Abstract: A cooling fan acts as a light shield to block light from shining therethrough, and also provides good air circulation. An impeller, which is a key constituent component of the fan, is split into a front stage impeller and a rear stage impeller. The front stage impeller has front stage blades, and the rear stage impeller has rear stage blades. Each of the front stage blades overlaps with the adjacent blades of the rear stage blades so as to cover the gaps between the sides of the rear stage blades. With this arrangement, the incident light beams are blocked by the blades, and also the constituent components can be released easily from the dies after molding. Still further, the air circulating characteristic is not degraded in the light shield fan of the present invention.

Abstract: An aircraft wheel support mechanism capable of reducing the impact to the tire at the time of landing and capable of reducing the impact to the tire at the time of the wheel colliding with an obstacle lying on the runway. The mechanism comprises a suspension mechanism (3) for rotatably supporting a wheel (13) by the lower end of a support member (2) connected to the fuselage, the suspension mechanism (3) having a crank shaft assembly (5), and is characterized in that the crank shaft assembly comprises a horizontal support shaft (51) rotatably supported by the lower end of the support member, an axle (52) for rotatably supporting the wheel, and an arm (53) positioned at right angles with the horizontal support shaft and axle for connecting one end of the horizontal support shaft to one end of the axle.

Abstract: With a trend toward a higher intensity projection type liquid crystal display device to further increase brightness of a projection screen, rated input power of a light source lamp increases, which makes essential a fan apparatus for cooling the light source lamp, etc. Such a fan apparatus would require a light-shielding member which causes the number of parts to increase. The present invention provides a fan apparatus provided with a rotor section 410 that can be rotated/driven around a predetermined rotation axis and a propeller section 420 including propeller blades 421 to 428 and attached to the rotor section 410 arranged in such a way as to substantially shield light parallel to the rotation axis.

Abstract: A tilt steering apparatus has a pivot fixed to, for example, a pair of fixed side plates of a vehicle body. The pivot is inserted through a connection hole provided in a steering column. At the time of tilt adjustment, the steering column is swung around the pivot. In either one of an inner peripheral surface of the connection hole and an outer peripheral surface of the pivot opposite thereto, a projection extending in a substantially circumferential or axial direction is formed in contact with the other peripheral surface. Consequently, the contact area between the pivot and the connection hole is reduced, thereby reducing friction therebetween. When the pivot is pressed into the connection hole, the projection is suitably crushed, so that fitting between the pivot and the connection hole is loosened, which is useful for the reduction in the friction therebetween.

Abstract: A display device including a diffraction grating from which a diffracted light of the zeroth order and a diffracted light of the first order having different color light components emerge to establish color separation. An array of micro-lenses is arranged on a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel has a plurality of picture elements and each picture element includes a plurality of color display dots. The color display dots in each picture element are arranged in the vertical relationship and in the order of wavelength of the light. A green light component of diffracted light of the first order is made incident normal to the liquid crystal panel, and the diffracted light of the zeroth order passes through the liquid crystal panel at a greater angle relative to the normal to the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for rating information management, a server registers rater information inputted by a rater from the access terminal, prepares rating identification information associated with a rated item to be assigned to a rated party, who is a provider of the rated item, through the access terminal when requested by when the rated party requests from the access terminal to assign a rating identification information which the rated party provides to the rater at a same time when the rated item is provided to the rater, confirms that the rater has been registered in the server and that the rating identification information is correct, and stores the rating information together with the rating identification information in a database when the rater inputs the rating identification information assigned to the rated item by the rated party with rating information added thereto from the access terminal.

Abstract: A cooling fan acts as a light shield to block light from shining therethrough, and also provides good air circulation. An impeller, which is a key constituent component of the fan, is split into a front stage impeller and a rear stage impeller. The front stage impeller has front stage blades, and the rear stage impeller has rear stage blades. Each of the front stage blades overlaps with the adjacent blades of the rear stage blades so as to cover the gaps between the sides of the rear stage blades. With this arrangement, the incident light beams are blocked by the blades, and also the constituent components can be released easily from the dies after molding. Still further, the air circulating characteristic is not degraded in the light shield fan of the present invention.

Abstract: A lower bracket for mounting a steering column to a vehicle body is formed as a single element that is fixed to the vehicle body by inserting a bolt with a collar therethrough. Upon application of an impact load, the lower bracket forces the bolt and collar into a path of a smaller width than the collar thereby plastically deforming an edge portion of the path for absorption of the impact energy.

