Abstract:
A vehicle-mounted device is configured to execute a predetermined function as a foreground process and a TV function as a background process. The vehicle-mounted device is provided with a displaying device. An image corresponding to the predetermined function is displayed on the displaying device when the predetermined function is executed. The device further includes a TV program switching system, a small image generating system that generates a small image when the program switching system is operated to switch the TV programs. The small image is superimposed on the image corresponding to the predetermined function. The device further includes a display control system that displays the small image on the displaying devices such that the small image is superimposed on the image corresponding to the predetermined function, the display control system extinguishing the small image at a predetermined timing.
Abstract:
A bicycle headlamp 1 includes a rotor 3 including a plurality of magnet plates 33 attached to spokes 91 of a wheel of a bicycle 9 along the circumference of the wheel, each magnet plate having the form of an arc of a certain circle and including a plurality of magnets 31 disposed at regular circumferential spacings with alternating south and north poles; a stator 5 including a power-generating coil 53 including a coil and an iron core disposed in a fixed position to face the magnetic pole faces of the magnet plates 33 of the rotor 3; a case containing at least a headlamp electrical circuit 71 for establishing resonance at a frequency synchronized with a certain relative speed of the magnets by means of the power-generating coil 53 of the stator 5 and a capacitor connected in series with the power-generating coil 53 and for rectifying, smoothing out, and outputting electric power obtained from the power-generating coil 53, a light-emitting diode 73 which is lit by the electric power supplied from the headlamp electric circuit 71, and a condenser lens 75 for focusing light emitted from the light-emitting diode in front of the bicycle and for illuminating the roadway.
Abstract:
A disk device such as a magnetic hard disk drive. A disk is arranged inside a frame body. A cover is placed on the frame body, a gap is formed between a rim of the cover and the frame, and this gap is shielded by a sheet having an adhesive portion.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a thin actuator which is used for transferring a head of a magnetic disk drive, and prevents resultant malfunctions. In a moving part of the actuator in which a coil, holding member, housing, and plate-shaped terminals are integrated by resin molding, the plate-shaped terminals are provided in the holding member in a coil moving direction, and the plate-shaped terminals and connecting parts provided in a conductor end part of the flexible circuit board are brought into surface contact, and these contacted portions are electrically connected with solder.
Abstract:
A lead-acid battery electrode plate is manufactured by consecutively supplying a lead or lead alloy sheet; leaving a part in the vicinity of the center of the sheet as a non-expansion portion and expanding both sides like mesh to form a grid body; filling active material paste into the grid body; and cutting the grid body to predetermined dimensions. In the lead-acid battery electrode plate, the non-expansion portion forms a current collector part of the electrode plate along an expansion portion in an up and down direction of the electrode plate. One or more openings are made in a part of the non-expansion portion. A part of the non-expansion portion is projected above the position of an upper margin of the cut expansion portion as a current collector lug part. When the current collector lug part is placed upside, the expansion direction is the width direction of the electrode plate.
Abstract:
A connector assembly (11) includes a connector element (21) for being connected to an counterpart connector (51) in a first direction and a manipulation mechanism (14) for manipulating the connection between the connector element and the counterpart connector. The manipulation mechanism includes a gear member (41) rotatably supported by the connector element and a lever member (45) engaged with the gear member in a rotating direction. The gear member has a gear section as an engaging arrangement for engaging with the counterpart connector in the first direction.
Abstract:
An optical switching device of the present invention includes at least two substrates disposed facing opposite to each other. By scattering hard spacers which are thermally undeformable and soft spacers which are larger in size than the hard spacers and adapted to deform and then to cure by heat to adhere to the substrates, the spacing defined between the substrates is kept constant by diameters of the hard spacers. A medium having an optical switching function is retained in a gap defined between the substrates. The periphery of the gap between the substrates is sealed with a sealer. The sealer is made of a thermosetting resin having a thermosetting point equal to or higher than the thermosetting point of the soft spacers.
Abstract:
In a disk drive, a stationary air guide for channeling windage flowing proximate a surface of a single rotating disk toward an air vane of an air vane actuator latch. The air guide has two members, a first member is positioned partially over an upper surface of the disk and a second member is positioned partially over a lower surface of the disk. The air guide members are proximate the respective surfaces in a spaced apart parallel relation thereto. Each air guide member further contains a shrouding member that maintains the air flow near the disk surface and a channeling member that channels the air flow toward the air vane. As such, windage from the rotating disk is channeled to a distal end of the air vane such that sufficient torque is produced by the windage from the single rotating disk to unlatch the latch mechanism.
Abstract:
A semiconductor memory device having a plurality of nonvolatile memory devices or elements disposed in a matrix arrangement as one or more memory arrays is provided with a write operation and a verify mode which is automatically implemented when the write operation of the memory device ends. In connection with this, an auto-verify function is set in an internal circuit associated with the memory in accordance with a predetermined control signal and wherein a read mode subsequent to the write operation is implemented. During the auto-verify function, the read mode is implemented by effecting a data comparison circuit, such as an exclusive-OR logic circuit, which performs a coincidence/non-coincidence operation comparing the write data and the read data.