Abstract: A method for making conductive particles that efficiently permit a plated layer of uniform thickness to be formed over each of the particles without aggregating the particles in a plating liquid.

Abstract: Provided is a method of fitting a tire-and-wheel assembled body to an axle, which is capable of resolving imbalance in a state of fitting an assembled body including a tire and a wheel to an axle. In this fitting method, a tire is fitted to a wheel, and then core positions of fastening holes are, or a core position of a hub hole is, adjusted in the wheel to minimize an amount of eccentricity of an assembled body including the tire and the wheel.

Abstract: A vibration absorber for absorbing a vibration between first and second members each of which is connected to the vibration absorber, includes a movable member adapted to contact with a fluid, and including a portion connected mechanically to one of the first and second members so that a movement of the fluid and a movement of the portion of the movable member correspond to each other, and a fluid moving member for flowing the fluid in either of an extension direction in which the portion of the movable member moves to increase a distance between the first and second members and a contraction direction in which the portion of the movable member moves to decrease the distance between the first and second members in such a manner that the vibration is restrained by a change of the distance between the first and second members from being transmitted between the first and second member.

Abstract: A vibration absorber for absorbing a vibration between first and second members each of which is connected to the vibration absorber, includes a movable member adapted to contact with a fluid, and including a portion connected mechanically to one of the first and second members so that a movement of the fluid and a movement of the portion of the movable member correspond to each other, and a fluid moving member for flowing the fluid in either of an extension direction in which the portion of the movable member moves to increase a distance between the first and second members and a contraction direction in which the portion of the movable member moves to decrease the distance between the first and second members in such a manner that the vibration is restrained by a change of the distance between the first and second members from being transmitted between the first and second member.

Abstract: A vibration-damping device capable of reducing the transmission of noise caused by a water pump of a hybrid vehicle, for example, to a vehicle compartment. The vibration-damping device includes a cushion member, a pump mounting member, and an elastic support member. The cushion member supports the pump, and includes holding portions each with a slit formed between an upper and lower surface thereof for insertion therein of end edges of a pump extension member that extends from the pump. The pump mounting member includes inverted L-shaped cross-section retaining portions provided on an upper surface thereof, the supporting portions being disposed between the retaining portions and the upper surface of the pump mounting member to retain the cushion member to the pump mounting member. The elastic support member engages a lower side of the pump to provide support against lateral deflection of the pump.

Abstract: An optical disc controller for controlling recording or reproduction of an optical disc includes: a rewritable memory for storing information necessary for recording or reproduction of the optical disc; a determination section for determining a class and type of the optical disc; a search section for searching for a region of the optical disc in which control information is recorded based on a determination result of the determination section; a reproduction section for reproducing the control information recorded in the region searched by the search section; and a memory control section for changing an arrangement of the memory based on at least one of the determination result and the control information reproduced by the reproduction section.

Abstract: Spherulites in a molded article obtained from a melt-processable crystalline fluorine-containing resin composition are minimized to give the transparent molded article having a smooth surface and being resistant to contamination. An agent for minimizing spherulite size which comprises an amorphous fluorine-containing polymer or a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer. The fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer comprises an amorphous segment and a crystalline segment.

Abstract: Spherulites in a molded article obtained from a melt-processable crystalline fluorine-containing resin composition are minimized to give the transparent molded article having a smooth surface and being resistant to contamination. An agent for minimizing spherulite size which comprises an amorphous fluorine-containing polymer or a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer. The fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer comprises an amorphous segment and a crystalline segment.

Abstract: An electrical connection box has a substrate carrying electrical components, a molded synthetic resin casing fitted on the substrate at the lower side thereof, and a connector receivable in the casing and mountable at a predetermined position on the substrate. The connector has electrical, terminals engageable with electrical terminals of the substrate. A fastener is inserted in the substrate to draw the connector to its predetermined position. A holder for the connector is molded in one piece with the casing, and is open at its upper side to receive the connector. The connector and the holder have holding elements which are mutually engageable to hold the connector in the holder, prior to the operation of the fastener to draw the connector to its predetermined position, whereby the fastener through the connector holds the casing at its fitted position on the substrate.

Abstract: When an electrical connection box body is installed on a vehicle body, for a temporary pivotable mounting of the box body on the vehicle body, one of the box body and the vehicle body has a shaft and the other has a bracket to receive the shaft at a predetermined location, so as to allow pivoting of the box body about the shaft axis. Locating guide surfaces position the box body relative to the vehicle body during mounting, prior to receipt of the shaft at said predetermined location on the bracket. This makes the operation of installing the box easier and more precise and avoids looseness of the box body during assembly operations carried out on the box.

