Abstract: A wiper control technique is provided that can prevent a windshield from being damaged by a falling wiper blade during a wiper parking operation, even when a wiper arm is in a retreat position where the blade is raised and held away from the windshield. In one embodiment, the wiper arm is stopped for a predetermined time interval at a predetermined pause position when the wiper arm is positioned above a parked position and at the retreat position during the wiper parking operation, while the wiper arm is being swung downward toward a lower reversal position. The pause position is a position at which the wiper arm is able to fall toward the windshield to return to a base position. After a lapse of the predetermined time interval, the wiper arm is swung to the parked position.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a dashboard extending in a vehicle width direction and defining a cabin and a power compartment in front of the cabin; a power unit arranged in the power compartment; a floor panel extending rearward in the cabin from the dashboard; and a dash crossmember projected forward from the dashboard and extending in the vehicle width direction. The dash crossmember has a first portion at least partially overlapping the power unit in a front view; and a second portion extending outward in the vehicle width direction from the first portion. A compressive strength of the first portion is lower than a compressive strength of the second portion.

Abstract: A wiper control method and a wiper control device are provided. An arm falling position for stopping wiper arms for a predetermined time is set above a lower reversal position. When the wiper arms stopped on the side of an upper reversal position with respect to the arm falling position, such as a service position, are moved to a storage position set below the lower reversal position, or when a wiping operation is to be performed again, the wiper arms are temporarily stopped for the predetermined time at the arm falling position. Then, after the predetermined time elapses, the wiper arms are moved to the storage position in the case of a storage operation, and moved to the upper reversal position in the case of restarting, and then the normal wiping operation is performed.

Abstract: A wiper control technique is provided that can prevent a windshield from being damaged by a falling wiper blade during a wiper parking operation, even when a wiper arm is in a retreat position where the blade is raised and held away from the windshield. In one embodiment, the wiper arm is stopped for a predetermined time interval at a predetermined pause position when the wiper arm is positioned above a parked position and at the retreat position during the wiper parking operation, while the wiper arm is being swung downward toward a lower reversal position. The pause position is a position at which the wiper arm is able to fall toward the windshield to return to a base position. After a lapse of the predetermined time interval, the wiper arm is swung to the parked position.

Abstract: Provided is a windshield wiper arm. This windshield wiper arm includes: an arm head (10); a shank; an arm piece connected to the windshield wiper blade; a washer nozzle which sprays a washer liquid onto the wiping surface; and a hose. The hose is divided into a first hose disposed along the arm head and a second hose disposed within the vehicle body. The first hose and the second hose are connected in a manner that washer liquid can flow from one hose to the other via a joint member (70). The arm head (10) has an opening part (10A) which opens on a fastening part 11 side, and the joint member (70) is mounted to the arm head (10) in a manner that the part of the joint member (70) that connects with the second hose penetrates the opening part (10A).

Abstract: Provided is a windshield wiper arm. This windshield wiper arm includes: an arm head (10); a shank; an arm piece connected to the windshield wiper blade; a washer nozzle which sprays a washer liquid onto the wiping surface; and a hose. The hose is divided into a first hose disposed along the arm head and a second hose disposed within the vehicle body. The first hose and the second hose are connected in a manner that washer liquid can flow from one hose to the other via a joint member (70). The arm head (10) has an opening part (10A) which opens on a fastening part 11 side, and the joint member (70) is mounted to the arm head (10) in a manner that the part of the joint member (70) that connects with the second hose penetrates the opening part (10A).

Abstract: A robot setting apparatus includes a positioning unit that adjusts a position and an attitude of a workpiece model, and a grip position specifying unit that specifies a grip position at which the workpiece model is gripped by an end effector for at least one fundamental direction image in a state of displaying at least three height images in which the workpiece model positioned by the positioning unit on the virtual three-dimensional space is viewed from respective axis directions of three axes orthogonal to each other on the display unit as fundamental direction images.

Abstract: A robot setting apparatus includes a grip reference point setting unit, a grip direction setting unit that defines a grip direction in which the end effector model grips the workpiece model, a workpiece side grip location designation unit that designates a grip position at which the end effector model grips the workpiece model in a state in which at least the workpiece model is displayed in an image display region, and a relative position setting unit that sets a relative position between the end effector model and the workpiece model such that the grip direction defined in the grip direction setting unit is orthogonal to a workpiece plane representing an attitude of the workpiece model displayed in the image display region, and the grip reference point is located at the grip position along the grip direction.

Abstract: A robot setting apparatus includes a grip reference point setting unit, a grip direction setting unit that defines a grip direction in which the end effector model grips the workpiece model, a workpiece side grip location designation unit that designates a grip position at which the end effector model grips the workpiece model in a state in which at least the workpiece model is displayed in an image display region, and a relative position setting unit that sets a relative position between the end effector model and the workpiece model such that the grip direction defined in the grip direction setting unit is orthogonal to a workpiece plane representing an attitude of the workpiece model displayed in the image display region, and the grip reference point is located at the grip position along the grip direction.

