Abstract: A fret-saw machine comprises a base unit having a table on which a workpiece to be cut is placed, a frame member disposed in the base unit and secured to the table, an arm member having one end portion secured to the frame member and another end portion disposed above the table, a blade holder assembly having first and second slide holder units and first and second blade holder units, the first slide holder unit and the first blade holder units being disposed in the base unit and secured to the frame member and the second slide holder unit and the second blade holder unit being secured to another end portion of the arm member, blade supported at its both ends by the first and second blade holder units and a drive unit supported in the base unit by the frame member and connected to the first slide holder unit to drive the blade. The blade holder unit has a blade nipping member for firmly nipping the blade.

Abstract: In a fuel inlet device for a fuel tank, a flap valve is provided at an end of a fuel filler tube opening into the fuel tank, and a float which rises with a rise in a surface level of the fuel in the tank closes this flap valve when the fuel surface level has reached a prescribed level. Thus, when the surface level of the fuel in the fuel tank has reached a prescribed level, the flap valve linked with the float is closed, and prevents any more fuel from being filled into the fuel tank because the filling nozzle detects this rise in the surface level of the fuel in the filler tube, and stops filling any more fuel into the tank. Therefore, it is possible to connect the breather tube in the fuel tank directly with a canister device without the intervention of a relief valve, and the internal pressure of the fuel tank can be maintained substantially no higher than the atmospheric pressure. Thus, the release of fuel vapor from the filler cap can be avoided.

Abstract: A fret-saw machine comprises a base unit having a table on which a workpiece to be cut is placed, a frame member disposed in the base unit and secured to the table, an arm member having one end portion secured to the frame member and another end portion disposed above the table, a blade holder assembly having first and second slide holder units and first and second blade holder units, the first slide holder unit and the first blade holder units being disposed in the base unit and secured to the frame member and the second slide holder unit and the second blade holder unit being secured to another end portion of the arm member, blade supported at its both ends by the first and second blade holder units and a drive unit supported in the base unit by the frame member and connected to the first slide holder unit to drive the blade. The blade holder unit has a blade nipping member for firmly nipping the blade.

Abstract: A fret-saw machine comprises a base unit having a table on which a workpiece to be cut is placed, a frame member disposed in the base unit and secured to the table, an arm member having one end portion secured to the frame member and another end portion disposed above the table, a blade holder assembly having first and second slide holder units and first and second blade holder units, the first slide holder unit and the first blade holder units being disposed in the base unit and secured to the frame member and the second slide holder unit and the second blade holder unit being secured to another end portion of the arm member, blade supported at its both ends by the first and second blade holder units and a drive unit supported in the base unit by the frame member and connected to the first slide holder unit to drive the blade. The blade holder unit has a blade nipping member for firmly nipping the blade.

Abstract: A fret-saw machine comprises a base unit having a table on which a workpiece to be cut is placed, a frame member disposed in the base unit and secured to the table, an arm member having one end portion secured to the frame member and another end portion disposed above the table, a blade holder assembly having first and second slide holder units and first and second blade holder units, the first slide holder unit and the first blade holder units being disposed in the base unit and secured to the frame member and the second slide holder unit and the second blade holder unit being secured to another end portion of the arm member, blade supported at its both ends by the first and second blade holder units and a drive unit supported in the base unit by the frame member and connected to the first slide holder unit to drive the blade. The blade holder unit has a blade nipping member for firmly nipping the blade.

Abstract: A tool attaching/detaching device is disclosed in which a tool depressing member is slidingly engaged with a body portion of a clamp nut, and balls are inserted into spaces defined between taper surface portions of the clamp nut and taper surface portions of the tool depressing member. A ring member is used to cover the spaces. An inner diameer of the ring member is changed along its inner circumferential surface.

Abstract: This invention relates to a horseshoe crab amebocyte lysate factor G activation inhibitor comprising as an active ingredient a polyglycoside containing at least one poly-(1.fwdarw.3)-.beta.-D-glucoside structure portion consisting of 2 to 370 (1.fwdarw.3)-.beta.-D-glucoside structural units of the following formula ##STR1## which are continuously bound to one another. This inhibitor is useful for inhibiting the activation of factor G which may exist in horseshoe crab amebocyte lysate used in the Limulus test.

Abstract: An apparatus for building green tires includes a carcass band forming drum for forming a carcass band, a first forming drum arranged rearward of and coaxially to the carcass band forming drum for forming green cases, a first transfer unit movable between the carcass band and first forming drums for transferring and pressing beads to the carcass band and for transferring the united beads and the carcass band to the first forming drum and folding axial edges of the carcass band about the beads upon itself in cooperation with the first forming drum, a second forming drum arranged rearward of the first forming drum for toroidally deforming the green case, second transfer unit movable between the first and second forming drums for transferring and delivering the green case from the first forming drum and second forming drum, a band forming drum arranged rearward of the first forming drum for forming a band, and a third transfer unit movable between the band forming drum and the second forming drum for transferring

Abstract: A scroll saw having a blade includes a body, a piston connected to the blade as to be moved upwardly and downwardly, and a motor for driving the piston upwardly and downwardly. A hung member is removably secured to the sawing blade. A pulled-down member is removably secured to the other end of the blade. A hanger is engaged with the hung member, and an arm secured to the body is configured so as not to interfere with the workpiece. A pulling-down member is engaged with the pulled-down member, and a suspension unit including a spring is attached to the arm and adapted to tension the blade by the elastic restoring force of the spring as the piston moves. The scroll saw machine is appropriately used as a fixed-installation type or a hand-held type saw.

