Abstract: A biometric authentication apparatus for performing user authentication based on finger/palm print information representing a biological characteristic of fingerprint or palm print and vein information representing a biological characteristic of vein, comprises: a finger/palm print information acquirer arranged and adapted to obtain finger/palm print information from a selected portion of a person; a vein information acquirer arranged and adapted to obtain vein information from the selected portion of the person; a sensor arranged and adapted to come in contact with the selected portion of the person and to output a signal corresponding to a pressing degree of the selected portion of the person against the sensor; a controller arranged and adapted to identify, responsive to the signal output from the sensor, whether a state of the selected portion of the person is suitable for obtaining the finger/palm print information and the vein information and to control the finger/palm print information acquirer and

Abstract: A biometric authentication apparatus for performing user authentication based on finger/palm print information representing a biological characteristic of fingerprint or palm print and vein information representing a biological characteristic of vein, comprises: a finger/palm print information acquirer arranged and adapted to obtain finger/palm print information from a selected portion of a person; a vein information acquirer arranged and adapted to obtain vein information from the selected portion of the person; a sensor arranged and adapted to come in contact with the selected portion of the person and to output a signal corresponding to a pressing degree of the selected portion of the person against the sensor; a controller arranged and adapted to identify, responsive to the signal output from the sensor, whether a state of the selected portion of the person is suitable for obtaining the finger/palm print information and the vein information and to control the finger/palm print information acquirer and

Abstract: The characteristic of semiconductor devices is satisfactorily maintained because the planarization of a dielectric film of a semiconductor device is carried out at a lower flow temperature. In the case of a silicon dioxide film being a dielectric film, a network structure is composed of atoms of silicon which serve as a main constituent, and of atoms of oxygen which serve as a sub-constituent of a matrix of the dielectric film. These oxygen atoms are replaced by non-bridging constituents such as atoms of halogen including fluorine. This breaks a bridge, via an oxygen atom, between the silicon atoms, at a position where such a replacement takes place. In consequence, the viscosity of the dielectric film falls with the flow temperature. If, for example, part of the oxygen in a BPSG film is substituted by fluorine, this allows the dielectric film to flow at a lower temperature of 850.degree. C. The short channel effects can be suppressed.

Abstract: A magnetic head of the present invention includes a pair of substrates which are formed of ferrite and sealed with sealing glass, wherein an averaged thermal expansion ratio of the sealing glass in the range of 30.degree. C. to a setting temperature .alpha..sub.Ts (glass) is smaller than an averaged thermal expansion ratio of the substrate in the range of 30.degree. C. to a setting temperature .alpha..sub.Ts (substrate); and a difference between a thermal expansion ratio at a glass transition temperature of the sealing glass and a thermal expansion ratio at a yielding temperature thereof is 2.times.10.sup.-3 or less.

Abstract: A looper thread guiding mechanism for facilitating setting of the looper thread to a double loop looper. A drum is rotatably provided at a side portion of the looper having a thread hole at a tip end portion thereof. A thread hooking portion is slidably movably provided along the looper. The thread hooking portion is connected to the drum by a resilient linking member. By angular rotation of the drum in one direction, the thread hooking portion is positioned adjacent the thread hole for facilitating the thread setting. By angular rotation of the drum in an opposite direction, the linking member is partially wound over the drum, and the thread hooking portion is moved toward a base portion of the looper.

Abstract: An infrared transmitting chalcogenide glass lens having precision optical surfaces of different curvature radii is molded. A pair of molds having different curvature radiuses from each other, and a bushing which controls the thickness of the lens is provided. A block of chalcogenide glass is placed within the cavity. The upper mold, the lower mold and the block of glass are heated with the mold having a smaller curvature radius being at a higher temperature than the other mold. The glass is then pressed, cooled, and the resulting lens is removed from the mold assembly.

