Abstract: A procurement system for procuring a plurality of subjects, comprises a storage, a relation processor, a determining processor, and a bidding processor. The storage is configured to store information on a price, a function, and a quantity of each of the subjects. The relation processor is configured to obtain a relation between prices and functions of the subjects, based on the information stored in the storage. The determining processor is configured to determine a priority, for at least one of the subjects each of whose price is higher than a reference value which corresponds to the function of the each subject. The priority is obtained from the relation obtained by the relation processor. Further, the priority is determined based on the quantity of the each subject stored in the storage and a divergence between the price and the reference value of the each subject.

Abstract: A lens-fitted film unit including a main body; a photographic film, pre-loaded in the main body; an electronic flash unit; a shutter unit; a camera lens; and a diaphragm. In the lens-fitted film unit, a guide number of the electronic flash unit, a T-number determined from the camera lens and the diaphragm and a shutter speed of the shutter unit are determined so that A is not more than 8.5 when A represents an EV value of a reference exposure amount of the lens-fitted film unit under a stroboscopic photographing state minus 1.5; and intensity of a latent image, formed on the photographic film under the condition that a reference reflection panel being placed at a predetermined distance between 2-3 m from the lens-fitted film unit is illuminated by the electronic flash unit without other lights in the stroboscopic photographing state, corresponds to intensity of a latent image obtained under a photographing condition of photographing luminance not more than A+5.0 in EV value.

Abstract: A number of LEDs 6 are vertically and horizontally arrayed on a printed circuit board 5, thereby forming a display surface. Switches 7 for turning on or off the LEDs 6 and keeping them in an on or off state are provided at locations corresponding to or close to the LEDs 6. With this construction, the LEDs 6 can be turned on or off directly from the display surface.

Abstract: Disclosed are carton assembling method and equipment for sucking and taking out flatwise folded cartons one by one from a magazine by means of suction cups, unfolding each carton squarely on a conveyance path while transferring it downward along a rotative path, and supplying the thus-unfolded cartons to an encasing machine by means of a conveyance mechanism. Each carton is held squarely by a pair of stoppers, utilizing its reaction force acting in the returning direction. Thereafter, the carton is reverse-folded against such reaction force and then unfolded again to remove the folding tendency of the carton acting in the folded direction, thereby permitting the carton to hold itself in a square shape. And at the time of reverse folding, the flaps of each carton are expanded so that a contents charging conveyor can be disposed in close proximity to the cartons.

Abstract: A vehicle cornering headlamp system in which the direction of illumination of the headlamps of an automobile are made to follow the actual direction of movement of the vehicle, except that the direction of illumination is returned to the straight-ahead direction more quickly than it is moved away therefrom, thereby more accurately following the usual eye movement of the driver. For this purpose, a control signal is generated which has a pulse width indicative of the steering angle but which has a variation characteristic with respect to steering angle which is larger when the steering wheel is turned back towards the straight-ahead position than when the steering wheel is turned away from the straight-ahead position.

Abstract: An automotive illumination system with which, when steering the vehicle around a curve or corner, both the path along which the vehicle is to travel and the direction straight ahead of the vehicle are sufficiently illuminated. Four headlamps are provided. Two of the headlamps, preferably the outer two, have directions of illumination fixed in the straight-ahead direction of the vehicle. The other two headlamps have directions of illumination which are controlled in accordance with the steering angle of the vehicle.

Abstract: In a vehicle cornering lamp system, a control signal having a pulse width corresponding to a steering angle is periodically produced, and the amount of position shift between the actual direction of illumination of the headlamps and the target direction of illumination determined from the steering angle is detected according to the control signal thus produced. An electric motor is driven to change the direction of illumination of the headlamps so that the amount of position shift becomes zero, that is, the direction of illumination of the headlamps is linearly changed with the electric motor while following the steering angle.

Abstract: An automatic chemical analyzer comprises a first rotating table supporting a plurality of reaction tubes along a circular first arrangement line and adapted to be intermittently rotated by a first drive motor, and a second rotating table supporting another plurality of reaction tubes along a circular second arrangement line concentric with the first arrangement line and adapted to be intermittently rotated in synchronism with the first table by a second drive motor. The reaction tubes are transferred between the first and second tables. A sampling nozzle, a diluent nozzle, and a plurality of reagent nozzles are fixedly arranged right over the reaction tubes supported by the first and second tables. A specimen, diluent and reagents are injected into the reaction tubes through the nozzles. The absorbance or other property of mixtures of the specimen, diluent and reagents are measured by a measuring system whose measuring point moves along the second arrangement line.

Abstract: An electric rice cooker includes a memory device having three storage areas for storing a plurality of cooking completion time data, a selection circuit selecting a desired cooking completion time data from the memory device, a display device displaying the selected cooking completion time data or the current time data and a lamp arrangement not only indicating the storage area from which the cooking completion time data displayed by the display device is read out but also indicating a current time display when the current time data is displayed by the display device. The selection circuit includes a memory timer switch and a pulse counter which counts the number of times the memory timer switch is pressed, and reads out a desired cooking completion time data from the designated storage area in the memory device on the basis of the result of the counting.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming bags from a packing film and then filling the bags with bulky solid or powdery materials includes a bag-making cylinder which has air-removing grooves in its outer periphery for removing air in the bags when the materials are collectively filled into the bags, thus resulting in a constant and high speed packing operation.

