Abstract: A file cabinet providing access to files from substantially all sides, and having one or more rotatable tiers, each tier containing a plurality of file containers. Each tier includes a central carrousel support having a plurality of radially extending arms. Mounted to the outer terminus of each arm is a file support assembly, each configured to rotate about a vertical axis between a retracted position and an extended position. Each file support assembly is adapted to suspend a file container thereon to provide detachable storage. The detachable file containers each include a box having an upper frame which suspends the container from the file support assemblies. A top may provided to close each container in a secure manner to protect the container's contents.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cassette (1) intended for building up drawer cabinets, in which a drawer (2) having a frontal piece (18) is included, a lock (22) is included in the drawer for locking of the same in the cassette. According to the invention, the lock (22) includes a house (23) located inside the frontal piece (18) of the drawer and in connection with an opening (44) therein, inside which house there is a spring-loaded plunger (25), which is movable vertically in relation to a hole (45) in a bottom piece (19) of the drawer, viz. between a lower, locking position in which a free end of the plunger (25) is behind and below an upper edge of a flange (16) in a frontal frame of the cassette, and an upper, opening position in which the free end of the plunger is located above the flange (16) and goes free therefrom. By the location thereof in the bottom part of the drawer, the lock guarantees that heavily loaded thereby deformed drawers do not risk to unintentionally be pulled out from the cassette.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cassette (1) intended for building up drawer cabinets, a drawer (2) being included in the cassette. In order to carry and guide the drawer (2) inside the cassette (1), a rail (24) made of plastic is arranged on each side of the cassette, said rail being mountable on a lower flange (10) projecting inwards from each side wall (7, 7′) of the cassette. From the top side of the rail, a longitudinal ridge (29) protrudes, which is distanced from an outside pressable against the side wall of the cassette with a distance which in the main corresponds to half the difference between the width of the cassette and the width of the drawer, and the rail at opposite end portions having similar ramp surfaces (35), which are oblique in the direction upwards/inwards from the ends of the rail towards the plane top side of the rail. In this way, one and the same rail is, in a universal way, mountable either to the right or to left in the cassette.

Abstract: Shadow mask in a cathode ray tube including an effective surface, and a non-effective surface, wherein the effective surface includes elongated slots each extended in full length of the effective surface without bridges between slots in a vertical direction at left and right outermost sides of the shadow mask or outer side slots adjacent to the outermost side slots, thereby preventing wrinkles from being formed at sides of an effective surface to enhance a color purity of the picture.

Abstract: This invention intends to provide an aperture grill supporting frame whereby forces exerted by damper wires on individual thin tapes constituting an aperture grill are uniform.

Abstract: Cathode-ray tubes with a shadow mask effective in minimizing the moiré effect are disclosed.

Abstract: A phosphor for a vacuum ultraviolet excited light emitting device, obtained by adding Eu or Tb as an activating agent to a substrate comprising a compound represented by the general formula M1M2M3O4, wherein M1 represents at least one elements selected from Na and Li, M2 represents at least one elements selected from Gd and Y, and M3 represents at least one elements selected from Ge and Si.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display device with improved brightness achieved by increasing electron emission efficiency of a thin film cathode. Phosphors are irradiated with electrons emitted to a vacuum through a flat thin film which is thinner than 5 nm and is disposed so as to face the phosphors. A top electrode for emitting the electrons is formed by stacking thin films of Ir, Pt, and Au, and performing a heat treatment so as to reconstruct the top electrode to have a structure in which thick island parts and a flat thin film part mixedly exist.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new method and apparatus for structure electrodes of electro-luminescent components used displays and the like. The electrodes are structured in such a way that its layers are protected during structuring and the components may be tightly packed together to improve display resolution.

Abstract: A light emitting device having superior responsibility is provided. A pixel electrode (anode) connected to a drain wiring of an current control TFT has a slit. The slit becomes a path for light emitted from an EL layer, and emitted light can be extracted using a light shielding metallic film as the pixel electrode. A material having a low resistance can thus be used as the pixel electrode, and therefore a light emitting device having superior responsibility can be obtained.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device comprising a transparent supporting substrate, a transparent anode of a plurality of stripes provided on the transparent supporting substrate, an organic electroluminescent layer extending over the transparent supporting substrate and the transparent anode, and a cathode of a plurality of stripes which extend in a direction perpendicular to a direction along which the stripes of the anode extend, wherein at least an insulative separation wall is provided between the stripes of the anode and the insulative separation wall has a height which is higher than a sum of a thickness of the anode and a thickness of the organic electroluminescent layer and further wherein the organic electroluminescent layer also extends over the insulative separation wall.

