Abstract: There are provided an outer tub suspended elastically in an enclosure, an inner tub for containing clothes supported rotatably within the outer tub, and a rotary impeller held rotatably on an inner bottom portion of the inner tub. The inner tub and/or the rotary impeller are driven by a motor. A drying blower delivers air into the inner tub, and a heater heats the air delivered by the blower unit. A controller controls operation of the motor, the drying blower, the heater, and the like, thereby controlling each process of washing, rinsing, hydro-extraction, and drying. In the hydro-extraction process, the controller drives the inner tub while also driving the drying blower to maintain delivery of air into the inner tub.

Abstract: In a heat developing section, heater boxes heated by sheet-like heaters are disposed vertically in pairs between an insertion roller pair and a discharging roller pair. When a heat developing photosensitive material is fed between the heater boxes by the insertion roller pair with a photosensitive layer of the heat developing photosensitive layer facing upward, it is guided by a guide plate of a lower heater box and is conveyed with an air layer being constantly formed between an upper heater box and the heat developing photosensitive material. As a result, the heat developing photosensitive material is heated without the photosensitive layer thereof being pressed. Accordingly, the heat developing photosensitive material is uniformly heated with no wrinkles generated therein, and an image of high finished quality is formed.

Abstract: A washing machine includes a washing shaft for rotating agitating blades disposed in a dewatering tank, and the washing shaft is disposed coaxially on a hollow dewatering shaft for rotating the dewatering tank. The washing shaft is connected to the output side of a reduction mechanism, and a washing side input shaft is connected to the input side of the reduction mechanism to rotate the washing shaft by decelerating the rotation of a drive motor. A rotor of the drive motor is coupled to the lower part of the washing side input shaft. Therefore, the rotating torque of the agitating blades can be increased without increasing the torque of the drive motor. In addition, if the laundry collides against the agitating blades, the eccentricity to the washing side input shaft is suppressed, thereby the increase of the washing capacity can be handled without increasing the size of the drive motor.

Abstract: A carrier for an electrophotographic developer comprising a carrier core coated with a silicone resin containing a crosslinking agent having a phenyl group.

Abstract: Patent for "PROCESS AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS RECOVERY OF TWO PIPES OR TUBES WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF OBSTRUCTION", with the said process consisting of recovering each of the said obstructed pipes or tubes by means of a jet of compressed air flowing with a spiral motion from one of the extremities of each of the said pipes or tubes, with water first being added to the said jet in order to increase the passage of the air; with the said water then being followed by a cleaning solution, a volatile liquid, or another equivalent product, along with an abrasive material consisting of crushed rock or gravel, or a similar substance, in order to clean the said pipe or tube; after which an epoxy resin paint or another type of coating is added, which coats all of the inner wall of the pipe or tube, as a result of the pressure applied by the said jet of compressed air.

Abstract: A photosensitive material processing apparatus is equipped with a drying section in which a photosensitive material processed with a processing solution is conveyed by a plurality of rollers and dried by drying air from a drying air blowing device. In the photosensitive material processing apparatus, a plurality of heating rollers is disposed to form a part of the above-described plurality of rollers and whose surfaces are heated by a heat source. A control means effects on-off control for the heat source during processing of the photosensitive material to set the surface temperature of each of the plurality of heating rollers and to control the drying air blowing device to lower the surface temperature of each of the plurality of heating rollers by the drying air during a standby period. Accordingly, during the standby period, the surface temperature of each of the plurality of heating rollers is lowered forcibly by the drying air, so that overshooting is restricted.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for controlling drying of a photographic material in which, by controlling respective temperatures of a contact-heating device and warm air, temperatures can be controlled to the minimum temperature necessary to provide the photographic material with optimal effects so that the relative contributions of drying the photographic material by the contact-heating device and the warm air are always constant.

