Abstract: An automatic vending machine includes: a product housing rack including product housing shelves each including a product housing path, and a product discharger; a first stopper configured to be movable between a protrusion position and a retract position, and to tilt such that a free end side of a holding portion is positioned at a product discharge port; a second stopper configured to be movable between a retract position and a protrusion position, and to press a vending product when protruding; a link configured to move each of the first and the second stopper to the protrusion and the retract position; and a driver configured to drive the link, wherein the second stopper includes ribs formed on a surface facing the product housing path, the ribs being configured to extend from a base end part toward a holding portion of the second stopper.

Abstract: An automatic vending machine includes a product housing rack including a plurality of product housing shelves that are disposed in an up-down direction, a plurality of product housing paths corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves, each product housing path being defined in the corresponding product housing shelf and configured to house products, a plurality of product discharge devices corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves and the plurality of product housing paths, each product discharge device being configured to separate and discharge, one by one, the products that are housed in the corresponding product housing path. The product housing shelf includes a front side shelf member and a back side shelf member that are divided in the front-back direction, supported by support members, and detachably coupled with each other so that the front side shelf member is sandwiched by the back side shelf member.

Abstract: An automatic vending machine includes a product housing rack including a plurality of product housing shelves that are disposed in an up-down direction, a plurality of product housing paths corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves, each product housing path being defined in the corresponding product housing shelf and configured to house products, a plurality of product discharge devices corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves and the plurality of product housing paths, each product discharge device being configured to separate and discharge, one by one, the products that are housed in the corresponding product housing path. The product housing shelf includes a front side shelf member and a back side shelf member that are divided in the front-back direction, supported by support members, and detachably coupled with each other so that the front side shelf member is sandwiched by the back side shelf member.

Abstract: An automatic vending machine includes a product housing rack including a plurality of product housing shelves that are disposed in an up-down direction, a plurality of product housing paths corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves, each product housing path being defined in the corresponding product housing shelf and configured to house products, a plurality of product discharge devices corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves and the plurality of product housing paths, each product discharge device being configured to separate and discharge, one by one, the products that are housed in the corresponding product housing path. The product housing shelf includes a front side shelf member and a back side shelf member that are divided in the front-back direction, supported by support members, and detachably coupled with each other so that the front side shelf member is sandwiched by the back side shelf member.

Abstract: An automatic vending machine includes: a product housing rack including product housing shelves each including a product housing path, and a product discharger; a first stopper configured to be movable between a protrusion position and a retract position, and to tilt such that a free end side of a holding portion is positioned at a product discharge port; a second stopper configured to be movable between a retract position and a protrusion position, and to press a vending product when protruding; a link configured to move each of the first and the second stopper to the protrusion and the retract position; and a driver configured to drive the link, wherein the second stopper includes ribs formed on a surface facing the product housing path, the ribs being configured to extend from a base end part toward a holding portion of the second stopper.

Abstract: A product storage device includes: a main gate that is swingably provided to advance and move away from a product storage column, that advances to an advanced position, and that allows a downstream-most product to be taken out; a sub-gate that is swingably provided in association with the main gate; a sliding member that regulates the main gate from moving away and retracting from the product storage column; and a lever that allows the sliding member to be present at a regulation position, that switches to a regulation posture which regulates the sliding member from returning to the regulation position, and that then, when the main gate moves away from the product storage column in response to a take-out operation, switches to a standby posture when the main gate advances to the product storage column to allow the sliding member to return to the regulation position.

Abstract: An article dispensing apparatus includes an article discharging apparatus, which includes a base, an article storage passage storing articles, a lower pedal, and an upper pedal, an out-of-stock detection switch that is turned to a first state when the lower pedal is in a second standby position and that is turned to a second state when the lower pedal is in a position other than the second standby position; an output member putting the article discharging apparatus in the standby state and drives the article discharging apparatus when the output member rotates from the standby position; and a controller rotating the output member to return the output member to the standby position when the output member rotated from the standby position does not return to the standby position in a preset set time and when the out-of-stock detection switch is turned to the first state in the set time.

