Abstract:
Keys of an acoustic piano require balancers for cancellation of a part of self weight of the action units/hammers; however, the balancers are liable to be dropped off due to the aged deterioration of the wooden bars; in order to keep the balancers stable in the keys against the aged deterioration, the balancer is plastically deformed so as to bite into the wooden bar, the balancer, which is formed with thorns, is rotated so as to make the thorns bite into the wooden bar, the balancer is shaped into a configuration different from the holes so as to exert resilient force on the inner surface in a direction in parallel to the grain of wood, or the balancer is inserted into a constricted hole so as to strongly exert the resilient force on the inner surface, thereby being prevented from the dropping off from the keys.
Abstract:
A silent piano is a composite keyboard musical instrument fabricated on the basis of an acoustic piano, and a pianist plays a tune by piano tones or electronic tones; when the pianist selects the electronic tones, a hammer stopper enters the trajectories of hammers, and a tandem regulating button mechanism changes damping columns onto the trajectories of jacks in such a manner that the jack is brought into contact with the damping column concurrently with a regulating button; since the damping columns are closer to the jack than the regulating buttons, the jack turns at a larger angular velocity so that the hammer is not pinched between the jack and the hammer stopper; the damping columns are moved onto a virtual plane where the regulating buttons are so that the jacks are commonly used between the silent piano and the standard acoustic piano.
Abstract:
In contrast to conventional semiconductor components formed on a silicon substrate, the present invention aims at providing a transistor component functioning as a semiconductor component by being placed on an insulating substrate made of plastic and the like. The transistor component according to the present invention comprises a silicon grain 100A with a drain area 402 and a source area 401 formed via a channel area 403, an oxidation film 101 covering the surface of the silicon grain 100A, a gate electrode 300A connecting with the channel area 403 via the oxidation film 101, and a drain electrode 200A electrically connecting with the drain area 402, and a source electrode 400A electrically connecting with the source area 401.
Abstract:
In an electrophotographic developer and a process for forming an image, an electrophotographic toner used therein contains spherical toner parent particles and two or more kinds of inorganic particles having different average particle diameters, at least one kind of the inorganic fine particles being spherical particles having an average primary particle diameter of about 80 to 300 nm, and the inorganic particles containing the spherical particles being attached to the toner parent particles to provide a structure satisfying the following conditions (1) and (2): (1) the spherical particles have a coverage on a surface of the toner parent particles of about 20% or more; and (2) a proportion of the inorganic particles that are separated from the toner parent particles upon dispersing the toner in an aqueous solution is about 35% or less of a total addition amount of the inorganic particles.
Abstract:
An electrode assembly, including a cathode member is provided with a hole enclosed by a frame portion and a contact surface that comes into contact with an object to be plated at one surface of the frame portion. The cathode member include a conductive material such as copper plate. The cathode member is provided with a lead conductor. An insulating member is provided with holes and enclosed by frame portions, with the frame portions and placed on another surface of the frame portion of the cathode member. The frame portion of the first insulating member covers the internal circumferential edge of the cathode member over a width W1.
Abstract:
A method of electroplating an object to be plated attached to a lower portion of a plating bath constituted by draining used plating solution and supplying new plating solution at every plating procedure. The method has a step of supplying additional current so that the object to be plated always has cathode potential, while the object to be plated is being dipped in the plating bath and electroplating is not carried out.
Abstract:
An upright piano has a fall board for covering a keyboard, and a damper assembly is provided between a side arm and the fall board; the damper assembly includes a rotary damper generating large damping force during a turning motion in the counter clock wise direction and small damping force during the opposite turning motion and a link mechanism connected between the fall board and a shaft member of the rotary damper for changing the turning motion on the way between the closed position and the open position of the fall board; and a player is not expected to strongly support the fall board so as to prevent the fall board and the piano case from violent collision therebetween.
Abstract:
A damper assembly is provided between a side arm of an upright piano and a fall board for preventing the fall board from violent collision with a key slip, the damper assembly includes a rotary damper embedded into the fall board and producing small damping force during a rotation of the fall board from the closed position and a vertical position and large damping force during a rotation of the fall board from the vertical position to the closed position, a turnable plate member turnably connected to the side arm and not allowing the shaft member to turn with respect thereto, a stopper held in contact with the turnable plate member between the vertical position and the closed position and a spring generating resilient force larger than the small damping force and smaller than the large damping force so as to allow the turnable plate member to turn together with the rotary damper between the vertical position and an open position, and the damper assembly allows a player to move the fall board without large force.
Abstract:
Upon NTSC broadcasting, switches are respectively electrically connected to the N sides and a three-dimensional comb filter is made up of memories, a subtracter, etc., whereby a carrier chrominance signal is separated from a video signal in accordance with a frame-to-frame process. In this case, the video signal is divided into two signals, which are in turn written into the memories. Upon EDTV2 broadcasting, the switches are respectively electrically connected to the E sides and a three-dimensional comb filter is made up of the memory and the subtracter, whereby a composite signal obtained by combining a carrier chrominance signal and a horizontal resolution supplementary signal is separated from the video signal. The switch is electrically connected to the E side and a three-dimensional comb filter is made up of the memory, a subtracter, etc., whereby a horizontal resolution supplementary signal is separated from a composite signal in accordance with a field-to-field process. The capacity of each of the memories can be efficiently used and hence a system can be integrated into compact form.
Abstract:
A thin film transistor which can improve such electric characteristics as off current characteristics, and a manufacturing method of a thin film transistor. A thin film transistor (110) has an n.sup.- source area (112) and an n.sup.- drain area (113) consisting of an n.sup.- silicon film (low concentration area) of about 400 .ANG., which is a silicon film made by performing a crystallization treatment such as an SPC method on an amorphous silicon, and the crystallization treatment is carried out after the implantation of impurities to activate the impurities at the same time. A gate electrode (116) is a metal electrode, and is formed after an n.sup.- source area (112) and an n.sup.- drain area (113) are formed. A gate electrode (116), an n.sup.- source area (112) and an n.sup.- drain area (113) are not formed self-alignedly.