Abstract: An ice making device may include an ice tray; a drive part which is provided with an output shaft to which the ice tray is attached and in which the ice tray is turned by turning of the output shaft; and a frame body to which the drive part is attached. A twisting operation is applied to the ice tray during a turning operation for separating ice pieces from the ice tray. The drive part may include a drive side attaching part. The frame body may include a frame body side attaching part. The frame body side attaching part and the drive side attaching part are fitted to each other along a direction that is perpendicular to the output shaft, thereby attaching the drive part to the frame body.

Abstract: A leaf switch may include a cam body formed with a plurality of cam parts in a multistage shape and a plurality of leaf contact pieces which are extended toward the cam body and whose tip end sides of the plurality of leaf contact pieces are respectively abutted with the plurality of cam parts, and base end sides of the plurality of leaf contact pieces are held at the same height position. Further, an ice making device may include a water supply leaf switch for controlling water supply from a water-supply part to an ice tray, and a water supply amount adjust mechanism which includes an operation member that causes a leaf contact piece to deform to adjust a timing when the water supply switch is turned on or off. Further, an ice making device may include an ice detecting lever and a lever position detecting mechanism which detects ice amount in an ice storage part by detecting a position of the ice detecting lever.

Abstract: A drive unit for an automatic ice maker may include a drive part provided with a motor for driving an ice tray and an ice detecting member, a position detecting device for detecting positions of the ice tray and the ice detecting member, a control section for controlling drive of the motor on the basis of detection signals of the position detecting device, and a unit case in which the control section, the drive part, the position detecting device are accommodated. The automatic ice maker may be installed in an ice making compartment of a refrigerator.

Abstract: An ice making device may include an ice tray for producing ice pieces, an ice storage part for storing the ice pieces, an ice discharging device for discharging the ice pieces from the ice tray to the ice storage part, an ice detecting lever having an ice abutting part for abutting with the ice pieces stored in the ice storage part, an ice detecting lever drive mechanism for driving the ice detecting lever toward the ice storage part, and a case body within which a drive source for the ice detecting lever drive mechanism is provided. The ice detecting lever drive mechanism may include a turning output member which transmits a rotational drive force of the drive source to an outer side of the case body, and a turning-linear conversion mechanism which is arranged on the outer side of the case body to convert turning of the turning output member into reciprocated linear-motion that is transmitted to the ice detecting lever.

Abstract: A leaf switch may include a cam body formed with a plurality of cam parts in a multistage shape and a plurality of leaf contact pieces which are extended toward the cam body and whose tip end sides of the plurality of leaf contact pieces are respectively abutted with the plurality of cam parts, and base end sides of the plurality of leaf contact pieces are held at the same height position. Further, an ice making device may include a water supply leaf switch for controlling water supply from a water-supply part to an ice tray, and a water supply amount adjust mechanism which includes an operation member that causes a leaf contact piece to deform to adjust a timing when the water supply switch is turned on or off. Further, an ice making device may include an ice detecting lever and a lever position detecting mechanism which detects ice amount in an ice storage part by detecting a position of the ice detecting lever.

Abstract: A head positioning method and device positions a head which reads a disk-type storage medium at a specified location, and accurately estimates a bias value during settling control. A disk device includes a disk medium, a head, an actuator, and a control circuit, and settling control is performed based on a detected position after coarse control without integral compensation or bias compensation having been performed. The position of the head for a next sample is estimated, and an initial bias value is estimated from the difference between the detected position and the estimated position. This initial bias value is then used to perform settling control together with integral compensation of bias compensation. Since the accurate initial bias value at the start of settling is estimated, it is possible to reduce the time for correcting the shift in the bias during settling control, and greatly reduce the time required for settling control.

Abstract: A head positioning method and device positions a head which reads disk-type storage medium at a specified location, and accurately estimates estimates a bias value during settling control. A disk device includes a disk medium, a head, an actuator , and a control circuit, settling control is performed based on a detected position after coarse control without integral compensation or bias compensation having been performed. The position of the head for a next sample is estimated, and an initial bias value is estimated from the difference between the detected position and the estimated position. This initial bias value is then used to perform settling control together with integral compensation of bias compensation. Since the accurate initial bias value at the start of settling is estimated, it is possible to reduce the time for correcting the shift in the bias during settling control, and greatly reduce the time required for settling control.

