Abstract: A large image display apparatus comprises a plurality of discharge lamps each having an anode, a cathode and a light emitting tube, a display board having the plurality of discharge lamps thereon, a heating circuit for heating the cathodes of the plurality of discharge lamps, a power supply circuit for generating a rectified high frequency voltage and biasing the plurality of discharge lamps, an image signal generator for generating an image signal, and a control circuit for controlling the quantity of light emitted from each discharge lamp in response to the image signal.

Abstract: A wig base which is in strict agreement with the shape of the head of a person who wears it and which is not deformed even after used for many years, and a method of producing the same. To produce the wig base, a net member which constitutes the whole or part of the wig base is brought into substantial agreement with the shape of the head of a person who wears it, resin is applied onto the filaments forming the net and onto the intersecting points and peripheries thereof to temporarily mold the wig base, followed by adhesion of the intersection points of the filaments by welding.

Abstract: A wig or hairpiece comprising a wig base formed by a network having a convexly curved surface corresponding to the counter of a user's head, and hairs planted over the entire convexly curved surface of the network. The wig base is formed in a zigzag fashion at its front edge portion which corresponds to a hairline at the user's forehead. The wig base is stitched at a location slightly inside its front edge portion by a filament.

Abstract: A variable delivery compressor containing a plurality of compression chambers and reciprocatory compression pistons is adapted for use in an air-conditioning circuit of a vehicle. The compressor has a suction chamber communicating with the compression chambers by way of a plurality of suction valves, some of which are capable of being deformed by a valve pressing mechanism from a first position, where the refrigerant is compressed, to a second position where the compression of the refrigerant is partially ineffective. The valve pressing mechanism contains an axially movable spool actuated by an actuating unit controlled by a cooling-load responsive control unit.

Abstract: The present invention contemplates a delivery control valve arrangement adapted for use in a refrigerant gas compressor of double-acting swash plate type in which its delivery capacity can be varied automatically by placing the compression chambers on one side of the compressor under "loaded" and "unloaded" conditions alternately in response to the cooling load. The valve arrangement includes valve means for establishing fluid communication passages for selective application of discharge and suction pressures of the compressor to a plunger movable between two positions corresponding to the loaded and unloaded conditions, respectively, and actuator means operable in response to evaporator-suction or suction-atmosphere pressure differential for actuating the above valves.

Abstract: An air conditioning unit for cooling and dehumidifying a passenger room of a vehicle including a reciprocatory piston type refrigerant compressor having a refrigerant suction chamber, a compressed refrigerant discharge chamber, and an independent drive chamber for a drive mechanism to reciprocate compressor piston, a condenser, an expansion valve, an evaporator for thermal exchange, and an evaporating pressure control valve adjustably changing a fluid communication between the evaporator and the suction chamber of the compressor in response to a change is a cooling load. The air conditioning unit further includes a fluid bypass passageway providing a constant fluid communication between the evaporator and the drive chamber of the compressor regardless of the change in the cooling load so that a part of a lubricant containing refrigerant is always introduced into the drive chamber.

Abstract: A variable displacement refrigerant compressor of the variable angle wobble or swash plate type is disclosed. The compressor according to the invention has a displacement control valve which is operable in response to the evaporator pressure so as to restrict the drop thereof by throttling the refrigerant gas flowing through a control port disposed between the evaporator and suction chamber. Crankcase of the compressor is arranged for direct communication with the evaporator so as to keep the crankcase under a pressure which is substantially the same as the evaporator pressure.

Abstract: A large number of luminous display elements are arrayed on a board, and the quantity of light emitted by each display element is controlled in accordance with a video signal generated by a video signal generator. Each display element is constituted by a discharge lamp and a high frequency generator lighting the same.

Abstract: A variable-delivery compressor of a swashplate type having compression chambers wherein compression is effected by reciprocating movements of double-headed pistons slidably engaging a rotating swashplate in a cylinder block. The cylinder block defines compression chambers in cooperation with front and rear valve plates which have discharge ports communicating with front and rear discharge chambers one of which serves as delivery-adjusting discharge chamber. Delivery-adjusting discharge valves are disposed in the delivery-adjusting discharge chamber and carried by an actuator member which is movable between operative and inoperative positions at which the delivery-adjusting valves are operative and inoperative to close and open the discharge ports in the corresponding valve plate. The corresponding valve plate comprises a portion defining a recess opposite to each delivery-adjusting discharge valve.

Abstract: A plate positioning apparatus which determines the position of a plate workpiece for a processing machine by an aligning member which moves in the X-axis direction and an aligning member which moves in the Y-axis direction. The Y-axis aligning member is provided with a movable retainer which retracts toward the Y-axis side when it comes in contact with the X-axis side aligning member and comprises a base part and an extension member which is remountable on the base part. The aligning member for the X-axis is provided on its upper surface with at least one aligning bar which contacts the plate workpiece. The aligning members for both directions of X and Y axes are adapted to be guided by the base frame and their moving strokes are controlled by position detecting switches provided in the base frame, the base frame being closed at its upper side by the cover plate. The respective slits along which the aligning members move are covered with respective movable dust-proof belts.

