Shimano Inc.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Ncr Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kubota Corporation

Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yasushi Nakamura

Hiroyuki Nagao

Hidenobu Mandai

Kazuhisa Yoneda

Shuzo Kato

Kazuhiro Matsuyama

Junnosuke Takeda

Tadashi Ichida

Fumio Kato

Osamu Kawata

Yoshiya Kinoshita

Takashi Kikutani

Keiji Matsueda

Yoshitaka Dansui

Kiyoshi Hayashi

Futoshi Tanigawa

Shinichi Sumiyama

Akiko Okabe

Kohji Yuasa

Hiroki Takeshima

Kiyoshi Hataura

Hideaki Ohyama

Manabu Miyazaki

Osamu Takii

Mutsumi Murata

Hiroshi Mikumo

Masao Kusayanagi

Mitsuru Kamiyama

Toshinori Okajima

Toshikazu Kitaura

Kazuhiro Fujii

Yoichi Izumi

Hideo Kaiya

Shinichi Takeda

Noriaki Taguchi

Akihiro Maeda

Koji Murakami

Shigenori Morimoto

Toru Inagaki

Gota Asano

Takuji Tatsumi

Shinichiroh Hiraoka

Takeshi Yao

Yoshihiko Inagaki

Hiroki Kanemitsu

Masahiro Ohkoshi

Takeshi Yoshinaka

Mutsuhisa Ishihara

Hisataka Takada

Shogo Yamamoto

Tetsuo Horibe

Hirotomo Terada

Toshinori Oyajima

An input device including an operation key arranged in an opening of a panel is provided. The input device also includes a light source and a push button switch each being arranged in a position opposite an opening on a board. The operation key includes: a key top having a pressing part extending toward the push button switch. The pressing part is arranged in a position separated from a center position in planar view of the key top on a line that is parallel to a line connecting connection parts of the key top, which are connected with one pair out of one or more pairs of arms, and passes through the center position. The push button switch is arranged in a position on the board opposite an arrangement position of the pressing part.

Input device and image forming apparatus including ihe same

An image forming apparatus has a speaker that is stored inside a housing and includes an attachment guide to which the speaker is attached on a housing front surface. The attachment guide has at least one angle deciding portion which inclines a front surface of the speaker relative to the housing front surface.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a status display part. The status display part is provided on a rear side of a touch panel display within the range including the lateral width of an operation unit. The status display part includes LEDs as a light source and a light emitter that transmits light from the LEDs to emit the light to the outside. A filter includes a first surface and a second surface that have different angles in an up-down direction.

There is provided an intake manifold of a multicylinder engine capable of facilitating homogenization of concentration distribution of EGR gas in intake air and distribution of EGR gas into respective cylinders. The intake manifold is configured such that an EGR gas guide portion is provided in an intake air introducing sleeve portion, the EGR gas guide portion includes an upstream EGR gas release port and a downstream EGR gas release port, the upstream EGR gas release port is provided on a side of a passage outlet of an EGR gas introducing passage, the downstream EGR gas release port is provided on an opposite side of a central portion of the intake air introducing sleeve portion from the upstream EGR gas release port, and the EGR gas introduced from the passage outlet of the EGR gas introducing passage into the intake air introducing sleeve portion is released from both of the upstream EGR gas release port and the downstream EGR gas release port into intake air passing through the central portion of the intake air introducing sleeve portion.

Intake manifold of vertical multicylinder engine

An image forming apparatus comprises an image reading portion, and an operation unit having at least a touch panel display is provided in a front side of the image reading portion. A housing of the image reading portion has a housing projection portion that is projected frontward as compared with a front surface of a document pressing cover, and a power key that is a hardware key is provided on an upper surface of the housing projection portion in a back side as compared with the touch panel display and within a range of a breadth of the operation unit. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the power key from being operated carelessly, and it becomes easy to recognize a position of the power key.

