Abstract: A water purification apparatus for household use in treating municipally supplied water for removal of solid and chemical contaminants in which serially connected first, second and third water purification stage units are contained in a compact cabinet enclosure. The first and third stage units function as aerating and filtering units as well as to control flow through the second stage unit in which a column of granular activated carbon is contained with a small percentage of silver to inhibit growth of bacteria in the granular activated carbon. Each of the first and third units includes an interior chamber spaced by restricted aperture plates and contain between 3 and 5 multifaceted silicon beads which function as scrubbers to remove filtered particles from filter pad units on opposite ends of each of the first and third units.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer can be exposed by arranging a combination of electrodes in an opposed relation with an interelectrode distance of not more than 15 mm in a closed discharge cavity, enclosing, within the cavity, mercury as a light-emitting discharge component in an amount such that the vapor pressure of mercury reaches 0.4-5 atms during discharge lighting, forming a discharge between the combination of electrodes while controlling the discharge current at not less than 10 A, and irradiating light, which has been radiated as a result of the discharge and contains at least one of light components having wave-lengths of 405 nm and 436 nm respectively, onto the surface of a photoresist applied on the semiconductor wafer through a photomask or reticle and a lens which permits transmission of the light having wavelength of 405 nm or 436 nm therethrough.

Abstract: A continuously variable traction drive transmission of the class including three working bodies, two of which are concentric with a first transmission axis, the other of which is concentric with a second axis intersecting and inclined with respect to the first axis, and wherein the points of rolling friction contact lie in diagonal quadrants defined by the first axis and a line perpendicular to the first axis at the intersection thereof with the second axis. The body concentric with the second axis includes two oppositely convergent cone-like rolling surfaces of revolution about the second axis which are held in rolling friction engagement with annular plate-like members forming one of the two bodies concentric with the first axis. The other of the two bodies concentric with the first axis carries the body on the second axis in nutation and continuously variable speed ratios are achieved by adjusting the angle of first and second axis through 90.degree.

Abstract: In a refrigeration system, a centrifugal economizer discharges liquid towards an evaporator through a wholly static restriction (17), the dimension of which is chosen so as to allow no gas or little gas to escape with the liquid at the conditions of maximum pressure ratio in permanent operation. When the pressure ratio is lower, the flow rate allowed by the restriction tends to decrease with respect to the flow rate delivered by the compressor. This entails an increase in the radial thickness of the liquid ring in the centrifugal device. This in turn increases the pressure upstream of the restriction, whereby compensating the initial tendency of the flow rate to decrease through the restriction.

Abstract: A small sized fan motor is disclosed, wherein an armature is supported by a disk-shaped support in a cantilever fashion, a rotor has an outer periphery for fixedly mounting a fan having a plurality of blades thereon and an inner periphery for fixedly mounting a permanent magnet thereon in a manner that the permanent magnet surrounds the armature with a clearance being provided therebetween, and a rotational bearing having an inner race secured to the disk-shaped support and an outer race secured to the inner periphery of the rotor in a manner that the rotational bearing is arranged coaxial with the permanent magnet within the rotor.

Abstract: An automatic soldering apparatus and method thereof is described, wherein a flux is heated up to a predetermined temperature, and is then contacted to a face of a printed base board to thereby coat the base board and to simultaneously heat the latter with the heated flux and then the heated base board is contacted to a melted solder, and wherein provided in combination are apparatus for transporting the base board, apparatus for coating the base board with the heated flux, the flux coating apparatus including a tank in which the flux is stored, heating elements for heating the flux up to a predetermined temperature such that the heated flux is coated on the face of the base board, the heated flux simultaneously heating the base board when the latter is transported to the flux storing tank, and apparatus for soldering the flux coated and heated base board, the soldering apparatus including a tank in which a melted solder is stored which is contacted to the base board when the latter is transported to the tank,

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor having armature means including a plurality of armature segments each rendered into a flat form and arranged in a same plane around a center rotation axis in a manner as to form a circular outline; magnet means including a plurality of permanent magnet segments arranged in a same plane opposite to the armature segments coaxially on one side thereof with an air gap being provided therebetween, each of the permanent magnet segments having end portions in the radial direction defined by a geometrical line dividing the permanent magnet segments one from another, the dividing line being designed to extend in avoidance to be in parallel with a normal extended from the center rotation axis of the armature segments, said dividing line of each permanent magnet segment extending in parallel with another dividing line of the adjacent magnet segment to provide therebetween a groove of a predetermined width.

Abstract: A method for producing a multilayer printed-circuit board is disclosed, the method substantially comprises the steps of: printing an electrically conductive paste on one or both sides of a predetermined number of electrically insulated prepreg base plates to form thereon electrically conductive circuits; drying the circuit processed base plates; laminating and pressing the circuit processed base plates into a single laminated board; making holes in the single laminated board, the holes being extended through in the direction of the thickness of the board; and applying an electrical conductor to the inner faces of the holes to make electrically conductive the laminated circuits to each other within the single laminated board.

Abstract: An electrically-conductive member is provided on the outer wall of a cathode-sealing portion of a dc discharge lamp such as a super high pressure mercury vapor lamp, and the electrically-conductive member is electrically connected to a sealed cathodic conductor which is contained in the cathode-sealing portion and connected to its cathode rod. The electric potential of the electrically-conductive member is thus kept equal to that of the sealed cathodic conductor while the dc discharge lamp is in operation. As a result, the air-tight connection between the sealed cathodic conductor and the quartz glass of the cathode-sealing portion is maintained stably over a long period of time. Such a dc discharge lamp assures long service life and high reliability.

