A shift register has a plurality of stages which output driving signals, each stage including a pull-up transistor to output a first clock signal in response to a logic value of a Q node; a pull-down transistor to supply a voltage from a first voltage supply source to the output in response to a logic value of a Qb node; a Q node controller to control the logic value of the Q node in response to any one of the previous stage's output signal and the next stage's output signal; and a Qb node contr...

A shift mechanism for a typewriter having a shift key and a shift lock key, both of which are effective to shift the typewriter carriage. A latching arm is normally spring-biased to a nonlatching position and is rocked forwardly to a latching position when the shift lock key is operated to retain the carriage in shifted position until the shift key is operated to release the latching force on the latch arm to permit it to be biased to a nonlatching position for release of the carriage from the s...

A control mechanism for an electronically controlled power shift transmission is disclosed wherein the shift pattern for the control mechanism includes an upshift and downshift path of movement for each of the forward, neutral, and reverse positions through which the control lever is movable. The control lever is biased toward a no-shift sub-position for each position of movement of the lever. A latching mechanism engageable when the control lever is in the neutral position does not restrict mov...

A vehicle drive train includes an automatic transmission, which has an automatic shift mode and a manual shift mode. The transmission is operable in the automatic shift mode and also operable in the manual shift mode. An input device has a manual select lever. A controller receives an operator mode change demand from the input device and conditions the automatic transmission for operation in one of the automatic and manual shift modes in accordance with the operator mode change demand after a pr...

A half tone type phase shift mask as well as a phase shift mask blank for the mask is formed with a thin film light translucent portion made of essentially, nitrogen, metal, and silicon. The containing rate of each element and ratio in the thin film is specified in a certain range to improve film characteristics, such as acid resistance, photo resistance, conductivity, refractive index rate (film thickness), light transmission rate, etching selectivity, etc. of the light translucent portion. The...

A shift control circuit comprising an arithmetic circuit for producing a string of a predetermined number of data bits, a logic circuit for detecting the positive or negative sign of the bit string and producing a first switch signal responsive to the positive sign of the bit string or a second switch signal responsive to the negative sign of the bit string, a one's complement generator circuit for producing a signal representative of the one's complement of the bit string, a first selective sig...

The invention relates to a shift register structure and its control. The positioning and/or synchronization of data contained in this register for the purpose of serial operation are essentially obtained by acquisition of data on at least one auxiliary output SA1 of this register R. In particular the invention enables a programmable delay buffer register to be produced very simply.

A shift actuator in an automatic shift mechanism of a geared transmission for an automotive vehicle includes a shift rod mounted in a casing so as to slide freely in mutually opposing directions and coupled to a fork shaft to acutate the same by sliding in either of the directions, thereby effecting a gear shift, actuating means attached to the shift rod for urging the shift rod in either of the directions by hydraulic pressure switched by a changeover valve, and a CPU for switching the changeov...

A half tone type phase shift mask as well as a phase shift mask blank for the mask is formed with a thin film light translucent portion made of essentially, nitrogen, metal, and silicon. The containing rate of each element and ratio in the thin film is specified in a certain range to improve film characteristics, such as acid resistance, photo resistance, conductivity, refractive index rate (film thickness), light transmission rate, etching selectivity, etc. of the light translucent portion. The...

A .pi./n shift PSK demodulator of this invention is formed with a digital logical means through the following method. XOR4 calculates the ex-OR operation between the present sample through .pi./4 shift QPSK output from SH2 and the previous one output from SH1. Accumulating 1 among the outputs from XOR4 in the first operation means 5 and multiplying it by .pi./8 obtains the absolute phase difference between the present and the previous symbols. The former or latter four bits from SH1 are subtract...