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A sliding mechanism is provided to couple slidably a first housing having on its surface a vertically long liquid crystal display part long in the vertical direction to a second housing having on its surface an operating part. This slide mechanism includes a rail part which is mounted on the surface of the second housing in a manner of extending in the vertical direction and is configured such that when the first housing has slidingly moved by means of the slide mechanism to the upper end side of the second housing, the operating part of the second housing will appear. Further, by means of the cam mechanism (support mechanism), the first housing is supported relative to the second housing in a switchable manner between the vertically long state and the horizontally long state.

An object of the present invention is to provide an internal permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine capable of maintaining compactness and high output and reducing vibration and noise caused by electromagnetic force. The rotating electrical machine of the present invention has an annular stator and a rotor that is arranged inside the stator with an air gap interposed between the stator and the rotor. The stator has a stator iron core provided with a plurality of slots at circumferential intervals and a coil received in each of the slots. The rotor has a rotor iron core, a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in a plurality of magnetic pole forming positions that are set along an outer circumference of the rotor iron core, an iron core section that faces the air gap and is magnetized by the permanent magnets to form a magnetic pole on an air gap fronting face at each of the magnetic pole forming positions, and an axially extending recess formed at a circumferentially central part of the air gap fronting face of each of the iron core sections.

This invention provides an optical imaging lens assembly, in order from an object side toward an image side including: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface, and the two surfaces being aspheric; wherein the optical imaging lens assembly further comprises an aperture stop disposed between an imaged object and the first lens element, and there are four lens elements with refractive power.

A circuit assembly includes a bus bar substrate and a first relay, in order to provide a circuit assembly in which a size in height can be reduced in conjunction with maintaining compactness, especially for a small occupation area in plan view by a simple structure. The bus bar substrate includes an electrical power circuit in which plural bus bar layers are stacked alternately through electrical insulation layers at plural levels. Each bus bar layer has plural bus bars arranged on the substantially same plane. The first relay is connected to the electrical power circuit through terminals. The first relay includes the terminals having contact pieces to be superposed on the bus bars along a layer surface of the bus bar. The contact piece of at least one of the terminals is joined by welding to a bus bar on a bus bar layer lower than the uppermost bus bar layer.

The present invention is directed to a peripherally pivoted oscillating vane machine (OVM). The OVM has been optimized for performance and efficiency. This has been accomplished by reducing loads on the drive mechanism and by employing de-phased motion of the peripherally pivoted vanes in conjunction with improved porting configurations as well as valve actuation and manufacture.

A retaining tool with rotational locating device includes a main frame and a locator. The main frame provides a first lock part at an end thereof. The locator rotationally inserts through the main frame next to the other end thereof. The locator further includes an adjustable unit and a locking unit attached to the adjustable unit. The locking unit has a second lock part at the lower section thereof corresponding to the first lock part. The lock parts engage with an object and the locking unit with the second lock part is capable of moving vertically in case of the adjustable unit being turned horizontally. The object is forced to keep contact other objects tightly or to release from contacting other objects.

An imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element has both an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are aspheric.

A blind comprises a turnably supported pulley, a control member of which one end is connected to the pulley so as to permit the control member to be wound around and unwound from the pulley, an urging member which urges the pulley in the direction of winding the control member, a first clutch mechanism which is disposed between the rotation shaft and the pulley, and can selectively link the pulley and the rotation shaft with each other to transmit the rotation of the pulley to the rotation shaft or unlink the pulley and the rotation shaft from each other to interrupt the transmission of the rotation of the pulley to the rotation shaft, and a second clutch mechanism which can selectively link the rotation shaft and a fixed member with each other or unlink them from each other.

A vibration exciter for a ground compactor comprises an exciter shaft having at least one exciter weight disposed thereon and having at least one turnover weight which is disposed so that it can rotate relative to this exciter shaft. The present invention further relates to a ground compactor having such a vibration exciter.

A total reflection prism includes two prisms having a shape of a triangular prism of a first prism and a second prism. The first prism includes an illuminating light incident face, a total reflection face and a panel reference face. The second prism includes an image light incident face on which image light is incident from the first prism, an image light emitting face from which image light is emitted, and a side end face. An edge line portion of a sharp edge is formed between the image light emitting face and the side end face and therefore, a light amount of OFF light reflected by the edge line portion and projected to a screen becomes extremely smaller than a light amount of ON light and does not effect an influence on quality of a projected image.

A zoom lens consists of, in order from the object side, a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a negative third lens group, a negative fourth lens group, a positive fifth lens group, and a positive sixth lens group. The first lens group and the sixth lens group are fixed with respect to an image plane, and a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group increases, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group changes, and a distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group changes, and a distance between the fourth lens group and the fifth lens group changes, and a distance between the fifth lens group and the sixth lens group changes during magnification change from a wide angle end to a telephoto end.

The present invention provides an automatic focus imaging system comprising a lens unit, an image sensor, and a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) unit fabricated by microfabrication technology to improve the portability and focusing speed of the automatic focus imaging system. The MEMS unit for automatic focusing comprises a substrate having a control circuitry, at least one reflective surface movably connected to the substrate, and at least one actuation unit comprising a micro-actuator having a large in-plane translation and at least one micro-converter configured to convert the large in-plane translation of the micro-actuator to the large out-of-plane translation of the reflective surface. The MEMS unit changes a distance between lens unit and the image sensor by controlling the out-plane translation of the reflective surface in order to form in-focus mage on the image sensor.

A cable holder is provided with an attachment portion to be attached to a strap retainer of a portable device, and a holder plate portion having a plurality of supporting projections. The attachment portion is provided with at least one claw to engage with the strap retainer. The claw elastically deforms for attaching/detaching the cable holder. A cable hole for inserting the cable is formed between two contiguous supporting projections. The cable is threaded in the cable hole between the supporting projections. With friction between the supporting projections and the cable, the cable is prevented from being unplugged.

The present invention is directed to a compact balun device that includes an unbalanced port and a set of balanced differential ports. A first set of coupled transmission line structures is coupled to the unbalanced port and one port of the set of balanced differential ports. The first set of coupled transmission line structures is characterized by at least one device parameter and a first length that is substantially equal to a quarter of a wavelength (λ). The wavelength (λ) corresponds to a first frequency. A second set of coupled transmission line structures is coupled to another port of the set of balanced differential ports. The second set of coupled transmission line structures is characterized by the at least one device parameter and a second length that is substantially equal to the quarter of a wavelength (λ). The wavelength (λ) corresponds to the first frequency. A plurality of interconnections couples the first set of coupled transmission line structures and the second set of coupled transmission line structures. The plurality of interconnections are configured such that the compact balun operates at a reduced operating frequency, the reduced operating frequency being selected from a range of frequencies by varying at least one device parameter. The range of frequencies is approximately between one-sixth of the first frequency and one-half the first frequency.

A connector characterized in that it: is a connector that has a plurality of plate-shaped terminals that include openings able to enclose protruding terminals of the other half of the connector, and that mates with the other half of the connector. The openings comprise a wide portion, a narrow portion and a transitional portion that transitions from the wide portion to the narrow portion, and, in a top view, are provided with a first shape that is left-right asymmetric with respect to the centerline of the plate-shaped terminals, or a second shape whereby the first shape is inverted about the centerline. The plate-shaped terminals are arrayed lined up in the width direction of the connector, and arrayed such that the plate-shaped terminals comprising an opening having the first shape and the plate-shaped terminals comprising an opening having the second shape alternate.