Abstract: A swash plate compressor especially suited for automotive vehicles. The inner housing may be moved in the rear housing in the front and rear direction, as the occasion may demand, for adjusting the compression capacity or performance of the compressor. A partition wall is projectingly projected at the front side of the inner housing for defining an inner or discharge chamber and an outer or suction chamber. A plurality of clamp bolts for fixedly clamping together a rear cylinder block and the rear housing are passed through said suction chamber. The rear wall of the inner housing is formed with an annular thin-walled portion lesser in thickness than the valve plate on the front surface of said inner housing. By the function of said thin-walled portion, the inner housing may be flexed readily to absorb valve plate strain.

Abstract: A variable-delivery refrigerant compressor wherein the delivery of a compressed refrigerant is adjustable by an actuator which is movable with a discharge pressure of the compressor between a first position at which plural discharge valves corresponding to compression chambers are rendered operative, and a second position at which at least one of the discharge valves is rendered inoperative. A pilot switch valve is disposed in a passage through which the discharge pressure is applied to the actuator. The switch valve controls a supply of refrigerant of the discharge pressure to the actuator such that the actuator is placed in the first position while a suction pressure of the compressor is relatively high, and in the second position while the suction pressure is relatively low.

Abstract: A variable delivery compressor having therein a plurality of compression chambers is adapted for compressing a refrigerant gas of a cooling circuit. The compressor has a first delivery chamber communicating with the compression chambers by way of a fixedly arranged valve and a second delivery chamber communicating with the compression chambers by way of a movably arranged delivery valve. This movable valve is formed to include a base portion, a plurality of reed portions formed to radially extend from the outer circumference of the base portion and arranged to face delivery ports, and at least one protrusion formed to radially extend from the outer circumference of the base portion for suppressing the warp of the base portion.

Abstract: A swash plate type compressor with a malfunction detector, the detector comprising a detected unit embedded in part of the outer periphery of the swash plate of the compressor and a detecting unit fixedly mounted on part of the combined cylinder block of the compressor. The detected unit has a thermosensor and a permanent magnet embedded inwardly from the thermosensor. The detecting unit has a fixed magnetic member and an electric coil wound around the magnetic member.

Abstract: An automobile air conditioner unit is provided with a compressor equipped with a number of compression chambers. At the start of air conditioner operation, less than all of these compression chambers are operated to avoid liquid compression. After start up, the number of compression chambers in operation will depend upon the air conditioning load, with a fewer number of chambers being operable at times when the load is low, as during temperature maintainance, as opposed to initial cool-down.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a driving force transmitted from a vehicle engine, via an electromagnetic clutch, to a compressor for a vehicle air conditioning equipment being provided with at least a sensor detecting the revolving rate of the compressor, and a clutch controller for providing a signal to disengage the electromagnetic clutch when the revolving rate of the compressor detected by the sensor is reduced below a prescribed reference revolving rate.

Abstract: A plate positioning apparatus for use with a punch machine having a number one workpiece stopper that moves left and right along the direction of the X axis and a number two workpiece stopper that moves to and fro along the direction of the Y axis perpendicular to the X axis, each workpiece stopper having its own motor. The number one workpiece stopper moving left and right relative to the punch along the direction of the X axis structured with a corner cutout on its inner leading edge so as to allow the punch to pass through. The number two workpiece stopper moves to and fro relative to the punch along the direction of the Y axis structured with a cutout section in the middle of its leading edge so as to allow the punch to pass through, the two cutout openings meeting at the forwardmost point of intersection to allow the punch to pass through.

Abstract: Base current is supplied from a base driving circuit to bases of paired inverter transistors through a transistor, and an inverter circuit oscillates at a rated output. When the operation of an electric discharge lamp becomes abnormal, an IC-ed control circuit is rendered operative responsive to output of an abnormality detecting circuit to turn the transistor ON and a transistor OFF, and the operation of inverter circuit is thus stopped. A capacitor in an auxiliary power source is charged by output of the base driving circuit and the control circuit is driven responsive to output of auxiliary power source when the inverter circuit is left inoperative.

Abstract: A swash plate compressor especially suited for automotive vehicles. The inner housing may be moved in the rear housing in the front and rear direction, as the occasion may demand, for adjusting the compression capacity or performance of the compressor. A partition wall is projectingly projected at the front side of the inner housing for defining an inner or discharge chamber and an outer or suction chamber. A plurality of clamp bolts for fixedly clamping together a rear cylinder block and the rear housing are passed through said suction chamber. The rear wall of the inner housing is formed with an annular thin-walled portion lesser in thickness than the valve plate on the front surface of said inner housing. By the function of said thin-walled portion, the inner housing may be flexed readily to absorb valve plate strain.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder variable delivery compressor containing a plurality of compression chambers is adapted for use in compressing a refrigerant gas of a cooling circuit. The compressor has a first delivery chamber communicating with the compression chambers by way of a fixedly arranged delivery valve means and a second delivery chamber communicating with the compression chambers by way of a movably arranged delivery valve means.The movable delivery valve means is urged from its closing position toward its opening position, and is moved back to its closing position when a delivery pressure from the cooling circuit is applied to the movable delivery valve means.