Tenyo Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Tooru Suzuki

Katsunori Nakamura

Takeshi Koide

Teruo Nagasawa

Takahisa Kimura

Mark Setteducati

With the purpose of achieving consistent non-synchronous copying of data from a plurality of primary side control units to a plurality of secondary side control units, all of the secondary side control units are connected via a loop, and each of the secondary side control units determines guarantee time by circulating a time added to the data received from the primary side control units via said loop communication route. A consistent data copying is guaranteed by circulating the determined guarantee time via the loop communication route.

Method and apparatus for data duplexing in storage unit system

A cutting-magic device is disclosed which comprises a case open at the top there of and hang a bottom and a circumferential wall, and a partition which parts the case into a first half and a second half. The case has formed in the bottom of the first half thereof an opening through which a pencil, finger or any other bar-like article is to be inserted. The partition has a mirror provided on the side thereof facing the second half of the case. The partition has mounted thereon a tubular member which can be slid up and down along the partition. The case has mimic scissors provided thereon. A pencil, finger or any other bar-like article inserted from the opening in the case and penetrated through the tubular member appears, under the reflection effect of the mirror, as if it were cut by the mimic scissors.

Cutting-magic device

In a mimic watch having hour numerals '1' to '12' marked therein, a rotary disk having an hour hand fixed thereon is installed rotatably. When used for a play, the mimic watch is put into a protective case. Watching the hour hand and numerals through the rear transparent case member of the protective case, the player operates an operating string loop, with care for the audience not to be aware of the player's operation, to set the hour hand to a numeral the audience has selected. At this time, only the hour numerals will be visible through the transparent area on the front transparent case member of the protective case but an opaque area formed on the front transparent case member will hide the hour hand on the rotary disk being rotated. When the mimic watch taken out of the protective case is shown to the audience, the audience will see the hour hand point at the numeral he or see has selected, which will give the audience an illusion that the mimic watch has automatically pointed at that numeral.

Mimic watch set for magic use

A savings box comprises a main body and a control box. The main body is provided with a coin slot and shutter plate. A magnet is fixed on the shutter plate and another magnet is fixed on a control member (slider) provided inside the control box. The coin slot is closed by the shutter plate while the control member (T-bar) is placed at the first position due to the reaction between the two magnets. When the T-bar is moved to the second position with a coin placed on the shutter plate, that is, in the coin slot, the reaction between the two magnets will cause the shutter plate to turn and leave under the coin slot, thus the coin falls into the main body of the savings box. The coin is automatically accepted into the main body synchronously with the operation of the T-bar.

Saving box

A coin concealment and back screen are disposed upright on a coin-receiving case. Two mirrors are provided on the coin concealment, and camouflaging members and an oscillating coin chute are provided on the coin concealment. Since the mirrors reflect the surface of the back screen, so an illusion that the coin concealment done exist and only the camouflaging members and the back screen stand there. As a result, when a coin is put in to the coin concealment via the coin chute, the coin is hidden behind the coin concealment, so an illusion that the coin is missing will be given. Also, as the coin moves, the coin chute oscillates reciprocally. Namely, the motion of the coin chute adds to the illusion of coin missing to enhance the fun to see.

Savings bank with optical illusion coin concealment chute

A case assembly is pivotably attached to a stand or frame by means of a hinge mechanism. Vertical slits are formed in a front member and a rear member of the case assembly, respectively. A leaf spring is provided as interposed between the front member and rear member. A dummy cutter is fitted in the case assembly slidably along the slits. A card is inserted into the case assembly from a transversal slit formed in the top of the front member. The cutter is inserted into the vertical slit in the rear member of the case assembly. The case is pivoted against the resilience of the leaf spring to project the dummy cutter out of the vertical slit in the front member. When the cutter and therefore the dummy cutter are moved vertically together, the card inserted in the case assembly will appear as if it were broken through and slashed by the cutter. Thus, using the magical trick device according to the present invention, everybody can enjoy a card slashing trick simply by inserting a card into the case assembly and inserting the cutter into the vertical slit in the rear member of the case assembly, moving it vertically or extracting it.

Magical trick device for card slashing

Savings bank

The present invention aims at providing a savings box enjoyable to see. A partition is provided in the internal space of a box body to divide the internal space thereof into two spaces. There is formed in the partition a cut to provide a communication between the two spaces. A window is formed in the front plate of the box body which faces the partition and a mirror is provided on the partition. A camouflaging member is provided on the mirror and a compartment is so provided below the camouflaging member to cover the cut. An optical member is provided at an opening in the compartment. A coin is thrown into the compartment from a coin slot formed in the box body. When viewed through the optical member, the coin put in the box body is seen as if it were reduced in size. Although the coins are actually placed in the compartment and reception space, they are seen as if they counted a larger number than the capacity of the compartment. Namely, this savings box is enjoyable to see.

Savings box

A vehicle headlamp in which an elongated tubular container having small openings in front and rear ends thereof and filled therein with a drying agent extends through the lamp housing. The size of the small opening at the end of the container which is interior of the lamp housing is smaller than the size of the small opening in the end of the container which is exterior of the lamp housing.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tooru Suzuki