A recording medium, as well as the apparatus and method for recording and reproducing it, which includes a recording area in which either only audio data or an intermixture of video data and corresponding audio data are recorded, a first management data area stored with first management data for permitting a recording or reproducing operation of only the audio data and inhibiting a reproducing or ...

The invention provides a network paging system that includes a method and apparatus for sending messages to a subscriber. When one party attempts to contact another party, via a page message for example, the system may determine if the paged party is logged onto the network system. If the paged party is logged onto the network, the page message may be sent to the paged party's personal computer. I...

A plurality of user terminals regularly accessing Internet Relay Chat (IRC) services are also in communication with a service selecting host. The service selecting host is configured to collect data from the plurality of user terminals. The collected data includes information about the users at the user terminals and information about the user terminals activity in the accessing of the IRC service...

An arbiter system for the instruction issue logic of a CPU has at least two encoder circuits that select instructions in an instruction queue for issue to first and second execution units, respectively, based upon the positions of the instructions within the queue and requests by the instructions for the first and/or second execution units. As a result, since the instruction can request different ...

A golf club having a club head with a striking plate composed of a composite material and having a thickness in the range of 0.010 to 0.250 inches is disclosed herein. The golf club head also has a coefficient of restitution greater than 0.8 under test conditions such as the USGA test conditions specified pursuant to Rule 4-1e, Appendix II, of the Rules of Golf for 1998-1999. The golf club head bo...

Disclosed is a rubber process oil in which the content of polycyclic aromatics (PCAs) as determined by the IP 346 method is less than 3% by mass and which is rich In aromatic hydrocarbons, and a method for producing the same. The aniline point of the rubber process oil is 80 C. or less, and the % CA value as determined by ring analysis according to the Kurtz method is from 20 to 50%. The rubber p...

A heat-dissipating device is designed for use in an integrated circuit package for heat dissipation. The heat-dissipating device is a molded piece of a heat-conductive material, having an exterior side which is to be exposed to the outside of the integrated circuit package. The heat-dissipating device is characterized in the forming of a staircase-like cutaway part at the edge of the exterior side...

A billing system for use in a chargeable program broadcasting is capable of reliably billing a subscriber for program reception while preventing unauthorized reception thereof. A receiving terminal includes a primary terminal 100 and a secondary terminal 150. The primary terminal 100 receives a compressed video signal and confirms by an error checker 113 thereof whether there is a transmission err...

An aircraft data management system provides a passenger seated on the aircraft with a number of entertainment and productivity enhancing options. Such options include, without limitation, video, audio, internet, airplane systems data and power. Located proximate to each seat group is an integrated seat box that includes a network interface card that identifies a requesting passenger for proper dir...

In a semiconductor device having a heat radiation plate, the tips of inner leads connected to a semiconductor chip have a lead width w and a lead thickness t, the width being less than the thickness. The inner leads are secured to the heat radiation plate. Fastening the inner leads to the heat radiation plate supports the latter and eliminates the need for suspending leads. A lead pitch p, the lea...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To develop a novel suction/discharge switching structure to meet the demand to unite conventional two nozzles for suction and discharge to miniaturize and lighten a suction/discharge apparatus. SOLUTION: At the time of sucking operation, a switching member 2 covers an air inducing hole 10 to make a dual-purpose nozzle 6 communicate with a channel Wi and a channel Wo with a di...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermoplastic resin laminate wherein all of layers are formed of a thermoplastic resin and the clearance fluctuations between members can be absorbed and the members are strongly bonded. SOLUTION: A pair of thermoplastic resin members having clearance fluctuations between the adhesive surfaces thereof are bonded by a foamed layer of an adhesive thermoplastic mate...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a metal laminate reduced in such a phenomenon that a pinhole, a crack and peeling are generated in the laminate to a metal panel in a squeezing process at a time of can making and having excellent processability and corrosion resistance. SOLUTION: In a metal laminate wherein a polyester film containing polyester and inert particles is laminated on a metal panel, th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clear case with gussets, which will not generate any harmful substance upon incineration, and the manufacturing method of the same. SOLUTION: The clear case 21 with gussets is provided with rectangular fore and rear surface units 10, 11, a bottom gusset unit 12 for connecting the lower ends of the surface units with each other, left and right side gussets 16 for ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a folding seat for a vehicle capable of compacting a stopper body. SOLUTION: A seat cushion 4 is mounted to base frame 3 so as to move between a folded position and an unfolded position and rotate around a first shaft J1. A linkage 9 is constituted by the base frame 3, the seat cushion 4 and a first link member 8. In the first link member 8, a one end side is attac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a high-frequency fusible composition having characteristics of generating heat by high frequency and readily fusing to a substrate film, blended without greatly affecting physical properties of an olefin-based resin such as polyethylene, polypropylene, etc. SOLUTION: This high-frequency fusible composition is characterized in that the high-frequency fusible composit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such problems that conventional torsional vibration buffers have come into question as to durability and fulfill no firm connection between an elastic body made of rubber and an inertial mass body made of a metal. SOLUTION: A fan-shaped spacer 18 forming a fan shape by splitting a ring body having an outside diameter larger than that of the fan-shaped spacer 18 in th...

The present invention provides a room-temperature curable, reinforced thermosetting epoxy resin composition. The composition includes an epoxy resin first component, and an epoxy resin hardener second component. The epoxy resin component includes an epoxy resin, and may further include an inorganic and/or organic filler component, such as a structural reinforcement component. The epoxy resin harde...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve an accuracy of calculating consumed calorie by reflecting the difference in the intensity of exercise and the quantity of basic metabolism and to concretely grasp the goal and the result of exercise. SOLUTION: The calculator is composed of a means 110 of measuring impedance of a human body, a means 120 of inputting personal data, a means 130 of determining a somati...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermal head capable of achieving a simple device. SOLUTION: This thermal head comprising a heat sink 31, a heating element 39 consisting of a heating material 36, electrodes 48, 49 and an additional layer if necessary is so constituted that the heating element is optically transparent by having a transparency of 70% with respect to a light having a wavelength in...