Abstract: There is provided a rudder angle sensor that is attached to a steering shaft for measuring an absolute angle of the steering shaft and includes: a coarse signal measuring mechanism and a fine signal measuring mechanism which measure a rotation angle of the steering shaft which rotates a predetermined number of times, the coarse signal measuring mechanism outputting a coarse signal and the fine signal measuring mechanism outputting a fine signal; and a calculating mechanism which calculates the absolute angle of the steering shaft based on coarse signal measurement data and fine signal measurement data converted from the coarse signal and the fine signal respectively, wherein the calculating mechanism is constituted by including an abnormal data detecting and eliminating unit which detects and eliminates abnormal data deviating from a predetermined range from the measurement data.

Abstract: A liquid level sensor switch comprising a case, a rod type guide vertically extending from an inside bottom center of the case, a float having a center bore fitted on the guide with a clearance allowing the float to freely move up and down along the guide inside the case, an electrode plate attached to a circumferential bottom surface of the float and a pair of fixed contacts disposed opposite to each other across the guide on the inside bottom surface of the case, wherein the float moves down with the drop of oil in the case along the guide to reach a lowest position at which the electrode plate makes contact with both the fixed contacts to turn on a circuit formed by the electrode plate bridging between the contacts for producing an electrical signal indicating that oil surface is lowered to or below a specified level, which is featured by using the guide having a body tapering upward from its bottom end or the float having the center bore tapered to be gradually larger in diameter upward from its bottom en

Abstract: Is disclosed an inclination sensor for detecting an inclination of a vehicle body in both lateral and longitudinal directions by a pendulum type movement rotatably supported on a rotation shaft mounted in the case, wherein the rotation shaft of the movement in the case is slanting to form a specified angle between a rotation plane of the movement and the case mounting plate surface attached to the vehicle body.

Abstract: There is provided a rudder angle sensor that is attached to a steering shaft for measuring an absolute angle of the steering shaft and includes: a coarse signal measuring mechanism and a fine signal measuring mechanism which measure a rotation angle of the steering shaft which rotates a predetermined number of times, the coarse signal measuring mechanism outputting a coarse signal and the fine signal measuring mechanism outputting a fine signal; and a calculating mechanism which calculates the absolute angle of the steering shaft based on coarse signal measurement data and fine signal measurement data converted from the coarse signal and the fine signal respectively, wherein the calculating mechanism is constituted by including an abnormal data detecting and eliminating unit which detects and eliminates abnormal data deviating from a predetermined range from the measurement data.

Abstract: A switch control device for control of drives of power windows and power side mirrors of a vehicle, which has a simple and easy-to-operate switch panel provided with a multifunction switch having a square operating surface to be pushed down as a whole and tilted in any of multiple directions and having four switch contacts disposed one at each of four corners of the operating surface, a window opening/closing switch and a left/right side mirror selecting switch, wherein a control mode of the device is automatically changed to a power window control mode when the multifunction switch is not operated for more than a specified period of time, and it is changed from the power window control mode to a power side-mirror control mode when operating the power side mirror selecting switch.

Abstract: Is disclosed an inclination sensor for detecting a tilted state of a case by detecting by a magnetic sensor a magnetized portion of a pendulum type movement mounted rotatably on a shaft in accordance with inclination of the case, wherein the shaft fitted with a clearance in a rotation shaft hole of the movement is further provided at both ends with loosely fitted thereon spacers and mounted in the case. This realizes non-restricted state of both the movement and the shaft. Thus, the movement obtains an improved response characteristic and an increased stability since no oscillation of a running vehicle is transmitted through the shaft to the movement.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control device for a vehicle seat that has a function enabling the accurate detection and immediate countermeasures even when a foreign object is sandwiched between the soft portions of the seats. According to a method of the present invention for detecting the insertion of a foreign object in a vehicle seat having a power slide mechanism, the foreign object insertion detection is performed by measuring a fluctuation AF of a seat drive force for each predetermined movement distance ?x and comparing the fluctuation quantity with a threshold Z. The threshold Z in this case is a fluctuation region value determined by subtracting, from a set threshold width h, a value [?Ki(?F/?x)i] obtained by successively adding up the products of the fluctuation quantity of the seat drive force for each predetermined movement distance and a coefficient Ki.