Abstract: It is aimed to provide a technique for easily suppressing swellings produced in end parts of partitions, thereby achieving a PDP capable of displaying a high-quality image.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a plurality of row electrode pairs (X, Y) forming display lines which are formed on a front glass substrate (10). Each row electrode (X, Y) of the row electrode pair (X, Y) makes up transparent electrodes (Xa, Ya) each formed opposing the corresponding transparent electrode (Xa, Ya) via a discharge gap (g) for each pair, and a bus electrode (Xb, Yb) connected to the transparent electrodes (Xa, Ya). In such plasma display panel, a light-shield layer 20A is formed at least on a portion between the two bus electrodes situated back to back and a required portion in proximal to sides of the bus electrodes (Xb, Yb)connected to the transparent electrodes (Xa, Ya) on the front glass substrate (10).

Abstract: A collector of a traveling wave tube in which a larger quantity of loss ceramic members are arranged between an outer collector enclosure and an outer surface of a collector electrode for increasing high frequency loss to prevent RF leakage from the collector lead wire. The collector includes a collector electrode 2, heat conductive columnar ceramic elements 3, an outer collector enclosure 4 for maintaining vacuum and loss ceramic members 5 arranged between the outer surface of the collector electrode 2 and the inner surface of the outer collector enclosure 4.

Abstract: A shadowmaskless tracking cathode ray tube control circuit is described, comprising a control loop, which is coupled to a deflection unit of a shadowmaskless tracking cathode ray tube. The shadowmaskless tracking cathode ray tube control circuit further comprises a loop gain control means for compensating the loop gain of the control loop in dependence on the inverse value of the beam current in the shadowmaskless tracking cathode ray tube. The effect is that a constant loop gain is created, which is independent of the beam current.

Abstract: A short-arc discharge lamp (1) in accordance with the invention is provided with a light-transmitting, gastight lamp vessel (10), which is provided with an ionizable filling. A first electrode and a second electrode (11a, 11b), respectively, are arranged in the lamp vessel (10) and are each connected to a current conductor of their own (12a, 12b), respectively, which issues from the lamp vessel to the exterior. An ignition antenna (2) is arranged near the lamp vessel, which ignition antenna is connected to a further current conductor (24). The ignition antenna comprises an antenna vessel (20) and a further outer electrode (22), which antenna vessel (20) is closed in a gastight manner and provided with an ionizable filling, the further outer electrode (22) being connected to the further current conductor (24). According to the invention, the antenna encloses an electroconductive element. In this way, very small ignition delays are guaranteed, even if the lamp has been in a dark environment for some time.

Abstract: A plasma processing system includes a processing vessel for housing therein an object to be processed. In the upper portion of the processing vessel, a substantially disk-shaped electrode plate having a facing surface facing the object is provided. A radio-frequency wave supply unit supplies radio-frequency waves having a flattened waveform which forms substantially a sinusoidal wave whose crest and trough portions are substantially horizontally flattened. The radio-frequency waves supplied from the supply unit are propagated in diametrically opposite directions on the facing surface of the electrode to form standing waves. Similar to the supplied radio-frequency waves, the standing waves also have a waveform which forms substantially a sinusoidal wave whose crest and trough portions are substantially horizontally flattened.

Abstract: A discharge lamp lighting circuit 1 has a DC power supply circuit 3 for outputting a DC voltage, a DC-AC conversion circuit 4 for converting the output voltage of the DC power supply circuit into an AC voltage and then supplying the AC voltage to a discharge lamp 6, and a current detection circuit 8 for detecting an electric current flowing into the discharge lamp. Just after the discharge lamp 6 is lighted, the output frequency of the DC-AC conversion circuit 4 is temporarily changed for defining the lighting frequency of the discharge lamp as a low frequency, to perform DC lighting over a predetermined time. A control circuit 7 determines the duration of the DC lighting by the time it takes for the product of the time and the value of current flowing into the discharge lamp 6 to equal a predetermined value.

Abstract: There are provided an electron source apparatus capable of suppressing variations in electron emission state from electron-emitting devices even with an arrangement using spacers (9), and an image forming apparatus using the electron source apparatus. A plurality of row-direction wiring lines (8) and a plurality of column-direction wiring lines (6) are formed on a substrate (1) so as to cross each other. An electron-emitting device made up of device electrodes (2, 3), a conductive film (4), and an electron-emitting portion 5 is formed at each intersection between the row-direction wiring line (8) and the column-direction wiring line (6). The spacers (9) are arranged on some of the row-direction wiring lines (8). The column-direction wiring lines (6) are respectively connected to controlled constant current sources (221a, 221b, 221c) serving as current sources capable of outputting desired current values.

