Japan Aircraft Mfg. Co., Ltd.

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Fujitsu Corporation

Akira Obata

Takashi Yoshikawa

Takayuki Kitamura

Kakuma Okazaki

Shinichi Araya

Kazutoshi Kobayashi

Masahiro Kohno

Shigeru Kato

Sachiko Ishimoto

Hiroshi Shibazaki

Shigeaki Ishikawa

Toshio Satoh

Shinjirou Fujii

An apparatus establishes a common signal channel with a flexible channel capacity for effective utilization of the total traffic capacity between two exchanges or stations which are interconnected by the common signal channel. A traffic detecting unit in one of the exchanges detects a traffic volume in the common signal channel between the exchanges. Based on the detected traffic volume, a channel capacity change determining unit determines whether a channel capacity to which the common signal channel is set needs to be changed or not and determines a new channel capacity to be established for the common signal channel if the channel capacity needs to be changed. If the channel capacity to which the common signal channel is set needs to be changed, a channel capacity change executing unit executes a change in the channel capacity to which the common signal channel is set based on the established new channel capacity.

Apparatus for establishing common signal channel

A spring apparatus has a spring body including a plurality of elastic longitudinal beam members and a coupling beam member for holding the elastic longitudinal beam members at a predetermined interval. The apparatus further has a pair of spring retaining members for supporting the both ends of the spring body, and a rotary member rotatable provided around the central axis of the spring body as a center at least one one spring retaining member. At least one of the elastic longitudinal beam member is provided at one end of the rotary member. This spring apparatus is a tightly wound coil and made of the elastic longitudinal beam members in fully compressed state. When extended, each elastic longitudinal beam member is sequentially spirally deformed at larger pitch from the end. The twisting deformation of the elastic longitudinal beam member is released by rotation of the rotary member.

Spring apparatus

Disclosed is a water-surface target towed by a mother ship which comprises a towed member running underwater with a ballast weight suspended therefrom, a target pole set up on the top of the towed member, and a stabilizing plate attached to a position above the waterline of the target pole at an angle of incidence. The water-surface target can be used even under bad conditions and towed at a high speed, e.g. 30 knots, due to the towed member being capable of continually maintaining stability underwater.

Water-surface towed target

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Yokohama, Japan

Akira Obata