Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kao Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Noboru Yashima

Naoki Kizu

Shigeru Matsui

Kazuhiro Sugiyama

Yukari Hiratsuka

Ryohei Aoyama

Yoshinori Inagawa

Masaharu Ogawa

Noboru Kyouno

Mitsuo Yamanoi

Takeshi Omi

Shinji Oguri

Chris King

Nobuo Takeshita

Masayuki Ishida

Shinji Takeuchi

Yoshihiro Kiyose

Satoshi Michihata

Fumio Suzuki

Osamu Tsukahara

Ko Nishino

Yuko Nagasaki

Mitsuru Ishizuka

Yoshiharu Osuga

Naoko Sakayori

Masaki Takeuchi

Provided is a foam discharger including: a mixing portion for mixing a liquid agent and a gas to foam the liquid agent; a discharge opening for discharging the foamed liquid agent; and a flow path in communication with the discharge opening, and for supplying the foamed liquid agent from the mixing portion to the discharge opening. The discharge opening is provided with a first porous member. On an upstream side of the first porous member, a cross-sectional area of the flow path on a cross section orthogonal to a supply direction in which the foamed liquid agent is to be supplied increases along the supply direction. The cross-sectional area of the flow path at the discharge opening is at least 1.2 times the minimum cross-sectional area of the flow path.

Foam discharger

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for making content liquid foamy for discharge are described herein. A dispenser for making content liquid discharge foamy by mixing air flow from an air chamber with the content liquid flow from a liquid chamber can be provided. The dispenser can include a mixing chamber configured to mix air and content liquid; a porous member between an air passage from the air chamber and the mixing chamber; and a liquid passage from the liquid chamber to the mixing chamber. The liquid passage can have a first liquid passage and a plurality of second liquid passages. The liquid passage can be configured such that content liquid flows from the first liquid passage to the second liquid passages to the mixing chamber. The second liquid passages can be configured to provide flow of the content liquid in at least two directions.

Apparatus for making content liquid foamy for discharge and systems and methods thereof

A foam discharger includes a foamer mechanism (), the foamer mechanism () includes: a liquid flow path () through which liquid supplied from a liquid supply unit to a mixing part () passes; and a gas flow path () through which a gas supplied from a gas supply unit to the mixing part () passes, the liquid flow path () includes an adjacent liquid flow path () having a liquid inlet () open to the mixing part (), the gas flow path () includes a plurality of adjacent gas flow paths () each having a gas inlet () open to the mixing part (), and the liquid inlet () is arranged at a position corresponding to a merging part () of gases supplied from the plurality of adjacent gas flow paths () to the mixing part () via the gas inlet ().

A foaming dispenser has a mixing chamber configured to mix a liquid and a gas to foam the liquid, a first liquid passage configured to supply the liquid to the mixing chamber, and a discharge opening configured to discharge the foamed liquid, the mixing chamber includes a plurality of second liquid passages branching and extending from the first liquid passage, a liquid passage meeting where one second liquid passage meets another second liquid passage, a gas passage configured to supply the gas to the liquid flowing from the plurality of second liquid passages to the liquid passage meeting, and a hole that is provided on a downstream side of the gas passage and communicates with the discharge opening.

Foaming dispenser

The present invention provides a foam dispensing unit () that dispenses a content liquid in a foamed state by causing the content liquid pumped out via a liquid flow channel () to pass through a porous member () provided in a foaming flow channel () together with air, the foam dispensing unit including a mechanism for variably positioning a passage surface (), the mechanism rotatably holding the porous member () in the foaming flow channel () to variably position a content liquid passage surface of the porous member (). The mechanism for variably positioning a passage surface () includes a loosely holding region () formed in the foaming flow channel () and the porous member () loosely mounted in the loosely holding region (). The porous member () has a spherical shape, and freely rotates inside the loosely holding region () due to an action of a stream of the content liquid passing through the loosely holding region (), so as to replace a surface thereof in a pass-through direction.

Foam dispenser

A cap which has a female screw in the inner peripheral surface and which is to be screwed on a port neck part of a container main body holding a predetermined liquid, wherein a plurality of ribs radially extending astride from an inner surface of a top surface part of the cap to an inner surface of a peripheral wall part and integrally projecting inwards are formed on a peripheral edge part of the inner surface part. A female screw is a screw in the form of two threads composed of spiral mated ridges of two threads, for example. The liquid held in the container main body is, for example, a chlorine-based bleach which contains a surface active agent and a sodium hypochlorite. The mated ridges each are 80 to 120 degrees in thread angle &#x3b8; and 1 to 15% of a valley radius of the female screw in thread height H.

The present invention relates to optical disks and optical disk devices, and has an object to reduce access time and prevent malfunction. To attain the above object, in an optical disk (), a management information area () is placed inside a user data area (), namely, at the innermost circumference position of the optical disk (), in an information layer () placed at the farthest position from the surface. A position information area () that stores position information indicating the position of each information layer in a thickness direction of the optical disk () is placed in the management information area ().

