Abstract: A servo motor control device as provided in which the torque indication signal is not effected by the speed of rotation of the motor. This is accomplished by providing a torque corrector for converting an output of a speed detector into a torque correction signal. A subtractor is used for outputting the difference between a current instruction signal and the torque correction signal. The output of the subtractor is used as the torque indication signal.

Abstract: A parts assembling apparatus for assembling an electronic part onto a printed circuit board by inserting leg portions such as lead pins of the part into the assembling holes formed in the board comprises a movable arm, holding mechanism, force sensor and discrminating device. A part is held at a preset position by the holding mechanism which is vertically reciprocated by the movable arm to the part assembling position over the board. The reaction force from the board which acts on the holding mechanism is detected by the force sensor when the part is assembled. On the basis of the sensor output, the discriminating device determines whether the lead pins have been correctly inserted into the part assembling holes of the board or not.

Abstract: A toilet has a device for measuring constituents of voided urine. The toilet has a urine reservoir having a surface contiguous to a bowl surface including a urine receiving surface. Urine examined by the measuring device is sampled from the urine reservoir.

Abstract: A photoelectric switching apparatus comprises: a light projecting device; a photo sensing device; an objective lens having a double structure comprising an outer peripheral portion and a central portion each of which acts as a lens; and a reflecting surface to deflect the lights on the optical axis of the central portion of the objective lens to the side. An elongated portion which extends on the optical axis of the central portion of the objective lens and has the reflecting surface at the end portion thereof is formed integrally with the objective lens.

Abstract: A fuzzy data communication system includes a first fuzzy computer storing fuzzy functions and rules, a transmitter compiling the fuzzy functions and rules stored in the first computer into a message to transmit the message, a receiver receiving the transmitted message to decompile fuzzy functions and rules from the received message, and a second fuzzy computer implementing a fuzzy inference based on the decompiled fuzzy functions and rules.

Abstract: An IC card transaction system is disclosed in which at least a portion of the data required to complete a transaction processing is stored in the card by a customer in advance of transaction processing. A skip code is entered for portions of transaction data that is not pre-stored. An automatic transaction processing unit reads the transaction data stored in the card and receives from the customer any additional data which was not previously stored in the card (e.g. data associated with the skip code) and which is required to complete a transaction.

Abstract: A paper let-out apparatus is provided which includes a paper accommodating section for holding paper, such as bills, on a bottom plate such that the paper is inclined slightly from vertically standing state. The apparatus includes a fixed receivng plate and a pushing member for urging accommodated paper toward the receiving plate. The receiving plate is formed with a window, and a let-out roller is provided outside the paper accommodating section so that the roller faces the window. A friction member is provided to the let-out roller at a portion of the periphery thereof such that the friction member projects outwardly radially beyond the periphery thereof. As the let-out roller is driven to rotate, the friction member enters the paper accommodating section through the window to be in contact with the endmost or first paper sheet thereby letting out the same due to frictional force.

Abstract: An electronic thermometer includes a temperature sensing assembly incorporating a temperature sensor element, and a measuring and processing unit for determining and displaying the temperature, wherein the temperature sensing assembly and the measuring and processing unit are physically separable from each other. The temperature sensing assembly includes a code for recording information of the temperature characteristic or the like of the incorporated temperature sensor element. With the aid of the code, the measuring and processing unit is capable of correcting nonuniformity in the characteristic of the mutually exchangeable temperature sensing assemblies, to thereby assure a correct reading.

Abstract: A facsimile transmitting system is provided, wherein information recorded on a document or docments is read and transmitted. Prior to transmission, the amount of information recorded on the document is detected. A charge is calcualted prior to transmission based on the detected amount of recorded information. Money or the like corresponding to the calculated charge is received. Thereafter, information read from the documents is transmitted. The money can be received via a charge receiving unit which responds to a card storing recorded monetary value. The receiving unit reads the value from the card, substracts a value corresponding to the calculated charge from the read value, and records the result of this subtraction onto the card.

Abstract: An optical system for use in a flow particle detection apparatus is disclosed as having a light source for directing light onto flow partricles, a condenser lens for condensing signal light emitted from the flow particles, a photodetector for receiving signal light exiting from the condenser lens, an aperture provided between the condenser lens and the photodetector for removing undesired light, and a convergence-type collimating lens provided between the aperture and the photodetector, the aperture being disposed at a front focal position of the convergence-type collimating lens, and an exit pupil of the condenser lens and a photosensitive surface of the photodetector being located respectively at conjugate points of the convergence-type collimating lens.

Abstract: A component-mounted printed circuit board inspecting apparatus comprises an imaging device for picking up images of printed circuit board. Land images are extracted from the image of a bare printed circuit board and that of a component-mounted printed circuit board. On the basis of the shapes of the land extracted from the bare printed circuit board and those of the component-mounted printed circuit board, the positional relationship between a comonent mounted on the printed circuit board and the land thereon is determined. This positional relationship is utilized to decide if the component is mounted properly on the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A doze detector detects when the user begins to go to sleep, by detecting the blinks of the user's eye, regardless of the position of the iris, using at least two reflection type sensors. A blink is determined to have occurred only when both light detecting elements detect a blink. The number and/or duration of the blinks is then used to determine whether the user is beginning to doze. An alarm can then be produced to prevent the user from going to sleep.

