Abstract:
A drag adjusting device for a closed-face type fishing reel is provided which has a spool rotatably supported at the front of a reel body, a mounting leg below, the spool, a brake plate provided between the spool and the reel body, and a drag actuating plate extending at both ends radially of the spool for urging the brake plate in one direction to apply a braking force to the spool. A drag setting thumb nut is operatively engaged with one lengthwise end of the drag actuating plate to change the position thereof with respect to the spool in order to set the braking force to be applied to the spool. An adjusting member in operative engagement with the other lengthwise end of the drag actuating plate adjusts the braking force set by the setting thumb nut.
Abstract:
An instruction inputting device detects input operations in the XY plane and in a rotational direction on a hemispherical input operation surface. Four detection electrodes insulated from each other are formed at 90° intervals around the Z axis of the hemisphere, on the surface of a spherical crown-shaped insulator. Surface areas of each of the detection electrodes decrease moving toward an apex P on the Z axis and moving in a circumferential direction away from the positions at which the 90° intervals are formed. As a result, the surface areas of the detection electrodes facing an object to be detected for causing the input operation differ depending on the positioning of the object, thereby causing differences in the floating capacitances of the detection electrodes which are sensed by a circuit portion of the device.
Abstract:
A digitizing tablet includes stacked X and Y coordinate resistance boards (X-board and Y-board) with insulating beads therebetween. A CPU controls input and grounding switches of both X- and Y-boards and a selector switch. The selector switch connects an A/D converter input to grounding electrodes of the X and Y boards. The input switch of the X-board applies a supply potential to an input electrode of the X-board while a grounding electrode of the X-board is disconnected from ground by the grounding switch. The Y-board is grounded at a grounding electrode while the input electrode of the Y-board floats. The A/D converter monitors a voltage at the grounding electrode of the X-board to detect a drop in potential from the supply potential. When contact pressure is applied to the digitizing tablet, current flows from the supply potential, through the X and Y boards via a contact point, and into ground via the Y-board grounding switch. The potential appearing at the grounding electrode of the X-board drops thus signaling contact. The CPU reads this change in potential and initiates a coordinate determination process. An alternate embodiment employs a voltage dropping resistor, in supply leads to the X and Y boards, which turns on a switching transistor when current is drawn, signaling an interrupt to the CPU, and initiating coordinate determination.
Abstract:
A coordinate detection device has upper and lower resistive plates. Pressure on the upper resistive plate causes the two plates to come into electrical contact at a point of the pressure allowing an external device to compute the coordinates of the applied pressure. Each resistive plate has a layer of transparent resistor material over a transparent substrate. Two parallel electrodes of silver are spaced apart on each resistive plate to create a linear potential gradient therebetween. The electrodes are connected across a voltage potential via lead wires which are made from the same material as the transparent resistor.
Abstract:
A round producing apparatus for a spinning reel includes a sound producing piece in the form of a leaf spring attached to a disk mounted on a spool shaft, and an annular toothed element supported by a spool for acting on a distal end of the sound producing piece to produce a clicking sound. The sound producing piece is cantilevered and extends from the disk along directions of rotation of the spool. A coil spring acts as a one-way clutch for allowing the annular toothed element to rotate only in a line unwinding direction of the spool.
Abstract:
Two corner cubes are opposed to share one or two mirror surfaces in common thereby integrally forming two mirror groups, and driven to be reciprocatively rotated in a plane including two opposite edges thereof or a symmetry plane including an edge defined by the two common mirror surfaces, while a beam splitter is provided in front of the two corner cubes for reflecting a part of incident light and guiding the same to one of the corner cubes as well as transmitting the remaining part of the incident light and guiding the same to the other one of the corner cubes while causing interference between light components reflected from the corner cubes. According to the present invention, a moving mechanism may simply cause reciprocative rotation movement about one center of rotation, and adjustment in assembling is extremely simple and easy to allow reduction in manufacturing cost. A double corner cube member, which can be formed of the same material, is stable against disturbance such as vibration and temperature change. When plane mirrors for forming the corner cubes are manufactured by machining such as cutting or grinding, it is possible to perform assembling and working in high accuracy.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a pressure sensitive adhesive for a tile-like floor material wherein the adhesive includes a polymer A having a mean particle diameter of from 0.05 to 4 .mu. and a polymer B having a mean particle diameter of from 5 to 150 .mu. and in combination therewith, the polymer B being obtained by aqueous suspension polymerization in the presence of a partially saponified polyvinyl alcohol and being lower than the polymer A in glass transition point, and a method of installing the tile-like floor material which employs the adhesive.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for controlling the reciprocation of a movable mirror of an interferometer used in an interferometric spectrophotometer are disclosed, wherein a frequency dividing ratio corresponding to a desired reciprocating speed of the movable mirror is set and then a pulse signal from an oscillator is divided at a the frequency dividing ratio for producing a frequency-divided signal which in turn is compared with an interference signal from a control interferometer to produce an error signal for controlling the reciprocating speed of the movable mirror based on this error signal until the desired reciprocating speed is reached. Preferably, the frequency dividing ratio can be varied by a central processing unit, for example, so that the user is able to freely change the reciprocating speed of the movable miror to conform to the type of a detector used, thereby enabling a measurement under optimum conditions.
Abstract:
A detector comprising a pyroelectric detector, a temperature control mechanism including a thermoelectric heating/cooling element for keeping the temperature of the pyroelectric detector constant, a temperature sensor, and a temperature controller responsive to the detection signal from the temperature sensor for controlling power supply to the thermoelectric heating/cooling element, and control unit provided within the temperature controller for pyroelectric detector. Synchronizing the operation of the pyroelectric detector and the thermoelectric heating/cooling element such that the power supply of the thermoelectric heating/cooling element is turned on and off only when data is not being collected by the pyroelectric detector.