Abstract: A shock absorber for an automobile which exhibits a vibration damping effect in a wide range of a frequency, while suppressing generation of frictional noise. The shock absorber for the automobile has a buffer member interposed between parts. The buffer member has a laminated structure including a plurality of vibration damping layers each having a peak of loss tangent tan&dgr; in a range of a frequency which is different from others and surface layers made of thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid filled type vibration isolator in which damping action for both engine idling vibration and engine shake is carried out with the use of a single orifice. In the liquid filled type vibration isolator comprising a rubber-like insulator for absorbing and isolating vibration transmitted from an oscillating body, a main chamber having a chamber wall formed by a part of the insulator, and hermetically charged therein with liquid, an auxiliary chamber connected to the main chamber through the intermediary of an orifice and having a chamber wall a part of which is formed by a first diaphragm, a partition member partitioning between the main chamber and the auxiliary chamber, a working chamber defined and formed with respect to the main chamber by means of a second diaphragm, wherein the second diaphragm has a deforming stiffness which is higher than that of the first diaphragm. The liquid in the orifice effects resonant oscillation with a vibration input during engine idling operation.

Abstract: A vibration-damping device capable of reducing the transmission of noise caused by a water pump of a hybrid vehicle, for example, to a vehicle compartment. The vibration-damping device includes a cushion member, a pump mounting member, and an elastic support member. The cushion member supports the pump, and includes holding portions each with a slit formed between an upper and lower surface thereof for insertion therein of end edges of a pump extension member that extends from the pump. The pump mounting member includes inverted L-shaped cross-section retaining portions provided on an upper surface thereof, the supporting portions being disposed between the retaining portions and the upper surface of the pump mounting member to retain the cushion member to the pump mounting member. The elastic support member engages a lower side of the pump to provide support against lateral deflection of the pump.

Abstract: Between the first linking member mounted on the vibrating body side and the second linking member mounted on a member on the car body side, the hydraulic vibration isolator has an insulator for isolating vibrations from the vibrating body. The main and auxiliary chambers in which an incompressible fluid (liquid) is sealed are provided in series with this insulator. The liquid is allowed to flow between the main chamber and the auxiliary chamber through an orifice. The partition member separates the main chamber and the auxiliary chamber from each other. The diaphragm forms a part of the chamber wall of the auxiliary chamber and separates the auxiliary chamber from an external atmosphere. The partition member is formed with a communication passage that connects the main chamber with the auxiliary chamber. In the communication passage is arranged a vibrator comprising an oscillating piston that oscillates the liquid in the main chamber at a predetermined frequency.

Abstract: A campaign system is composed of a campaign execution apparatus, POS systems, and portable telephones, all of which can use the Internet to communicate with one another. When there arises the campaign registration, the campaign execution apparatus in which member information including preference information has been accumulated extracts registered members that become to be targets of the campaign from the member information. The registered member receives campaign mail that fits his or her interest, and then he or she inputs identification information displayed as a bar code on the display of the portable telephone into the POS system. Then, a relier of the campaign can acquire private information that were not able to be acquired only with the POS system.

Abstract: When an electrical connection box body is installed on a vehicle body, for a temporary pivotable mounting of the box body on the vehicle body, one of the box body and the vehicle body has a shaft and the other has a bracket to receive the shaft at a predetermined location, so as to allow pivoting of the box body about the shaft axis. Locating guide surfaces position the box body relative to the vehicle body during mounting, prior to receipt of the shaft at said predetermined location on the bracket. This makes the operation of installing the box easier and more precise and avoids looseness of the box body during assembly operations carried out on the box.

Abstract: An electrical connection box has a substrate carrying electrical components, a molded synthetic resin casing fitted on the substrate at the lower side thereof, and a connector receivable in the casing and mountable at a predetermined position on the substrate. The connector has electrical terminals engageable with electrical terminals of the substrate. A fastener is inserted in the substrate to draw the connector to its predetermined position. A holder for the connector is molded in one piece with the casing, and is open at its upper side to receive the connector. The connector and the holder have holding elements which are mutually engageable to hold the connector in the holder, prior to the operation of the fastener to draw the connector to its predetermined position, whereby the fastener through the connector holds the casing at its fitted position on the substrate.

Abstract: Spherulites in a molded article obtained from a melt-processable crystalline fluorine-containing resin composition are minimized to give the transparent molded article having a smooth surface and being resistant to contamination. An agent for minimizing spherulite size which comprises an amorphous fluorine-containing polymer or a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer. The fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer comprises an amorphous segment and a crystalline segment.

Abstract: A vibration damping mount capable of reducing vibration and noise, and improving vehicle stability and controllability. Between an inner cylindrical sleeve and outer cylindrical sleeve which are coaxially arranged with each other, a vibration-damping rubber body is disposed and joined thereto. A stopper plate is secured to a lower end of the inner cylindrical sleeve. The vibration-damping rubber body extends from the lower end thereof along a flange which projects outward from a lower end of the outer cylindrical sleeve to define an annular rubber stopper. An end edge of the annular rubber stopper abuts a peripheral part of the stopper plate.

Abstract: A vibration absorber for absorbing a vibration between first and second members each of which is connected to the vibration absorber, includes a movable member adapted to contact with a fluid, and including a portion connected mechanically to one of the first and second members so that a movement of the fluid and a movement of the portion of the movable member correspond to each other, and a fluid moving member for flowing the fluid in either of an extension direction in which the portion of the movable member moves to increase a distance between the first and second members and a contraction direction in which the portion of the movable member moves to decrease the distance between the first and second members in such a manner that the vibration is restrained by a change of the distance between the first and second members from being transmitted between the first and second member.