Abstract: A movable contact piece support structure for a seesaw switch including guide portions formed in walls of the seesaw switch and slits formed by cutting the movable contact piece and bending back a pair of flaps to make a pair of bent portions. The size and shape of the guide portions and the angle at which the bent portions are bent are chosen so that the movable contact piece rests on the guide portions and on a central contact with the bent portions in contact with the guide portions. The guide portions are further shaped such that bent portions slide smoothly on the guide portions as the movable contact piece rocks back and forth between on and off positions of the seesaw switch.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing various shapes of bread that comprises the steps of forming a continuous sheet of bread dough, winding up the sheet of bread dough traveling on a horizontal conveyor from one of its sides into a bar of bread dough, causing the bar to fall from the downstream end of the conveyor, and cutting the falling dough body into dough pieces by means of squeezing it with the flat surfaces of a cutter, according to its preset weight or length.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an X-Y direction input device which shifts a cursor on a screen in any direction, and particularly to an X-Y direction input device capable of not only decreasing its thickness to realize a compact size but increasing its resolution or realizing superior operability. An X-Y direction input device comprises a casing for forming an outer body and an operating body accommodated in the casing to be mutually shiftable so that a cursor displayed on a display apparatus can be shifted in any direction in response to a shifting motion of this operating body. This input device comprises a base plate on which an X-direction pattern and a Y-direction pattern are respectively provided, a first holder which is provided to be shiftable in a Y-direction, a second holder which is provided to be shiftable in an X-direction, a plurality of cover plates covering an opening formed on the casing and provided to be shiftable independently with each other.

Abstract: A method that comprises continuously depositing fillings on a sheet of bread dough and winding up the sheet with the deposited fillings from one of its sides into a bar of bread dough, with the fillings centered. This simple method serves to reduce production labor.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing various shapes of bread that includes a device for forming a continuous sheet of bread dough, a roller for winding up the sheet of bread dough traveling on a horizontal conveyor from one of its sides into a bar of bread dough, the conveyor causing the bar to fall from its downstream end, and a cutter for cutting the falling dough body into dough pieces by squeezing it with flat surfaces of the cutter, according to its preset weight or length.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for stretching dough is provided, by which bread dough or confectionery dough is continuously and smoothly stretched by linearly reciprocating a roller over the surface of the part of the dough that is continuously conveyed by a downstream conveyor of a pair of conveyors, one a downstream conveyor and other an upstream conveyor, while the roller rolls on the dough, without destroying the gluten tissue of the dough, and while determining the conveying speed of the upstream conveyor in response to the change of the thickness of the dough to be stretched, thereby obtaining, in one operation, a desired and uniform dough thickness from the continuously supplied dough material.

Abstract: A seesaw type switch having a first lever pivotably mounted to a case, and a second lever pivotably mounted over the first lever such that a protruding portion of the second lever abuts a top surface of the first lever. A protruding portion of the first lever positions a slider relative to a stationary contact connected to the case. The first lever is pivoted by manual actuation of a knob connected to the second lever.

Abstract: A tension control apparatus for a tape player comprising a motor for driving a reel table on which a tape reel is installed, a tension detector which is pressed by a biasing force of a spring to contact with a tape extending from the tape reel, a sensor for detecting a shifting amount of the tension detector, and a servo circuit which controls a load of the motor in response to an output of the sensor. The tension control apparatus further comprises a switching device which controls the load of the motor by a voltage supplied from an electric power source other than an output voltage supplied from the servo circuit until the output voltage from the servo circuit is stabilized when shifted to a tape travelling mode. And further the tension control apparatus comprises a limiter which suppresses the output voltage from the servo circuit to be equal to or less than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display in which an LCD is protected against the influence of static electricity or noise, and the color shading in the peripheral part of the display area of the LCD is suppressed. A ground terminal is provided in the area between the electrode terminals 5a and 5b of the LCD 1, the electrode terminals being adjacently positioned and connected to different flexible substrates 6 and 6. The ground terminal is electrically independent of the electrode terminal group 5's, and has a similar shape to that of the area between two electrode terminals. A ground pattern 13, which is independent of the lead pattern group 8's and connected to the ground terminal 12, is provided on each flexible substrate 6. The ground pattern 13 is grounded through a printed circuit board.

Abstract: Disclosed is a clock spring connector in which a flexible cable is wound reversely on inner and outer cylindrical units through a U-shaped turned-back portion within an air space defined by these cylindrical units, and a plurality of rollers connected by connecting plates are disposed. A radial movement of the flexible cable is regulated by the rollers connected by the connecting member. A tight-wind or rewind operation of the flexible cable can be surely effected. The connecting member prevents the adjacent rollers from impinging on each other.