Abstract: The invention concerns a rotating electric motor system capable of vibrating and a method for operating a rotary electric motor capable of vibrating. The system comprises an electric motor having a rotor and a stator, the rotor and the stator forming a unit vibrating within an audio frequency range; a power amplifier powering the electric motor, the power amplifier having a passband including at least the audio frequency range; and a signal generator generating a signal controlling the power amplifier. The signal generator comprises at least the audio frequency range. The control signal has a continuous component for rotating the rotor with respect to the stator, and an alternating component for inducing mechanical vibration in the unit capable of vibrating.

Abstract: In an electric hand, a cam member 12 mounted to a drive shaft 3a of an electric motor 3 is provided with a pair of cam grooves 15 and 15, a pair of jaw members 2 and 2 for grasping a workpiece are provided with drive pins 13 fitted to the cam grooves 15 and 15, and a normal or reverse rotation motion of the drive shaft 3a is converted into an opening or closing motion of the jaw members 2 and 2 by the cam member 12 and the drive pins 13. A torque limiter 6 having a friction plate 19 for connecting by a frictional force the drive shaft 3a of the electric motor 3 and the cam member 12 is provided between the drive shaft 3a and the cam member 12, and a torque of the drive shaft 3a transmitted to the cam member 12 is limited by this torque limiter 6.

Abstract: A system for starting synchronous motor from a pulse-width-modulated static inverter without using rotor position or speed measurements. The system monitors supply current to the stator and derives a relationship between that current and the magnetizing flux. The system utilizes a narrowband filter that is tuned to pass only the motor currents fundamental component and whose tuned frequency changes with variations in motor speed. Furthermore, the system reduces the excitation provided to the motor after a certain value of line voltage is sensed.

Abstract: To provide a vehicular charging and generating system capable of issuing alarm to a driver even when failure is caused in a rectifying apparatus of the vehicular charging and generating system, failure detecting means issues alarm when a difference between an output voltage of generated voltage detecting means and an output voltage of average phase voltage detecting means is higher than first difference voltage set when failure is not caused in a rectifying element or when the difference is lower than second difference voltage set when failure is not caused in the rectifying element.

Abstract: Control portion (26) of battery charger (10), for example, may control power source circuit (24) upon receipt of instructions from control portion (41) of adapter (30). Based upon these instructions, adapter (30) can enable charging operations for battery pack (50B) that does not have a memory storing charging parameters and/or information. Moreover, battery charger (10) also may be designed to charge a battery pack (50B) even though battery charger (10) was not originally designed to charge battery pack (50B). Adapter (30) also may enable charging operations for battery pack (50) that contains memory (61) storing charging parameters and/or battery identification information. In this case, adapter (30) can read information stored in memory (61) and generate optimal charging instructions based upon a charging program stored in control portion (41).

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery changing method during processing of a call without interrupting a talking path in a wireless telephone set having a supplementary battery and a main battery. In the battery changing method according to the invention, it is detected whether or not a capacity of the battery is less than a predetermined value during the call processing. If in the affirmative, it is detected whether or not a mode set key requiring a battery change is inputted by a user. If in the affirmative, electric power of the wireless telephone set is switched to the supplementary battery and a power saving mode is operated to transmit messages for maintaining the wireless link. It is then detected whether or not a key requesting a return to a normal mode is inputted during the power saving mode. If in the affirmative, electric power of the wireless telephone set is switched back to the main battery and a normal mode is resumed.

Abstract: A method of displaying the full-charge-state of a battery according to the invention is characterized in that the displaying is retarded by a predetermined period of time after the full-charge-state is detected. According to the method, the delay time is so determined that the battery which requires a shorter charging time needed to full-charge the battery has a longer delay time period than the battery requiring a longer charging time.

Abstract: A discharge control circuit that securely prevents an over discharge of a battery. The control circuit includes a discharge control switch connected to the battery for cutting off a discharge current of the battery in response to a discharge stop signal. A control circuit is connected to the battery and the discharge control switch generates the discharge stop signal for deactivating the discharge control switch when a voltage of at least one cell reaches a lower limit. The control circuit includes a switch holding circuit for continuously supplying the discharge stop signal to the discharge control switch for a predetermined time after the discharge stop signal is generated regardless of the cell voltage.

