Abstract: A protective measure against rainfalls or ultraviolet rays is applied to planar display devices which comprise a large-sized display apparatus thus allowing display modules which include display devices to be used outdoors and, at the same time, the structure of a frame is simplified thus realizing the reduction of weight, thickness and a manufacturing cost of the large-sized display apparatus. In a large-sized display apparatus arranging a plurality of planar display devices, as the planar display device, a display device which comprises a display device body which includes a display region in the inside thereof and has a peripheral portion of the display region sealed, and a protective glass which is fixedly mounted on a front surface of the display device body using an adhesive material is used.

Abstract: A tiling of multiple display panels having reduced seam widths (gap) therebetween using a plurality of single edge connect display panels, wherein for each display panel: interconnect lines in the lateral direction are formed on a front plate; input portions of the interconnect lines are routed on an area where a sealing portion is formed and are extended outwardly from the bottom edge of the display panel; the area where the sealing portion is formed is a non-display area of the display panel on the front plate that is bonded to a rear plate with a seal material; and the input portions routed the bottom side of the front plate are extended outwardly from the bottom edge of the rear plate. The input portions are formed in part on the rear plate and electrical connection is established by bonding the front plate and the rear plate via through holes.

Abstract: A protective measure against rainfalls or ultraviolet rays is applied to planar display devices which comprise a large-sized display apparatus thus allowing display modules which include display devices to be used outdoors and, at the same time, the structure of a frame is simplified thus realizing the reduction of weight, thickness and a manufacturing cost of the large-sized display apparatus. In a large-sized display apparatus arranging a plurality of planar display devices, as the planar display device, a display device which comprises a display device body which includes a display region in the inside thereof and has a peripheral portion of the display region sealed, and a protective glass which is fixedly mounted on a front surface of the display device body using an adhesive material is used.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device which includes at least one module mounting frame which is mounted on a display device mounting structure, a plurality of display modules which are detachably mounted on the module mounting frame and constitute a display screen, a signal cable which has a wiring route in the inside of the module mounting frame and is detachably connected to the display modules and supplies image signals to the display modules, and a power source cable which has a wiring route in the inside of the module mounting frame and is detachably connected to the display modules thus supplying electric power to the display modules. Due to such a constitution, it is possible to realize the reduction of weight and the lowering of the manufacturing cost.

Abstract: A high-contrast halftone image is achieved by combining drives based on right- and left-hand characteristics of cholesteric liquid crystals. A first process displays a binary image of white and black based on the right-hand characteristics of voltage-reflectance characteristics. This achieves good black with a low reflectance. A subsequent second process displays an image based on driving voltages in the left-hand characteristics. The voltages in the left-hand characteristics produce good halftone displays. At this time, the liquid crystal state makes a transition in the direction of reducing the reflectance from planar to focal conic alignment. This allows high-contrast halftone displays while maintaining a good black level obtained in the first process.

Abstract: A band pass filter 12a for detecting a component in the vicinity of a frequency (1 kHz) having the highest propagation efficiency among oscillations generated when a train runs, a band pass filter 12c for detecting a component in the vicinity a frequency (5.5 kHz) having the lowest propagation efficiency and a microcomputer 16 are provided, the microcomputer 16 being arranged to determine a state in which the train has approached a relatively near location, a state in which the train has approached a very near location, a state in which the train has passed through and exists at a very near location or a state in which the train exists at a relatively near location. A conventional track circuit must, as a matter of course, have insulating portions for rails and incorporate a signal cable for communicating a result of the detection, causing the cost to be enlarged. The present invention is able to eliminate the foregoing necessities and reduce the cost.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for acoustic wave measurement according to the present invention are characterized by oscillating a magnetostrictive vibrator with a frequency to emit an acoustic wave to an object to be measured, calculating the amplitude of a signal received by a wave receiver, and repeating the previous steps throughout a range of different frequencies to detect the resonance frequency. The amplitude of the received signal is calculated from values of the signal sampled at an interval of 1/4 of one cycle of the emitted frequency. This reduces the time of the measurement of a thickness a presence of flaws, a presence of impurities and minimizes noises during the measurement.

Abstract: A demodulating method wherein the signal can be demodulated accurately even if the S/N ratio is lower by calculating an amplitude peak value by a specific formula from two values of an amplitude of an acoustic signal corresponding to a phase difference of 90 degrees at a carrier frequency transmitted by an acoustic signal transmitter, setting a threshold level preliminarily for the amplitude peak value, and demodulating the amplitude peak value by binarization on the basis of the threshold level, and a demodulating circuit and a demodulating apparatus used in the execution thereof.

Abstract: A vibration exciter machine has magneto striction elements (5,6) supported by a driven pile (2), for providing a vibration of up and down direction to the driven pile (2), and a drive circuit (D1) for controlling expansion and contraction movement of the magneto striction elements (5,6) by changing a supply time period of a current supplied to the magneto striction elements (5,6). By controlling of the drive circuit (D1) the supply time period of the current which flows in the magneto striction elements (5,6) is changed to control the expansion and contraction movement of the elements (5,7). Thereby a horizontal vibration component can be eliminated and only vertical vibration component can be transmitted to the driven pile material (2).

