Abstract: A hose clamp includes an annular clamp body having a pair of opposite end parts intersecting each other and bent in a radially outward direction so as to effect radial expansion of the clamp body by mutual approximation of the end parts. One of the end parts has a lock depression formed therein. The other end part has a lock claw part formed thereon at a position capable of engagement with the lock depression. The one end part has an unlocking wall formed thereon for disengaging the lock claw part from the lock depression. The clamp body is retained in a radially expanded state by the engagement between the lock claw part and the lock depression and is allowed to contract by the disengagement between the lock depression and the lock claw part.

Abstract: A hose clamp includes a clamp body having an annular ring part for fastening a hose and a pair of grip parts for filling the role of radially expanding the ring part, and a separately formed holder. The holder is inserted around the pair of grip parts and is capable of retaining the pair of grip parts in a closely adjacent state. The holder is provided integrally with means for removal of the holder from the pair of grip parts retained in the closely adjacent state.

Abstract: A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) provided with not less than three thrusters arranged in the longitudinal direction of a vehicle body. The center of gravity G of the vehicle body excluding a pendulum and the center of buoyancy B of the vehicle body including the pendulum are set in agreement with each other, and the pendulum is provided so that it can be turned around a Y-axis extending in the lateral direction of the vehicle body and passing the center of gravity G thereof.

Abstract: A vitreous film containing, e.g., 30-90 wt. % of Sn, 1-20 wt. % of P, 0.1-20 wt. % of Pb, 2-30 wt. % of 0 and 5-35 wt. % of F is formed by vapor deposition on a substrate such as glass, metal, plastic or ceramic. A light-absorbing substance can be incorporated in the vitreous film to provide a recording layer for a heat-mode optical recording medium capable of causing decoloration or formation of pits on irradiation with a laser beam.

Abstract: A hose clamp includes an annular clamp body having a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion. The first terminal portion has a guide opening, a lock wall defined between the guide opening and the leading end of the first terminal portion, and side walls disposed across the guide opening and folded back over themselves in a substantially U-shaped cross section having an upper side piece and a lower side piece. The second terminal portion has a radially outwardly bent wall serving as an engaging tongue piece. The clamp body is kept in a radially expanded state when the engaging tongue piece of the second terminal portion abuts against the lock wall of the first terminal portion and is radially contracted when the abutment between the engaging tongue piece and the lock wall is released to move the engaging tongue piece within the guide opening.

Abstract: A hose clamp free from the possibility of a clamp body being accidentally displaced on the peripheral surface of a hose during the insertion of the hose around the terminal part of a connection pipe is attained by the incorporation therein of means capable of coming into resilient contact with the peripheral surface of the hose and inhibiting the clamp body from being displaced on the peripheral surface of the hose when the hose is inserted into the clamping ring part in a radially expanded state.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mounting structure for electronic apparatus mounting electronic parts with a high mounting density. The present invention is capable of supplying power to a printed wiring board from a power supply without a voltage drop through a very short wiring distance. Both the power supply and printed wiring board are cooled with a common air cooling fan, and the power supply, bus plate and printed wiring board are integrally assembled and connected.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a final fiber bundle for use in brushes is highly efficiently applicable to synthetic fibers having poor thermal stability. The method comprises the steps of: (a) arranging a number of synthetic thermoplastic fibers so that at least one end of each fiber is positioned in the same plane, to obtain a fiber bundle, (b) compressing the thus obtained fiber bundle to the extent that the compressed fiber bundle takes a desired cross-sectional shape and has a desired bulk density, (c) irradiating the fiber ends in the same plane with energy beams to fusion bond them together, and (d) releasing the compression to obtain a final bundle having a fusion bonded fiber ends. In a case where the synthetic fibers are not thermoplastic, a thermoplastic adhesive is additionally used in the step of irradiation.

Abstract: A flexible current feeding post for electronic modular assemblies interconnects parallel oriented substrates such as printed circuit boards having electrical circuits mounted thereon and bus plates for power supply, for both mechanical assembly and current distribution. The flexible current feeding post comprises a solid, cylindrical stud for connection to a contact surface of one substrate, a conductive bellows connected to the stud and means connecting the conductive bellows to a contact surface of a second substrate, spaced from the first substrate by a desired distance and generally parallel thereto.

Abstract: An acoustic signal processing circuit extracts input speech pattern data and subsidiary feature data from an input speech signal. The input speech pattern data comprise frequency spectra, whereas the subsidiary feature data comprise phoneme and acoustic features. These data are then stored in a data buffer memory. The similarity measures between the input speech pattern data stored in the data buffer memory and reference speech pattern data stored in a dictionary memory are computed by a similarity computation circuit. When the largest similarity measure exceeds a first threshold value and when the difference between the largest similarity measure and the second largest measure exceeds a second threshold value, category data of the reference pattern which gives the largest similarity measure is produced by a control circuit to correspond to an input speech.

