. They are provided separate from each other in a vacuum vessel. Solar energy in a wide range of sunlight spectrum can be efficiently converted into electric energy by moving electrons from the electron emitter to the electron collector.

Abstract: A solar energy converter includes: a light-concentrating instrument; an electron emitter in an insulated vacuum vessel, emitting electrons in a vacuum as a temperature rises by sunlight; an electron accelerator within the light-concentrating instrument; a cathode on a surface of the electron emitter opposite to a surface which is irradiated by sunlight, and electrically connected with the electron emitter; an electric field supplier having a positive terminal and a negative terminal; and an electron collector in the vacuum vessel, collecting the emitted electrons flying from the electron emitter toward the electron accelerator; wherein the electron accelerator is connected with the positive terminal and the cathode is connected with the negative terminal to generate an electric field, and the electron collector is used as a negative generator electrode and the cathode is used as a positive generator electrode in which the collected electrons migrate to the electron emitter to generate electricity.

Abstract: The solar energy converter comprises an electron emitter and an electron collector. They are provided separate from each other in a vacuum vessel. Solar energy in a wide range of sunlight spectrum can be efficiently converted into electric energy by moving electrons from the electron emitter to the electron collector.

Abstract: An audio signal waveform emphasis processing device performs even-order integration on an input audio signal using one or a plurality of double integrators and even-order differentiation on the input audio signal using one or a plurality of double differentiators so as to obtain even-order integrated signal and even-order differentiated signal, and adds the even-order integrated signal and the even-order differentiated signal to the input audio signal in the same phase or reverse-phase with the input audio signal, whereby sound quality of audio signal in audio equipment is greatly improved by obtaining a desired frequency-gain characteristic without destroying the mutual phase relationship between, in particular, the middle frequency range vs. high frequency range and the middle frequency range vs. low frequency range frequency components close to the middle frequency range of an input audio signal.

Abstract: An integrated circuit for measuring the distance houses an oscillator in a package. Further, a plane inductor is provided on the surface of the package housing the oscillator. The plane inductor is connected to the oscillator so as to specify a frequency of the oscillator. If conductive material approaches the surface of the package, the frequency of the oscillator is varied by means of the plane inductor. The approaching distance of the conductive material is detected by detecting the frequency of the oscillator. The conductive material is mostly metal, however, the integrated circuit for measuring the distance can measure the approaching distance of non-metal conductive material such as conductive liquid.

Abstract: A neural coupling includes a pair of primary and secondary members for coupling a precedent node to a subsequent node to synaptically transmit a signal through a neural network. A primary member responds to a signal from a precedent node to generate an inductive field according to the received signal. A secondary member spatially coupled to the primary member by the inductive field supplies to a subsequent node a corresponding signal in response to the inductive field to effect synaptic transmission of the signal through the neural network.

Abstract: There is provided a pattern separation apparatus capable of separating patterns of a specific group from a plurality of patterns constituting a plurality of groups present in an n-dimensional pattern space in accordance with simple computational processing, the apparatus being used in a variety of applications such as recognition of characters, figures, and the like. An average of a set of patterns is calculated to be X.sub.av, and a vector closest to X.sub.av is defined as a key point and represented by X.sub.key, X.sub.key s chosen as the most central point. An n-dimensional space having X.sub.key as its center is assumed to calculate a main plane in which the number of patterns is larger than that of .largecircle. patterns. When other .largecircle. patterns are included in the main plane, a subplane is calculated to eliminate these patterns from the main plane. When other patterns are included in planes other than the main plane, a subplane for separating these patterns from the .largecircle.

Abstract: In an interpolating method for interpolating interpolated data between discrete items of digital data, there are obtained values of (2.sup.n-1) number of interpolated points which divide, into 2.sup.n -number of almost equal portions, the interval between two intermediate items of data, which are among four consecutive items of data with the exception of two items of data at both ends thereof. These values are obtained from the four consecutive items of data using a bit-shift operation and an addition/subtraction operation. For example, let g(x.sub.i-1), g(x.sub.i), g(x.sub.i+1), g(x.sub.i+2) represent the data values of four, i.e., first through fourth, consecutive points x.sub.i-1, x.sub.i, x.sub.i+1, x.sub.1+2. Three interpolated points are interpolated between the two intermediate points x.sub.i, x.sub.i+1 by computing an interpolated value f(P.sub.i) at a point P.sub.i intermediate the two intermediate points x.sub.i, x.sub.i+1 in accordance with the following equation:f(P.sub.i)=[g(x.sub.i-1)+g(x.sub.

Abstract: A method and apparatus generates non-linearly interpolated point data of a graphic display. At least four graphic point data are retained in a memory and are arithmetically processed to generate an interstitial point data between an interval of the graphic point data. The interstitial point is generated by adding the N-bit-shifted difference of a first and second point data and the N-bit shifted difference of a fourth and third point data and the one-bit-shifted summation of the second and third point data.

Abstract: An inverter portion, which is to be basic logic circuit, includes switching FETs corresponding to input terminals and a load FET. A logic signal inputted into each of the input terminals drives each corresponding switching FET, thereby to output a prescribed logic signal from an output terminal. Further, a load for restricting a current flowing in the load FET is connected between the gate and the source of the load FET. In addition, a load current control FET is provided for controlling the current in this load. A gate potential of the load current control FET is produced by a diode OR circuit. The diode OR circuit outputs a logic OR of the logic signals inputted into the respective input terminals, and supplies it to the gate of the load current control FET as a load current control signal.

Abstract: An electrode for an electrocardiograph used for measuring potentials of a number of points of a body surface near the heart and producing an isopotential map thereof, has a plurality of spring-loaded rods movably mounted for reciprocal movement in the direction of the lengths thereof and urged toward the human body surface, and a pin contact set on the one end of each rod. Each pin contact set has a plurality of parallel electrically conductive spring-loaded pin contacts, movably mounted for movement reciprocally in the direction of its length for directly contacting the human body surface.

Abstract: An electrode for an electrocardiograph in which potentials of the human body surface near the heart are detected by electrodes, and signals from the electrodes are processed through a computer to make an isopotential map of the body. The electrodes each have a plurality of sets of pin contacts and each set includes a plurality of pin contacts. The space between pin contacts of a set is much smaller than the space between pin contact sets. Each pin contact is pushed toward the body surface separately by means of a resilient member. The pin contacts of a set are mutually electrically connected in parallel. The potential of the body surface can be accurately detected as long as one pin contact of a set is in good contact, even if the other contacts are in bad contact.