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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2001
Jun Yamagishi, Yokohama, JP;
Katsumi Nakagome, Yokohama, JP;
Ohi Seisakusho Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
In closure apparatus and method for an elongated lid of a compartment, the lid being pivotally supported on a wall defining the compartment via a pair of mutually spaced apart hinge arms, a control device controls each of a first driving device and an electromagnetic clutch to make a deformation of the lid to the compartment return to its original form in response to an output of the locked state detection signal from the detecting section. In the first embodiment, a rotation direction of a reversible motor is changed to a reverse direction which corresponds to an open direction of the lid to drive the lid toward the open direction in response to the output of the locked state detection signal.