Abstract: For improving the humidity resistance reliability and the jitter property of an optical disk, the adhesive layer used for bonding a bonding type optical information recording medium is defined such that the glass transition temperature is 100° C. or higher at 200° C. or lower, the modulus of elasticity at 25 to 80° C. is 1000 MPa or more, the adhesion strength thereof is 4N or more, the reflective layer is defined such that the hardness is 60 mgf/?m2 or more as the nano indentation hardness, and the dye recording layer is defined such that the water solubility of the dye as light absorption is 0.2 or less.

Abstract: For improving the jitter property and ensuring the high reliability of an optical disk, a metal film containing phosphorus is disposed in a reflective layer. The layer has a hardness of 60 mgf/?m2 or more as nano indentation hardness, and an adhesive layer used for bonding has a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or higher but 200° C. or lower, an elastic modulus at 25 to 80° C. of 1000 MPa or more, and an adhesion strength of 4N or more. The dye for the dye recording layer has a water solubility of 20% or less as measured as light absorbance of hot water in which the dye recording layer is soaked.

Abstract: A combined printing apparatus includes a housing, an electric circuit substrate formed to extend from a top edge of a card insertion slot, a connector placed at a downside surface of the electric circuit substrate for connecting a memory card to an electric circuit, and a shielding plate formed under the connector. The connector is formed to extend in a direction approximately orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the electric circuit substrate. The shielding plate includes a cut and bent up portion formed in a region opposite to the connector in the direction of extension of the connector. The cut and bent up portion is formed to prevent the memory card from being inserted between the shielding plate and the connector.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium has light interference layers including a recording layer on a substrate. The recording layer includes an organic dye and a photostabilizer which is, for example, the compound of formula 1 wherein at least one of R1 to R8 represents a substituted alkyl group having a terminal cyano group, with the others represent other substituents; Y represents a monovalent or divalent cation; and Xm? represents a monovalent or divalent anion.

Abstract: A vibration isolator mount includes an inner cylinder body, an outer cylinder body arranged around the inner cylinder body, a flange portion provided at a front end portion of the outer cylinder body in the axial direction so as to extend radially outward, a rubber elastic body interposed between the cylinder bodies to connect therebetween, and a stopper rubber elastic body provided at a face of the flange portion facing outward with respect to the cylinder axial direction. Holes open at a stopper face and extending inward along the cylinder axial direction are formed in the stopper rubber elastic body. A rigid body is provided at a part inside than the holes in the stopper rubber elastic body with respect to the cylinder axial direction.

Abstract: Various items of data collected at different process steps are associated on production sites where traceability is hard to conduct. A quality control apparatus controls a manufacturing process in order to manufacture products of predetermined quality, including a data storing part which collects measurement data measured by multiple devices disposed in a manufacturing process and stores the collected measurement data along with measured time or collected time; and a scheduler which associates the measurement data of the devices with each other in consideration of dead time generated between the devices at measured time or collected time.

Abstract: An image of a design pattern of wallpaper stored in a data base (DB) is viewed by a user computer of a user who is a general consumer or a contractor from a server computer provided in a head office of a wallpaper manufacturer through the Internet. Further, upon accepting an order of wallpaper from the user who saw the image by the user computer, the server computer fetches the image of the design pattern from the DB. A wallpaper printer then prints the image on a wallpaper sheet, thereby manufacturing the wallpaper desired by the user. The produced wallpaper is delivered to the user who gave out the order by, for example, a door-to-door delivery service.

Abstract: A signal-level converter is provided between a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is connected to a first logic circuit operating at a first supply voltage higher than a given reference voltage. The second terminal is connected to a second logic circuit operating at a second supply voltage higher than the first supply voltage. The signal-level converter has a switching transistor that forms a current passage between the first and the second terminals in response to a control signal supplied to a gate of the switching transistor and a bus-hold circuitry, provided between the switching transistor and either the first or the second terminal as the output terminal, the other being the input terminal, and configured to convert a voltage level of a signal transferred via the switching transistor into another voltage level at the output terminal. The bus-hold circuitry may have two bus-hold circuits between the input and the output terminals, for two-way signal transfer.

Abstract: A signal-level converter is provided between a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is connected to a first logic circuit operating at a first supply voltage higher than a given reference voltage. The second terminal is connected to a second logic circuit operating at a second supply voltage higher than the first supply voltage. The signal-level converter has a switching transistor that forms a current passage between the first and the second terminals in response to a control signal supplied to a gate of the switching transistor and a bus-hold circuitry, provided between the switching transistor and either the first or the second terminal as the output terminal, the other being the input terminal, and configured to convert a voltage level of a signal transferred via the switching transistor into another voltage level at the output terminal. The bus-hold circuitry may have two bus-hold circuits between the input and the output terminals, for two-way signal transfer.

Abstract: The bill counter has thickness detection units 31, 32, and 33 for detecting the thickness of a bill passing through a transport passage. The thickness detection units 31, 32, and 33 are separately placed on the transport passage. Waveform outputs from the thickness detection units 31, 32, and 33, provided by detecting the thicknesses of predetermined parts of bill passing through the transport passage are compared with waveform data previously stored in a storage unit and the number of bills passing through the transport passage is determined.

Abstract: An image of a design pattern of wallpaper stored in a data base (DB) is viewed by a user computer of a user who is a general consumer or a contractor from a server computer provided in a head office of a wallpaper manufacturer through the Internet. Further, upon accepting an order of wallpaper from the user who saw the image by the user computer, the server computer fetches the image of the design pattern from the DB. A wallpaper printer then prints the image on a wallpaper sheet, thereby manufacturing the wallpaper desired by the user. The produced wallpaper is delivered to the user who gave out the order by, for example, a door-to-door delivery service.

