Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Mikio Yagi

Shigenori Hato

Taichi Tamura

Hideo Nojima

Kiyoshi Ishii

Kazumasa Hayashi

Noriaki Miyoshi

Kazuo Nishikawa

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Hisaharu Yagi

Yoshihiro Shimizu

Nobuharu Hikida

Tetsuyuki Ohtani

Teruhisa Inoue

Genji Kosaka

Kiyomu Nagai

Kei Ohta

Masaru Shindou

Yuji Ohnishi

Kohji Ninomiya

Hiroshi Mikami

A driving assistance apparatus includes: a driving assister that assists driving by a driver of a vehicle, by way of driving assistance functions; and a controller that obtains inattentive state information indicating an inattentive state of the driver, and reduces or deactivates at least one driving assistance function among the driving assistance functions, by controlling the driving assister based on the inattentive state information obtained.

Driving assistance apparatus

When the electrically driven fan () of a vacuum cleaner is driven, air containing dust is drawn into the cleaner main body () through a hose () connected to a hose socket () and is exhausted into the outside of the cleaner main body () through an exhaust port () via first and second suction passageways (). Disposed outside the first suction passageway () is an ion generator (), it being arranged that plus and minus ions generated in the ion generator () are fed to the air stream flowing in the first suction passageway (). Since the plus and minus ions kill floating germs in the air stream, the exhaust can be purified.

Vacuum cleaner and device having ion generator

A nozzle unit for an electric vacuum cleaner has a body case with a nozzle open toward a surface to be cleaned, a first pipe coupled to the body case so as to be rotatable in the direction, and a second pipe coupled to the first pipe so as to be rotatable in the direction. A first and a second air flow passage, formed inside the first and second pipes respectively, are arranged substantially in a straight line as seen in a side view. The first pipe has a sliding portion that has an arc-shaped cross section and that slides along the inner surface of the body case, and this sliding portion is arranged inside the body case, which is substantially rectangular, as seen in a plan view.

Nozzle unit for vacuum cleaner

A nozzle unit for an electric vacuum cleaner has a body case with a nozzle open toward a surface to be cleaned, a first pipe coupled to the body case so as to be rotatable in the direction J , and a second pipe coupled to the first pipe so as to be rotatable in the direction J . A first and a second air flow passage, formed inside the first and second pipes and respectively, are arranged substantially in a straight line as seen in a side view. The first pipe has a sliding portion that has an arc-shaped cross section and that slides along the inner surface of the body case , and this sliding portion is arranged inside the body case , which is substantially rectangular, as seen in a plan view.

Electric vacuum cleaner and nozzle unit therefor

A suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner includes: a suction tool body which is connected to the vacuum cleaner body and has a suction inflow passage therein for conducting a suction air stream from a suction port, to the vacuum cleaner body; and a movable brush which is provided inside the suction inflow passage formed in the suction tool body and is driven by a driver device. In this tool, the movable brush sways and reciprocates back and forth about a support shaft, perpendicular to the direction of the suction inflow stream. Alternatively, the tool may have a linear motor which operates so as to reciprocate a rod which is liked at one end of it with oscillatory plate pivoted inside the suction tool. Further, this movable brush may be formed of a unit which is composed of a sweeping member having a pair of front and rear sweeping parts and a moving brushing part embedded in between, wherein the front sweeping part is shorter than the rear sweeping part.

Suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner

An electric vacuum cleaner having a suction nozzle comprising a dust inlet formed in a bottom surface of a nozzle body and a rotary brush rotatably mounted therein along said dust inlet, wherein said electric vacuum cleaner having either or both of configurations that said nozzle body has a flexible member mounted to a front wall thereof to rotate back and forth corresponding to the backward and forward movement of said nozzle body so that the flexible member comes in contact with a floor to cover a lower portion of said front wall, and that said nozzle body has a sliding piece slidably mounted on at least one of side walls thereof to open and close the side face corresponding to the backward and forward movement of said nozzle body.

Electric vacuum cleaner

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Osaka, Japan

Mikio Yagi