Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Yasuyuki Tsuchida

Yutaka Deguchi

Masakatsu Fujiwara

Yuji Nakanishi

Takahiro Yuuchi

Hirofumi Matsumoto

Hideo Momohara

Kazuhiro Tomoshige

Yoshifumi Miyazaki

Masakatu Fujiwara

Hiedo Momohara

Yoshikazu Morishita

Yuuichi Okada

Yuki Nakanishi

Yoshitaka Wakebe

Toshio Ootani

An electric vacuum cleaner comprises a main body having an electric blower and a dust collecting chamber, a triac controlling the electric blower, a floor nozzle coupled to the main body, a pressure sensor sensing the pressure in the vicinity of a suction port of the electric blower, a current sensor sensing the current in a rotary brush driving motor of the floor nozzle, and a microcomputer. The microcomputer performs a fuzzy inference on the outputs of the pressure sensor and the current sensor to determine the duty cycle of the blower control triac on the basis of the result of the inference. By doing this, supply of power to the electric blower in accordance with the condition of a floor surface is realized.

Electric vacuum cleaner having an electric blower driven in accordance

A wireless low-frequency medical treatment device having a sending section for sending various data for low-frequency medical treatment and a pulse applying section for receiving the above data, for generating a low-frequency pulse corresponding to the data and for applying the pulse on a living body, the device being characterized in that the pulse applying section comprises a plurality of pulse applying bodies to be pasted on the living body; a low-frequency pulse generating device for generating a low-frequency pulse to be supplied to the pulse applying bodies in accordance with data sent from the sending section; a detecting device for detecting that at least one of the pulse applying bodies comes off from the living body; a pulse stopping device for stopping generation of the low-frequency pulse when the detecting device detects that at least one of the pulse applying bodies comes off from the living body; and a pulse recovery device for increasing a potential of the low-frequency pulse gradually from a low level to a predetermined high level when both of the pulse applying bodies are pasted on the living body after at least one of the pulse applying bodies comes off once.

Wireless low-frequency medical treatment device with pulse interruption

A wireless low-frequency medical treatment device having a sending section for sending data for low-frequency medical treatment and a pulse applying section for receiving the above data and applying a low-frequency pulse corresponding to the data on a living body, the device being characterized in that the sending section comprises a plurality of sending coils, whose axes cross each other in a space, and a sending coil driving circuit for supplying the sending coils with resonating currents having different phases, respectively, the currents indicating a signal corresponding to the data; and that the pulse applying section comprises a receiving coil for receiving the signal sent from the sending coils through electromagnetic induction.

Wireless low-frequency medical treatment device

A vacuum cleaner for killing noxious small organisms trapped in a dust chamber of the cleaner body by circulating heated exhaust of an electric air blower through the dust chamber, the cleaner having a temperature sensing element for sensing a temperature in the dust chamber, a timer for timing a specified interval from a point of time when the electric air blower is started to kill the noxious small organisms with heat, and a microcomputer for stopping the supply of electric power to the electric air blower when a temperature sensed by the temperature sensing element reaches a temperature fatal to the noxious small organisms or when the timer has timed the specified interval with the sensed temperature being lower than the predetermined temperature.

Vacuum cleaner

A vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner body provided with an air inlet and an air outlet, a dust chamber provided in the cleaner body and communicating with the air inlet, a housing provided in the cleaner body, communicating with the dust chamber and the air outlet and accommodating an electric air blower, a suction force level selector for the electric air blower, a pressure sensor provided on the suction side of the electric air blower, a comparator for comparing an output of a detected pressure from the pressure sensor with a reference value, a varying device for varying the reference value in proportion to the selected suction force level, and an indicator for indicating an accumulated state of dust in the dust chamber based upon the comparison result from the comparator.

An electric fan comprises a rotary shaft supported on a mounting base plate. The rotary shaft is extended through a cylindrical stator and on a tip of the rotary shaft, the bottom of a cup-shaped rotor yoke as well as an impeller are secured. The stator is enclosed in the rotor yoke, on whose inner wall an anisotropic rotor magnet magnetized in the reverse polarity alternately in its circumferential direction is secured. The stator and the rotor form a DC brushless motor, whereby the impeller is rotated through the rotation of the rotor and the rotary shaft. In the proximity of the rotor magnet, there is provided a hall integrated circuit (IC), through which a rotating position of the rotor may be detected. On the basis of the rotating position signal from the hall IC, a microcomputer controls the current flowing period in such a manner that the current flowing through the stator coil will partly overlap between each phase. A separate microcomputer adjusts the voltage applied to the DC brushless motor and controls the wind velocity.

