Abstract: A heating element comprises a base material and a heater disposed on the base material, which can be deformed to accommodate a part of the heater. A steering wheel equipped with the heating element is free from surface protrusions caused by the heater. Employment of a linear heater reduces connections between the heater and power supply lines, and a high connecting reliability is obtained. A steering wheel of the present invention comprises the heating element and the power lines, and connections between the heating element and the power lines are disposed in the boss portion of the steering wheel. The steering wheel is further provided with a temperature detector, a temperature detector heater and a temperature controller, and the detector and the detector heater are disposed in the boss portion. Thus a steering wheel with good grip feeling and a good appearance can be provided at a low cost.

Abstract: A sheet heater structured so that heating wire is fixed to air-passing base material by sewing. This structure can provide a sheet heater that has improved durability of heating wire 2 against the load imposed on the seat during sitting, comfortable feeling of sitting in the seat, and high air-passing capability.

Abstract: A firm which executes a power selling business by disclosing information regarding the contents of the business and constructing a power generating equipment will, at the time of starting its business, set securities or equivalent credit granting units according to the evaluated value of grants from individuals, corporations, or other associations which can provide all or part of said factors, obtain a fund by selling such securities or equivalent credit granting units to electricity consumers including companies and individuals who own equipment to consume power in a neighboring area of the power plant to be constructed, and give the discount of charge in a case where power is purchased from such business according to the value available with the securities or equivalent credit granting units, as a privilege given to a purchaser during the holding period of the fund until the fund is redeemed.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a cellular phone to be used for emergency reports that performs GPS positioning by means of remote control from an emergency report center, and transmits positional information to the emergency report center. The emergency report cellular phone according to the present invention is constituted such that when an emergency report switch thereof is depressed, a call request is made to the emergency report center. The emergency report center transmits a response signal with the result that a call link is formed between the emergency report cellular phone and the emergency report center. Following completion of the telephone call, the emergency report center transmits a position recalculation command message, by means of a DTMF signal.

Abstract: A wireless keyboard, provided with an optical signal transmitter, includes an inputting function to an information processing device and a control function of an electrical appliance. The wireless keyboard includes a plurality of manufacturer codes for selectively performing optical control of a specific electrical appliance of a specific manufacturer. The electrical appliance is controlled by selecting a specific manufacturer code from the manufacturer codes and transmitting the specific manufacturer code. It is preferable that the wireless keyboard includes an abbreviation symbol corresponding to each manufacturer code. The manufacturer code is selected by inputting the abbreviation symbol.

Abstract: A switch device includes ports, a switching part for switching data received via the ports in accordance with destinations of the data, a memory part for storing the data received via the ports, and an interface part for enabling access to the memory part from a processing device that is provided outside of the switch device and processes the data stored in the memory part.

Abstract: To provide a V-type internal combustion engine capable of forming a breather path having a sufficiently large flow path area without enlarging a cylinder block. A 5-cylinder V-type internal combustion engine includes a breather apparatus, a crankshaft having three crankpins and a cylinder block formed with a front bank of three cylinders and a rear bank of two cylinders. Two crankpins disposed at both ends are connected with two connecting rods connected to pistons fitted to cylinder bores formed in the front and the rear banks. A crankpin disposed in the middle is connected only with a connecting rod connected to a piston fitted to a cylinder bore formed at a middle of the front bank and in the rear bank. A breather path of a breather apparatus is formed at a space portion between the two cylinder bores at a position opposed to the cylinder bore in the middle.

Abstract: A filler-provided bead forming apparatus include a cylindrical drum, a transport device for transferring a belt-shaped filler to the proximity of one end of the drum, a pair of grasping units for grasping both ends of the filler arranged on the transport device, respectively, and moving device for moving the grasping units grasping the filler and wrapping the filler around the drum such that the filler is lying on the drum and a bottom end of the filler on a thicker side thereof is in register with the one end of the drum and further for butt joining longitudinal ends of the filler.

Abstract: A rotatably supported annular tire bead is rotated by drive rollers held in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the bead, and during rotation of the bead a tape is fed and stuck onto the inner circumferential surface of the bead. The opposite side edge portions of this tape extending from this bead are stuck onto the opposite side surfaces of the bead by being pinched from the opposite sides by flange portions of the drive rollers and flange members opposed thereto, subsequently the opposite side edge portions of the tape are folded back onto the outer circumferential surface of the bead by means of scraper members, and thus the bead is perfectly covered by the tape. The above-mentioned flange members are fitted around the drive rollers so as to be slidable in the axial direction, and they are biased to reduce the intervals between the flange members and the flange portions of the drive rollers. Furthermore, there is provided expanding means for expanding the above-mentioned intervals.

Abstract: A labeling robot system comprises a suction plate which uses vacuum action to pick up an adhesive label by its printed surface. Air cylinders operated by compressed air orient and move the suction plate to the object to be labeled to stick the label thereon, and limit switches linked to a sequence controller define the limit of the strokes and the degree of turning involved.

