Abstract: An illumination light guide includes a plurality of elongated illuminating portions; a light guiding path portion connecting one end of each of the illuminating portions; a light receiving portion formed in the light guiding path portion; a plurality of light distributing/reflecting portions formed in the light guiding path portion so as to correspond to the illuminating portions and having different lengths such that the longer a distance from the light receiving portion to one of the light distributing/reflecting portions, the longer a length of the one of the light distributing/reflecting portions; and a plurality of light reflecting portions formed at the other ends of the illuminating portions, respectively. With this structure, the light emitted from a single light source is received by the light receiving portion, and is uniformly distributed and reflected by the light distributing/reflecting portions and transmitted into the respective illuminating portions.

Abstract: A head position controller for a thermal printer which includes a thermal head, a platen, and a carriage which is supported for movement relative to the platen by a motor. The controller includes a head contacting plate, and a motor driven cam which engages the contacting plate to move the thermal head relative to the platen. The cam has a curve which is configured to selectively move the thermal head with respect to the platen from separating to contacting positions, a cam lever having a cam follower which is movable along the cam curve, the lever being connected to the head pressure contacting plate for movement only at a predetermined angle. The controller also includes a heart cam which defines rotation of the cam lever with the cam curve, the heart cam engaging another cam follower which projects from the contacting plate, and an intermittent moving mechanism which transmits intermittent movement to the carriage.

Abstract: A device for injecting grout around a tubular pile driven into the ground. The tubular pile has a given diameter and is formed by a tubular wall of a given wall thickness defining the inside and outside of the tubular pile. A grout feed channel capable of being driven into the ground with the tubular pile is disposed inside the tubular wall having a diameter which is small relative to the diameter of the tubular pile. A check valve is connected to the grout feed channel at a position along the tubular wall and extends through the thickness of the tubular wall so as to communicate from the grout feed channel through the outside of the tubular wall. An injection device is inserted in the grout feed channel having one plug which is fitted in the grout feed channel and located above the check valve so as to inject grout under pressure through the injection device and the check valve to the outside of the tubular wall.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing bread of a good quality from dough preserved in a frozen state. In this method the dough is stretched while subjecting it to vibrations so that the dough can be stretched without imparting pressure exceeding the yield point of its elasticity. Thus the gluten network structure is unharmed. Then the dough is frozen for preserving. After a desired period of preservation the dough is baked. Since the dough does not become deflated, but expands further during the baking step, puffy and tasty bread results.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of locking the functions of a mobile telephone system. At least two lock codes are stored in a memory together with the functions to be kept locked or actuated when the locked state of the mobile system is released. The locked state of the automobile is not released unless a registered lock code is input. When the locked state is released by inputting one of the registered lock codes, some functions remain in the locked state in accordance with the input lock code, while other functions are actuated. Thus it is possible to limit the use of the mobile telephone system depending upon who drives the car.

Abstract: An automatic canceling device for a winker system of an automobile that can effectively reduce the size of the solenoid incorporated and hence the overall size as well as the manufacturing cost of the device is provided. Such an automatic canceling device comprises a case, a winker operating lever pivotably fitted to the case, an expandable engaging section connected to the lever by way of a compression spring, a locking cam unit provided within the case and engaged with the engaging section to hold the lever in a neutral, left or right position, a releasing member provided in abutment with a cam provided on the lever to return the lever to its unlocked position and a solenoid to be energized by a release signal to activate the releasing member.

Abstract: A soft magnetic amorphous ternary alloy of Co-Ta-Hf which comprises a composition represented by Co.sub.x Ta.sub.y Hf.sub.z, wherein the composition ratio of x, y and z ranges, in atomic %,81%.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.85%8%.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.13%5%.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.10%1.ltoreq.y/z.ltoreq.2.5and x+y+z=100%. Thus, the refractory amorphous alloy has excellent thermal stability, preferable soft magnetic property, high mass productivity, and can be heat treated at 500.degree. C. or higher.

Abstract: An apparatus for shaping and arraying spheroidal bodies is provided. The apparatus comprises a means for continuously supplying a cylindrical body comprising an outer material and a filler material, a cutter assembly having cutter members circumferentially disposed to form a central opening, and an arraying device having an endless belt for transferring a tray. The cutter members slide inwardly to close the opening, and thus the part of the cylindrical body inserted in the opening is shaped into a spheroidal body. An endless belt device is disposed beneath the cutter assembly and the belt is driven intermittently and forwardly and the frame of the endless belt device is moved back and forth in a transverse direction. By moving the belt and frame of the endless belt device so that predetermined positions of its belt are in turn moved to a position directly beneath the opening of the cutter assembly, the spheroidal bodies drop on each predetermined position on a tray placed on the belt.

Abstract: A blower motor drive control circuit is configured to maintain a fixed value of motor driving current to maintain a constant amount of air supply from an air conditioner regardless of changes in the amount of intake air.

