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An acoustic control system for an electronic musical instrument, which can obtain optimal acoustic characteristics irrespective of whether or not a low range speaker is attached to a body thereof. A piano body has high range and mid range speakers. A low range speaker is removable from the body. A stand-excluding switch designates a first speaker-use mode for using the high range and mid range speakers alone, and a stand-including switch designates a both speaker-use mode for using both the high range and mid range speakers and the low range speaker. A ROM stores stand-excluding and stand-including factors for setting acoustic characteristics in the two modes, respectively. A CPU reads one of the factors, which corresponds to the mode designated by the stand-excluding or stand-including switch. A tone generator circuit generates a musical tone signal to be reproduced in one of the modes, based on the read factor.

A system and method for providing a service allowing a user looking for an available space to access a secure network and specify parameters defining the user's requirements for the available space, while allowing other users to broadcast space information regarding spaces they are about to depart from, where space is a three-dimensional volume or position that can be occupied or vacated. Users communicate with the secure network which is comprised of dedicated and/or external data sources and servers, using electronic devices to retrieve and broadcast real-time and future space information so that users may conduct space exchanges either by paying and receiving set amounts for an available parking space or by bidding on an available parking space. Users can also rate the space exchange according to whether or not they were satisfied or dissatisfied with the transaction.

An automatic parking system having at least one parking level, the system comprises a plurality of transporters moveable in any direction about the parking level, wherein each transporter is adapted to hold a vehicle thereupon; at least one central computer that is configured to wirelessly direct one of the transporters to move to a desired location to form at least one arrival and/or retrieval circulation path. The system includes a transporter tracking system which tracks the locations of each transporter; and alternatively, at least one lift mechanism which vertically transports the transporter to a desired parking level. The system includes access bays configured to position an arriving vehicle onto and remove an exiting vehicle from the transporter. The system preferably includes storage devices to accept, release and recharge one or more transporters. The system preferably includes entry stations which measure the vehicle dimensions.

A system including: (a) a database of individual on-street parking spots, and individual off-street parking spots, each of the individual parking spots associated with a unique identifier (UID) and location coordinates; and (b) an off street spot management module in communication one or more external client devices, adapted to receive parking rules from an external client device operated by an owner of each of the individual off-street parking spots.

A system including: (a) a database of individual on-street parking spots, and individual off-street parking spots, each of the individual parking spots associated with a unique identifier (UID) and location coordinates; and (b) an off street spot management module in communication one or more external client devices, adapted to receive parking rules from an external client device operated by an owner of each of the individual off-street parking spots.

PCT No. PCT/FI97/00515 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 31, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 31, 1999 PCT Filed Sep. 3, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/10233 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 12, 1998An apparatus for transferring heating and cooling power by means of two heat transfer media, wherein at least one of the heating media is arranged to be evaporated or condensed. To reduce the need for space, the apparatus includes a shell (3) inside which at least one plate heat exchanger (1,2) is arranged loosely, flow slots (19) of the heat exchanger being arranged to be completely or mainly open towards the shell (3) in such a manner that the evaporating or condensing heat transfer medium can flow to the plate heat exchanger or from the plate heat exchanger from different sides of the plate heat exchanger on the whole length of that slot (19) which is open.

A method of storing files in a data storage device includes dividing a storage medium of the data storage device into identically sized storage units having a predetermined size, and indicating a status of each storage unit and relating chains of storage units storing a same file in a file allocation table on the storage medium; grouping the storage units into a plurality of groups having a predetermined number of adjacent storage units; assigning a file size classification when creating a file to be stored on the storage medium, the file size classification corresponding to an estimated amount of data in the file to be stored on the storage medium; and allocating at least one of the groups of adjacent storage units for storing the file if the file size classification is greater than a predetermined value.

