Clarion Co

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Kazuo Kawakami

Takayuki Aihara

Yawara Nagai

Fukuya Iguchi

There is described an in-car switch controller which enables a driver to control electronic devices provided in a car. The controller includes a switch panel which can be placed in the vicinity of a driver's seat such that the driver can readily actuate the switch panel and which comprises a plurality of main switches and sub-switches paired up with the corresponding main switches, the sub-switch being arranged so as to designate and enable the function of the main switch; a display section which can be provided in the front panel or in the vicinity thereof and which displays an image of the main switch paired up with the corresponding sub-switch and an advice image pertaining to the function of the main switch, when the sub-switch is actuated; an image data storage section for storing image data used for producing the images of the main switches and their corresponding advice images; an image generation control section for generating the display image on the basis of the image data stored in the image data storage section; a display drive section for activating the display section so as to display the display screen prepared by the image generation control section; image data designation means for reading image data from the image data storage section in accordance with a specification instruction output from the sub-switch; and a control device which, upon receipt of an operation signal from the main switch enabled by the sub-switch, outputs a control signal for effecting the function assigned to the image of the switch displayed in the display section.

In-car switch controller

Mobile telephone

Base for a mobile telephone

A cuvette for use in an automatic chemical analyzer is formed of molded transparent plastic material, the cuvette having a flat box construction made of main walls, side walls and a bottom. Entrance and exit windows for a measuring light beam are formed in the side walls in such a manner the windows are recessed inwardly with respect to the side walls. A number of such cuvettes are arranged in a magazine and a plurality of such magazines are set in an automatic cuvette loader for supplying the cuvettes in a reaction line one by one. The automatic cuvette loader has a first slider for moving the magazines stocked in a container into a cuvette loading position one by one and for pushing the cuvettes in the magazine in a direction perpendicular to a discharging direction and a second slider for pushing a cuvette array in the cuvette discharging direction so as to discharge the cuvettes one by one through an outlet formed in the magazine.

Automatic cuvette loading apparatus

Cuvette for a sample of liquid serum or the like

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuo Kawakami