Niles Parts Company, Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Seiko Instruments Inc

Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Takehiko Saito

Gen Ichimura

Junichi Kasai

Koichi Takenaka

Kazue Ohtaki

A push lock switch having a lock mechanism for use as a hazard switch or a rear defogger switch on an instrument panel of an automobile. The switch has first and second stationary members assembled together which define a space into which a movable member is slidably fitted. A push button fits over the movable member. A coil spring is mounted between the movable member and the first stationary member. The coil spring has first and second compression parts in a one piece construction with each other and urges the movable member toward the push button. A movable contacting strap is fixed to the movable member. The movable contacting member includes movable contacts and a retainer. The movable contacts slide into or out of contact with fixed contacts on the second stationary member when the movable member is pushed by the push button. The first stationary member has a bottom wall in which a recess is formed and on which a plurality of ribs are formed on the recess. A pin rises from the bottom wall of the recess to engage the engagement groove in a heart cam so as to pivotally support the heart cam. The heart cam is formed with a cam groove of a predetermined shape which is engaged with a lock pin inserted into the movable member, thereby providing a push lock mechanism.

Push lock switch

A color correction system and method for correcting three kinds of color gradation input data, each having an m bit length, to produce three kinds of corrected color gradation data, each having an m bits length, by a combination of looking-up in a look-up table to find the closest color gradation corrected data and carrying out an interpolation to obtain improved color reproducibility. The system includes a first memory for storing previously calculated color gradation corrected data defined by a combination of upper n bits color gradation data (m&gt;n); a second memory for storing previously obtained coordinate correction data defined by a combination of lower (m-n) bits color gradation data, and outputting first to third coordinate correction data; an adding unit for adding the upper n bits data of the first to third color gradation input data and the first to third coordinate correction data and outputting same to the first memory as a memory address thereof, to cause an output of the stored color gradation corrected data defined by the memory address; and an average calculating unit receiving the color gradation corrected data from the first memory and calculating averages of the three kinds of color gradation corrected data.

Color gradation correction system of combination of looking-up table and

An electrical connector includes a male assembly and a female assembly matingly receiving the male assembly. Each of the male and female assemblies includes a protective member biased to normally cover the corresponding one of the male-side and female-side electrical terminals. When the male assembly is inserted into the female assembly, the male member pushes the female-side protective member into the housing of the female assembly against the biasing action imparted to the protective member. When the protective member of the male assembly is fully inserted into the housing, it is stopped by a shoulder provided in the housing. As the male assembly is further inserted into the female-side housing, it engages the inside surface of the housing. In that case, both the terminals of the male and female assemblies are exposed from the corresponding protective members and electrically engaged with each other.

Electrical connector

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Tokyo, Japan

Takehiko Saito