Abstract:
A reception unit (103) receives selection of a guide execution item. Furthermore, the reception unit (103) receives setting of execution information specifying a condition for executing a voice guide for a guide execution item not selected by the reception unit (103). If the guide execution item has been selected, the guide unit (104) executes a voice guide correlated with the guide execution item. Moreover, if the guide execution item has not been selected and if the travel state of a moving body detected by a detection unit (102) satisfies the condition specified by the execution information, the guide unit (104) executes a voice guide correlated with the guide execution item which has not been selected.
Abstract:
A program recording device includes a route searching unit (101) that searches for a route to a destination based on map information, a determining unit (102) that determines a program to be recorded based on the information concerning the destination or information concerning the route that is searched for by the route searching unit (101), and a recording unit (103) that records the program that is determined by the determining unit (102). Thus, a program that is related to activities of a user can be recorded without requiring a complicated operation such as advance designation of a broadcast date, a broadcast time, a broadcast channel of a program wished to be recorded, or a keyword.
Abstract:
A disk changer stably maintains a tray with a selected disk loaded thereon even if a physical impact or vibration is loaded from outside therein while the tray is being drawn out, the disk is being reproduced, or the tray is being retained. The disk changer has a retaining device which retains therein a plurality of trays each for loading a disk thereon at corresponding retaining positions parallel to each other in a horizontal state and also draws each tray out from the retaining position in the substantially horizontal direction, a guide member provided at a position corresponding to the retaining position, a tray moving mechanism engaging with a tray selected from the plurality of trays, causing the selected tray to engage with the guide member, and drawing out the selected tray partially or entirely from the retaining device in the substantially horizontal direction to move the tray to a position corresponding to the selected tray, a driving device which drives a disk on the selected tray drawn out to the drawing-out position, having a tray loading section for loading thereon the selected tray, and the guide member engages with the selected tray when the selected tray is drawn out by the tray moving mechanism, and elastically maintains the selected tray on a plane substantially identical to that of the corresponding retaining position collaborating with the retaining device and/or the tray loading section.
Abstract:
A disc reproducing apparatus is disclosed in which a large or small disc inserted through a disc inserting opening is transferred to a predetermined position within a player, a clamper arm extending over a turntable on which the disc is placed is operated to fix the disc onto the turntable, and information recorded in the disc is reproduced by rotating the turntable. A disc guide plate for guiding the small-diameter disc to a clamp position is pivotally mounted to the clamper arm. A disc guiding recess is provided into which the small disc can slip and which has a sufficiently wide opening. A restraining member blocks the advancement of only the large disc into the disc guiding recess. When the small disc is inserted through the disc inserting opening, the small-diameter disc is advanced into the disc guiding recess to be positioned at the clamp position. When the large-diameter disc is inserted through the disc inserting opening, the large-diameter disc is guided by the restraining member to the outside of the disc guiding recess, pushes away the disc guide plate, and is guided to the clamp position on the turntable.
Abstract:
An automatic loading disc player comprising a detection system for preventing mistaken insertion of a compact disc which is smaller than the conventional disc. The disc player comprises conveying rollers for conveying the disc to a disc playing position and returning the disc to a disc insertion position. The disc player further comprises a first detection means provided near the conveying rollers for detecting the presence or absence of a data recording disc, a second means for detecting when a data recording disc is loaded at the disc playing position, and a control means for controlling the driving of the conveying rollers in the forward or reverse direction, the control means operating to stop the driving of the conveying rollers in the forward direction when, in loading a data recording disc, the detection of the presence of the disc by the first detecting means is interrupted before the second detecting means detects the completion of loading of the disc.
Abstract:
A feeding screw is rotatably mounted on a chassis of a recording medium reproducing device. A half nut having a semicircular sectional shape is mounted on an optical pickup carriage. The half nut has at least one thread which comprises a thick central portion to be engaged with the feeding screw and thin both side portions not to be engaged with the feeding screw. The optical pickup carriage is fed by a rotation of the feeding screw, being engaged with the half nut.
Abstract:
A pickup guide mechanism in which a shaft for guiding a pickup is arranged over an opening formed on a chassis and the shaft is fixed to the chassis by a fixing unit. The fixing unit includes a countersunk head screw, which is screwed to the chassis, the tapered face of the head portion of which pushes an end portion of the guide shaft, wherein the taper angle of the tapered face of the head portion exceeds 90°.
Abstract:
A vibration damping support mechanism for a recored data reproducing apparatus is provided which allows the apparatus to be installed in either a horizontal or vertical position without shifting the tensioning direction of damper springs. Each pair of the damping springs is mounted between a main reproducing unit and an outer casing. The two damper springs are arranged to extend in the thicknesswise and depthwise directions of the main reproducing unit respectively or arranged tilting at a predetermined angle. In the horizontal position, external vibrations are absorbed by the elastic action of one of the two damper springs and thus prevented from propagating directly to the main reproducing unit. Similarly in the vertical position, such external vibrations are absorbed by the elastic action of the other damper spring and prevented from propagating directly to the same. In another construction, a damper spring is mounted between a side panel of the main reproducing unit and a projection of each spring loaded arm rotatably mounted to the outer casing. The spring loaded arm rotates 90 degrees when is actuated by a shift lever pressed with each shift pin of a vertical mounting bracket, thus resetting its damper spring for corresponding to the horizontal or vertical position of the main reproducing unit.
Abstract:
Disclosed are novel enzymes, heparitinase T-I, heparitinase T-II, heparitinase T-III and heparitinase T-IV, which degrade heparan sulfate and/or heparin, a process for producing thereof by cultivating a novel Bacillus circulans HpT 298 having an ability of producing these enzymes and a novel Bacillus circulans HpT 298.
Abstract:
A disc reproducing apparatus is disclosed in which a large- or small-diameter disc inserted through a disc inserting opening is transferred to a predetermined position within a player, a clamper arm extending over a turntable on which the disc is placed is operated to fix the disc onto the turntable, and information recorded in the disc is reproduced by rotating the turntable. A pair of stopper arms are disposed on the clamper arm, each of which having an abutment which abuts the periphery of the disc. The pair of stopper arms are disposed such that when the small-diameter disc arrives at the predetermined position on the turntable, the angle made by the longitudinal axis of the respective stopper arms is smaller than the angle made by the radial lines connecting each stopper and the center of the small-diameter disc, but greater than the angle made by the radial lines connecting each stopper and the center of the large-diameter disc when the large-diameter disc is place.