1247results about "Writing units" patented technology

The application relates to a dispenser featuring a body and a reservoir housed in said body wherein the reservoir is configured to hold a substance; wherein there is an applicator selectively extendable or retractable from the dispenser; and further featuring a means for ejecting the substance through the applicator.

An advancing / retracting mechanism having a pair of cams is disclosed. The advancing / retracting mechanism includes a first cam, a second cam, and a barrel. The first cam includes an angled surface and a shoe, and the second cam includes an angled surface and a slider. The shoe engages with a helical surface in the barrel, and the slider engages with a straight surface in the barrel. The first cam travels a first distance along the longitudinal axis of the barrel from a first to a second state, and the second cam travels a second distance that is greater then the first distance along the longitudinal axis of the barrel from the first to the second state.

A writing utensil having a distal end and a proximal end and extending generally along a longitudinal axis includes a casing having a slot extending generally along the longitudinal axis adjacent the proximal end, an eraser disposed on the proximal end of the casing, a valve coupled to the casing adjacent the distal end and including a valve door, a writing tip movable between a stored position in which the tip is stored within the valve and a writing position in which the tip extends out of the valve, and an actuator disposed in and slidable in the slot and operatively coupled to the writing tip such that movement of the actuator in the slot moves the writing tip between the stored position and the writing position.

Disclosed is a cosmetic dispenser comprising a reservoir configured to hold a substance; an applicator selectively extendable or retractable from the dispenser; and, means for ejecting the substance in the reservoir through the applicator. Also disclosed are methods related to the use of the cosmetic dispenser.

A fluid dispenser includes an applicator attached to a base, as well as a case that is at least partially filled with a fluid. The base and case are telescopically mounted together and can be relatively reciprocated to retract and extend the applicator relative to the case. A piston is mounted in the case for outwardly urging the fluid.

An electronic pen includes a first and a second nib structure. A twist mechanism is coupled to the first and second nib structures to selectively extend the first or the second nib structure away from the twist mechanism in response to a rotational force. An inner cylinder is coupled to the twist mechanism, the inner cylinder having a first center axis and configured to rotate around the center axis to transfer the rotational force to the twist mechanism. An outer cylinder surrounds the inner cylinder and is coupled to the inner cylinder to move the inner cylinder in a rotational direction when the outer cylinder is rotated. The outer cylinder has a second center axis that is offset with respect to the first center axis of the inner cylinder.

A side knock type feeding mechanism for feeding an object to be fed inside a body by side knock. A front barrel which houses an object to be fed and is capable of feeding the object to be fed from a tip end opening, a knock button provided on a side portion of the front barrel so as to project and retract with respect to the front barrel, a rotary member which is inside the front barrel, rotates in a predetermined direction by knock of the knock button as a result that the knock button works, and rotates in an opposite direction by releasing the knock, a piston for feeding out the object to be fed, and a conversion mechanism for converting the rotation of the rotary member into a forward travelling motion of the piston in an axial direction inside the front barrel.

There is provided a precision roll turning lathe includes: a bed 10; a headstock 12, mounted on the bed 10, for rotating a roll-shaped workpiece while holding one end of the workpiece by means of a chuck, said headstock having an indexing axis (C axis) for performing circumferential indexing of the workpiece; a tail stock 14, mounted on the bed 10 and disposed opposite the headstock 12, for rotatably supporting the other end of the workpiece; a carriage 16 including a saddle 26 mounted on the bed 10 movably in the longitudinal direction (Z-axis direction) of the workpiece, and a table 28 mounted on the saddle 26 movably in a direction (X-axis direction) perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the workpiece; a tool swivel 30 mounted on the table 28 and having an indexing axis (B axis); a tool post 33 mounted on the tool swivel 30 and having a plurality of cutting tools 36 attached thereto; and a fly cutter spindle device 34 mounted to the tool post 33. The precision roll turning lathe can not only machine with high precision circumferential transverse grooves in the peripheral surface of a roll but can also machine with high precision longitudinal grooves in the peripheral surface.

Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding based on intra prediction. In the method, information regarding a direction of intra prediction of a current block is encoded into one of a plurality of values, depending on whether the directions of intra prediction of neighboring blocks that have been encoded before encoding the current block are identical to one another and whether the direction of intra prediction of the current block is identical to those of the neighboring blocks. Accordingly, it is possible to increase the compression rate of intra prediction encoding with a higher probability.