A device designed to use exhaust gas discharged out of an engine combustion chamber by dissociating chemical substances contained in the exhaust gas such as CO, CO.sub.2, NOx, HC, etc., in an exhaust gas molecule dissociating tube and drawing components of the exhaust gas, oxygen in particular, again into the engine combustion chamber. The device is so constructed as to collect dust including the carbon component of the exhaust gas in a cyclone drum for removal from the exhaust gas, which allows...

A compass attached to a car door mirror is disclosed which provides protection for the compass and improved readability, while avoiding the reliability problems of compasses mounted inside the car. The compass is embedded in the frame of the car door mirror which makes it both less obtrusive and physically more secure.

A holder for an article can be used on a display device at the point of sale, and as part of a rack of similar holders by the user. The holder comprises a base plate, holding means for detachably holding the article, first mounting means, and second mounting means. The holding means is provided on one side of the base plate. The first mounting means is provided for mounting the holder on a display device, and the second mounting means is provided for fixing the holder to a wall with the other si...

An autodyne receiver comprises a plurality of tuning circuits for tuning a high frequency signal in linkage motion thereof and, in particular, a negative impedance converter connected to at least one of the tuning circuits to cancel apparent parallel resistance of the tuning circuit. Since the resistance of the tuning circuit is cancelled, the sharpness of the tuning circuit can be improved, thus allowing the use of a stable tuning circuit having a low sharpness without use of positive feedback....

A time base error corrector comprises a chrominance subcarrier phase corrector whereby the subcarrier phase of a video signal is controlled before being written in the buffer memory in such a way that when the video signal is read from the buffer memory on the basis of the reference video signal, the subcarrier phase of the read video signal may match that of the reference video signal. In the NTSC system, the succeeding line odd/even (O/E) identification is predicted on the basis of a content O...

An apparatus for positioning circuit components such as flat package IC's at predetermined positions of a printed circuit board and a method therefor are disclosed. In the apparatus, a guide body is provided on the printed circuit board and a positioning member is installed on a retainer plate which holds one of the circuit components. The guide portion guides the positioning member to a point where the component coincides with the predetermined position.

A car door mirror angle control device adjusts the mirror angle in accordance with the driver's seat position. A support mechanism supports the mirror case and adjusts the inclination of the mirror face in accordance with the driver's horizontal and vertical viewing angles. The driver's optimum viewing angle is attained by adjusting the mirror angles in horizontal and vertical planes when the position of the driver's seat is changed.

In a telephone apparatus used for a telephone system such that the telephone set is connected to a remote destination telephone set through telephone circuits after an ID number of a subscriber has been transmitted to the telephone company, the handset comprises a key entry section including plural dial keys, a memory section for storing the ID number and destination telephone numbers, a display section for displaying a destination telephone number corresponding to an operated dial key, and a co...

A method for manufacturing a throw-away hob includes the steps of cutting screw threads on a threaded body at equally spaced intervals in the circumferential direction of the body and continuously in the axial direction thereof so as to form a throw-away hob body having a plurality of adjacent unit screw threads formed at equally spaced intervals in the circumferential direction of the hob body and in plurality of rows disposed in the axial direction thereof, allowing the threaded side surfaces ...

A process for performing binary-to-decimal conversion distinguishes between two major subdivisions of the information represented by the binary values and signifies the type of information for each value by a so-called attribute bit. The attribute bits for several binary values can be encoded into a single decimal digit while each binary value is itself converted to a reduced number of decimal digits.