Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd.

Naruaki Akai

Masao Shimizu

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Takayuki Urata

Shunichi Nagamoto

Shinichiro Kobayashi

Kazutoshi Nagai

Takahisa Tsuji

Atsushi Matsuo

Yoshinori Kataoka

Itaru Enguchi

Kiichi Shimosaka

Masaru Kikukawa

Masanori Nishikawa

Motomichi Kato

Hiroshi Fujimoto

Minoru Hotta

Kunihiro Tsuruta

Shuzo Tokumitsu

Kiyoshi Sekiya

Yasuharu Otsuka

A biodata interfacing device includes a service console, an attachment storage compartment defined in the service console for accommodating a variety of sensors used for collecting biodata, a lid mounted on the service console for opening and closing a top opening of the attachment storage compartment, and a display unit formed on an upper surface of the lid.

Biodata interfacing system

A steam iron of the present invention is aimed at spraying a stable steam by repressing deposit of scale when producing the steam, and at reducing the scale that adheres to clothes by miniaturizing the scale particles. The steam iron includes a scale deposit repressing device for repressing the deposit of scale by dissolving phosphatic compound into water in a water tank that stores the water for supply to a vaporization chamber.

Steam iron with scale deposit repression

An electric steam iron having a standard steam spray mode for spraying a standard quantity of steam and an enhanced steam spray mode for spraying an increased quantity of steam as compared with that afforded during the standard steam spray mode. This electric steam iron includes a soleplate having a heater mounted thereon for heating the soleplate and a vaporizing chamber defined therein, a handle disposed above the soleplate, a water tank unit for supplying water to the vaporizing chamber, and a nozzle disposed at a bottom of the water tank unit. The electric steam iron also includes a valving mechanism for selectively opening and closing the nozzle for controlling supply of water to the vaporizing chamber, and a pumping mechanism for supplying an increased quantity of water within the water tank unit towards the vaporizing chamber to accomplish the enhanced steam spray mode. A cover plate is secured to a bottom wall member of the water tank unit so as to define a water passage beneath the water tank unit and covering the pumping mechanism and an exit side of the nozzle. This cover plate has an opening defined therein in communication with the vaporizing chamber.

Electric steam iron

A cordless iron includes a stand and an iron body placeable on and detachable from the stand. The iron body has a sole plate. The sole plate of the iron body is heated when the iron body is placed on the stand. An electrically powered temperature sensor senses the temperature of the sole plate of the iron body and outputs a signal representative of that sensed temperature. An alarm device responsive to the signal outputted from the temperature sensor serves to indicate that the sensed temperature drops to or below a reference temperature. The temperature sensor is kept activated when the iron body is detached from the stand.

Cordless iron

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Takarazuka, Japan

Naruaki Akai