Abstract: A pump includes an impeller for sucking and discharging liquid, a pump case having a suction port and a discharge port through which the liquid is sucked and discharged, and a partition cooperating with the pump case to form a pump chamber in which the impeller is rotatably received. The pump is further includes a rotor having a magnet for rotatingly driving the impeller and a stator having claw-shaped magnetic poles for applying a rotational driving force to the rotor, the rotor and the stator constituting a claw pole type motor that serves as a driving power source of the pump. At least the stator is entirely coated with a molded resin.

Abstract: A claw pole type motor includes a rotor having a magnet arranged on an outer circumferential surface thereof and a stator including an annular iron core and an annular coil received within the iron core. The iron core includes a yoke portion opened in an inner circumferential surface opposite to the rotor, a plurality of upper claw-shaped magnetic poles and a plurality of lower claw-shaped magnetic poles which are arranged along an inner circumferential surface of the annular coil. The upper/lower claw-shaped magnetic poles are curved to extend axially downwardly/upwardly from an upper/lower inner edge of the yoke portion, respectively. The upper and the low claw-shaped magnetic poles are alternately arranged along a circumferential direction of the iron core. The yoke portion has cutout portions formed in non-magnetic path regions which do not include magnetic paths through which magnetic flux flows between neighboring claw-shaped magnetic poles across the annular coil.

Abstract: A rocking type exercising apparatus includes a movable unit on which a user rides and a driving unit for causing the movable unit to perform a rocking motion. The driving unit includes a pitch driving part for causing the movable unit to rock in a forward/backward direction, a roll driving part for causing the movable unit to rock in a leftward/rightward direction and a yaw driving part for causing the movable unit to rotate about a vertical axis. When the movable unit is moved forward by the pitch driving part and is tilted to either the left or the right by the roll driving part, the yaw driving part rotates the movable unit in the same direction as the tilted direction of the movable unit.

Abstract: A liquid stored in the liquid storing means within a housing is supplied to a carrier. A high voltage applied to a discharge end of the carrier and an opposed electrode to emit tiny ionized liquid particles. At leas part of the liquid storing means is detachable to the housing for easy replenishment of the liquid.

Abstract: In an autonomous vehicle, position of a planar obstacle such as a wall or a fence having apertures is determined. A horizontal plane is scanned with a laser range tinder so as to acquire positional coordinates of a plurality of scanning points. An element vector is formed with each two scanning points so that one acquired former is used as a start point and the other acquired later as an end point of the vector. A plurality of continuous element vectors which satisfy predetermined conditions is selected among the element vectors, and a scanning segment vector is formed by composition of the selected element vectors. When a length of the scanning segment vector is equal to or longer than a predetermined length, it is possible to recognize that a planar obstacle exists along the scanning segment vector.

Abstract: A system for optimizing network bandwidth based on subscription rates from a plurality of requestors is disclosed as including a provider that provides provider data. The system also includes a first requestor that has requested the provider data at a first subscription rate and a second requestor that has requested the provider data at a second subscription rate. The second subscription rate is higher than the first subscription rate. The system further includes a plurality of intervening access nodes. Each intervening access node includes request information specifying any provider data being sent through the intervening access node and a corresponding subscription rate. The plurality of intervening access nodes are configured to decrease the rate to an adjacent node when a requestor decreases a requestor subscription rate such that all the rates along a common transmit path from the provider to an end requestor are optimized to maximize available bandwidth.

Abstract: To provide a connector that enhances the reliability of connection between the ground and a shield constituting a shell. A socket constitutes the connector together with a header which is mounted on a different printed wiring board. The socket includes a socket body which is provided with a connection recess, a plurality of socket contacts which are held by the socket body, and a pitch direction shield and a terminal direction shield constituting the shell which surround the connection recess and which prevents electromagnetic noise from coming in and out. The pitch direction shield and the terminal direction shield are provided with terminals soldered to conductive pattern of the ground.

Abstract: A thin board-to-board connector with high density in which there is no connection between three-dimensional complex metal springs. The board-to-board connector (1) comprises a connector (4) having a bump (43) for electrical connection having an umbrella shape on a board (41) and connected to a circuit board (2) and a connector (5) having an elastic electrically conductive section (54) having a through hole (55) made in a conductive pattern (53) on an elastic insulating board (51) and connected to a circuit board (3) electrically connected to the elastic conductive section (54). When a bump (43) is inserted into the through hole (55), the elastic conductive section (54) is electrically connected to the bump (43), and the side surface of the through hole (55) is pressed against to the bump (43) and elastically deformed and dented. Consequently, the bump (43) is press-fit into the through hole (55).

Abstract: A rocking type exercising apparatus includes a movable unit on which a user rides and a driving unit for causing the movable unit to perform a rocking motion. The driving unit is designed to drive the movable unit to rock in forward/backward directions of the user riding on the movable unit and to move the movable unit forward at a greater acceleration than when the movable unit is moved backward.

Abstract: A virtual reality creating system including: a screen 1 including a projection plane of arbitrary shape; a distortion correction unit 3 which performs distortion correction for projecting image light onto the projection plane of arbitrary shape for a two-dimensional image signal to project image light onto a two-dimensional projection plane and then outputs the same; a parameter adjusting PC 5 which creates a distortion correction table as a correspondence map between the two-dimensional projection plane and a mesh model of the projection plane of arbitrary shape; and projectors 2a and 2b unit which project an image based on the image signal outputted from the image signal processing apparatus onto the screen.

