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Reward Candy Dispenser for Personal Computers

A personal computer peripheral, battery powered reward candy dispenser which immediately presents students with a single candy for each problem completed correctly.

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Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki


Location: Aichi-ken, JP
No. of patents: 132

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NumberTitleIssue Date
8182658Electrochemical device and exhaust gas purification apparatus
An anode 20 of an electrochemical device 10 is connected to the cathode of a battery 30, and a cathode 22 of the electrochemical device 10 is connected to the anode of the battery. An electrolyte layer 24 containing electrol...
05/22/2012
8172552Variable displacement compressor
A variable displacement compressor that draws refrigerant from a suction pressure zone and discharges the refrigerant to a discharge pressure zone, and controls displacement according to a pressure in a control pressure chamber. The compressor has a cam body, piston...
05/08/2012
8172019Towing tractor
A towing tractor includes a tractor body, a motor, a controller, a cable electrically connecting the motor and the controller, an axle housing integrally mounted with the motor, and a suspension through which the axle housing is supported by the tractor body. The co...
05/08/2012
8166705Support structure for vehicular resin window
A resin window includes a plate-shaped main body portion and a gear projection portion that is molded integrally with the main body portion so as to project in a thickness direction of the main body portion from a rear end portion of the main body portion. A part of...
05/01/2012
8162636Scroll compressor having partition wall in oil reservoir
A scroll type compressor has a fixed scroll member, a movable scroll member, an oil reservoir, a back-pressure chamber, an oil extraction passage, a flow passage, and a partition wall. The back-pressure chamber disposed behind the movable scroll member is in communi...
04/24/2012
8162626Motor-driven compressor
A motor-driven compressor has a compression mechanism, a rotary shaft, an electric motor, a motor drive circuit, a connecting terminal and a housing assembly. The compression mechanism, the electric motor, and the motor drive circuit are disposed along the axial dir...
04/24/2012
8161606Fiber bundle arranging apparatus
A cylinder 40 made of a magnetic material is fixed to an introduction pipe 34. An annular connection projection 401 is provided on the cylinder 40 and a disk 42 is connected to the connection projection 401 with an annular p...
04/24/2012
8155344Vehicle speaker
A vehicle speaker including a panel, a giant magnetostrictive vibrator, and a vibration transmission pad. The panel is used as a diaphragm for producing high-frequency sound and forms part of a vehicle. The giant magnetostrictive vibrator is used as a vibration exci...
04/10/2012
8152490Motor driven compressor
A motor-driven compressor has a compression mechanism, a rotary shaft, an electric motor, a motor drive circuit and a housing assembly. The compression mechanism, the electric motor and the motor drive circuit are disposed along the axial direction of the rotary sha...
04/10/2012
8152482Displacement control valve for variable displacement compressor
A displacement control valve for a variable displacement compressor. The displacement control valve includes a drive force transmission body, a pressure sensitive chamber, an internal passage, and a valve body. The valve body includes an annular seal which is contac...
04/10/2012
8141215Apparatus for arranging fiber bundles
A connection pipe 40A is fit in an introduction pipe 34A. A guide groove 342 extends on the side of the introduction pipe 34A in the Z-axis direction. A guide screw 41 is screwed on the peripheral face of the connection pipe 40
03/27/2012
8138643Motor-driven compressor
An electric motor includes a cylindrical stator that is formed with a plurality of slots. The cylindrical stator has polyphase coils that are formed by winding a plurality of conductive wires in the slots to have polyphase, a wire bundle and an insulating tube cover...
03/20/2012
8126618Travel control apparatus for industrial vehicle
A travel control apparatus for a forklift is disclosed. The forklift is provided with a loading device that performs load handling operations by raising and lowering a load, and a drive motor which generates a drive force for travel and is capable of generating a br...
02/28/2012
8125183Charging system and vehicle and charge controller for the charging system
A charging system for charging a vehicle battery using a commercial power supply available in a construction on the ground includes a charge device, a power line, a time setting unit, and a control unit. The charge device mounted on a vehicle charges the vehicle bat...
02/28/2012
8123877Heat-resistant magnesium alloy for casting heat-resistant magnesium alloy cast product, and process for producing heat-resistant magnesium alloy cast product
A heat-resistant magnesium alloy is for casting, and includes Ca in an amount of from 1 to 15% by mass, Al in a summed amount of from 4 to 25% by mass with the amount of Ca, and the balance being Mg and inevitable impurities when the entirety is taken as 100% by mas...
02/28/2012
8122589Method of manufacturing an electric motor
There is provided a method of manufacturing an electric motor. To begin with, a stator is provided by fixing a stator winding on a stator core. The stator winding has a coil end projecting from one end face of the stator core. Subsequently, a lead wire is drawn out ...
02/28/2012
8120914Semiconductor cooling apparatus
A semiconductor cooling apparatus having a tank forming body and semiconductor power device mounting substrates is disclosed. The tank forming body includes a first outer plate, a second outer plate, a middle plate, a first inner fin, and a second inner fin. The mid...
02/21/2012
8118564Motor-driven compressor
A motor-driven compressor includes a compression mechanism for compressing a refrigerant gas, an electric motor, an inverter assembly and an inverter chamber. The electric motor drives the compression mechanism. The inverter assembly converts direct-current power in...
02/21/2012
8118543Centrifugal compressor having switchable two passages
A centrifugal compressor for compressing gas has a casing, a rotary shaft, an impeller, a diffuser, a first scroll, a second scroll, a first passage, a second passage, and a switching member. The rotary shaft is supported by the casing. The impeller is rotatably fix...
