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A system includes a display, a touch panel, a controlling unit, and an LCD driver. The display can display, on a screen, different images when viewed from different sides. The touch panel is disposed on the screen. The controlling unit and the LCD driver cooperate to control the display. In one embodiment, identification signals for uniquely identifying the different sides are generated and are electrically applied to respective operators. A component of the identification signal transmitted through the body of the operator is detected to thereby identify from which side operation input was performed on the touch panel.

A centrifugal fan is mounted to an inner plate of a centrifugal clutch as a heat-generating rotating device, and an intake port of a casing is formed near a front side in the axial direction of the centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan includes a base plate connected to the inner plate of the centrifugal clutch, plural fins formed on the base plate, blow-off holes each formed between arbitrary adjacent fins and extending axially through the base plate, and guide walls for guiding a radially outward air flow over the base plate into the blow-off holes. Air just after admitted from the intake port passes through the blow-off holes and is blown against the centrifugal clutch.

An optical scanner includes a plurality of scanning optical systems each of which scans a different surface to be scanned and includes a light source configured to emit a light beam, an optical deflector having a plurality of reflection surfaces, and a synchronization detector configured to receive the light beam deflected by the optical deflector and detect a timing to scan an effective area of the surface to be scanned with the deflected light beam before a scanning is started or after the scanning is completed. The synchronization detector of one of a pair of scanning optical systems is disposed on a scanning end side to determine the scanning timing, and the synchronization detector of the other one of the pair of scanning optical systems is disposed on a scanning start side to determine the scanning timing.

A solid-state imager includes a pixel unit for converting incident light into an electrical signal, a substrate bearing the pixel unit formed thereon, an analog-to-digital converter, formed on the substrate, for converting a signal read from the pixel unit into a digital signal, an optical communication unit, arranged on the bottom surface of the substrate opposite the surface of the substrate bearing opposite the top surface of the substrate bearing the pixel unit receiving the incident light, for converting the digital signal converted by the analog-to-digital converter into a light signal and outputting the light signal, and a signal line for transferring the digital signal, converted by the analog-to-digital converter, to the optical communication unit arranged on the bottom surface of the substrate.

A continuously variable transmission for bicycles having a transmission mechanism including a plurality of link units for converting rotary motion of an input shaft rotated by a pedal-operated crankshaft into swinging motion, and a one-way clutch for converting the swinging motion into rotary motion of an output shaft. The link units have drive links pivotally mounted on an eccentric ring which rotates in unison with the input shaft. The continuously variable transmission is disposed between a front wheel and a rear wheel of a bicycle in the longitudinal direction thereof and disposed either upwardly of a hypothetical plane which contains the axes of rotation of the front wheel and the rear wheel or upwardly of a position below and near the hypothetical plane. The transmission so configured provides better bicycle maneuverability, lower cost, while suffering almost no danger of contacting the ground.

A power unit device which can be made small, with which special measures of plant and labor at the time of assembly are unnecessary, and of which assembly is easy and universality in its manufacturing aspect is excellent. The power unit device has a heat sink having a first heat-receiving part and formed on the opposite side from this a second heat-receiving part; a power module, in firm contact with the first heat-receiving part, containing a power semiconductor element for performing DC-AC conversion and / or AC-DC conversion for one phase; a smoothing condenser, in firm contact with the second heat-receiving part, for suppressing ripple current of the power semiconductor element; and fixing means passing through the power module, the heat sink and the smoothing condenser.

A high-voltage harness connection structure for an electrically driven vehicle, having a battery pack disposed in an underfloor position of the vehicle and having a battery-side high-voltage connector terminal disposed on a front end thereof, a power unit arranged in a vehicle forward position with respect to the battery pack and having a unit-side high-voltage connector terminal disposed thereon, and a high-voltage harness that connects the battery-side high-voltage connector terminal and the unit-side high-voltage connector terminal. The harness connection surface of the battery-side high-voltage connector terminal forms a harness connection inclined surface so that the high-voltage harness is connected to be inclined outwardly in a vehicle width direction with respect to a vehicle longitudinal direction, and routed in an outwardly bent state in the vehicle width direction with respect to the vehicle longitudinal direction.

A valve timing control apparatus including a housing, a vane rotor rotatable relative to the housing toward a phase-advance side and a phase-retard side, a first lock member and a second lock member disposed on the vane rotor, a first lock concave portion disposed on the housing so as to be engaged with a tip end portion of the first lock member, a second lock concave portion disposed on the housing so as to be engaged with a tip end portion of the second lock member, and a communication passage formed in the vane rotor and serving to always establish fluid communication between the first and second lock concave portions.