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a rotor having a plurality of magnetic poles extending axially, which is disposed radially on the outer circumferential surface of the rotor, and a stator having two coils wound on coil bobbins, which are disposed axially in a housing formed into a bottomed hollow cylindrical shape; an end plate being fitted to an open end of the housing, in which the housing is made of a ferromagnetic material, the magnetic poles are provided on a housing-side end face of the rotor so that an axial magnetic attraction force is exerted between the rotor end face and the housing.

Abstract: A photosensitive material drying apparatus equipped with a plurality of rollers, which are disposed along a direction of transport of a photosensitive material and form a transport path and which are able to provide heat to the photosensitive material, and a plurality of hot air supplying portions, which blow hot air toward the photosensitive material. The rollers and the hot air supplying portions are disposed such that portions having drying irregularities which occur on surfaces of the photosensitive material, due to the photosensitive material receiving heat from the rollers and from hot air blown from the hot air supplying portions, in accordance with irregularities in a transport speed of the photosensitive material due to driving irregularities in a substantially uniform cycle of the rollers, are scattered substantially evenly on the surfaces of the photosensitive material along the direction of transport thereof.

Abstract: A method of controlling the temperature of drying air in a photosensitive material drying apparatus for drying the photosensitive material processed by processing solutions. The method comprises the steps of: calculating an environmental absolute humidity Z.sub.E of a vicinity of the photosensitive material drying apparatus; calculating a processing amount S of the photosensitive material per unit time; calculating a drying air temperature T.sub.D on the basis of the environmental absolute humidity Z.sub.E and the processing amount S of the photosensitive material so that a difference between the drying air temperature T.sub.D and a wet-bulb temperature TW in the photosensitive material drying apparatus falls within a predetermined range of a value; and controlling a heater for heating the drying air on the basis of the drying air temperature T.sub.D.

Abstract: A photosensitive material processing apparatus having a plurality of rollers are disposed so that they either directly or indirectly contact a photosensitive material processed by at least one kind of processing solution. At least one of plurality of rollers is heated so as to dry the photosensitive material while it is being conveyed. A deposit removing member removes substances deposited on the circumferential surfaces of the rollers.

Abstract: Sheets of photosensitive material are processed through a processor comprising a series of developing, fixing, washing and drying sections, the drying section 14 including a plurality of conveyor rollers 42, a drive shaft operatively coupled to the rollers, and a plurality of nozzles 50 for injecting hot air against the traveling sheets. The rollers 42 and/or the nozzles 50 are arranged in the drying section so as to satisfy at least one of the relationships (1) and (2):k.sub.1 M+0.5<L<(k.sub.1 +1)M-0.5 (1)k.sub.2 M+0.5<P<(k.sub.2 +1)M-0.5 (2)wherein L is the distance (in mm) between two adjacent conveyor rollers in the drying section, P is the distance (in mm) between two adjacent nozzles, M is the distance (in mm) over which the sheet is fed per revolution of the drive shaft, k.sub.1 is equal to 0 or an integer of 1 to 8, and k.sub.2 is equal to 0 or an integer of 1 to 8.

Abstract: A photosensitive material drying apparatus includes rollers forming a film transport passage and warm-air supplying chambers respectively disposed in the vicinity of the rollers. A pair of warm-air discharging portions is formed in each warm-air supplying chamber in such a manner as to straddle the roller and project toward the film transport passage. Each warm-air discharging portion blows warm air onto a film portion in proximity to and upstream of a roller-contacting portion of the film or a film portion in proximity to and downstream of another roller-contacting portion of the film. An exhaust hole for exhausting the warm air blown onto the film away from the transport passage side is formed in the warm-air supplying chamber between extensions of the warm-air discharging portions. A warm-air exhaust portion for exhausting the warm air blown onto the film is formed between adjacent ones of the warm-air supplying chambers as well.

Abstract: A chemical analyzer has a cold-storage chamber and a tape-feeding cassette which can be accommodated in the cold-storage chamber and is detachable therefrom. The cassette contains a chemical analysis tape and has an opening through which the tape can be taken out of the cassette. A section of the tape-feeding cassette inside of the opening is sealed off from the atmosphere and from other parts of the cassette. The tape passes through this section. This section is provided with air which has a relative humidity not higher than 70% such that the pressure therein is positive.

