PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the number of subscribers available of making a speech from being decreased and to prevent the power supply of a standby system device from being stopped. SOLUTION: When a power supply input detection section 600 detects supply stop of a main power supply or changeover of the operation by an auxiliary power supply, the processing speed of an off-hook detection sectio...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the power consumption of an LCD provided with pixel memory in moving image display and the like. SOLUTION: A liquid crystal panel 120 constituted by arranging plural liquid crystal cells CEL constituting a pixel in a form of matrix is provided with plural memories 121a, 121b which store image information for each pixel, and a selection means 123 which selects one of...

PURPOSE: To obtain a visual display device whose entire size is compact, in which light quantity lowering inside an eyepiece optical system is small, which has a wide angle of view, and which has sufficiently corrected off-axis aberration. CONSTITUTION: This visual display device is constituted of a two-dimensional picture display element 1 displaying an observed picture, and an eyepiece optical s...

PURPOSE: To provide a prism optical system, used for the ocular optical system of a visual display device, which is compact in overall size, small in decrease in the quantity of light in an ocular optical system, and large in exit pupil diameter and has its off-axis aberrations excellently corrected and a wide field angle. CONSTITUTION: This prism optical system has two transmission surfaces 6 and...

The system has a processor unit (1) for performing the required system function and a fault response arrangement that monitors the system for system faults with at least two watchdog units (WD1,WD2) that set the processor system into a predefined fault response state if a fault is detected. Different watchdog calls are used for the two watchdog units and are output by the processor unit depending ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a program for giving general-purpose properties to the operational procedures of a device, to shorten time and to reduce cost in the case of developing the program. SOLUTION: This system for preparing the operational procedure of a work- carrying robot 10 displays a sequence preparation program stored in a floppy disk 62 on a monitor 54 and visually prepares the op...

"SISTEMA ON-LINE PARA RESERVAS E/OU VENDAS DE INGRESSOS PARA CINEMAS, SHOWS E EVENTOS EM GERAL". Notadamente de um sistema aplicável a todas as modalidades de espetáculos e demais similares onde haja a colocação de ingressos à venda; referido sistema trazendo vantagens e benefícios diversos aos usuários, haja vista diferenciar-se em relação aos meios tradicionais de compra de ingressos por telefon...

The purse (1) is designed to hold a coin holder (2) with six spring-loaded compartments for different denomination coins, namely 2 Euro, 1 Euro, 50 Cent, 20 Cent, 10 Cent and 5 Cent coins. The coin holder is held inside the purse by double-sided adhesive tape around its lower part. Other loose coins can be stored inside a compartment in the purse cover. The compartment is closed using a zip fasten...

A food wrap formed from polyvinyl chloride, at least one stabilizer, and a plasticizer in an amount of 10-60 parts per hundred parts polyvinyl chloride. The plasticizer may be present in an amount of 30-55 parts per hundred parts polyvinyl chloride. The plasticizer includes dioctyl terephthalate. Dioctyl adipate or another plasticizer may be used with dioctyl terephthalate. In this case, the plast...

A cone clutch mechanism that is controlled by an electronic control unit is disclosed. The cone clutch mechanism features simplicity of construction and a control system to engage or disengage shaft power on the vehicle according to vehicle stability and traction control requirements. The mechanism may be used to selectively transfer the power to desired shafts or wheels.

A torque transfer system of a motor vehicle has a clutch, a transmission, a control device, and a traction load detecting device. The traction load is the variable resistance that a vehicle has to overcome to start or to keep moving, e.g., going uphill or downhill, with a heavy or light load, with or without a trailer or a roof load. The control device controls the torque transfer system, in parti...

Method for reclosure of the clutch during a change of gear, wherein the clutch is closed in order to adjust the angular speed of the drive shaft to match the angular speed of the primary shaft of the gearbox; the power supply to the engine is stopped, so as not to generate useful torque, the clutch is quickly disposed in a predetermined position, such as to transmit constant torque, which is subst...

An apparatus for supporting a weight on a supine person's abdomen for performing abdominal exercises, including a base and a platform removably resting on the base. The platform has at least one depression for receiving a curl barbell, a straight barbell, and/or dumbbells. Optionally, pegs may extend from the platform surface for maintaining the position of a stack of disc weights laid on top of t...

A device and method for treatment of a tissue specimen disposed in surrounding tissue has a tissue specimen isolating tool and a tissue specimen damager. The tissue specimen isolating tool isolates the tissue specimen from the surrounding tissue. The tissue specimen damager damages the tissue, with a possible end result being necrosis. The severing tool may have a cutting member that is extendable...

The invention concerns a method for producing a microporous film with strong isotropic tendency permeable to gases and impermeable to aqueous liquids, consisting of at least one layer, comprising the following successive steps: preparing a mixture consisting of a polyolefin matrix containing at least a polymer and at least a mineral and/or organic filler; extruding at least a ply by hot-casting th...

A new chemical vapor reaction system is described. Instead of ECR where electrons can move as independent particles without interaction, a mixed cyclotron resonance is a main exciting principal for chemical vapor reaction. In the new proposed resonance, the resonating space is comparatively large so that a material having a high melting point such as diamond can be deposited in the form of a thin ...

The invention relates to expanded polypropylene beads having a density of from 5 to 200 g/l and a bead diameter of from 1 to 10 mm which comprise from 0.002 to 20% by weight of graphite particles.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to optical recording media with optical scanner, light source, focusing means, tilting-detection device and tilting-compensation device. The object of the invention is to propose an apparatus and a method, which enables optimum compensation of tilting using as few apparatus functions as possible. This is achieved accordi...

A method, system and program storage device for measurement acquisition using predictive models which: (a) can improve scalability; (b) can accommodate devices that operate in a disconnected mode; and (c) enable integration of data from sources with different time granularities. Various features can be embodied in software and an object-oriented implementation is described. Different implementatio...

PURPOSE: A method for buying goods using a slide show and a computer-readable recording medium storing the program are provided to search many goods images in a short time and to buy the desired goods fast by offering the slide show information selected from a user terminal through the information network and confirming the goods image through the slide show information. CONSTITUTION: A goods info...