Abstract: In the regulated power supply circuit, an overcurrent detection circuit detects the flow of an overcurrent through a transistor acting as an output control element and supplies a result of the detection to a cut-off operation prohibition circuit. During non-startup time of the regulated power supply circuit, the cut-off operation prohibition circuit simply relays a result of the overcurrent detection circuit detecting an overcurrent to a cut-off circuit without introducing any changes to the result. The cut-off circuit increases a base potential of the transistor according to the result of the detection of an overcurrent to cut off the output of the transistor. It is ensured that the output voltage rises even if the overcurrent detection circuit has activated the cut-off circuit upon detection of the overcurrent temporarily passing through the transistor during a startup.

Abstract: A voltage converter comprises an input, an output and a current control arrangement for controlling the output current of the voltage converter circuit. The current control arrangement comprises a first mode, when the voltage output by the converter circuit is above a threshold voltage, and a second mode in which the voltage output by the circuit is below the threshold voltage. The first and second modes are controlled by the same current control arrangement. The current control arrangement comprises comparing means arranged to receive a reference voltage wherein the reference voltage is a voltage offset associated with at least one of the inputs of the comparing means.

Abstract: A voltage regulator for converting an input voltage (Vi) into an output voltage (Vo). The input voltage may be burdened with a ripple. The output voltage (Vo) supplied by the voltage regulator is virtually free from ripple. The voltage regulator comprises an input terminal (1) for receiving the input voltage (Vi), an output terminal for supplying the output voltage (Vo) in response to the input voltage (Vi), and current limiting means for limiting the maximum absolute value of an output current (Io) taken from the output terminal (2). The current limiting means comprise a field effect transistor (TCL). The voltage regulator further comprises a first current mirror (CM1) comprising transistors (T11, T12), a second current mirror (CM2) comprising transistors (T13, T14), and a third current mirror comprising transistors (T15, T16). In a typical operation, the field effect transistor (TCL) is in the linear region and thus behaves like a resistance.

Abstract: An electronic sensor array 1 for installation in an automatic gearbox includes a fluid-tight, in particular oil-tight, housing having a baseplate and a housing lid. The housing lid is connected to the baseplate. A conductor track carrier is mounted on the side of the baseplate facing the housing lid. A sensor element is electrically connected to the conductor track carrier. A detector element is disposed outside the housing and interacts with the sensor element.

Abstract: A modular waveguide assembly for use in a position sensor promotes efficient manufacturing, and can be tested and handled separately from the electronics module of the sensor. The waveguide assembly includes a channel having an opening extending along its length, a waveguide located within the channel, a conductor located within the channel, and a mode converter, such as a coil, located within the channel and positioned to generate an electrical signal from a signal traveling along the waveguide. A damping material can be inserted into the channel opening and around a portion of the waveguide such that the material adheres to the waveguide. Preferably, the damping material is at least initially partially flowable, and is then cured.

Abstract: In a non-destructive inspection device of the present invention which detects in a non-destructive manner a defect of a member to be inspected, based on a change in magnetic fluxes due to eddy currents that are generated by an inspection probe having a coil, a driving section which adjusts a position of the inspection probe, and measuring device for, based on a detection signal of the inspection probe, measuring a lift-off between the inspection probe and the member to be inspected are disposed. The driving section is controlled in accordance with a result of measurement of the measuring device, whereby a control of making the lift-off constant is performed.

Abstract: A method and system for implementing magnetostrictive sensor techniques for the nondestructive evaluation of pipeline structures. The system consists of a magnetostrictive sensor instrument unit, a data storage unit, and a plurality of magnetostrictive sensor probes are positioned on an in-line inspection vehicle. The instrumentation unit includes electronics for transmitting excitation pulses to a transmitting magnetostrictive sensor probe as well as electronics for amplifying and conditioning the signals detected by a receiving magnetostrictive sensor probe. The magnetostrictive sensor probes include both plate magnetostrictive sensors and permanent magnets which provide a DC bias magnetic field necessary for magnetostrictive sensor operation. The transmitting and receiving probes are attached to the in-line inspection vehicle by way of mechanical arms on opposing sides of the vehicle.

Abstract: A magnetic field measuring equipment capable of accurately and rapidly measuring a magnetic field produced in a three-dimensional space around a measured object (object to be measured) and visually displaying results of the measurement. The magnetic field measuring equipment includes a measuring instrument including a magnetic sensor arranged so as to be relatively movable in three-dimensional directions around a measured object, a computer including a data processing means for subjecting a magnetic field of the measured object to processing so as to permit the magnetic field to be visually displayed, on the basis of three-dimensional magnetic force data of the measured object measured by the measuring instrument, and a display acting as an output means for outputting results of processing by the data processing means.

