Sugatsune Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kotobuki Corporation

Yojiro Nakayama

Kazuyoshi Ohshima

Ken Tsuneki

Tatsuya Hayakawa

Seiji Sugasawara

Seiichiro Tamura

Kazuyosh Ohshima

A damper device for an automatic folding chair enables the seat of the chair to be turned downward to a ready-for use position without being subjected to any braking force when it is lightly pushed down. When the use leaves the seat in the ready-for-use position, it automatically and slowly returns to an upright position under a braking effort exerted thereto. Said damper device comprises a power unit 2 and a damper unit 1 for raising the seat E slowly from the ready-for-use position to the upright position, said damper unit 1 comprising a casing 3 that rotates around a fixed shaft 4 of the chair in association with the rising movement of the seat E, a movable sleeve 7 rotatably disposed within said casing 3, viscous fluid C filled in the space between the movable sleeve 7 and the casing 3 and a one-way clutch 10 constituted by a coil spring that functionally couples the movable sleeve 7 and the fixed shaft 4 when the seat E is turned upward by the resilient force of the power unit 2 and releases the functional coupling of the movable sleeve 7 and the fixed shaft 4 when the seat E is turned downward.

Damper device for an automatic folding chair

A device for detachably and pivotally connecting a pair of objects such as a toilet seat and lid to a toilet bowl. The device includes a receiving member fixedly mounted on the toilet bowl and a main body connected with the toilet seat and lid. The main body includes a spring biased hook assembly engageable with the receiving member and being manually released from engagement with the receiving member to enable separation of the body and receiving member to thereby enable separation of the toilet seat and lid from the toilet bowl.

Device for fixing a toilet seat and a toilet lid

According to the invention, there is provided a door hinge comprising a spring that plays the role of both a torsion spring and a compression spring, wherein its resilient force is used for axially pressing a movable cam against a matching fixed cam it comprises and thereby facilitating the opening and closing motion of the door with which it is used by giving said cams such specific configurations that the spring accelerates the opening motion of the door from a given angular position of the door and locks the door at a particular open position and at a closed position. Since a door using such a hinge that comprises a spring whose resilient force constantly biases the door to open can be either opened to any desired angle or closed and sustained there under a locked condition when the rotary shaft of the hinge is firmly connected to the door, it can be used for a flap door or another vertically rotatable door such as a toilet lid to sustain the door to an open position under a locked condition even if the resilient force of the spring is nullified at that position and the door is liable to be pushed back by an obstacle such as a wire located behind the toilet assembly comprising the lid. Therefore, the door is protected against any turning effort and other forces which are unintentionally applied to the door.

Door hinge with movable and fixed cams

There is provided a lift coat hanger comprising an ingenious damper that can be selectively operated with a view to decelerate the rotary motion of the arm and softly stopping it as it comes to the open or closed position, while the construction of the overall lift coat hanger is made rather simple and hence can be realized at a reduced cost.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yojiro Nakayama