Abstract: A lie-down personal sauna comprises a base plate having a substantially middle portion, a first cover having a front edge and a bottom edge, a second cover having a lower edge, a rear edge and a cutout, a hingedly attaching member, and a heating member. The bottom edge is attached to the base plate so that the first cover partially covers the base plate. The hingedly attaching member attaches the second cover to either the first cover or the substantially middle portion of the base plate so that the second cover can be moved from an open position to a closed position through the hingedly attaching member. The base plate, the first cover and the second cover form a substantially enclosed cavity when the second cover is at the closed position, and the user is received into the cavity at the open position of the second cover and maintained within the personal sauna under the closed position of the second cover.

Abstract: An automatic tablet dispenser comprising a tablet dropping unit having a first drum body, a second drum body, a means for rotating the first and second drum bodies and a packaging unit disposed below the tablet dropping unit to package tablets released through the tablet release holes from the tablet dropping unit and discharge packaged tablet bags to an exterior of the automatic tablet dispenser. The first and second drum bodies are closedly looped by first and second arc-shaped outer drums and inner drums. Tablet cassettes form an outer periphery of said each drum, and the drum rotating means allows the tablet cassettes to be filled with tablets when required. Tablet release holes are downwardly formed in each of the drums by tablet release guides to correspondingly communicate with the tablet cassettes for the tablet release.

Abstract: An automatic tablet dispenser comprising a tablet dropping unit having a drum communicating with a plurality of release holes which open to a plurality of tablet cassettes storing therein and releasing therefrom a measured quantity of tablets, wherein each of the tablet cassettes comprises a medicine case having a cylindrical opening through a lower portion thereof, a cylindrical rotor having an upper surface and a vertically formed outer periphery along which is formed a plurality of guide teeth having insert openings alternately formed among the guide teeth, a male gear disposed below the medicine case and rotatably engaged to the cylindrical rotor so that the cylindrical rotor can be rotated in correspondence to the male gear, and a vertically raised protrusion formed on the central surface portion of the upper surface of the rotor so as to smoothly agitate the tablets received in the medicine case and prevent the tablets from tangling together with the waved guide while allowing the tablets to be evenly l

Abstract: The present invention is comprised of a headband (25) and one or more sound collectors (30, 75). The sound collectors (30, 75) collect sound waves and reflect toward the wearer's ears for louder reception. Some variations to the present invention can have one or more sound collectors (30, 75) that are parabolic in shape so the sound reflected off the collector surface is better focused toward the ear. Moreover, as an additional variation, one or more sound collectors (30, 75) can have a plurality of parabolic impressions (105) on the sound collector's inner surface (85) for better sound collection.

Abstract: An article for oral care comprises a housing and a tooth paste section. The housing has a first opening, a second opening, a front end, a rear end, and a cavity communicating with the first opening and the second opening. The first opening is formed through the front end and a conventional tooth paste tube with a neck can be inserted through the second opening into the cavity. The neck of the tooth paste tube is removably fixed through the first opening while securely holding the tooth paste tube within the housing, and wherein the tooth paste tube can be squeezed through the second opening to allow a desired amount of the tooth paste to flow out of the neck. The tooth brush section having a base, a connecting rod, and a brush. The base comprises a tube end and a brush end. The tube end has a threaded female bore so that the threaded female bore can be tightly fitted over the neck of the tooth paste tube to securely attach the tooth brush section to the housing.

Abstract: A hopper opening and closing apparatus for an automatic tablet dispensing system is disclosed. The hopper opening and closing apparatus includes a door hingedly connected to a discharge hopper for swing down to open and swing up to close the release port, wherein the tablets released from the tablets dropping unit are temporarily gathered in the tablet release hopper when the release door is closed. The door is formed to cover a release port provided through a lower portion of a discharge hopper. The hopper apparatus further includes a door control, which includes a horizontal opening bar engaged at the release port, a rotation shaft driven by a motor which simultaneously drives a heat assembly, a cam carried on said rotation shaft, an opening lever making an angular movement by said cam, and an opening link engaged to the opening bar and linked from the opening lever, whereby the tablets gathered in said discharge hopper are simultaneously dropped into a target packaging paper.

Abstract: A tablet dropping unit for an automatic tablet dispensing system is disclosed, and an automatic tablet dispensing system which incorporating the tablet dropping unit is disclosed. The automatic tablet dispensing system includes a drum unit communicating with a plurality of release holes which fixate a plurality of tablet cassettes, storing therein and releasing therefrom, a measured quantity of tablets. Tablet released from the tablet cassettes drop via release holes to a guide hopper of a tablet packaging unit. The packing unit packages the tablets released from the tablet dropping unit and discharges the packaged tablet bags to an exterior of the automatic tablet dispensing system. The drum unit has a pair of arc-shaped drum bodies partitioned by a predetermined space therebetween. An auxiliary arc-shaped drum is further located within each of the arc-shaped drum bodies.