Abstract: A robot setting apparatus includes a positioning unit that adjusts a position and an attitude of a workpiece model, and a grip position specifying unit that specifies a grip position at which the workpiece model is gripped by an end effector for at least one fundamental direction image in a state of displaying at least three height images in which the workpiece model positioned by the positioning unit on the virtual three-dimensional space is viewed from respective axis directions of three axes orthogonal to each other on the display unit as fundamental direction images.

Abstract: This stuffed article (1) of the present invention is made of ticking (2a, 2b) filled with a stuffing. The stuffing is a long-fiber wad (8) formed by integrating an effect yarn with a core yarn. The effect yarn is opened to form loop-like fibers. A plurality of strings of the long-fiber wad (8) are arranged in parallel in at least one direction, and sewn to the ticking so as to be integrated with the ticking. The long-fiber wad in the stuffed article is fixed to the ticking, and the effect yarn is integrated with the core yarn. Therefore, the present invention can provide a stuffed article where the displacement of the long-fiber wad is limited even after repeated washing, the wad is less concentrated, and the bulkiness is high.

Abstract: This stuffed article (1) of the present invention is made of ticking (2a, 2b) filled with a stuffing. The stuffing is a long-fiber wad (8) formed by integrating an effect yarn with a core yarn. The effect yarn is opened to form loop-like fibers. A plurality of strings of the long-fiber wad (8) are arranged in parallel in at least one direction, and sewn to the ticking so as to be integrated with the ticking. The long-fiber wad in the stuffed article is fixed to the ticking, and the effect yarn is integrated with the core yarn. Therefore, the present invention can provide a stuffed article where the displacement of the long-fiber wad is limited even after repeated washing, the wad is less concentrated, and the bulkiness is high.

Abstract: A sliver for spinning having a deodorizing and/or heat-generating moisture absorption function is provided, where a sliver for spinning formed as a bundle, in which staple fibers are aligned in one direction, is irradiated with an electron beam to provide an activating group and/or produce a radical on a surface of the fibers, and a compound including an ethylenic unsaturated double bond is chemically bonded to the surface of the fibers. A spun yarn of the invention is a spun yarn having a deodorizing and/or heat-generating moisture absorption function, including the above-described sliver for spinning that has been spun, or including the above-described sliver for spinning and a sliver other than the sliver for spinning that have been blended and spun. A fiber product of the invention has a deodorizing and/or heat-generating moisture absorption function, including the above-described spun yarn.

Abstract: A sliver for spinning of the invention is a sliver for spinning having a deodorizing function and/or a heat-generating moisture absorption function, wherein a sliver for spinning formed as a bundle in which staple fibers are aligned in one direction is irradiated with an electron beam to provide an activating group and/or produce a radical on a surface of the fibers, and a compound including an ethylenic unsaturated double bond is chemically bonded to the surface of the fibers. A spun yarn of the invention is a spun yarn having a deodorizing function and/or a heat-generating moisture absorption function, including the above-described sliver for spinning that has been spun, or including the above-described sliver for spinning and a sliver other than the sliver for spinning that have been blended and spun. A fiber product of the invention has a deodorizing function and/or a heat-generating moisture absorption function, including the above-described spun yarn.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an imaging unit provided in a camera body to take an image electrically, an optical finder provided at an edge portion of the body, and a display apparatus provided in the body to display the taken image. The display apparatus includes a panel including a display area arranged nearer to a rear surface of the body than the imaging unit in the body, a projection projecting outwardly from a part of a periphery of the display area, a looking-out portion at a predetermined part of the projection, and a pixel drive unit for driving matrix pixels of the display area at the remaining part of the projection. In the body, the area of the panel corresponds to a window formed in the rear surface, the looking-out portion of the projection overlaps with the finder, and the drive unit is arranged in a side of the finder.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an imaging unit provided in a camera body to take an image electrically, an optical finder provided at an edge portion of the body, and a display apparatus provided in the body to display the taken image. The display apparatus includes a panel including a display area arranged nearer to a rear surface of the body than the imaging unit in the body, a projection projecting outwardly from a part of a periphery of the display area, a looking-out portion at a predetermined part of the projection, and a pixel drive unit for driving matrix pixels of the display area at the remaining part of the projection. In the body, the area of the panel corresponds to a window formed in the rear surface, the looking-out portion of the projection overlaps with the finder, and the drive unit is arranged in a side of the finder.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to minimize contamination in a furnace comprising placing a case to accommodate material to be heat treated in the furnace, forming a gas flow into the case from inside of the furnace, heating the work maintained in the case to evaporate organic matters contained in the work, evacuating the vapor containing the organic matter to the outside of the furnace through an internal evacuation duct provided through the furnace, liquefying the vapor containing the organic matters under reduced pressure by introducing same into a liquefying trap and thereafter continuously collecting these liquefied organic matters.