Abstract: A tilt steering apparatus has a pivot fixed to, for example, a pair of fixed side plates of a vehicle body. The pivot is inserted through a connection hole provided in a steering column. At the time of tilt adjustment, the steering column is swung around the pivot. In either one of an inner peripheral surface of the connection hole and an outer peripheral surface of the pivot opposite thereto, a projection extending in a substantially circumferential or axial direction is formed in contact with the other peripheral surface. Consequently, the contact area between the pivot and the connection hole is reduced, thereby reducing friction therebetween. When the pivot is pressed into the connection hole, the projection is suitably crushed, so that fitting between the pivot and the connection hole is loosened, which is useful for the reduction in the friction therebetween.

Abstract: A capacitor electrode is formed simultaneously with drain bus lines. This capacitor electrode is electrically connected to the contact of two TFT's through the medium of a contact hole. Then, an interlayer insulating film is formed on the entire face and a black matrix of such light blocking metal film as Ti is formed on the interlayer insulating film so as to overlie the channel parts and the contacts of the TFT's and the capacitor electrode. The capacitor electrode, the interlayer insulating film formed thereon, and the black matrix jointly form a capacitor.

Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device includes a substrate with a pixel area including a plurality of scanning buses, a plurality of data buses intersecting therewith and pixel transistors and pixel electrodes formed at the intersections therebetween; a scanning driver for energizing these scanning buses; and a data driver for presenting these data buses with data signals. A checkout circuit equipped with a plurality of checkout transistors connected to the corresponding data buses or scanning buses; an input bus for applying prescribed checkout signals to the plurality of checkout transistors; and an output bus for picking up the signals from the plurality of checkout transistors.

Abstract: An active-matrix LCD causes no cross-talk even if the capacitance between a given cell and adjacent data lines is large. The LCD has a liquid crystal panel which has data lines arranged in parallel with one another, scan lines arranged orthogonally to the data lines, and liquid crystal cells arranged at the intersections of the data and scan lines, respectively. Each of the cells has a cell electrode and a switching device that is arranged between and connected to the cell electrode and a corresponding one of the data lines. The conduction of the switching device is controlled in response to a scan pulse applied to a corresponding one of the scan lines. The LCD also has a data driver for applying data signals to the data lines, respectively, so that the data signals are written to corresponding ones of the cells, and a scan driver for applying the scan pulse sequentially to the scan lines.

Abstract: A display device including a diffraction grating from which a diffracted light of the zeroth order and a diffracted light of the first order having different color light components emerge to establish color separation. An array of micro-lenses is arranged on a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel has a plurality of picture elements and each picture element includes a plurality of color display dots. The color display dots in each picture element are arranged in the vertical relationship and in the order of wavelength of the light. A green light component of diffracted light of the first order is made incident normal to the liquid crystal panel, and the diffracted light of the zeroth order passes through the liquid crystal panel at a greater angle relative to the normal to the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: The present invention provides an erasable writing ink composition which can be erased with an eraser after writing. The erasable writing ink composition of the present invention comprises 2 to 50% by weight of a resin selected from the group consisting of styrene-butadiene rubber and an acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber having a film-forming temperature of 0.degree. C. or less or a glass transition temperature of 0.degree. C. or less, 0 to 5% by weight of a surface active agent, 1 to 50% by weight of colored spherical fine particles and 20 to 97% by weight of water.

Abstract: A bicycle front wheel control mechanism made up of a suspension system and a brake system. The suspension system has an eccentric retainer having an axle and two L-shaped members, and a shaft portion is carried by a housing through an elastic body at a perpendicularly upper part of the axle. The suspension system is so designed that it can rock relative to the front wheel around an axis of the shaft portion with an axial distance between the shaft portion and the axle as its radius, and the brake system is so designed that a side surface of a rim is made wide in a radial direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides means for isolating a vibration or a shock, comprising means for receiving the load, means for supporting the load receiving means rotatably about an axis thereof, and means for allowing a movement of said first axis along a circular path about a second axis spaced from and parallel to the first axis.

Abstract: A front wheel suspension unit for motorcycles, in which the center part of a crank-shaped bent shaft having two parallel axes is taken as the axle, so that buffer effects may be produced against impact inputs in the horizontal direction of movement as well as in the vertical direction, and the wheel is supported, rotating freely around the axis of the said axle, while the other shaft part of the said bent shaft is held at the lower part of the front fork, so that the wheel may be supported while turning freely around the axis of the said shaft part.