Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.

Denso Corporation

Kenji Miyata

Sunao Kawai

Ryuji Yamada

Yoshihiko Horibe

Kazuma Aoki

Tomihisa Kato

Norihisa Fujii

Hideaki Teshima

Takashi Yamamoto

Naohiko Miyata

Takahiro Yoshida

Tadakazu Kato

Yoshinobu Nakagoshi

Yuichiroh Shigematsu

Toshiya Osawa

Kazumi Matsuo

Ryuji Kusuda

In a method of making a metallic thin wire, one single metallic thin wireis prepared to have a predetermined length with a middle portion of the one single metallic thin wireas a fixed portion. Front and rear half portions of the one single metallic thin wireare twisted with a tensile weight W applied to the front and rear half portions in the lengthwise direction. The one single metallic thin wireis processed with a heat treatment to remove a residual stress. This provides the metallic thin wirewith a high rotation-following capability and high torque transmissibility, thus enabling artisans to usefully apply the metallic thin wireto a main wire componentof a medical tool and equipment.

Method of making a metallic thin wire for a medical tool

A reinforcing structure for automotive vehicles is disclosed, in which cross car beams () constituting a reinforcing structure for the instrument panel or the like include an upper cross car beam (A) of a hollow bar such as a small-diameter pipe straight or having a plurality of curves and suspended between left and right front pillars, and at least a lower cross car beam (B) of a hollow bar such as an L-shaped small-diameter pipe. The part of the lower cross car beam nearer to the driver's seat is in contact and welded with the upper cross car beam, and the part of the lower cross car beam not in contact with the upper cross car beam functions as a brace (). A steering shaft () is mounted on the cross car beams in the direction crossing the cross car beams. A lower cross car beam (C) of a similar shape to the lower car beam nearer to the driver's seat can also be arranged nearer to the front passenger seat.

Reinforcing structure for automotive vehicles

A wire-stranded hollow coil body () has a multitude of coil line elements () stranded along a predetermined circular line to form a flexible wire tube having a central axial hollow portion (), the flexible wire tube is stranded under a strand-turn resistant load and heat treated to remove a residual stress upon formation so as to provide a high rotation-following capability and a high straightness. Further, a method provides a way to strand the coil line elements () under a strand-turn resistant load while heat treating the coil line elements ().

Wire-stranded hollow coil body, a medical equipment made therefrom and a method of making the same

A discontinuous position detecting device for detecting a discontinuous position at which date and time information indicative of date and time of recording on a recording medium is discontinuous, the discontinuous position detecting unit including, a scanning unit that scans the recording medium in a first direction and in a second direction that is different from the first direction, a first detecting unit that detects a temporary discontinuous position located in a vicinity of the actual discontinuous position while the scanning unit scans the recording medium in the first direction, a second detecting unit that detects the actual discontinuous position while the scanning unit scans the recording medium in the second direction, and a scan controller that controls the scanning unit to scan the recording medium at a first scan speed except while the second detecting unit detects the actual discontinuous position, and to scan the recording medium at a second scan speed while the second detecting unit detects the actual discontinuous position, the second scan speed being slower than the first scan speed.

Discontinuous position detecting device and method for detecting a discontinuous position

In a wire-stranded hollow tube (), a plurality of metallic wires () preformed with a predetermined forming rate are twisted along a circular line into a careless hollow configuration. When twisting the metallic wires (), the neighboring metallic elements () are subjected to compression with no gap between the neighboring metallic elements (). This increases a contact pressure between the neighboring metallic elements () to attain a good tightness with a good circularity and diametrical uniformity secured therebetween, thus preventing the wire-stranded hollow tube () from inadvertently collapsing. A tightness is strengthened between the neighboring metallic elements () when the metallic elements () of different helical pitch are used. By applying the wire-stranded hollow tube () to a medical guide wire, a quick torque response and a good torque transmissibility are ensured which lead to a good manipulatability with a favorable follow-on capability.

Wire-stranded medical hollow tube, and a medical guide wire

An information preparation device, such as a personal computer, detects non-consecutive position information, such as times and dates, based on parameters (S), such as preinputted non-consecutive point detection margins, and prepares (S) an information table with image information for each non-consecutive position. Based on editing parameters, the device synthesizes and edits (S) the information in the information table by date and the like. Then the device divides the information into objects, which is a data format, by data The device retrieves contents information and the like that corresponds to the divided information, and generates (S) and outputs (S) scenario information. The date and the like indicated by the divided regions serve as an index on buttons of menus that the user operates to easily select and display a desired images.

Device for processing recorded information and storage medium storing program for same

A method of making an information recording medium of the invention is that first a scenario template is generated based on an input scenario information and assignments of titles, chapters, programs, and cells are determined. Based on this assignments, a disk information file and video file management information are generated on a hard disk and a recording area of a video file data is allocated. At this time, in the disk information file and the video file management information, management information as to menu information corresponding to the scenario template and recording area of cells to be recorded in the video file data. Therefore, the efficiency of making a multimedia optical disc, such as a DVD, which records still picture data, moving picture data, or audio data such as voice, as a content, can be increased.

Information recording medium having logical structured recording area

A video image edit device for editing video image contents recorded on a video tape. The video tape is rewound to its leading end and a start point time code and a maximum video image content period are stored in a RAM. Then, a video reproduction is started and a time code and time information for a video image content are retrieved. A difference between the present time and a precedent time is compared with a predetermined period to detect discontinuity of the video image content. If discontinuity cannot be detected, judgment is made as to whether or not a difference between the present time code and a start point time code exceeds the maximum video image content period to determine a subdivision point. If discontinuity is detected, or if the difference exceeds the maximum video image content period, a present end point time code and next start point time code are stored for again detecting the discontinuity or judging the next subdivision point.

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Nagoya, Japan

Kenji Miyata