US Patents Published on 26-Jan-2010

In a windshield unit for a saddle-ride type vehicle provided at the front center of a vehicle body with an air duct for directing the air flow from the front of the vehicle toward the upside, a screen is provided at the front center of a vehicle body...

A convertible vehicle with a movable roof and at least one movable cover part that in its closed position, covers a receiving area for the opened roof situated in the auto body and which can be moved up by at least one drive element is provided. The...

A vehicle has a body and at least two trailing arm suspensions, one proximate each side of the body. Each trailing arm suspension has a swing arm pivotably mounted at one end to the body and a fluid suspension extending between the swing arm and the...

An energy absorbing device includes a longitudinal extending tubular outer shell assembly tapered from a smaller end to a larger end so that upon the imposition of a longitudinal applied force on the ends thereof the tubular outer shell will collapse...

A safety device a for a vehicle including a load distributing member for arrangement in front of a vehicle seat so as to be exposed to an impact load from a vehicle occupant as the occupant moves forwardly in an impact situation, and a load...

The invention relates to a roof structure with a roof cutout for a sliding-lifting roof or an outer sliding-lifting roof. A roof cutout seal is provided, which encircles the roof cutout and which seals a roof skin against a sliding-lifting roof or an...

A table seat (1) comprising a foldable frame (1A) supporting an at least partially foldable container or sitting portion (2) for receiving and supporting a child, said frame (1A) comprising opposing lateral portions (3) enabling the seat (1) to be...

A lumbar support device that is adjusted to a user's neutral postural position when the user is standing, and that is subsequently used to reinforce the user's neutral postural position when the user is seated. The device includes a rigid shell and...

A seat reclining apparatus for a vehicle includes: a first plate adapted to be mounted on one of a seat cushion and a seat back and having inner teeth; a second plate adapted to be mounted on the other one of the seat cushion and the seat back and...

A fitting for a vehicle incorporates a backrest and a removable seat squab so that the fitting may be used as a conventional seat, or as a safety fitting to engage a rear of a wheelchair. The backrest is wider at the top than at a lower point, to...

A strap retainer comprising a flexible elongated member is formed in a partially closed loop. The elongated member may have an approximately straight segment near one end, and an L-shaped restraining member is positioned on the elongated member...

A cap assembly for a wheel including a cup-shaped cap member having a plurality of annular ridges disposed around a circumference thereof, and a retainer ring having a plurality of axially extending flange portions disposed around a circumference...

A wheel isolator coupling comprising a sprocket for engaging a drive member, the sprocket fixedly connected to a first adaptor, the sprocket rotationally engaged with a shaft through a first bearing, a wheel portion fixedly connected to a second...

A parking brake system is provided in which a parking brake state for a wheel brake (2A) is obtained by forward movement of a parking piston (44) slidably fitted into a casing (23) with the rear side of the parking piston (44) facing a parking...

A method for controlling regenerative braking of an electric that compensates the difference between slip amounts of left and right wheels when an anti-lock braking system ABS is activated in a regenerative braking mode of the driving wheels in the...

A device, for automatic extraction of a supply drawer from a household appliance, includes a releasable locking device for releasably locking the drawer; an elastic element for pushing the drawer into an extracted position; a braking element for...

A refrigerator door including an outer wall and an inner wall interconnected along longitudinal edges thereof and including a closing element fixed on an upper horizontal edge of the outer and inner walls. The interconnected closing element and the...

An imaging apparatus includes a printing mechanism. A reservoir is connected to the printing mechanism. The reservoir contains an imaging substance supply. A secured compartment contains at least the reservoir, the secured compartment being...

The invention provides an inkjet recording apparatus and an inkjet recording method that can reduce unevenness in the concentration that may appear on a recorded image due to a higher recording duty or other recording conditions. A recording head has...

A line-type inkjet recorder for printing a desired image onto paper by discharging ink from plural nozzles provided in a head part, the inkjet recorder includes: an image data processing part for converting image data to be printed into print data...

A liquid-ejection testing method includes the following steps (A) to (D): (A) a step of making a conductive first detection member and a conductive second detection member opposed, in a non-contact state, to a liquid ejecting nozzle that is to be...

A temperature detector of the present invention includes a temperature sensor, a reference signal generation circuit, a level memory which rewritably stores therein a first signal level and a second signal level, a control circuit which controls the...

The ink jet recording apparatus includes an ejection head for ejecting ink droplets toward a recording medium by exerting electrostatic force onto ink containing charged colorant particles, an ink tank for reserving the ink to be supplied to the...

A color inkjet recording apparatus includes a multi-nozzle inkjet recording head which ejects a process liquid to a recording medium, and a plurality of multi-nozzle inkjet recording heads which eject inks of respective colors.