Abstract: A product storage device includes: a main gate that is swingably provided to advance and move away from a product storage column, that advances to an advanced position, and that allows a downstream-most product to be taken out; a sub-gate that is swingably provided in association with the main gate; a sliding member that regulates the main gate from moving away and retracting from the product storage column; and a lever that allows the sliding member to be present at a regulation position, that switches to a regulation posture which regulates the sliding member from returning to the regulation position, and that then, when the main gate moves away from the product storage column in response to a take-out operation, switches to a standby posture when the main gate advances to the product storage column to allow the sliding member to return to the regulation position.

Abstract: An electric insulating material, an electric insulating coating compound used this material and an electric insulating wire used this coating compound having excellent thermal conduction performance (high thermal conductivity), said material, coating compound and wire comprised of a polyamideimide resin having repeating unit of 4,4?-stilbenedicarbonate group, specifically, wherein the polyamideimide resin comprised of amido bond of stilbenedicarboxylic acid represented by general formula (I). Said resin is useful for insulated coils of electric motors of solar car used solar batteries, and it is particularly excellent in thermal conduction performance, also excellent in heat resistance and the like, thermal conduction performance can be improved without using filler.

Abstract: An article dispensing apparatus includes an article discharging apparatus, which includes a base, an article storage passage storing articles, a lower pedal, and an upper pedal, an out-of-stock detection switch that is turned to a first state when the lower pedal is in a second standby position and that is turned to a second state when the lower pedal is in a position other than the second standby position; an output member putting the article discharging apparatus in the standby state and drives the article discharging apparatus when the output member rotates from the standby position; and a controller rotating the output member to return the output member to the standby position when the output member rotated from the standby position does not return to the standby position in a preset set time and when the out-of-stock detection switch is turned to the first state in the set time.

Abstract: An article ejecting device of an automatic vending machine includes an article storage rack having an article storage passage for storing articles while being laid sideways, a base board forming one side of the article storage passage, a first stopper member movable between a protruding position in which the first stopper member protrudes toward the article storage passage and a retractable position in which the first stopper member is retracted from the article storage passage, a second stopper member movable between a protruding position in which the second stopper member protrudes toward the article storage passage and a retractable position in which the second stopper member is retracted from the article storage passage, and an outlet adjustment member forming another side of the article storage passage. The first stopper member includes an article placement surface having a holding portion holding the first vending article in a rolling manner.

Abstract: An article ejecting device of an automatic vending machine includes an article storage rack having an article storage passage for storing articles while being laid sideways, a base board forming one side of the article storage passage, a first stopper member movable between a protruding position in which the first stopper member protrudes toward the article storage passage and a retractable position in which the first stopper member is retracted from the article storage passage, a second stopper member movable between a protruding position in which the second stopper member protrudes toward the article storage passage and a retractable position in which the second stopper member is retracted from the article storage passage, and an outlet adjustment member forming another side of the article storage passage. The first stopper member includes an article placement surface having a holding portion holding the first vending article in a rolling manner.

Abstract: The invention provides a data recording device comprising: an interval counter; an ? counter; and a segment counter, wherein the interval counter and the ? counter operate with a clock having a constant frequency which is independent of clock information, the interval counter is reset when division information is detected and, also, is reset and activates the ? counter when it reaches a count value corresponding to a segment length, the ? counter is reset when the division information is detected and, also, is reset and increments the count value of the segment counter when it reaches a count value corresponding to a predetermined length smaller than the segment length, and the segment counter increments its count value when the division information is detected and outputs a writing inhibition signal when it reaches a count value corresponding to the frame length.

