Abstract: The invention provides a film formation method in which a film containing an acene compound can be formed by a liquid-phase process. A film formation method includes: applying light and/or heat to an acene compound to cause a cycloaddition reaction to produce a cyclized compound which is soluble in a solvent, placing a liquid layer containing the cyclized compound and a solvent which can dissolve the cyclized compound on a substrate, and applying light and/or heat to the liquid layer to produce a solid composed of the acene compound.

Abstract: Each of pressure-detecting switches to be connected to one another has a first connector provided at one side section and a first connector provided at the other side section. Electric wiring is mutually effected for the pressure-detecting switches by attaching/detaching the first connectors. The pressure-detecting switches are mutually fixed by using a fixing mechanism arranged for the side sections to effect the function for mutually attaching/detaching the pressure-detecting switches.

Abstract: Each of pressure-detecting switches to be connected to one another has a first connector provided at one side section and a first connector provided at the other side section. Electric wiring is mutually effected for the pressure-detecting switches by attaching/detaching the first connectors. The pressure-detecting switches are mutually fixed by using a fixing mechanism arranged for the side sections to effect the function for mutually attaching/detaching the pressure-detecting switches.

Abstract: A data stream generating apparatus for a recording/replaying apparatus includes a storage unit and a control module. The control module generates a video elementary stream and an audio elementary stream from inputted video data and audio data to store in the storage unit, and generates and stores a navigation pack in the storage unit. Also, the control module determines an output order of the navigation pack, a plurality of video packs generated from the video elementary steam and a plurality of audio packs generated from the audio elementary steam based on a unit size of an outputs data stream, a data quantity of the video elementary steam and a data quantity of the audio elementary steam, while updating the navigation pack. Then, the control module reads out from the storage unit and outputs the navigation pack, the plurality of video packs, the plurality of audio packs as an output data stream based on the output order.

Abstract: In a multi-channel pressure sensor controller, measured pressure signals from a plurality of pressure sensors to each of which a channel number is assigned are subjected to selection at a multiplexer using a selection signal based on the output of an arithmetic and control unit; the measured pressure signal from the selected pressure sensor is converted by an A-D converter into a digital value; under the control of the arithmetic and control unit, a display unit shows an indication of the digital value converted by the A-D converter and the channel number assigned to the pressure sensor outputting the measured pressure signal having the digital value; a threshold stored in advance for the channel number is compared with the digital value obtained by performing Analog-Digital conversion on the measured pressure signal from the pressure sensor associated with the channel number; and an indication based on the output of the comparison is shown at an alarm indicator lamp for a channel number provided on an alarm

Abstract: A positioning detector detects whether a workpiece has been positioned on a reference surface even when the pressure of a fluid supplied from a fluid pressure source and applied to the workpiece varies. A fluid is jetted from a nozzle toward a surface of the workpiece, and a back pressure of the fluid developed behind the nozzle is detected. A fluid pressure bridge is composed of the nozzle, a variable restriction, and a pair of fixed restrictions, and is connected to a semiconductor pressure sensor for detecting the difference between the back pressure and the pressure of a fluid vented through the variable restriction. The semiconductor pressure sensor has output terminals connected to a plurality of comparators for comparing the pressure difference detected by the semiconductor pressure sensor with respective different thresholds.