Abstract: An apparatus for operating a water gate has a door of the water gate provided in a water channel, and has a mechanism for vertically operating the door. A pressure receiving plate is fixed to the door via an operating rod, and upper and lower air bags are provided on the upper and lower sides of the pressure receiving plate. An air compressor sends air into each of the upper and lower air bags, and a change-over valve and a flow rate regulating valve between the upper and lower air bags and the air compressor are adapted to switch and regulate the air sent into the upper and lower air bags. With this arrangement, compressed air is sent into the air bags to move the pressure receiving plate, vertically move the door and open and close the door. This apparatus is, moreover, adapted to drive the operating rod using the pressure of the air sent into the air bags, so that it has become possible to simplify the structure greatly.

Abstract: A porous fiber having sufficient chemical resistance to a variety of substances to be adsorbed, and having a large specific surface area and a large void percentage. The porous fiber provided by the present invention features a main fiber body formed of a high-density polyethylene having a melt flow rate of 0.3 to 20 g/10 minutes and numerous pores. The pores are formed by mixing the high-density polyethylene with a paraffin wax while they are melted, melt-spinning a fiber with an extruder at a draft ratio of 200 or less, stretching the fiber, heat-treating the stretched fiber, mechanically crimping it and then removing the paraffin wax. In the porous fiber, the main fiber body has a specific surface area of 20 m.sup.2 /g or more, the ratio of the pores to the main fiber body is 20% or more and the main fiber body has a size of not more than 50 denier.

Abstract: A thermal adhesive vibration damping sheet comprising a sheet substrate having crystalline polyolefin particles attached to a surface thereof, said polyolefin particles having a mean particle size of 1 to 20 .mu.m and exhibiting an endothermic curve having a high temperature side endothermic peak in the range of from 50.degree. to 230.degree. C. as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter. The sheet has improved blocking resistance, adhesion to sheet steel through heat fusion, and impact resistance at low temperatures.

Abstract: A processing system for identifying operator selection of a graphics object in a system using parallel pixel generation. Parallel pixel generation results in a fragment comprising a series of M pixels being generated at each processing cycle. The image fragment must be tested against an operator defined selection area to determine whether the object being generated falls within the operator selection area. Fragments are initially classified as totally within or totally outside of the area. If a fragment intersects the operator selection area, mask is applied for each boundary of the operator defined area. Selection is signalled based upon the logical combination of the masked image fragments. Operator selection or picking occurs without the overhead of maintaining a pick RAM for the X and Y dimensions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a clutch disk comprising a clutch hub including a flange formed on an outer periphery thereof, the flange having a plurality of openings, a first side plate including a plurality of openings, a second side plate including a plurality of openings, a plurality of dampers disposed in the openings of the flange of the clutch hub, the first side plate and the second side plate, and including an elastic member tapering from wide to narrow in an axial direction thereof away from one end thereof to a central portion thereof and tapering from narrow to wide in an axial direction thereof away from the central portion thereof to another end thereof, and sheet members disposed on both ends of the elastic member, and a facing connected to one of the first side plate and the second side plate.

Abstract: An elliptical-shaped, plate type muffler holding member made of an elastic material having the structure of: a first holding part having a first through hole into which a supporting member of an automotive body side is to be inserted, a second holding part formed with a space between the first holding part and having a second through hole into which a supporting member of a muffler side is to be inserted, a pair of side parts connecting the first holding part and the second holding part at the both sides thereof, and a center connecting part positioned in the space between the first and second holding parts and integrally connected to each side part at the central portion thereof. According to the present invention, the muffler holding member has the center connecting part made of an elastic material and therefore, tensile and compression stresses are working in the center connecting part.

Abstract: Disclosed is a damping member comprising, as main components, a petroleum resin, asphalt and mica. By selecting and using mica as the filler and incorporating mica in an amount smaller than the amount of asphalt, the adhesion follow-up property to a substrate can be improved.This damping material can be attached simply and assuredly to a substrate having a curved surface, such as a tube or pipe, an air-conditioning duct or a part of a building or vehicle by heat-pressing or heat-fusion-bonding, and a product having an excellent damping effect is provided.

