Abstract: A cultivator may include at least one rechargeable battery for an electrical power tool as a power source. The at least one rechargeable battery may include a plurality of rechargeable batteries. Further, the plurality of rechargeable batteries may be switched in sequence, so as to be used as the power source.

Abstract: In an attachment structure, a vehicle-mounted electronic device is attached to a receiving box using an adjusting member for adjusting a difference between an external dimension of the electronic device and a dimension of a receiving space of the receiving box for receiving the electronic device. The adjusting member has an insertion-coupling device for insertion-coupling the adjusting member and the electronic device, and a first catch-coupling device for catch-coupling the adjusting member and the receiving box. The first catch-coupling device is an appended claw-receiving part that corresponds to a flexible claw on the receiving box, and the direction of insertion-coupling of the insertion-coupling device and the direction of catch-coupling of the first catch-coupling device are different.

Abstract: In an engine-driven handheld vacuum/blower, a first grip is provided as one part of an outer shape of an engine casing in which an engine is mounted, and a second grip is formed on a fuel tank which forms another part of the outer shape of the engine casing. The first grip and the second grip are positioned on the opposite sides of the center axis of the engine. Therefore, since there is no unbalanced load applied on either of both the hands, an operator can easily maintain the posture during operation, and can work with the vacuum/blower under good efficiency.

Abstract: A handheld blower is provided with an end pipe having a blowing opening at a distal end thereof, the end pipe being coupled to the upper half side of an impeller case and extended in a tangential direction of the impeller. The blower further includes a grip grasped by an operator's fingers to support the blower in a suspended manner, a stop switch provided on an extension line of a widthwise center line of the grip, and a thumb rest extending to a side of the grip from near the stop switch for receiving the operator's thumb. Thus, the handheld blower can prevent accidental stop of the blower, which is caused by an inadvertent touch to the stop switch with the thumb, during use, and enables the operator to keep orienting the end pipe to a desired direction while mitigating the load on the thumb on the grip.

Abstract: In an engine-driven handheld vacuum/blower, a first grip is provided as one part of an outer shape of an engine casing in which an engine is mounted, and a second grip is formed on a fuel tank which forms another part of the outer shape of the engine casing. The first grip and the second grip are positioned on the opposite sides of the center axis of the engine. Therefore, since there is no unbalanced load applied on either of both the hands, an operator can easily maintain the posture during operation, and can work with the vacuum/blower under good efficiency.

Abstract: An intake passage device is provided for an internal combustion engine having carburetor communicated with a connecting projection of an intake port of a cylinder of the engine, wherein the diameter of the connecting projection becomes smaller toward the inside of the intake port. A connecting pipe is provided for communicating the carburetor with the intake port. An inner end of the connecting pipe is engaged in the connecting projection. There is formed a plurality of one communication passages formed in the connecting pipe for communicating an inside of the connecting pipe with a space between an inside wall of the connecting projection and an outside wall of the connecting pipe.

Abstract: A lubricating apparatus for small-sized four-cycle engines to be used in portable type bush cutters, knapsack type powered sprayers, etc. In the lubricating apparatus, an oil returning channel is arranged to provide communication between a valve gear room and an oil sump, and an oil inhaling channel is branched from the middle of the oil returning channel so as to provide communication to an opening in an immediate lower portion of a skirt of a piston being at the top dead center. By this means, when a crank room is negatively pressurized, the oil sucked from the valve gear room is taken through the oil inhaling channel being in communication to a point inside a cylinder where the highest negative pressure is generated, and fed into the cylinder. An opening portion of the oil returning channel is provided with a check valve for opening when the engine is upright and closing when the engine inverted or slanted to prevent the backflow of oil from the oil sump to the oil returning channel.

Abstract: A four-cycle engine has a base plate provided on a side of the engine and having an opening communicated with a carburetor. A choke plate is pivotally mounted on the base plate, and a choke lever is pivotally mounted on the base plate. A transmitting means is provided for transmitting the opposite rotation of the choke lever to the choke plate so as to rotate the choke plate.

Abstract: A cam gear is mounted on a camshaft, and an intake cam and an exhaust cam are formed on the cam gear for operating an intake valve and an exhaust valve of a hand starting four-cycle engine. A decompression device is rotatably mounted in the cam gear. A decompression cam of the decompression device is exposed from the exhaust cam. The decompression device has a weight, and a spring is provided for urging the weight to the cam shaft. Elastic force of the spring is set so that the weight is urged toward the camshaft in hand starting operation of the engine and moved apart from the camshaft by centrifugal force, thereby projecting the decompression cam in the compression stroke of the engine as to open the corresponding valve.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring grindability of a powder material comprises a chute for feeding particles to be measured one at a time, a pair of opposed rolls arranged under the chute so as to receive the particle from the chute in a gap between the opposed rolls, one of the opposed rolls having a stationary shaft which is rotatably supported at a fixed position and the other roll having a movable roll shaft which is rotatably supported on the upper end of an L-shaped arm which is pivoted at the corner thereof to a frame, a rigid base opposed to the other end of the L-shaped arm, a device for adjusting the level of the rigid base, and a load cell interposed between the other end of the arm and the rigid base.