Abstract: This invention provides an image storage apparatus, which is capable of quickly and easily downloading images from an electronic film, and which is manufactured at low costs. When an instruction is given to copy the images stored in a CF card to an HDD, the image storage apparatus performs a control to receive the images from the CF card and copy them to the HDD without generating any thumbnail images for managing the images copied into the HDD.

Abstract: An electronic unit includes a casing, printed circuit board, connector-receiving part, connecting member, and fixing member. The connector-receiving part is formed integrally with a first casing member of the casing. The connecting member includes a terminal and a body of the connecting member attached to the casing. The terminal includes first and second connecting parts. The center of the terminal is attached to the body of the connecting member. A connector of an opposite side is inserted into the connector-receiving part along the longitudinal direction of the first connecting part. The first casing member and the connecting member are provided with respective holes, which communicate to each other. The fixing member includes a boss part. The boss part is press-fitted in the holes along the longitudinal direction of the second connecting part so as to fix the connecting member to the first casing member.

Abstract: Conventionally, when due to running out of a battery or paper the printing designated in advance is not completed and when the interrupted printing is to be resumed, the images from the beginning must be printed, or images to be printed must be selected again using the camera. To resolve this problem, a printing system, which continuously performs printing on a plurality of sheets based on print setting information including, at the least, information for designating an image to be printed, comprises input means for entering image data that are to be printed printing means for printing the image data entered by the input means, storage means for, when printing based on the print setting information is halted, storing interrupt information concerning the printing completed before the interrupt, and control means for employing the interrupt information stored in the storage means to resume printing based on the print setting information.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device including a substrate which has a primary surface, a conduction wire formed on the primary surface, a semiconductor element which has a secondary surface, a projective electrode formed on the secondary surface, an insulative resin for adhesion which is applied between the primary surface and the secondary surface and which shrinks by hardening thereof, the substrate and the semiconductor element are adhered to each other by the hardening of the insulative resin with the projective electrode and the conduction wire corresponding with each other, so that an electrical connection between the projective electrode and the conduction wire is achieved and that a residual stress is generated in the insulative resin. The residual stress has a maximum value thereof around the projective electrode.

Abstract: The present invention has the object to make an fØ lens constituting a scanning optical system such as a laser printer, etc., which is of a single lens configuration, and higher in resolution, thereby providing the f&thgr; lens provided with a lens performance so as to correspond to an A3 paper size or the like.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device including a substrate which has a primary surface, a conduction wire formed on the primary surface, a semiconductor element which has a secondary surface, a projective electrode formed on the secondary surface, an insulative resin for adhesion which is applied between the primary surface and the secondary surface and which shrinks by hardening thereof, the substrate and the semiconductor element are adhered to each other by the hardening of the insulative resin with the projective electrode and the conduction wire corresponding with each other, so that an electrical connection between the projective electrode and the conduction wire is achieved and that a residual stress is generated in the insulative resin. The residual stress has a maximum value thereof around the projective electrode.

Abstract: A chocolate composition manufacturing method by which a chocolate is produced that has improved oral dissolvability, and at the same time that is workable within the particular constraints of equipment for producing formed chocolate confections or confectionary products including molded or otherwise formed chocolate. These properties are achieved by composing the chocolate to be 35-60% by weight fatty oil and including in the chocolate composition an emulsifier of below 10 iodine value, selected from glycerol esters of fatty acids and poly-glycerol fatty acid esters, i.e., those in which constituting fatty acids are saturated, such that after roll-milling and conching the chocolate composition, its Casson plastic viscosity at 45.degree. C. is 40 to 600 poises.

Abstract: A bainite forming process for treating a steel material reduces the time required for a complete thermal treatment as well as the cycle time for the thermal treatment device without necessitating any special means for handling the steel material. The steel material is heated to a temperature higher than the austenitic transformation point, and temporarily quenched to an intermediate point temperature higher than the martensitic transformation point. Then, the temperature of the steel material is again raised towards the range corresponding to bainitic transformation to form a bainitic structure. The reheating is discontinued before the temperature corresponding to the austenitic transformation point is reached, and the steel material is then quenched. In the heating steps, only the portion to be treated by the bainite forming process is locally irradiated with a high-density energy beam.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing system includes a data processing unit such as a computer, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus connected to the data processing unit. The recording and/or reproducing system further includes an image processing unit for processing image data, and a connecting device for disconnecting the recording and/or reproducing apparatus from the data processing unit upon recording and/or reproducing the image data, and connecting the recording and/or reproducing apparatus with the image processing unit.

Abstract: A multiplier calculates a product S'(x)=S(x).multidot..lambda.(x) mod X.sup.d-1 of a syndrome polynomial S(x) generated by a syndrome generator and an erasure position polynomial .lambda.(x) generated by an erasure position polynomial generator, modulo X.sup.d-1. A constant multiplier sequentially multiplies coefficients of the polynomial S'(x) and the erasure position polynomial .lambda.(x) with a power of a primitive root .alpha. of a code. The power exponents in this multiplication are determined in units of coefficients. Every time this multiplication is executed, an adder sequentially adds predetermined combinations of products. A plurality of arithmetic and logic operations according to the numbers of correctable erasures and errors are sequentially executed using the sums. A divisor and dividend are selected in accordance with the number of erasures included in the code on the basis of the plurality of arithmetic and logic operation results.

Abstract: A sheet clipping device of the invention is designed to detachably hold one or more sheets. The sheet clipping device is formed of an elongated base member, and a plurality of gripping devices fixed to the elongated base member at a predetermined distance away from each other along the longitudinal direction thereof. The elongated base member is formed of upper and lower portions with diagonal upper and lower guide members, and a back portion situated between the upper and lower portions. Distal ends of the upper and lower guide members are vertically spaced apart from each other. Each gripping device includes an upper frictional member fixed to the upper portion, and a lower frictional member fixed to the lower portion to face to each other. When the sheets are inserted between the upper and lower frictional members through the guide members, the sheets are frictionally retained between the frictional members. The sheets can be easily attached to or removed from the clipping device.

Abstract: A light beam is applied to an information recording medium to record information. A light amount of the light beam reflected by the recording medium is detected simultaneously with the recording of information. A defect of the recording medium is detected by comparing the detected light amount with a reference value. When a degree of the detected defect exceeds a predetermined level, the information is rerecorded on another portion of the recording medium.

Abstract: A mold comprising a cavity for defining the shape of a casting and a mold body for forming said cavity, comprising: a mold body formed of an ordinary temperature setting resin or thermosetting resin and casting sand, said mold body having a surface layer portion on the surfaces thereof including depressions, said depressions in the surface layer portion being filled up with at least one porous powdered material selected from the group consisting of hydrous magnesium silicate clay mineral, activated carbon and activated alumina, thereby providing the mold body with smooth surfaces whereby said mold generates less amount of material such as gums which cause defective castings during casting since molten metal is restrained from intruding into the walls of said mold.

Abstract: Respective processes of decoding in error correction are subjected to parallel processing using a plurality of processing elements (PEs) each having the same configuration. At any given time, when processing of one process has been terminated, processing proceeds to a PE having the highest priority among PEs waiting for processing. The PE which has received data recognizes and executes the next process for that data.

Abstract: A paper clip has a U-shaped holder containing first group of hairs and second group of hairs in an obliquely inclined abutment relation in the confronting inner surfaces of the U-shaped holder.

Abstract: A mold surface treatment process comprises: providing a fluidized bed of a treating powder; holding the mold in the fluidized bed to fill up the depressions of the mold surfaces with the treating powder by employing a surface treating member for pushing the treating powder into the depressions; and taking the mold out of the fluidized bed. The mold surface treatment allows to make molten metal less likely penetrate into the walls of mold, and to manufacture a mold which generates less amount of gum causing defects during casting.

Abstract: Molding material composed of casting sand coated with a thermosetting resin and hydrous magnesium silicate clay mineral which may be impregnated with an acid and/or coated with a thermosetting resin, and a shell mold produced from the molding material. This material and mold minimize generation of smoke and irritating gases at the time of mold making and casting.

Abstract: A polymer slurry formed by polymerizing ethylene or propylene optionally with other olefin monomer copolymerizable therewith in a hydrocarbon solvent such as propylene, propane, butane, etc., is continuously or intermittently supplied to a filter having a filtering surface on which a slight quantity of polymer particles are retained. Most of the hydrocarbon solvent is recovered by passing through the filtering surface, and the polymer particles are overflown from the filter to recover as a wet cake. By the use of such a specific filter, the quantity of the solvent to be vaporized can be greatly reduced.