Abstract: A method of operating an auger ice-making machine having a refrigeration casing, an auger screw rotatably disposed inside the casing and feeding, while scraping, the ice frozen on an inner wall surface of the casing, a stocker for storing/retaining the ice fed, the stocker being formed with an ice discharge port of the stocker in order to discharge the ice to an exterior of the machine by being opened, and a stored-ice detector for detecting a high level, and a low level, of a quantity of ice stored within the stocker, wherein: when the stored-ice detector detects the high level, a controller is activated to stop ice-making operation, and when the quantity of ice stored decreases below the low level by a required quantity, the controller restarts the ice-making operation; and when the controller judges, during a stopped state of the ice-making operation, that a block of ice has occurred in the stocker, the controller restarts the ice-making operation, provided that the stored-ice detector has detected the low

Abstract: A light-emitting diode including a curved surface portion 14aA formed in the front face of a sealing member 14 with the cross-sectional shape of the curved surface portion being in the shape of an undulating curve that has a concave curve C1 near the optical axis and convex curves C2 on both sides of concave curve C1, thus allowing the light emitted from a light-emitting chip 12 at a small divergence angle centered on the optical axis Ax to reach the concave curve C1 and to be directed forward as diffused light deflected from the optical axis and further allowing the light emitted at a large divergence angle centered on the optical axis Ax to reach the convex curves C2 and to be directed forward as light deflected toward line L positioned at the divergence angle ?.

Abstract: An intermittently rotating table-type apparatus for manufacturing a bag equipped with spout(s). The apparatus attaches spout(s) to at least one of the mouths of a bag that are at both shoulders of the bag. The mouth(s) of the bag is expanded by bag mouth suction cups, and the main body of the bag is expanded by main body suction cups; and then the spout(s) is inserted in the bag mouth(s), and the inserted spout(s) is held by spout gripping members. When the bag is moved by the rotation of the table, a suction cup arm that supplies suction air to the suction cup and the suction cup are moved to follow the movement of the bag; and after the sealing is made to the bag and spout(s), the arm and the suction cup return to their original positions.

Abstract: A video magnifier includes a monitor having a rectangular display screen, a base having a top on which the monitor is mounted, the base further having a right side, a left side, a front and a rear, a plurality of mounting sections formed on the right and left sides and at least one of the front and the rear of the base respectively, a camera holder detachably attached to one of the mounting sections, an imaging camera held on the holder so as to be detachable from the holder and having supporting legs supporting the camera within the camera holder at a predetermined height from a face to be imaged, and an image display control circuit for controlling the monitor so that an image imaged by the imaging camera is displayed on the display screen of the monitor.

Abstract: An electric grating food processor including a food material receiving section 18 that has an opening in its upper part and receives processed food materials therein, a cylindrical food material charging section 68 that has a lower end opening at its lower end, a grater plate 58 that is rotated or linearly reciprocated under the lower end opening of the food material charging section, and a drive unit for operating (rotating or linearly reciprocating) the grater plate; and the grater plate is formed with larger grating blades on one surface side thereof and lower grating blades on another surface side thereof, and the grater plate is further provided thereon with a gap adjuster 98 that adjusts the gap between the tip ends of the grating blades and the lower end opening of the food material charging section.

Abstract: With an assumption that the three data of the position (X1, Y1) of the first positioning pattern 202 and position (X2, Y2) of the second positioning pattern 212 of the reference chip 200, and the position (X3, Y3) of the first positioning pattern 232 of the bonding object chip 230, as well as the length L of a line segment connecting (X1, Y1) and (X2, Y2), and the angle ?2 of this line segment with respect to the X axis, are known, the coordinates (X4, Y4) of the center position of the imaging range 250 that is to be imaged next is determined by detecting the inclination-angle ?? of the first positioning pattern 232 of the bonding object chip 230. Furthermore, the imaging range can be narrowed and the second positioning pattern 252 can be captured by increasing the precision of ??.

Abstract: A dental cutting device has a head portion (10) which accommodates a rotary cylinder (20) for holding a cutting tool (22), and a turbine blade (21) mounted around and secured on the rotary cylinder (20). Air fed from an air-supply port (24) is blown onto the turbine blade to rotate the same, and the air blown onto the turbine blade is exhausted from the exhaust port (25). The head portion has a first chamber (26) which is located at a portion confronting the outer peripheral end portion of the turbine blade and which extends in a direction orthogonal to the central axis of the rotary cylinder, and second chambers (27, 28) which are located adjacent to one or both ends of the turbine blade along the direction of the central axial and which communicate with the first chamber.

