A resistor having a ceramic sintered body and at least one resistor film embedded therein so as to be covered by the ceramic sintered body except for portions of the resistor film-chat are connected to external electrodes. The sintered body is mainly composed of ZnO, and contains at least one element of Bi, Pb, B and Si as a subcomponent with respect to the main component.

A fixed wrench has a handle, and an open end located at one end of the handle and formed of a left jaw and a right jaw. The left jaw and the right jaw are provided respectively with a first actuating surface and a second actuating surface. A first holding portion for holding a first fastening piece is formed by the first actuating surfaces of the left jaw and the right jaw. A second holding portion is formed by the second actuating surfaces of the left jaw and the right jaw for holding a second …

A cursor which is fixed at a point in a display screen, where navigational controls move the contents of display screen rather than the cursor. Preferably the cursor is used in conjunction with hand held displays.

An easy to install and easy to expand broadband local area network is disclosed. The network has a star-type architecture based upon a fixed-gain, fixed-loss approach to amplification and a star-feeder approach to providing user connection to the network.

A turret is movable in azimuth within a turret support structure and a large caliber cannon is movable in elevation within the turret. An automatic loading mechanism is contained within the turret operating to move fixed ammunition rounds between a turret mounted magazine and the cannon breech. The magazine in one embodiment includes a rotating carousel and a number of rotatable drums mounted thereon. The drums have storage cells for ammunition rounds. A transfer mechanism operates to move the r…

A hole opener including a tool body having upper and lower ends. The upper and lower ends may be coupled to adjacent drilling tools. At least two blades are formed on the tool body and are arranged so that the hole opener is positioned concentric with a wellbore, and cutting elements are located on the blades. The at least two blades and the cutting elements are arranged to increase a diameter of a previously drilled wellbore.A hole opener including a tool body having upper and lower ends. The u…

A fixed quality source coder receives and performs VQ on an input signal I.sub.D. The signal I.sub.D may be characterized by the number of samples/frame and bits per sample, and may be provided by a traditional source coder. The traditional source coder may include a sample-and-hold (S/H) circuit producing rxs samples/frame and an ADC providing n bits per pixel. In a first embodiment, the number of bits/sample is increased. In the second embodiment, the number of samples/frame is increased. In a…

A fixed latch lock structure including a housing, at the rear and the front of which is symmetrically located a hole at each end with a movable shaft latch passing through. The shaft latch can be latched forward in a fixed hole in a fixed stand manually and can promptly press back automatically from the latching position to where it was by the controlling of the following installation: a control plate in the housing, a spring sheet at the bottom of the housing and the spring extending around on …

The invention relates to inertial energy storage devices wherein a central hub holds a multiplicity of anisotropic filaments, the filaments extending from the hub in fixed relation thereto and in parallel planes perpendicular to an axis of rotation through said hub. Each filament extending from the central hub is so disposed within the structure that the stress component imposed on said filament acts uniaxially along its length.

An apparatus in which a plurality of sheets are stapled to one another. The stapling frequency is dependent upon the number of sheets being stapled together. The foregoing abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.