Abstract: In a transcutaneous electric nerve stimulater in which a frequency of an output pulse varies with a lapse of time, a pulse width of the output pulse is increased when the frequency becomes to be smaller and is reduced when the frequency becomes to be greater. Furthermore, a pulse amplitude of the output pulse is increased when the frequency becomes to be smaller and is minimized when the frequency becomes to be greater.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a motor rotation speed controlling apparatus including a comparator, a detecting circuit for detecting a feedback signal of a motor, a motor driving transistor, and a circuit for changing the level of a constant voltage fed to the comparator. The comparator compares a saw-tooth voltage with a constant voltage and outputs a signal which has a duty cycle corresponding to the result of the comparison. The motor driving transistor drives the motor in response to the output signal from the comparator. To change the duty cycle of the output signal from the comparator, a circuit is used that changes the level of the constant voltage in response to a feedback signal detected by the detecting circuit.

Abstract: To register unit commodity codes and further article codes (subdivided commodity codes) without increasing the capacity of a unit commodity management file provided for each transaction processing system or without complicating key operations, the system comprises a first internal memory for storing sales data for each unit commodity code; a second external memory for storing sales data for each article code; a keyboard for entering a buy data including an article code which involves a unit commodity code as a part thereof; a registration controller for extracting a unit commodity code from an inputted article code and updating a sales data corresponding to each unit commodity code stored in the first internal memory on the basis of the entered buy data; and update controller for transmitting a buy data including an article code to the second external memory and updating a sales data corresponding to the article code of the external memory.

Abstract: A surface-emitting semiconductor laser having a lower reflection mirror including a semiconductor multilayer disposed on an n-type substrate so as to form an upper reflection mirror with TiPtAu such that a double heterojunction between the lower and upper reflection mirrors is configured in a columnar shape and that an insulating material is buried in a periphery of the double heterojunction. The non-alloyed metal of TiPtAu serves three functions of an ohmic metal, a reflective layer, and an etching mask.

Abstract: An improved steam inhaler for producing steam from water and aspirating inhalation liquid having a certain medical efficacy with the steam, comprising: a water supply tank, a first conduit, a first heating chamber, a second conduit, a second heating chamber, and a steam nozzle, along the path the water conveyed. The first and second heating chambers are provided with heating elements, and a one-way valve is provided in the first conduit. Therefore, the water boiled in the first chamber is conducted into the second heating chamber and prevented from returning to the water tank by the one-way valve. The water is completely vaporized in the second heating chamber. Since the water is thus metered from the water tank into the first heating chamber substantially upon demand, the steam inhaler can be activated immediately after the power is turned on, and can be deactivated immediately after the power is turned off.

Abstract: A limit switch having a fixed casing, an actuating part moveably support by the casing, and a pair of contact sets which are adapted to be activated by the movement of the actuating part, one for producing a normal switch output and the other for producing a stroke signal which serves as data for evaluating the appropriateness of the stroke of the actuating part. The other contact set may produce a signal when the actuating part has moved a certain distance more than the minimum stroke for activating the first contact set. Thus, the output from the second contact set ensures a certain stroke margin of the actuating part. Further, the second contact set may produce another stroke signal when the actuating part has been displaced close to the maximum permissible stroke of the actuating part so that an excessive stroke of the actuating part may be detected. The contact set may be purely mechanical or may also be a combination of a mechanical switch and a photoelectric switch.

Abstract: Trouble of a plurality of controlled devices operating in asynchronism with each other can be diagnosed by only connecting a trouble diagnosis apparatus to the conventional programmable controller, without preparing a special trouble diagnosing program on the user program.In another trouble diagnosis apparatus, the reference diagnosis input/output pattern series can be formed by first storing all the input/output pattern series and then deleting unchanged input/output from those to be diagnosed.Further, another trouble diagnosis apparatus includes an input/output designation mode, an instruction mode and a diagnosis mode. In the input/output designation mode, operator can designate important input/output to be registered and deletes unimportant input/output from all the input/output to be diagnosed to find fault locations.

Abstract: A recognition system including a data carrier which is attached to a moving article and which has a memory storing identification data of the article and a control system communicating with the data carrier without any contact therebetween. The control system includes a higher-level controller, a plurality of lower-level controllers connected thereto, and read/write heads connected to the lower-level controllers. The higher-level controller sequentially sends an auto read/write command to the lower-level controllers. In response thereto, when the data carrier approaches one of the lower-level controllers, the lower-level controller communicates with the data carrier so as to access the memory thereof. The lower-level controller temporarily keeps a result of the memory access (the response from the data carrier) such that on receiving a command from the higher-level controller, the lower-level controller transmits the memory access result thus temporarily kept therein to the higher-level controller.