Abstract:
A method of measuring an average long-term concentration of a specified gas in a certain environment accurately in a simplified manner with a small inexpensive apparatus by leaving a test piece such as metal, ceramic or metal salt to stand in an ambient atmosphere for a given period of time and analyzing the gas adsorbed thereby. In particular, NOx, CO2, and SO2 can be selectively adsorbed by, respectively, a porous metal or ceramic (transition metal oxide), a porous ceramic (rare earth element oxide), and a specified chloride such as copper chloride or silver chloride. The invention also discloses a test kit containing the test piece put in a case, and a protective case, umbrella and forced draft unit for putting the kit to practical use.
Abstract:
In an optical transmission system, on both transmitting and receiving sides, provided are respectively an auxiliary transmitter and a plurality of live transmitters. By connecting the main optical transmitting/receiving circuits of the auxiliary and live transmitters to an optical transmission line, transmitted are optical signals between the transmitting and receiving sides. In the optical transmission system, provided are an additional optical transmission line and control means. Via the additional optical transmission line, optical signals, produced by combining the outputs of optical transmitting sub-circuits of the live transmitters on the transmitting and receiving sides, are fed to optical receiving sub-circuits of the auxiliary transmitters. Also, via the additional transmission line, the optical signals outputted from optical transmitting sub-circuits of the auxiliary transmitters on both transmitting and receiving sides, are fed to the optical receiving sub-circuits of the live transmitters. In normal transmission by the live transmitters, the control means operates one of the optical receiving sub-circuits of the live transmitters. The control means selects one of the optical transmitting sub-circuits of live transmitters and operates the selected one in succession. However, if the selected sub-circuit of the live transmitters has a failure, the control means does not operate it and selects another optical transmitting sub-circuit. Also, the auxiliary transmitters detect the circuit quality between the auxiliary transmitters and the live transmitters.
Abstract:
A circuit for equalizing the waveform of signal reproduced by a thin film magnetic head, which removes the negative edge of the waveform regardless of variation of the characteristics of the heads. In the equalizing circuit, an arithmetic circuit (7) receives the inputted read-out signal including negative edges and outputted from a thin film magnetic head, and equalizes the waveform of the inputted signal of a selected head (1) among thin film magnetic heads, using the following three output signals: the output of delay circuits (2, 3) whose input sides are terminated by means of characteristic impedances and which delay the inputted signal by a time tau 2, the output of a multiplying circuit (4) for multiplying the signal which is delayed by a time ( tau 2 - tau 1) by a value K1, and the output of a variable delay-time circuit (6) for delaying the inputted signal so as to remove the negative edges. The equalizing circuit is further provided with a delay setting circuit (8) which sets the delay time of the variable delay-time circuit (6) according to the signal representing the position of the head (1) and the head selecting signal. The delay time is controlled by the delay time specifying signal of the delay time setting circuit (8).
Abstract:
A sheet paper conveyor so assembled in a recording apparatus as to effect selective double-face recording on sheet paper includes a sheet feed path (20) for supplying sheet paper to a recording portion (14) of the recording apparatus, a sheet discharge path (22) for discharging sheet paper recorded at the recording portion of the recording apparatus, and a sheet bypass path (24) extending between the sheet feed path and the sheet discharge path. A sheet switch (26) is disposed at a branch portion between the sheet discharge path and the sheet bypass path, and sheet conveyor rollers (38a; 38b, 40a; 40b, 42a; 42b) capable of reverse driving so as to convey sheet paper in both directions are disposed in the sheet discharge path. The sheet conveyor rollers are disposed downstream of the sheet switch in the discharging direction of the sheet, and sheet paper recorded on one of the surfaces thereof at the recording portion of the recording apparatus is once conveyed by forward driving of the sheet conveyor rollers along the sheet discharge path, is then conveyed in the sheet bypass path through the sheet switch by reverse driving of the rollers, and thus causes reversion of sheet paper.
