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A game apparatus includes a first LCD, a second LCD, and a microphone disposed between the first LCD and the second LCD. A computer of the game apparatus displays a game image including an object image on at least one of the first LCD and the second LCD. When sound is detected through the microphone, the computer changes the object image displayed on the first LCD and/or the second LCD.

A refrigerator with a home bar door is smoothly and automatically opened and includes an automatic opening unit, a hook unit, a latch unit, and a damping unit. The automatic opening unit pushes the home bar door to a predetermined angle, so that the home bar door is automatically opened by gravity. The hook unit cooperates with the latch unit to lock or unlock the home bar door. The damping unit includes a casing and is connected to at least one hinge shaft. The automatic opening unit is provided with a push rod and an elastic member to open by a rotation thereof. The home bar door is rotated to be opened. A rotary member is rotatably installed in the casing, with oil contained therein to reduce rotating speed of the rotary member. An associated hinge shaft engages with the rotary member to rotate along with the rotary member.

A plug-in connection multi-segment rotary shaft structure includes a driving joint assembly and a driven joint assembly. The driving joint assembly includes two opposite joint plates and a middle link plate assembly engaged therebetween. The driven joint assembly is disposed between the joint plates and includes two driven plates. Opposite inward ends of the driven plates are formed with synchronous driving sections drivingly engaged with each other. Inward ends of the opposite joint plates are connected with the outward ends of the driven plates. Outward ends of the joint plates are formed with plugs. Outward ends of the middle link plate assembly are connected with the inward ends of the driven plates. The driving joint assembly and driven joint assembly are connected and combined, whereby the joint plates can be freely rotated around multiple rotational centers.

A synchronous folding device includes two opposing folding members and a multi-joint rotary axle structure mounted between the two folding members. The multi-joint rotary axle structure has two ends which can be folded or unfolded synchronously. The multi-joint rotary axle structure includes a driving joint assembly and a driven joint assembly. The driving joint assembly includes two opposing joint plates and a middle link plate. Two ends of the driving joint assembly are respectively connected to the two opposing folding members. Each joint plate of the driving joint assembly can be turned free through plural turning centers so that both ends can be closed or opened synchronously for the folding device to be folded or unfolded accurately.

A hinge device for a storage container which includes a pair of hinge couplers combined in the form of a single unit, and enables a door of the storage container to be more smoothly closed without generating impact. A storage container, which includes the hinge device, is also disclosed. The hinge device includes a housing fixed to a container body of the storage container or the door, a first hinge shaft and a second hinge shaft rotatably coupled to the housing at opposite sides of the housing, respectively, each of the first and second hinge shafts having one end extending into the housing, and the other end extending outwardly beyond the housing and fixedly coupled to the other one of the container body and the door, a driver arranged in the housing at the side of the first hinge shaft to apply, to the first hinge shaft, a rotating force to cause the door to be maintained in an opened state or to be closed in accordance with an opening angle of the door, and a damper arranged in the housing at the side of the second hinge shaft to increase a resistance to rotation of the second hinge shaft, and thus, to cause the door to be smoothly closed.

A slide door device for an aircraft includes an upper guide roller at a tip end of an upper arm provided at an upper part of a slide door and a lower guide roller at a tip end of a lower arm provided at a lower part of the slide door that are rollably engaged with an upper guide rail and a lower guide rail that are fixed along an upper edge and a lower edge of a door opening frame formed in a fuselage of an aircraft, respectively. An intermediate guide roller, provided at a tip end of an intermediate arm provided in a door opening, is rollably engaged with an intermediate guide rail that is fixed to an inner surface of the slide door, while smoothly guiding the slide door with the upper guide rail, the lower guide rail, and the intermediate guide rail.

The invention discloses a refrigerator which comprises a refrigerator body, a vertical beam, a guide column and an anti-collision mechanism, wherein a door body pivot shaft is connected to the front side of the refrigerator body; the vertical beam is arranged on a door body by extending in a vertical direction and rotatably mounted on one side far away from the door body pivot shaft; the anti-collision mechanism is provided with a guide groove; the guide column is movably matched in the guide groove for the convenience of moving in the guide groove to overturn or unfold the vertical beam when the door body is opened or closed; the anti-collision mechanism further comprises a guide part arranged to move left and right relative to the guide groove and first and second openings arranged to be close to the guide column and positioned on the same side of the guide groove; the first opening is used for guiding the guide column to enter or depart from the guide groove; and the second opening is used for unidirectionally guiding the guide column to enter the guide groove under the effect of the guide part. The refrigerator has the functions of two-rail closing and one-rail opening of the door body, so that a refrigerator door can be smoothly closed and better refrigerating effect can be obtained.

Emission gas recycling equipment includes a passage for recycling a part of an emission gas and a control valve for controlling an amount of the part of the emission gas. The control valve includes: a housing having a pipe portion; a butterfly valve accommodated in the pipe portion rotatable in a first direction and a second direction; a seal ring for sealing a clearance; and valve open/close operation means for stopping the butterfly valve at the valve full close position after the valve open/close operation means operates the butterfly valve to open and to close equal to or more than one cycle across the valve full close position at the time when the engine stops or after the engine stops.

