Abstract: An artificial bait which can provide a great effect to attract fish by light emission or reflection from air bubbles contained in the artificial bait. A large number of air bubbles are enclosed within a artificial bait main body formed of elastic material having flexibility and light transmissible property wherein the air bubbles may be deformed to enhance the attractiveness of the bait.

Abstract: An artificial bait which can provide a great effect to attract fish by means of light emission or reflection from air bubbles contained in the artificial bait. A large number of air bubbles are enclosed within a artificial bait main body formed of elastic material having flexibility and light transmissible property wherein the air bubbles may be deformed to enhance the attractiveness of the bait.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lure performing a new action which attracts a fish to make a good catch of fishing. The lure includes: a rotary member 16 rotated by the action of resistance to a water current; and a extrusion member 18 moved with the rotary member 16, resisting the water current so as to extrude water forward.

Abstract: An arrangement for a lure which stabilizes the movement of a fishhook attached to the fishhook attaching section formed on the lower side of the lure in order to positively catch fish with the fishhook. A two movement guide sections are provided by cutout portions formed inside of external members of a lure body. Spherical metallic weight is movably accommodated in each of the movement guide sections so that the spherical metallic weights can be moved in the longitudinal direction of the lure body. When the weights in the movement guide sections are moved to the front, a center of balance of the weights substantially coincides with the position of a fishhook attaching section.

Abstract: Disclosed is a CD player that ensures a setup operation and reproduction of information even when a partially recorded CD-R is set therein. The CD player sequentially performs the setup operation, starting from the first setup position located at the innermost periphery of the CD, predetermined for the setup operation, until the setup operation is complete at any of n-th (n=2, 3, . . . ) setup positions lying outwardly of the first setup position. If the setup operation is not completed even at an n-th setup position located at the outermost periphery of the CD, the CD player performs the setup operation again at at least one setup position lying inwardly of the n-th setup position. Also disclosed is a CD player that can discriminate a partially recorded, additionally recordable CD-R, and can execute the reproduction control for the PRD.

Abstract: Method and Apparatus for playing a CD are designed to allow playback of a partially recorded disk of CD-Rs (CD-Recordable) having the DRAW (direct read after write) capability. It is determined if a target disk is a partially recorded CD-R recording medium. When a reverse command to return to a predetermined address of the recording medium to execute playback is input, the absolute time for information being reproduced is detected and it is then determined if the absolute time is within a predetermined actual pause period. When the absolute time is determined to be within the actual pause period, the reverse command is canceled. It is therefore possible to properly operate a servo system within that recording area of the recording medium where information has already been recorded, thereby allowing a return to a predetermined address associated with the reverse command. This prevents the loss of control of the servo system.

Abstract: A CD player capable of detecting the recording end of a partially recorded CD-R (PRD) during playback. When an unrecorded area (URA) is detected, an address immediately before that of the URA is held and a setup is performed at the position of that detection. If the setup is unsuccessful, a setup is performed at a reference setup position, and when this setup operation is complete, playback starts from the held address position. When the playback from the position and detection of the URA are repeated a predetermined number of times, the held address position is discriminated as the recording end. According to a method of searching for the last piece of recorded information in the program area on a PRD, when reading failure occurs in a search, the pickup is moved back to a previous jump position to the occurrence of the reading failure.

Abstract: A playing apparatus for a compact disc on which TOC information comprising at least first to third point data has repetitively been recorded in a lead-in area. A reading point by a pickup is moved in the lead-in area from the disc outer rim side in accordance with a TOC information reading command. When it is detected that the reading point was positioned to a recording track of third point data locating on the disc inner rim side in each of the TOC information, the reading point is jumped to the disc inner rim side by at least only two tracks. After that, the reading point is moved toward the disc outer rim side along the track, thereby reading the TOC information including the first, second, and third point data.

Abstract: Disclosed is a CD player that ensures a setup operation and reproduction of information even when a partially recorded CD-R is set therein. The CD player sequentially performs the setup operation, starting from the first setup position located at the innermost periphery of the CD, predetermined for the setup operation, until the setup operation is complete at any of n-th (n=2, 3, . . . ) setup positions lying outwardly of the first setup position. If the setup operation is not completed even at an n-th setup position located at the outermost periphery of the CD, the CD player performs the setup operation again at at least one setup position lying inwardly of the n-th setup position. Also disclosed is a CD player that can discriminate a partially recorded, additionally recordable CD-R, and can execute the reproduction control for the PRD.

Abstract: A videophone at e.g., a called location, receives sound signals, video signals and control signals through a communication circuit from a communication line and originating at, e.g., a calling videophone. A start signal detecting means, within the called videophone detects a storage start requesting signal from received control signals originating at a calling videophone. At the time of such detection, a coding circuit within the called videophone again encodes the video signals, that are received by the communication circuit and continuously decoded by a decoding circuit, and transmitted by the calling videophone but only by one frame therefrom and stores the frame into a storage circuit. After storing the one frame, a change-over circuit in the called videophone switches to the storage circuit to continuously store the subsequent incoming coded video and sound signals for eventual playback.

Abstract: A lure has an opening part at a front end of a main body. A water resistance part and a connecting part are provided in the opening part. The main body is made from a pair of shell members combined together. Each shell member has a recess part for forming the opening part, an inclined face for forming the water resistance part disposed below the recess part, another recess part for forming a hollow part within the main body, a wall for dividing the opening part and the hollow part and a slotted hole which is provided at a front side of the wall and which communicates with the opening part. The slotted hole is so formed as to be located at the position of a gill in an appearance. Each shell also has the connecting part below the opening part in the main body. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a lure in which the reality of the lure to fish, a living bit or the like is improved without deteriorating an activity or moving ability of the lure.