In a method of manufacturing an inkjet head, a silicon dioxide (SiO2) layer is produced on the surface of first silicon member formed from single-crystal silicon. Next, a glass layer formed of borosilicate glass or the like is sputtered onto the...

Provided are a piezoelectric element, an actuator device, a liquid-jet head and a liquid-jet apparatus which exhibit excellent displacement characteristics; and the piezoelectric element is configured of a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer and...

To provide an ink jet recording head with a decreased initial deflection amount of a diaphragm and an ink jet recorder comprising the ink jet recording head. An ink jet recording head which has a flow passage formation substrate 10 where pressure...

A droplet ejecting device includes a nozzle unit, a piezoelectric member and a drive voltage generating unit. The piezoelectric member has a common electrode and a discrete electrode. A first differentiation by polarization voltage of a...

A liquid discharging head includes a piezoelectric actuator including a plurality of piezoelectric elements and a plurality of electric supply members. The plurality of piezoelectric elements is provided in a row and includes an even number of...

A variation in brightness among light emitting portions provided in a plurality of liquid containers can be reduced to decrease power required to drive the light emitting portions, while allowing the light emitting portions to appropriately function...

In one embodiment, an ink pen includes an ink chamber, a passage and a printhead operatively connected to the ink chamber through the passage such that ink flowing from the ink chamber to the printhead passes through the passage. The passage includes...

A recording method with an ink ejected by an ink jet head, in which an ink repellent layer is formed on a surface of a nozzle plate of the ink jet head so that an opening portion for liquid ejections is established, the ink jet head being formed such...

The image forming apparatus attaches a plurality of liquids onto a recording medium so as to form a desired image, the image forming apparatus including: a first liquid attaching device that attaches onto the recording medium a first liquid which...

To reduce ink bleeding and growing of dot diameters for high image quality, an ink jet recording apparatus for recording a color image includes a first head group including chromatic color ink recording heads, a second head group including at least...

Eyewear having an enhanced fit which may be used for safety, sports, and the like. The eyewear may provide features which permit enhanced airflow and an enhanced fit to a user's face. Such features may include greater adjustability to provide greater...

A system, method and device for comfortably, safely and securely holding eyeglasses close to and on the person, when not in use, is disclosed. In some embodiments, the device comprises an adjustable band member to comfortably fit around any persons...

For machining lenses by a CNC lens cutting machine, relevant data in regard to eyes, spectacle frame, and lenses are entered in the computer that compares the optical data of lenses and frame openings. When the lens is too small, it is moved by...

A fundus camera capable of preferably photographing the periphery of a fundus irrespective of the state of an eye includes a photographing optical system having a photographing optical axis for photographing the fundus, a fundus observation optical...

A three dimensional display apparatus includes a three dimensional shape reconstruction apparatus, a reflecting device, a controller and a projecting device. The three dimensional shape reconstruction apparatus reconstructs a target three dimensional...

A method and apparatus for a projection display system includes a spatial light modulator and a volume illumination hologram. The spatial light modulator comprises a digital micromirror device, and the projection system includes a laser light source...

A mirror assembly including a mirror, a base and a flexible neck connecting the mirror and the base such that the neck can be manually manipulated to adjust the position of the base and the mirror relative to each other. The mirror assembly further...

A lighting module adapted for use in a keypad device includes a circuit substrate board, a transparent light guide plate stacked on the circuit substrate board, and at least one light emitting diode embedded in the light guide plate and connected...

A lighting device for display devices preferably used for constituting a backlight of a transmissive or transflective liquid crystal display device includes a light source lamp, and a light-diffusing layer constituted by a diffusing plate or a...

A planar light source device configured to illuminate a transmissive liquid crystal device having a display region configured of pixels arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix from the rear side, includes: planar light source units corresponding to...

A reticle illumination system. The novel system includes a first light source adapted to output light toward a target surface and a material having a predetermined index of refraction disposed between the first light source and the target surface for...

An intrinsically safe flashlight (100) includes a housing (100), a battery receiving region (108), an active electrical circuit (202), and a light source (118). The active electrical circuit (202) uses energy from batteries (110) received in the...

A direct type backlight unit is disclosed. The direct type backlight unit includes a plurality of lamps arranged in a plane with respect to a display area, a diffusion sheet and a diffuser sequentially arranged above the plurality of lamps, and dot...

Various embodiments described herein comprise illuminators comprising a phosphor color wheel for producing colored light. Light of a first wavelength emitted by a light source is incident on a phosphor color wheel comprising a plurality of different...

The invention provides a light fixture that includes a light engine, a rugged housing, and an internal power module that is thermally isolated. The light fixture includes several novel heat management features designed to thermally isolate the power...

A heat dissipating design for lamp is disclosed. The heat dissipating design of the present invention comprises a main body, which includes a cover. The cover seals up the top portion of the heat dissipating unit, and hence a sealed space is formed....