Central Japan Railway Company

Hitachi, Ltd.

Koito Electric Industries, Ltd.

A & F Corporation

Nippon Sharyo, Ltd.

Tadashi Fujii

Hajime Ito

Takashi Furukawa

Tohru Watanabe

Jun Ito

Tetsuo Fukuda

Youmei Kaminaga

Kiyoshi Morita

Hideto Sanui

Yuichi Ahiko

Yukinobu Abe

Hiroki Shimoyama

Yuuji Ueno

Kyohei Suzuki

Ichiro Fukuda

Hajime Suzuki

Kei Sakanoue

Yasuyo Kojima

Kazuo Maruyama

Takayuki Izumi

Hiroaki Isogai

Kenichi Tanaka

Satoru Yakushiji

Takehiro Ishigami

Toshihiro Suzuki

Eiji Sato

Yasuhide Ueda

A lighting device includes an indoor lamp (), being provided in the cabin of a railroad vehicle () in order to wholly irradiate the inside of the cabin over the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a vehicle body power supply (), supplying electric power to the indoor lamp (), and a storage battery (), being charged with a voltage applied by the vehicle body power supply (). The indoor lamp () includes a general lamp light source () and a standby lamp light source (), being lighted at an illuminance lower than that at which the general lamp light source () is lighted, and the general lamp source () being supplied with electric power from the vehicle body power supply () not through the storage battery (), while the standby lamp light source () being supplied with electric power from the vehicle body power supply () through the storage battery (). In an emergency, electric power is supplied from the storage battery () only to the standby lamp light source (), and the standby lamp light source () is continued to be lighted at the low illuminance.

Lighting device

An illumination lens includes an incident face (), being provided in a recessed manner in a bottom apex part of the lens body (), and receiving light from the light source (); a reflection face () on the inner side of an outer periphery of the lens body (), totally reflecting the light, having reached from the incident face (); and an emission face () at the upper end of the lens body (), emitting the light, having reached from the incident face () and the reflection face (), to the outside, and the incident face () distributes the light, which could be directed toward the entire region of the reflection face (), only in a predetermined range () within the reflection face, being adjacent to the upper end side portion, following the emission face (), and being closer to the bottom apex part.

Illumination lens

Rail vehicle

A folding table includes: a table body provided with a pair of hinge pins and a pair of lock pins, each of the pairs protruding oppositely in left-right direction; and a pair of left and right brackets having shaft holes in which the hinge pins are inserted and movable holes in which the lock pins are inserted. Spring members mounted in the movable holes press the lock pins. The table body is rotatably supported by the brackets affixed to a wall surface. The folding table has closing plates having through-holes respectively through which the hinge pins and the lock pins are penetrated. The closing plates are sandwiched between the table body and the brackets to close the movable holes.

Folding table

Growing community of inventors

Aichi, Japan

Tadashi Fujii