Abstract: A head positioning method and device positions a head which reads a disk-type storage medium at a specified location, and accurately estimates a bias value during settling control. A disk device includes a disk medium, a head, an actuator, and a control circuit, and settling control is performed based on a detected position after coarse control without integral compensation or bias compensation having been performed. The position of the head for a next sample is estimated, and an initial bias value is estimated from the difference between the detected position and the estimated position. This initial bias value is then used to perform settling control together with integral compensation of bias compensation. Since the accurate initial bias value at the start of settling is estimated, it is possible to reduce the time for correcting the shift in the bias during settling control, and greatly reduce the time required for settling control.

Abstract: This invention relates to a head-positioning method and device for positioning the head, that reads a disk medium, to a specified position. A disk device having a head, actuator and control circuit comprises: a demodulation unit for demodulating the demodulated position from the head output, a calculation unit for calculating the error between the demodulated position and target position, and a gain-correction unit for correcting the error with a gain. Since a relative position is used, it is possible to accurately detect the position error, for which the non-linear characteristics of the head sensitivity distribution have been corrected, at each offset position.

Abstract: This invention proposes an output apparatus for storing a plurality of internal character code data for accessing character fonts corresponding to input code data and outputting a character pattern on the basis of the internal character code data, wherein input command data is identified and some of the plurality of internal character code data may be changed on the basis of a change command.

Abstract: A floppy disk drive apparatus includes a receptacle portion for receiving a jacket which has a notch on an edge portion thereof and houses a floppy disk with an index hole therein; a holding member for holding the floppy disk inserted in the receptacle portion; a disk driver for rotating the floppy disk held by the holding member; an index detector for generating an index detection signal when the jacket is inserted not to exceed a predetermined distance in the receptacle portion through a disk slot, or the index hole is detected; and a notch detector for generating a notch detection signal when the jacket is inserted not to exceed a predetermined distance in the receptacle portion through the disk slot, or the notch of the jacket is detected.

Abstract: A floppy disk drive apparatus includes a spindle for holding a floppy disk, a motor which is driven in response to a drive signal from a drive signal generator, thereby rotating the spindle, a head for writing data into this floppy disk and reading out data therefrom, and a control circuit which detects an index hole of the floppy disk and generates an index signal. This control circuit is provided with an inhibiting circuit for inhibiting the drive signal supplied to the motor when it has been detected that the floppy disk is not held on the spindle.

Abstract: A magnetic disk drive apparatus writes data in a magnetic disk by use of first and second magnetic heads. The track position on the magnetic disk where the first or second magnetic head exists is detected, and a delay time corresponding to the detected track position is set into a timer circuit. In the write-in mode, a CPU starts the operation of a read/write head section of the selected one of the first and, second magnetic heads and thereafter, when a delay time which is set into the timer circuit has passed, the CPU starts the operation of an erase head section of the selected one of the first and second magnetic heads.

Abstract: A floppy disk drive apparatus includes a control signal generating circuit for generating a step signal and a direction instruction signal, head driving section for driving a magnetic head in the radial direction of a floppy disk, and a detector circuit for generating an output signal when the magnetic head locates in the outer limit location of the floppy disk. The detector circuit is inhibited from generating an output signal in response to the direction instruction signal generated for driving the magnetic head in an inner direction of the floppy disk.

Abstract: A floppy disk drive apparatus includes a drive section to drive a carrier, to which a magnetic head is attached, in the radial direction of a floppy disk. The drive apparatus further includes a detecting section for detecting when the magnetic head is located in the outer peripheral or inner peripheral limit location of the floppy disk, and a control section for interrupting the operation of the drive section in response to an output signal from the detecting section.

Abstract: A floppy disk drive apparatus includes an index hole sensor, a spindle for holding a floppy disk, and a motor for rotating the spindle. The index hole sensor generates a high-level signal when the floppy disk is set on the spindle. The floppy disk drive apparatus is provided with a motor drive circuit which drives the motor in response to the high-level signal from the index hole sensor.

Abstract: A thermionic emission cathode comprising a base metal made of nickel-tungsten series alloy, for example an alloy comprising 90 to 70% by weight of nickel and 10 to 30% by weight of tungsten, and an emitter layer, which is formed on the base, made from a mixture of (a) tungsten powder or nickel-tungsten alloy powder comprising 90 to 70% by weight of nickel and 10 to 30% by weight of tungsten, (b) Ba.sub.3 WO.sub.6 powder and (c) zirconium powder or ZrH.sub.2 powder, and if necessary interposing a powder layer between the base and the emitter layer, said powder layer having the same composition as the base metal and a particle size of 1 to 10 .mu.m sealed on the surface of the base with a distribution density of 0.5 to 5.0 mg/cm.sup.2, can be applied to both directly and indirectly heated type cathodes. Said cathode has such advantages as being able to be miniaturized and to have high current density.