Abstract: A voltage level generator circuit comprised of a fixed voltage generator unit for generating a first electrical current in a fixed quantity from a first supply voltage; a first current mirror circuit unit including a first thin-film NMOSFET and a second thin-film NMOSFET and that outputs a second electrical current proportional to the first electrical current; a protective circuit including: a third thin-film NMOSFET and a first thick-film PMOSFET utilized as a grounded gate for protecting the second thin-film NMOSFET, a first diode for preventing inverse current flow to the first supply, and a second diode for preventing the gate-source voltage of the third thin-film NMOSFET from reaching a negative electrical potential; and a second current mirror circuit for outputting a third electrical current proportional to the second electrical current; and a first Zener diode unit for generating a first fixed voltage from a third electrical current.

Abstract: Provided is a battery charging technique by which high efficiency of the battery charging can be always controlled no matter how the power consumption of the battery is changed. In a battery charger, a charging control circuit holds a charge/non-charge state of a battery during an arbitrary period of time in order to prevent the unbalance of phase voltages due to occurrence of transition between the charge/non-charge states during a short period of time and the reduction of the efficiency of the battery charging. Further, zero-crossing erroneous detection in a phase voltage of the output of a three-phase alternating-current generator due to noises is prevented.

Abstract: There is provided a battery charging technique by which various battery charging control can be achieved even when power consumption of a battery is small. In a battery charger, in order not to turn OFF a power switch even when an ACG starting detection circuit recognizes that an output of a generator is not generated in a state in which the power consumption of the battery is small and the voltage of the battery is not dropping, a voltage of the battery in addition to phase terminal signals of a three-phase alternating-current generator is inputted to the ACG starting detection circuit, and the ACG starting detection circuit controls not to turn OFF the power switch when the output of the three-phase alternating-current generator is generated or when the voltage of the battery is equal to or higher than a predetermined voltage.

Abstract: A voice processing apparatus for performing voiceprint recognition processing with high accuracy even in the case where a plurality of conference participants speak at a time in a conference; wherein a bi-directional telephonic communication portion receives as an input respective voice signals from a plurality of microphones, selects one microphone based on the input voice signals, and outputs a voice signal from the microphone; a voiceprint recognition portion 322 performs voiceprint recognition based on the input voice signal in voiceprint recognizable period, and stores voiceprint data successively in a buffer; and a CPU takes out voiceprint data successively from the buffer, checking against voiceprint data stored in a voiceprint register, specifies a speaker, and processes the voice signal output from the bi-directional telephonic communication portion by associating the same with the speaker.

Abstract: A temperature regulating material 31 for regulating a temperature of an exhaust manifold 11 is provided such that individual parts of the exhaust manifold 11 are uniformed in temperature. Heat transfer materials 31A with high thermal conductivity are layered as the temperature regulating material 31 on a cover member 25 at an area corresponding to a high-temperature area HT of the exhaust manifold 11. Heat shield materials 31B are layered as the temperature regulating material 31 on the cover member 25 at an area corresponding to the low-temperature area LT of the exhaust manifold 11. A heat dissipation material 31C as the temperature regulating material 31 coats an outer surface of the area of the cover member 25 corresponding to the high-temperature area of the exhaust manifold 11.

Abstract: The present invention provides a crime prevention structure for a steel door. A steel door comprises an indoor panel, an outdoor panel, a sound-insulating core filled in a space formed between inner surfaces of the panels, and a high hardness metal plate that is thicker than plate thickness of the panels wherein the metal plate is provided between the sound-insulating core and an entire inner surface area, except sections for mounting door components, of at least one of the panels. In one preferred aspect, the metal plate is provided at the entire inner surface area, except portions for mounting door components, of the indoor panel.

Abstract: A resolver/digital-converter having a self-fault-detection function without breaking normal operation is provided. The resolver/digital-converter, which has a normal operation function section, a temperature characteristic identification function section, and a first temperature characteristic correction function section of correcting estimated angle output from the normal operation function section based on a temperature characteristic identification value by the temperature characteristic identification function section, includes (1) a holding function section of holding the temperature characteristic identification value, and (2) a second temperature characteristic correction function section of correcting estimated angle output from the temperature characteristic identification function section based on the temperature characteristic identification value by the temperature characteristic identification function section, the value being held in the holding function section.

Abstract: Provision of a communication apparatus and a TV conference apparatus able to take a picture of a speaker automatically and correctly. A sound analyzer selects a speaker correctly. A voiceprint authentication portion authenticates whether or not a voiceprint of the speaker is registered. When the selection of the speaker and the voiceprint authentication coincide an imaging direction adjusting portion drives a TV camera on the basis of the previously registered condition.

Abstract: Provision of a communication apparatus and a TV conference apparatus able to take a picture of a speaker automatically and correctly. A sound analyzer selects a speaker correctly. A voiceprint authentication portion authenticates whether or not a voiceprint of the speaker is registered. When the selection of the speaker and the voiceprint authentication coincide an imaging direction adjusting portion drives a TV camera on the basis of the previously registered condition.

Abstract: A voice processing apparatus for performing voiceprint recognition processing with high accuracy even in the case where a plurality of conference participants speak at a time in a conference; wherein a bi-directional telephonic communication portion receives as an input respective voice signals from a plurality of microphones, selects one microphone based on the input voice signals, and outputs a voice signal from the microphone; a voiceprint recognition portion 322 performs voiceprint recognition based on the input voice signal in voiceprint recognizable period, and stores voiceprint data successively in a buffer; and a CPU takes out voiceprint data successively from the buffer, checking against voiceprint data stored in a voiceprint register, specifies a speaker, and processes the voice signal output from the bi-directional telephonic communication portion by associating the same with the speaker.