Abstract: A plurality of magnetic field sensing structures in a monolithic integrated circuit chip structure to provide output signals at outputs thereof of magnetic field changes provided therein from corresponding sources having poled pair structures with a gap space between them with adjacent ones of the magnetic field sensing structures that are interconnected with a circuit formed in the monolithic integrated circuit chip such as an amplifier. The paired pole structures may intersect a surface of the chip perpendicular to the major surfaces thereof or in one of, or a surface parallel to, the major surfaces thereof. A magnetic field generating structure may also be included in the chip.

Abstract: The present invention aims to reduce degradation in image quality due to residual magnetization. In a pulse sequence of a high-speed spin echo process, a pre-pulse is applied before an excitation pulse, and a correction pulse for correcting a phase error caused by the pre-pulse is applied before an initial inversion pulse.

Abstract: A boring tool is moved through the ground in a region which includes at least one electrically conductive in-ground line and which is subject to static magnetic fields including the magnetic field of the earth.

Abstract: An antifuse repair circuit is disclosed for selectively programming a specific antifuse to replace a defective cell with a redundant cell.

Abstract: A tape-like member or TAB tape transfer system formed of a thin film tape is transferred without being flexible in the width direction thereof.

Abstract: A grid of capacitor surfaces is connected to read lines and control lines. The read lines are connected alternately to the output of a feedback operational amplifier and to a collecting capacitor. The capacitances to be measured are charged repeatedly and the charges are collected on the collecting capacitors. Between the charging operations, the potential on the read lines is kept constant through the use of the low-resistance output of the operational amplifier. The use of this method in the case of a fingerprint sensor makes it possible to evaluate all the read lines together.

Abstract: Provided is a probe whose characteristic impedance can be accurately adjusted to the desired value with the production of a small number of prototypes.

Abstract: An apparatus, process for forming an apparatus, and method for testing a semiconductor die having first and second die terminals. The apparatus includes a substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion approximately equal to a thermal expansion coefficient of the die. The substrate includes first and second test terminals positioned on a surface of the substrate and positionable proximate to the die. The first test terminal is a conductive portion aligned with and spaced apart from a conductive portion of the first die terminal when the substrate is positioned proximate to the die. The first test terminal is coupleable to a variable power source current to generate a variable signal at the first test terminal and capacitively generate a corresponding signal at the first die terminal. The second test terminal is aligned with the second die terminal when the conductive portion of the first test terminal is aligned with the first die terminal.

Abstract: The present invention includes an electronic device workpiece processing apparatus and method of communicating signals within an electronic device workpiece processing apparatus.

Abstract: A semiconductor device which has a test mode for testing the semiconductor device, is provided with a circuit which generates a first signal based on dummy command signals which are input thereto a plurality of times, and generates a second signal which instructs entry to a corresponding test mode or an exit from a corresponding test mode based on an address signal and the first signal.

Abstract: A semiconductor device that optimally controls a current supply of internal power supply voltage generation circuits in accordance with the number of banks that are simultaneously activated. A control circuit adjusts the activated number of internal power supply voltage generation circuits in response to activation signals of the banks.

Abstract: An output buffer circuit is provided, which is capable of obtaining a large drive power when the level of an input signal changes, while allowing a through current to flow in suppressed amounts. A first P-channel MOS transistor and a first N-channel MOS transistor are connected in series with a power supply. The pair of transistors are exclusively switched on and off by an input signal such that the first and second switching elements are not simultaneously on or off, to deliver an output signal corresponding to the input signal, from a common junction between the first and second switching elements. A second P-channel MOS transistor is connected in parallel with the first P-channel MOS transistor as an auxiliary transistor. A second N-channel MOS transistor is connected in parallel with the first N-channel MOS transistor as an auxiliary transistor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of dividing the frequency of an electronic signal X0, the method comprising the steps of:

Abstract: A damping resistance 20 is connected between the drain D of an FET 10 and a first end T3 of an output transmission line 13, and a damping resistance 21 is connected between the drain D of an FET 11 and the first end T3. The source of the FET 10 and the gate of the FET 11 are connected to a ground plane on the back surface of a substrate through a via which has a parasitic inductance when a multiplied frequency exceeds 20 GHz. The gate of the FET 10 and the source of the FET 11 receive microwaves of the same frequency and phase through an input transmission line 12.

Abstract: The data and clock regeneration circuit can be completely integrated in a chip. The circuit has, in series, two independent PLL regulating stages which are optimally adjustable separately. The first PLL regulating stage has a large bandwidth and is optimized for maximum jitter tolerance and the second PLL regulating stage has a small bandwidth and is optimized for minimum jitter transfer. The circuit is suitable for use, for example, in transceivers for ATM, SONET, and SDH applications with signal transmission links in the Gbit range.