Abstract: A highly efficient and effective ultrasonic nailing and drilling apparatus for various precision use, such as medical or dental surgery, comprises of a piezoelectric transducer means to give an axial thrust and a motor to give a rotation to a bit. Therefore, this ultrasonic nailing and drilling apparatus combines the best of the ultrasound nailing or drilling bit and the best of the rotational drill. The ultrasonic nailing and drilling apparatus further comprises of an elongated horn having an operative tip, wherein a bit can be fixedly attached. The operative tip can be in any form designed to for ultrasonic machines, and even can be in a similar shape as a flat screwdriver tip, as a Phillips head tip, or even as a conventional drill bit.

Abstract: A multi-speed bicycle transmission having a housing including spaced, opposing face plates, with each face plate having a pedal shaft opening and a secondary shaft opening. A pedal shaft is rotatably disposed within the pedal shaft openings of the face plates, and a secondary shaft is disposed within the secondary shaft openings. As such, the secondary shaft is spaced from, and parallel to, the pedal shaft. A pedal shaft set of gears are mounted on the pedal shaft between the face plates. The pedal shaft set of gears include: (1) a first set of pedal shaft gears mounted on the pedal shaft, (2) a second set of pedal shaft gears rotatably mounted on the pedal shaft, and (3) a third set of pedal shaft gears rotatably mounted on the pedal shaft including first means for selective driving engagement with the second set of pedal shaft gears. The third set of pedal shaft gears including a drive gear means such as a sprocket for engaging a drive chain.

Abstract: An air cooled ultrasonic apparatus comprises a housing having an air inlet, an air outlet, a first periphery, and a second periphery. A plurality of first and second protrusions radially extend from the first and second peripheries. The housing houses a piezoelectric transducer means and an elongated horn which is operably supported by the first and second protrusions, so that a cooling air is supplied through the air inlet into the housing and discharged through the air outlet, thereby significantly enhancing effectiveness and efficiency for its application to medical, dental and plastic surgery as well as industrial use.

Abstract: A tablet cassette for an automatic tablet dispensing system is disclosed. The tablet cassette includes a cylindrical rotor received into a medicine case of the tablet cassette and engaged to a male gear fixed to a motor shaft located within a driving unit. The rotor has a waved guide formed along an conically tapered upper surface thereof and a protrusion formed on a central surface portion thereof so as to smoothly agitate the received tablets and preventing from tangling together with said waved guide. The cylindrical rotor has a plurality of guide teeth formed along an outer periphery of the rotor body and a plurality of insert openings regularly provided between said guide teeth to respectively receive one tablet therein. At least one auxiliary case has an upper and a lower engagement steps formed along the periphery thereof.

Abstract: A tablet supplying apparatus for a tablet dispensing system includes a conveyer belt carried over on a driving roller and a driven roller, a plurality of tablet receiving trays, and a plurality of hoppers. A tablet release means is provided adjacent to a rear portion of said conveyer belt for releasing tablets in a plurality of tablet input ports correspondingly placed above the tablet receiving trays. The hoppers are attached to a guide which is cross-fixed between lower portions of a pair of side plates forming the frame. Each of the hopper includes a release guide, a lever and a control plate unitary therewith. The release guide is raised (opened) by a corresponding one of a plurality of cams regularly carried on a cam shaft driven by a first motor.

Abstract: A vehicle motion indicator having a base; a shaft rotatably attached to the base; at least one winder having a hub attached to the shaft; a motor for rotating the shaft to rotate the winder; and switch means responsive to the brake system in the vehicle, such that: (1) when the brake system is engaged, the switch means electrically connects the motor to a power supply in the vehicle to rotate the winder, and (2) when the brake system is disengaged the switch means electrically disconnects the motor from the power supply to stop rotation of the winder.

Abstract: A heater assembly for an automatic tablet dispenser is disclosed. The heater assembly includes a pair of heating rollers respectively having an insertion hole formed through each shaft thereof to receive a heating line therethrough, and a pair of peripheral sealing surfaces and a pair of axial sealing surfaces are appropriately provided on the heating rollers. The packaging paper is foldedly provided between the corresponding pair of sealing surfaces of the heating rollers. The sealing surfaces of the heater assembly has a plurality of continuously-and-linear ridged teeth formed on and along said sealing surfaces, thereby preventing a paper slipping phenomenon from occurring during the paper sealing process.

Abstract: A garment with a magnetic vent closure comprises a clothing, a magnetic flipper, a vent window, a ferrous element and a removably attaching element. The magnetic flipper extends from a predetermined portion of the clothing and has a first end and a second end. The first end is detachably attached on the clothing and the second end is fixedly attached on the clothing, and the first end of the magnetic flipper comprises a magnetic element fixedly attached thereon. The vent window forms a part of the clothing and has a plurality of vent holes therethrough and the magnetic flipper is detachably applied over the plurality of vent holes. The ferrous element maintains the vent window in an opened state by magnetically capturing the first end of the magnetic flipper.