Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ricoh Elemex Corporation

Tokai Rika Co., Ltd.

Nobuhiro Takeda

Masaichi Hattori

Shigeo Mizuno

Kazumasa Ito

Yukio Takaishi

Michiyoshi Keta

Kazuhiko Okusa

Minoru Izawa

Minoru Kondo

Tasuku Nakano

Akira Hanaki

Mikito Tanaka

Tatsuo Kato

Toshiko Yokoi

A safe brushing is realized without sticking the gum if the bristle tips are once inserted in a pocket of a tooth by using a system having a brush of which the bristle tips automatically vibrate in a direction at right angles with the direction of length of the bristles. A brush leverhaving a brushis swingingly supported in the nozzle, a flow passageleading to a blow-out portat an end of a nozzleis partly bent, and a resilient memberis provided at the bent portion to urge the brush leverin a direction opposite to the direction of flow of water, so that the brush leveroscillates reciprocally due to the resilient force produced by the resilient memberand the pressure of water flow, causing the bristle tips of the brushto oscillate in a direction at right angles with the direction of length of the bristles outside the nozzle

Tooth brusher

Unit design according to the present invention makes it possible for accumulated results of past design examples to be reflected in forming new designs, thereby preventing repetitive of designs and thereby reducing the time required for development. In the unit designing apparatus (), the CPU () includes a basic structure designing section () for designing a basic structure in accordance with a given design target, and a function block searching section () for searching a design example of a function block for application to the engine concerned. The function block layout section () lays out a retrieved outer shape of a function block in a basic structural view to design a raw material shape. The CPU () further includes a production machining information searching section () for searching production machining information for application to each function block. The machining shape layout section () lays out a machining shape of each function block obtained from the searched production machining information in a raw material shape design drawing to design the product shape.

Unit designing apparatus and method

A process for producing a shaped material can be designed in parallel to product designing, thereby reducing a period between initiation of product designing and completion of design of the process for producing the shaped material. A shaped material production process designing device () comprises a CPU () which includes a design record retrieving section () for retrieving a past design record from a design record database (). Of the past process for producing the shaped material, design data of a standard portion independent from a shape of the product is acquired by a standard portion design data acquiring section (). A shape dependent portion designing section () designs the shaped material production process that depends on the shape of the product. The CPU further includes a process design data editing section () for editing the design data of the standard portion and a design result of the shape dependent portion.

Device and method for designing shaped material production process

The head and face washing apparatus of the invention is designed to prevent scattering of fluid and enhance the washing efficiency. The head and face washing apparatus comprises pumps ( to ) for supplying washing fluid through supply pipes ( to ), plural spouts ( ) for ejecting the washing fluid, and supply passages ( to ) for supplying the washing fluid supplied through the supply pipes ( to ) into the specified spout ( ). Washing fluid is continuously pumped out from the pump ( ), while washing fluid is pumped out intermittently from the pumps ( to ). As a result, a continuous water stream is ejected from the spout group ( ), and an intermittent water stream is ejected from the spout groups ( to ).

Head/face washing device, shower nozzle with hood, comb-shaped scalp washer and head washing shower brush

A power supply circuit for a vehicle for providing power to motorized accessories, such as power windows and sun roofs, even after the vehicle ignition has been switched off. The power supply circuit includes a relay having relay contacts for delivering power to the accessory drive motor, and a relay coil which is energized upon switching on of the vehicle ignition. The relay is self-holding and continues to be energized even after the ignition has been switched off. However, when a door of the vehicle is opened, as detected by the closing of a door switch, the relay coil is de-energized and power to the accessory drive motor is terminated. In an alternative embodiment, power to the accessory drive motor is not terminated until after sequential opening and closing of a vehicle door.

Power supply circuit for vehicle

A switch structure comprising an actuator reciprocally movably mounted on a casing so as to control a contact structure, a cardio-shaped grooved cam provided with the actuator, a wire spring secured at one end to the casing and disposed at other free end in the grooved cam, a locker structure which alternatively holds the actuator at a return position or at an operative position by selectively engaging the free end of the wire spring with the first or second engagement portions each provided with the grooved cam, and an electromagnetic solenoid which releases the free end of the wire spring from the second engagement portion.

