Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hosiden Corporation

Kyoto Tool Co., Ltd.

Takamichi Nakagawa

Shuichi Obata

Masahiko Umekawa

Tadashi Maeoka

Shogo Nakata

Genichi Yamada

Tadashi Hanai

Kouji Fujita

Yoshihiro Fujimoto

Takaaki Kumazawa

Ko Hamano

The invention seek to enable to share main components other than a tightening unit even in use for different effective lengths corresponding to ranges of tightening torques. There are provided: a tightening unitsuch as a ratchet; a housinghaving a two-divided structure including a front side cover partand a back side grip part; a strain bodyprovided inside the housingand replaceably coupling the tightening unitthereto; a distortion sensor, provided to the strain body, for detecting the distorted amount of the strain bodydue to the tightening force of the tightening unit; a microprocessor chiphaving functions including computing the tightening torque of the tightening unitbased on torque reference values prepared in advance and detection results of the distortion sensor; and an output unitfor outputting such as the tightening torque.

Torque wrench

An audio-video playback device in which a plane formed by the right sides of the device body and a plane formed by the right side of the monitor portion are on a substantially same plane, and the plane is substantially orthogonal to the rotation axis (R-R) of rotatably supporting portions. The center of gravity of the device body is located toward the right side, whereby the stable side-down setting of the device in the manner that the right sides ( R and R) face downward is realized. While, operation switches and the like are not disposed on the right sides, a user lying down can operate the device and watch natural display images and listen to natural sounds if the device is sidewards.

Audio-video device reproducing apparatus

Record player

An automatic record player comprising: a switch lever for turning on a switch for energizing a motor by manually moving a starting lever to the starting side; a pickup-fixing plate for operating the switch lever to turn on the switch when the pickup arm is manually brought to a position from which record-playing starts; an automatic record-playing mechanism for automatically bringing the pickup arm to the starting position when the starting lever is moved to the starting side and for automatically returning the pickup to its home position upon completion of record playing; a record changer mechanism for dropping a plurality of records set around a changer spindle onto a turntable one by one in cooperative relation with the automatic record-playing mechanism; and a repeating mechanism for setting the number of operations of the automatic record-playing mechanism and the record changer mechanism to be repeated; thereby enabling the player to perform automatic playing of a single record, automatic sequential playing of a plurality of records by mounting the changer spindle, manual playing of a record by manually bringing the pickup arm to the starting position, automatic repeat playing a desired number of times of a single record by using the repeating mechanism, and automatic sequential playing of a desired number of records of all records set around the changer spindle by use of the repeating mechanism.

Automatic record player

Growing community of inventors

Hirakata, Japan

Takamichi Nakagawa