Abstract: A valve device includes a temperature sensor disposed to project from a housing to a tank inner space to detect the temperature in the tank inner space, and can detect the temperature without being influenced by the heat capacity of the housing. A coil generates a magnetic force to drive a valve with three terminals arranged at different positions in an axial direction, and a drive voltage is selectively applied between two of the terminals. A current value of the driving current which energizes the coil can be changed by selecting the terminals between which the drive voltage is applied. Without controlling the drive voltage, it is possible to suppress wasting power such that the driving current of the large current value is generated in the start-up time, and the current value of the driving current is decreased in the holding time.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a far infrared radiator used in various types of heating equipment. This far infrared radiator is comprised of a base material 1 composed of aluminum or aluminum alloy, and an electrolytic colored film 2 formed on this base material 1. Fine irregularities are formed in the surface of the electrolytic colored film, and nickel or cobalt is heterogeneously deposited from the bottoms to the openings in micropores of this film 2. Electrolytic colored film 2 is obtained by performing electrolysis treatment in a nickel bath or cobalt bath using an alumite film 3, formed on the surface of base material 1 having fine irregularities, as the cathode.

Abstract: The low pressure discharge lamp has at least one glass tube containing therein mercury and a rare gas and provided with a fluorescent layer on its inner wall and electrodes set up in a single base plate in an airtight manner, each end of the glass tube is bonded with an adhesive to the base plate in a condition that each of the electrodes are received in each of the open ends thereby to form a sealed space by the glass tube and the base plate. With the structure, damage of the glass tube in sealing process is prevented and the structure of the lamp is made compact while manufacture of the lamp can be easy.

Abstract: A low pressure discharge lamp of double tube structure comprises an outer bulb containing therein a sealed gas and having one end closed and an inner tube supported by an end plate to communicate with the interior of the outer bulb; receiving therein an electrode and restricting an electric discharging path. The end receiving therein the electrode of the inner tube is bonded with an adhesive on the surface on the side facing the outer bulb of the end plate and a part of an end other than said end of said inner tube is in contact to and supported by the end plate. The construction makes bonding operations of the inner tube to the end plate easy and provide a stable condition to the inner tube in an lamp assemblage and reduces lamp weight.