Abstract: A function setting method for an audio system which is capable of changing a function of the audio system without alternation of hardware of a system controller at all and is superior in general use. The method comprises the steps of preparing, as the system controller for controlling functions incorporated in the audio system in a concentrated manner, a microcomputer which has an analog/digital conversion input port and has built therein control programs for all of a plurality of functions which can be incorporated in the audio system, and applying a selected one of a plurality of analog voltages which individually represent possible combinations of the functions including the individual functions to the analog/digital conversion input port of the microcomputer to cause the microcomputer to be prepared for one or ones of the functions represented by the analog voltage.

Abstract: A detachable operating unit for connection with a main unit comprises at least two power supply units for applying operating voltages to the detachable operating unit, the power supply units generating two different voltages, respectively; at least two power supply terminals for engaging the detachable operating unit and the main unit to receive two different voltages applied to the power supply units, respectively; a ground terminal for engaging the detachable operating unit and the main unit; a protective circuit for applying a reverse voltage in repsonse to a differential voltage between voltages of the power supply units, the protective circuit being disposed between one of power supply units which generates the operating voltage lower than that of the other power supply unit, and the ground terminal.

Abstract: In a control cylinder device of a variable displacement compressor, an annular cylinder concentric with a driving rotary shaft is provided in a housing of a compressor body, and an annular control piston is slidably fitted in the cylinder to define a control pressure chamber within the cylinder. The annular control piston is connected to a sleeve, such that the sliding movement of the sleeve can be controlled by the operation of the control piston. Further, inner and outer seal rings are interposed in an axially misaligned relation to each other between inner and outer slide surfaces of the cylinder and control piston. This facilitates an accurate formation of the inner and outer surfaces of the cylinder in the cylinder device on which the control piston slides. Also, this easily insures sealing properties required between the slide surfaces of the cylinder and the piston. In addition, it is possible to effectively prevent the inclination of the control piston within the cylinder.

Abstract: A driving rotary shaft is rotatably carried on a compressor body of a variable displacement compressor. On axial one side of a sleeve slidably carried on the driving rotary shaft, there is disposed a first spring of a displacement setting device for biasing the sleeve in one axial direction and holding a stopper, with which the sleeve is engageable, at a stop position on the driving rotary shaft. On the axial other side of the sleeve, there is disposed a second spring of the displacement setting device for biasing the sleeve in the other axial direction, the second spring being weaker than the first spring. At the starting of the compressor, the first spring holds the stopper at the stop position against a repulsive force of the second spring to hold the sleeve engaged with the stopper at a fixed position.

Abstract: An intake manifold for multicylinder, in-line type engine wherein a distribution chamber extends along the engine and a separate intake pipe extends from the distribution chamber to each intake port for each engine cylinder. When the engine has an oval intake port, usually because of two intake valves, with the major axis extending the length of the engine, the intake pipes have matching oval openings. The connection between each intake pipe and the distribution chamber is oval in shape but oriented with the major axis extending laterally to reduce the length of the distribution chamber. The walls of the manifold vary in thickness for reducing weight and the moment of inertia by progressively decreasing the wall thickness in the direction away from the engine.

Abstract: An adjustable attenuator circuit in which sampled electric charges are partially transferred from a sampling capacitor to a charge dividing capacitor during a short time within each sampling period, and electric charges stored in the charge dividing capacitor are additively transferred to an integrating capacitor or are discharged to ground according to the content of a weighting coefficient which determines the attenuation factor of the adjustable attenuator circuit.

Abstract: A clock generator circuit for generating two pairs of clock signals comprises a NAND circuit and a NOR circuit cross-coupled to each other and each having an input for receiving a reference clock signal (.phi..sub.0). A first inverter is provided between the output of the NAND circuit and the other input of the NOR circuit, and a second inverter is provided between the output of the NOR circuit and the other input of the NAND circuit. A pair of clock signals (.phi..sub.2, .phi..sub.2) are generated from the NAND circuit and the first inverter, while another pair of clock signals (.phi..sub.1, .phi..sub.1) are generated from the NOR circuit and the second inverter.

Abstract: A switched capacitor filter having at its input, a signal converter for creating so-called 100% sample and hold signals. The signal converter comprises a plurality of switched capacitors. The switched capacitors, connected in parallel with each other, receive the same successive input signals and supply the so-called 100% sample and hold input signals to the switched-capacitor filter. The switched capacitors, on one hand, charge each of said input signals sequentially and, on the other hand, alternately discharge the respective stored input signals one by one.

Abstract: A switched-capacitor filter provided with, at its input stage, a prefilter comprised only of a plurality of additional switched capacitors together with a switched capacitor common to the switched-capacitor filter. The switched capacitor common to the switched-capacitor filter is driven by primary clock pulses having a period T, while the additional switched capacitors are sequentially driven by secondary clock pulse groups. Each of the secondary clock pulse groups has the same period T, and the phases of the second clock pulse groups are shifted by T/2.sup.k, 2T/2.sup.k, 3T/2.sup.k . . . (2.sup.k -1)T/2.sup.k with respect to the first clock pulses (k is a positive integer). The sampled and held signals in the switched capacitors are supplied synchronously to the switched-capacitor filter.