Abstract: A signal-level converter is provided between a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is connected to a first logic circuit operating at a first supply voltage higher than a given reference voltage. The second terminal is connected to a second logic circuit operating at a second supply voltage higher than the first supply voltage. The signal-level converter has a switching transistor that forms a current passage between the first and the second terminals in response to a control signal supplied to a gate of the switching transistor and a bus-hold circuitry, provided between the switching transistor and either the first or the second terminal as the output terminal, the other being the input terminal, and configured to convert a voltage level of a signal transferred via the switching transistor into another voltage level at the output terminal. The bus-hold circuitry may have two bus-hold circuits between the input and the output terminals, for two-way signal transfer.

Abstract: An optical information medium made up of a transparent substrate capable of allowing a recording laser beam to penetrate therethrough; a recording layer formed on the transparent substrate; and a reflective layer formed on the recording layer and reflecting a reproducing laser beam thereupon. A numerical aperture of an objective lens of an optical pickup for irradiating the recording laser beam on the recording layer is approximately 0.65, and the numerical aperture of an objective lens of the optical pickup for irradiating the recording laser beam on the reflection layer is approximately 0.60. An inclination angle &thgr; at both edges of the groove for tracking, being formed spirally on the surface of the transparent substrate on which the recording layer is formed, with respect to the main surface of the transparent substrate, is selected to be from 55° to 75°.

Abstract: Correlation values between a plurality of templates prepared beforehand and a picture-element data distribution as a pick-up result of an image are calculated, and the position of a maximum template whose correlation value is the maximum of the calculated correlation values is obtained. Subsequently, a curved surface function is calculated which fits the distribution of calculated correlation-values in positions near the maximum template's position, and the position of the picked-up image is calculated based on the curved surface function. As a result, the number of templates prepared beforehand to achieve desired accuracy in detecting a position and the number of times of calculating correlation-values can be reduced, and the image position can be quickly and accurately detected.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium enables accurate tracking servo throughout the recording area including inner and outer peripheral region by way of reducing the differences between the amplitudes of the push-pull signals from those regions. The medium comprises a light transmitting substrate, a tracking groove formed on a surface of the light transmitting substrate, a recording layer formed on the surface of the substrate having the groove, and a reflective layer, formed on the recording layer, for reflecting recording and reproducing laser beams. The width of the groove at the outer peripheral region is made smaller than that at the inner peripheral region. Specifically, the ratio of the width at the outer peripheral region to that at the inner peripheral region is set to be greater than or equal to 0.8.

Abstract: An image of a design pattern of wallpaper stored in a data base (DB) is viewed by a user computer of a user who is a general consumer or a contractor from a server computer provided in a head office of a wallpaper manufacturer through the Internet. Further, upon accepting an order of wallpaper from the user who saw the image by the user computer, the server computer fetches the image of the design pattern from the DB. A wallpaper printer then prints the image on a wallpaper sheet, thereby manufacturing the wallpaper desired by the user. The produced wallpaper is delivered to the user who gave out the order by, for example, a door-to-door delivery service.

Abstract: A bus buffer has a controller to generate several control signals; a first terminal via which a first-directional signal is input whereas a second-directional signal is output; a second terminal via which the first-directional signal is output whereas the second-directional signal is input; a first-directional signal processor, provided between the first and second terminals, having a first internal circuit and a first output buffer; a second-directional signal processor, provided between the second and first terminals, having a second internal circuit and a second output buffer; a first input buffer having a first input holder to disactivate the first internal circuit and the first output buffer by using at least one of the control signals; and a second input buffer having a second input holder to disactivate the second internal circuit and the second output buffer by using the at least one control signal, for holding the input to the input buffers at a certain level to decrease a current to pass these circu

Abstract: An optical information recording medium provides a high reflectance of a laser beam and thus enables an accurate tracking servo. The optical information recording medium, for recording optically readable signals thereon through the use of a recording laser beam, includes a light transmitting substrate, a tracking groove formed on a surface of the light transmitting substrate, a land formed between two neighboring tracks of the tracking groove, a recording layer formed on a surface of the light transmitting substrate on which the tracking groove and the land are provided, and a reflective layer formed on the recording layer for reflecting the recording laser beam. A top width D of the land is arranged to be within the range of about 0.30≦D≦0.45 &mgr;m.

Abstract: A method of producing a plate spring is disclosed which allows one to adjust the load-displacement characteristics thereof to a desired degree. The method includes stamping slits and a small diameter hole from a disk-shaped plate member, and forming the plate spring into a cone shape. Shot-peening is then performed on a resilient portion of the plate spring that retains a flat cone shape in the free state. Furthermore, shot-peening is performed on only a portion of the resilient portion and not on the entire surface of the plate spring.

Abstract: A transit-time difference type ultrasonic flowmeter comprises a pair of ultrasonic transducers mounted on a flow tube at an upstream side and a downstream side respectively, a switching device for switching the operational mode of each of the transducers alternatively to its transmitting or receiving mode, an amplifier for amplifying the signal received by the transducer of the receiving side, and a data reduction equipment includes an analog-digital converter and a digital signal processor; the converter converts the waveform into a plurality of voltage-time data sets; and the processor picks up an object peak of the voltage-time data sets on the basis of the time, or the data on the voltage, or determines the peaks of maximum voltage included within the waveform of the voltage-time data sets as an object peak, estimates at least one zero-cross point confined by the object peak or a peak adjacent to the object peak through the calculation made on the plurality of voltage-time data sets distributing along the