An information display unit 47 is provided inside a cab of a hydraulic excavator 1 and has a display portion 471 capable of displaying plural kinds of information including body information and maintenance information. A screen image displayed on the display portion 471 comprises one main screen and a plurality of sub-screens. The main screen displays information regarding one of a plurality of information categories in detail and the plurality of sub-screens respectively correspond to the plurality of information categories. The sub-screens corresponding to the information categories other than the information category, for which information is displayed on the main screen in detail, display the corresponding information categories in the simplified form. The information category displayed on the main screen can be selected and changed with key manipulation made on an operating portion 470. As a result, plural kinds of information can be displayed in a combined and selective manner, and an operator is able to confirm the information with higher efficiency.

There is provided a dish receiving member of a dishwasher having a dish rack provide with frames forming a dish receiving space. The dish receiving member includes: a holder body formed of plastic and detachably coupled to a bottom portion of the accommodation frame; and one or more supporting parts formed on a top portion of the holder body for supporting a dish.

The invention is directed a trapezoidal panel pin joint for allowing deflection of an aircraft between a fuselage section and a wing section, wherein the pin joint comprises a vertical pin portion, a lug portion, and a clevis portion; wherein at least one vertical flexible tee member is positioned below the pin joint; and wherein the pin joint is coupled to at least two horizontal flexible tee members, such that the pin joint and vertical and horizontal flexible tee members, in combination, release two rotational degrees of freedom.

An elevator is provided comprising a number of diverting pulleys in the upper part of an elevator shaft or equivalent, a number of diverting pulleys in the lower part of the elevator shaft and a number of diverting pulleys on the elevator car. In various embodiments, at least some of the diverting pulleys are pre-rigged and brought into the elevator shaft together with the car, and the hoisting ropes are stretched to their proper length when the diverting pulleys in the upper and lower parts of the shaft are mounted in place. In various embodiments, the elevator may be an elevator without counterweight.

A method for installing an elevator may include stopping an elevator car or partially completed elevator car in the upper part of an elevator shaft; rigging first portions of hoisting ropes between the car and diverting pulleys in the upper part of the shaft so that the first portions pass via the diverting pulleys in the upper part of the shaft and first diverting pulleys on the car; moving the car to the lower part of the shaft, while supplying ropes from rope reels to the first portions between the car and the diverting pulleys in the upper part of the shaft; and rigging second portions of the hoisting ropes between the car and diverting pulleys in the lower part of the shaft so that the second portions pass via the diverting pulleys in the lower part of the shaft and second diverting pulleys on the car.

A riding type mower comprises: a plurality of wheels; a vehicle body supported by the plurality of wheels; a water-cooled engine located in a rear region of the vehicle body; a hood for covering the engine; a driver's seat located forwardly of the hood; a rollover protection frame located between the driver's seat and the water-cooled engine, the rollover protection frame having a pair of right and left support columns spaced apart from each other in a lateral direction; a radiator for the water-cooled engine located between the pair of the support columns of the rollover protection frame.

The present invention relates to a power quality improvement device. The power quality improvement device is provided in the form of an autotransformer which comprises an iron core having first, second and third legs, and first, second and third coils which are wound in a zigzag fashion around said first, second and third legs. At least two coils selected from the group that includes said first, second and third coils, alternatively wound around each of said first, second and third legs, are over-lappingly wound around the core in a winding sequence.

In a motorcycle including a screen, a meter panel is arranged at the vehicle front of a rider, and a visor is arranged at the vehicle front of the meter panel. The visor is higher than the meter panel to form an air intake for taking in traveling wind between the visor and the meter panel. A duct extends to a rear side of the screen from the air intake at the vehicle rear of the visor, so that the duct can introduce traveling wind to the rear side of the screen.

An electronic keyboard instrument with a hammer action, in which a circuit board for generating electronic musical tones can be disposed at a location for easy maintenance and for effective space utilization. Front and rear bars are bridged between side plates of an instrument main body so as to extend parallel to each other in the left-right direction and reinforce the instrument main body. A hammer action mechanism having hammers for respective keys is disposed rearward of a key-depression part of a keyboard and upward of a rear end portion of the keyboard, and a board tray is bridged between the front and rear bars. The board tray and the circuit board are located upward of the hammer action mechanism.