The present invention relates to an anti-frost evaporator pipe of a drawer type refrigerator for preventing frost from being formed on a ceiling portion of a storage chamber of the refrigerator. It is an object of the present invention to provide an anti-frost evaporator pipe of a drawer type refrigerator, wherein by preventing frost from being formed on a ceiling surface of an inner case through a structural improvement in the evaporator pipe installed to the inner case, excessive cooling and spoilage of foods and food damage due to the conversion of frost into water can be prevented and a drawer container can be more smoothly opened or closed, and wherein more precise operating conditions can be set and temperature variation in the storage chamber cannot be produced by using a sensor installed to more accurately detect a status of the storage chamber. To achieve the aforementioned object of the present invention, there is provided an anti-frost evaporator pipe of a drawer type refrigerator including an inner case in which a storage chamber for accommodating a storage drawer container is defined and the storage drawer container is kept at a low temperature by means of the evaporator pipe for refrigerant circulation wrapped around the exterior of the inner case, the evaporator pipe comprising curved pipe portions positioned at both side surfaces of the inner case, and a straight pipe portion positioned at a top surface of the inner case and connected with the curved pipe portions.

A bicycle carrier includes a base rack, a main body, and a restriction element. The base rack is connected to a vehicle body and a limiting element therebetween. The limiting element has a horizontal sliding groove and an arc sliding groove which is below the horizontal sliding groove. An end of the main body is pivotally connected to the limiting element, and the other end is connected to a supporting element. The main body is formed with an elongated groove corresponding to the horizontal and the arc sliding grooves. The restriction element is inserted through the main body and is connected to the limiting element via an elastic element. A pin element is inserted through the restriction element to be slidable in the elongated groove. The elastic element makes the restriction element tend to move toward the base rack.

A drive unit which operates in a first direction based on operation of a door opening and closing control unit so as to unfasten a latch of a full-opening latch unit is connected to a half-opening stopping unit being displaced from a state where the half-opening stopping unit is made unable to abut with a half-opening striker provided on a vehicle body side to a state where the half-opening stopping unit is made abut with the halt-opening striker when a window glass provided in a sliding door, so as to abut with the half-opening striker when the sliding door is opened to a predetermined half-opened position to thereby stop the sliding door at the half-opened position in such a manner that the half-opening stopping unit is displaced to the state where the half-opening stopping unit abuts with the half-opening striker when the drive unit is operated in a second direction.

A hinge unit applies resilience differently according to the angle at which the hinge unit is opened, and an image forming apparatus has a cover attached by the hinge unit. The hinge unit includes a lower frame connected to a scan unit of a main body of an apparatus; an upper frame engaged with the lower frame through a hinge shaft and connected to a cover; and first and second resilient members serially arranged within the upper frame. When the cover pivots toward the scan unit at less than a predetermined angle, the hinge unit provides relatively minor resistance, whereas when the cover pivots toward the scan unit at the predetermined angle or greater, the hinge unit provides relatively greater resistance, thereby appropriately coping with the moment by weight of the cover. As a result, the improved hinge unit may enable a user to open and close the cover more comfortably.

A hermetically sealed container comprises sealing mechanisms (17, 17a) wherein upper sealing surfaces (11, 11a) and lower sealing surfaces (12, 12a) are provided in inward peripheral wall surfaces (9, 9a) and outward peripheral wall surfaces (10, 10a), respectively, of annular sealing grooves integrally formed with a container body (3) misaligned from each other in the height direction of the container body, and upper sealing parts (15, 15a) and lower sealing parts (16, 16a) are provided respectively in upper parts (13, 13a) and lower parts (14, 14a) of annular sealing protrusions formed integrally with a lid body (6), and the upper parts of the annular sealing protrusions are formed to be of high rigidity to make the upper sealing parts frictionally contact the upper sealing surfaces, and the lower parts of the annular sealing protrusions are formed to be flexibly deformable and of low rigidity to make the lower sealing parts be resiliently pressed against the lower sealing surfaces.

A folding type door is fitted in a cab box. Two door panels and are disposed substantially in the same vertical plane as a left side cover of an upper revolving structure when said door in a closed position. Catches and are provided in a left rear side section of the cab box. Provided on door panels and of the folding type door are strikers and to be attachably or detachably engaged with the catches and separately of each other. When the folding type door is opened, the respective door panels and are each retained in an open door position by engagement of two sets of strikers and and catches and which prevents rattling movements of each door panel to retain the folding type door in a stabilized state.

A windproof umbrella includes a shank (10); a runner (12) on the shank (10); ribs (20); a canopy (101); stretchers (30); U-shaped first joints (51) each secured onto the rib (20); U-shaped second joints (61) each slidably put on the rib (20); U-shaped third joints (71) each secured onto the stretcher (30); auxiliary rods (40); and sets of first, second, and third pivotal members (52, 62, and 72). The first pivotal member (52) is formed at the other end of the stretcher (30) and is pivotably connected to the first joint (51). The second pivotal member (62) is formed at one end of the auxiliary rod (40) and is pivotably connected to the second joint (61). The third pivotal member (72) is formed at the other end of the auxiliary rod (40) and is pivotably connected to the third joint (71). In response to strong wind, the second joint (61) slides to change an angle between the rib (20) and the stretcher at the first joint (51). Therefore, the wind escape capability of windproof umbrella (1) of the invention is greatly increased.