Abstract: An exposure device suitable for use in a copying machine includes a gutter-like mirror composed of an upper mirror and a lower mirror so that light projected from a light source onto the lower mirror is reflected to illuminate the surface of an original document in the pattern of a strip but light projected from the light source onto the upper mirror is reflected first onto the lower mirror and then reflected again by the lower mirror to illuminate the surface of the original document in the pattern of the strip. At least four small bulbs are arranged as the light source along the length of the gutter-like mirror and the envelopes of the small bulbs are frosted only at portions through which the internal filaments of the small bulbs face on the lower mirror.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an exposure intensity detecting system suitable for use in a copying machine. The detecting system is characterized in that a light-shielding plate is arranged underneath a glass table for an original document and defining therethrough a projection slit and a detection slit which extends in parallel with the projection slit. The intensity of light passed through the detection slit of the light-shielding plate is detected by a photosensor. The detecting system can correctly detect the intensity of light, which is to be used for the exposure of a photosensitive member, without giving any influence to the distribution of light to be employed for the illumination of the original document and to the exposure of the photosensitive member. By controlling the quantity of light to be radiated from a light-source lamp in accordance with detection signals of the photosensor, it is always possible to achieve good exposure and hence to form superb duplicate marks.

Abstract: A barbecue burner device is substantially composed of an inner vessel formed with a bottom wall and enclosed side walls standing up from the bottom wall and opened at the top thereof for accommodating therein pieces of charcoal, said side walls providing a stepped face on the inside thereof, said inner vessel further having a ventilation hole formed in one of said side walls; food carrier means adapted to be placed on said stepped face of the inner vessel; an external vessel for receiving therein said inner vessel, said external vessel being formed with enclosed side walls opened at least at the top thereof and having a ventilation hole which is in alignment with the ventilation hole of said inner vessel when the latter is received in said external vessel, said external vessel having support means provided therein for supporting said inner vessel and positioning means provided therein for positioning said inner vessel with respect to said external vessel; heat-insulation means provided on the inner face of sa

Abstract: A continuously variable traction drive transmission of the class including three working bodies, two of which are concentric with a first transmission axis, the other of which is concentric with a second axis intersecting and inclined with respect to the first axis, and wherein the angle of intersection subtending the axes is large acute angle so that the points of rolling friction contact always lie between the intersecting transmission axes. The body concentric with the second axis includes two oppositely convergent cone-like rolling surfaces of revolution about the second axis which are held in rolling friction engagement with annular plate-like members forming one of the two bodies concentric with the first axis. The other of the two bodies concentric with the first axis carries the body on the second in nutation and continuously variable speed ratios are achieved by adjusting the cone members relative to the plate members.

Abstract: A tool having only an end cutting-edge carries out a first movement of penetration into a screw blank so as to produce a groove having flanks substantially parallel to the pinion axis. The tool-holder is angularly displaced with respect to the spindle which carries the screw blank. A second movement of tool penetration takes place while the relative displacement is progressively reduced in order to obtain an inclined flank which produces a V-shaped profile. The screw is intended to form part of a compression and expansion machine and to cooperate with at least one pinion having V-form teeth.

Abstract: A rope wick for selectively applying liquid chemicals to plants. The rope wick comprises an outer covering made of braided polyester yarn and an inner core made of spun acrylic yarn.

Abstract: A compressor or expansion machine for fluids comprises a rotor, a casing at least partially surrounding the rotor and a pinion which is rotatable about an axis which is not parallel to the rotor axis. The rotor is provided with helical threads having crests which are disposed on a surface of revolution about the rotor axis and the pinion has teeth which engage between two adjacent threads of the rotor to form a compression or expansion chamber in conjunction with the casing, the flanks of the pinion teeth comprising at least three skewed surfaces which intersect in at least two edges.

Abstract: A foam dispensing gun of the type having a disposable nozzle for mixing and dispensing separate fluid components of a resin system. The nozzle is retained on the gun by a sliding breech which also pivotally supports a valve actuating trigger to be in an operative position when the breech is moved to retain a nozzle to the gun and disabled when the breech is moved to release the nozzle for reloading.

Abstract: The device has a cigarette butt inserting inlet which is operated, as a cigarette butt is inserted, to close a detecting switch to start a cigarette butt extinguishing mechanism which, in turn, close another switch for maintaining the operation of the mechanism in a predetermined time, the mechanism including a drive motor, a series of speed reduction gears, and a pair of adjacent rollers connected by transmission belts to two specific ones of the gears respectively and rotated in the opposite directions at a same speed, and the transmission belts conveying the inserted cigarette butt into between the two rollers.

Abstract: A power splitting differential transmission unit by which input power is transmitted in a controlled manner to one or both of two differential output shafts at continuously variable output/input speed ratios. The unit includes an integrated pair of continuously variable transmission units by which the output/input speed ratio for each output shaft may be adjusted synchronously for driving both output shafts at equal speeds within the speed ratio range of the unit, for varying the output/input speed ratio for each output shaft independently or for simultaneously increasing the output/input speed ratio with respect to one output shaft while decreasing the same ratio with respect to the other of the two shafts.

Abstract: A transmission device includes a first element having rolling surfaces of revolution on a first axis, a second element having surfaces of revolution on a second axis intersecting the first axis at an acute angle equal to or slightly larger than an apex half-angle of each of a pair of generally conical surfaces on one of the elements. The rolling surfaces of both elements are symmetrically disposed axially on each side of the point of intersection. The second element is mounted such that its axis may perform conical movement about the axis of the other element. The second element may be allowed a degree of freedom to pivot about the point of intersection of the axes and in the plane containing the axes, so that during operation of the device, a gyroscopic couple of the body causes it to pivot so that the cone surfaces and their respective rolling surfaces come into rolling engagement at points one each side of the point of intersection of the axes.