Abstract: A high quality, three-electrode type plasma display apparatus, of which the display of low-luminance gradations has been improved by reducing the minimum luminance of the subfield, has been disclosed. In the plasma display apparatus, a subfield of even lower luminance is provided by: providing at least one subfield made up of only a reset period and an address period, without a sustain period, in one frame, and causing an address discharge to occur only between Y (second) electrodes and address (third) electrodes; or providing at least two second subfields made up of only a reset period and an address period in one frame, and making the intensity of an address discharge differ between the two second subfields.

Abstract: A progressive display is realized that has an electrode structure in which two neighboring rows share a display electrode. A PDP has display electrodes arranged so that two neighboring rows share one electrode for display, and the display electrodes crosses an address electrode in each column. A row selection is performed by temporarily biasing one display electrode Yj of the electrode pair corresponding to the selected row to the selecting potential Vy, while an addressing is performed by controlling the potential of the address electrode Ak in accordance with the display data. At that time, the cell-selecting voltage Vay that is applied to the interelectrode AY between the display electrode Yj and the address electrode Ak made lower than the discharge starting voltage VAY of the interelectrode AY.

Abstract: An image of the shape of a semiconductor wafer is displayed on a display apparatus for displaying an inspection result of a semiconductor device, and a different color or pattern is displayed for each inspection result as display information indicating the inspection result of a semiconductor device in a region corresponding to the semiconductor device on the image of the semiconductor wafer.

Abstract: According to the present invention, plant choline monooxygenase and the gene thereof are provided. The present invention discloses the following recombinant proteins (a) and (b) as well as genes encoding the proteins: (a) comprising the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, 4 or 6; (b) comprises the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, 4 or 6 having deletion, substitution or additon of one or several amino acids, and which has choline monooxygenase activity.

Abstract: A method for driving a plasma display panel, wherein a display field, corresponding to a display of a screen, is composed of a plurality of subfields, a gradation display is realized by combining subfields to be lit among the plurality of subfields, cells to be lit in the display field are separated from unlit cells and all of the cells to be lit are lit in a predetermined subfield arranged near the head in the display field. The gradation display level is set with the light emission in the predetermined subfield being taken into consideration.

Abstract: A chain stitch sewing machine comprises a needle for penetrating through a cloth on a throat plate to be vertically moved interlockingly with a main spindle of the sewing machine, thereby holding a needle thread, a cloth presser mounted on the throat plate and serving to press the cloth, a looper having a looper thread for reciprocating in such a direction as to cross a cloth feeding direction below the throat plate interlockingly with the main spindle of the sewing machine, a main feed dog for feeding a loop formed by the needle thread and the looper thread in cooperation of the needle and the looper rearward in the cloth feeding direction, and a loop engagement member for protruding from an upper surface of the throat plate and engaging the loop with the cloth presser when the main feed dog is descending from the upper surface of the throat plate.

Abstract: A method for driving a PDP is disclosed, and is capable of suppressing an erroneous discharge during an address discharge and sustain discharge and of preventing deterioration in image quality, comprising: a reset period for initialization; an address period having a first half of the address period in which one of odd-numbered and even-numbered second electrodes are first scanned sequentially, and address pulses are applied to third electrodes, and a subsequent second half of the address period in which others of the odd-numbered and the even-numbered second electrodes are scanned sequentially, and address pulses are applied to the third electrodes; and a sustain discharge period in which sustain discharges are caused to occur, wherein the potential difference between the second electrode and the third electrode in the second half of the address period is set to a value larger than the potential difference between the second electrode and the third electrode in the first half of the address electrode.

Abstract: A driving method, able to realize a PDP device having a reduced background luminance and high display quality, has been disclosed.

Abstract: A seal type storage battery has a battery case which has a sealing assembly for sealing an opened portion of an outer case, which holds an electricity generating element. The sealing assembly includes a pressure-sensitive conductive rubber member in the battery case. The pressure-sensitive conductive rubber member has a resistance that changes continuously depending on a rise of inner pressure in the battery case. A lead connecting with the, pressure-sensitive conductive rubber extends outside of the battery case, and the lead is capable of outputting a pressure detecting signal to outside.

Abstract: A hoisting hook is arranged on a stick boom top pin for attaching a bucket to a distal end of a stick boom and hung at a bucket scooping face side. A bucket fall prevention valve is provided at least on a head side of a bucket cylinder for maintaining the cylinder inner pressure in order to prevent the bucket from free fall. A crane work by the hoisting hook is performed with the bucket dumped to the stick boom back side to the maximum extent. During the crane work, even if the hydraulic oil hose connected to the bottom side of the oil chamber of the hold pressure generation side of the bucket cylinder is broken by an external force, the bucket fall prevention valve acts instantaneously, cuts off the head side oil chamber from the exterior oil passage completely, and maintains the hold pressure of the head side oil chamber, so that the bucket is prevented from rotating suddenly downward.

Abstract: A speed control apparatus and method of a working vehicle which can reduce a working speed and a traveling speed of the vehicle to a desired speed range in correspondence to a change of working conditions at a time of a vehicle crane operation. A controller sets an optional hydraulic pump absorbing curve when an operator selects the crane operation mode. When the speed is adjusted by the operator, a pump tilt and rotation angle is automatically controlled to a pump absorbing torque in correspondence to the crane working speed along the optional pump absorbing torque curve.

