Abstract: A shielded connector is provided with a housing (14) for accommodating terminals (13) connected with ends of wires (11), a shield shell (20) for accommodating the housing (14) and connection for connecting an end portion of a shielding member (12) with the shield shell (20). The connection includes a tubular inner ring (25) into which the wires (11) are insertable and around which the end portion of the shielding member (12) is mounted, and an outer ring (29) to be crimped into connection with the outer circumferential surface of the inner ring (25) by sandwiching the end portion of the shielding member (12) between the inner ring (25) and the outer ring (29). The inner ring (25) and the shield shell (20) are integrally formed via a joint (26).

Abstract: An electrically insulating member is provided between a bus bar of an IPM and a nearby casing so as to electrically insulate the casing from the bus bar of the IPM. Above the portion where electrical insulation is necessary, a bracket provided for supporting a component-to-be supported is secured to the casing. The electrically insulating member is attached to a lower portion of the bracket that is an existing component.

Abstract: An equalizing fluid-operated apparatus for use with a pressing machine, the apparatus including a flat common manifold which has bottomed holes having respective bottoms, and a communication passage that communicates the bottomed holes with each other, and rod guides which are integrally and fixedly provided around respective openings of the bottomed holes of the manifold, such that each of the rod guides guides a movement of a piston rod of a corresponding one of fluid-operated cylinders, and prevents the piston rod from coming off the one fluid-operated cylinder, the bottomed holes and the communication passage of the manifold being filled with a working fluid, so that the bottomed holes function as respective pressure chambers of the fluid-operated cylinders.

Abstract: A biological data observation system makes it possible to accurately observing the anesthetic depth of a patient. The system measures a signal based on the pulse wave of the patient, and measures the sweat rate. During a surgery, these data and/or their composite data is monitored. The system displays transition of the sweat rate. Therefore, if during the surgery the patient's condition changes, an operating doctor (operator) will immediately notice a change in the sweat rate displayed by the system, so that the doctor or the like can promptly take an appropriate measure for the change in the patient's condition. By observing the transition of the patient's blood pressure displayed by the system, the doctor can also understand how the patient's condition changes as a result of the doctor's measure.

Abstract: A vehicle hollow structural member including a hollow body portion, and a reinforcement having a hollow structure fixedly disposed within the body portion in close contact with the inner surface of the hollow body portion. The reinforcement includes a thick-walled portion as a longitudinal central portion thereof, and two decreasing-thickness portions longitudinally opposite end portions. Each decreasing-thickness portion has a wall thickness which continuously decreases in a longitudinal direction from the thick-walled portion toward the longitudinal end of the corresponding end portion of the reinforcement, such that the wall thickness at the longitudinal end is substantially zero.

Abstract: A seat apparatus used by a worker when effecting a job on an automobile is disclosed. The seat apparatus includes: a two-axis support device located above a horizontal feed path of an automobile body, for supporting a suspension carriage such that the carriage is movable in a substantially horizontal plane; a hanger arm attached to the suspension carriage; and a seat member provided on a lower end portion of the hanger arm which can enter the automobile body through its side opening, in a direction perpendicular to the feed path of the body. The seat member on which the worker sits is movable with the suspension carriage in the direction perpendicular to the feed path, and is thus selectively located in a retracted position outside the automobile body, or a working position inside the automobile body, at which the worker is able to effect the job.

Abstract: A pantograph type robot arm having a linkage for connecting a movable member such as a movable welding electrode to a support member. The pantograph type robot arm includes two blocks supported by the support member movably in a direction perpendicular to a straight line, toward and away from each other in a symmetric manner with respect to the straight line. The linkage includes a pair of proximal link bars pivotally connected to the blocks such that the proximal link bars are pivotally connected to each other at their intermediate portions, and a pair of distal link bars pivotally connected to the movable member and to the proximal link bars so that the movable member is moved relative to the support member when the two blocks are moved relative to each other.

Abstract: An actuator including a first cylinder chamber and a second cylinder chamber defined as separate entities in a cylinder for receiving a first piston and a second piston therein respectively. One of the first and second cylinder chambers is connected to an oil pressure source and the other cylinder chamber is connected to an air pressure source. A piston rod of the first piston and a piston rod of the second piston which move in relative sliding movement have at their forward ends separate operating portions for performing operations on a common workpiece.

Abstract: A braking device for arresting an axial relative movement between a bearing, and a shaft slidably engaging the bearing and extending through a cylinder which is axially immovable to the bearing. The device comprises: an annular piston slidably received in the cylinder and slidably engaging the shaft; a brake shoe engaging the shaft axially immovably relative to the cylinder and radially contractible to apply a brake to the shaft; a resilient radial clamp member engaging the outer surface of the brake shoe, axially compressible by axial movement of the annular piston and thereby reduced in inside diameter to force the brake shoe against the surface of the shaft; and a piston driving device for moving the shaft along its axis through a controlled selective supply of a pressurized fluid to the cylinder. The piston driving device may comprise a coil spring to bias the piston to cause an axial compression of the radial clamp member, and a device for effecting the controlled supply of the fluid.