Abstract: The activating efficiency of water in the magnetic treating apparatus is enhanced by the electric conductors 4 located in the magnetic field-generating region 5 or by utilizing a magnetic circuit having the dipole magnetic ring structure 10.

Abstract: A metal gasket for use between heads and blocks of an internal combustion engine in which such gasket is composed of a beaded plate and a stopper plate placed one on top of the other. The metal gasket has an opening corresponding to the cylinder hold of the engine. The metal gasket has an annular stopper formed by folding back the periphery of the opening in the stopper plate. The metal gasket also has a stepped part along the outer periphery of the stopper. This stepped part projects toward the side of the gasket on which the stopper is formed. The metal gasket also has a spacer layer formed between the stopper and an annular pressure receiver of the stopper plate. The metal gasket also has a rubber coating layer formed at least on that side of the stopper plate opposite to the side on which the stopper is formed.

Abstract: A metal gasket comprising a least one gasket sheet, wherein a hardness lowering region having a locally lowered hardness is formed in the gasket sheet in at least either a portion to be set to have a large elongation or a portion to be lowered in a spring constant. Also disclosed is a metal gasket manufacturing process comprising: the step of forming an opening of a desired size in registration with a cylinder bore in an elastic metal sheet as a material for making a gasket sheet composing a metal gasket; the step of annealing a portion, as corresponding to the first hardness lowering region in the gasket sheet, of the elastic metal sheet; and the step of forming a folded portion by folding back the vicinity of the opening.

Abstract: A metal gasket 10 for use between heads and blocks of an internal combustion engine in which such gasket is composed of a beaded plate 11 and a stopper plate 12 placed one on top of the other. The metal gasket 10 has an opening 13 corresponding to the cylinder hole of the engine. The metal gasket 10 has an annular stopper 17 formed by folding back the periphery of the opening 13 the stopper plate 12. The metal gasket 10 also has a stepped part 19 along the outer periphery of the stopper 17. This stepped part 19 projects toward the side of the gasket on which the stopper 17 is formed. The metal gasket 10 also has a spacer layer 20 formed between the stopper 17 and an annular pressure receiver 18 the stopper plate 12. The metal gasket 10 also has a rubber coating layer 21 formed at least on that side of the stopper plate 12 opposite to the side on which the stopper 17 is formed.

Abstract: A sealing structure for sealing a valve body from a separating plate in a liquid-tight fashion. A first sealing layer is printed on the mating surface of the separate plate and a second sealing layer is printed along the first sealing layer with at least a part of the second sealing layer overlapping the first sealing layer and the printing height of the second sealing layer being made larger than that of the first sealing layer whereby the valve body and the separate plate are sealed liquid-tight from each other by a sealing portion comprising the first and second sealing layers. The sealing portion provided by the sealing structure of the present invention has the advantages that it hardly comes off, has an excellent sealing property and is capable of reducing the width thereof to meet a design change.

Abstract: A seal structure and capable of reducing a width of a seal portion as much as possible while preventing the seal portion from being broken away. The seal structure for sealing between two members in a fluid-tight or air-tight manner is structured such that the seal portion is formed in at least one of joint surfaces of the two members by continuously printing along a seal portion of the joint portions and that a recess portion or a groove is formed at a middle portion of the seal portion in a widthwise direction.

Abstract: An inexpensive metal gasket with high sealing performance having a multiple-plate or single-plate structure to be placed between the cylinder block and the cylinder head, said metal gasket having on one side or both sides of the beaded plate or the stiffening plate the coating layer formed by pattern printing in conformity with the bead and the stopper. The coating layer includes at least two types of coatings located at different areas on the gasket.

Abstract: There is provided an ultrasonic diagnostic system in which an ultrasonic probe is detachably connected thereto, and ultrasonic waves are transmitted from the ultrasonic probe into the subject to obtain received signals through receiving the ultrasonic waves reflected within the subject, thereby displaying for a diagnosis an image carrying information based on the received signals, and is also provided an ultrasonic module including a processing circuit for the received signals, the ultrasonic module being used in the ultrasonic diagnostic system. The diagnotics system and the diagnostic module according to the present invention permit the more extensive patients to have an ultrasonic diagnosis, and also permit the operator to have a higher level of computer support. The ultrasonic module is connected through a general-purpose interface to a computer system. An ultrasonic module, which has, as a main element, an analog unit for performing an analog signal processing, is connected to another computer system.

Abstract: An image display apparatus, which is used to display a plurality of images on one display image by carrying out a filtering operation, comprises a memory unit, a filter unit, a write control unit, a delay unit, and a switching unit. The write control unit controls the writing of the display data at a region having a specific address length between adjacent display-regions, when storing the display data into the memory unit. The filter unit applies a filtering operation to the display data read out from the memory unit along the display scanning direction, and the delay unit gives a different delay value to the display data output from the filter unit. The switching unit switches the display data having a different delay value output from the delay unit at a boundary line of the adjacent display-regions. Therefore, the length between the adjacent display-regions can be shortened, and an image having a preferable length between the adjacent display-regions without an intervention can be displayed.

Abstract: An inexpensive metal gasket with high sealing performance is provided. A metal gasket 10 of multiple-plate or single-plate structure to be placed between the cylinder block 1 and the cylinder head 4, said metal gasket having on one side or both sides of the beaded plate 11 or the stiffening plate the coating layer 30 formed by pattern printing in conformity with the bead 16 and the stopper 22.