Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Masatomo Inoue

Hirokatsu Nakajima

Yasushi Oonishi

Yoshinao Tsujiya

Hiroshi Wakabayashi

Masaki Ueda

Nagatoshi Takeda

Satoshi Nakagaki

An electrical junction box is provided that can suppress a failure occurring due to a connector being exposed to external stress. An electrical junction box includes a substrate on which the connector is mounted, a case in which an opening portion is formed and the substrate is accommodated, and a cover that is attached to the opening portion and in which an insertion hole, into which the connector is to be inserted, is formed in a penetrating manner. The cover includes protruding portions at positions on sides of the connector, the protruding portions protruding forward of a leading end of the connector.

Electrical junction box

A composite operating device is provided having a small number of components to retain an operating member in a neutral position. A composite operating device includes an operating member that is operable to rotate and to slide a slider and a base. One of the base and the slider includes a flexible portion that is capable of elastic bending deformation relative to the other, the flexible portion including a first engagement portion. The other includes a second engagement portion that retains the slider in the neutral position by engaging with the first engagement portion. The second engagement portion presses against the first engagement portion while being displaced in the sliding direction relative to the first engagement portion to cause bending deformation of the flexible portion. The amount of deformation of the flexible portion increases with the amount of operation of the operating member in the sliding direction.

Composite operating device biased to the neutral position

A composite operating device is provided which enables an operating member to be reliably guided in a sliding direction and achieves a simple structure for preventing disengagement of a slider. The composite device includes a base, a slider, and an operating member. The base includes a base main body, a guiding portion, and a restricting portion. The slider includes a guided portion and a restricted surface. The slider can slide in the sliding direction with the guided portion being restricted by first and second guiding surfaces. The restricting portion includes a sliding contact portion that restricts the slider and allows sliding of the slider by coming into sliding contact with the restricted surface. Also, the restricting portion has a shape that allows movement of the slider in a fitting direction by being deformed to bend in a direction in which the restricting portion is retracted from the slider.

Composite operating device

A first operation member includes a first sidewall and a first engaged part. A second operation member includes a second sidewall and a second engaged part. A holding member includes a holding member main body, a first engagement part, a second engagement part, an elastically deformable part, a first limiting part, and a second limiting part. The elastically deformable part elastically deforms in a manner that the first engagement part is displaced in a direction away from the first limiting part until insertion of the first engaged part into between the first engagement part and the first limiting part is allowed, and elastically deforms in a manner that the second engagement part is displaced in a direction away from the second limiting part until insertion of the second engaged part into between the second engagement part and the second limiting part is allowed.

Press operation device

A design panel is provided having a plate-like panel main body made of a synthetic resin, the panel main body including a light-transmitting portion having a light-transmitting property, the light-transmitting portion being adapted to be illuminated by a light for illumination from a backside of the light-transmitting portion, and a light-shielding portion adapted to prevent diffusion of a light that passes through the light-transmitting portion or a light-suppressing portion adapted to prevent incident light from entering the synthetic resin at the light-suppressing portion. A method for producing the design panel is also provided, the method including the steps of: forming the panel main body from the synthetic resin having a light-transmitting property; and forming the light-shielding portion or light-suppressing portion by radiating a laser beam onto a given part of the synthetic resin.

Panel and method for producing the same

A method for producing a display member that can restrain lights from leaking from a remainder chip of a runner and a portion around the remainder chip. The method includes laminating a transparent layer on a light-diffusing layer; forming slant surfaces each having an slant angle of more than 45 degrees with respect to an extending direction D of a runner, the slant surfaces being provided around a portion on the rear surface of the transparent layer to which the runner is connected and being inclined cutting out the runner at a position along and near the slant surfaces; and forming a shielding layer on a remainder chip of the runner and on a rear surface of the display member main body inside the remainder chip by spraying a light-shielding material onto a front surface of the display member main body and a side part of the remainder chip.

Method for producing display member and molded product for display member

A purpose of the present invention is to provide a seesaw switch that has a simple structure with improved opearatability. In order to achieve the purpose, a seesaw switchincludes pressing sections each located at corresponding locations of operated sections of a pair of switch elements; a rotation operating member that is rotationally displaced; pressure transmitting members that are respectively provided between the pressing sections and operated sections; and a guide member that guides the pressure transmitting members to contacting and separating directions with respect to the operated sections, when the pressing sections are rotationally displaced. The seesaw switch also includes viscous material that is provided between the pressing sections and the pressure transmitting members. The viscous material has viscosity that allows inclination of the pressing sections toward the pressure transmitting members, while enabling the pressure transmitting members to follow the rotational displacement of the pressing sections.

Seesaw switch

A light guiding body configured utilize light emitted by a light source for lighting and a lighting apparatus having the light guiding body are provided. The light guiding body has a base, lighting portions and leg portions. The base is formed by a light intake surface that is located in front of an LED. The lighting portions are formed by light emission surfaces. The leg portions individually extend from the base to the lighting portions. Each of the leg portions has a root portion that partially overlaps an area in front of the LED so that the leg portion can receive radiating light entering through the light intake surface. The lights received by the leg portions are respectively guided to the light emission surfaces.

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Yokkaichi, Japan

Masatomo Inoue