Abstract: A heat pump type air conditioner comprising: an exterior unit including an exterior heat exchanger, a plurality of compressors, a four-way valve, an exterior expansion device, and an injection circuit for injecting the liquid refrigerant into each of the plurality of compressors; and a plurality of interior units, each of which includes an interior heat exchanger, connected to the exterior unit. The exterior unit further comprises device for controlling flow rate of the liquid refrigerant to be injected in accordance with number of the plurality of interior units.

Abstract: An air conditioner comprising a refrigerant forward path branching on a discharge side of a compressor in an outdoor unit, one of the branched portions being defined by connecting a first four-way valve, a first outdoor heat exchanger and a first outdoor expansion valve to one another in this order, and the other of the branched portions being defined by connecting a second four-way valve, a second outdoor heat exchanger and a second outdoor expansion valve in this order, the path extending to an indoor unit from the respective outdoor expansion valves through a liquid-side piping, and returning to the outdoor unit from the indoor unit through a gas-side piping to branch, one of the branched portions being connected to the first four-way valve via a check valve placed in communication in a forward direction and the other of the branched portions being connected to the second four-way valve, the air conditioner being controlled such that, when heating operation is switched to defrosting operation, the second f

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novolak type phenol resin, in particular a novolak type phenol resin for resists suitable for forming resist patterns. The novolak type phenol resin of the present invention is obtained by reacting at least a vinylphenol having a vinyl group and a phenolic hydroxyl group, such as parahydroxystyrene, or a polyvinylphenol, which is a polymer of the vinylphenol, a compound (A) such as 4,4′-methylenebis(2-hydroxymethyl-3,6-dimethylphenol) and/or a compound (B) such as 2,6-dihydroxymethyl-4-phenol, in a ratio of 1 to 40 moles of the compound (A) and/or compound (B) to 100 moles of the vinylphenol or 100 moles of structural unit of the vinylphenol contained in the polyvinylphenol in the presence of an acid and having a weight average molecular weight of 2,000 to 20,000. Such a novolak type phenol resin provides good pattern shape, heat resistance, resolution, and sensitivity in resists for lithography.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a phenol resin, in particular a phenol resin for resists suitable for forming resist patterns. The phenol resin of the present invention is obtained by reacting at least two components, i.e., a compound (A) such as 4-hydroxymethyl-2,6-dimethylphenol and a polymerizable phenol compound such as parahydroxystyrene or a polymer (B), which is a polymer of the polymerizable phenol compound, in a ratio of 1 to 50 moles of the compound (A) to 100 moles of the polymerizable phenol compound or 100 moles of structural unit of the polymerizable phenol compound contained in the polymer (B) in the presence of an acid and having a molecular weight of 2,000 to 20,000. Such a phenol resin provides good pattern shape, heat resistance, resolution, and sensitivity in resists for lithography.

Abstract: In a multiple type air conditioner system which includes a plurality of outdoor units and a plurality of indoor units, the plurality of outdoor units are connected with the plurality of indoor units through a communication line, address setting is attained by generating a random address from each of all the indoor units under a command of one of the outdoor units and generating a dummy address from each outdoor unit on the basis of the random address, by obtaining a correlative relationship between the outdoor and indoor units on the basis of a variation of a physical quantity of the outdoor unit connected to the indoor unit actually operated based on the dummy address, and by updating the addresses of all the outdoor and indoor units on the basis of the correlative relationships between all the outdoor and indoor units obtained through the step.

Abstract: In a multiple type air conditioner system which includes a plurality of outdoor units and a plurality of indoor units, the plurality of outdoor units are connected with the plurality of indoor units through a communication line, address setting is attained by generating a random address from each of all the indoor units under a command of one of the outdoor units and generating a dummy address from each outdoor unit on the basis of the random address, by obtaining a correlative relationship between the outdoor and indoor units on the basis of a variation of a physical quantity of the outdoor unit connected to the indoor unit actually operated based on the dummy address, and by updating the addresses of all the outdoor and indoor units on the basis of the correlative relationships between all the outdoor and indoor units obtained through the step.

Abstract: An amusement device passing within a tube is made into a device which is safe in operation while passing within a dark tube, giving a mild and fantastic mood to a sight feeling of a rider to enable the rider to enjoy modern leisure characteristics or joyfulness and then a picture drawn on the inner wall surface with fluorescent substance and an illuminating device for radiating ultraviolet rays to the picture are arranged so as to cause a rider to play in the amusement device and to enable a stereoscopic light emitting image to be attained on the inner wall surface of the tube.

Abstract: A optical fiber cable wound about an overhead transmission line stretched between supporting poles installed a predetermined distance apart from each other, comprises a tension member, a plurality of plural-core type optical fiber tape-shaped strands arranged on the outside of the tension member, a buffer layer covering outer surface of the arrangement of the plural-core type optical fiber tape-shaped strands, and a sheath covering the outer surface of the buffer layer. The tape-shaped strands each include a plurality of optical fibers arranged side by side, and a covering layer collectively covering the plurality of side by side optical fibers. The particular construction permits the optical fiber cable to house a larger number of optical fibers for a given diameter of the cable while maintaining a high heat resistance and satisfactory mechanical properties.

Abstract: A system for sending programs for controlling an air conditioner, comprising at least one indoor unit and an outdoor unit connected to the indoor unit, the outdoor unit including a first memory for storing a program for controlling the room condition, a second memory for storing a program for controlling the outdoor unit in cooperation with the room condition control program, and a communication circuit for sending contents of the program in the memory to the indoor unit, the indoor unit including a third memory for storing a receiving execution program for executing the receiving of the room condition control program from the outdoor unit, a communication circuit for receiving the program from the outdoor unit, and a fourth memory for storing the program received. The third memory has stored therein the receiving program at an address at which the execution thereof is started when power is turned on.

Abstract: The subscriber line interface circuit comprises subscriber nodes, reception nodes and transmission nodes, a power feeding unit, adders, impedance elements, an inverting amplifier, and a feedback element. The subscriber nodes are coupled to a subscriber terminal via a subscriber line, and the reception and transmission nodes are coupled to an exchange via a reception line and a transmission line, respectively. The feeding unit supplied a DC current to the terminal and controls the current. The first adder adds the voltage between the subscriber nodes and the voltage from the reception node. The first impedance element has an impedance corresponding to a real-number multiplication of the impedance between the subscriber nodes, and is applied with the output voltage of the first adder. The amplifier is given with the output of the first impedance element.

Abstract: To prevent color turbidity due to residual image characteristics of an image sensor and to improve low color saturation due to rise-response characteristics of the image sensor, a object image to be taken is separated into three primary color images two fields by two fields for each primary color image through a color separating rotary filter; and transduced into six-field primary color image signals. Each primary color image signal obtained at each first field (this includes a preceding different-color residual image signal) is omitted, but each primary color image signal obtained at each second field (this includes a preceding same-color residual image signal) is outputted as video signals in sequence.