Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matshushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Shigeki Ueda

Teruhisa Takano

Hiroyuki Ogino

Satomi Uchiyama

Ikuhiro Inada

Ryuji Suzuki

Hitoshi Kurita

Kenji Watanabe

Yutaka Takahashi

Makoto Mihara

Kenzo Ohji

Motohiko Naka

Masao Maki

Mitsuo Akiyoshi

Hiroshi Fukuda

Mamoru Isogai

Kazumi Hirai

Takahito Ishii

Isao Kasai

Mitsuo Ebisawa

Fumiko Mori

Toyotsugu Hatagawa

Satoru Kodama

Kazunari Nishii

Tooru Sugimori

Keijirou Kunimoto

Masanobu Inoue

Ichiro Hori

Kaeko Nishimoto

Shuji Yahagi

Seiji Ito

Norio Onizuka

There is provided an extrusion head that is capable of largely increasing a production speed rather than a conventional head that extrudes supplies a high viscous melt-coating composition. In an extrusion headthat comprises a die ringhaving an exit portionand a nipplearranged in vicinity of the exit portion, whereby a core wire passageis provided to an inside of the nipplein an axial direction, and a high viscous melt-coating composition is pressure-fed into a space, which is formed by the die ringand the nipple, toward the exit portionwhile drawing out a core wire W from the core wire passage to the exit portion, and thus a cord-like coated core wire is extruded from the exit portionof the die ring while coating the core wire W with the high viscous melt-coating composition, a stagnation reservoir of the high viscous melt-coating composition is provided in vicinity of the exit portion by providing a wall surfaceperpendicularly to a proceeding direction of the core wire W at the exit portion

Extrusion head for extruding a high viscous melting covering element of a covered core wire

A pressure sensitive sensor provided in at least one of an opening section and an opening and closing section for opening and closing the opening section and serving to detect pinching of an object between the opening section and the opening and closing section based on an output signal generated by deformation upon receipt of external force, including a pressure sensitive elementfor generating an output signal corresponding to deformation and a support elementfor supporting the pressure sensitive elementon at least one of the opening section and the opening and closing section, the support elementincluding at least a first deformation sectionhaving a first elastic modulus and serving to increase deformation of the pressure sensitive sensor, and a second deformation sectionhaving a second elastic modulus which is higher than the first elastic modulus.

Pressure sensitive sensor, object detecting device and opening, attachment structure thereof and opening-and-closing device

A bumper sensor unit including a cord-shaped pressure sensitive sensor is fixed around a bumper of a running device to detect a contact of an obstacle based on a signal output from the cord-shaped pressure sensitive sensor. In that case, contact detecting means comprises a filtering section for removing the oscillation frequency component of a contact detecting object from the signal output from the cord-shaped pressure sensitive sensor.

Contact detecting device and vehicle mounting the same

A contact detecting device includes a flexible piezoelectric sensor of a cable shape, a resilient member including a hollow portion having a free end to allow the hollow portion to be opened, a sensor holding portion for holding therein the piezoelectric sensor. The hollow portion is provided with a support for maintaining a hollow state thereof.

Contact detecting device

A pressure sensitive sensor provided in at least one of an opening section and an opening and closing section for opening and closing the opening section and serving to detect pinching of an object between the opening section and the opening and closing section based on an output signal generated by deformation upon receipt of external force, comprising pressure sensitive meansfor generating an output signal corresponding to deformation and support meansfor supporting the pressure sensitive meanson at least one of the opening section and the opening and closing section, the support meansincluding at least a first deformation sectionhaving a first elastic modulus and serving to increase deformation of the pressure sensitive sensorand a second deformation sectionhaving a second elastic modulus which is higher than the first elastic modulus.