Abstract: A rocking type exercising apparatus includes a movable unit on which a user rides and a driving unit for causing the movable unit to perform a rocking motion. The driving unit includes a motor having power supply terminals a speed reduction means for reducing a rotational speed of the motor and a brake circuit for electrically short-circuiting the power supply terminals of the motor when the motor is stopped.

Abstract: A hair-clipper comprising a stationary blade having a main body provided with a plurality of comb projections having blades formed at their both sides, and a movable blade that has a main body having a plurality of comb projections having blades formed at their both sides and that comes into slide contact with the stationary blade, wherein the comb projections of the stationary blade include a skin-contact surface which abuts against a skin, and a slide surface with which the comb projections of the movable blade come into slide contact, the main body of the stationary blade includes an opposed surface which is opposed to a plane including the skin-contact surface, and a shortest distance between the opposed surface and the plane including the skin-contact surface is equal to or greater than a distance between the plane including the skin-contact surface and the comb projection of the movable blade.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an orthodontic appliance capable of aligning teeth within a shorter period of time than usual without using braces including an orthodontic wire and brackets. This appliance is provided with a dental mouthpiece mountable on teeth and a vibrating element. The dental mouthpiece is so shaped as to apply a biasing force in an aligning direction to a tooth to be aligned in the teeth while being mounted on the teeth. The vibrating element is attached to the dental mouthpiece, generates mechanical vibration and applies the vibration to the tooth to be aligned, thereby activating the bone remodeling of a target tooth and an alveolar bone to promote an orthodontic effect.

Abstract: A rocking type exercising apparatus includes a movable unit on which a user rides, a driving unit for causing the movable unit to perform a rocking motion, and a rocking motion changing unit for changing the rocking motion of the movable unit driven to rock by the driving unit. The rocking type exercising apparatus also includes a display unit, responsive to the change in the rocking motion caused by the rocking motion changing unit, for displaying loads to be applied to a plurality of body regions of the user.

Abstract: An orthodontic appliance capable of remarkably shortening a period of treatment and reducing burdens on patients is provided with braces to be mounted on a specified tooth included in teeth, a magnetic field generator and a magnetic element to be attached to the teeth. The magnetic element vibrates in response to a magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator and applies the vibration thereof to the tooth on which the braces are mounted.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an orthodontic appliance for accelerating the tooth aligning effect and shortening the treatment period, and has an object to provide an appliance which can bring about higher aligning effect than usual ways by giving vibration to tooth to be aligned to activate bone remodeling of the targeted tooth and the alveolar bone and enhance the shift of the tooth. This appliance includes a vibrating element and a dental mouthpiece having the vibrating element built therein. The provision of the vibrating element in the dental mouthpiece facilitates the application of vibration and handling, and continues the treatment safely even at home. The inner shape of the dental mouthpiece serves aligning treatment as well as acceleration of the effect.

Abstract: The sleep diagnosis device 1 of the present invention comprises three-dimensional acceleration sensors 2a and 2b, a posture detector 5 which detects a posture of the patient from a DC component of the three-dimensional acceleration sensors, and a breathing movement detector 4 which detects a breathing movement of the patient from the AC component of the three-dimensional acceleration sensors. The sleep diagnosis device of the present invention can detect the posture (sleeping posture) and the breathing movement of the patient by using one three-dimensional acceleration sensor, so it is possible to reduce the number of sensors. Furthermore, the sleep diagnosis device can detect the breathing movement accurately by the three-dimensional acceleration sensors.

Abstract: A function unit having easy exchangeability in a dual wiring system is provided. The function unit is detachably connected to a gate device mounted in a wall surface of a structure, and connected to both of an electric power line and an information line previously installed in the structure. The function unit has at least one of functions for supplying electric power from the electric power line, outputting information from the information line and inputting information into the information line when connected with the gate device. The function unit has a module connector, which is configured to simultaneously establish both of supplying the electric power from the gate device to the function unit, and making a signal transmission between the gate device unit and the function unit when connected to a module port formed at the gate device. To improve function expandability, an additional function unit may be detachably connected to the function unit.

Abstract: In an electrodeless discharge lamp 1 comprising a bulb 10 into which discharge gas and mercury which is controlled at a temperature of a coldest spot are filled, a power coupler 20 generating high frequency electromagnetic field, and a ferrule 15 for coupling the bulb 10 and the power coupler 20, the bulb 10 is configured of a substantially spherical barrel 14 formed of a transparent material and having an opening, and a sealing member 11 welded to the opening of the barrel 14 and having a substantially cylindrical cavity 5; a protrusion 4, which becomes a coldest spot when the lamp is lit in a state that the ferrule 15 is disposed upward, is formed at an apex of the bulb 10; and a protruding portion 17 is formed in a vicinity of just above the ferrule 15 of the bulb 10, that is, in a bulb neck portion 19 so that the bulb neck portion 19 becomes the coldest spot when the lamp is lit in a state that the ferrule 15 is disposed downward.

Abstract: A process of forming a deflection mirror in a light waveguide with a use of a dicing blade having a cutting end with a flat top cutting face and at least one slanted side cutting face. The process includes a cutting step of cutting a surface of the light waveguide to a depth not greater than a width of the flat top cutting face, thereby forming a groove in the surface of the light waveguide. The groove has a slanted surface which is formed by the slanted cutting face to define the deflection mirror in the waveguide.