Abstract: An infrared-transmissive lens formed by using glass including germanium and selenium or germanium and sulfur as main components and a human body detecting device including the lens and a pyroelectric infrared sensor are disclosed. With this configuration, glass having excellent transmissivity of infrared rays, no poisonous characteristic and difficulty to be crystallized is obtained and the glass is subjected to thermal pressing work to form a lens. The lens and a pyroelectric infrared sensor are combined to obtain a scanning type human body detecting sensor device. Further, the scanning type human body detecting sensor device can be used to detect a plurality of human bodies simultaneously.

Abstract: A magnetic head comprising magnetic core halves which are sealed with a sealing glass which consists essentially of 1 to 75 wt. % of TeO.sub.2, 1 to 30 wt. % of B.sub.2 O.sub.3, 1 to 75 wt. % of PbO, 1 to 25 wt. % of CdO, 0 to 15 wt. % of ZnO, 0 to 25 wt. % of Bi.sub.2 O.sub.3, 0 to 5 wt. % of A.sub.2 O wherein A is an alkali metal, 0 to 35 wt. % of ARO wherein AR is an alkaline earth metal, 0 to 35 wt. % of La.sub.2 O.sub.3, 0 to 5 wt. % of at least one oxide selected from the group consisting of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, SiO.sub.2, TiO.sub.2 and ZrO.sub.2, 0 to 10 wt. % of at least one oxide selected from the group consisting of Ta.sub.2 O.sub.5, Nb.sub.2 O.sub.5, WO.sub.3 and MoO.sub.3, 0 to 30 wt. % of PbF.sub.2, and 0 to 2 wt. % of CoO, has a coefficient of thermal expansion of from 82.times.10.sup.-7 /.degree.C. to 137.times.10.sup.-7 /.degree.C. in a temperature range between 30.degree. C. and 300.degree. C., a working temperature of from 430.degree. to 620.degree. C.

Abstract: A magnetic head comprising magnetic core halves which are sealed with a sealing glass which consists essentially of 10 to 25% by weight of SiO.sub.2, 55 to 80% by weight of PbO, 1 to 15% by weight of CdO, 0 to 10% by weight of B.sub.2 O.sub.3, 0 to 5% by weight of ZnO, 0 to 5% by weight of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, 0 to 5% by weight of Na.sub.2 O, and 0 to 10% by weight of K.sub.2 O, provided that a total content of Na.sub.2 O and K.sub.2 O does not exceed 10% by weight, has a coefficient of thermal expansion of from 90.times.10.sup.-7 /.degree. C. to 110.times.10.sup.-7 /.degree. C. in a temperature range between 30.degree. C. and 300.degree. C., a working temperature of 600.degree. C. or lower and water resistance of the second class or higher, which glass is not deeply colored and is not devitrified during the assembly of the magnetic head.

Abstract: The invention relates to crystallized glass that can be used with various electronic components such as magnetic heads and the like as bonding or sealing glass. This crystallized glass comprises, in % by weight, at least 11-17% of SiO.sub.2, 7-10% of B.sub.2 O.sub.3, 30-55% of PbO, 1-3% of CdO, 5-10% of A.sub.2 O (A stands for a kind of alkali metal), 7-35% of ZnO and 0-10% of ZrO.sub.2 with the sum of ZnO and ZrO.sub.2 not exceeding 35%, and has the characteristics of 550.degree.-600.degree. C. as the working temperature, (80-100).times.10.sup.-7 /.degree.C. as the thermal expansion coefficient, 550.degree. C. or more as the thermal expansion coefficient, and 550.degree. C. or more as the glass transition point after working.