Abstract:
A method for optimizing the delay time of an LSI having latch circuits on its input and output sides. In the method, from combinational circuits provided between the plural latch circuits for outputting the data relevant to input data according to a clock, separated are plural logical circuits. Then, the delay times of the paths between the plural latch circuits of end points and the plural latch circuits of starting points are calculated respectively. Further, weightings of the separated logical circuits placed between all the starting points and all the end points, associated with the delay times, are performed for every path. Moreover, relative indexes for altering the delay times according to the weightings are calculated for every logical circuit.
Abstract:
Head having an MR layer (26) in a space (101) formed by shield layers (28, 33) by providing a distance enough to protect magnetic flux flowing through the MR layer from a recording medium through a gap (51) formed by the shield layers, from leaking out to the shield layers and a flux guide (25) provided between the MR layer and the gap, having an end magnetically connected to the MR, extending over an effective area of the MR head, and another end having a width a little narrower than a width of track of the recording medium. A side of the MR layer, opposite to the side connected with the flux guide layer is placed in a narrow space (102) formed at a corner of the space. Magnetic flux leaked from the gap due to a sense current flowing through the MR layer is eliminated by making a current flow through a recording coil layer or through an electrically conductive layer placed in the space.
Abstract:
A frequency synthesizer comprising a phase-locked loop, wherein the phase of a comparison signal based on the output of a voltage controlled oscillator (7) is compared with the phase of a reference signal based on the output of a reference oscillator (1) by a phase comparator (3), and the phase difference signal is passed through a loop filter (50) and is used as a signal for controlling the voltage controlled oscillator. The frequency synthesizer is provided with a preset circuit (60) for changing the output of the voltage controlled oscillator by charging/discharging quickly a capacitor in the loop filter, and a changing circuit (70) for changing the time constant of the loop filter. By decreasing the time constant of the loop filter when the output frequency is changed, the phase-locked loop is phase-locked at a high speed.
Abstract:
A method for reducing the lock period of a shared buffer in a data processing system. This method comprises the step ( 3 ) of reserving a copy memory (18) when the content of a shared buffer ( 17 ) is rendered non-volatile, the step ( 4 ) of locking temporarily the shared buffer as an object, the step ( 5 ) of copying the content of the buffer to be rendered non-volatile to the copy memory, the step ( 6 ) of unlocking the shared buffer after copying to the copy memory, and the step ( 8 ) of rendering the content of the copy memory non-volatile. The shared buffer as the object is locked before the content of the shared buffer is copied into the copy memory, and after copying is completed and before the content of the copy memory is rendered non-volatile, the shared buffer is unlocked (that is, release of lock).
Abstract:
In a pulse compression system using a code series having a self correlation function, which has a sharp peak at a certain point and low side lobes, the number of kinds of usable code series is increased while permitting the level of the side lobes to a certain extent. This system uses a code series having a higher side lobe level of self correlation than an ideal code series as a transmission code series, modulates pulses by this transmission code series, in a primary modulation unit (1), receives and demodulates the pulses in a demodulation unit (2), modulates the demodulated output by a key code series or the difference between the ideal code series and the transmission code series to convert it to the ideal code series in a secondary modulation unit (3), and executes pulse compression processing of this ideal code series in a self correlation processing unit (4).
Abstract:
A floating-point dividing circuit for dividing floating-point data by a nonrecovery dividing method. The circuit has a circuit part (83) which pre-processes a dividend (N) and a divisor (D) before dividing and determines a division type, an exponent operating part (91), a mantissa dividing part (100), a quotient generating circuit part (93, 94, 101, 103-105), and at least one of an exception and non-operation detecting part (92) and a control part (90). The exception and non-operation detecting part (92) generates a stop signal (DSTOP#X) upon detecting a non-operation pattern, and stops the repeated operation of the mantissa dividing part (100). The control part (90) generates at least one of a non-execution signal (DRUN) and a control signal (DCNT0-15#X), and stops latch operations of registers, during the non-execution of a division instruction.