An electromagnetic driving module includes an upper housing, a lower housing, a circuit board, a base, a wiring assembly, and a magnetic element. The upper housing is connected to the lower housing. The circuit board is fixed on the upper housing. The base is disposed in a space defined by the upper housing and the lower housing. The wiring assembly is disposed on the base. The magnetic element corresponds to the wiring assembly and is disposed on the upper housing.

The invention provides a panel component movement mechanism and a microwave steaming and baking integral machine. The panel component movement mechanism comprises a panel body, a mounting rack arranged on a to-be-mounted position, a first connecting rod, a second connecting rod, a third connecting rod and a drive part, wherein the first end of the first connecting rod is hinged with the mounting rack; the second connecting rod and the first connecting rod are arranged at interval, and the first end of the second connecting rod is hinged with the mounting rack; the first end of the third connecting rod is hinged with the second end of the first connecting rod, the second end of the second connecting rod is hinged with the middle of the third connecting rod, and the panel body is fixed at the second end of the third connecting rod; and the drive part is arranged on the mounting rack, and is connected with the first connecting rod, the second connecting rod or the third connecting rod, so that the panel body can be pushed out or retrieved and reset in an upward inclined state. Therefore, after the panel body is pushed out, a water tank arranged behind the panel body can be easily taken out, and the space utilization in the microwave steaming and baking integral machine is relatively efficient and reasonable.

Disclosed is an internal antenna providing impedance matching for a wide band where a feeding patch is placed on a substrate. The disclosed antenna may include: a substrate; an impedance matching/feeding unit including a feeding patch, which is formed on the substrate and electrically connected to a feeding point, and a ground patch, which is electrically connected to a ground and formed above the feeding patch separated at a designated distance from the feeding patch; and a radiator formed extending from the ground patch, where the impedance matching/feeding unit performs impedance matching by way of coupling between the feeding patch and the ground patch, and the radiator receives coupling feeding from the feeding patch. The disclosed antenna has the advantages of overcoming the narrow band problem of a planar inverted-F antenna, and of allowing more efficient utilization of space in an internal antenna for a wide band using coupling matching and coupling feeding.

A fluid filled vibration damping device including: an elastic body elastically connecting a first and a second mounting member and partially defining a pressure receiving chamber filled with a non-compressible fluid; a flexible diaphragm partially defining an equilibrium chamber filled with the non-compressible fluid and connected to the pressure-receiving chamber via an orifice passage. The first mounting member includes an elastic-body-side central member bonded to the elastic body central portion, and a rubber-layer-side central member bonded to the flexible rubber layer central portion, both mutually superposed on and fastened together by a connecting bolt. A fitting recess and projection are formed at an interface between two members, and a mounting projection projecting outward on an opposite side from the interface. The connecting bolt is off-centered from a center of the two members by a give distance.

The invention relates to a device for storage and conveyance of bulky holders (C), comprising at least one tier (32), each tier comprising at least one conveyance circuit (2) for the holders (C), and each conveyance circuit (2) comprising at least two longitudinal paths (4, 6) disposed substantially parallel to each other, for conveyance of the holders (C) in the direction of the longitudinal paths (4, 6), which longitudinal paths (4, 6) each define a first predetermined number (N) of adjoining holder positions for the holders (C) while two adjacent longitudinal paths (4, 6) of a conveyance circuit (2) slope from the same end in opposite directions, and in which transverse tracks situated at the opposite ends of the longitudinal paths and movable at least in the vertical direction are also provided, for conveyance of the holders (C) in the direction of the transverse tracks, which transverse tracks can transfer the holders (C) to and from the longitudinal paths (4, 6), and also comprising a second predetermined number (M≦2*N−1) of carriers (14) which are movable along the longitudinal paths and transverse tracks and are designed to take one or more holders (C), lifting means (34) being provided for moving the transverse tracks in the vertical direction.

