Abstract: A shock absorbing member includes: support members spaced apart from each other; and a connection member laid across, and connecting together, the support members. Each of the support members includes: an inner wall capable of elastically deforming by external force in a vertical direction; and a first tube and a second tube each provided to one of an outer wall and the inner wall. While inserted through the first and second tubes of the support members, the connection member is integrally formed in a closed shape with ends of the connection member having no seams.

Abstract: A shoe includes a sole, a shoe upper attached to the sole, and a string member disposed at the sole and the shoe upper such that the string member extends over an area from a forefoot to a hindfoot of a foot, the string member being movable relative to the sole and the shoe upper. The string member is configured such that when the foot is bent at metatarsophalangeal joints and an MP area of the sole is bent and warped in a vertical direction and stretched, a second extension portion is pulled toward a front portion by bending of a first extension portion.

Abstract: A blow molding device and method capable of forming a blow molded article having a built-in part with a good yield rate. The blow molding device has a die core, a blow mold, a parison holding unit and a built-in part holding unit. The parison holding unit has parison expanders and a parison outer holding plate. The built-in part holding unit has an airtight guide tube and a holding rod. After a lower end of a parison is expanded with a plurality of parison expanders, and an upper end of the airtight guide tube is inserted in the lower end of the parison, the lower end of the parison is held between the upper end of the airtight guide tube and the parison outer holding plate, and the pre-blowing is carried out. After the built-in part is positioned in an interior space of the parison, and the parison and built-in part are held between the slide cores, the blow mold is closed and blowing is carried out.

Abstract: A shoe upper of a shoe includes first and second shoe upper sections together surrounding a foot, while covering a tiptoe and a heel of the foot, and a protector provided on part of an outer surface of the second shoe upper section and made of a single type of abrasion resistant resin material. The protector includes a tiptoe protector arranged to correspond to a tiptoe portion of the second shoe upper section, and a medial region protector provided on a medial region, of the second shoe upper section, extending from a backend of the tiptoe protector to a portion of the midfoot. The medial region protector has a deformable portion which has a mesh structure and is more deformable than the tiptoe protector, and a plurality of reinforcement ribs which divide the deformable portion into a plurality of regions.

Abstract: A blow molding device and method capable of forming a blow molded article having a built-in part with a good yield rate. The blow molding device has a die core, a blow mold, a parison holding unit and a built-in part holding unit. The parison holding unit has parison expanders and a parison outer holding plate. The built-in part holding unit has an airtight guide tube and a holding rod. After a lower end of a parison is expanded with a plurality of parison expanders, and an upper end of the airtight guide tube is inserted in the lower end of the parison, the lower end of the parison is held between the upper end of the airtight guide tube and the parison outer holding plate, and the pre-blowing is carried out. After the built-in part is positioned in an interior space of the parison, and the parison and built-in part are held between the slide cores, the blow mold is closed and blowing is carried out.

Abstract: A speech recognition system realizing large-vocabulary speech recognition at a low cost without deteriorating the rate of recognition and a recognition speed performance is provided with a dictionary change-over section for making a change-over between dictionaries to be subjected to speech recognition in accordance with dictionary change-over information, a first memory for storing a plurality of dictionaries, a second memory for storing one dictionary made an object of recognition, and a speech recognition section for performing a speech recognition processing, whereby speech recognition is performed while making a change-over between dictionaries, as required. For example, in a car navigation speech recognition system, the change-over between dictionaries is made for each area in accordance with position information.

Abstract: A linear guide apparatus comprises a fixed body; a movable body movable on the fixed body in a predetermined direction; a retainer disposed between the fixed and movable bodies, for rotatably supporting rolling bodies brought into contact with the fixed and movable bodies; a first rack provided on the fixed body in the predetermined direction; a second rack provided on the movable body in the predetermined direction; a third rack provided on the retainer in the predetermined direction; a first pinion in mesh with the first and third racks, respectively; and a second pinion in mesh with the second rack. The first and second pinions are coupled integrally and coaxially with respect to each other and disposed rotatably and slidably in the predetermined direction. Further, a pitch diameter of the second pinion is three times larger than that of the first pinion.

Abstract: A slit exposure type photocopier apparatus includes an original document platform on which an original document is to be located. An electrostatic latent image support member receives a projected image of the original document as a result of a scanning optical system and an exposure light source. The scanning optical system includes a projection light assembly which is movable along the optical axis in order to change image magnification. A light measuring sensor can be positioned adjacent a side of the projection lens assembly and can measure light reflected from the original at a position displaced, in the forward scan direction, from the actual position on the original that is being projected as a recorded image on the electrostatic latent image support member. The actual displaced position for light measurement will be a function of the image magnification and will be capable of compensating for the lag time involved in changing the exposure output of the exposure lamp.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which includes a color editing function is provided with two developing units, each of the developing units contain an impeding device for impeding flow of the developer as it is transported on a peripheral surface of the developing sleeve locally in the axial direction of the roller. An image editing device is provided for specifying an optical area of a desired image to be produced and a controller is provided for controlling the developing units so as to permit development of a specified area by one developing unit and to develop any unspecified area by the other developing unit.

Abstract: A developing apparatus in which first to third transport passages are provided at the back of a developing section and developing material exceeding transport capacity of the first transport passage is fed to the second transport passage, while the excessive developing material which can not be transported to the first transport passage is transported to the third transport passage where variation of the amount of the developing material is adjusted.

Abstract: An exposure control device of a copying machine is provided with a white member at an end portion of an original document holding surface of a platen so as to prevent adhesion of toners to a top end portion of the copying paper. While a scanning optical system moves from the scan start point to the border between the original document and the white member, sufficient light quantity to prevent fogging of the image of the white member is supplied by the exposure lamp. The light quantity of the exposure lamp is changed to a suitable value corresponding to the original document in response to a signal for detecting the border.

Abstract: At least one developing unit of the magnetic brush type is disclosed opposite to an electrostatic latent image carrier, said developing unit having a developing sleeve in which is housed a magnetic roller having a weak-magnetic or non-magnetic portion. The developing unit also has drive means for rotating the magnetic roller and the developing sleeve a specified degree, whereby the magnetic roller is so rotated that its weak-magnetic or non-magnetic portion is allowed to pass a position opposite to a level regulating member, and whereby the developing sleeve is subsequently so rotated until its outer peripheral portion opposite to the weak-magnetic or non-magnetic portion reaches a position opposite to the electrostatic latent image carrier. Thus, a developing powder present on the outer periphery of the developing sleeve is shunted away from a developing zone on the outer periphery.

Abstract: This invention provides a freezer/refrigerator system which has a compressor driven by an engine of a vehicle to equally supply a refrigerant under pressure to a cooler unit and a freezer/refrigerator unit. An electromagnetic valve is disposed in a refrigerant inlet pipe of the cooler unit, while a constant-pressure expansion valve which is opened at a given pressure corresponding to a proper vaporizing temperature of the refrigerant is disposed at the refrigerant inlet pipe of the freezer/refrigerator unit. A control circuit supplies a control signal to the electromagnetic valve which is opened for 1 minute and closed for 15 seconds. The refrigerant is alternately supplied to the cooler unit and the freezer/refrigerator unit upon opening/closing of the constant-pressure expansion valve in accordance with changes in the pressure of the refrigerant.