Abstract: To provide a rudder angle sensor with high accuracy, it is constituted such that a storage means capable of storing a correction value to correct a rotational delay of a driven gear relative to a main drive gear caused by a backlash at a time of reverse of a steering shaft is provided, a calculation means corrects a measured result of a measuring mechanism based on the correction value stored in the storage means, and thereby, a rotation angle of the steering shaft can be calculated. The measured result of the driven gear obtained by the measuring mechanism is corrected based on the correction value, and therefore, the backlash existing between the main drive gear and the driven gear can be matched completely or approximately. Namely, the high accuracy of the rudder angle sensor is realized.

Abstract: A switch control device for control of drives of power windows and power side mirrors of a vehicle, which has a simple and easy-to-operate switch panel provided with a multifunction switch having a square operating surface to be pushed down as a whole and tilted in any of multiple directions and having four switch contacts disposed one at each of four corners of the operating surface, a window opening/closing switch and a left/right side mirror selecting switch, wherein a control mode of the device is automatically changed to a power window control mode when the multifunction switch is not operated for more than a specified period of time, and it is changed from the power window control mode to a power side-mirror control mode when operating the power side mirror selecting switch.

Abstract: A liquid level sensor-switch capable of effectively reducing variations in levels detected depending on directions in which it is inclined. The sensor-switch has a case, a guide rod formed therein, a float mounted on the guide rod with a clearance and being movable in the vertical direction along the guide rod in the case, an electrode plate attached to the bottom of the float and a pair of terminals disposed on both sides of the guide rod on the inside bottom of the case, wherein the float moves downward as the level of liquid lowers and it detects a specified low level by contacting the electrode plate with the paired terminals to make conductive a circuit formed between the terminals. It is featured by the fact that a pair of protrusions for restricting a biased movement of the float with respect to the guide rod are provided on both sides of the guide rod on the inside bottom of the case in a direction with a specified angle to a direction of arrangement of the paired terminals.

Abstract: A split type stator core winding device which can continuously form windings on each of divided core elements assembled in a single stator core having a small gaps between large claws of adjacent core elements by stepwise feeding the stator core per magnet pole (core element) by rotation of the driving shaft and by passing a copper wire through a gap between claws of adjacent core elements and placing windings on each magnetic pole (core element), which is provided with means for expanding outward a part of the stator core assembled of core elements each being movable in a specified range in the circumferential direction in synchronism with rotation of the driving shaft holding the stator core.

Abstract: An operation switch having an operation surface with a specified pattern printed thereon and covered with a soft-feeling layer of paint, which can obtain the increased durability of adhesion between the pattern-printed surface and the soft-feeling coat of paint by adopting a simple technical means and can withstand repeated finger-pressing operations for a long period of service life without stripping the soft-feeling layer from the pattern-printed surface. This is achieved by first printing a specified pattern on the operation substrate surface of the switch by using siliconeless ink or a two-component isocyanate setting type urethane ink and then covering the pattern-printed surface with a coat of a transparent or semitransparent soft paint or by first coating and then printing.

Abstract: An operation switch having an operation surface with a specified pattern printed thereon and covered with a soft-feeling layer of paint, which can obtain the increased durability of adhesion between the pattern-printed surface and the soft-feeling coat of paint by adopting a simple technical means and can withstand repeated finger-pressing operations for a long period of service life without stripping the soft-feeling layer from the pattern-printed surface. This is achieved by first printing a specified pattern on the operation substrate surface of the switch by using siliconeless ink or a two-component isocyanate setting type urethane ink and then covering the pattern-printed surface with a coat of a transparent or semitransparent soft paint or by first coating and then printing.

