Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Citizen Holdings Company, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Nec Corporation

Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Denka Consultant and Engineering Co., Ltd.

Nisshin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Minoru Kobayashi

Shigeru Nemoto

Masaaki Sato

Masatsugu Ogawa

Seiji Yamamoto

Takashi Ihara

Masami Fukuda

Sinichi Saitou

Masato Okamura

Masumi Ichien

Kenji Yamazaki

Akinari Takada

Osamu Shibasaki

Atsuhiko Maeda

Shigeyuki Takahashi

Masaaki Namekawa

Yasuhiko Sakaguchi

Goro Kitajima

Yasuo Maekawa

Tetsuji Kaneko

Katsuhiko Ogawa

Toyoaki Miyazaki

Masafumi Emura

Yuriko Suzuki

Yuichi Kobayashi

Nobumoto Tohya

Ienobu Ikeda

Yunosuke Maki

Hideo Ooishi

Hiroshi Chigira

Shinji Toba

Kazuaki Tanaka

Shigeru Inaba

Youichi Watanabe

Masahiro Yagi

Shizue Itou

In order to acquire echo sound information about a long-distance target, an active sonar comprises a fan beam transmitter, a fan beam receiver, a propagation path calculator, a path time calculator, and a horizontal distance calculator. The active sonar transmits a plurality of transmitted fan beams horizontally wide and vertically narrow, and the elevation angles of them are mutually deferent, and receives received fan beams vertically wide and horizontally narrow. The propagation path calculator calculates a propagation path of each of the transmitted fan beams based on the profile of medium and the elevation angle of the transmission. The path time calculator calculates a path time which is the time period from the transmission to the reception. The horizontal distance calculator calculates a horizontal distance from the active sonar to a generation source point of each echo sounds based on the propagation path and the path time.

Active sonar and control method for active sonar

Provided is a bypass switch with the closing time shortened. A bypass switch using a vacuum valve having a fixed contact and a movable contact includes: an insulating rod having one end side connected to the movable contact; a closing spring fitted to the other end side of the insulating rod, and having a closing function to close the contacts and a contact-pressing function to apply pressure to the contacts; and an operation unit having a latch function to keep a contact-opened state, and connected to the other end side of the insulating rod, wherein the insulating rod, the closing spring, and the operation unit are arranged in series along the axial direction of the vacuum valve.

Bypass switch

An information input device includes a display, an input unit, an input direction determining unit, a tag arranging unit and a movable direction determining unit. The movable direction determining unit specifies, based on a first operation position on an input area of the input unit, a division part including the first operation position from among plural division parts on the input area. The tag arranging unit displays a tag indicating a slide operation pattern of an operator associated with the specified division part in the vicinity of a selection operation object or on the selection operation object on a display area of the display. The input direction determining unit detects, based on a second operation position on the input area, a slide operation pattern of the operator, and determines whether or not the detected slide operation pattern matches the slide operation pattern indicated by the tag within a certain range.

Information input device, information input method, and information input program

A force feedback method for presenting a force sense to an operator by jetting gas or liquid from a nozzle of jetting means according to a position or an orientation of a receiver is disclosed. In the force feedback method, the receiver is provided with an inclined side surface unit shaped to be inclined, outward from a center part of the receiver, with respect to an axis line of the receiver, and the force feedback method provides a force, to the receiver, including a component perpendicular to a jet direction of the gas or the liquid, by jetting the gas or the liquid to the inclined side surface unit.

Method, device and program for presenting inner force sense and program

There is obtained an energy storage mechanism, for a switching device, that has a structure requiring no high-accuracy components and can perform release of driving-power transmission and re-engagement. In the case where the closing springis energized, the main gearis rotated by the energy storage motoror manually, via the output gearand the intermediate gear; in the case where the closing springhas been energized, the engagement between the intermediate gearand the main gearis released at a missing-tooth portionof a gear B; in the case where the switching device is closed, the main gearis rotated by restoration force exerted by the closing spring, and the intermediate gearis separated from the main geardue to the elongated holethat supports the rotation axlethereof; and in the case where the closing springis energized again, the intermediate gearis again engaged with the main geardue to the elongated holethat supports the rotation axlethereof.

Energy storage mechanism for switching device

A force feedback apparatus of the present invention includes: jetting means that includes a nozzle and that can control a jet amount or a jet direction of gas or liquid jetted from the nozzle; jet control means for controlling the jet amount or the jet direction of the gas or the liquid according to a position or an orientation of a receiver that receives pressure by the gas or the liquid jetted from the jetting means so as to provide force feedback to an operator. When the receiver has a concave shape of a diameter D, intervals for placing the nozzles in the jetting means are set such that at least one nozzle exists within a region having a diameter of a constant&#xd7;D.

Inner force sense presentation device, inner force sense presentation method, and inner force sense presentation program

A radio-controlled timepiece includes a regional-information storage unit that stores information on a target time region, a receiving circuit that receives a standard frequency that contains UTC time information, and that outputs a received signal, a regional-time calculating unit that calculates a current time of the target time region based on the information on the target time region and the received signal, a display unit that displays the current time calculated, a display-time correcting unit that corrects the current time to be displayed in DST or in standard time in timing determined based on the current time when information on a DST switching day is included in the received signal.

