Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Mitsuba Corporation

Canon Finetech Inc.

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.

Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock

Kabushikikaisha Wacom

Takeshi Sasaki

Masayuki Shimoyama

Tatsuya Ohmaru

Masayuki Arima

Takuro Hashimoto

Daisuke Kobayashi

Motoki Minami

Masaya Yonaga

Koji Okabe

Kazutada Sasaki

Masaaki Kimura

Takeshi Kanai

Takatsugu Nakamura

Taisuke Goto

Yuki Takahashi

Katsuyuki Suzuki

Tomoya Nishikawa

Kenji Kenmochi

Kazuma YosHii

Atsuhiro Kuwabara

Hideyuki Koizumi

Yuki Ishibashi

Hirofumi Yamane

Yukinori Kawano

Saori Yokote

Yutaka Yamashita

Hiroki Fujiya

Shin Fujiwara

Kenichi Abe

Yutaro Takahashi

Akira Urita

In a vehicle door mirror, an electric retraction unit is disposed between a mirror housing and a shaft pivotably supporting a base end part of the mirror housing, and at least three housing fastening parts are fastened to the mirror housing and provided integrally with a unit constituent member forming part of the electric retraction unit. A vibration suppression arm part is provided integrally with the unit constituent member and extends in a direction that goes away from at least two of the at least three housing fastening parts. A remaining one housing fastening part of the at least three housing fastening parts is formed in a tip end part of the vibration suppression arm part. Accordingly, the vehicle door mirror can give an effective vibration suppression effect while enhancing the workability and suppressing any increase in the cost.

Vehicle door mirror

Provided is a washer liquid supply system in a simple structure and capable of improving the capacity of washing an object of a vehicle. A washer liquid supply system includes: a washer tank mounted on a vehicle to store washer liquid; a supply section mounted on the vehicle to supply the washer liquid in the washer tank to a window shield of the vehicle; and a connecting member being a bubbling section mounted on the vehicle to make the washer liquid contain bubbles, wherein the supply section supplies the washer liquid containing the bubbles to the window shield.

Washer liquid supply system

A washer liquid supply system is disclosed which includes: a washer tank mounted on a vehicle to store washer liquid; a supply section mounted on the vehicle to supply the washer liquid in the washer tank to an object of the vehicle; a heat-retaining tank mounted on the vehicle and disposed between the washer tank and the supply section to temporarily store the washer liquid supplied from the washer tank to the supply section; a delivering section mounted on the vehicle to deliver the washer liquid stored in the washer tank to the supply section through the heat-retaining tank; and a control section that controls the delivering section, wherein the control section controls the delivering section to temporarily increase a delivering amount of the washer liquid at an initial time of supplying the washer liquid.

injection positions (A, B, and C) toward which washer liquids (W) are injected from the forward-side injection nozzles (A, B, and C) and injection positions (Dand E) which washer liquids (W) are injected from the backward-side injection nozzles (Dand E) are alternatively shifted in the longitudinal direction of the blade rubber. Therefore, in wiping-out motion of the blade rubber for one reciprocation, the front glass () can uniformly get wet, the total number of injection nozzles can be made less than ever, the consumption amount of washer liquid (W) at the time of reciprocating wiping-out motion of the blade rubber can be reduced, power consumption of the washer pump can be reduced, and the size of the washer pump can be decreased.

Wiper blade

Base end sides of washer tubesare arranged in an axial direction of a swinging shaft PS at one end portion of an arm head, and they are drawn out from a head side pipe housing portionso as to curve toward a side opposite to a shaft fixing portionside. Each of the washer tubesis wound around the shaft fixing portionduring swinging of the arm headwithout applying any load to the swinging shaft PS. No tension acts on each of the washer tubes, and each of the washer tubesis not rubbed against the shaft fixing portion. Therefore, deterioration of the washer tubescan be suppressed. When the washer tubesare wound around the shaft fixing portion, a periphery of the shaft fixing portionis suppressed from swelling outward in a radial direction thereof. This makes it possible to prevent the arm headaround the swinging shaft PS from increasing in size.

Wiper device

A nozzle unitwhich jets washer fluid toward a windshield is fixed to an arm piecewhose front end side is fitted to a hook fixing member. As a result, the nozzle unitcan be fixed without using the fitting member adopted in the conventional case, and located closer to the hook fixing member. This reduces a positional shift of the nozzle unitrelative to the wiper bladeto the minimum, thus stabilizing the injection-target locations of washer fluid on the windshield.

Wiper apparatus and nozzle unit

A washer apparatusis provided to a coupling portion CN between a blade rubberand a holder member, and has a length in a longitudinal direction of the blade rubber, which is set to be shorter than that of the blade rubberin the longitudinal direction, and inner-peripheral-side-oriented injection nozzlesandand an outer-peripheral-side-oriented injection nozzlehave openings oriented to respective ends of the blade rubberin the longitudinal direction.

