Abstract: The laser induced liquid jet generating apparatus irradiates a laser beam on a liquid in a main body, guides the generated liquid jet into a catheter via a nozzle, and generates a flow in the direction opposite the liquid jet. Even by the use of a catheter having a small outside diameter, therefore, the apparatus is enabled to effect powerful laser irradiation without being thermally affected by the laser beam and consequently shatter thrombus, for example, and recover by aspiration the shattered thrombus through the distal end of the catheter.

Abstract: A method of forming an overlapping section involves radiating a plasma is radiated onto a first overlapping part of a first workpiece, over which oil is spread. Thereafter, silicone rubber, which functions as an adhesive and a sealant material, is applied onto the first overlapping part, and a second overlapping part of a second workpiece is overlapped on the first overlapping part. When the components are left standing still for a predetermined period of time, the overlapping section is formed, in which the first overlapping part and the second overlapping part are adhered to one another.

Abstract: An editing device and editing method are capable of remarkably shortening editing time. In the case where the edited video and audio obtained as a result of editing have any parts that cannot be transported at a specified output rate, only the untransportable parts are extracted and subjected to the editing processing before the actual transmission so as to cope with the output rate. In this way, an editing device and editing method capable of remarkably shortening the editing time can be realized.

Abstract: An image display system which provides first and second images such that the right eye and the left eye of an observer see the first and second images at different times, respectively. The image display system comprises a camera for taking a picture of the observer and then outputting an image of the observer; a liquid crystal display device transparent to light, for displaying the first and second images at the different times, respectively; a back-lighting device which displays back light images to illuminate the liquid crystal display device from a back side thereof, at the different times; and an optical element for giving directivity to back light emitted by the back-lighting device so that the back-lighting device provides back light illuminations of the LCD device for the right and left eyes at the different times. The apparatus detects centroids or contours of images of the observer taken by the camera, and generates the back-light images on the basis of the centroids or contours.

Abstract: High efficiency cold dry plating method for forming an important and highly adherent polycrystalline structured zinc alloy film on metallic substrates by mechanical projection of a composite material.High efficiency cold dry plating method using a composite material described as iron nuclei particles encapsulated by zinc alloy, where the composite material contains 45 to 80% of zinc.Cold dry plating process giving improved yield and short treatment time with high amount of zinc strongly adherent on metallic surfaces.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus including a liquid crystal display of light transmission type for displaying right-eye and left-eye target images, a pair of CRTs for displaying illuminating graphic patterns for illuminating the display from the back surface, and a Fresnel lens 11 arranged before the CRTs to show the viewer given displayed portions on the display screens of these CRTs in an enlarged scale. A first graphic pattern polarized in the X direction is displayed at a first position, which corresponds to the right eye of the viewer, on the display screen of the first CRT. A second graphic pattern polarized in the Y direction perpendicular to the X direction is displayed at a second position, which corresponds to the left eye of the viewer, on the second CRT. The display screen of the liquid crystal display is illuminated from the behind by the light from the first and second graphic patterns displayed on the CRTs, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention is for the purpose of providing a medical laser irradiation apparatus which applies laser beams of two or more wavelengths, incapable of transmitting in a quartz optical fiber, through the use of an optical fiber cable, with this medical laser irradiation apparatus being easy to handle and producible at a low cost, and also capable of making irradiation through the use of a relay optical fiber cable comprising a quartz optical fiber. For this purpose, this apparatus is composed of a laser irradiation apparatus to output laser beams of a plurality of wavelengths capable of being transmitted by a quartz optical fiber, and two or more kinds of irradiation optical fiber cables including an optical fiber cable having a quartz optical fiber and containing a solid state laser medium and/or a nonlinear optical crystal at its tip portion.

Abstract: A stereoscopic-image game playing apparatus displays a screen image for right eye and a screen image for left eye on LCD 105, outputs images of the player obtained by cameras 103a and 103b to the receiving side, and displays images corresponding to the right half face and the left half face of the player based on the player's images on LCD 107. The images displayed on the LCD 107 are used as figures for selectively introducing lights from the screen images on the LCD 105, by lens 106, to the right and left eyes of the player. This enables stereoscopic vision without glasses for separating images respectively for the player's right and left eyes, and allows the player to move from the initial position.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image communication apparatus displays a screen image for right eye and a screen image for left eye on LCD 105, outputs images of the viewer obtained by cameras 103 to the receiving side, and displays images corresponding to the right half face and the left half face of the viewer based on the viewer's images on LCD 107. The images displayed on the LCD 107 are used as figures for selectively introducing lights from the screen images on the LCD 105, by lens 106, to the right and left eyes of the viewer. This enables stereoscopic vision without glasses for separating images respectively for the viewer's right and left eyes, and allows the viewer to move from the initial position.

Abstract: Screen images for the right eye are displayed upside down on an image display device 10a, and screen images for the left eye are displayed inverted upside down and right-to-left on an image display device 10b. Light of the screen images for the right eye and for the left eye are polarized so that polarization directions of the light for the right eye and for the left eye are perpendicular to each other. Right half images of viewers' faces, picked up by an image sensing device 14, are displayed on liquid crystal display elements 11. The displayed images functions as light transmission images, and by observing them through a lens 11 having directivity characteristics, the screen images for the right eye and screen images for the left eye of images combined by a half mirror 15 are respectively seen by the right and the left eyes of the viewers.

