Abstract: A relatively compact trimming circuit for hypothetically breaking a fuse includes a resistance bypass circuit connected to a node between a resistor and a fuse. The bypass circuit selectively performs ordinary breakage and hypothetical breakage of the fuse in accordance with a control signal and a data signal. An output changeover circuit connected to the node generates a first output signal in accordance with a state of the fuse during the ordinary breakage. The output changeover circuit generates a second output signal in accordance with the data signal during the hypothetical breakage.

Abstract: A gas turbine steam cooled system has a high temperature portion 8 outlet steam temperature maintained to a predetermined value without a cooling steam pressure becoming lower than the pressure in the gas turbine cylinder. Steam coming from an intermediate pressure superheater 10 of a waste heat recovery boiler 2 is led into the high temperature portion 8 of the gas turbine for cooling thereof. The temperature of the cooling steam at the outlet of the high temperature portion 8 is detected by a high temperature portion outlet steam temperature detector 15, and a signal thereof is sent a lower value selector 19 via a temperature controller 11. Pressure in the gas turbine cylinder is detected by a gas turbine cylinder pressure detector 17, and pressure of the cooling steam at the high temperature portion 8 outlet is detected by a high temperature portion outlet steam pressure detector 16. A differential signal thereof is sent to a pressure controller 18.

Abstract: An image encoding apparatus and method for encoding an HDTV signal to a high quality of image by using a plurality of MPEG-2 MP@ML encoding devices by simple control, which divide an input image into four at an image division device, input the divided images to divided image encoding devices, set bit rates in the divided image encoding devices at an assigned bit rate processing unit based on generated code amounts of previous frames etc. so that the sum of bit rates of the four divided image encoding devices is constant, encode the divided images at the divided image encoding devices based on the set bit rates by MP@ML, and integrate the encoded images at a video stream integration device to create and output an MP@HL video stream, and apparatus and methods relating to the same.

Abstract: An image encoding apparatus, comprising a dividing means for dividing an input image into N number of areas to generate N number of divided image signals corresponding to the areas; an encoding means for encoding the generated N number of divided image signals respectively to generate N number of encoded image signals, which encodes the image signals of the areas close to a boundary of the division by a predetermined encoding method and/or predetermined encoding conditions the same among the divided image signals giving less deterioration of the image quality in comparison with image signals of other areas; and an integrating means for integrating the generated N number of encoded image signals to generate a single encoded image signal in response to the input image.

Abstract: The present invention includes a substrate, a lower electrode film, a p-type semiconductor layer (a second semiconductor layer), an n-type semiconductor layer (a first semiconductor layer), an upper electrode film and an anti-reflection film, which are stacked sequentially on the substrate in this order, and an interconnection electrode formed on the upper electrode film. The first semiconductor layer is free from Cd, and the second semiconductor layer is a light-absorption layer. The band gap Eg1 of the first semiconductor layer and the band gap Eg2 of the second semiconductor layer satisfy a relationship: Eg1>Eg2. The electron affinity &khgr;1 (eV) of the first semiconductor layer and an electron affinity &khgr;2 (eV) of the second semiconductor layer satisfy a relationship: 0≦(&khgr;2−&khgr;1)<0.5.

Abstract: A trimming circuit for a semiconductor device performs both simulated fuse breakage and actual fuse breakage by selectively short-circuiting an adjusted device. The trimming circuit includes a switch connected in parallel with the adjusted device. Activating the switch causes the adjusted device to be by-passed or short-circuited. A first external terminal is connected to the switch to apply a first control signal to the switch. A second external terminal is provided for receiving a second control signal. A fuse circuit is connected between a high potential power supply and a low potential power supply and between the first and second external terminals. For hypothetical fuse breakage, the first control signal is activated to activate the switch and by-pass the adjusted device. For actual fuse breakage, the second control signal is activated such that it has a potential greater than the first control signal so that a current flows through the fuse circuit, thereby breaking the fuse.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a steam-cooling system for gas turbine combustors in combined plants possessing a steam-cooled combustor; in order to maintain the combustor outlet steam temperature at planned values even during the starting and during the periods of load fluctuation, a steam valve 12 is opened and steam from a boiler 4 is conducted, and thereby the combustor of the gas turbine 1 is cooled, and steam recovery valve 11 is opened and this steam is returned to steam turbine 5. During the starting, steam is caused to flow from an auxiliary steam source 3, and a warming up is conducted. When the amount of steam at the combustor outlet decreases, the temperature of the temperature sensor 31 increases, and when this exceeds a planned value, a temperature regulating valve 30 is opened and steam from steam turbine 5 is extracted and is let into the cooling steam outlet side flow path 61 of the combustor.

