Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kyocera Corporation

Noboru Nakamura

Shinichi Murata

Michiyasu Yoshida

Yukinori Kuwano

Masaaki Miyazaki

Shoichi Nakano

Mitsuaki Ishii

Hiroyuki Kuriyama

Hideo Kakinuma

Shinya Tsuda

Hisaki Tarui

Hajime Kako

Shigeru Noguchi

Hiroaki Izu

Akira Terakawa

Hirofumi Higashi

Yukio Nakashima

Hideki Miyamoto

Masato Nishikuni

Mitsuru Kishimoto

Mikio Taguchi

Takao Matsuyama

Sadakatsu Ushio

Sadakatu Ushio

Tetsuo Ebisudani

Hiroyasu Endo

Tokiichi Mizukami

Mitsunori Ito

Hideki Miayamoto

Takeo Tsutsumi

Makoto Tanaka

Fumiyasu Niwa

Masataka Iwata

Masayuki Yamahiro

Kunihiro Kawamoto

In a photovoltaic device comprising a thin intrinsic amorphous semiconductor film inserted in a junction portion of a crystalline semiconductor substrate and an amorphous semiconductor film which have conductive types reverse to each other, an optical band gap of the intrinsic amorphous semiconductor film is expanded on a side in contact with the amorphous semiconductor film.

Photovoltaic device with intrinsic amorphous film at junction, having varied optical band gap through thickness thereof

The ferrule of the prior art requires an assembling process, high accuracy machining of the fitting portion, machining of the insert to achieve concentricity, machining of the cone and machining of the outer diameter with a high accuracy. This has been making a factor that increases the production cost of the ferrule which is required to have lower price. The present invention provides an ferrule comprising an insert of substantially cylindrical shape that has a fine hole for housing an optical fiber in the axial direction, and an ferrule body made of a resin for accepting the insert fitted therein, characterized in that: the ferrule body has a through hole made in the axial direction thereof, and the through hole communicates with the fine hole of the insert via a tapered hole, with concentricity between the fine hole of the insert and the periphery of the ferrule body being within 10 &mgr;m.

Ferrule for connecting optical fibers, method of producing the same and optical fiber connector using the same

An electrostatic motor for use as a power generating mechanism to be mounted on a micromachine includes a rotatable semiconductor substrate and a drive electrode disposed in proximity to the substrate. The semiconductor substrate is doped with a specified impurity element to form electromagnetic wave-static electric converters of p-n junction. When the motor is to be started, the converter in the vicinity of the electrode is irradiated with electromagnetic waves to set up an electric field between the opposed surfaces of the converter and the electrode to rotate the substrate by an electrostatic force due to the electric field.

Micromachine

The cylinder head of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention comprises a head base portion and an extended head portion connected to the head base portion. The extended head portion allows to arrange a variable valve timing mechanism in the cylinder head of the present invention, together with the valve system of the engine itself. The head base portion has the same interior as that of a prior cylinder head of DOHC type and a height equal to that of an another prior cylinder head of SOHC. The DOHC and SOHC cylinder head can be processed in a common manufacturing line whereby the head base portion can be also processed in the common manufacturing line.

Cylinder head of an internal combustion engine

A semiconductor device including a semiconducting layer made of polycrystalline silicon, an insulating film provided on an upper face of the semiconducting layer and an electrode provided on an upper face of the insulating film such that channels are formed on the upper face of the semiconducting layer, the improvement comprising: a further semiconducting layer made of amorphous silicon, which is provided between the semiconducting layer and the insulating film.

Semiconductor device

Valve operating apparatus

A valve system for an automobile engine opens and closes intake and exhaust valves by reciprocative force of a crankshaft. Specifically, the valve system controls timing for operating and stopping these valves, and the amount of cam lift. The valve system comprises a camshaft, a rocker shaft in parallel to the camshaft, a main rocker arm mounted on the rocker shaft, a sub-rocker arm pivotally supported on the rocker shaft, engaging means for engaging and disengaging the rocker shaft with and from the sub-rocker arm, and driving means for driving the engaging means. The engaging means includes an opening on a rotating surface of the sub-rocker arm, a plunger located in the rocker shaft and an oil chamber located at an upper or lower end of the plunger. The driving means includes an oil gallery in the rocker shaft and an oil pressuring member.

Valve system for automobile engine

The invention discloses a novel flat display panel suited for use with computer terminal equipment, television sets, or the like. The flat display panel first confines light in a core layer of a light wave guide, and then diminishes refractive index in part of the core layer by applying a specific vltage to it. Light transmitted from part of the core layer having diminished refractive index is then outputted outside from the light wave guide. Using the externally outputted light, the flat display panel displays figures. The flat display panel embodied by the invention minimizes the total thickness of the display panel itself. It effectively allows display of figures in a sizable visual area, and yet, allows display of figures at an extremely fast speed as well.

Flat display panel

An engine unit includes a cylinder block of a short-skirt type which has a plurality of first partition walls and a plurality of crank journals formed on the partition walls and rotatably receiving the crankshaft. Bearing caps are fitted to the crank journals and rotatably hold the crankshaft in cooperation with the crank journals. A lower case is fixed to the cylinder block and covers the crankshaft. The lower case includes a pair of flanges abutting against the lower edges of the skirt portions, a semi-cylindrical bottom wall, and a plurality of second partition walls formed on the bottom wall to oppose the first partition walls. Each bearing cap is clamped between the first and second partition walls. The lower case is fixed to the cylinder block by means of first bolts screwed into the skirt portions through the flanges, and second bolts screwed into the crank journals through the second partition walls and bearing caps.

Engine unit

A structure of internal combustion engine comprises a cylinder member composed of a cylinder which accomodates a piston connected with a crankshaft, a crankcase provided to accomodate said crankshaft, a rocker case provided to accomodate a valve actuating mechanism, an oil return passage constituting means for leading oil in said rocker case into said crankcase, and a restraining means for restraining an air flow within said crankcase from entering into said oil return passage constituting means. By the effect of the restraining means provided in relation to the oil return passage constituting means, the air flow generated by the rotation of the crankshaft does not work as a dynamic pressure of hingering the flowingdown of oil.

Structure of internal combustion engine

Engine speed control apparatus

Idling speed control system of an internal combustion engine

This invention relates to a uniquely configured pen. The pen has an ink storage portion for holding the ink, a pipe-like pen point made of alumina and an ink guide core extending between the pen point and the ink storage portion.

Ceramic pen point and pen provided therewith

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Kyoto, Japan

Noboru Nakamura