A waveguide corner including a first rectangular waveguide and a second rectangular waveguide. An end face of the second rectangular waveguide is made open to an H-plane wall of the first rectangular waveguide and the H-plane walls of the second rectangular waveguide are disposed along the pipe axis of the first rectangular waveguide. Accordingly, planes of polarization of electromagnetic waves being propagated in the first and second rectangular waveguides are made perpendicular to each other.

The invention relates to the technical field of electrical power engineering survey, belongs to the field of surveying and mapping and particularly relates to a low altitude photography image control point arranging method. According to an aerial photographic regional map, a mark distribution model is established and control mark points are arranged in an aerial photographic regional network; plane control points are arranged around an aerial photographic region; the length of a photographic baseline is b; in the process of encrypting point positions under high precision, the span of the heading spacing is in the range of 6 to 8b and the span of the lateral spacing is 4b; a pair of image control points are respectively arranged at both ends of each route; vertical control points are arranged into a lock shape; the spans of the vertical control points along the lateral spacing are 4b and the spans of the vertical control points along the heading spacing is 6 to 8b; and when plane point positions are encrypted under high precision, the vertical control points are arranged. According to the invention, the aerial triangulation and mapping accuracy of the photogrammetric office work is improved, the surveying and mapping production efficiency is improved, the points are flexibly distributed under the condition that the requirement on the precision of the photogrammetric office work is met; the number of the arranged field image control points is reduced; and the low altitude photography image control point arranging method is suitable for low altitude photographic surveying in any land area.

The present invention provides a coolant pipe installation structure which can reliably retain a coolant pipe and which can sufficiently decrease the thermal resistance between a coolant pipe and a heat-transmitting member. A heat-transmitting member (70) having a vertical groove part (72) into which a coolant pipe (15) fits, and which thermally contacts with a component to be cooled (63), is provided. An elastic member (80) formed in a long plate shape which extends in the extension direction of the coolant pipe (15), and having an opposing part (82) opposite the coolant pipe (15), is provided. A pushing structure (90) which pushes the elastic member (80) to the heat-transfer member (70) side is provided.

A connecting lead wire is used for a solar battery module in which a plurality of solar battery cells connected in series by an inter-connector are arranged. The connecting lead wire is provided with a trunk portion and one or more branch portions. In the trunk portion, an enamel coating layer is provided on a conductor. In each of the branch portions, a solder plating layer is provided on a conductor. The branch portion protrudes from the trunk portion in a lateral direction, and connected to an electrode of each of the solar battery cells. The branch portion connects the solar battery cells with each other.

A hair dryer with a static atomizing device is provided, which has the capability of generating an electrostatically charged microparticle mist of 3 nm to 100 nm. The static atomizing device has a pair of an atomizing electrode and a counter electrode, a tank for storing a liquid such as water; a liquid transport member for transport water from the tank to the atomizing electrode according to capillary phenomenon, and a voltage applying unit. When a high voltage is applied between the atomizing electrode and the counter electrode, while water being supplied to the atomizing electrode through the liquid transport member, the electrostatically charged microparticle mist is generated.

Vehicle body frame includes a main frame section that is made of light metal and extends in a band shape from a front end portion to a rear end portion of the vehicle body frame to thereby form a compression wall portion, and a sub-frame section that is made of steel and fixedly mounted along the band-shaped main frame section. The sub-frame section forms a hollow structure in conjunction with the main frame section and forms a tension wall portion. The main frame section has a greater thickness than the sub-frame section.

A light source device including: a light source section which generates any one of blue light, red light, and green light; a phosphor which generates a fluorescence including the two colors other than the color of the light emitted from the light source section; a color-changing section which changes one of the two colors of the fluorescence emitted from the phosphor to another color regularly and irradiates it to the image-forming element; and a light path-switching section which switches a light path in which a fluorescence excited by the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the color-changing section and a light path in which the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the image-forming element regularly.

The present invention provides a vehicle seat provided with a side airbag device and capable of improving the initial passenger restraining performance of an airbag, and reducing costs. A seat backboard (16) made of a plastic material is fitted from the rearward side of the seat into a seat frame (26) of a seat back frame (14). A case section (102) for accommodating a side airbag device (100) secured to the outside surface of the side frame (20) is integrally formed in the side section of the seat backboard (16) on the outer side in the seat width direction. The presence of a side wall section (102B) of the case section (102) inhibits the side airbag (106) from roundly bulging to the outer side of the seat back in the initial stage of expansion.