Abstract: A semiconductor thin film comprises an n-type compound semiconductor layer including at least one element from each of groups Ib, IIIb, VIb and II. A solar cell using this semiconductor thin film comprises a substrate and a rear electrode, a p-type compound semiconductor layer, an n-type compound semiconductor layer, an n-type semiconductor layer, a window layer, and a transparent conductive film, formed in this order on the substrate. The n-type compound semiconductor layer including at least one element from each of groups Ib, IIIb, VIb and II has a high carrier density.

Abstract: A solar cell utilizing a chalcopyrite semiconductor and reducing the density of defects on the junction interface of pn junctions is provided. This solar cell includes a substrate, a back electrode formed on the substrate, a p-type chalcopyrite semiconductor thin film formed on the back electrode, an n-type semiconductor thin film formed so as to constitute a pn junction with the p-type chalcopyrite semiconductor thin film, and a transparent electrode formed on the n-type semiconductor thin film. A material having a higher resistivity than the p-type chalcopyrite semiconductor is formed between the p-type chalcopyrite semiconductor thin film and the n-type semiconductor thin film. A thin film made of this material may be formed by deposition from a solution. For example, CuInS.sub.2 is formed on the surface of a p-type chalcopyrite based semiconductor such as CuInSe.sub.

Abstract: Murine Lck binding protein ("LckBP1"), cDNA encoding for LckBP1, and protein and cDNA fragments and analogs, are cloned and expressed and characterized.

Abstract: In a system in which a host computer performs lifetime management for components of a plurality of copiers, components whose lifetimes are to be managed can be freely selected copier by copier and, as a result, warning reports can be transmitted with a reduced number of communication sessions. The copiers are each equipped with a device for management, so that counting can be performed for their individual components and interlock counts for such counting can be freely specified. The host computer compares a count received through communication with a threshold value to issue a report within the host computer. Within one copier, during a period after a component PM call is issued and before a component is replaced, even if another component becomes a target of a component PM call, the component PM call is not issued. When a component replacement report is received, a report of a component PM call is automatically deleted from an urgency report list.

Abstract: In a management system in which a plurality of copiers are managed by a host computer, each copier is provided with a device that is connected to the host computer so as to manage the copier. The device can be initialized from the copier without advance registration in the host computer. To achieve this, when a serviceperson, having set up the copier, enters a registration code and executes initialization, the device communicates with the host computer and transmits thereto an initialization report. On receiving the initialization report, the host computer creates a database, and subsequently sets the device using predetermined values in the database and assigns thereto a copier ID number. When communication has been completed without errors, the device returns the copier ID number to the copier. To register the copier, an operator of the host computer opens a screen of a list of non-registered pieces of equipment to be managed in order to select and register the corresponding copier on that screen.

Abstract: A terminal device management system includes a plurality of terminal devices and a remote management apparatus for remotely managing the plurality of terminal devices. The remote management apparatus includes a data receiving section, a management table storing section for storing a management table including identifiers for the terminal devices which are set to transmit data in a transmission time interval for identifying whether data has been Bent from the terminal devices or not, a timer section for measuring a time period during which a line is not connected in the transmission time interval, and a control section for detecting whether or not the time period measured by the timer section reaches a predetermined time period, and for, when it is detected that the predetermined time period is reached, detecting a terminal device the identifier of which in the management table stored in the management table storing section indicates data has not been received therefrom, as a failed terminal device.

