Abstract: The character numbers of the characters of line sprites and the color palette numbers are specified in the regions C.sub.1,0, C.sub.1,1 C.sub.1,2, . . . C.sub.1,31. The data for specifying display position of the lines and shrinkage are stored in the regions L.sub.1, L.sub.2 . . . to L.sub.380. also, the number of active characters to be displayed on the display screen is specified in the region L.sub.1, L.sub.2, . . . to L.sub.380. Since only one display position is specified to each of the line sprites, capacity of the memory can be decreased, and control of the display can be done easily. Also, since the number of active characters can be specified in line sprite units, operation for changing the display and other operations can be executed easily with sufficient flexibility.

Abstract: The object is to provide game operation data control device capable of knowing accurate operation state of game programs. Game start signal output means 5, upon receiving a throw-in signal from a throw-in sensor 3 and a game start signal from a game start selection button 4, outputs a game start enabling signal. Game program control means 7, upon receiving the signal, starts the game program. Game state detection means 9, makes access to the game program control means 7 to detect current game state data. Calculation means 11, based on time data from time measuring means 13 and the game state data, calculates game program continuation time, and further calculates average game time of the game program.

Abstract: A steam flow meter provided with a steam flow rate detecting device and a steam pressure and temperature detecting device.

Abstract: A self-illuminating coaxial knob provided on an operating panel of an air conditioning apparatus, an acoustic apparatus or the like, in which an outer knob and an inner knob connected to an outer shaft and an inner shaft, respectively, are coaxially provided on a panel surface, the panel being provided with a graduation, and the knobs being provided with indexes, respectively. The outer knob is illuminated from the back by a panel surface illuminating portion circularly provided on a panel surface light guide, whereas the inner knob is illuminated by a ring-like inner knob light guide provided in a ring-like incoming portion.

Abstract: A fastener attaching apparatus for selectively feeding fasteners to portions of the material of clothes or the like includes hoppers for receiving fasteners, guide tracks and guide grooves for feeding fasteners, push rods for pushing fasteners, an upper mold for holding the material of clothes, and power sources that actuate the push rods for attaching fasteners to the material interposed between the upper and lower molds.

Abstract: A self-regulating pressure control valve, such as, for example, a self-regulated pressure reducing valve, including as the principal components, a pressure control valve, a pressure regulating unit, a driving unit for driving the pressure regulating unit, a control unit for controlling the operation of the driving unit, and a pressure setting unit for establishing a set pressure. The pressure regulating position of the pressure regulating element of the pressure regulating unit is regulated on the basis of the predetermined functional relationship between the pressure regulating position of the pressure regulating element and the controlled pressure so that the pressure regulating element is positioned properly to regulate the controlled pressure to the set pressure. The self-regulated pressure control valve is capable of controlling the controlled pressure at a high response speed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a swivel-head button comprising a button member with a cylindrical member upstanding from a flange and an attaching member with an opening in the center in which said cylindrical member is received, the bottom end of said cylindrical member being provided with a fulcrum part for swivelling head movement having an outer diameter larger than the opening of said attaching member.The swivel-head button is simple and minituarized in construction but retains a sufficient attaching strength.

Abstract: A meter for integrating the operating time of a steam trap including an integrating instrument consisting of a transparent vessel containing an electrolyte between two columns of mercury across which a DC voltage may be applied and a thermocouple including a hot junction and a cold junction connected to said instrument, wherein temperatures sensed by the hot junction causes displacement of the mercury and movement of the electrolyte in order to provide an indication of changes in temperature in a steam trap assembly.

Abstract: A flow meter for measuring the flow rate of a liquid, capable of detecting the liquid level in the upstream space with respect to a weir and determining the flow rate of the liquid on the basis of the relationship between the liquid level and the flow rate of the liquid that flows through the weir, wherein the width of the weir is designed so that the ratio of the variation of the flow rate caused by a fixed variation in the liquid level to the total flow rate at the existing liquid level is constant regardless of the liquid level.

Abstract: A socket constituting the female member of a snap fastener, which comprises a metal spring button part including an annular base, an inner portion extending inwardly and downwardly from the inner portion of said annular base, and further extending inwardly and upwardly and split into flaps which terminate with tongues arranged circularly for elastic engagement with a stud as the male member of the snap fastener, an outer portion curvedly extending outwardly and downwardly from the outer portion of said annular base and then inwardly to form portions to guide and receive the legs of a backing member of the snap fastener, and a cover plate having a circular opening of a larger diameter than the inside diameter of the circle defined by said tongues, said cover plate being secured to the periphery on the tongue side of said annular base.

Abstract: In a fastener-attaching apparatus equipped with a feeder for selectively delivering two different component pieces of fasteners from two separate feed hoppers to an attaching point, the improvement in the feeder which comprises a pair of tracks having a pair of vertically parallel fastener-guiding T-grooves which extend from the delivery openings of the two feed hoppers and terminate in vertically juxtaposed fastener discharge outlets, a shifting mechanism for selectively closing and opening the T-grooves of the tracks, a guide having a guide groove provided at right angles to the T-grooves and extending to the fastener-attaching point, with the fastener discharge outlets open in the guide groove, a fastener limiter slide located opposite to the discharge outlets and urged by a spring slidably and partly into the guide groove, the limiter slide having separate fastener-piece-receiving recesses corresponding, respectively, to the upper and lower discharge outlets, and a pusher bar slidable in the guide groove