Abstract: A transport system using an unmanned aerial vehicle that overcomes restrictions on distance, time, and the like, thereby expanding a deliverable range for improved convenience. A transport system using an unmanned aerial vehicle that is capable of performing three-dimensional movement using electric power supplied thereto. The unmanned aerial vehicle is mounted with a container for storing a cargo to be transported and is flown by means of relay stations that cover the shipment source with the shipment destination of the cargo. The container is provided with a power storage unit for storing electric power to be supplied to the unmanned aerial vehicle, and the power storage unit of the container is charged at the relay station when the container is not being moved.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed towards a sliding liquid level sensor which is mounted in a fuel tank of a vehicle for detecting a remaining amount of a liquid fuel in the tank. The liquid level sensor has a float, a plurality of electrodes, and a sliding contact point configured to slide on the electrodes in accordance with a displacement of the float. The electrodes preferably contain 100 parts by weight of a silver-palladium alloy and preferably 3-20 parts by weight of glass. The silver-palladium alloy preferably contains 20-60% by weight of silver and preferably 80-40% by weight of palladium. The sliding contact point is made from a palladium-nickel alloy that preferably contains 70-90% by weight of palladium and preferably 30-10% by weight of nickel.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed towards a sliding liquid level sensor which is mounted in a fuel tank of a vehicle for detecting a remaining amount of a liquid fuel in the tank. The liquid level sensor has a float, a plurality of electrodes, and a sliding contact point configured to slide on the electrodes in accordance with a displacement of the float. The electrodes preferably contain 100 parts by weight of a silver-palladium alloy and preferably 3-20 parts by weight of glass. The silver-palladium alloy preferably contains 20-60% by weight of silver and preferably 80-40% by weight of palladium. The sliding contact point is made from a palladium-nickel alloy that preferably contains 70-90% by weight of palladium and preferably 30-10% by weight of nickel.

Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus according to the present invention includes vapor production determining means for determining whether or not the vapor of the fuel is producible, and control means (ECU) for operating a passage resistance adjusting means of a pressure adjusting mechanism to cause increase of the pressure of the fuel supplied to an injector insomuch as the production of the vapor is inhibited when the vapor production determining means has determined a vapor producible condition.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to inhibit production of vapor within fuel when an engine is at a high temperature and to inhibit change of amount of the fuel injected from an injector. A fuel supply apparatus according to the present invention includes vapor production determining means (3) for determining whether or not the vapor of the fuel is producible, and control means (ECU) for operating a passage resistance adjusting means (47) of a pressure adjusting mechanism (40) to cause increase of the pressure of the fuel supplied to an injector (5) insomuch as the production of the vapor is inhibited when the vapor production determining means (3) has determined a vapor producible condition.

Abstract: Fuel supply device (10) may comprise fuel pump (20) and suction filter (40) attached to a fuel intake port (36) of fuel pump (20). Suction filter (40) may have a sheet-shaped filter body (38) and an attaching member (29). Filter body (38) has an internal filter structure (40a, 40b), and attaching member (29) attaches filter body (38) to fuel intake port (36) such that internal filter structure (40a, 40b) communicates with fuel intake port (36). Filter body (38) may be folded over to form a multi-layered structure comprising an upper filter layer (38a) and a lower filter layer (38b). Folding over the sheet-shaped filter body (38) allows a filtration area of fuel supply device (10) to be increased while preventing an increase in the size of fuel supply device (10).

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a filter device in which a filter is directly fixed to a container, thus eliminating the use of a filter frame. A fuel filter 6 of a fuel supply system 60 includes a filter element 22 for filtering fuel and a filter case 21 made of resin which houses the filter element 22. Ends 22b and 22c of the filter element 22 are directly fixed to an inner wall surface of the filter case 21 by welding. Further, the filter case 21 is formed, on the inner wall surface, with a groove 34 at each end of a weld part 36 in a longitudinal (vertical) direction. The groove 34 serves to receive a melted resin squeezed out from the weld part 36. To isolate the weld part 36 from a (filtering) body 22a of the filter element 22, protrusive ribs 32 and 33 are provided on the inner wall surface of the filter case 21.

Abstract: Fuel supply device (10) may comprise fuel pump (20) and suction filter (40) attached to a fuel intake port (36) of fuel pump (20). Suction filter (40) may have a sheet-shaped filter body (38) and an attaching member (29). Filter body (38) has an internal filter structure (40a, 40b), and attaching member (29) attaches filter body (38) to fuel intake port (36) such that internal filter structure (40a, 40b) communicates with fuel intake port (36). Filter body (38) may be folded over to form a multi-layered structure comprising an upper filter layer (38a) and a lower filter layer (38b). Folding over the sheet-shaped filter body (38) allows a filtration area of fuel supply device (10) to be increased while preventing an increase in the size of fuel supply device (10).

