Abstract: An apparatus for visually confirming a vehicle periphery includes a camera device which is attached to a vehicle, and which picks up a image in at least one direction at the vehicle periphery and a display unit which displays the picked-up image in the at least one direction on a display unit installed in the vehicle. The camera device is attached to the vehicle while a position of the camera device is inclined, so that a vehicle is at least partially taken in the picked-image in the at least one direction, The image-processing device carries out a rotation process with respect to the picked-up image, in which a scene taken in the picked-up image is inclined due to an inclination resulting from the position of the camera device, so that an inclination of the scene is negated, and which displays the scene in the display unit.

Abstract: To make the turning "on" and "off" of a clutch in an electro-magnetic clutch smoother, the electro-magnetic clutch has a first rotating member rotatable in response to the driving force applied to the input axis, and a second rotating member arranged opposite to the first rotating member and freely rotatable about the rotation axis of the first rotating member and coupled to the output axis. A movable member is coupled to one end of a return spring and is disposed between the first rotating member and the second rotating member for movement along the rotation axis of the first rotating member. An electric coil generates a force to drive the movable member along the rotation axis of the first rotating member. Cylindrical auxiliary slide members are arranged approximately at equal intervals on the movable member and are disposed between the movable member and the second rotating member.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an actuator which is mounted on a base to rotate a rotary member about a rotational axis thereof. The actuator includes a first magnetic rotary member which is rotatably mounted on the base about the axis, and provided with a first engaging portion which traces a peripheral locus about the axis. It also includes a second magnetic rotary member which is rotatably mounted about the axis, and provided with a second engaging portion engageable with the first engaging portion on the peripheral locus about the axis. The first engaging portion is moved to be engageable with the second engaging portion when the first rotary member is rotated in one direction relative to the second rotary member, and the first engaging portion is moved to be away from the second engaging portion when the first rotary member is rotated in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A gear reduction mechanism is provided with a rotatable shaft supported by a pair of spaced apart bearings in a one piece retainer having coaxially aligned holes for receiving said bearings. A potentiometer is supported from the same retainer and is provided with an input axle adjustably connected to the shaft to provide an output signal indicative of the angular position of the shaft. The adjustment may take place through a vent hole in the housing of the mechanism which has a removable filter therein.

Abstract: An electric coil assembly is formed from an annular bobbin having a circumferential channel formed therein for receiving an electrically conductive coil. A pair of raised portions are integrally formed on one side of the bobbin and a pair of terminals are embedded in the raised portions. Each terminal is in the form of a U-shaped member having opposite ends protruding from the raised portion for connection with one end of respective spring strips which are mounted on said raised portions, the opposite ends of which are adapted to be slidably engaged with electric current supply members.

Abstract: In an electromagnetic clutch, the movable clutch plate which acts as an armature is connected to a drive member by a spring plate having a plurality of deformable arms. The deformable arms are rigidly connected to the drive member at one end thereof while the opposite ends of the arms are connected to the clutch plate by rivets with the reduced armature shank portions of the rivets being located in elongated holes in the ends of the arms. The heads of the rivets are located in notches in the drive member to prevent relative rotation of the clutch plate relative to the drive member while permitting axial movement relative thereto.