Abstract:
A door assembly which includes a door that slides open and closed to alternatively expose and cover components of a computer system. The door assembly includes a rack and pinion system that prevents racking of the door. The non-racking feature allows for the door to be wider than prior art doors such that more components may be easily accessed by a computer user. The door assembly also includes a spring assembly for automatically closing the door, a dampener for moderating the movement of the door, and a latching mechanism that holds the door open. In one embodiment the latch mechanism is a push-push latch and the spring of the spring assembly is a constant force spring.
Abstract:
A vehicle sliding door opening/closing control device comprises a control unit for outputting a standby signal and shifting into a standby mode when for a predetermined time there has been no user-operation input for causing a vehicle sliding door driven by a motor to be open/close-driven and shifting into an operating mode and performing control of the motor when there has been a user-operation input and a switch unit for shorting power input terminals of the motor on the basis of the standby signal. When there has been no user-operation input for causing the sliding door to be open/close-driven for a predetermined time, by shifting into a standby mode the power consumption of the control unit can be kept small and as a result it is possible to suppress the battery power consumption of the control unit. Also, in the standby mode, by shorting the power input terminals of the motor it is possible to keep the motor in a locked state and thereby apply braking to the sliding door. Therefore, when the vehicle has been stopped or parked on sloping ground such as an upward slope or a downward slope, it is possible to prevent the sliding door from starting to move under its own weight when it is half-open.
Abstract:
A rotary damper has a movable valve supported on a support projection radially outwardly projecting from a shaft of a rotating member which is rotatably disposed in a chamber filled with a viscous fluid in a casing. Depending on the direction in which the rotating member rotates in the chamber, the movable valve opens or closes a fluid path defined between the movable valve and an inner circumferential surface of the casing. The movable valve may be angularly movably supported on the support projection which is of a circular cross-sectional shape or radially movably supported on the support projection which is of a rectangular cross-sectional shape.
Abstract:
A device for closing a sliding screen door is disclosed. The inventive device includes a housing mountable proximal to a sliding screen door. A retractable cable resiliently extends from the housing and couples with the sliding screen door to effect closing of the door subsequent to opening thereof.
Abstract:
A closing control and opening free assembly for a hinge connection is mounted within various articles of furniture or implements. The assembly has a mounting element having a circular hole, a pivot member or rotor disk connected therewith, the circumference of which gets into contact with the inside surface of the circular hole, one or more pair of spring and roller positioned in each of recess formed on the periphery of the circular hole or the pivot member, and a brake component. When opening a rotatable section upward, the pivot can rotate together with the brake component, and thus it is possible to open freely the rotatable section. When closing the rotatable section downward, the pivot can not rotate with the brake component. Consequently, the rotatable section is rested at a desired turning position.
Abstract:
A fluid free damper, comprising a spindle member; housing means mounted for relative eccentric rotation with respect to the spindle member; and engagement means interposed between the spindle member and the housing means for rotation along with one of the housing means and the spindle member with respect to the other one of the housing means and the spindle member so as to be deformably compressed between the spindle member and the housing means and thereby generate a resistive damping force between the housing means and the spindle member in response to the eccentric rotation of the one of the housing means and spindle member with respect to the other one of the housing means and the spindle member.
Abstract:
A brake and clutch assembly mounted on an electric motor's drive shaft comprises, in succession and outwardly from the motor, a brake pad, a drive disk, a clutch plate, a pulley, a compression spring and an end cap. The drive disk includes a sleeve with the clutch plate and the pulley being slidably mounted thereon. A pin extending diametrically through the shaft lies in a diametrical V-shaped recess defined in the drive disk. The spring biases the pulley, clutch plate and disk drive towards the brake pad thereby frictionally retaining the drive disk thereagainst when the motor is not operating and preventing the components from rotating. When the motor is started, the pin climbs out of the bottom of the recess by pushing the drive disk against the spring's force thereby axially displacing slightly the disk drive away from the brake pad such that the pin rotates the drive disk which frictionally drives the clutch plate and the pulley. Resistance applied against the rotation of the pulley causes the clutch plate to slip thereby allowing the pulley to stop while the clutch plate, the drive disk and the motor shaft continue to rotate, thus preventing damage to the motor. The friction forces between the clutch plate and the pulley are insufficient to stop the clutch plate and thus the drive disk and the motor shaft if the pulley is forced to stop rotating.
Abstract:
A rotary damper, in particular for actuated parts in automotive vehicles, comprising a housing including a cylindrical damper chamber, a liquid in the chamber, a rotatably supported shaft in the chamber having at least one vane such that upon rotation of the shaft displaced liquid flows through a flow constriction between the vane and the wall of the chamber, characterized in that the vane is inclined relative to the shaft in the circumferential direction of the shaft and relative to a diameter extending through the base of the vane, and that the vane is adapted to swing relative to the shaft such that upon a rotation of the shaft in one sense the vane is moved towards the chamber wall and upon rotation in the opposite sense the vane is moved towards the shaft.
Abstract:
The folding doors 100 includes of a first door panel 150 and a second door panel 110, the first door panel 150 being attached to the door opening portion of the wall rotatively by a pin 150. The second door panel 110 is attached to the first door panel 150 by a hinge 4. A guiding device 120 is mounted on the upper portion of the second door panel 110. The guiding device 120 holds a slider 122 and a rotary damper 200 for damping the rotation of the axis holding the slider. The slider 122 slides without rotating inside the guiding rail mounted on the upper portion of the door opening portion. The second door panel 110 rotates by opening/closing action, so by damping this relative rotation with the rotary damper 200, the folding doors could be closed quietly.
Abstract:
A rotation deceleration device used for a sanitary cleaning device which includes a toilet seat and a toilet cover and is attached to a toilet bowl, thereby injecting warm water in the toilet bowl. The rotation deceleration device includes a cylinder having a hydraulic chamber filled with a control oil; a rotation shaft inserted through the cylinder; a control wall radially projected from the rotation shaft to divide the hydraulic chamber into at least two sub chambers; a control valve provided between the control wall and an inner surface of the cylinder. The control valve has a closing wall opposed to a side surface of the control wall so as to be attachable thereto and also has an engaging member opposed to the other side of the control wall so as to be engageable therewith in accordance with the rotation of the rotation shaft. The control valve is formed of a material which has a higher coefficient of thermal expansion than that of a material forming the control wall and the cylinder.