Abstract: A cable reel including a fixed member, a movable member rotatably engaged with the fixed member in such a manner that a space is defined between the fixed member and the movable member, a flat cable received in the space under a wound condition with predetermined turns and having opposite ends fixed to the fixed member and the movable member and extending outside, and a cutter provided in the vicinity of a fixed portion of the flat cable on the flat member side, wherein when the movable member is rotated by a predetermined amount or more, the flat cable is cut by the cutter. The improvement is that the flat cable comprises a first flat cable and a second flat cable attached to each other, and that a length from a fixed portion of the first flat cable on the movable member side to the cutter is different from a length from a fixed portion of the second flat cable on the movable member side to the cutter.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal composition sealed between the substrates. The liquid crystal composition has a twist angle set within a range of 180-300 degrees and a retardation set within a range of 0.45-0.7, wherein when an electric field is applied, the liquid crystal display is in a dark state, while when the electric field is not applied, the liquid crystal display is in a bright state. A filter is laminated on the outside of the substrates, and it has a hue complementary to that of an image color of the liquid crystal display in the bright state.

Abstract: In a cable reel including a fixed member having an outer ring wall, a movable member having an inner ring wall and rotatably mounted to the fixed member, and a cable wound with a plurality of turns between the fixed member and the movable member and having opposite ends fixed to the outer ring wall and the inner ring wall, wherein when the movable member is rotated in either of a winding direction or an unwinding direction of the cable, the cable is wound up around the inner ring wall or is unwound to the outer ring wall; the improvement comprises a stopper formed of a rigid material and fixed to the cable at a position near the inner circumferential end thereof, wherein when the cable is unwound by a predetermined amount or more, the stopper stands to stop between the cable unwound to the outer ring wall and the cable inverted on the inner ring wall.

Abstract: In a cable reel including a fixed member having an outer ring wall, a movable member having an inner ring wall and rotatably mounted to the fixed member in such a manner that a space is defined between the outer ring wall and the inner ring wall, a flexible cable received in the space under a wound condition with a plurality of turns and having opposite ends fixed to the fixed member and the movable member and extending outside, so as to effect electrical connection between the fixed member and the movable member; the improvement comprises a presser member provided in the space for elastically pressing the flexible cable with the plurality of turns from inner and outer circumferential surfaces thereof.

Abstract: In a color ink ribbon for use with a thermal printer, including a base, a plurality of ink layers having different colors formed on the base and arranged at intervals in a longitudinal direction of the base, and a plurality of markers for detecting the colors of the ink layers, each marker being formed on the base and arranged just upstream of each corresponding ink layer in a moving direction of the color ink ribbon in longitudinally spaced relationship to the adjacent ink layers, the improvement comprising a base covering layer for entirely covering an upper surface of the base in such a manner that the base covering layer is interposed between the base and the ink layers as well as the markers, the base covering layer having a coefficient of friction not less than that of said ink layers.

Abstract: In a double-cassette tape player for driving cassette tapes in a pair of cassettes in an alternative fashion, there is provided a mechanism for moving a single head base to respective positions of the cassettes by a single drive source, a mode detector for detecting that the head base moves in a first direction toward one of cassette receiving areas before taking a regular position in a second direction, and an error preventing apparatus responsive to a detection output from the mode detector to bring the head base to the regular position.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating a stack of cups made of soft material one from each other and transferring them is provided. This apparatus includes a continuously rotating cup holder and a suction nozzle that is mounted on a vertically and horizontally movable arm. The suction nozzle sucks the top cup in a stack of cups that are in the cup holder while the other cups are rotated as the cup holder rotates. The top cup is separated from the other cups and transferred to a preselected position by the suction nozzle.

Abstract: A magnetic head unit comprising a magnetic head supporting member provided with a magnetic head receiving hole formed in an extremity thereof, and a reading/writing magnetic head placed within the magnetic head receiving hole at a correct position with respect to reference surfaces formed in the underside of the magnetic head supporting member and adhesively fixed to the inner surface of the magnetic head receiving hole.

Abstract: A magnetic rotary encoder which is reduced in overall size and production cost and wherein little torsional force around an axis of a rotary shaft is applied to a bearing for the rotary shaft from a force from an object member for detection and the detection sensitivity does not fluctuate even if the rotary shaft is yielded. The rotary shaft includes a fixed shaft fixedly supported at least at one portion thereof and having an inner race of the bearing secured to an outer periphery thereof, a cylindrical member having an outer race of the bearing secured to an inner periphery thereof, and a magnetic member provided on an outer periphery of the cylindrical member and having magnetic poles formed thereon. A magnetic sensor for detecting a magnetic flux from the magnetic member is supported on the fixed shaft by means of a mounting plate, and a detecting member is mounted in sliding contact with the cylindrical member and rotates, when it is rotated, the magnetic member around the axis of the rotary shaft.

Abstract: A connector device for a steering system of an automobile is provided, in which a movable member is securely locked to its predetermined initial position when the device is mounted or remounted to a steering system so that it can effectively eliminate any errors in the mounting or remounting operation and the locked condition of the movable member is automatically released when the device is properly set in position. Moreover, since the locking mechanism is accommodated in the inner room (compartment) of the device where axially a relatively large space is available, the device has a variety of advantages including a relatively reduced thickness.