Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha T an T

Nifco Inc.

Hiroshi Ochiai

Yoshinari Yasui

Toru Nagata

Kenji Suzuki

Yuji Shimoda

Hiroshi Miyamura

Hisashi Soga

Teruaki Okuda

Yasuhiro Watanabe

Hirokazu Higuchi

Tetsu Iwata

Atsushi Doi

Tomoharu Izume

Hirofumi Okano

Taeko Ueno

Haruhiko Shirota

Mitsuo Miyasaka

Shuichiro Riku

A heating device for off-vehicle information acquisition means, which has high heating efficiency, which is thin, and which has a high degree of freedom for layout of a heating element is provided. A heating device (), which is arranged inside a vehicle, heats a window glass portion (Wa) located in an information acquisition path () of an off-vehicle information acquisition means () for acquiring information outside the vehicle. The heating device () comprises a hood () provided inside the vehicle below the information acquisition path () of the off-vehicle information acquisition means () and a heating element () provided on the surface of the hood () or inside the hood () and having a PTC heater layer ().

Heating device

Provided is a sensor part having a vibrating member and a mounting method therefor that allows the sensor part to be mounted to a target member such as a bumper in a simple, efficient and reliable manner. The sensor part includes a first assembly () including a tubular first case (), a vibrating member () temporarily retained by the first case, and a pressing member () slidably supported in the first case, and a second assembly () including a second case () to be connected to the first case, and a circuit board () for controlling the vibrating member. After the first case is fixed to the target member, the pressing member is pushed so as to release the vibrating member from the temporal retention, and press the vibrating member against the target member.

Sensor assembly and mounting method therefor

A switch includes: a case including an opening; a cover that covers the opening, is made of an elastomer, and bulges outward from the case; a push rod movably disposed to protrude into the cover from the opening and to retreat through the opening from inside of the cover; a biasing portion that biases the push rod toward the cover from the opening; a fixing contact piece disposed in the case; a movable contact piece that contacts the fixing contact piece, and moves with the push rod inside the case to separate from the fixing contact piece; and a slide contact member disposed on an inner surface of the cover and contacts a tip end of the push rod.

Switch

To provide a vehicle illumination device that achieves good design and that appropriately emits light in a sequence of operations for charging. A vehicle illumination deviceincludes: first light emitting portionsanddisposed in the vicinity of a boundary portionbetween a bodyand a lidvia notched portionsandformed at upper and lower edges of the lid; and second light emitting portionsanddisposed inside the lid. When the lidis unlocked in operation to unlock the lid, the first light emitting portionsandare turned on. When the lidis depressed in operation to open the lid, the first light emitting portionsandare turned off. When the lidis opened, the second light emitting portionsandare turned on to illuminate power supply portsand

Vehicle illumination device

This invention is to provide an in-vehicle interior light unit that protects a base from a thermal damage attributable to a thermal factor and reduces cost. This is achieved by adopting a general-purpose compact bulb cassette which does not have a heat shielding function although the bulb cassette still uses a heat-resistant resin as the material thereof, and the thermal deformation due to the radiant heat from a bulb is prevented by a heat shield plate integrally formed when punch-molding a bus bar, which is formed of a conductive metal member. Thus, the radiant heat from the bulb is blocked by the heat shield plate. An in-vehicle interior light unit in accordance with the present invention includes: a housing-shaped base formed of a non-heat-resistant thermoplastic resin; a bus bar integrally formed with a heat shielding plate which is mounted in the base and which rises in the vicinity of a general-purpose bulb; a bulb holder electrically connected to the bus bar; a general-purpose vertical type bulb cassette which is provided with the bulb holder and which has a socket function; a general-purpose bulb which is vertically mounted in the bulb cassette and which is electrically connected to the bulb holder; and a lens mounted on a front surface of the base.

In-vehicle interior light unit

A peripheral device is selectively connected to an information processing apparatus including a first operating system and an information processing apparatus including a second operating system whose execution file is incompatible with that of the first operating system. The storage unit of the peripheral device stores a control program to be executed by the information processing apparatus. The control program includes a first control program to be executed on the first operating system and a second control program to be executed on the second operating system. After the peripheral device transmits the control program to the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus writes instruction information in the storage unit of the peripheral device in accordance with the control program. The peripheral device operates based on the instruction information.

Peripheral device used while being connected to information processing apparatus

A laminating method for forming a laminated layer in the form of a transparent film on a surface of an image on a printed object includes the steps of transferring a laminate having a laminated layer and a heat resistive base material layer to the surface of the printed object for laminating to form a laminated printed object, and a rear edge peeling step of peeling off the heat resistive base material layer from a rear edge portion of the laminated printed object by exerting an active force on the rear edge of the printed object in the carrying direction. Subsequently to the rear edge peeling step, a front edge peeling step peels off the heat resistive base material layer from a front edge of the laminated printed object.