Abstract: An image display system for providing images such that a right eye and a left eye of an observer see different images, respectively. The image display system includes: a camera for taking a picture of said observer and then outputting an image of the observer; a pair of liquid crystal display devices transparent to light; an image generation device for generating a back-light image based on an image output signal provided by the camera; a pair of CRT devices for displaying a back-light image generated by the image generation device to illuminate the pair of liquid crystal display devices from their back sides; a mirror for combining images present on the pair of liquid crystal display devices into one image; and optical elements for giving directivity to back-light emitted by the pair of back-lighting devices so that one of the pair of CRT devices provides back-light illumination for the right eye and the other one of the pair of CRT devices provides back-light illumination for the left eye.

Abstract: Screen images for the right eye and for the left eye are displayed upside down on the image display devices 10a and 10b, respectively, and images of right half and left half faces of the viewers picked-up by image sensing devices 14a and 14b are displayed on the spatial modulation elements 11a and 11b. By seeing the screen images transmitted through the images of the right half and the left half faces, which are light transmission images, on the spatial modulation elements 11a and 11b, and through lenses 11a and 11b, having directivities, the right eyes and the left eyes of the viewers can respectively see the screen images for the right eyes and for the left eyes, which are combined by a half mirror 15.

Abstract: This invention has as its object to provide a solid-state laser device which can supply a laser beam pumped by a solid-state laser medium from the distal end of an optical fiber. In order to achieve this object, the solid-state laser device includes a solid-state laser device main body incorporating a semiconductor laser and a first optical system for shaping a first laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser; an optical fiber cable connected to the solid-state laser device main body and accommodating an optical fiber for guiding the first laser beam shaped by the first optical system; and a solid-state laser medium which is incorporated in the distal end portion, at the light exit side, of the optical fiber cable, and outputs a second laser beam by generating the first laser beam.

Abstract: A space modulation device 10 displays an image for right eye and an image for left eye. An observer image display device 12 displays an image of a half surface of an observer's face obtained by an imaging device 14 and a negative-positive reversed image of the image of the half surface of the face. A lens 11 allows the image for right eye or the image for left eye to be observed to the right eye or the left eye of the observer using the image of the half surface or the negative-positive reversed image thereof as an illumination for the spatial modulation device 10 from the back thereof.

Abstract: A cap having an antitheft lock for a fastening member and comprising a cap body (1) covering a polygonal engaging portion of the fastening member (A) and having a cavity (2) formed in the front end face of a side portion thereof, a bore (3) extending from the cavity (2) rearward therethrough and an inward slanting guide face (4) formed in the inner periphery of the cap body (1) and extending from the bore (3) toward the rear end of the cap body, a pressure contact piece (7) having an outward slanting face (6) positioned inwardly of and opposed to the inward slanting face (4) for preventing the cap from slipping off, and a screw (5) inserted through the cavity (2) into the bore (3) and having a rear end screwed into the contact piece (7) and a head (5a) bearing on the bore edge portion.

Abstract: A production method for a two-piece capped lug nut which consists of a nut and cap which is attached to the top. The top of the nut has a grooved, serrated or roughened surface and a protrusion for positioning. When the cap is positioned on the nut, the cap is correctly centered by the protrusion and at the same time, the flange portion of the cap is positioned over the grooved, serrated or roughened surface. Then the nut and the cap are welded under pressure together by running electrical current through them.

Abstract: A blast material for the mechanical plating and a continuous mechanical plating process. The blast material comprises up to 90% by weight of steel shot not less than 10% by weight of an alloy powder which comprises 2.5-50% by weight of iron, not more than 5% by weight of at least one of aluminum, copper, tin, magnesium and silicon, the balance being zinc, and has a maximum particle size of about 0.4 mm and an average hardness of 140-450 Hv., The continuous mechanical process comprises continuing blasting, recycling the used blast material and magnetically separating the abraded fine particles of the steel shot in the course of the recycling.

Abstract: An internally threaded nut is provided which is to be screwed onto a hub bolt of a vehicle, e.g. an automobile, having, on its outer surface, near the forward or leading end thereof, a plurality of key protrusions oriented in the direction of the axis of the nut, and having also, on its outer surface and rearward of the key protrusions, a modified cylindrical section. The modified cylindrical section is not a true circle and is provided with a first diameter interspersed with several flattened, or larger diameter portions, as viewed in cross-section. The key protrusions are preferably trapezoidal in cross-section, are generally parallel to each other, and each has a specific configuration wherein one or more of the key projections differ in width from the others so as to form a particular combination, which can only be turned by a key element or key socket having matching trapezoidal cavities.

Abstract: A blast material for mechanical plating and a continuous mechanical plating process. The blast material comprises 60-90% by weight of steel shot and 10-40% by weight of a coating powder which is an alloy comprising 2.5-50% by weight of iron, not more than 5% by weight of aluminum, copper, tin, magnesium and silicon or a combination thereof and the balance being zinc. The powder has a maximum particle size of about 0.4 mm and an average hardness of 140-450 Hv. The continuous mechanical process comprises continuously blasting the blast material onto a metal part, recycling the used blast material and magnetically separating abraded fine particles of the steel shot in the course of the recycling.