Optical disk and optical disk device and control device

By avoiding the problem that in a hybrid optical disc, an optical pickup suitable for a standard-density recording area cannot operate as desired in a high-density recording area, damage to the disc drive or optical disc is prevented and optimal control is enabled. Access operation identification information such as reproducing identification information indicating whether or not information recorded in the user data area of the optical disc can be reproduced under the reproducing conditions of the optical disc driving apparatus is recorded in the lead-in area. The optical disc driving apparatus reads this type of access operation identification information, compares it with access operation identification information possessed by the optical disc driving apparatus, and if they do not correspond, does not carry out access operations by the optical head to the user data area, because reproducing or recording compatibility with the optical disc is lacking.

Recording and reproduction control of optical disc, optical disc driving apparatus, optical disc driving method, data processing apparatus, and optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus using version of specification information included in the optical disc

The invention provides a containerwhich simultaneously discharges agents A and B respectively charged in an outer containerand an inner containerfrom an outer nozzle portionC and an inner nozzle portionD in accordance with a tilting of the container

Container

A capwhich has a female screwin the inner peripheral surface and which is to be screwed on a port neck partof a container main bodyholding a predetermined liquid, wherein a plurality of ribsradially extending astride from an inner surface of a top surface partof the capto an inner surface of a peripheral wall part and integrally projecting inwards are formed on a peripheral edge partof the inner surface of the top surface part. A female screwis a screw in the form of two threads composed of spiral mated ridgesof two threads, for example. The liquid held in the container main bodyis, for example, a chlorine-based bleach which contains a surface active agent and a sodium hypochlorite. The mated ridgeseach are 80 to 120 degrees in thread angle &#x3b8; and 1 to 15% of a valley radius of the female screwin thread height H.

An information reproduction apparatus includes an error corrector which performs a first error correction for correcting errors in a horizontal direction within an input data block comprised of a product code and subsequently a second error correction for correcting errors in a vertical direction within the same block is disclosed. The error corrector produces a first signal each time an uncorrectable code word is detected while the first error correction is being performed. The apparatus further includes a first counter for counting the first signal, a comparator for comparing a count value of the first counter with a predetermined value and producing a second signal when the count value reaches the predetermined value, and a determination device determining that there is an error within the data block which the error corrector cannot correct, and delivering a third signal in response to the second signal to reread the data block.

Information reproduction apparatus

For recording data on and reproducing data from an optical disk of a single spiral land/groove configuration, a header detector detects header regions on the optical disk, a PID error detector judges whether the address information read from the header regions is erroneous, using error detection codes, and detects the number of errors per sector. An error count comparator compares the number of errors per sector with a predetermined value, and a state judging circuit identifies the state of the optical disk device by causing transition to a higher or lower state according to the output of the error count comparator. The recording and reproduction are controlled according to the state thus identified.

State detecting device and optical disk device

In a device for controlling rotation of a disk, if a determination is made that a signal is not normally detected by a pre-pit-region detection circuit, an error signal is obtained from a pulse generator to control the rotation of the disk. If a determination is made that a signal is normally detected by the pre-pit-region detection circuit and if the synchronizing signals are not normally detected at predetermined intervals, an error signal is obtained from the wobble signal so that the rotations of the disk are controlled. If a determination is made that synchronizing signals are detected by the pre-pit-region detection circuit at predetermined intervals, an error signal is obtained from clocks synchronized with the reproduced signal generated by the PLL circuit so that rotations of the disk are controlled.

Disk-rotation control apparatus

A data recorder for recording data onto a record medium on which a sync signal is inserted at a given interval, has a sequence controller, wherein, after receiving the command from the system controller which triggers an initiation of a recording operation, the sequence controller activates the first encoder in response to a leading end signal of the encoded block from the sync signal set-up section, activates the first encoder and the second encoder in response to a leading end signal of the next encoded block, and activates the first encoder, the second encoder and the data reader in response to a leading end signal of the next following encoded block, and wherein, during the absence of the command from the system controller which triggers an initiation of a recording operation, the sequence controller deactivates the first encoder in response to a leading end signal of an encoded block from the sync signal set-up section, deactivates the first encoder and the second encoder in response to a leading end signal of the next encoded block, and deactivates the first encoder, the second encoder and the data reader in response to a leading end signal of the next following encoded block.

Data recorder and data producing circuit

When a detected value of the signal processing speed from a frequency comparator is larger than a prescribed value input from an input terminal, the rotation control of a disk is switched from constant linear velocity control to constant angular velocity control using an error signal from an arithmetic unit. Alternatively, when a detected value of the rotational velocity from a frequency comparator is larger than a prescribed value input form an input terminal, the rotation control of the disk is switched from the constant angular velocity control into the constant linear velocity control.

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Noboru Yashima