Abstract: A system for generating multiple pixels in a single machine cycle employs a plurality of parallel vector generators. Each of the parallel generators is initialized with an error term which is calcualted in accordance with Bresenham's algorithm. The signs of these error terms are then used to determine the region within the first octant of the coordinate system which contains the function for which the pixels are to be generated. The region data, in turn, determine two selectable values for an increment which is to be added to a running error term for each of the parallel generators as multiple pixels are simultaneously generated. The choice of the two possible values to be added to the error term is dependent upon the sign of the error term itself. The sign of the running error term for each vector generator is utilized to form a sequence of binary data which represents the incremental changes in the pixel positions as the pixels are being generated.

Abstract: A color graphic display having a read/write control system for a buffer memory therein. The invention provides Line-on-Line and Underpaint by way of a method which invleves reading the contents of a frame buffer storage location for which new pixel data is being provided, comparing those contents with data representing a display background characteristic or color, and if the result of the comparison is positive, storing the new pixel data in the frame buffer storage location. If the result of the comparison is negative, a selected data value different from the new pixel data is stored in the frame buffer storage location.

Abstract: A technique for efficiently drawing wide lines in a graphics display system by method and apparatus which includes identifying a wide line to be drawn; drawing a first line of pixels of a wide line; determining if a next line in the wide line has a different first coordinate value from a first coordinate value of the first line; generating at least one additional pixel value for the next line if the first coordinate value of the next line is different from the first coordinate value of an immediately previously drawn line; repeating the steps until the wide line has been completely drawn.

Abstract: Stabilizer compositions for halogen-containing polymers are provided composed of a .beta.-diketone as well as metal and organotin enolate salts thereof; and a hydrotalcite having the general formula:Mg.sub.1-x Al.sub.x (OH).sub.2 A.sub.x/2.mH.sub.2 Owhereinx is a number from 0 to 0.5;A is CO.sub.3.sup.= or SO.sub.4.sup.=, andm is a number representing the number of H.sub.2 O in the molecule.The stabilizer compositions are effective in enhancing the resistance to deterioration by heat and light of halogen-containing polymers and especially polyvinyl halide resins. The .beta.-diketone and hydrotalcite in these compositions exhibit a synergistic stabilizing effectiveness superior to either alone in like amount.

Abstract: A method for making an electrolytic capacitor. A valve metal powder of the sponge type is compressed into a compact body and other usual steps including anodization and electrode application are carried out thereon. Mainly due to the use of sponge type valve metal powder, this method makes it unnecessary to carry out the conventionally employed step of sintering the compact body and produces an electrolytic capacitor having properties better than those obtained by the conventional method. This invention also provides an electrolytic capacitor characterized by the use of sponge type valve metal powder and specific lubricant materials.

Abstract: A method for detecting the presence of a reducing material in a gas phase which involves heating a gas sensor, which has, as a major part, a partially dehydrated iron hydroxide having electrodes applied thereto, to a temperature less than 500.degree. C and bringing the gas sensor in contact with the gas phase of the reducing material or a gaseous mixture containing the reducing material. The gas sensor can be easily fabricated, and when exposed to a reducing material it undergoes a rapid decrease in electric resistance.

Abstract: This invention provides a reducing gas sensor which has a gas sensitive element of .gamma.-ferric oxide (.gamma.-Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3), a pair of electrodes and a heater element. The .gamma.-ferric oxide is in the form of a thin film, a plate or a thin surface layer on a sintered plate of .alpha.-ferric oxide. This invention also provides a method of producing the reducing gas sensor, which includes the steps of firing .gamma.-Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, .gamma.-FeOOH or Fe.sub.3 O.sub.4 powder on a substrate and applying thereto a pair of electrodes and a heater element; or sintering alpha-ferric oxide (.alpha.-Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3) and reducing it to magnetite and oxidizing it at the surface thereof to .gamma.-ferric oxide as a gas sensitive element. The sensitivity (R.sub.A /R.sub.G) of the gas sensitive element of .gamma.-ferric oxide is 10 to 130.degree. at 270.degree. C in an atmosphere containing 0.1 to 1 percent by volume propane gas, and the reducing gas sensor has high sensitivity and stability.

Abstract: A voltage variable resistor is provided comprising a sintered body, electrodes on opposite major surfaces of the body and leads connected to the electrodes. The sintered body consists of zinc oxide and an additive comprising 0.05 to 15.0 mole % of one member selected from the group consisting of aluminum fluoride, beryllium fluoride, cerium fluoride, nickel fluoride and vanadium fluoride.