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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2004
Yoshiharu Kitamura, Aikawa-machi, JP;
Makoto Saito, Miyata-mura, JP;
Yohei Nakahara, Miyata-mura, JP;
Yoshiharu Kitamura, Aikawa-machi, JP;
Makoto Saito, Miyata-mura, JP;
Yohei Nakahara, Miyata-mura, JP;
NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a hinge device for connecting one member and another member so that the hinge device allows opening and closing, including: a movable shaft; a first bracket non-rotatably fixed to the movable shaft and fixed to the one member; a second bracket rotatably and axially movably installed on the movable shaft and fixed to the other member; and a plate spring member formed in a curved configuration, having at a top of the curved configuration of the plate spring member a projection whose surface in contact with the second bracket is flat, and non-rotatably and axially movably installed on the movable shaft, in which the second bracket and the plate spring member are pressed against and held in contact with each other and make relative rotation.