Abstract: There is disclosed herein a glycine-enriched vegetable compound feed for a layer chicken which has effects to mitigate hot stress and to suppress the morality caused by hot stress in summer season.

Abstract: A feeding apparatus aimed at efficiently supplying feed to chicks in a chick box, which can hold the feed in the chick box and can supply the feed to the chicks in the chick box, wherein the feed is supplied to the chicks in the chick box by means of a feeding apparatus which can maintain the feed at the height of the chicks' beaks when they are standing.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a glycine-enriched vegetable compound feed for a broiler chicken which causes an effect to suppress or prevent the occurrence of loose passage.

Abstract: A method for forming a glossy image comprising: using (A) a heat transfer sheet comprising a substrate, a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer in this order, wherein the light-heat conversion layer comprises a polyamide-imide resin, and the image forming layer comprises at least one of tabular inorganic compound particles and metal particles and a thixotropic agent, (B) a heat transfer sheet comprising a substrate, a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer in this order, wherein the light-heat conversion layer comprises a polyamide-imide resin, and the image forming layer comprises a transparent colorant, and (C) an image receiving sheet comprising an image receiving layer; and imagewise transferring the image forming layer of each of the heat transfer sheet (A) and the heat transfer sheet (B) to the image receiving layer by laser thermal transfer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for winding synthetic fibers is disclosed. According to the invention, a yarn is wound around a bobbin without winding a tail bunch, at a high successful bobbin-to-bobbin yarn transfer rate for a variety of yarn properties, i.e. different in thickness, lubricant used, etc., while inhibiting the loosening of the yarn tail into single fibers and stably and easily forming a proper yarn tail length. Tail bunch removing work is not required and the winding process is stabilized. A yarn is wound around an empty bobbin using a yarn winding apparatus composed of a traverse fulcrum guide, a traverse device, a contact pressure roller, two spindles, a moving device for moving the spindles, and a yarn transfer device for introducing the yarn into a yarn holding portion for holding the yarn.

Abstract: With a transfer member, such as a toner sheet, provided with at least two layers including an intermediate layer having a function of preventing transfer of a substance and a thermally fusible ink layer on the supporting member side, and an image receiving member, such as image receiving sheet, used, a solution for improving the transfer sensitivity is jetted onto either of them according to the image so as to form a transfer image on the image receiving member surface.

Abstract: A frequency modulating (FM) transmitter includes a reference frequency generator, a reference frequency divider, a stereo modulation circuit, an oscillator circuit, a program counter, and a PLL frequency synthesizer. The reference frequency generator is for generating a reference frequency. The reference frequency divider is for frequency dividing the reference frequency. The stereo modulation circuit is for frequency modulating audio signals by using one output of the reference frequency divider to supply resultant stereo modulated signals as FM signals. The oscillator circuit is for generating carrier waves to transmit the FM signals. The program counter is for frequency dividing the carrier waves into variable frequency components. The PLL frequency synthesizer has a phase comparator circuit for comparing the variable frequency components output from the program counter with another output of the reference frequency divider.

Abstract: A laser thermal transfer material making it possible to form an image having a good hue without a drop in density based on thermal decomposition of a coloring agent even in image-recording by laser thermal transfer. A laser thermal transfer material having a light-to-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer on a support, the image forming layer having a compound represented by the following general formula (1) or (2).

Abstract: An image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet; and a thermal transfer sheet comprising a first support, a photothermal converting layer and an image-forming layer, wherein the image-receiving sheet or each of the image-receiving sheet and the first support comprises a polyether sulfone layer comprising polyether sulfone and a method using the image-forming material.

Abstract: A magnesium-enriched vegetable feed composition for a layer which improves the eggshell quality and which prevents the occurrence of shell mottling. The feed consists essentially of a vegetable feed, the magnesium content in said vegetable feed being in the range of 0.21-0.28% by weight.

Abstract: A data processor is provided with a data input mode and a data output mode. The data input mode is set by an external signal. A serial data supplied from an external apparatus to a data input register has a signal to specify the start of the operation at its specific bit. The data processor is provided with a circuit which starts to operate by the operation start signal. This circuit generates an operation completion signal. Based on the operation completion signal, the mode of the data processor is automatically changed to the data output mode.

Abstract: A first amplifier circuit having a high frequency characteristic and a second amplifier circuit having a low frequency characteristic have first and second input terminals, respectively. The first and second amplifier circuits have first and second feedback resistors for self-bias and first and second switching elements capable of interrupting outputs of the amplifier circuits, respectively. Between the first and second input terminals, a third switching element is connected. A device for controlling on and off of the switching elements is provided in order that according to a signal input to the first and second input terminals, the signal is transmitted to either the first amplifier circuit or the second amplifier circuit. As a result, irrespective of whether the front end has one output terminal or two output terminals, the input circuit can be connected to the PLL synthesizer IC as it is by connecting the output to the first input terminal or to the two input terminals.

