Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Tokan Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Yuji Nagase

Kazuyuki Kobayashi

Shogo Nakamura

Hiroyoshi Kouchi

Shigeki Ikeda

An insulating container includes a container main body and an exterior sleeve to be fit onto the container main body. The exterior sleeve includes a slit forming section including a group of slits formed on the exterior sleeve. An inside wall surface of the exterior sleeve is provided with a shrink-deformable film, an upper portion of the shrink-deformable film is bonded to an upper portion of the exterior sleeve beyond the slit forming section, whereas a middle section covering the slit forming section is free from bonding, a lower portion is bonded to a lower portion of the exterior sleeve beyond the slit forming section, and the shrink-deformable film is shrunk to have the slit forming section project outwardly from the exterior sleeve.

Heat insulated container

A fuel gauge unit for a fuel tank which, when the gauge unit is attached to the fuel tank, is fixed in its rotational angle in a simple fashion, and in which the fuel scale is simple and easy to inspect visually. An indicator is provided which moves back and forth in a horizontal plane when a bearing connected to a float rotates. The position of the indicator corresponds to a fuel scale, so that the quantity of fuel in the fuel tank can be determined by inspecting the gauge. On the top of the gauge unit is a protruding rectangular portion with a transparent window. This protruding rectangular portion engages in a hole in the cover plate attached to the fuel tank. The protruding rectangular portion and its hole may have a rectangular or oblong surface which serves as a rotational position lock for the gauge unit.

Fuel gauge unit for a fuel tank

A general purpose air-cooled, four-cycle engine in which a first ball bearing supporting the output shaft of the crankshaft is larger than the second ball supporting the other end of the crankshaft, and the first bearing has an external diameter which is approximately equal to or greater than the distance from the crankshaft to the camshaft. The camshaft driven by the crankshaft is supported by sliding bearings. The governor which controls the rotation of the engine and which is driven by the rotation of the crankshaft is enclosed in the crankcase on the same end as the cooling fan, which is the end opposite the output end of the crankshaft. This invention fulfills the demand for a smaller crankcase; does not make use of special bearings; and achieves a greater bearing capacity through the use of large-diameter standard-precision ball bearings. In addition, it simplifies the required processing and allows the assembly process to be automated.

General-purpose air-cooled four-cycle engine

A cooling fan made of synthetic resin for an air-cooled engine which is fixedly secured to a side of the body of a flywheel includes a plurality of cooling fins formed along a circumferential direction thereof, and a circular reinforcement rib projecting axially from the periphery of a backboard, thereby reducing deformation of the fan during running of the engine and preventing deformation of the fan during transportation, without significantly increasing the weight of the fan.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuji Nagase