Abstract:
A primary coil assembly for a superconducting linear induction motor is provided which is arranged opposite to a secondary conductor for exerting a relative thrust on the secondary conductor when energized. The primary coil assembly comprises a plurality of coil units, each including a nonmagnetic and nonconductive bobbin, an alternating-current superconducting wire wound around the bobbin, and nonmagnetic and nonconductive spacers interposed between adjacent turns of the superconducting wire being adjacent to each other in an outward direction with respect to the axis of the bobbin or adjacent to each other in the width direction of the bobbin, for providing a clearance therebetween. The coil units have substantially identical structure and shape and are spaced at a predetermined distance from each other.
Abstract:
A device for indicating a remaining quantity of the recordable portion of a recording material, such as a magnetic disk or film. The indicating device comprises a counting device which counts a remaining recordable quantity of recording material, and a warning device which outputs a warning when the reamining recordable quantity is low. The warning device is provided with an acoustic alarm device for outputting a vocal or electronic sound corresponding to the remaining quantity or an optical alarm device for outputting light indicating the value of the remaining recordable portions, or corresponding to the remaining quantity. The optical alarm mechanism is provided in such a manner that the warning light can be observed in the viewfinder of the camera.
Abstract:
A rotary actuator for converting a linear reciprocatory movement of a piston into a rotary reciprocatory movement of an output shaft through a connecting member. The rotary actuator includes a cylinder case formed with a pedestal in a position in which the output shaft extends vertically out of the cylinder case. The pedestal is formed with a substantially square elevated portion, and a depressed portion defined by the elevated portion. A plurality of projections spaced apart from each other by a predetermined angle are formed integrally with the pedestal in the depressed portion to constitute dividing lines of a scale for indicating the angle of rotation of the output shaft by means of a pointer.
Abstract:
An oxidation catalyst having the general formula:Co.sub.a Fe.sub.b Bi.sub.c B.sub.d Sb.sub.e Ni.sub.f J.sub.g Mo.sub.h O.sub.iin which J represents at least one of the elements potassium, rubidium, and cesium, and the suffixes a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, and i represent the numbers of cobalt, iron, bismuth, boron, antimony, nickel, J, molybdenum, and oxygen atoms, respectively, when h is 12, a is 1 to 15, b 0.3 to 8, c 0.1 to 7, d 0.1 to 3, e 0.01 to 1, f 0 to 5, g 0 to 1 (exclusive of 0), and i is 38 to 92 and is determined by total valences of other elements. There is also provided a process for manufacturing methacrolein by oxidizing isobutylene and/or tertiary butyl alcohol with molecular oxygen, characterized in that the reaction is carried out in the presence of the catalyst as defined above.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a catalyst for the oxidation of methacrolein to produce methacrylic acid. The catalyst has the following composition:Mo.sub.a P.sub.b Sb.sub.c Cu.sub.d Cr.sub.e O.sub.f (NH.sub.4).sub.g where a is fixed at 12, b assumes a value of 1 to 4, c a value of 0.1 to 7, d a value of 0.1 to 5, e a value of 0 to 6, g a value of 0 to 3.5 and f a value, usually 35 to 80, which is automatically determined by the valence of the other atoms.
Abstract:
Provided is a laser device comprising a substrate, an active layer, and a current confinement layer. The current confinement layer includes an oxide layer that is formed extending from a edge of the current confinement layer in a parallel plane parallel to a surface of the substrate, toward a center of the current confinement layer along the parallel plane, and that does not have an inflection point between the edge and a tip portion formed closer to the center or has a plurality of inflection points formed between the edge and the tip portion.
Abstract:
A semiconductor laser element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first reflecting mirror, a second reflecting mirror, and a resonator. The resonator includes an active layer, a current confinement layer, a first semiconductor layer having a first doping concentration formed at a side opposite to the active layer across the current confinement layer, and a second semiconductor layer having a second doping concentration higher than the first doping concentration formed between the first semiconductor layer and the current confinement layer. The first electrode is provided to contact a part of a surface of the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer has a diffusion portion into which a component of the first electrode diffuses. The second semiconductor layer contacts the diffusion portion. The second semiconductor layer is positioned at a node of a standing wave at a time of laser oscillation of the semiconductor laser element.
Abstract:
A measurement object holder that holds a measurement object in an optical measurement instrument, wherein the optical measurement instrument takes, as the measurement object, a living body in which isotropic scattering of light occurs inside and receives light emitted from the measurement object is disclosed. The measurement object holder includes a block that is formed in a predetermined outer shape by a material having optical properties in which the isotropic scattering of light occurs inside; and a cavity portion that is formed inside the block, that has an inner shape following the outer shape of the measurement object and in which the measurement object is accommodated.
Abstract:
A surface emitting laser includes a cavity region formed on a group-III-V compound substrate, which includes an active layer and a current confinement layer that has an aluminum oxide compound and confines a current path through which a current is injected into the active layer, an upper DBR mirror and a lower DBR mirror formed on the substrate, sandwiching the cavity region, and a graded-composition layer disposed to contact the current confinement layer, which has an aluminum composition ratio decreasing monotonically as a distance from the current confinement layer increases. The graded-composition layer includes a first region that contacts the current confinement layer and an oxidation stop layer that contacts the first region and that has a change rate of the aluminum composition ratio larger than that of the first region. The graded-composition layer is oxidized from an interface with the current confinement layer to at least a portion of the oxidation stop layer.
Abstract:
A fluorescent endoscopy apparatus includes an endoscope insertion unit that is inserted into a body cavity and that guides excitation light to illuminate a region to be observed, and an imaging unit that images a fluorescent image by receiving fluorescence that has been output from the region to be observed by illumination with the excitation light and guided by the endoscope insertion unit. Further, the fluorescent endoscopy apparatus includes a facial information detection unit that detects facial information about a person in an imaging image that has been imaged by the imaging unit by receiving light guided by the endoscope insertion unit, and an interlock unit that prohibits illumination with the excitation light when the facial information detection unit has detected the facial information.