A lamp device mounted on a vehicle includes a housing, a first translucent member defining a housing space together with the housing, a lamp unit housed in the housing space and including a light source, a sensor housed in the housing space and configured to detect information outside the vehicle based on invisible light, and a second translucent member housed in the housing space and covering the sensor. The second translucent member has transmittance of visible light lower than that of the first translucent member.

A subframe structure includes an attachment bracket that is disposed between the second vibration-isolation device and rear cross member and that attach the second vibration-isolation device to the rear cross member, and four elastic bushings that floatably support the attachment bracket as to the rear cross member at four support points. A load input point where a load is input from an engine to the second vibration-isolation device is positioned within a region surrounded by the four support points in planar view.

Secondary fuel filter (143) provided downstream of a fuel pump (92) has a smaller pore size than a primary fuel filter (141) provided upstream of the fuel pump. The secondary fuel filter is covered with a case member (171) and positioned along a center frame (23) of the vehicle. The secondary fuel filter is made of non-woven fabric and formed in a bag shape, and fuel is filtered by the secondary fuel filter as it passes from the interior to the outside of the filter.

A pulse transformer 1 is provided with a drum core 2 including a winding core 3 and first and second flanges 4A and 4B, and wires S1 to S4 wound around the winding core 3. Terminal electrodes P1 and N1 and a center tap CT2 are provided on the flange 4A, and terminal electrodes P2 and N2 and a center tap CT1 are provided on the flange 4B. Each end of the wires S1 to S4 is connected to a corresponding one of the terminal electrodes P1 and N1, the center tap CT2, the terminal electrodes P2 and N2, and the center tap CT1. A length of the drum core 2 in X direction is equal to a length of the drum core 2 in Y direction, so that the shape of the mounting region on the printed circuit board is not changed even after being rotated by 90°.

A high-voltage harness connection structure for an electrically driven vehicle, having a battery pack disposed in an underfloor position of the vehicle and having a battery-side high-voltage connector terminal disposed on a front end thereof, a power unit arranged in a vehicle forward position with respect to the battery pack and having a unit-side high-voltage connector terminal disposed thereon, and a high-voltage harness that connects the battery-side high-voltage connector terminal and the unit-side high-voltage connector terminal. The harness connection surface of the battery-side high-voltage connector terminal forms a harness connection inclined surface so that the high-voltage harness is connected to be inclined outwardly in a vehicle width direction with respect to a vehicle longitudinal direction, and routed in an outwardly bent state in the vehicle width direction with respect to the vehicle longitudinal direction.

Secondary fuel filter (143) provided downstream of a fuel pump (92) has a smaller pore size than a primary fuel filter (141) provided upstream of the fuel pump. The secondary fuel filter is covered with a case member (171) and positioned along a center frame (23) of the vehicle. The secondary fuel filter is made of non-woven fabric and formed in a bag shape, and fuel is filtered by the secondary fuel filter as it passes from the interior to the outside of the filter.

A brake apparatus including a housing, a piston body disposed within each of a pair of closed-ended bores formed in the housing, a first elastic member that biases the piston body toward a closed end of the respective bores, a fluid passage opened to the closed end of the respective bores, a pressure regulating valve disposed in the fluid passage, and a rotary gear pump disposed in a region between the pressure regulating valve disposed in the fluid passage opened to the closed end of one of the bores and the pressure regulating valve disposed in the fluid passage opened to the closed end of the other of the bores. The fluid passages are formed to be offset from respective central axes of the piston bodies in such a direction that the fluid passages are spaced apart from each other.

A vehicular lighting system that enhances motorcycle visibility is provided. Vehicle front headlights, arranged so as to be laterally symmetrical, are formed in a shape of eyes capable of evoking a face. A headlight includes a circular main light forming a pupil portion, an annular ring forming an iris portion, plates each forming a sclera portion (white of eye), an upper frame forming the contour of an upper eyelid portion, and a lower frame forming the contour of a lower eyelid portion. When the main light and the plates are made to emit light, and the ring is non-light emitting, the pupil portion and the sclera portion are clearly discriminated from each other, thus enabling recognition as “eyes” not only in the daytime but also in the nighttime. The light emitting portions may be set as the main light, the upper frame and the lower frame, and the like.