Abstract: A security device includes a portable transmission unit that gives an instruction to start or stop security, a sensor that detects an abnormality of a tuner which receives a signal from the transmission unit and of an automobile, a sensor circuit having predetermined characteristics for discriminating the output of the sensor, and a security control section for causing a theft prevention device like a siren to be activated after output from the sensor circuit is received, wherein the characteristics of the sensor circuit can be set by the transmission unit.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a sheet of dough, wherein powdered materials, including flour, yeast, sugar, and fats and oils, for making bread, are mixed with particles of ice, such that the particles of ice do not melt, to make them into a dough mixture. The dough mixture is formed into a continuous belt-like dough mixture having a uniform width and thickness such that the particles of ice do not melt, and then the particles of ice are melted to make the belt-like dough mixture hydrated. Finally continuous hydrated belt-like dough mixture is stretched so that a continuous sheet of dough having a gluten network is provided.

Abstract: A disk player with a disk select function includes a disk playback unit having of a rotation mechanism for rotating a disk and a pickup positioned to face the disk, a storage area, defined in a location overlapping the disk playback unit for accommodating a magazine in which a plurality of disks are stored, a drive mechanism for moving the magazine into and out of the storage area, and a selecting/taking-out mechanism for taking out a desired one of the disks in the magazine and setting it in the disk playback unit while the magazine is moved out of the storage area. The disk player is constructed in the form of a single player unit equipped on a dashboard or the like, and a desired disk in the magazine is selectively taken out in the player unit. The top level of an elevated clamper is kept as low as possible to reduce the player thickness, while providing a large spacing between the clamper and the rotation mechanism.

Abstract: An automatic discriminating and decoding apparatus wherein digital data of a plurality of different systems can be decoded rapidly in a similar period of time. The automatic discriminating and decoding apparatus comprises a plurality of decoders connected commonly to successively receive a set of input digital data and individually capable of decoding digital data of mutually different systems. A plurality of decode memories are individually connected to the decoders for storing decoded data therein, and when the input digital data to the decoders are all decoded by one of the decoders, decoded data are read out from one of the decode memories corresponding to the one decoder and are outputted as an output of the automatic discriminating and decoding apparatus.

Abstract: A heating elements' row provided in the thermal head is separated into at least three blocks each including a plurality of heating elements. When each heating element is heated by turning on electricity, the last heat accumulation amount of said each heating element is calculated, as well the last sum of heat accumulation amounts in each block is calculated. And, the calculated amount of the sum of the heat accumulation amounts in each block is corrected in accordance with the position of each block in the heating elements' row. Subsequently, the time period for turning on electricity to each heating element is determined based on said calculated amount of last heat accumulation amount of said each heating element and said corrected amount of last sum of heat accumulation amount of each block, thereby adequate control of time period for turning on electricity can be performed so as to response to actual heat accumulation condition in each heating element.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for supplying a uniform strip of bread dough is provided in which a dough mass flows downward from a dough hopper, a dough portion of the flowing dough mass is laterally spread on an outlet conveyor having a weighing table, dough portions are cut and divided from the dough mass into dough pieces when a predetermined degree of the spread of the dough mass is detected by a dough-detecting device, simultaneously the weight of the dough piece is measured, the dough piece is then transferred from the outlet conveyor to a supply conveyor, the divided dough pieces are arranged on the supply conveyor at intervals proportionate to the weights of the dough pieces, and they are stretched to make a strip of bread dough. It has a uniform width and thickness, and is uniform in weight throughout the entire part of the strip of bread dough. Therefore, dough products cut and formed from this strip of bread dough are of a high quality.

Abstract: A seesaw type switch including a switch housing, a first lever pivotably connected to the switch housing about an axis, and a second lever pivotably connected to the switch housing about the axis. The first lever is pivoted independent of the second lever to press a movable contact against a fixed contact, and similarly the second lever is pivoted independent of the first lever to press a movable contact against a fixed contact. Also disclosed is a switch apparatus incorporating three seesaw type switches and includes a pair of interlocking members which are used to actuate two of the switches simultaneously.

Abstract: The invention concerns with a system for controlling a stepping motor, and more particularly with a stepping motor control system which moves a head of a disk drive unit with (1-2)-phase excitation. With the stepping motor controlling system, a driving force is produced to rotate the stepping motor by a predetermined angle with the (1-2)-phase excitation for ech step pulse supplied from the exterior, and step pulses with a plurality of cycles are used to make the stepping motor rotate at different speeds depending on the cycles of the step pulses. In that controlling system, a time period of the 1-phase excitation is changed depending on the pulse interval of the step pulses, thereby reducing a level of noisy sounds like seek noise.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming multicolor electrophotographic images through a wet-type developing process has charging, exposure, development, transfer, and cleaning devices disposed around a rotatable latent image carrier. The development device has at least one roller disposed in confronting relation to the latent image carrier, and a development housing in which the roller is rotatably disposed. During the developing process, the development device is supplied with a desired one of liquid developers of different colors stored in respective liquid developer tanks.