Abstract: The invention provides a cylinder pump for an automatic chemical analyzer or the like, which comprises a cylinder and a plunger both made of a rigid material and coupled together in a liquid-tight sliding contact with each other without any elastic member such as an O-ring interposed between the sliding contact surfaces, whereby to constitute a pump mechanism for withdrawing and discharging liquid, the sliding contact surfaces being mirror-like surface. Ceramics are used as the rigid material of the cylinder and plunger. Hence, the cylinder pump has high discharge accuracy, long life and improved measurement precision.

Abstract: Improved process for preparing silver chlorobromide or silver chloroiodobromide emulsion wherein first silver ion solution and second halide ion solution are mixed by double jet method and mole % of silver bromide, silver chloride and silver iodide are in specified range, characterized in that molar ratio of Br.sup.- :Cl.sup.- :I.sup.- in second solution is within specified range and further step is included to produce silver halide with control of silver ion concentration by using third solution containing Br.sup.- and Cl.sup.-. Such emulsions have sufficiently narrow grain diameter distribution and silver halide composition distribution, with constant productivity.

Abstract: A discharge device for a bag-making, filling and packing apparatus which consists of a bag-making cylinder around which packing film is wound for making a bag and through which commodity article is filled in the bag after the bag is feeded to the lower position consists of magnets for opening and closing movable covers which are provided at the discharge end of the bag-making cylinder. The magnets can be permanent magnets which are movable toward and away from the covers or electromagnets which are stationarily mounted adjacent the covers.

Abstract: A coffee maker has a main body which has a jug stand and a support portion parallel to the base at a predetermined distance therefrom. A cylindrical jug for storing brewed coffee is placed on the jug stand. A cylindrical extractor is placed on the jug. A cylindrical mill case for storing coffee beans is detachably mounted on the support portion to be located above the extractor. A motor is mounted on the support portion and housed in the mill case. A cutter is mounted on a rotating shaft of the motor and located in the mill case. The cutter is driven by the motor to grind coffee beans in the mill case. The mill case has a supply port facing the extractor through which the coffee ground in the mill case is supplied to the extractor. The mill case, extractor, and jug are vertically aligned to be coaxial with each other.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having at least one silver halide emulsion layer thereon, said silver halide emulsion layer having a sensitivity to a certain spectral region and at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers comprising a plurality of different-speed light-sensitive layers wherein the difference in speed between the fastest-speed layer and the second fastest-speed layer of said plurality of light-sensitive layers, in terms of log I.multidot.t, is 0.2 to 0.7, and each of at least said fastest-speed and said second fastest-speed layers contains at least one monodispersed silver halide emulsion, said monodispersed emulsion being light-sensitive and consisting essentially of silver halide particles having a granularity distribution represented by the formulaS/r.ltoreq.0.

Abstract: There is provided a multi-layer light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having plural silver halide emulsion layers having respective sensitivities to light at different spectral regions on a support, wherein at least 80% of the total number of silver halide grains contained in at least one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers having sensitivities to different spectral regions, comprise silver halide grains having grain sizes greater than 0.8 .mu. and silver halide grains smaller than 0.65 .mu..The multi-layer silver halide color photographic material according to this invention exhibits improved sharpness of the color images formed.

Abstract: This invention presents a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having at least two silver halide emulsion layers having sensitivities in different spectral regions on the same side of a support, at least one layer of the layers comprising at least two silver halide emulsion layers with different sensitivities, in which each of the at least two silver halide emulsion layers with different sensitivities contains at least one kind of substantially monodispersed silver halide crystals and at least one silver halide emulsion layer of the layers comprises substantially silver iodobromide containing 4 mole % or more of silver iodide, and further the iodine content in the emulsion layer having the highest sensitivity is higher than that of the emulsion layer having a sensitivity second to the highest.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion, which comprises (i) a mono-dispersed silver halide emulsion comprising 3 to 50 mole % of silver chloride, 1 mole % or less of silver iodide and 50 to 97 mole % of silver bromide having a grain size distribution of 0.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion containing a coupler for photography, comprising silver halide particles in said emulsion consisting essentially of 2 mole % or less of silver iodide, 50 to 97 mole % of silver bromide and 1 to 50 mole % of silver chloride, and said particles are core/shell type silver halide particles containing a higher content of said 50 to 97 mole % silver bromide in the surface layers of said particles than in the inner portions thereof, the surface layer of said particles containing 70 to 100 mole % of silver bromide and the inner portion containing 40 to 70 mole % of silver bromide.

Abstract: A color photographic material having a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a DIR compound having an amino group and a DIR compound having no amino group.