Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Nec Corporation

Kawada Co., Ltd.

Tomoaki Kodama

Kazuyoshi Hibiya

Shinichi Tanaka

Hiroyuki Kato

Masayuki Kanechika

Naoko Matsumoto

Junji Matsuda

Masayuki Makishima

Yorimi Yokoyama

Hiroki Yokoyama

Yasuro Kingo

Mutsumi Morita

Hiroyuki Abe

Toshiyuki Sugawara

A fluid processing apparatus includes: a casing having a fluid inlet pipe and a fluid outlet pipe; multiple rectifying plates with holes in parallel with each other provided within the casing on a side of the fluid inlet pipe, the rectifying plates being perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the casing; and a light source for irradiating fluid passing from the fluid inlet pipe through the casing to the fluid outlet pipe with ultraviolet rays.

Fluid processing apparatus having multiple rectifying plates

An apparatus for growing a nitride semiconductor crystal film, comprises a chamber that can control inside temperature and air pressure, a susceptor supported by a rotating shaft inside the chamber and on which a growth substrate is placed, a reactant gas supplier that emits reactant gas to the growth substrate in parallel to a surface of the growth substrate, a first subflow gas supplier that emits first subflow gas for pressing the reactant gas down to the surface of the growth substrate at an inclination angle of 45 to 90 degrees in a same in-plane direction as the reactant gas, a second subflow gas supplier that emits second subflow gas for removing the reactant gas from an periphery of the growth substrate to the surface at an inclination angle of 45 to 90 degrees, and an exhaust device that exhausts gas from the chamber.

Apparatus and method for growing nitride semiconductor crystal film

In an asynchronous transfer mode network, a virtual path is established between two subscriber switches through a transit switch. A virtual channel is established between two terminals which are connected to the subscriber switches, respectively. Any one of the subscriber switches detects a command signal sent from a terminal to establish/release the virtual channel. The subscriber switch judges whether or not it is necessary to change bandwidth of the virtual path on the basis of the command signal. The subscriber switch produces a direction signal for directing the transit switch to extend/reduce the bandwidth of the virtual path when the specific subscriber judges that it is necessary to change the bandwidth of the virtual path. The transit switch extends/reduces the bandwidth of the virtual path by a predetermined step in response to the direction signal.

Method of controlling bandwidth of virtual path capable of reducing load of transit switch

A touch sensitive switch with a light comprises a light sensor which detects a finger approaching the key top using the output of the light sensor to detect that the touch sensitive switch with a light is to be operated before the operation takes place. Notification to the person who operates the key-top can therefore be given by any predetermined effect such as a voice accruing based on the output of the light sensor just before the operation starts. Therefore, confusion does not arise even when the switch is put to a large number of uses.

Touch sensitive switch with light

An optical pointing device for instructing a predetermined operation by moving an index over a display screen of a computer is configured such that a plurality of photocouplers are arranged on vertical sides and horizontal sides of a rectangular operation plane at a predetermined pitch in such a manner that lines of action thereof cross each other at a right angle, coordinates of a first shading pointer contacted to the surface of the operation plane are detected by the photocouplers, coordinates of a second shading pointer contacted to the surface of the operation plane are then detected, and a moving direction is set from the coordinates to move the index. Therefore, a plurality of locations on the surface of the operation plane can be detected by the photocouplers independently, the moving direction can be set from the coordinates of locations where two pointers are placed, and only the moving direction is instructed from the operation plane, thereby making it possible to reduce the size of the pointing device.

Optical pointing device and pointing method using the same

In an optical coordinate input apparatus, the light emitting elements 3a and the light receiving elements 3b of a surface-mounted type constituting the photocouplers 3 are used and mounted on the substrate 2 in close contact with the substrate 2 and the photocouplers 3 arranged on the rear side 2d are displaced from the photocouplers 3 arranged on the front side 2c by half a pitch. Therefore, the lines 3c of action of the photocouplers 3 can be made close to the substrate and the resolution can be improved to twofold while there is not produced such a difference of the detection position that will cause practical inconvenience.

Optical coordinate input apparatus

The light selected by a selection circuit 3 at a light emitting side and emitted from a light emitting element 1 such as a LED is converted to a specifically modulated light by an oscillation circuit 11. The light received by a light receiving element 2 such as a phototransistor at the receiving side is amplified by an amplifier circuit 6, and a detection circuit 12 detects whether a specifically modulated light is received. The H/L detection circuit 13 determines the presence/absence of a light interruption to produce a signal of either H (high level) or L (low level). Also, the signal from the oscillator 11 of the emission side is received by the receiving side and compared with the received signal to determine whether the same signal as emitted from the emitting element has been actually received.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomoaki Kodama