A microwave heating apparatus includes a heating chamber,for accommodating an item,to be heated; a microwave generator,for radiating microwaves to the heating chamber,and a vapor generator,for supplying vapor to the heating chamber,. The heating chamber,includes regenerating plates,and,for generating and regenerating heat when radiated by the microwaves from the microwave generator,thereby reducing dew condensation caused by the vapor in the heating chamber

Microwave heating apparatus with a vapor generator and regenerating plates

Microwave steam heater with microwave and steam generators controlled to

Microwave heating apparatus and microwave heating method

A cooking appliance controls a cooking device on the basis of temperature information of an object to be cooked that is estimated from changes in physical characteristics. A neural network is taught, for a number of categories of food that are classified according to the temperature of the cooked and completed food, the relationship between changes in the physical characteristic, such as the temperature and humidity, generated during heating of the object to be cooked during cooking, and changes of temperature of the object at the center of the object and the surface of the object in order to provide for an automatic cooking operation.

Automatic cooking appliance employing a neural network for cooking

A pressure cooker and a process for making the same, wherein the pressure cooker includes a pressure container for accommodating food to be cooked, a lid for covering the container in an airtight manner, a pressure control device for adjusting the internal pressure in the container, wherein the container or the lid or both are partly or wholly made of a composite resin consisting essentially of polyphenylene sulfide resin and 30 wt % to 50 wt % glass fiber.

Pressure cooker

A pressure cooker with a humidity sensor or gas sensor, wherein a micro-computer reliably detects the point at which the internal pressure of a pressure cavity reaches a prescribed value by using this sensor by detecting the point at which a pressure control valve begins to operate and begins to discharge a large quantity of excess vapor or gas etc. from the pressure cavity to the outside, with a result which is equivalent to that of a direct measurement of the internal pressure with a pressure sensor, thereby attaining an accurate measurement without bringing the humidity or gas sensor into contact with the pressure cavity.

Pressure cooker with sensor

There is disclosed herein an automatic heating appliance for controlling heating of an object in response to operation of instruction keys and on the basis of the weight of an object to be heated. The appliance includes therein a heating chamber for housing the object, a heater provided on or in the heating chamber for heating the object placed therein, and a turntable provided in the heating chamber for keeping thereon the object during heating. Also included in the appliance are a weight detector for obtaining first weight data in response to the object being placed on the turntable and a temperature compensator for obtaining a second weight data in response to the object being placed thereon, the temperature compensator substantially having the same temperature characteristic as the weight detector. A control unit of the appliance is responsive to the first and second weight data in order to remove an error component due to variation of the characteristic of the weight detector by variation of temperature in accordance with the result of comparison between the first and second weight data so as to determine a weight resulting from only the object. The control unit controls the heating of the object in accordance with variation of the determined object weight.

Automatic heating appliance with weight sensor

A heating appliance for heating an object within a heating chamber. In the heating chamber are formed rack rails on which a table is located and a heater. The rack rails are stepwise arranged so as to allow the table to take a desired position corresponding to the kind of an object to be heated. The heating applicance includes a distance-measuring sensor for measuring a distance to the table means or the object. A control unit, may comprising a known microcomputer, controls the heater on the basis of the distance measured by the sensor so as to appropriately heat the object in accordance with its kind.

Automatic heating appliance with food identifying function

A heating appliance comprising a heating chamber, a heating device for heating an object which is encased in the heating chamber and a turntable provided in the heating chamber and arranged to be rotatable about its own axis and to hold thereon the object. Included therein are an ultrasonic sensor for transmitting an ultrasonic wave toward the object and receiving an echo wave returning therefrom and a control unit for controlling the ultrasonic sensor. The control unit successively calculates the distances of the object from the ultrasonic sensor on the basis of the transmission and reception of the ultrasonic wave and determines the heating condition of the object on the basis of the successively calculated distances and controlling the heater in accordance with the determined distinctive feature. This does not require an input operation in terms of the class and category of the object to be heated, resulting in improving the automation of the heating appliance.

Automatic heating appliance with ultrasonic sensor

Heating appliance with internal non-volatile memory

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Yamatokoriyama, Japan

Shigeki Ueda