Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Takashi Okamoto

Kenji Yashiro

Kiichirou Nagai

A remote control system is employed with a view to realization of automated/unattended control in supervisory control of power equipment, transportion/traffic equipment, building equipment, home equipment, and the like. This remote control system includes a priority rank determination unit and a control unit on the controlled side where a control signal for controlling the operation of a plurality of electric equipment is inputted through a communication system from the control side. The priority rank determination unit determines an operating priority rank of respective electric equipments on the basis of respective power dissipations of the plurality of electric equipments. The control unit operates respective electric equipments on the basis of the operating priority rank thus determined. By controlling the operation of the electric equipment in this way, an accident of interruption of the operation of the entire system resulting from the operation of a specific electric equipment is prevented. Further, since this system judges in advance as to whether or not the operation of a specific electric equipment is proper, thus making it possible to prevent in advance the operation of an interrupter, etc., the supervisory control of the system is always maintained.

Remote control system

A magnetic tape setting device for use in a magnetic tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a magnetic head, a head positioning mechanism for positioning the magnetic head to engage with a magnetic tape set in the recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a tape advancing mechanism for advancing the tape, and a controller adapted to control the head positioning mechanism and the tape advancing mechanism for various predetermined mode operations, the magnetic tape setting device being so arranged as to automatically cause, in response to a start command signal, the controller to control the head positioning mechanism and the tape advancing mechanism for firstly CUE mode operation during which the trailing edge of the recorded area of the tape being detected, secondly RVW mode operation after the lapse of a first predetermined period since the detection of the trailing edge of the recorded area, also during the second RVW mode operation the trailing edge of the recorded area of the tape being detected, and thirdly again CUE mode operation which is performed by a second predetermined short period after the detection of the trailing edge of the recorded area of the tape, whereby the magnetic head is automatically positioned at the leading edge of a non-recorded area of the tape i.e. a position suitable for the initiation of recording.

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Ohta, Japan

Takashi Okamoto