Abstract: A fluorescent display tube has a filament support integrally formed of a metal sheet with a shield for protecting a driving semiconductor element accommodated in the vacuum container. Shield connections for joining the filament support and the shield are in the form of a plurality of fine wires formed from the same metal sheet and extend from two opposing sides of the shield. Each shield connection is fitted into a sealing area between the cover glass and the anode substrate. These shield connections are designed so as to improve heat dissipation at the time of the getter flashing following vacuum-sealing of the fluorescent display tube.

Abstract: In a storage bin-type ice dispenser, an ice delivery mechanism includes a tubular delivery chute coupled with a dispensing opening of a storage bin and extending downward and outward from a front wall of the bin. A vertical discharge duct is detachably mounted to a lower portion of the front wall of the bin and is located just below a lower opening end of the delivery chute to receive ice cubes discharged therefrom. A balance shutter is tiltably mounted on an upper end of the discharge duct in a detachable manner and extends downward into the interior of the discharge duct for engagement with an internal wall surface of the duct when maintained in a closed position. A weight element is detachably assembled with an outwardly extended portion of the balance shutter to maintain the balance shutter in the closed position by its weight. The balance shutter is opened by gravity acting on the weight element when the ice cubes from the delivery chute are received thereon.

Abstract: A storage bin type ice dispenser includes a storage bin having front and rear walls, opposed side walls, a bottom wall and an inclined wall formed between a lower end of the front wall and a front end of the bottom wall to form a semicylindrical internal surface extending upward from an internal surface of the bottom wall. The bin is formed therein with a guide groove which is located at the center portions of the bottom and inclined walls in a lateral direction and extends upward from the bottom wall to a lower part of the front wall. The guide groove is formed at a front part thereof with a dispensing opening which opens downward through the inclined wall. The ice dispenser further includes an agitator having a rotary shaft rotatably mounted within the bin and positioned laterally in parallel with the semicylindrical internal surface of the inclined wall. A finger assembly is mounted on the center of the shaft to rotate along the guide groove.

Abstract: The present invention provides a copper powder for use in a conductive paste which allows the paste to possess excellent initial electrical conductivity, thermal resistance, and humidity resistance, and which enables the paste to maintain stable electrical conductivity for a long period of time. The copper powder of the present invention comprises a raw material copper powder; an anti-oxidization film comprising an organic acid salt of a higher aliphatic amine which is formed on the surface of the copper powder; and a surface film which comprises 0.2 to 10 parts by weight of a dispersing agent of a boron-nitrogen composite type and 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of at least one coupling agent of the group consisting of isopropyl-triisostearoyl-titanate and aceoalkoxy-aluminum-diisopropylate, relative to 100 parts by weight of the copper powder, and which is formed on the anti-oxidization film.

Abstract: A golf ball and putting club each of which includes alignment lines to facilitate putting the ball. The lines on the golf ball are located at a right angle to each other and are equatorial markings. The lines on the upper surface of the putter head includes a first line perpendicular to the putting face, and a second line perpendicular to and centered about the first line. The length of the second line on the club corresponds to the diameter of the golf ball. In use, the first line on the club is aligned in the same plane as one equatorial marking on the ball, and the second line on the club head is aligned parallel to the second equatorial marking on the ball.