Abstract: A decorative sheet includes, from the front side to the back side, a skin layer, an intermediate layer, a design layer, and a soft layer. Recesses open on at least one of a front surface and a back surface of the design layer. The decorative sheet further includes display regions formed by the recesses. The display regions display a predetermined design on a front surface of the skin layer by light irradiated from the back side. Light is irradiated from the back side to the display regions via the soft layer. Light blocking partition parts of the soft layer are each disposed between two adjacent display regions as seen from the front side, and prevent light to be irradiated to one display region from leaking into the other display region via the soft layer.

Abstract: A contact detection apparatus includes an electrostatic sensor, and a determination processor detecting whether a conductor comes into contact with a plurality of detection regions. The determination processor includes a storage unit, a determination reference value setting unit, and a determination processing unit. The determination reference value setting unit determines a detection region in which a difference between a capacitance equivalent value and a setting reference value exceeds a threshold value as a contact region where the conductor is in contact, determines a detection region in which the difference is equal to or less than the threshold value as a non-contact region where the conductor is not in contact, and sets the setting reference value corresponding to the non-contact region as a determination reference value of the contact region for the contact region when determining that the contact region exists and that the non-contact region exists.

Abstract: A contact detecting apparatus comprises an electrostatic sensor, a first bridge capacitor, a charge/discharge switching element, a control device, and a measuring instrument. The electrostatic sensor is configured to have an electrostatic capacitance that changes in accordance with at least one of an area contacted by a conductor and a distance to the conductor, and is configured to have a time constant ? hat changes depending on an electrical resistance corresponding to a distance from a first measurement position; and in a charging process, the measuring instrument detects a position where the conductor is in contact with the electrostatic sensor based on a first potential first sampling value, which is a first potential acquired at a first sampling time point, and a first potential second sampling value, which is the first potential acquired at a second sampling time point after a predetermined time has elapsed from the first sampling time point.

Abstract: A contact detection device includes: an AC power supply switching between and applying first and second AC voltages to first and second electrode layers; a storage part storing an alternative quadrature component corresponding to a state in which a conductor is in contact with an electrostatic sensor; a quadrature component comparison part comparing between a first quadrature component extracted upon applying the first AC voltage to the second electrode layer and a second quadrature component extracted upon applying the second AC voltage to the second electrode layer; and a contact determination part that detects contact of a conductor based on the first quadrature component when the first quadrature component and the second quadrature component fall within a first quadrature error, and detects contact of a conductor based on the alternative quadrature component when the first quadrature component and the second quadrature component fall outside the first quadrature error.

Abstract: A damper system for damping vibrations of an assembly unit of a vehicle comprises one or more main vibration dampers and one or more acoustic bushings. The respective main vibration damper is tuned to vibrations from a lower frequency range. The respective acoustic bushing is tuned to vibrations from a higher frequency range which lies above and does not overlap with the lower frequency range.

Abstract: A heat dissipation structure for a wire harness is configured to provide heat dissipation while achieving versatility using a simple structure. The heat dissipation structure for a wire harness includes wire harnesses, heat dissipation bodies with which the wire harnesses are in contact in a heat conductive manner, and a heat conductive member whose heat conductivity is improved in a specific direction. The wire harnesses and the heat dissipation bodies are pressed against each other with the heat conductive member sandwiched in between in the specific direction.

Abstract: An elastic member for battery pack is arranged in a battery pack in which multiple battery cells are arranged side by side in a predetermined direction and is in elastic contact with the battery cells. The elastic member for battery pack (4) is made of a foam that satisfies the following (a) to (d): (a) an Asker C hardness is 20 or more and 40 or less; (b) a foaming ratio is 3.0 times or more and 5.0 times or less; (c) a closed cell ratio is 50% or more and 95% or less; (d) with a direction of elastic contact with a battery cell as a thickness direction, a structure of a bubble in a cross-section in the thickness direction has an elliptical bubble having an elongated elliptical shape in the thickness direction.

Abstract: According to the embodiment of the present disclosure, a hydraulic bearing (1) is provided, comprising an inner core (2), an outer shell (3) which radially surrounds the inner core (2), an elastomer body (4) which resiliently interconnects the inner core (2) and the outer shell (3) in order to allow a relative displacement between the inner core (2) and the outer shell (3), a first working chamber (5) and a second working chamber (6) which are fluidically interconnected by means of a working channel, a bypass chamber (8) which is connected to the first working chamber (5) by means of a first bypass channel (9), wherein the first working chamber (5) and the second working chamber (6) are configured such that an amount of a volume change in the case of a displacement of the inner core (2) relative to the outer shell (3), in a predetermined radial direction, is larger for the first working chamber (5) than for the second working chamber (6).

Abstract: A quick coupler for automotive fluid transport tubing discloses a quick coupling element used on metallic tubing, particularly on tubing for automotive fluid transport. The quick coupler includes two locking members made in thermoplastic material, and the quick coupler being fitted on both a male fitting tube and a female fitting tube in order to join the tubes together and provide them with an anti-rotation safety system.

Abstract: A resin connector (10) includes a tubular connector main body portion (11) which is formed to contain a reinforcing filler in a main portion base material resin, and a tubular connector end portion (12) which is formed of a end portion base material resin without containing the reinforcing filler or containing the reinforcing filler at a lower proportion than the connector main body portion (11) and is joined to the connector main body portion (11) to constitute a tubular end portion. The resin tube (20) is formed of a material having a higher absorption rate of a laser beam than the connector end portion (12) and is fitted to the connector end portion (12) to be welded to an inner peripheral surface or an outer peripheral surface of the connector end portion (12) and not to be welded to the connector main body portion (11).