Light responsive switch structure for use in a motor vehicle or the like

A switching assembly to be incorporated in a window-regulator for a motor vehicle and the like, which includes paired units of switching members, each of which is arranged to serve for operating an electric motor in either of two rotational directions in a manual mode or in an automatic mode subject to the displacing amount of a single switching knob, and an electric circuit means including a solenoid for selectively self-retaining and self-releasing the automatic operating mode. The switching assembly is arranged to be capable of selectively energizing and de-energizing the electric motor incorporated in the window-regulator together with operating the solenoid simultaneously.

Switching assembly

A switch structure in which manual reset of the automatic knob is performed against the urging force of spring of sliding rod and is not affected by the energizing power supply to be solenoid with much improvement of operational feeling, in which one-way driving type solenoid and automatic knob holding performed by way of detent plate having moderating portion urged by the spring can make the switch means in light weight and small size and in which the usage of movable moderating plate for resetting manual knob makes easy actual installation in the limited space.

Double-function solenoid operated switch

A rotational direction sensor for a body such as a steering shaft of an automobile, which is rotatable from a preferred neutral position in either the clockwise or the anticlockwise rotational direction. When an actuating assembly is rotated in the clockwise rotational direction by more than a predetermined amount from the neutral position, a first switch is actuated so as to conduct a first electric current, while a second switch is not actuated, and when the actuating assembly is then returned to the neutral position in the anticlockwise rotational direction, the second switch is actuated to conduct a second electric current. An opposite switch actuation sequence occurs for initial anticlockwise and then clockwise rotation of the actuating assembly. A control circuit generates a first electric signal when it receives the first and then the second electric current as a pair and a second electric signal when it receives the second and then the first electric current as a pair.

Rotational direction sensor

A webbing hanging hook is projected into a cabin from a vehicle door, said hook is biased in the direction of a webbing hanging position, and, after an occupant is seated, a driving force of a motor is transmitted to said hook to rotate same in the direction of a webbing dropping position, whereby webbings can be automatically fastened to the occupant. After the webbings are dropped, a clutch prevents the driving force of the motor from being transmitted, whereby said hook is returned to the webbing hanging position by a biasing force of a resilient member.

Webbing hanging device

An electromagnetic relay switch assembly comprises, in combination, an electromagnetic coil, a movable plate of magnetizable material supported for pivotal movement between attracted and released positions, a drive wheel including a pawl member and being rotatable reciprocately in response to the movement of the movable plate, a carrier wheel having a detent gear and a ratchet gear. Each time the movable plate is moved from the released position to the attracted position, the carrier wheel is stepwisely rotated in one direction by the pawl member engaged to any one of the ratchet gear teeth. A detent pawl for avoiding the reverse rotation of the carrier wheel and a positioning member for accurately positioning the carrier wheel are also provided.

Electromagnetic relay switch assembly

An electric circuit breaker for automatically breaking a circuit affected by a motor vehicle collision, including an internal connecting member pivotally mounted on a casing and urged in a clockwise direction, a latch mounted on the forward end of a pivotal shaft extending through the internally connecting member, a lever secured to the pivotal shaft at one end and capable of pivoting in a counterclockwise direction through the movement of an inertia body urgedly held in a normal vertical position due to gravity by the other end of the lever urged downward, and an electrically connecting member pivotally mounted on the internally connecting member and urged counterclockwise, at one end of which a pawl is provided to engage with the latch while a movable electrical connector is provided at the other end with respect to the pivotal center.

Manually re-set inertia switch assembly

A brake malfunction warning and indicating system for use with a brake system of an automotive vehicle, comprising a brake warning switch rendered conductive when a brake pedal is depressed with the braking oil pressure being at an abnormal level and also when the brake pedal is released, a self-maintaining circuit connected to said brake warning switch and rendered conductive, only when said brake warning switch is conductive, for self-maintaining its conductive condition, and an indicating circuit connected to said self-maintaining circuit and rendered conductive, when said self-maintaining circuit is conductive, for turning on a brake malfunction indicating lamp. Thus, the indicating lamp will continue lighting, while the braking oil pressure is at an abnormal level, until it is restored to a normal level.

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Nagoya, Japan

Nobuhiro Takeda