Abstract: It is a subject of the present invention to provide a hydraulic shovel concurrently used for crane operations in which an operator may immediately be ascertained of conditions during crane operations as well as dangerous conditions occurring on the implement or the vehicle body so that operations may be performed in a stable and rapid manner, this being achieved by a hydraulic shovel concurrently used for crane operations which comprises an implement including a boom, an arm, a bucket and a hook for enabling crane operations, which further comprises a monitor device including a monitor screen, wherein a parameter display portion for displaying parameters related to load factors of safe-working load, an engine condition display portion for displaying engine conditions and an alarm information display portion for displaying alarm information are provided on the monitor screen during crane operations, wherein a plurality of display items of the alarm information display portion may be sequentially switched and d

Abstract: Various work machines in which safety of operation and operation efficiency can be enhanced in accordance with variation in the kind of operation and operation condition when operation is carried out based on a previously set operation mode of an operation machine, and operation speed of the operation machine or running speed of the work machine can finely be adjusted is provided. The work machine comprises mode switching means having a mode switching switch and the like of operation modes of one or more operation machines. A speed finely-adjusting switch is disposed for finely adjusting an operation speed and/or a running speed to values out of range set in each mode by manual operation. An engine, a pump, a flow rate adjusting valve disposed in a driving circuit of one or more operation machine and running motor and the like are operated by a signal output by operating the speed finely-adjusting switch, and the engine revolution number and the pump discharge amount are adjusted.

Abstract: A chain stitch sewing machine comprises a needle for penetrating through a cloth on a throat plate to be vertically moved interlockingly with a main spindle of the sewing machine, thereby holding a needle thread, a cloth presser mounted on the throat plate and serving to press the cloth, a looper having a looper thread for reciprocating in such a direction as to cross a cloth feeding direction below the throat plate interlockingly with the main spindle of the sewing machine, a main feed dog for feeding a loop formed by the needle thread and the looper thread in cooperation of the needle and the looper rearward in the cloth feeding direction, and a loop engagement member for protruding from an upper surface of the throat plate and engaging the loop with the cloth presser when the main feed dog is descending from the upper surface of the throat plate.

Abstract: There is a speed control apparatus and method of a working vehicle which can reduce a working speed of a working machine and a traveling speed of the vehicle to a desired speed range in correspondence to a change of working contents and working conditions at a time of a crane operation on the basis of a preset crane mode, thereby improving a working efficiency. A controller sets an optional pump absorbing curve which can be obtained by connecting an upper limit value of a pump discharge amount in a pump absorbing torque at an intersecting point of an engine speed torque curve at a maximum engine speed required at a time of being in the crane mode with a proper pump absorbing torque curve to a lower limit value of a pump discharge amount at a pump absorbing torque in correspondence to a minimum engine speed required for a working vehicle, when an operator selects the crane mode.

Abstract: A progressive display is realized that has an electrode structure in which two neighboring rows share a display electrode. A PDP has display electrodes arranged so that two neighboring rows share one electrode for display, and the display electrodes crosses an address electrode in each column. A row selection is performed by temporarily biasing one display electrode Yj of the electrode pair corresponding to the selected row to the selecting potential Vy, while an addressing is performed by controlling the potential of the address electrode Ak in accordance with the display data. At that time, the cell-selecting voltage Vay that is applied to the interelectrode AY between the display electrode Yj and the address electrode Ak made lower than the discharge starting voltage VAY of the interelectrode AY.

Abstract: Various work machines in which safety of operation and operation efficiency can be enhanced in accordance with variation in the kind of operation and operation condition when operation is carried out based on a previously set operation mode of an operation machine, and operation speed of the operation machine or running speed of the work machine can finely be adjusted is provided. The work machine comprises mode switching means having a mode switching switch and the like of operation modes of one or more operation machines. A speed finely-adjusting switch is disposed for finely adjusting an operation speed and/or a running speed to values out of range set in each mode by manual operation. An engine, a pump, a flow rate adjusting valve disposed in a driving circuit of one or more operation machine and running motor and the like are operated by a signal output by operating the speed finely-adjusting switch, and the engine revolution number and the pump discharge amount are adjusted.

Abstract: A hoisting hook is arranged on a stick boom top pin for attaching a bucket to a distal end of a stick boom and hung at a bucket scooping face side. A bucket fall prevention valve is provided at least on a head side of a bucket cylinder for maintaining the cylinder inner pressure in order to prevent the bucket from free fall. A crane work by the hoisting hook is performed with the bucket dumped to the stick boom back side to the maximum extent. During the crane work, even if the hydraulic oil hose connected to the bottom side of the oil chamber of the hold pressure generation side of the bucket cylinder is broken by an external force, the bucket fall prevention valve acts instantaneously, cuts off the head side oil chamber from the exterior oil passage completely, and maintains the hold pressure of the head side oil chamber, so that the bucket is prevented from rotating suddenly downward.

Abstract: A seal type storage battery has a battery case which has a sealing equipment to seal an opened portion of an outer case, which holds an electricity generating element. It has a pressure-sensitive conductive rubber in the battery case, whose resistance is changed continuously depending on a rise of inner pressure of the battery case. A lead connecting with the pressure-sensitive conductive rubber is extended to outside from the battery case, and the lead outputs a pressure detecting signal to outside.

Abstract: There is provided a traveling drive apparatus in a working vehicle having a traveling body with front wheels and rear wheels which are adapted to be controlledly driven respectively, characterized in that: the traveling body has mounted thereon an engine, a transmission and a hydraulic pump which are coupled to the engine and a first hydraulic motor that is adapted to be driven by the hydraulic pump whereas a left hand side wheel and a right hand side wheel on one of a front side and a rear side of the traveling body are adapted to be selectively coupled to either of an output side of the engine and an output side of the first hydraulic motor; and a left hand side wheel and a right hand side wheel of the other of the front side and the rear side are mounted on a suspension unit having a second hydraulic motor and a third hydraulic motor which are provided independently of each other and are adapted to be driven by the hydraulic pump and which are respectively coupled to the left hand side wheel and the right