Radio-controlled timepiece, electronic device, time correcting method and computer product

The invention is directed to obtaining a radio controlled timepiece that, in a case when the user who uses it moves from one country or one region to another where the time difference is different, has simplified an operation of correcting the time difference between the countries or regions and an operation of correcting the time difference due to daylight saving time's being executed. To this end, the invention provides a radio controlled timepiecethat, in addition to the radio controlled timepiecein the prior art, it further includes offset time difference information storage meansthat stores an offset time difference between a country where reference time information is formed and a country where a standard radio wave has been received and daylight saving time information storage meansthat has stored therein for future use information on whether daylight saving time is being executed in the region where the standard radio wave has been received, and local standard time information forming meansthat, with respect to the reference time information of the standard radio wave that has been received in a particular region, executes calculation processing by using at least either one of offset time difference information with respect to the reference time information corresponding to the particular region and daylight saving time information in the particular region, to thereby form local standard time information in the particular region.

Radio controlled timepiece and method of controlling the same

An electronic device an antenna, an information processing apparatus for the purpose of processing information captured by the antenna, and a metal exterior parts capable of housing therewithin the antenna and the information processing apparatus, wherein the metal exterior parts is configured so that the antenna can receive magnetic flux from outside the metal exterior parts that has passed through the metal exterior parts and can resonate, and wherein at least a part of the metal exterior parts has an electrical resistance value that is different from another part of the metal exterior parts.

Electronic device having metal package unit having built-in antenna unit

The invention provides an efficient method for controlling the flow rate of a particulate material through a pneumatic transportation pipe at a preset value with a high accuracy and rapid response to an external disturbance added to the system by controlling the flow rate of the booster gas. Different from conventional methods in which the flow rate of the booster gas is controlled with the feedforward factor of the variation in the actual flow rate of the particulate material, the inventive method utilizes the variation in the pressure in the receiving unit as the feedback to control the flow rate of the booster gas so that the above mentioned advantages are obtained in the accuracy of control and rapidness of the response to an external disturbance.

Method for the transportation of a particulate material at controlled

An apparatus for washing an automotive vehicle has box-shaped outer and inner hoods which are movable along rails laid on the ground to completely cover the vehicle to be washed and washing liquid spraying devices movably attached to the inner walls of the outer and inner hoods at positions appropriate for spraying liquid on the entire surface of the vehicle. The spray device sprays water, washing liquid and the like in accordance with the spraying steps. The washed vehicle is dried by blowing air through an air blowing device.

Vehicle washing apparatus

A tape recorder has a base plate, a capstan rotatably supported by the base plate and a flywheel attached to the capstan. The capstan is rotated by a drive device having a motor and a driving gear mounted on the flywheel coaxial with the capstan. A pair of magnetic heads are movably arranged on the base plate. A moving gear is rotatably supported on the base. A cam member and a push member are mounted on the moving gear. The push member engages with one of the magnetic head to move the head as the moving gear is rotated. A pair of transmission gears are arranged on both sides of the moving gear to be able to engage with the driving gear and moving gear. The transmission gears transmit the driving force of the drive device to the moving gear to rotate the moving gear by engaging with the driving gear and moving gear. The engagement of the transmission gears with the driving gear and moving gear and the rotating angle of the moving gear are controlled by a controlling device.

Tape recorder with reciprocating magnetic heads

A magnetic recording tape driving apparatus comprises a motor, two pairs of reel shafts on which a pair of reel hubs of each of two cassette tapes are mounted, two capstans for the two cassette tapes, a head base plate supporting two magnetic heads and two pinch rollers each provided in a position corresponding to each pair of the reel shafts and movable between a first position, at which the magnetic heads and the pinch roller are all spaced apart from the magnetic tapes accommodated in the respective paired cassette tapes with the reel hubs thereof mounted on the two pairs of reel shafts, and a second position, at which the magnetic heads and the pinch rollers are all in contact with the magnetic tapes accommodated in the paired cassette tapes, and a gear train for selectively transmitting rotational power from the motor to the two capstans and the two pairs of reel shafts.

Magnetic recording tape driving apparatus

A word line number count/display device used in a tape recorder for dictation includes a magnetic head for detecting a special cue signal from a magnetic recording tape while the tape is running in either of two opposite directions, and for generating a detection signal corresponding to the length of a main communication content of dictation recorded on the tape. A time measuring circuit electrically connected to the magnetic head measures the time length corresponding to the length of the main communication content and generates a time period signal corresponding to the measured time length. A dividing circuit electrically connected to the time measuring circuit divides the time period signal by a predetermined reference time period value to produce a quotient signal, and a multiplying circuit multiplies the quotient signal by a predetermined value corresponding to the average number of words spoken by a dictator during a predetermined period of time divided by the average number of words contained in one line of a typing paper. A resulting product signal is provided to a decoder which produces a digital signal corresponding to the product signal from the multiplying circuit. A digital display device displays digital information corresponding to the digital signal.

Word line number count/display device for tape recorder

A transcriber used for repeatedly reproducing information recorded on a tape, comprised of a through-hole provided in a part of the main body of the transcriber and an eraser which has a magnet to generate magnetic flux in a prescribed direction to the through-hole.

Transcriber with erasing device

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Minoru Kobayashi