Abstract: The present invention provides a selector on the body of a digital camera that permits a user to select a resolution for a JPEG image that is generated from a RAW image and is embedded in the RAW image's data structure. The user may select from available embedded JPEG resolutions of, for example, 1440×960, 2304×1536, or 3024×2016. The present invention also provides a display on the digital camera that shows the user which of the available JPEG resolutions currently selected.

Abstract: An obstacle preventing device includes an obstacle detecting sensor, a steering wheel, a vibrator secured to the steering wheel, a controller for controlling driving of the vibrator, and a vehicle velocity detecting sensor. When the distance between a vehicle body and an obstacle becomes equal to a predetermined threshold distance, the controller outputs a drive signal to the vibrator in order to vibrate the steering wheel by the vibrator.

Abstract: An accelerator pedal device has a bracket having a pin, a pedal arm turnably supported by the bracket through the pin, a return spring arranged to surround the pin for biasing the pedal arm, and an accelerator-opening sensor mounted on the bracket. An engaging portion is disposed at the leading end of the pedal arm, a rotor of the accelerator-opening sensor and the engaging portion are associated through the crank mechanism. As a driver depresses the accelerator pedal, the pedal arm turns on the pin, by the action of the crank mechanism engaging with the engaging portion it the leading end of the pedal arm, the rotor of the accelerator-opening sensor is rotated, and a voltage signal according to the depression stroke is outputted from the accelerator-opening sensor.

Abstract: A stepping motor having a cylindrical stator core which is a laminate of plates each formed by blanking of a thin silicon steel plate, stator coils wound on an inner peripheral surface of the stator core, a support member fixed to a part of an outer peripheral surface of the stator core and holding a plurality of terminal plates, and a housing formed by injection molding of a synthetic resin so as to cover the outer peripheral surface of the stator core and an outer surface of the support member. First end portions of the terminal plates are made projected through the housing to the exterior of the housing and are surrounded by a socket wall integral with the housing to form a male connector, while second end portions of the terminal plates are connected with end portions of electric wires which constitute the stator coils, and are embedded in the housing.

Abstract: A method of connecting an end portion of a stator coil of a motor to a terminal, including the steps of locating an insulating plate on one end surface of a stator; positioning the terminal on one side of the insulating plate opposite to the other side where the insulating plate contacts the stator; positioning the end portion of the stator coil on one side of the terminal opposite to the other side where the terminal contacts the insulating plate; pressing the end portion of the stator coil against the terminal with a contact end portion of a source electrode and a first earth electrode which are in contact with each other; contacting a second earth electrode with the terminal from the opposite side of the insulating plate; and supplying a welding current to the source electrode under the conditions that the contact end portion of the source electrode and the first earth electrode are pressed against the terminal and the end portion of the stator coil and that the second earth electrode is in contact with th

Abstract: A CRT printing apparatus for making a composite image print comprising a scene or human figure and graphics and/or letters, the apparatus including at least two exposure systems having black-and-white CRTs, one for exposing a photographic paper to a video image in the form of three black-and-white CRT images sequentially displayed in brightness patterns on the CRT. In each exposure system, the photographic paper is exposed to the black-and-white image through an appropriate mono-color filter. The two exposure systems are alternately activated to expose the color photographic paper.

Abstract: A photographic paper reserver mechanism disposed between a printing unit and a development unit and adapted for absorbing the difference between the processing speeds of the printing unit and the development unit. This photographic paper reserver mechanism is provided with a flap which is movable between a first position at which the flap guides the leading end of the photographic paper supplied from the first roller so that this leading end is received by the second roller and a second position at which the flap allows the photographic paper received by said second roller to be bent and suspended between the first and second rollers, and at least one guide arm which forms, between itself and the flap, a path through which the photographic paper is transported to the second roller when the flap is in the first position, and which is interposed between the first and second rollers so as to prevent the photographic paper from moving straight to the second roller when the flap is in the second position.

Abstract: A photographic printing apparatus adapted to use a paper magazine having a coded mark indicating the type of a photographic paper contained therein. The code mark is automatically detected, when the paper magazine is mounted on the printing apparatus, by a code mark reader, to judge the paper type according to which the printing apparatus determines the printing conditions and makes a print, thereby to obtain a color print with proper color balance and density.

Abstract: A photographic printer is provided with a printing table, a film carrier disposed on the printing table, and a film container removably disposed adjacent the film carrier on the printing table so as to collect a film intermittently emerging from the film carrier after exposure. The film container is provided with a film guide member therein for causing the film to be coiled.