Abstract: A tire bead wire apparatus comprising a festoon mechanism for accumulating a bead wire strip, movable bead transferring means for transferring the bead wire strip fed from the festoon mechanism, cutting means for cutting the bead wire strip into predetermined lengths, a rotatable bead former assembly comprising a plurality of different bead formers which are different in diameter in relation to one another, former rotating means for driving the bead formers to rotate about their own axes, means for holding the end portion of the cut bead wire strip against a peripheral surface of the bead former, and pressing means for joining together the end portions of the cut bead wire strip to form an annular bead wire.

Abstract: A reheat steam turbine power plant having a boiler with a superheater and reheater disposed therein, a high pressure steam turbine, an intermediate pressure steam turbine, a low pressure turbine, and a condenser condensing a steam exhausted through the low pressure turbine to a condensate. A turbine bypass pipe is provided with a bypass valve. A branch pipe branches off a cold reheater pipe between the check valve and the reheater is connected to the condenser for introducing steam flowing through the turbine bypass pipe. A control valve is arranged in the branch pipe and a controller controls the bypass valve and the control valve. When the turbine bypass line is operational in one of a start-up or an auxiliary operation of the power plant, the control valve and the bypass valve are controlled by the controller so that the quantity of reheat steam introduced into the reheater is controlled and excess or surplus steam is discharged to the condenser through the branch pipe.

Abstract: A tire bead wire supply apparatus for supplying bead wires for tires one to each of a plurality of treating means for the bead wires.According to the invention the apparatus comprises holding means for holding a plurality of bead wires, driving means for moving the holding means so as to pass in immediate front of each of the treating means in succession and stopping the holding means at the immediate front of each of the treating means and transferring means for receiving each of the bead wires from the holding means stopped at the immediate front of each of the treating means and transferring it to the each of the treating means, thereby making the apparatus inexpensive and small-sized and operate with higher efficiency.

Abstract: A frequency determining apparatus discriminates between two different frame frequencies in television signals. A binary counter (4) makes a 1/64 frequency division of a horizontal synchronizing signal outputted from a horizontal synchronizing signal producing circuit (2), and further makes a 1/2 frequency division of the frequency divided output therefrom. A NAND gate (5) is responsive to the 1/64 frequency divided output and the 1/2 frequency divided output from the binary counter to detect the normal frame signal at 60 Hz, thereby to set a D-type flip-flop (8). Another NAND gate (51) is responsive to the signal obtained by inverting the 1/64 frequency divided output from the binary counter (4) and the 1/2 frequency divided signal to detect the normal frame signal at 50 Hz, thereby to set another D-type flip-flop (81). An R-S flip-flop (13) is set by the respective outputs from these D-type flip-flops whereby a desired determined signal is outputted.

Abstract: A strip supplying apparatus comprising a stationary frame structure, a movable frame structure movable with respect to the stationary frame structure along the side wall of the stationary frame structure and having a plurality of winding reels rotatable on the movable frame structure about an axis of rotation substantially in parallel with a direction in which the movable frame structure are moved with respect to the stationary frame structure, the winding reels being spaced in an equal pitch to each other, drive unit mounted on the stationary and movable frame structures for driving the movable frame structure to move with respect to the stationary frame structure by the pitch; unwinding unit mounted on the stationary frame for unwinding a strip unwound from each of the winding reels, joining unit mounted on the stationary frame structure for joining the trailing and leading end portions of the strips unwound from two adjacent winding reels, the unwinding and joining unit being held in line with one of the w

Abstract: A composite label arranging device is disclosed wherein a composite label having a layer of label material superposed on a layer of backing material, with feed flaps formed in both layers, is engaged with feed pins of a feed roller, by which the feed flaps are forced upright. The feed roller intermittently rotates in synchronism with the operation of a hand lever for advancement of the label on a platen. A label arranging member is disposed in opposition to the platen so as to descend during the squeezing operation of the hand lever and press against and thereby flatten the upright flaps.

Abstract: A novel 2-[4-(3-methyl-2-thienyl)phenyl]propionic acid and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds are useful for treating symptoms of inflammation and pain in mammals including man. This disclosure relates to such compounds, a process for producing the same, a pharmaceutical composition containing such a compound and a method for treating symptoms of inflammation and pain.

Abstract: Novel sym.-triazines having the formula: ##EQU1## wherein R.sup.1 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, aralkyl or heterocyclic alkyl group; R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, aryl, aralkyl or heterocyclic alkyl group; and Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents oxygen or sulfur, have a central nerve inhibitory activity, an anti-inflammatory activity, an analgesic activity and a sedative activity, and can be prepared by reacting a 2,4-dichloro-6-substituted sym.-triazine with a compound having the formula HO--R.sup.2 in which R.sup.2 is the same as defined above.