Abstract:
An information-arranging device, wherein a plurality of records information units are initially stored at random in first and second memories in a state separated by record-positioning codes. The records are read out one after another from the forward end of said first and second memories. The key words of every two records read out from said first and second memories are compared in respect of numerical largeness or value by a comparing circuit to determine the sequential order of said key words. The records, whose key words have thus been compared in numerical value are arranged in a decreasing or increasing sequential order to form a block with the intervening one of the information codes converted into a different code. Said sequentially arranged records are stored in a third memory in the form of a block. A write-readout cycle for determining the sequential order is repeated between the first and second memories on one hand and the third memory on the other to store the third memory with blocks made up of sequentially arranged records, said blocks being made twice longer each time said write-readout cycle is carried out.
Abstract:
An electronic watch having a time-counting circuit comprising a plurality of cascade-connected counter stages where the counts are continuously carried in each predetermined lapse of time under control of output clock pulses from a clock pulse oscillator generating standard high frequency clock pulses with high accuracy, the counter stages being coupled with a time display device indicating momentarily changing time. The watch is provided with a time-setting device comprising an auxiliary counter circuit for designating independently the respective counter stages constituting the time-counting circuit, a normally open switch closed only when a time-setting operation is required and sequentially designating through the auxiliary counter circuit the respective counter stages from the highest stage to the lowest stage whose count is desired to be correct, and a counter for continuously and automatically adding one time-correction pulse after another having a predetermined frequency to one of the counter stages which is designated by the auxiliary counter circuit upon the actuation of the switch until the designated counter stage is stored with a desired number of counts, thereby attaining a time-setting operation as easily and speedily as possible.
Abstract:
A printing mechanism for printing characters comprises a rotatable hammer confronting through a recording paper the surface of a character pattern bearing body having a plurality of character patterns embossed in a predetermined array on its surface; a striking mechanism adapted to be driven upon the supply of a printing instruction signal so as to cause the peripheral surface of the rotatable hammer to strike through the recording paper the character pattern located in a printing position; a mechanism for causing the rotatable hammer to be rotated through a predetermined angle in response to the striking movement of the rotatable hammer; and a mechanism for supplying a colored printing material to the peripheral surface of the rotatable hammer for either within or without the rotatable hammer.
Abstract:
A printing device employs a printing drum on the peripheral wall of which a plurality of character types are arranged in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction. The axial movement and rotation of the drum are independently controlled by comparing the position of a new character type on the drum to be printed with that of the immediately preceding one of already printed character types thereon at each printing step in response to electric printing information. A hammer is disposed close to the outer periphery of the drum. The hammer advances step by step in printing in the axial direction of the drum independently of the drum to determine the printing position with respect to a record sheet and selectively strikes the opposed surface of the drum through the record sheet. The printing device can thus attain a mechanical driving system for the drum and hammer which has the simplest construction, the least probability of trouble, and a highest possible printing speed with ease.
Abstract:
An ink pressurizing apparatus for an ink jet recorder comprising an ink storage having an ink inlet port through which to conduct ink from an ink tank to said storage and an ink outlet port through which to deliver ink to a nozzle for ejecting the ink in fine particles and partly formed of elastic material; a plunger mechanism for depressing the elastic material to apply pressure to the ink held in the ink storage; and a valve for preventing the back flow of ink from the ink inlet port to the ink tank.
Abstract:
A slip producing apparatus and method for producing a slip having a variable number of word names and respectively corresponding word data, wherein a plurality of slip types and a variable arbitrary number of word names corresponding to each slip type are stored in advance in a word name storage device; an input device is provided for inputting data designating the slip type and for sequentially inputting word data respectively corresponding to the variable number of word names of the designated slip type; and the inputted word data is stored in a word data storage device. The designating slip type stored in the word name storage device is outputted, the word names are read out from the word name storage device and the respectively corresponding word data is read out from the word data storage device, and an elongated slip of the designated slip type is outputted in which the word names and the respectively corresponding word data are arranged in units of rows, the number of rows on the elongated slip being a function of the number of stored word names corresponding to the outputted designated slip type.
Abstract:
A table memory is provided for selecting types of files to be updated in accordance with identification codes designating types of transactions. When a transaction occurs, the corresponding transaction record and the identification code indicating the type of transaction are generated. Data from the table memory is retrieved in accordance with the identification code to select all the files to be updated. The selected files are sequentially updated in accordance with the transaction record.
Abstract:
An electronic musical instrument comprises a plurality of musical tone control units each having a tone waveform producing circuit, a volume envelope circuit, a filter circuit and other circuits. A given musical tone data can be preset in each musical tone control unit. Musical tone signals produced by the musical tone control units are synthesized to provide an effective musical tone.
Abstract:
In an electronic musical instrument which is arranged to produce musical tones belonging to the selected one of many different types of musical instruments and having a number of player-operable selection keys respectively corresponding to the number of types of musical instrument sounds desired, the improvement wherein means is provided for generating a sample tone belonging to that type of musical instrument specified by one of the above-mentioned selection keys at a prescribed pitch and period simply by depressing only once a particular selection key, without taking the trouble of successively depressing individual performance keys, thereby facilitating the selection of a desired type of musical instrument by the player.
Abstract:
An electronic musical instrument of simple arrangement wherein a plurality of musical tones of different musical instrument types are preset; musical tones of a desired musical instrument type is first selected; musical tones belonging to the selected one of the plural musical instrument types are played by performance keys; the performance keys are concurrently used for selection of musical tones of the desired musical instrument type, and which comprises a changeover switch for determining the application of the performance keys for the original purpose or for selection of a desired musical instrument type, thereby eliminating the necessity of providing separate musical instrument type-selecting key or keys in addition to the performance keys.