Abstract: In a maintenance management system in which communications control devices of electronic photocopiers are connected through public telephone lines or the like with a host computer of a maintenance company that manages the photocopiers, preventive-maintenance-oriented, omission-free instructions for maintenance work are obtained by determining items of work to be performed based on how many times maintenance has been performed or based on a count of copies produced. For example, in the case where maintenance work to be performed on a first occasion includes items of work belonging to a work item setting area of a second order of precedence within a maintenance table, if items of work that need to be performed do not agree with those specified in the table, items of work of a first order of precedence are added.

Abstract: A device for management is attached to a copier, and the device for management is connected to a host computer at a management center via a telephone line. In a database of the host computer are provided a field for calculating an MCBJ since resetting or in a predetermined period, and a field for calculating a total MCBJ of copiers of a same model. Based on comparison between results obtained in these two fields, a warning is issued. Moreover, an MCBJ of a copier in a predetermined period is retained in the database for three consecutive such periods, so that a trend of the MCBJ of the copier is traced. A rising tendency of the MCBJ is judged from a combination of two trend-indicating values, one comparing an MCBJ two periods before with a current MCBJ and the other comparing the MCBJ two periods before with an MCBJ one period before. If the rising tendency exceeds a predetermined factor, a warning is issued.

Abstract: In a management system in which electronic photocopiers are linked through a network with a host computer at a maintenance company that manages the photocopiers and with another host computer at a lease company that performs charging and other tasks related to the use of the photocopiers, registration to the latter host computer and setting thereupon of transmission times of periodical reports can be performed without any inconvenience. Data including the ID number of a copier and the code of the maintenance company are transmitted from a communications control device provided in the copier to the host computer of the lease company. This host computer, when the received ID number and code have not been registered, puts the ID number and code on a list of unregistered copiers, and makes the device transmit data every day until the copier is registered.

Abstract: In the host computer of a multiple photocopier management system, a maintenance supervising system is provided for supervising maintenance job contents on routinely serviced photocopier components. Stored in the host computer RAM are maintenance tables for retaining in routine maintenance sequences job items for periodic maintenance on the photocopier components. After completing routine maintenance on a photocopier, a service engineer inputs maintenance reporting data which is accepted in job store areas of the RAM. The maintenance reporting data categorizes a maintenance job, in particular as to whether a component has been repaired, and indicates actual job content, component-by-component. The routine maintenance sequences each constitute an order of ranking numbers each assigned to a job item, and the rank order in the sequence is updated according to the ranking number corresponding to the content of the reported job.

Abstract: An imaging device supervision system stores data indicating, for instance, the number of sheets of paper supplied from each paper supply cassette in a copying machine, and/or the number of times the toner has been replenished, and the amount of toner cartridges in stock are stored in a copying machine supervision data base which is constructed, stored and maintained in a storage device, such as a hard drive. The supervision system updates the stock amounts for each size of paper based on the data indicating the number of sheets of paper supplied, and formulates a consumable item delivery plan according to delivery conditions set in a delivery schedule setting screen 91, to reduce the downtime due to stocks of consumable items being exhausted in an imaging device. Further, the amount of toner cartridges in stock are updated by means of the number of times the toner has been replenished, and the stock data are displayed on a status information screen 66.

Abstract: For an image reproducing system provided with an auto-restoration capability, a monitoring system is disclosed involving display by an image reproducing machine of the system in connection with fault diagnosis and auto-restoration processes by the image reproducing machine. The disclosed monitoring system in particular concerns a network of likewise auto-restoring image reproducing machines in communication with a host computer. The image reproducing machine has machine-condition constant-monitoring sensors through which a main controller of the image reproducing machine detects faults causing operational malfunction. A communication device transmits data indicating operational malfunction in an image reproducing machine from its main controller to the host computer. The main controller prepares and executes an auto-restoration process implementing restorative operations to compensate functionally for the detected faults, and interprets as restorative state data success of implemented restorative operations.

Abstract: DNA encoding a polypeptide capable of catalyzing the deacetylation and sulfation of a glycosaminoglycan; production and isolation of recombinant and synthetic polypeptides capable of catalyzing the deacetylation, sulfation or both the deacetylation and sulfation of a glycosaminoglycan; antibodies to the polypeptides of the invention; and therapeutic uses of these compounds are disclosed.