A carriage guide surface for guiding a carriage traveling in a main scan direction, and a main scan direction regulating unit and a sub-scan direction regulating unit which position a print medium, are provided on the same member.

Carriage apparatus

A wiper apparatus is improved in wiping performance, and can suppress a disturbance due to cleaning liquid in a driver's field of view. Each cleaning liquid Wand Wis jetted from four forward-side injection nozzles and four backward-side injection nozzles in a direction opposite to the wiper blade, and toward injection-target locations, and a distance between the wiper bladeand an injection-target location for cleaning liquid Wand Won the opposite side from a center of a swinging motion of the wiper bladein a wiping direction of the wiper bladeis larger than a distance between the wiper bladeand an injection-target location for cleaning liquid Wand Won the same side as the center of the swinging motion of the wiper blade in the wiping direction of the wiper blade. Therefore, on the same side as the center of the swinging motion of the wiper blade, it is possible to suppress a disturbance due to cleaning liquid in the driver's field of view, and on the opposite side from the center of the swinging motion of the wiper blade, it is possible to enhance the wiping performance of the wiper apparatus by sufficiently wetting dust and the like.

Wiper apparatus

An object of the present invention is to provide a wiper apparatus reduced in the number of parts. A wiper apparatusA has: a drive mechanismfor driving a wiperfor wiping a front windshield of a vehicle; a gear casein which the drive mechanismis housed, and which is fixed to a vehicle body, wherein the wiper apparatusA has: a fixing partprovided in the gear caseand fixed to the vehicle body; and a fixing partprovided in the gear caseand fixed to the vehicle body at a position different from a fixed position of the fixing partin a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body.

An image reading apparatus, including: a light source; a reflection member changing a traveling direction of the light reflected from an original; an optical system imaging the light; a photoelectric converter receiving the light from the optical system to convert the light into an electric signal; and a light passing and blocking member disposed between the optical system and the photoelectric converter, and provided with an aperture through which the light from the optical system imaged on the photoelectric converter passes, the blocking member blocking non-convergent light which is not imaged on the photoelectric converter, wherein the blocking member has an inclined surface surrounding the aperture so that the aperture gets smaller from the optical system toward the photoelectric converter, and a hypothetical extension plane extending from the inclined surface toward the photoelectric converter intersects with an optical axis of the optical system without intersecting with photoelectric converter.

Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image reading apparatus, including: an image reading unit configured to read an image of a document placed on a document placing portion; a document pressure unit configured to press the document placed on the document placing portion against the document placing portion; a first holding unit configured to hold the document pressure unit so that the document pressure unit is openable and closable with respect to the document placing portion with a shaft pivotally supporting the document pressure unit; and a second holding unit configured to hold the document pressure unit so that the document pressure unit is openable and closable with respect to the document placing portion without a shaft pivotally supporting the document pressure unit.

Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same

Provided is a structure capable of preventing shaking of an image reading unit () during movement at low cost. A first contact portion (T) between the image reading unit () and a guide shaft (A) supports force (F) acting in a gravity direction and force (F) acting in a horizontal direction in the case where the image reading unit () moves in a predetermined direction. In this case, the first contact portion is arranged so as to satisfy F&#x3e;F&#xd7;tan &#x3b8;, where &#x3b8;represents an angle formed by a perpendicular line (&#x3b3;) with respect to a tangential plane (&#x3b2;) of the guide shaft (A) and the horizontal direction. Thus, the image reading unit () can be prevented from being lifted due to rotation moment during movement.

Image reading device

An image reading apparatus configured to read an image of an original, including: a light source configured to irradiate the original with light; an optical system configured to condense and image a light beam from the light source reflected from the original; a substrate member having a photoelectric conversion unit; a fixing member fixed to the substrate member; a support member configured to support the optical system; and an adhesive bonding the fixing member and the support member together, wherein one of the support member and the fixing member has a protruding portion which protrudes toward the other of the support member and the fixing member, the other has a recessed portion opposed to the protruding portion, the protruding portion protrudes in the recessed portion in a non-contact state to maintain a gap between the protruding portion and the recessed portion, and the adhesive is applied to the gap.

A wiper structure for a window glass, includes a wiper arm comprising a support arm provided on the wiper arm; and a wiper blade comprising a blade main body, the wiper blade being supported on the wiper arm in an asymmetrical manner about a connecting point, the wiper blade main body being supported at a plurality of support points on the support arm, wherein a spacing between any two adjacent support points of the plurality of support points is set wider as a curvature of the window glass increases.

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Saitama, Japan

Takeshi Sasaki