Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a facing area, a liquid crystal layer, and a first spacer. The facing area includes a first area for displaying an image, a second area, and a frame-shaped frame area. The second substrate includes a light-shielding layer. The second area is an area having higher transparency than transparency of the first area. The liquid crystal layer is located in the second area, the frame area, and the first area. The first spacer is located in the second area and is provided on the first substrate or the second substrate.

Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a display unit, a wire cutting machine that draws an electric wire from a wire feed reel and cuts the electric wire to a predetermined length, a control unit that directs the display unit to display a wire laying image and wire work identification information for identifying a work regarding each electric wire, the wire laying image including a plurality of wire images showing the plurality of electric wire in the laid state and the wire work identification information being displayed in the vicinity of the corresponding wire image, and a memory unit that stores the wire laying image and work instruction information so as to correspond to the wire work identification information, the work instruction information including cut length of the electric wire. The control unit sends the cut length information to the wire cutting machine.

Abstract: A wire harness wiring operation support system includes a display section that includes a procedure display region for displaying a plurality of wiring procedure selection buttons corresponding a wire harness to be wired, and a wiring position display region for displaying a wiring position of the wire harness that corresponds to the selected wiring procedure selection button.

Abstract: A wire harness producing method configured to produce a wire harness by arranging a plurality of display devices end to end, each including a display portion and a bezel arranged around a periphery of the display portion, displaying a wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, and laying out an electric wire along the wire laying-out drawing. The method includes compartmentalizing a two-dimensional image of the wire harness into display regions to be displayed on the display portions of the display devices respectively and non-display regions corresponding to the bezels of the display devices respectively, with the display regions and the non-display regions conforming to sizes of the display portions and the bezels respectively, trimming the two-dimensional image to create wire laying-out image data composed of only the display regions, and displaying the wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, based on the wire laying-out image data.

Abstract: A wire harness producing method configured to produce a wire harness by arranging a plurality of display devices end to end, each including a display portion and a bezel arranged around a periphery of the display portion, displaying a wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, and laying out an electric wire along the wire laying-out drawing. The method includes compartmentalizing a two-dimensional image of the wire harness into display regions to be displayed on the display portions of the display devices respectively and non-display regions corresponding to the bezels of the display devices respectively, with the display regions and the non-display regions conforming to sizes of the display portions and the bezels respectively, trimming the two-dimensional image to create wire laying-out image data composed of only the display regions, and displaying the wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, based on the wire laying-out image data.

Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a display unit, a wire cutting machine that draws an electric wire from a wire feed reel and cuts the electric wire to a predetermined length, a control unit that directs the display unit to display a wire laying image and wire work identification information for identifying a work regarding each electric wire, the wire laying image including a plurality of wire images showing the plurality of electric wire in the laid state and the wire work identification information being displayed in the vicinity of the corresponding wire image, and a memory unit that stores the wire laying image and work instruction information so as to correspond to the wire work identification information, the work instruction information including cut length of the electric wire. The control unit sends the cut length information to the wire cutting machine.

Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a display unit, a wire cutting machine that draws an electric wire from a wire feed reel and cuts the electric wire to a predetermined length, a control unit that directs the display unit to display a wire laying image and wire work identification information for identifying a work regarding each electric wire, the wire laying image including a plurality of wire images showing the plurality of electric wire in the laid state and the wire work identification information being displayed in the vicinity of the corresponding wire image, and a memory unit that stores the wire laying image and work instruction information so as to correspond to the wire work identification information, the work instruction information including cut length of the electric wire. The control unit sends the cut length information to the wire cutting machine.

Abstract: The present invention comprises an AS-side wiper motor 40 including an AS-side output shaft 83 that is rotated in forward and backward directions and a link mechanism 60 constituted by a four-bar link. The AS-side wiper member 50 is configured to wipe in a first AS-side wipe range 11b by a pivotal movement of the AS-side output shaft 83 in a first angular range SA1, and wipe in a second AS-side wipe range 11c by a pivotal movement of the AS-side output shaft 83 in a second angular range SA2 that differs from the first angular range SA1. The wipe range of the AS-side wiper member 50 can thus be switched between the first AS-side wipe range 11b and the second AS-side wipe range 11c by controlling an angular range, in which the AS-side output shaft 83 is pivotally moved, to be in the first angular range SA1 or the second angular range SA2 that differ from each other.

Abstract: When a vehicle body is on board an escalator, a control device makes an ejection determination by use of an external sensor. The control device makes an ejection determination by use of front-wheel rotation sensors. The control device makes an ejection determination by use of an inclination detecting unit. The control device switches a control mode from a boarding control mode to an ejection control mode, when at least one of the above three ejection determinations is affirmatively made.

Abstract: A wire harness wiring operation support system includes a display section that includes a procedure display region for displaying a plurality of wiring procedure selection buttons corresponding a wire harness to be wired, and a wiring position display region for displaying a wiring position of the wire harness that corresponds to the selected wiring procedure selection button.

Abstract: The travelling apparatus according to exemplary embodiments includes front wheels, which are driving wheels, an upper frame, first linear motion mechanisms configured to be extendable and retractable and couple the front wheels to the upper frame, middle wheels configured to be disposed at a back of the front wheels, second linear motion mechanisms configured to be extendable and retractable and couple a riding part to the middle wheels, rear wheels configured to be disposed at a back of the middle wheels, lower links configured to couple the middle wheels to the rear wheels, respectively, rear links configured to couple the lower links to the upper frame, and a third linear motion mechanism configured to change an angle between the upper frame and the rear links.