Abstract: A cover for an automobile engine covers a crank pulley and an auxiliary drive belt of an engine arranged in an engine room with the crank pulley and the auxiliary drive belt being in a posture facing a front direction of a vehicle body. The cover includes a reinforcing body that includes a fastening part attaching to the engine and is integrated with a sound-absorbing main body.

Abstract: Provided are a cylindrical vibration isolator and an intermediate sleeve. In the cylindrical vibration isolator, an inner shaft member and an outer cylindrical member are connected by a main body rubber elastic body, and a cylindrical intermediate sleeve extending in a circumferential direction between the inner shaft member and the outer cylindrical member in a radial direction is fixed to the main body rubber elastic body. A slit penetrating axially is formed in a part of the intermediate sleeve in the circumferential direction. Both end parts of the slit are straight parts extending axially. A direct overlap margin of the straight parts on both sides in axial view is smaller than a radial thickness of the intermediate sleeve.

Abstract: A mounting rubber member for a vehicle, which is mounted to a surface of a mounting target member of a vehicle, includes a mounting shaft part that protrudes toward a mounting direction from a mounting surface to the mounting target member and is inserted into a mounting hole of the mounting target member. The mounting shaft part includes a neck part that is to be positioned inside the mounting hole of the mounting target member. The mounting shaft part includes, in a circumferential direction, locking parts that protrude on an outer circumferential surface and are locked to a back surface at a portion that protrudes from the mounting hole of the mounting target member to a back surface side. The neck part is formed with a groove-shaped recess that extends in the circumferential direction on a base side of the locking part.

Abstract: Provided is a paper feeding roll that prevents paper transportation failures over a long time. A paper feeding roll 10 is provided with an axial body 12 and an elastic layer 14 formed on an outer periphery of the axial body 12. The circumferential surface of the elastic layer 14 has a plurality of projections 16 forming surface unevenness. Each projection 16 of the plurality of projections 16 is shaped such that a position X of a distal-end part preceding in an opposite direction to a paper feeding direction precedes, in the opposite direction to the paper feeding direction, a position Y of a base-end part preceding in the opposite direction to the paper feeding direction.

Abstract: A charging roll includes a shaft body, an elastic body layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft body, and a surface layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the elastic body layer. The elastic body layer includes silicone rubber. A plurality of large protruding parts having a width of 13-48 ?m and a height of 5-13 ?m are provided on the outer circumferential surface of the elastic body layer, and a plurality of small protruding parts forming unevenness having a ten-point average roughness Rz of 1.0-6.0 ?m are provided on the surface of the large protruding parts. The surface layer contains a urethane polymer, and the elongation at breakage of the surface layer is 285-525%.

Abstract: A rubber composition contains components (A) to (D) described below: (A) a rubber-based polymer; (B) a plant-derived filler; (C) carbon black; and (D) diacetyl monododecanoyl glyceride.

Abstract: An upper support including a bracket to be attached to a vehicle body side, and a support main body attached to a center portion of the bracket to receive a suspension component. The bracket includes upper and lower metal brackets having respective flanged parts overlapped with each other, and their overlapped surfaces are welded and fixed at multiple locations in a circumferential direction. Fixing bolts for attaching the bracket to the vehicle body side are provided to an overlapped portion of the flanged parts and are spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction. An adhesive is applied to an outer peripheral edge of the overlapped portion of the flanged parts, and the adhesive provides sealing at an outer peripheral end between the overlapped surfaces of the flanged parts in outer peripheral regions of the corresponding fixing bolts.

Abstract: A paper feed roll includes a shaft body and an elastic body layer formed on the outer circumferential surface of the shaft body. The outer diameter of the elastic body layer is 10-50 mm, the outer circumferential surface of the elastic body layer is provided with, in the circumferential direction, 1-8 grooves extending in the axial direction, the grooves have a constant groove width in the depth direction or have a groove width that gradually decreases in the depth direction, the groove width of the grooves is 0.2-1.0 mm, and the groove depth of the grooves is 0.2-1.0 mm.

Abstract: A sulfur-vulcanized rubber composition contains an ethylene-propylene copolymer rubber (A) as a main component and a vulcanization accelerator (B) and serves as a material of an innermost layer of a vehicle coolant transport hose. The vulcanization accelerator (B) includes at least one vulcanization accelerator selected from a group consisting of (B-1) to (B-3) below in a specific proportion. (B-1) A dithiocarbamate vulcanization accelerator having a molecular weight of 380 or greater. (B-2) A thiuram vulcanization accelerator having a molecular weight of 380 or greater. (B-3) A sulfenamide vulcanization accelerator.

Abstract: A bearing bush and a method of manufacturing a bearing bush is provided. The bearing bush may be used in a transverse control arm. The bearing bush includes an inner sleeve; an outer sleeve arranged radially around the inner sleeve; an elastomer body arranged between the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve; and an intermediate sleeve which is, at least in sections, embedded in the elastomer body. The outer sleeve has, at its axial ends, a radially inwardly bent bend portion; wherein a radial outer surface of the intermediate sleeve has a radially outwardly directed bulge along the axial direction of the bearing bush. The intermediate sleeve has a radially outwardly protruding outer stop portion which forms an axial stop with respect to an axial inner surface of the bend portion of the outer sleeve.