Abstract: A drive circuit for a stepping motor which seeks the read/write head of an FDD or the like to a predetermined track. The drive circuit includes a plurality of exciting coils for providing exciting fields to a rotor and supplies exciting currents in the forward or reverse direction by a predetermined combination to each of the exciting coils. A constant-current circuit is provided so as to cause the exciting current flowing on each exciting coil to have a constant value. The constant-current circuit includes a current mirror circuit with the slave branch connected to the exciting coils and the master branch contained in the constant-current circuit. The constant-current circuit further includes a constant-current source for supplying a constant current to the master branch of the current mirror circuit and a constant-current setting circuit for setting the constant current as desired.

Abstract: A hand-held scroll saw having a blade includes a body having a handle provided at the upper portion of the body, a foot plate provided at the lower portion of the body so as to be slid on a workpiece which is to be cut by the saw, a piston provided over the front portion of the plate so as to be moved upwardly and downwardly, and a motor provided between the handle and the plate so as to move the piston up and down. A hung member is removably secured to the sawing blade at the upper end thereof, and a hanger is secured to the piston at the lower end thereof and engaged with the hung member. A U-shaped arm having an upper portion secured to the body and a lower portion located near the lower end of the blade so that the arm does not interfere with the workpiece. A pulled-down member is removably secured to the blade at the lower end thereof, and a pulling-down member is engaged with the pulled-down member.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for manufacturing an embossed article of synthetic resin including heating a synthetic resin sheet to a softening temperature; pressing the heated synthetic resin sheet on an embossing die by a press die. The embossing die being made by an electro-chemical molding process and having an embossing surface with an embossing pattern thereon and a multitude of fine vacuum pores distributed uniformly over the entire embossing surface. Forcing the synthetic resin sheet against the embossing surface by applying suction through the fine vacuum pores to imprint the embossing pattern onto the synthetic resin sheet. The press die having an undercut shaping portion. Applying blowing pressure through the embossing dies and applying a vacuum through the undercut shaping portion. Thus, releasing the synthetic resin sheet from the embossing surface and forming an undercut in the synthetic resin sheet.

Abstract: A drive circuit for a stepping motor used for seeking the reading/writing head of a floppy disk or the like. The stepping motor is smoothly driven by inserting an inner step pulse between the input step pulses when excitation signals are supplied to the stepping motor on the basis of the step pulses from the host computer. Since the interval between the step pulses output from the host computer is different each time, the interval between the step pulses is measured and the timing for generating an inner step pulse is determined on the basis of the measured value.

Abstract: A read/write head carrying mechanism for a floppy disk drive. Upper and lower heads are brought into close contact with both sides of a floppy disk in a loaded state, and reciprocate in the radial direction of the floppy disk so as to be positioned at a desired track. The lower head is secured to a carriage, while the upper head to an upper arm, which is swingable with respect to the carriage. The carriage reciprocates along a single guide rail, which is spaced apart from and disposed parallel with a head moving path. The carriage is supported by the single guide rail, with the result that the carriage and the upper arm as a whole form a carriage assembly which swings with the guide rail as a fulcrum. The upper and lower heads move vertically by very small amounts by following the fluctuation of the floppy disk, thereby causing the heads and the floppy disk to be brought into close contact with each other.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for manufacturing an embossed article of synthetic resin by heating a synthetic resin sheet to a softening temperature; overlaying the heated synthetic resin sheet on an embossing die made by an electro-chemical molding process and having an embossing surface with an embossing pattern thereon and a multitude of fine vacuum pores distributed uniformly over the entire embossing surface; and forcing the synthetic resin sheet against the embossing surface by applying suction through the fine vacuum pores to imprint the embossing pattern onto the synthetic resin sheet.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a tire in which an inner circumference of a tire carcass is wrapped around a tire bead by being grasped by an expanding air bladder against a stopper plate. The stopper plate, with the bladder still inflated is raised relative to the bead and main tire carcass and then moved into the annular portion of the tire carcass to encase the bead.

Abstract: The invention relates to a foam glass having a foam layer and a crust layer which covers at least one major surface of the foam layer. The crust layer is formed so as to have a thickness of from 1.5 to 20 mm and an apparent specific gravity of from 0.8 to 1.7, whereas the foam layer has an apparent specific gravity of from 0.3 to 0.6. The powder materials of the foam layer and the crust layer are respectively granulated prior to firing operation. This foam glass has good impact resistance, flexural strength and machinability including cuttability. By dispersing 15-30 vol % of glass grains 0.5-5.2 mm in diameter in the crust layer the foam glass is improved in surface hardness and flaw resistance.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an embossed article of synthetic resin comprising heating a synthetic resin sheet to a softening temperature; overlaying the heated synthetic resin sheet on an embossing die made by an electro-chemical molding process and having an embossing surface with an embossing pattern thereon and a multitude of fine vacuum pores distributed uniformly over the entire embossing surface; and forcing the synthetic resin sheet against the embossing surface by applying suction through the fine vacuum pores to imprint the embossing pattern onto the synthetic resin sheet.

Abstract: A vacuum mold for vacuum-forming a plastic sheet heated to a high temperature to transfer grain patterns onto the surface of the plastic sheet, the mold comprising an electrocast shell formed, by an electroforming step, with a casting surface having the grain patterns thereon and a multitude of fine vacuum holes uniformly distributed at the casting surface. A back-up body is mounted at the rear surface of the electrocast shell and is provided with vent holes communicating with the vacuum holes in the shell.