Abstract: A container having an EOE with a tab affixed by welding is provided. In the EOE the top wall is made of surface treated steel sheet and the tab is made of stainless steel sheet or tin free steel sheet and the ultrasonic welding is used to fix the tab to the top wall. Through the invention monometallized containers can be supplied easily and cheaply.

Abstract: A photographic silver halide light-sensitive material is described. The material is comprised of a support with at least one gelatin-containing hydrophilic layer provided thereon. The gelatin-containing hydrophilic layer contains a styrene-butadiene copolymer latex. With this photographic silver halide light-sensitive material, the formation of fog and desensitization occur less if it is bent or sucked during the production, working, and development thereof. There is thus provided a light-sensitive material which is improved in its resistance against mechanical stresses without causing a loss of transparency during development, and further, without increasing its surface electric resistance.

Abstract: In a screw rotor including a female rotor member and a male rotor member rotatable about parallel shafts and respectively while meshing with each other, the forward face flank of the female rotor member is composed of a first flank of the forward face formed by a parabolic curve, and a second flank of the forward face formed by a circular arc of a radius R.sub.2, and the backward face flank of the female rotor member is composed of a first flank of the backward face generated by the backward face tooth top flank of the male rotor member having a radius R.sub.5, and a second flank of the backward face formed by a circular arc of a radius R.sub.3 which is smaller than the radius R.sub.2 of the second flank of the forward face flank. The tooth profile of the male rotor member is essentially formed by the forward face flank and the backward face flank of the female rotor member.

Abstract: An oil-cooled type screw rotor assembly having a female rotor and a male rotor adapted to rotate around parallel axes in meshing relation to each other. The leading side flank of the female rotor is constituted by a first leading side flank formed by an arc of a radius R.sub.1 and a second leading side flank formed by an arc of a radius R.sub.2. Also, the trailing side flank of the female rotor is constituted by a first trailing side flank formed by an arc of the tooth ends of the male rotor having a radius R.sub.5 and a second trailing side flank formed by an arc of a radius R.sub.3 which is smaller than the radius R.sub.2 of the second leading side flank. The configuration of the teeth of the male rotor is materially formed by arcs of the leading and trailing side flanks of the female rotor.

Abstract: A compact zoom lens system capable of covering an intermediate telephoto range and having a zoom ratio of about two. The lens is compact, the number of lenses used is the minimum possible and aberration compensation is well accomplished. The lens system includes four lens groups having specified parameters.

Abstract: A miniaturized semi-wide-angle photographic lens having a field of view angle of from .+-.27.degree. to .+-.28.degree. is composed of five lenses grouped in four lens components. In order from the object side to the image side, the first lens is a positive lens having its surface of greater curvature toward the object, and the second lens is a double concave lens. The third lens and the fourth lens are respectively a negative lens and a positive lens, both of which constitute a cemented doublet lens. The fifth lens is a positive meniscus lens having its surface of greater curvature toward the image.

Abstract: A large aperture wide-angle photographic lens system is composed of ten lenses grouped in eight lens components. In order from the object side to the image side, the first lens is a positive lens, and the second and third lenses are negative meniscus lenses having their surfaces of higher curvature facing the image side. The fourth and fifth lenses form a cemented doublet, the fourth lens being a positive lens and the fifth lens being a negative lens. The sixth and seventh lenses also form a cemented doublet with the sixth lens and the seventh lens being positive and negative lenses, respectively. Both doublets are cemented at the surfaces of highest curvature. Each of the eight, ninth and tenth lenses are positive lenses.

Abstract: A telephoto lens assembly comprises a first positive lens, a second negative lens, third and fourth positive meniscus lenses having higher object side curvatures, a fifth negative lens, and a sixth positive lens adhered to the latter. The optical parameters of the lens components and assembly, including various composite focal distances, Abbe number products, and refractive index products, are chosen to satisfy prescribed, interrelated mathematical conditions to achieve satisfactory optical performance with an overall lens assembly length of less than 0.85 times the focal distance.

Abstract: An exhaust gas containing nitrogen oxides is efficiently purified without the necessary use of catalysts by contacting the exhaust gas with a nitrile compound at high temperature in the presence of oxygen, whereby the nitrogen oxides and the nitrile compound are selectively decomposed into harmless materials.

Abstract: A wide angle lens which is designed to achieve miniaturization without sacrificing optical quality is disclosed.