Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Hideaki Kobayashi

Tomoki Ito

Masayuki Sasaoka

Masatoshi Nagaoka

Koji Kuriyagawa

Hajime Yoshimura

Kazuyoshi Miyahara

Yoshitaka Ohta

Tomoaki Ishikawa

Atsushi Yamada

Tomomi Nakaya

Masahiro Akiyama

Keiji Iino

Fumiyoshi Kanbara

Masashi Takeuchi

Shinichi Ogura

Shigeru Munetomo

Nozomu Nagashima

Satoshi Sekine

Shuichi Horie

A lawn mower includes a cutter blade having flaps and a flap drive mechanism. The flap drive mechanism includes a flap drive source and an intermediate power transmission unit. The intermediate power transmission unit is provided on a power transmission path between the flap drive source and the flaps and provided coaxially with a blade rotation axis. An output axis of a motor is provided coaxially with a blade rotation axis and the intermediate power transmission unit.

Lawnmower having a blade with adjustable flaps

A cutter blade of a lawn mower includes a blade body and flaps. The blade body includes a shape with a sweepback angle inclined in a reverse-rotation direction of the cutter blade. The flap pivotal axis is provided along a blade edge without intersecting with a blade rotational axis. A flap pivotal axis is provided at a position offset from a line perpendicular to the blade rotational axis and in parallel to the pivotal axis, in a rotation direction of the cutter blade.

Lawn mower

Gas canister retaining structure includes: a gas canister cover pivotable between an opened position for attaching/detaching a cassette gas canister to/from the retaining structure and a closed position for accommodating and holding the gas canister in place within the canister cover; a mouthpiece support section provided inside the gas canister cover for supporting a mouthpiece portion of the cassette gas canister with a jet nozzle of the cassette gas canister received in a nozzle receiving port provided in the mouthpiece support section; and a shutter member pivotable between an opened position for opening the nozzle receiving port and a closed position for closing the nozzle receiving port.

Gas canister retaining structure for gas-engine-mounted working machine

A work machine to which a cassette gas cylinder is detachably attached is disclosed. The cassette gas cylinder is accommodated inside a gas cylinder case. The gas cylinder case for accommodating the cassette gas cylinder is detachably attached to the work machine so that the gas cylinder case wherein the cassette gas cylinder is accommodated can be transported together with the cylinder.

Work machine

A walking-type working machine in which a gas-container housing section (cassette-type gas container) and a carry handle are mounted to a handle post. The walking-type working machine () is provided with a cassette-type gas container () mounted to a handle post (), which rises upward and rearward from a rear section () of a working machine body (), so as to be oriented in the longitudinal direction of the handle post. A gas engine () is driven by fuel in the cassette-type gas container (). The walking-type working machine is provided with a carry handle () for carrying the machine. The carry handle () is mounted to the handle post and is formed so as to surround the cassette-type gas container. The carry handle has a grip ().

Walking-type working machine

In a gas-engine-mounted working machine, a gas engine is mounted on a machine body and supplied with fuel gas from a cassette gas canister. The cassette gas canister is detachably attached to a gas canister retainer assembly. Handle column extends rearwardly and upwardly from the machine body and having left and right handle posts fixed to the machine body for supporting an operating handle of the machine. The cassette gas canister is mounted, via the gas canister retainer assembly, between the left and right handle posts.

Gas-engine-mounted working machine

In a gas-engine-mounted working machine, a gas engine is mounted on a machine body and supplied with fuel gas from a cassette gas canister, a handle column extends rearwardly and upwardly from the machine body, and the cassette gas canister is detachably attached to the handle column. Operating handle is collapsably attached to the handle column. Collapsing-movement-preventing member is provided on the operating handle for preventing collapsing movement of the operating handle, utilizing presence of the cassette gas canister attached to the handle column, so that the collapsing movement of the operating handle is prevented as long as the cassette gas canister is attached to the handle column.

A walk-behind cultivator has a body, at least one pair of first tine assemblies mounted on the body to undergo rotation about a rotational axis in a first direction of rotation, and at least one pair of second tine assemblies mounted to undergo rotation about the rotational axis in a second direction of rotation different from the first direction of rotation. Each of the first tine assemblies has first tines connected together along end portions thereof. Each of the second tine assemblies has second tines connected together along end portions thereof. The second tine assemblies are arranged in the same phase with respect to each other around the rotational axis.

Walk-behind cultivator

Front-rotary working machine employs a vertical engine having an output shaft projecting downward, and a transmission case, provided beneath the vertical engine, has a flat underside so as to extend generally parallel to the ground surface to be cultivated. Distance between left and right transporting wheels, connected to a driving shaft at a rear end portion of the transmission case, can be reduced as necessary. With these arrangements, it is possible to reduce the overall width of the front-rotary working machine.

Working machine having front-rotary working unit

Driving worm provided on a transmission shaft, driven worm wheel provided on a cultivating shaft, main shaft portion of the transmission shaft and clutch are collectively accommodated in a transmission casing, which includes first and second bearings for preventing the clutch and driving gear from being displaced toward each other. The main shaft portion is screw-coupled to the clutch and a direction in which the screw-coupling between the main shaft portion and the clutch is tightened corresponds to only one rotational direction of an engine. The casing has a single opening for inserting therein the worm and worm wheel, and the opening is closed with a lid that also functions to prevent the worm from coming off the casing.

Cultivator

A tiller for cultivating soil has a power source and a tilling shaft mounted for undergoing rotation by a driving force supplied from the power source. The tilling shaft has a hollow outer shaft and an inner shaft extending through the outer shaft. The inner shaft has a variable rotating speed and/or direction of rotation relative to the outer shaft. A power transmission mechanism transmits a driving force from the power source to the tilling shaft. The power transmission mechanism has a first power transmission system for transmitting the driving force from the power source to the outer shaft and a second power transmission system transmitting the driving force from the power source to the inner shaft. The second power transmission system has a hydrostatic transmission comprised of a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor for effecting a stepless change of the rotating speed of the inner shaft as well as a selective change of its direction of rotation. Tilling claws are disposed on the tilling shaft for tilling soil.

Tiller

A radio receiver which displays characters on a display on the basis of a character data signal extracted from a broadcast radio wave which is transmitted by RDS and which is capable of discriminating whether a character displayed on the display means represents an alphabetic capital letter or a small letter of some language even if the display means is of an inexpensive and simple structure. The radio receiver includes a data extractor for extracting a character data from a broadcast radio wave currently being received; a detector for detecting the signal strength of a broadcast radio wave currently being received; a character pattern generator for generating a character pattern common to both an alphabetic capital and a small letters of English or of some other language in accordance with the character data signal; a character discriminator for discriminating a capital and a small letter in accordance with the character data signal; and a display for displaying a character pattern outputted from the character pattern generator in different displaying modes depending on which of a capital letter and a small letter should be displayed in accordance with the output from the control.

Radio receiver capable of indicating capital and small letters on a

A loudness control circuit having a sound volume adjusting variable resistor with a center tap is provided. The loudness control circuit has a buffer circuit of low output impedance having an input terminal to which a sound signal is applied through a high frequency coupling capacitor. The output terminal of the buffer circuit is connected through a series circuit of a low frequency blocking capacitor, a protective resistor and a shunt resistor to the center tap of the sound volume adjusting variable resistor. The connecting point of the protective resistor and the shunt resistor is grounded through an electronic switching element. The electronic switching element is turned on and off for the on-off control of loudness.

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Hideaki Kobayashi