Abstract: A non-destructive examination device has an excitation current generation device for supplying an excitation current based on a control signal from a control device, a vibration excitor device for generating an elastic wave in accordance with athe excitation current and for vibrating an examination target to be examined by using the elastic wave; a response detection device (an acceleration sensor) for detecting a response of the vibration of the examination target caused by the elastic wave and for processing the response data in order to select desired examination information. The excitation current generation device generates the excitation current of an alternating pulse wave such as a pulse wave, or a rectangular wave, or a triangular wave, or a sine wave based on the control signal which is also a pulse signal. It can be acceptable to incorporate a plurality of the vibration excitor devices on the examination target in the non-destructive examination device.

Abstract: An analog input apparatus comprises bridge measuring devices 11 and 31 connected to a bipolar voltage power supply 5, analog multiplexers 18, 19, 38, and 39 responsive to an output level of an oscillator 4B for switching a polarity and outputting two outputs of each of the bridge measuring devices 11 and 31, amplifiers 12 and 32 for amplifying bipolar outputs provided through the analog multiplexers 18, 19, 38, and 39, and an analog-to-digital converter 2 for converting outputs of the amplifiers 12 and 32 into digital form and outputting the resultant digital values.

Abstract: An analog input method comprises the steps of correcting a measured value with the digital value output when voltage at either middle point of a bridge circuit is fed into both input terminals of a differential analog amplifier or feeding two middle-point voltages of a bridge circuit into input terminal of an analog amplifier in order and providing a measured value based on the difference between the digital values output from the analog amplifier.

Abstract: In switching a picture corresponding to a picture display task, the picture display task before switching permitted to run concurirently with a picture display task after switching, while a drawing command from the picture dissplay task before switching is promptly invalidated. window of the picture display task before switching is eliminated when the picture is switched, and therefore the drawing command from the picture display task of which the window is eliminated is made invalid.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sequence controller capable of executing programmable sequence operations written in its sequence table. The sequence table comprises a group of input condition collecting instructions, a group of branch condition collecting instructions, a table instruction and a group of input instructions, and has an accumulator for combining such instructions organically and selectively to deal with various sequence operation conditions. Thus it is possible to provide complicated control operations by use of the sequence table. The sequence table also contains a step number storing section which stores the original step number upon transition from one step to another, and a step return performing portion. When a predetermined branch condition is met, the step return performing portion initiates a return to the step stored in the section or to the step next thereto.

Abstract: An analog input apparatus comprises bridge measuring devices 11 and 31 connected to a bipolar voltage power supply 5, analog multiplexers 18, 19, 38, and 39 responsive to an output level of an oscillator 4B for switching a polarity and outputting two outputs of each of the bridge measuring devices 11 and 31, amplifiers 12 and 32 for amplifying bipolar outputs provided through the analog multiplexers 18, 19, 38, and 39, and an analog-to-digital converter 2 for converting outputs of the amplifiers 12 and 32 into digital form and outputting the resultant digital values.

Abstract: A display and drawing control system, having a display and drawing control unit which produces screen data including characters and images and causes the screen data to be stored in a frame memory. The display and drawing control unit also operates on a display unit to display the screen data in the frame memory under control of a central processing unit. The system further includes an auxiliary memory in addition to the frame memory. The display and drawing control unit suspends the creation of screen data in the frame memory and stores other screen data in the auxiliary memory under control of the central processing unit. The system is further provided with a print data interface circuit which directly sends screen data from the auxiliary memory to a printer, thereby enhancing the operational efficiency of the system.

Abstract: A data transmission apparatus has a data transceiver which transmits data for one among a number of stations, to all of a number of output terminals, and which receives at one of its input terminals data sent by any one of the other stations, fetches the data into its own apparatus, and at the same time, transfers the receiving data to output terminals for all stations except the station which has sent the data, thereby enabling communication via a plurality of different paths and not making communication impossible even if disconnection is present in a transmission path.

Abstract: A data transmission apparatus including remote repeater lines comprising the first and second remote repeaters, each respectively providing first receiver and driver which receive the one signal of the signals of first and second transmission buses and output the signal to the other side, second receiver and driver which receive the other signal and output the signal to the one side, first and second carrier detecting circuits which respectively detect the carriers of respective signals, a decision circuit which inputs such detected outputs and decides which one of first and second receivers has operated first and first and second AND circuits the one of which respectively opens and the other closes depending on output of the decision circuit, and the cables which connect in direct such first and second remote repeaters to link said first and second transmission buses; in which n (n is a positive integer of 2 or larger) remote repeater lines are connected in parallel between said first and second transmission

Abstract: A remote repeater for facilitating the signal transmission between a plurality of segments constituting a transmission bus system includes a main receiver for receiving a signal on the transmission bus of the segment to which this repeater belongs, a main driver for sending out a signal onto the transmission bus, an output port for sending out the signal to a remote repeater which belongs to another segment, and an input port for receiving a signal from another remote repeater. The signal received from the transmission bus is sent out through the output port to another remote repeater, while the signal coming in from another remote repeater is sent out over the transmission bus and, at the same time, sent out through the output port to another remote repeater.

Abstract: In a digital data input circuit, a number of switches arranged in matrix of m rows by n columns (m, n: integer being equal to one or more) are operated in ON/OFF state and signals are obtained to represent setting state of the switches, amplifying means which are additionally connected before and after the switches are driven directly by power including ripple voltage generated by rectifying AC power, and pulse train signal for strobing output signal of the amplifier is generated from the power including the ripple voltage.