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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid level detection device preventing electrolytic corrosion by maintaining a fixing state between a wall part and a lid part. SOLUTION: A plurality of terminals having different potentials are exposed from a covering part. The exposed parts are arranged side by side, and the circumference of the plurality of exposed parts is covered by a tube part. The tube part includes: three or more wall parts fixed to the covering part and arranged at the prescribed interval so as to be disposed opposite each other via one exposed part; and two lid parts disposed opposite each other so as to integrally hold the entire wall parts therebetween. The hollow in the tube part is partitioned into a plurality of regions by the wall parts and the lid parts, wherein one exposed part is disposed in each of the partitioned region. A female engagement part is formed in each of two wall parts. A male engagement part is formed in each of two lid parts. A stopper preventing disengagement between the female engagement part and the male engagement part formed in the other lid part is formed in one of the two lid parts. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid level detection device and a method of manufacturing the same in which the deterioration of electric connection reliability between a protective element and a terminal is suppressed. SOLUTION: The liquid level detection device detects the height of a liquid level by vertically moving a float accompanied by the variation of the liquid level, rotationally moving a rotary part accompanied by the vertical movement, changing an application direction of the magnetic flux density of a magnet applied to an angle detection part including a magneto-electric conversion element accompanied by the rotational movement, and detecting the variation of an electric signal outputted from the angle detection part according to the change of the magnetic flux density. A protective element electrically protecting the angle detection part includes: a protection part disposed at the bottom surface of a recessed part formed of a plurality of terminals and a holder integrally holding the plurality of terminals, mechanically and electrically connected to the terminals via solder, and protecting the solder by coating the solder in the recessed part, and a spacer at least partially embedded in the protection part. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrical device for surely preventing a liquid having permeated into a resin material from reaching an electronic component and its manufacturing method. SOLUTION: In a manufacturing process for a casing 20, and in more detail, in a holding process for holding a subassembly S in a metal mold 200, a seal member 60 is compressed by respective molds 201 to 204 in its circumferential directions, thereby keeping the seal member 60 in a compressed state by the casing 20 in a completed state of a body 10. This makes it possible to surely prevent fuel F from permeating into the casing 20 from between the seal member 60 and the casing 20, and from between the seal member 60 and a terminal 40, in a state where the body 10 is immersed in the fuel F when using a fuel level gauge 100. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid level detector for restraining tensile force from acting on a connection part between a lead wire and an ultrasonic oscillation element even if a buffer member swells. SOLUTION: A sleeve 5 is fitted on the periphery of the buffer member 4, and further, a gap C is previously provided between a peripheral surface of the sleeve 5 and the lead wire 6. This structure restricts an increase in the outer diameter size of the sleeve 5 made of a resin tube to an extremely small degree, even if the buffer member 4 is swelled by a fuel 14 and a force acts on the sleeve 5 from the buffer member 4 toward the periphery of the sleeve 5. Because of this, external force does not act at all on the lead wire 6 even if the buffer member 4 is swelled by the fuel 14. Accordingly, a fuel liquid level detector 1 can be realized capable of surely preventing the connection part from being damaged by tensile force acting on the connection part between the lead wire 6 and an electrode 33 of an ultrasonic sensor 3. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid level detecting apparatus capable of performing high-precision liquid level detection by devising the formation of a propagation route from an ultrasonic oscillation element up to a reflector, and raising the acoustic pressure level of an ultrasonic wave from the ultrasonic oscillation element incident on the reflector. SOLUTION: A guide pipe 4 is formed from a metal material, and its cross section has a circular shape whose diametric dimension gradually becomes smaller with a distance from an ultrasonic sensor 3. That is, the guide pipe 4 is formed so that the route for transmitting the ultrasonic wave generated from the ultrasonic sensor may be tapered from the ultrasonic sensor 3 toward the reflector 6. Thus, the acoustic pressure level of the ultrasonic wave which enters the reflector 6 can be made higher than a value in a prior-art liquid level detecting apparatus. Accordingly, the energy of the ultrasonic wave generated from the ultrasonic sensor 3 can be utilized for liquid level detection at a high efficiency, so that a fuel liquid level detecting apparatus 1 capable of accurate liquid level detection can be provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid level detector for vehicles capable of detecting a liquid level precisely, by fully working out the configuration of a second cylinder. SOLUTION: A float 7 that can travel axially in a guide pipe 6 in linking with a liquid surface 81 of fuel 8, while floating in the fuel 8 is arranged in the guide pipe 6. Ultrasonic pulses, that are discharged from an ultrasonic sensor 3 and advance toward the liquid surface 81 in the guide pipe 6, are reflected at a reflecting surface 72b of the float 7. The reflected pulses are received by the ultrasonic sensor 3 for detecting the position of the liquid surface 81. As a result, ultrasonic pulses generated from the ultrasonic sensor 3 greatly increase the energy of reflection pulses reflected on the reflecting surface 72b, as compared with the energy of reflection pulses reflected on a liquid surface 102 in the conventional liquid level detector 100 for vehicles, thus increasing a detection signal level by the ultrasonic sensor 3 and achieving the fuel level detector 1 for precisely detecting the liquid surface 81. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid level detection device for a vehicle which maintains the positional relation between an ultrasonic wave sensor and an ultrasonic wave reflection member in high degree of precision, by elaborating the structure of the ultrasonic wave reflection member for detecting ultrasonic wave propagation velocity in a liquid to perform high-precision liquid level detection. SOLUTION: In a guide pipe 5, which is an ultrasonic wave propagation path between the ultrasonic wave sensor 3 and a second reflecting surface 54, the ultrasonic wave propagation path comprises a large-diameter section 51 and a small-diameter section 52, which are placed on the same axis. While a first reflecting surface 53 is formed by a step appearing in the connection section between the large-diameter section 51 and the small-diameter section 52, the ultrasonic wave sensor 3 is fixed directly to the guide pipe. The positional relation between the ultrasonic wave sensor 3 and the first reflection surface 53, is thereby maintained in high precision condition, to provide a fuel liquid level detection device 1 which detects a liquid level 81 with high precision. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid level detector for a vehicle capable of enhancing using efficiency in liquid level detection of ultrasonic waves emitted from an ultrasonic oscillation element. SOLUTION: A reflecting face 41 is formed into an elliptical face shape as shown in Fig.1. A propagation-directional range usable effectively for the liquid level 81 detection in the ultrasonic wave emitted from the ultrasonic oscillation element 3 is thereby enlarged compared with the case of a conventional vehicular liquid level detector, and energy of a reflected wave from a liquid face (level) 81 incident into the ultrasonic oscillation element 3, that is, an output signal level of the ultrasonic oscillation element 3 is enhanced compared with the case of the conventional vehicular liquid level detector, so as to provide the fuel liquid level detector 1 allowing the highly precise liquid level detection. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a level detector for a vehicle capable of detecting a liquid level position at a high precision even in the case that the liquid level in a tank rocks. SOLUTION: A guide pipe 5 is provided between a ultrasonic sensor 3 and a measurement plate 41 and a guide pipe 6 is provided between the measurement plate 41 and a ceiling 22. Major part of ultrasonic wave emitted from the ultrasonic sensor 3 is made to enter to the measurement plate 41 or a correction plate 42 and major part of the ultrasonic wave reflected by the liquid level 71 is made to enter to the measurement plate 41, in other words, to enter to the ultrasonic sensor 3. Thus, as detection signal level of these reflection waves by the ultrasonic sensor 3 can be increased by increasing energy of a reflection wave from the liquid level 71 and a reflection wave from the correction plate 42, a fuel level detector 1 capable of level detection at a high precision can be realized. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI