Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Process Computer Engineering, Inc.

Kunio Suzuki

Minoru Takahashi

Seiji Kashioka

Yoshihiro Shima

Masakazu Okada

Takeshi Uno

Koji Masui

Kunihiko Onuma

Yasushi Mutoh

Shozi Yamaguchi

A circuit device (e.g. mounted on a printed circuit board) is connected to a data network, to which network are also connected a plurality of other circuit devices under power. On removal of such a circuit device, the output driver connecting the circuit components of the output device to the communications bus of the bus network is first disconnected from power, and only when its disconnection is stable is the device withdrawn. A control device of the circuit device is connected to the control bus of the data network, and before power is disconnected from the output driver, the control device signals to the network so as to prevent other circuit devices connected to the network from signalling on the network. Effectively, the circuit device to be removed 'occupies' the bus. This occupation is maintained until the disconnection of the output driver is stable, and then the circuit device can be removed from the network. Similarly, on insertion, the network is first occupied before power is connected to the output driver. In this way, it becomes possible to prevent faults due to missignalling between the other circuit devices connected to the network when one circuit device is inserted or removed.

Insertion and removal of a circuit device into a bus network

A magnetic bubble file system having a magnetic bubble memory includes magnetic bubble memory devices as memory media for constructing a plurality of pages of information store areas read and written by page. The store area of a selected one of the plurality of pages of the magnetic bubble memory devices is allotted to a write protection information store page for the magnetic bubble memory. The write protection information store page stores write protection information of each page of data store pages of the magnetic bubble memory. The magnetic bubble file system determines whether data can be written in to the data store page, in accordance with the write protection information stored in the write protection information store page.

Magnetic bubble file system

An automatic assembly system wherein parts supplied from a feeder are held by a holder and are automatically mounted onto predetermined positions of a circuit board; comprising a first image pickup device which images at least a portion of said circuit board, a second image pickup device which images at least a portion of the part held by the holder means, a signal processor which processes an output of said first image pickup device to detect a deviation of said circuit board from a reference position and which also processes an output of said second image pickup device to detect a magnitude of deviation between said part and the predetermined position of said circuit board, and a positioning device which operates under control of said signal processor so as to adjust said predetermined position of said circuit board to a position opposing to said part and also to move said part toward said circuit board.

Automatic assembly system

A hair drier having a casing provided at its end with a discharge port through which hot air is discharged, a heating bar provided at the center of the discharge port and extending forwardly from the casing, and a hair setting member provided with a deep insertion hole for receiving the heating bar.

Hair dryer

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Kunio Suzuki