Abstract: An apparatus for reproducing data includes a branch metric computation unit and a plurality of parallel computation units. Each parallel computation unit includes path metric computation units that compute path metric values based on branch metric values. Path metric memories store the path metric values to be used in a next following path metric computation, and reliability computation units compute path reliability. Modified-path generating units generate an inverted path that is inverse to a path indicated by an output of the reliability computation units as having low reliability. If any one of the modified-path generating units generates the inverted path, a corresponding one of the path metric computation units stores a path metric value corresponding to the inverted path in a corresponding one of the path metric memories as a path metric value to be used in a next following path metric computation.

Abstract: An information recording and reproduction apparatus has a turbo decoder that decodes turbo encoded data. The turbo decoder has a number of likelihood ratio calculation units, forward direction path probability calculation units the number of which is less than the number of the likelihood ratio calculation units, and backward direction path probability calculation units the number of which is less than the number of the likelihood ratio calculation units. The likelihood ratio calculation units calculate in parallel the likelihood ratio for each of a plurality of data blocks. The forward direction path probability calculation units time-divisionally calculate probabilities of the forward direction paths for the data blocks. The backward direction path probability calculation units time-divisionally calculate probabilities of the backward direction paths for the data blocks.

Abstract: The invention provides a data recording device comprising: an interval counter; an ? counter; and a segment counter, wherein the interval counter and the ? counter operate with a clock having a constant frequency which is independent of clock information, the interval counter is reset when division information is detected and, also, is reset and activates the ? counter when it reaches a count value corresponding to a segment length, the ? counter is reset when the division information is detected and, also, is reset and increments the count value of the segment counter when it reaches a count value corresponding to a predetermined length smaller than the segment length, and the segment counter increments its count value when the division information is detected and outputs a writing inhibition signal when it reaches a count value corresponding to the frame length.

Abstract: A data reproduction device in conformity to Viterbi decoding includes an inverted-selected path generation part for receiving a selected path and an inverted candidate, selecting and modifying the selected path corresponding to the inverted candidate so as to produce a inverted-selected path that is an inverted version of the selected path, and outputting a number of the inverted-selected paths in parallel, the number corresponding to a number of the inverted candidates selected for the selected path of a predetermined data length and a second candidate data generation part for generating second candidate data from the inverted candidate. The device further includes a data selection part for selecting between the first and the second candidate data based on error detecting results.

Abstract: An apparatus for reproducing data includes a branch metric computation unit and a plurality of parallel computation units, each of which includes path metric computation units configured to compute path metric values based on branch metric values, path metric memories operable to store the path metric values to be used in a next following path metric computation, reliability computation units configured to compute path reliability, and modified-path generating units configured to generate an inverted path that is inverse to a path indicated by an output of the reliability computation units as having low reliability, wherein if any one of the modified-path generating units generates the inverted path, a corresponding one of the path metric computation units stores a path metric value corresponding to the inverted path in a corresponding one of the path metric memories as a path metric value to be used in a next following path metric computation.

Abstract: A clock adjustment device for a data reproduction apparatus includes an edge detection part detecting an edge of a reproduced signal corresponding to a predetermined synchronization pattern based on a state of change of sampled values obtained in synchronism with a clock signal from the reproduced signal, a timing signal output part outputting a timing signal in a given cycle determined by the synchronization pattern from a timing at which the edge of the reproduced signal is detected, and a phase adjustment part adjusting a phase of the clock signal when the edge of the reproduced signal is detected and every time the timing signal is output.

Abstract: An information recording and reproduction apparatus has a turbo decoder that decodes turbo encoded data. The turbo decoder has a number of likelihood ratio calculation units, forward direction path probability calculation units the number of which is less than the number of the likelihood ratio calculation units, and backward direction path probability calculation units the number of which is less than the number of the likelihood ratio calculation units. The likelihood ratio calculation units calculate in parallel the likelihood ratio for each of a plurality of data blocks. The forward direction path probability calculation units time-divisionally calculate probabilities of the forward direction paths for the data blocks. The backward direction path probability calculation units time-divisionally calculate probabilities of the backward direction paths for the data blocks.