Laminating method and laminating apparatus

A bus bar substrate for an interior light of a vehicle includes an insulating base plate and a plurality of bus bars. Grooves are formed in the front and back surfaces of the insulating base plate. The plurality of bus bars are fitted to the grooves of the insulating base plate. In preferred embodiments, a bus bar substrate for an interior light of a vehicle will include front and back surfaces and a plurality of front and back securing holes through the insulating base, and front and back bus bars respectively positioned on the front and back surfaces of the insulating base plate. The front securing holes are surrounded by guard walls extending outwardly from the back surface of the insulating plate, and the back securing holes are surrounded by guard walls extending outwardly from the front surface of the insulating plate. The front and back bus bars comprise front and back stopper portions inserted into respective ones of the front and back securing holes oppositely to one another so as to secure the front and back bus bars to the front and back surfaces of the insulating base plate.

Bus bar substrate for vehicle interior light

A vehicle lamp assembly includes a case, and a bulb cassette for mounting the a light bulb in the case. The case is formed of a resin material having a low thermal resistance and defines an interior space. The case includes at least one partition wall defining a planar partition wall surface to partition the interior space respectively into one and another chambers. The bulb cassette is received in an opening of the case for accommodating a light bulb within the one chamber thereof and includes at least one planar heat shield wall formed of a heat resistant resin which extends in adjacent contact along the planar partition wall surface so as to shield the at least one partition wall and the other chamber from heat generated by the light bulb in the one chamber.

Thermal insulation structure for vehicle room lamp

Switch-controlled vehicle room lamps are provided with an insulating structure between bus bars disposed on a back surface of a case Short circuiting between the bus bars is prevented by fitting insulating members molded from a relatively flexible resin into grooves in which the bus bars are fitted to cover exposed surfaces of the bus bars at least entirely over a portion where the mutual distance of the bus bars are reduced. In some embodiments, the insulating members are formed with projections which are adapted to be fit within holes of the case into which severed bridge portions of the bus bar extend. The projections may advantageously be provided with an acute-angled distal end and a constriction at a midsection thereof.

Room lamp provided with insulating structure between bus bars thereof

A connecting structure for connecting a busbar base with a printed circuit board, in which the busbar base (or) and a busbar () fixed to the busbar base (or) form an electrical circuit, includes a male terminal () protruding from the busbar (), and a female terminal () connected to a conductive pattern of the printed circuit board (). The connecting structure is characterized in that the busbar () fixed to the busbar base (or) and the conductive pattern of the printed circuit board () are electrically and securely connected when the male terminal () is fitted into the female terminal ().

Assembly for connecting a busbar and printed circuit board

A slide switch assembly comprises a housing and a slider having traveling contacts which define exposed contact faces. An accommodation section is formed in the housing to receive the slider and allow the slider to be moved slideably therein. A printed circuit board having fixed contact plates is attached to the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is assembled with the housing such that the fixed contact plates are in opposition to the traveling contacts and adapted to make electrical contact with the traveling contacts in response to sliding movement of the slider. Preferably, the printed circuit board includes a printed conduction pattern, and the fixed contact plates include fixation bases adapted to be soldered to the conduction pattern and a bent contact portion extending therefrom. The accommodation section is most preferably defined by a partition wall having openings such that the contact portions of the fixed contact plates are positioned to be exposed through the openings.

Slide switch assemblies

A push-button switch unit includes a push switch which is fixed to a main body and includes an operating part; and a push button fitted to the operating part. The push button is pressed in order to turn the push switch on and off. An undersurface of the push button is provided with a pair of shaft rods each having a columnar segment and a prismatic segment. The main body includes shaft sockets each having a circular hole segment and a rectangular hole segment for receiving a corresponding one of the shaft rods.

Push-button switch units for vehicle interior light assembly

An image forming process comprises the steps of conducting recording on a recording medium provided with an image-receiving layer and laminating a thermoplastic film onto the image-receiving layer to smooth the surface of the thermoplastic film by a heating and pressurizing device and to bond the back side of the thermoplastic film onto the image-receiving layer. An image forming apparatus comprises an ink-jet head for conducting recording on a recording medium, a laminating section for laminating a thermoplastic polymer onto a recorded recording medium, and a heating and pressurizing device for heating and pressurizing the thermoplastic film to smooth the surface and to bond the back side of the thermoplastic film onto the image-receiving layer.

Process and apparatus for forming images

An image forming process for forming a protective layer of thermoplastic resin particles on a recording medium comprising the steps of conducting recording on a recording medium with an image-receiving layer, providing a thermoplastic resin particles onto the image-receiving layer and heating and pressurizing the thermoplastic resin particles on the image-receiving layer, and an image forming apparatus comprising an ink-jet head for conducting recording on a recording medium, a providing means for providing thermoplastic particles to a recorded recording medium, and heating and pressurizing means for heating and pressurizing the thermoplastic particles to flatten.

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Samukawa-machi, Japan

Hiroshi Ochiai