Electric fan

An image forming apparatus utilizes a paper which has a part capable of recording a visible image on the surface thereof and a part capable of recording magnetic information thereon. A toner image is formed on the visible image recording part of the paper by a photosensitive drum, a developing apparatus and a transferring device. A magnetic information signal is recorded on the magnetic recording part of the paper by a magnetic record head. A discharging device is provided for discharging the paper on which both a visible image and magnetic information are recorded.

Image forming apparatus

A printer head comprises a plurality of light emitting portions (104) on one side of a rectangular substrate (101), the portions (104) being aligned in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and two driver circuit units (112, 113) on the other side of the substrate (101) such that the respective input/output terminals of the units (112, 113) are aligned in a direction orthogonal to the aligning direction of the light emitting portions (104). Each of lead electrodes (106) of the light emitting portions (104) is connected to one of output terminals of first and second driver circuit units (112, 113) from one of first conductive strip lines (108) through a resistor (111), and the input terminals of the first and second driver circuits (112, 113) are connected to external connecting terminals (118). A common electrode (107) for the light emitting portions (104) is connected to a second conductive path (110), the second conductive path (110) branching near the central portion of the substrate (101) so that the path (110) can be connected to the external connection terminals (118) passing through the underside of the first and second driving circuit units (112, 113). Thus structured printer head enables its arrangement in a narrow space of an electrophotographic copying machine, for example.

Printer head

An electrophotographic copying machine includes a photosensitive drum. A first electrostatic latent image according to an original copy image is formed in a state wherein a certain electric charge is accumulated and an original copy image formed by a first light source like a halogen lamp is focussed on this photosensitive drum. In order to form an additional information other than the original copy image, an LED array as a second light source is provided. By the second light source the additional information is formed on the photosensitive drum as the second electrostatic latent image. In case of recording the additional information, a shield member is utilized to prevent the electrostatic latent image by the original copy from being formed in the corresponding region of the photosensitive drum. The photosensitive drum comprises a material like amorphous silicon which is able to react to both first and second light sources.

Patent image reproducing electrophotographic machine

An electrically operated transmission gear system for a bicycle includes a plurality of transmission gears selectively drivable by an endless chain trained around a pedal-driven crank gear, a reversible motor, a takeup reel drivable thereby, and a wire connected at one end to the takeup reel and at the other end to a chain guide for shifting the endless chain into driving mesh with one of the transmission gears at a time. The transmission gear system also includes means for measuring the speed of travel of the bicycle and/or the speed of rotation of the crank gear, means for detecting a transmission ear with which the endless chain is in driving mesh, and an arithmetic unit for deriving a proper speed range from one of the measuring and detecting means and for comparing an output from the other means with the proper speed range as derived to determine whether the transmission gear held in mesh wish the endless chain is proper or not, whereby gear-shifting for the bicycle can properly controlled.

Electrically operated transmission gear system for bicycles

This invention discloses a physical exercise appliance comprising an indicator device for selectively indicating exercise data or heart-pulse frequency data of the user or exerciser during the application of his physical energy. A circuit is provided for alternately indicating the exercise data and the heart-pulse frequency data on the indicator device at predetermined intervals when the indication of exercise data is designated. The circuit only indicates the heart-pulse frequency data on the indicator device when the indication of heart-pulse frequency data is designated. The heart-pulse frequency data may be read out at predetermined intervals, while exercise data such as an exercise period of time or an exercise speed are indicated on the indicator device. Therefore the user or exerciser can always know his physical conditions during the application of his physical energy and can pay attention such that he does not apply excessively his physical energy, thereby preventing him from becoming too tired. Furthermore, such repeated indication of exercise data and heart-pulse frequency data on the indicator device may also provide an entertaining atmosphere, so that the user may take exercise pleasantly.

Physical exercise appliance

The control system of the present disclosure is particularly designed for use in the bicycle which is so designed as to change gears upon shifting of a chain guiding mechanism. The control system includes a motor driven reel, a flexible wire connected between the reel and the chain guiding mechanism and a switch arrangement for controlling the rotation of the reel. Upon turning on of the switch arrangement, the motor is rotated by a predetermined amount to perform a suitable shifting operation of the chain to engage with a required gear.

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Hyogo, Japan

Yasuyuki Tsuchida