Abstract: A long-test-film cassette for biochemical analysis comprises an unused film cassette part accommodating an unused long test film for biochemical analysis, and a used film cassette part for accommodating the long test film which has been pulled out of the unused film cassette part and used for biochemical analysis. A leading edge of the film is secured to a reel in the used film cassette part. In a cassette loading system, the unused film cassette part is provided with a protruded test film outlet portion and is loaded to a refrigerating compartment of an analysis apparatus with the test film outlet portion fitted in a hole of the refrigerating compartment.

Abstract: A refrigerator comprises a cassette accommodating section which is enclosed by a wall, kept at a low temperature, and capable of accommodating a film feed cassette in such a way that it can be released therefrom. The film feed cassette houses therein a long test film containing a reagent which will react with a liquid sample and give rise to a change in optical density. The film feed cassette has a film outlet through which the long test film is fed out. The refrigerator has a film outlet which is formed in the wall at a position corresponding to the position of the film outlet of the film feed cassette and through which the long test film is pulled out. An air stream jetting system jets dry air to the surface of the portion of the long test film positioned between the film outlet of the film feed cassette and the film outlet of the refrigerator.

Abstract: A shallow cup-shaped miniature motor having a motor case of a substantially shallow cup shape, fitted with a permanent magnet field; a motor case cover engaged with the open end face of the motor case; a rotor having a motor rotating shaft rotatably supported by a first bearing provided on the closed end face of the motor case and a second bearing provided on the motor case cover; brushes supported by the motor case cover for making sliding contact with commutator segments provided on the motor rotating shaft, in which an insulating core having wing portions substantially covering a laminated core comprising the rotor is provided on the outermost end face of the laminated core; the insulating core having at the center thereof a through hole through which the motor rotating shaft is passed, and a hollow cylindrical portion, provided around the through hole, having a plurality of notches for engaging with a plurality of the rising portions of the commutator segments; a commutator surface comprising the commutat

Abstract: A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus using a magnetic sheet as a recording medium includes a pack holder receiving a magnetic sheet pack containing the magnetic sheet therein. This pack holder is integrally firmly secured to the inner side of a door to be opened and closed at a time when the magnetic sheet pack is loaded and unloaded. In its opened state, only a gate portion formed in the door in such a manner as to be in communication with the pack holder is exposed. When the door is closed after the magnetic sheet pack is inserted from this gate portion to load it in the pack holder, an oscillating lever is oscillated in cooperation with the movement of the door. At one end of the oscillating lever, a control plate adapted to maintain a satisfactory head contact of the magnetic head with respect to the magnetic sheet is axially attached. When the oscillating lever is oscillated as mentioned above, the control plate enters into the pack holder.

Abstract: A device for loading or unloading a magnetic disc pack applicable to a magnetic recorder or reproducer in an electronic camera system wherein a subject is electronically still-photographed and recorded in a rotating magnetic disc, and the reproducing of an image is carried out by a television system or a printer.A lid is openably supported by a main body of the magnetic recorder or reproducer. An inner bucket is pivotally supported on the main body or the lid, having a U-shaped configuration in which the magnetic disc pack incorporating a magnetic disc is received and is capable of being separated from the lid or the main body to form an opening, into which the magnetic disc pack is inserted, when the lid is opened. An engageable hole is formed in the end face of the inner bucket of the device for loading or unloading the magnetic disc pack. The engaging member is located at this engageable hole in a manner to be projectable into the engageable hole or retractable therefrom.

Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus for construction of an underground or aboveground continuous article (98) which has at least one bore (99). In case the article is made underground, the apparatus has at least one rotary cutter (51) for excavating the earth and a spoil discharge device which separates water from the spoil (97) and discharges separately the water and the dewatered spoil, respectively. The apparatus has at least one electric heater (49) for heating material (95) passing a space (67) disposed between a tubular member (45) and a bore forming member (46).