Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kiichiro Tanaka

Yasushi Okamura

Hideaki Yamashita

Tadashi Hayamizu

Takashi Takeda

Hisanobu Hori

Fumio Fukushige

A printing apparatus having a paper positioning plate swingably supported and having two positions in operation. The first position temporarily stops the carrying of an edge of a paper sheet by engaging the edge. The second position allows the paper sheet to be freely carried. The portion of the paper positioning plate which engages the edge of the paper sheet is curved as an arc having its axis on the axis of swing of the paper positioning plate. Thus, the swinging motion of the paper positioning plate does not create a strong frictional force at the edge of the sheet of paper and hence no paper particles are produced.

Printing apparatus with registration positioning plate

A printing device according to the present invention can be connected to various computers or the like. A large number of data items for setting various functions are already stored in a storing device of the printing device, and these data items are classified into a multi-step hierarchy to enable the selection of data items of different hierarchies, whereby the functions of the printing device can be set. The printing device is characterized in that, when data of a certain hierarchy is determined, at least one data item of the next hierarchy is arranged to be displayed by a display device, so that the number of key operations is reduced to facilitate data selection.

Printing device

A card inserter 1 is detachably mounted on a main part 14 of a printer, by making catchings of pins 32 and 27 on the main part by hooks 31 and 24 of the left and right guide post 10 and 11. After mounting of the card inserter 1, an idler gear 17 links the platen gear 16 and the driving gear 18 for card driving shaft 13. At the same time the connector, consisting of a plug 33' is connected to a receptacle 35 thereby to complete an electric circuit connection between the main part 14 and the card inserter 1.

Printer

A stationary record player having a turn table and a pickup pivotally secured to the turn table, so as to trace, when rotated together with the turn table, the recording groove of a stationary record medium on which the record player as a whole is placed. The record player has various novel functions such as an automatic stopping function for automatically stopping the player when the play is finished with the record medium, an automatic returning function for automatically resetting the stylus to the starting position, a lift-stop function for automatically stopping the player when the latter is lifted up from the record medium a slide-stop function for automatically stopping the player when the latter is displaced laterally from the correct mounting position on the record medium, a pause state eliminating function for stopping the player when the latter in the pause state is lifted up from the record disc, and so forth. These functions are effective to prevent the unnecessary wear of the stylus and to protect the latter from any damaging external force. Further, the force required for turning the player into operation is derived from a motor for driving the turn table, so as to obtain an improved operability of the player. The playing performance of the player is further improved by an additional provision of an end repeat and optional repeat functions by means of which the playing is performed repeatingly over the full or a desired part of the record medium.

Stationary record player

A stationary record player is described having a turn table adapted to be rotatably driven by an electric motor. A pickup is pivotally secured to the turn table, the pickup having a stylus which moves along the recording groove of a stationary record medium when the pickup is rotated together with the turn table whereby the signal on the record medium is reproduced. The record player comprises a lift member adapted to detect the arrival of the stylus at the final position of reproduction, the lift member including a lift lever being pivoted to the turn table. One end of the lift lever is held by the pickup until the pickup reaches a final inward position whereby the one end is released allowing the remaining end of the lift lever to be pivoted upward. A play lever for operating a switch for supplying current to the electric motor is locked during play, and when the stylus reaches the final playing position, an activating arm of the locking mechanism is moved by the remaining end of the lift lever to release the lift lever stopping the electric motor.

A loudspeaker consisting of a driver or motor unit consisting of a cylindrical magnet structure, a voice coil and a domed diaphragm; an enclosure unit for receiving therein the driver or motor unit; and a horn unit attached mechanically to the opened end of the enclosure unit, the positioning or locating cylindrical section of the horn unit being snugly fitted into the enclosure unit. The assembly is much facilitated, and the driver or motor unit, the enclosure unit and the horn unit may be located and held in correctly mutually coaxially aligned relationship in a very simple manner. In one embodiment, a spring is loaded between the driver or motor unit and the enclosure unit so that the domed diaphragm may be restrained under the forces in excess of 1.5 kg/cm.sup.2 over which the lowest resonance frequency may be stabilized.

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Fukuoka, Japan

Kiichiro Tanaka