An aircraft ceiling liner element comprises a load-bearing carrier platform, configured to form a part of an aircraft ceiling liner, and a mounting mounted on the carrier platform, connectable to a primary structure of the aircraft. An electrical connection mounted on the carrier platform is connectable to an electrical supply network of the aircraft. Furthermore, the aircraft ceiling liner element comprises a mechanical interface mounted on the carrier platform, configured to attach various interchangeable modular units detachably and in a load-transferring manner to the carrier platform, and an electrical interface mounted on the carrier platform, which interface is configured to create an electrical connection between the modular unit and the carrier platform.

A pickup truck toolbox can be mounted to the bed side rails by feet rather than arms and may sit above the side rails and the bed volume, thus allowing use of the full volume of the bed between the side rails and the floor of the bed. It may have a rear view tunnel through it, whereby the driver may use normally the rear view mirror, and may have a Liddy light valley across the top, whereby the brake light will remain visible. The profile may match or sit within the profile of the cab of the truck, a fairing may be employed to improve fuel efficiency, and side-mounted vertical hatches may allow both easy access and the use of shelving.

A probe card includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a connection substrate electrically connected with the PCB, a probe head, and a signal path switching module disposed on a lateral periphery surface or a bottom surface of the connection substrate, electrically connected with probe needles of the probe head and the connection substrate and including first and second circuit lines with first and second inductors respectively, and a capacitor electrically connected between the first and second circuit lines. A test signal from a tester is transmitted between the tester and a device under test (DUT) via the PCB, the connection substrate, the first and second circuit lines and the probe needles. A loopback test signal from the DUT is transmitted back to the DUT via the probe needles, parts of the first and second circuit lines and the capacitor.

There is provided a tape printing apparatus in which a cartridge mounting unit where a tape cartridge having a print tape accommodated therein is detachably mounted, a battery accommodating unit where a plurality of batteries serving as power supply are accommodated, and a finger-hooking groove unit for removing the batteries from the battery accommodating unit are formed with a groove on a surface of an apparatus casing, wherein the finger-hooking groove unit and the cartridge mounting unit are disposed such that they are overlapped with each other in the plane of the surface.

Reinforcement layers are each formed in a belt shape set with a smaller width than a diameter dimension of a container body. Each reinforcement layer has its length direction along an axial direction of the container body and spans between one axial direction side end and another axial direction side end of the container body, including at caps. Moreover, the reinforcement layers span across the caps and the container body at locations other than maximum diameter portions, these being locations where the diameter dimensions of the cap and the container body are greatest in a direction orthogonal to a direction of adjacency of the container body with other container bodies as viewed along the axial direction.

Embodiments provide a compact vertiport system. The vertiport system may be efficient and compact by combining, into one space and time period, multiple activities that typically take place in different spaces and different times. For example, when an aircraft is being moved from a landing zone to a takeoff zone, the aircraft may also be charged simultaneously. Also, passenger exchange may take place while the aircraft is being moved. As a result, compact vertiport systems may fit into smaller spaces (e.g., tops of buildings, or smaller plots of land).

An apparatus aiding body balance according to the present invention comprises: a support portion placed on the ground; a foothold portion having one end rotatably coupled to one end of the support portion; and an inclination adjustment portion having one end rotatably provided on the other end of the foothold portion and the other end supported by the support portion, and thus enabling the adjustment of the angle between the foothold portion and the support portion. According to the apparatus aiding body balance according to the present invention, the angle between the foothold portion and the support portion may selectively be adjusted by means of the inclination adjustment portion, and thus the intensity of body balance exercise may be controlled in accordance with the inclination of the foothold portion, enhancing the use efficiency. An anti-slip portion is provided and a stopper protrusion is formed on one side of a foothold frame, and thus the feet may stably be supported without slipping on the inclined foothold portion. The foothold portion, support portion and inclination adjustment portion are provided so as to rotate with respect to each other, and thus the apparatus aiding body balance may be folded into a flat shape, and a plurality of apparatuses aiding body balance may be coupled to each other. Therefore, the apparatus aiding body balance may be stored easily when not in use and exhibits enhanced space utilization.