Abstract: An electronically controlled automatic transmission installed on a vehicle. This transmission comprises a throttle body, a main throttle valve mounted in the throttle body, a subsidiary throttle valve connected in series with the main throttle valve, a traction control module connected with wheel rotation sensors, an engine control module receiving the output signals from the main and subsidiary throttle sensors, a transmission control module, and an automatic transmission. If the wheels skid, it is detected by the traction control module. The output signal from the traction control module causes the engine control module to reduce the engine torque. The transmission control module responds to the output signal from the traction control module and to the engine control module, and changes the line pressure. When the traction control module is operating, the transmission control module changes the line pressure by a predetermined value.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass fiber having a polygonal cross section is provided. According to the method, a glass fiber having an orbicular cross section is manufactured by drawing molten glass supplied into a crucible heated at higher temperatures than a softening point of glass out of a nozzle having an orbicular cross section heated at lower temperatures than the heating temperature of the crucible and at higher temperatures than the softening point of glass. Then, the glass fiber is passed through a slit of a twin roller, having a predetermined shape, whereby glass fibers having a polygonal cross section are successively manufactured. The twin roller is heated at slightly higher temperatures than the softening point of the glass.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is an automatic transmission of electronic control type, which has hydraulic control for improving the shift feel of the automatic transmission. This automatic transmission includes an oil pressure source; a line pressure regulating valve for regulating the output oil pressure of the oil pressure a source to a line pressure; line pressure controller for sending an oil pressure signal for changing the line pressure to the line pressure regulating valve in response to an electric signal; an r.p.m. sensor for detecting the start and end of a shift; and an electronic controller for changing the electric signal to the line pressure controller stepwise in an open loop in a manner to correspond to the divisions of the shift which include at least starting, ending and intermediate stages.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass ceramic which can provide a board comprising a metal substrate and the glass ceramic coated on said substrate, particularly a board comprising said board and a fine wiring pattern applied onto said board by means of thick film printing. In particular, it specified the composition of the glass ceramic.

Abstract: A plurality of waveguide elements are arranged to form an electromagnetic wave absorbing lattice in opposed relation to the advancing wave surface of the incident electromagnetic wave. Each waveguide element has a front opening on the lattice receptive of a part of the incident electromagnetic wave, a rear end portion spaced rearwardly from the front opening, and an inner peripheral surface portion extending between the front opening and the rear end portion to define a cavity effective to wave-guide the received electromagnetic wave. The inner peripheral surface portion has a given electric resistivity to effect absorption of the received electromagnetic wave during the wave-guiding thereof without substantial reflection thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass ceramic which can provide a board comprising a metal substrate and the glass ceramic coated on said substrate, particularly a board comprising said board and a fine wiring pattern applied onto said board by means of thick film printing. In particular, it specifies the composition of the glass ceramic.

Abstract: An electronically controlled automatic transmission in which the transmission gear stage and engaging or disengaging operations of a lock-up clutch in a torque converter are determined on the basis of the number of transmission output revolutions and the throttle opening and in which a shifting solenoid and a lock-up solenoid incorporated in the transmission are controlled in. The transmission has a sensor for detecting an input rotational speed. The number of transmission input revolutions output from this sensor and the number of transmission output revolutions are compared with each other, thereby detecting malfunction of a transmission output speed sensor. If the transmission output speed sensor malfunctions, gearshift and lock-up control are performed on the basis of the number of transmission output revolutions calculated from the number of transmission input revolutions and the corresponding gear ratio.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a polygonal glass fiber is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a glass in a melted state is poured into a dividable polygonal slit having a cross section 5 to 20 times larger than a finally required cross section of a glass fiber to be made, and the glass poured into the slit is drawn so as to make a polygonal glass fiber. According to another embodiment of the present invention, a glass in a melted state is passed through a twin roller having a required cross section so as to make a polygonal glass fiber.

Abstract: This invention relates to a sealing glass for use in bonding glass, ceramics and metals and specifies the composition of a sealing glass which is workable at moderate temperatures and is excellent in transparency and strength. Amorphous magnetic materials have themselves a crystallization temperature and when used in a magnetic head, the amorphous materials undergo crystallization in assembling the head at a sealing temperature higher than the crystallization temperature and becomes not only brittle but also deteriorated in magnetic characteristics so that the head becomes unsuitable for use. The present glass is advantageously used in such a case.