02/21/2012
8117941Parking-brake-operation indicator and method of adjusting parking brake
A parking-brake-operation indicator includes a lever having a pressing portion for pressing a brake disc of a parking brake to press contact the brake disc, a cable operable to draw the lever, a brake-operation tool connected to the cable, a switch for detecting a p...
02/21/2012
8109198Hydraulic control apparatus
A hydraulic control apparatus 1 includes a switch valve 11, a valve support chamber 35, a flow control valve 12 movable within the valve support chamber 35, an on-off valve 13 movable within the communication path chamber
02/07/2012
8097569Coating composition for use in sliding parts
A compressor includes a swash plate, and a shoe connected to an outer periphery of the swash plate. A surface of the swash plate slides upon a flat surface of the shoe. A sliding film is applied to the surface of the swash plate. The sliding film is formed of binder...
01/17/2012
8096279Premixed compression ignition type engine and method of controlling the same
A premixed compression ignition type engine is operated while change over between spark ignition combustion and compression ignition combustion. This engine has a negative overlap period during steady operation under compression ignition combustion. In the same cyli...
01/17/2012
8092197Hydraulic system
A hydraulic system that can implement effective practical use of energy is provided. A hydraulic system according to the present invention has a hydraulic pump driven by a hydraulic pump motor, a loading cylinder and a power steering cylinder which are driven by pre...
01/10/2012
8091577Valve
A valve seat 20 is arranged between the supply circuit 8 and a downstream circuit 18. A valve body 21 blocks a fluid flow between the supply circuit 8 and the downstream circuit 18 by contacting the valve seat 20. The...
01/10/2012
8085557Bidirectional DC/AC inverter
A bidirectional DC-AC inverter is disclosed. The DC-AC inverter includes an H bridge circuit, a connecting portion connected to the H bridge circuit, a smoothing filter that connects the connecting portion to the H bridge circuit, and a control section. The H bridge...
12/27/2011
8051977Hydrogen storage tank
A hydrogen storage tank includes a tank main body, partition sections, and a hydrogen flow pipe. The hydrogen flow pipe prevents MH powder from passing through and permits hydrogen to pass through. The tank main body includes a hollow body portion having openings on...
11/08/2011
8049604Shock-detecting apparatus for industrial vehicle
A shock-detecting apparatus for an industrial vehicle has a shock-detecting sensor that is fixed to the industrial vehicle for detecting a shock and generating an output signal, a shock value computer for computing a shock value based on the output signal which is r...
11/01/2011
8047810Double-headed piston type compressor
A double-headed piston type compressor connected with an external device is provided. The compressor includes a plurality of cylinder bore pairs, double-headed pistons, a first rotary valve, a second rotary valve, first suction passages, and second suction passages....
11/01/2011
8042815Cylinder head gasket and engine
The thickness of an intermediate plate portion (31b) is smaller than the thickness of a stopper portion (31a). The thickness of a portion of a cylinder head gasket (20) having the stopper portion (31a) is set to be gr...
10/25/2011
8042451Hydraulic control apparatus
A hydraulic control apparatus 1 includes a switch valve 11, an adjustment valve 12, and a valve control device 13. The adjustment valve 12 has a fluid chamber 15, a valve body 14, and a back pressure chamber 17...
10/25/2011
8036855Failure diagnosis apparatus for homogeneous charge compression ignition engine
A failure diagnosis apparatus for a homogeneous charge compression ignition engine having combustion modes switchable between HCCI combustion, performed together with internal EGR, and SI combustion. The engine includes an intake variable valve mechanism and an exha...
10/11/2011
8033364Gap adjusting mechanism of a wet brake
By rotating a regulating bolt about an axis thereof to move forward/backward with respect to a protrusion portion, a lever is rotated about a shaft portion of an adjusting member. Therefore, the shaft portion of an adjusting member is rotated together with the lever...
10/11/2011
8033352Battery-fixing device for a battery forklift
A battery-fixing device includes a frame member, a stopper and a lock arm. The frame member is formed in a body of the forklift and provided by a battery space where a battery case is placed. The frame member has a through hole. The stopper has a lock portion and a ...
10/11/2011
8030760Semiconductor apparatus and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor device, a cooler of a forced cooling type, and a heat mass. Heat generated in the semiconductor device is conducted to the cooler. The heat mass comes into junction with the semiconductor device with solder so as to...
10/04/2011
8002163Friction welding apparatus
A friction welding apparatus includes a first holder for holding a first work piece, a second holder for holding a second work piece, a thrust mechanism and a shaft. The thrust mechanism moves the second holder toward or away from the first holder. The shaft is conn...
08/23/2011
7984732Heald frame
A heald frame has a frame stave, a carrier rod provided along the frame stave and a heald made of a resin material. A plurality of healds are supported by the carrier rod and arranged in a row. A magnet having N and S poles is provided in each heald and the healds a...
07/26/2011
7980830Electric pump
A rotary shaft is rotatable relative to a motor rotor. A first end face of the motor rotor is exposed to the outside of a stator. A hammer portion is provided at the first end face. The hammer portion is configured to be movable as the motor rotor rotates. A collisi...
07/19/2011
7980344Hydrogen station, method of charging hydrogen, and vehicle
A hydrogen station includes gas storage equipment for storing hydrogen, a dispenser for charging hydrogen gas supplied from the gas storage equipment into a hydrogen tank of a vehicle, and a blower. When charging hydrogen, the blower blows air towards a radiator of ...
07/19/2011
7976288Refrigerant gas compressor
A refrigerant gas compressor includes a cylinder block formed with plural cylinder bores, a first housing disposed at the one end of the cylinder block, a second housing disposed at the other end of the cylinder block, a drive shaft supported by the cylinder block a...
07/12/2011
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