An operation unit comprises a touch panel display, a home key and a power saving key. The power saving key includes an indication portion, and a first indication portion out of the indication portion has light permeability, and a color of its surface is a dark color, and a second indication portion has no light permeability or has it hardly, which is constituted by a double-layered print. In a surface side of this second indication portion, a figure indicative of a power saving key is printed in silver ink, and in a rear side thereof, a figure indicative of the power saving key is printed in black ink. In a normal state, when a backlight is lit, a surface of the first indication portion is bright, and a surface of the second indication portion is darker than the surface of the first indication portion. On the other hand, in a power saving mode, when a light guide plate does not emit light, the surface of the first indication portion is dark, and the surface of the second indication portion is brighter than the surface of the first indication portion. Therefore, presence and location of the power saving key can be notified in a visible manner.

Operation unit and electronic equipment having the same

A touch key of an operation console includes a circuit board () having a light source (), a light transmitting portion () transmitting light, a non-transparent light shielding portion () and a semi-transparent operation panel () covering upper surfaces of the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. The light transmitting portion accommodates the light source. The surfaces of light transmitting portion and light shielding portion in contact with each other are tightly sealed, and the circuit board () and the light shielding portion () cover the light transmitting portion () such that the light is emitted only from the surface in contact with the operation panel (). Thus, leakage of light from around a figure indicating a touch key can be prevented, and the operation console comes to have a high-class look.

A positive electrode for alkaline storage batteries that enables to improve the active material utilization rate, while suppressing the self-discharge. The positive electrode for alkaline storage batteries includes a support having conductivity, and a positive electrode active material adhering to the support. The positive electrode active material includes particles of a nickel oxide. The particles of the nickel oxide include a first particle group having a particle diameter of 20 &#x3bc;m or more, and a second particle group having a particle diameter of less than 20 &#x3bc;m. The first particle group includes a first component with cracks, and a second component without cracks. The proportion of the first particle group in the particles of the nickel oxide is 15 vol % or more, and the proportion by number of the first component in the first particle group is 15% or more.

Positive electrode for alkaline storage batteries and alkaline storage battery

Disclosed is an alloy powder for electrodes for nickel-metal hydride storage batteries having a high battery capacity and being excellent in life characteristics and high-temperature storage characteristics. The alloy powder includes a hydrogen storage alloy containing elements L, M, Ni, Co, and E. L includes La as an essential component. L includes no Nd, or when including Nd, the percentage of Nd in L is less than 5 mass %. The percentage of La in the hydrogen storage alloy is 23 mass % or less. M is Mg, Ca, Sr and/or Ba. A molar ratio &#x3b1; to a total of L and M is 0.045&#x2264;&#x3b1;&#x2264;0.133. A molar ratio x of Ni to the total of L and M is 3.5&#x2264;x&#x2264;4.32, and a molar ratio y of Co is 0.13&#x2264;y&#x2264;0.5. The molar ratios x and y, and a molar ratio z of E to the total of L and M satisfy 4.78&#x2264;x+y+z&#x3c;5.03.

Alloy powder for electrodes, negative electrode for nickel-metal hydride storage batteries including the same, and nickel-metal hydride storage battery including the same

Provided is a self-propelled electronic device in which performance for running over a level difference of a floor surface of a room is improved. The self-propelled electronic device includes: a housing which has a bottom plate; a pair of right and left drive wheel units which support the housing; and a resilient member which resiliently urges the drive wheel units in a direction to project toward a lower side from the bottom plate,

Self-propelled electronic device

Operation console and image processing apparatus with the operation console

Provided is an alloy powder for an electrode which enables an alkaline storage battery to have both excellent discharge characteristics and excellent life characteristics. The alloy powder includes a hydrogen storage alloy including an element L, Mg, Ni, Al, and an element M. The element L is at least one selected from the group consisting of group 3 elements and group 4 elements of the periodic table (excluding Y). The element Mis at least two selected from the group consisting of Ge, Y, and Sn. A molar proportion x of Mg in a total of the element L and Mg is 0.008&#x2266;x&#x2266;0.54. A molar proportion y of Ni, a molar proportion &#x3b1; of Al, and a molar proportion &#x3b2; of the element M, per the foregoing total is 1.6&#x2266;y&#x2266;4, 0.008&#x2266;&#x3b1;&#x2266;0.32, and 0.01&#x2266;&#x3b2;&#x2266;0.12, respectively.

Alloy powder for electrode, negative electrode for alkaline storage battery using the same, and alkaline storage battery

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Osaka, Japan

Yasushi Nakamura