PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve workability in the installation of refrigerant pipes while suppressing heat loss caused by heat transmission between the refrigerant pipes and increase the degree of freedom in the installation of an indoor unit in a separation type air conditioner.

SOLUTION: In the separation type air conditioner, an indoor unit 1 and an outdoor unit 9 are connected via ref...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an outdoor machine of an air conditioner which enables efficient utilization of a peripheral space of the outdoor machine.

SOLUTION: An outside machine 1 of an air conditioner whose inside is partitioned into a machinery chamber 14 provided with a compressor 12 and a heat exchanging chamber 20 provided with a heat exchanger and a fan by a partition member 22...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video processing circuit in which the occurrence of a pseudo contour is prevented independently of the varying direction of a light emitting scheme, and to provide a video display device using the circuit, and a video processing method and a video displaying method using the video processing method.

SOLUTION: When video signals S1 and video signals S3 whic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical power meter sensor head which has high accuracy and permits stable measurement, and to provide an optical attenuator with little aging change of permeability caused by incident light suitable for use of the sensor head.

SOLUTION: This is an optical attenuator which makes the incident light emit via attenuation means (11, 12, 13), and as an attenua...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent image persistence and to make unnaturalness better.

SOLUTION: Video signals of continuous two fields or two frames are memorized and differences are computed by each of the regions dividing the video signals in the same plurality and to the same sizes by each of the fields or the frames. Whether the video signals are animation images or still images is there...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving device for a plasma display panel with which zero-voltage switching can be performed and stable discharge can be carried out, a driving method for the same and a plasma display device.

SOLUTION: In an energy recovery circuit, energy is stored in an inductor before the inductor and a capacitor are resonated and thereafter the panel capacitor is char...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a super-wide zoom lens having a sufficient zoom ratio in spite of realizing a large aperture and high performance.

SOLUTION: The zoom lens includes at least a first lens group G1 having negative refractive power and a second lens group G2 having positive refractive power in order from an object side. When varying power from a wide-angle end state to a teleph...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently rewrite a BIOS without stopping the operation of a server device by a simpler configuration and to allow starting with the BIOS used for previous normal starting before updating even if starting from an updated BIOS cannot be carried out.

SOLUTION: This server device is provided with a CMOS RAM 21 having a writing flag storage area, BIOS storage areas 1 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a failure operation verification device capable of accurately verifying an operating condition of each computer in occurrence of every failure.

SOLUTION: A steady load generation part 11 continuously gives a steady load to respective servers 51a and 51b in a clustering system 50. A failure generation part 12 causes a specific failure in the system 50. When t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the erroneous calculation of a relative speed due to the shift of the measuring site of a laser radar 1 from the side face to rear face of a vehicle.

SOLUTION: The imaging range of a camera unit 2 is made wider than at least the preceding vehicle detection range of a laser radar 1 which calculates a distance between its own vehicle and its preceding vehicle....

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of generating a boosted voltage for always maintaining a nearly constant voltage difference between the boosted voltage and an array voltage when the array voltage varies in a normal operation mode, a test mode and a burn-in test mode.

SOLUTION: The circuit for generating a boosted voltage is provided with a sensing signal generating circuit, a puls...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain luminance irregularity without forming an auxiliary electrode at a position corresponding to an effective luminescent part or without newly forming an insulation film for keeping insulation between the auxiliary electrode and a negative electrode; and to reduce the area occupied by a part other than the effective luminescent part on a substrate.

SOLUTION: A...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable reducing the number of connector terminals protruding outside in a connector device capable of loading a plurality of cards.

SOLUTION: A holder member 4 housing a second card 14 is arranged in free sliding movement between an ejecting position of the second card 14 and an insertion position of the same, is provided with a contact part 5d capable of contacting...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem of an imbalanced arrangement of conventional locking protrusions that can be arranged only on a semi-circular part of a peripheral surface of a cylinder-shaped connector.

SOLUTION: The manufacturing method of the connector includes a first process of insert-forming a cylinder-shaped connector main body having locking parts together with an electric...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem wherein it is hard to determine whether a card has been normally inserted, without impairing the thickness of a connector itself.

SOLUTION: A slide body 16 for ejection is provided with a lock restricting member 36 movable in card inserting and ejecting directions, which is arranged in a corner-cutting part 35 region when the card 2 is normally ins...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a card detection switch terminal for a connector for a memory card.

SOLUTION: A first switch terminal 24 of a memory card connector 10 is equipped with a body part 30 fixed to a housing 12. A contact spring arm 24b is supported from the body part 30 in a cantilevered form. A card engagement part 33 is formed at an free end of the arm 24b. The engagement part...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a memory card connector equipped with an improved switch terminal extremely simply manufacturable by using a flat plate material for it, hardly causing a twist or flexural stress, and capable of enhancing contact engagement.

SOLUTION: This memory card connector is equipped with a pair of third contact parts 60d engageable with first and second contact parts ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a memory card connector used for not only receiving a plurality of memory cards but also receiving different kinds of memory cards.

SOLUTION: This memory card connector includes a lower dielectric housing part having a terminal-mounting base and a pair of side wall sections extending forwardly from the opposite sides of the base. An upper dielectric housing ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a memory card connector having switch terminals capable of forming very positive contact between the terminals by projections by mutually engaging the terminals, of surely carrying out excellent positive contact engagement between the terminals because of providing an excessive contact by a shifted projection, and of remarkably improving conductivity between the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem that a load cannot be applied uniformly when a chip, or the like, is hot pressed due to diversification of semiconductor chip size thus causing incomplete packaging.

SOLUTION: The hot press heater comprises a head 1 for pressing a workpiece mounted on the upper surface 1a, a ceramic heater 2 for heating the head 1 by abutting against the lower surfac...