Abstract: A functional circuit is formed in a chip. A selector circuit is provided, which connects monitor points to electrode pads for external connections for testing the monitor points of the functional circuit. A control circuit is provided for supplying to the selector circuit a control signal which determines whether or not the monitor point is to be connected to the electrode pad by the selector circuit. The control circuit includes a counter circuit having a plurality of cascade-connected flip-flops, a clock signal input terminal for supplying a clock signal to each of the flip-flops in sequence from the flip-flop at an end of the counter circuit, and a reset signal input terminal for supplying a reset signal.

Abstract: A metal wiring is fabricated for a semiconductor device by fabricating an metal layer made of, a aluminum alloy on a semiconductor substrate through an insulation layer and an undercoating layer for the metal layer, optically patterning a resist layer for producing a resist pattern, radiating ultraviolet rays onto the resist pattern for curing the resist pattern so that the resist pattern becomes a cured resist pattern, etching the metal layer with reactive gas including chlorine by using the cured resist pattern as a mask so as to produce a metal wiring under the cured resist pattern and ashing the cured resist pattern by down flow ashing of oxygen gas including hydrogen and/or hydrogen monoxide, producing the metal wiring to the semiconductor device, wherein the curing by radiation with ultraviolet rays reduces the amount of decomposed polymer on the pattern resist, and therefore on the metal wiring, which would otherwise have formed as a result of this down flow ashing with oxygen.

Abstract: A photosensitive composition comprises an organic polymer and a photo-polymerizable monomer. The photo-polymerizable monomer has the following formula: ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents an alkylene group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and n represents the number of 0.5 to 5.

Abstract: A low-pass passive filter is inserted in the phase locked loop of a voltage-controlled oscillating circuit having a varactor diode. The filter has a first resistor, a capacitor and a second resistor connected in that order and the blocking characteristics of the filter are changed in accordance with a selected value of the second resistor. A push-pull output circuit in which the upstream transistor is connected directly to the supply voltage line receives the signal from a phase comparator circuit (which is indicative of the result of phase comparison) and outputs it to the low-pass passive filter. The low-pass passive filter controls the terminal voltage of the varactor diode in accordance with the terminal voltage of the capacitor and the value of the second resistor is selected depending on the desired blocking characteristics of the filter.

Abstract: An image forming device having a rotating drum around which an image forming material is trained, an ink sheet conveying mechanism which conveys an ink sheet synchronously with rotation of the rotating drum, an ink transfer device which fits the image forming material and the ink sheet together and effects either heating or pressing such that ink is transferred onto the image forming material, and a fitting/conveying device which moves an image receiving material with respect to a peripheral surface of the rotating drum synchronously with the rotation of the rotating drum and which fits the image forming material and the image receiving material together and applies either a predetermined pressure or a predetermined temperature so that ink is transferred from the image forming material to the image receiving material; and an image forming method including above-described processes. Exposure need be effected only once for each color, and the image forming materials can be used repeatedly.

Abstract: An aqueous alkaline developing solution comprises an alkali compound, water and an alkylnaphthalene sulfonate having the following formula: ##STR1## in which R represents an alkyl group of 3 to 5 carbon atoms and q is 0 or an integer of 1 to 3, in the amount of 1 to 20 weight %. The aqueous alkaline developing solution further contains an anionic surface active agent of the specific sulfonate compound having a naphthalene ring and a polypolyoxyethylene moiety, in the amount of 0.1 to 10 weight % and an nonionic surface active agent having a polyoxyethylene moiety and an aromatic ring in its structure in the amount of 0.03 to 3 weight %, or contains an anionic surface active agent of the specific sulfonate compound having the specific aralkyl-substituted benzene ring and a polypolyoxyethylene moiety.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming process employing a light-sensitive image forming material and a developing solution. The image forming material comprises a support and either a light-sensitive resin layer containing a pigment or a colorant layer containing a pigment and a light-sensitive resin layer, superposed in order. The process comprises the steps of imagewise exposing the image forming material to light and developing the material by the use of an alkaline developing solution containing at least one of compounds having the following formula (1): ##STR1## wherein each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently represents hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms which may be substituted or an aryl group which may be substituted, M.sup.1 represents hydrogen, potassium or an ammonium group, Y represents hydrogen or --SO.sub.3 M.sub.2 (in which M.sup.2 represents sodium, potassium or an ammonium group and M.sup.2 may be the same as or different from M.sup.

Abstract: An image-forming process comprises the steps of: forming an ink-receiving area and an ink-repelling area on a light-sensitive material by imagewise exposure; pressing on the ink-receiving area and ink-repelling area of the material an ink sheet comprising a support and an ink layer composed of a colorant and a polymer binder; removing the ink sheet from the material so that the ink layer of the ink sheet is transferred only onto the ink-receiving area of the material; pressing an image receiving sheet on the ink-receiving area having the ink layer and the ink-repelling layer of the material; and separating the image receiving sheet from the material so that the ink layer in the ink-receiving area is transferred onto the image receiving sheet. A similar image-forming process using a resist ink sheet is also disclosed.