Abstract: When a vehicle body is on board an escalator, a control device makes an ejection determination by use of an external sensor. The control device makes an ejection determination by use of front-wheel rotation sensors. The control device makes an ejection determination by use of an inclination detecting unit. The control device switches a control mode from a boarding control mode to an ejection control mode, when at least one of the above three ejection determinations is affirmatively made.

Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a display unit, a wire cutting machine that draws an electric wire from a wire feed reel and cuts the electric wire to a predetermined length, a control unit that directs the display unit to display a wire laying image and wire work identification information for identifying a work regarding each electric wire, the wire laying image including a plurality of wire images showing the plurality of electric wire in the laid state and the wire work identification information being displayed in the vicinity of the corresponding wire image, and a memory unit that stores the wire laying image and work instruction information so as to correspond to the wire work identification information, the work instruction information including cut length of the electric wire. The control unit sends the cut length information to the wire cutting machine.

Abstract: The travelling apparatus according to exemplary embodiments includes front wheels, which are driving wheels, an upper frame, first linear motion mechanisms configured to be extendable and retractable and couple the front wheels to the upper frame, middle wheels configured to be disposed at a back of the front wheels, second linear motion mechanisms configured to be extendable and retractable and couple a riding part to the middle wheels, rear wheels configured to be disposed at a back of the middle wheels, lower links configured to couple the middle wheels to the rear wheels, respectively, rear links configured to couple the lower links to the upper frame, and a third linear motion mechanism configured to change an angle between the upper frame and the rear links.

Abstract: A connecting rod structure includes a connecting rod for coupling a crankshaft to a piston, the connecting rod including a larger end part formed with a shaft insertion hole for the crankshaft, a smaller end part formed with a pin insertion hole for a piston pin which couples the piston to the smaller end part, and a coupling part for coupling the larger end part to the smaller end part; and a dynamic absorber provided to the larger end part for suppressing the piston, the piston pin, and the connecting rod from integrally resonating with respect to the crankshaft. The dynamic absorber includes a fixed part fixed to the larger end part and a supporting part for coupling the fixed part to a mass part and supporting the mass part to be movable in substantially longitudinal directions of the connecting rod with respect to the fixed part.

Abstract: A wiper motor 10 includes: an armature 20; an armature shaft 21; a core 20a composed of eighteen teeth portions; a commutator 23 having eighteen commutator bars 23a1 to 23a18; and a winding 20b composed of eighteen coil portions 20b1 to 20b18; an equalizer 27 composed of nine connecting conductors 27a1 to 27a9; a first brush 36, a second brush 35 shifted from a first brush 26 by 90 degrees, and a third brush 37 shifted from the first and second brushes by 90 or more degrees, each brush being arranged so as to come in sliding contact with the commutator bars, the first brush being connected to a common electric potential, a current for rotating the armature at low speed is selectively supplied to the second brush, and a current for rotating the armature at high speed is selectively supplied to the third brush.

Abstract: A motor 10 includes: a yoke on whose inner surface a four-pole magnet is attached; a gear case 15 jointed to an opening portion of the yoke and storing a speed-reduction mechanism; a brush holder 30 stored in an opening portion 15a of the gear case and having a through hole 31 penetrated by a commutator 23 attached to an armature shaft 21 in a center of the brush holder; and a first brush 36, a second brush 35, and a third brush 37 which are stored so as to freely come in and out to/from three brush storing portions 32, 33, and 34 formed so as to interpose the through hole 31 in the brush holder 30. In the motor, the second brush 35 is arranged at a position shifted from the first brush 36 in a rotational direction by 90 degrees, and a third brush 37 is arranged within an included angle opposite to an included angle formed by the first brush 36 and the second brush 35.

Abstract: A developing device includes a development roller that holds developer containing toner and carrier, rotates and transports the developer to a development area, and develops a latent image using the toner; a housing that has a first opening that opens towards the image holding member, and that holds the development roller; an airflow path that has a second opening that opens towards the image holding member at a location below the first opening; a blower that causes air in the airflow path to be sent in a direction in which the toner scattered between the housing and the image holding member is sucked from the second opening; and a magnetic plate opposing an end portion of the development roller in a direction of an axis of rotation of the development roller and extending so as to surround the development roller in a direction of rotation of the development roller.

Abstract: An optical fiber that has no bubbles in the ultraviolet ray curable resin filled inside the air holes to seal the end parts thereof, an end part processing method of the optical fiber, and an end part processing apparatus of the optical fiber, are provided. In an end part processing method of an optical fiber that is comprised of a core and a cladding formed around the core, the cladding having a refraction index lower than that of the core and has a plurality of air holes formed therein along the axis of the core, wherein the end part process of the optical fiber is to form sealed portions on the ends of the air holes by sealing them with ultraviolet ray curable resin, the method is characterized in that the sealed portion is formed by heating the end of the optical fiber.

Abstract: In an image display device, a floating image display unit focuses light left from an image screen on an image plane in a space to display a floating image. The space is located on one side of an image transfer panel opposite to the other side thereof facing a display unit. A direct-view image display unit includes a display unit having an image screen on a plane orthogonal or oblique to the image plane from a periphery of the image plane and outputs, in a first direction far from the image transfer panel and in a second direction close thereto, two-dimensional images, respectively. A reflection and pass unit reflects part of the light left from the display unit in the second direction toward a direction far from the image transfer panel, and allows part of the light left from the display unit to pass therethrough.