Abstract: A reciprocating-type electric shaver including an outer cutter having an inverted U shape as seen from a side thereof and an inner cutter making a reciprocating motion while making sliding contact with an inside surface of outer cutter, and further including: an oscillator making a reciprocating motion by a motor installed inside the main body of the shaver; a central shaft provided in an upright position on the oscillator and rises toward the inside of the outer cutter; an inner cutter holder disposed in a slidable manner on the central shaft so that the inner cutter holder holds the inner cutter thereon and the inner cutter swings about a straight line that is perpendicular to the reciprocating direction of the inner cutter; and a spring compressedly installed between the oscillator and the inner cutter holder.

Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, a plurality of sub arrays are defined on a 2D array transducer. The sub array shape pattern of each sub array is adaptively changed in accordance with the beam scanning direction. Each sub array is composed of a plurality of groups, each of which is composed of a plurality of transducer elements. With the change of sub array shape pattern in accordance with a beam scanning direction, the group shape pattern of each group also changes. The sub array shape changes for each sub array, and a variable region is determined by the largest outer edge of the shape changed. The variable regions partially overlap with each other among a plurality of sub arrays. On a 2D array transducer, a plurality of sub arrays are always closely coupled with each other even when each sub array shape is changed.

Abstract: With an assumption that the three data of the position (X1, Y1) of the first positioning pattern 202 and position (X2, Y2) of the second positioning pattern 212 of the reference chip 200, and the position (X3, Y3) of the first positioning pattern 232 of the bonding object chip 230, as well as the length L of a line segment connecting (X1, Y1) and (X2, Y2), and the angle ?2 of this line segment with respect to the X axis, are known, the coordinates (X4, Y4) of the center position of the imaging range 250 that is to be imaged next is determined by detecting the inclination-angle ?? of the first positioning pattern 232 of the bonding object chip 230. Furthermore, the imaging range can be narrowed and the second positioning pattern 252 can be captured by increasing the precision of ??.

Abstract: Determination of inclination of positioning patterns used in bonding being made by: imaging a positioning pattern of reference chip and taking such image as reference-image; specifying a polar coordinate conversion origin for the reference-image; imaging an object (chip) of bonding to use it as an object-image, thus obtaining a relative positional-relationship with the reference-image; specifying the polar coordinate conversion origin of the object-image, so that the object-image is subjected to a polar coordinate conversion; and calculating inclination-angle from both images that have been subjected to a polar coordinate conversion; thus using a point, in which an error in position of the object of comparison detected by pattern matching between an image, which is the object of comparison obtained by imaging the object of comparison disposed in an attitude that includes positional deviation, and the reference-image, shows a minimal value, as an origin of the polar coordinate conversion.

Abstract: A weight measuring apparatus housing therein a load cell for measuring the weight of material stored in a material storage tank in which the tank has a material feeding opening. The tank includes a shoulder frame fixed to only the tank and a support arm penetrating through the tank so as not to contact the tank and firmly supported at its both ends at the outward of the tank, and a load cell provided so as to be directly supported between the shoulder frame and the support arm.

Abstract: Determination of inclination of positioning patterns used in bonding being made by: imaging a positioning pattern of reference chip and taking such image as reference-image; specifying a polar coordinate conversion origin for the reference-image; imaging an object (chip) of bonding to use it as an object-image, thus obtaining a relative positional-relationship with the reference-image; specifying the polar coordinate conversion origin of the object-image, so that the object-image is subjected to a polar coordinate conversion; and calculating inclination-angle from both images that have been subjected to a polar coordinate conversion; thus using a point, in which an error in position of the object of comparison detected by pattern matching between an image, which is the object of comparison obtained by imaging the object of comparison disposed in an attitude that includes positional deviation, and the reference-image, shows a minimal value, as an origin of the polar coordinate conversion.

Abstract: A method for recording information on a recording medium utilizing an interference pattern by interference between an information light modulated spatially with digital pattern information displayed on a spatial light modulator having multiple pixels and a reference light for recording. In order to provide a novel recording method capable of enhancing the recording density and the transfer rate furthermore, digital information to be recorded is represented by match/mismatch of the attributes of adjacent pixels in the spatial light modulator to produce digital pattern information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a steering column bracket 1 including a receiving main body 12 put to the deck cross member 2 from below and a sling plate 11 straddling the deck cross member 2 from above to be spanned over the receiving main body 2. The receiving main body 12 is formed into a sectionally groove shape by integrally coupling respective lower edges of a symmetric pair of abutting plate portions 122, 122 and a mounting plate portion 121. The mounting plate portion 121 provides a mounting portion for the steering column. Each abutting plate portion 122 is formed in a shape of twin peaks that comprises a notch edge 1221 located between the twin peaks and shaped along a sectional shape of the deck cross member 2, a front inclined edge 1222, a rear inclined edge 1224 aligning with tangents L,L to the deck cross member 2.

Abstract: A stabilizer for an archery bow including a base housing, end housing and at least one intermediate housing provided on a plurality of rods with a resilient member provided between the rods and the housings surrounding each of the plurality of the rods and in compression such that each rod does not directly engage with the housing and is isolated therefrom by the resilient member.