Abstract: A stick-type ignition coil device has a central core, and primary and secondary windings wound concentrically around the central core in a coil casing. A positioning part is provided in the casing to define the position of the central core. An insulating resin such as epoxy resin is filled in the coil casing for electrical insulation and fixing of components in the coil casing. A thermal stress releasing member, which is less adhesive to and easily peelable from the insulating resin, is provided on the upper surface of the positioning part. The thermal stress releasing member is separated from the insulating resin and allows the positioning member to move with the central core, thereby minimizing cracks which will occur in the insulating resin formed between the central core and the positioning part.

Abstract: In a high-voltage generating transformer having primary and secondary coil bobbins coaxially mounted on one another relative to a center core, an element wire of the primary coil is wound spirally around the primary coil bobbin in such a way that the both staring and terminating ends of the wire are disposed at the same end of the coil bobbin by forward and backward winding of the wire. This enables the transformer to have considerably reduced number of turns of the wires in the primary coil relative to that in the secondary coil, thus improving the voltage transformation ratio and obtaining a sufficiently high voltage at the secondary side.

Abstract: A switch housing (21) of a starter switch (Ss) is inserted into an opening (14) defined in a rear handlebar cover (1) in a motor vehicle, and a locking claw (212) projectingly provided on the switch housing (21) is locked in the opening (14) to fix the switch housing (21). When the switch housing (21) is inserted into the opening (14), a leaf spring-like terminal (242) of a stationary contact (24) exposed to a surface of the switch housing (21) comes into resilient abutment against a terminal (312) of a bus bar (31) exposed to the opening (14) in the rear handlebar cover (1), thereby automatically completing the connection of the starter switch (Ss) and the bus bar (31) to each other. Thus, it is possible to simply and reliably perform the operation of mounting the starter switch (Ss) to the rear handlebar cover (1) and the operation of electrically connecting the starter switch (Ss) to the bus bar (31).

Abstract: An engine igniting coil device adapted to be mounted in a cylindrical bore of an engine and directly connected with an ignition plug therein has a coil case containing an igniting coil assembly and made of conductive magnetic material which is held at the ground potential level, thus preventing a decrease of output factor of the igniting coil of produced magnetic flux when spreading about and passing through a cylinder head of the engine and eliminating the possibility of leakage discharge from a high-voltage portion of the igniting coil assembly to the coil case and the cylinder head.

Abstract: A connector for making electrical connection between electrical terminals held in each of a female electrical terminal member and a male electrical terminal member of the connector by mechanically connecting both the female electrical terminal member and the male electrical terminal member. Both of the female electrical terminal member and the male electrical terminal member of the connector are attached to solid structures directly, instead of being attached to tip portions of flexible electric cables extended from outside of the solid structures. The solid structures are parts such as auto-parts or a partial assembly composed of a plurality of the parts or a body such as a body of an automobile which are to be assembled together and which have a larger size than the size of the connector.

Abstract: A power window apparatus for a vehicle, which can open or close a door window by manual operation of a power window switch for energizing either of window-opening and closing relays for rotating a motor in the forward or reverse direction or by automatic operation of the same switch to cause an auto-latching circuit or a control unit to maintain either of the relays in an energized state until the window becomes fully opened or closed. The apparatus is provided with a switch for deenergizing a coil of the window-closing relay by disconnecting the control circuit for latching the energized window-closing relay, thus enabling the opening of the window by manual switch operation whenever an abnormal operation of the auto-latch control system occurs with simultaneous energization of both the window-opening and closing relays in an accident such as the vehicle sinking into water.

Abstract: An engine igniting coil device adapted to be mounted in a cylindrical bore of an engine and directly connected with an ignition plug therein has a coil case containing an igniting coil assembly and made of conductive magnetic material which is held at the ground potential level, thus preventing a decrease of output factor of the igniting coil of produced magnetic flux when spreading about and passing through a cylinder head of the engine and eliminating the possibility of leakage discharge from a high-voltage portion of the igniting coil assembly to the coil case and the cylinder head.