Abstract: A steering wheel includes a boss for fastening the steering wheel to a steering shaft. Among other features, the steering wheel has a pair of lower spokes that are deformable to absorb energy in a collision. The boss conserves space and has relatively long splines for engaging the steering shaft. The boss includes a plate that facilitates insert molding and conserves space. The spokes include integrally formed airbag supports. A bolt retainer is included in the steering wheel. The bolt retainer holds a bolt for tightening the boss on the steering shaft, and the bolt retainer permits one-handed attachment.

Abstract: The leather-wrapped steering wheel of the present invention is provided with a ring portion which is gripped at the time of steering. The ring portion includes a core, a covering layer which covers the core and leather which covers the covering layer. The covering layer includes an annular groove in the circumferential direction of the cross section of the ring portion. The leather is constituted such that binding strings are disposed at the distal edges of the leather in the surface circumferencial direction of the ring portion, and the distal edges are fitted into the annular grooves so as to cover the covering layer. The distal edges of the leather are disposed in the annular grooves together with the binding strings and are fitted into the annular grooves by pulling and tying both ends of the binding strings to each other.

Abstract: It is a steering wheel horn switch that has two contact members and a support member, which supports the contact member and is formed from a light metallic material, and that the contact member and the support member are electrically conducted to each other in such a manner as to be able to form a horn operating circuit. An electric conductor having electrical conductivity, which is higher than that of the support member, is disposed between the contact member and the support member in such a way as to come in contact with both the contact member and the support member. The electric conductor is in contact with the support member so that the contact area therebetween is larger than the contact area between the contact member and the support member in the case when the contact member is singly brought into contact with the support member, or so that the electric conductor is brought into contact with the support member by being pushed by the support member.

Abstract: A steering wheel incorporates a hard portion bonded to the overall circumference in the cross-sectional circumferential direction of a ring portion and a soft portion molded to cover the core metal of the ring portion. The hard portion and the soft portion can be formed around the core metal of the ring portion by collective injection molding. A coating layer can be provided for the surface of the hard portion, and leather can be bonded to the surface of the soft portion.

Abstract: In a leather-wound steering wheel, coating layers of synthetic resin are provided in the neighbor of a core of a ring portion which is gripped for steering. The coating layers are provided with fitting grooves provided along the sectional circumference of the ring portion. Pieces of leather covering the coating layers respectively are disposed so that their terminals provided along the sectional circumference of the ring portion are fitted into the fitting grooves in the ring portion core. Reduced portions each having a sectional outer circumference reduced toward the sectional center from general portions of the ring portion core are disposed in the regions of arrangement of the fitting grooves in the ring portion core so that the fitting grooves can be made deeper. Thus, there is provided a leather-wound steering wheel in which fitting grooves for leather terminals in a coating layer can be made deeper.

Abstract: A steering wheel includes a boss for fastening the steering wheel to a steering shaft. Among other features, the steering wheel has a pair of lower spokes that are deformable to absorb energy in a collision. The boss conserves space and has relatively long splines for engaging the steering shaft. The boss includes a plate that facilitates insert molding and conserves space. The spokes include integrally formed airbag supports. A bolt retainer is included in the steering wheel. The bolt retainer holds a bolt for tightening the boss on the steering shaft, and the bolt retainer permits one-handed attachment.

Abstract: There is provided a steering wheel having a ring portion which is constituted by a core bar and decorative portions which are disposed along the core bar partially to so cover an external surface of the core bar. The decorative portions are disposed to cover the external surface of the core bar along the full circumference thereof in a transversely circumferential direction of the ring portion when an upper decorative portion having a substantially inverted U-shaped cross section and a lower decorative portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section which constitute each of the decorative portions are combined together.

Abstract: A steering wheel includes a boss for fastening the steering wheel to a steering shaft. Among other features, the steering wheel has a pair of lower spokes that are deformable to absorb energy in a collision. The boss conserves space and has relatively long splines for engaging the steering shaft. The boss includes a plate that facilitates insert molding and conserves space. The spokes include integrally formed airbag supports. A bolt retainer is included in the steering wheel. The bolt retainer holds a bolt for tightening the boss on the steering shaft, and the bolt retainer permits one-handed attachment.

Abstract: To provide cooling apparatus for cooling a workpiece or sensor down to the region of the melting point of helium where it is not necessary to pre-cool the inside of the apparatus using liquid nitrogen etc., and where the time and trouble involved in performing the cooling can be omitted.

Abstract: The rendering performance of a graphic processor is improved by effectively using a data bus. An externally-input graphics command is stored in a work memory via the data bus. A display data generation section receives a graphics command stored in the work memory via the data bus, decodes the received graphics command, and outputs the display data to the data bus. An image display section receives display data stored in the work memory via the data bus, and displays an image on a display device. A bus control section monitors the status of use of the data bus, and controls the right to use the data bus according to the priority of each data transfer operation.

Abstract: A steering wheel having a metal framework is disclosed. The framework includes an annular grip core, spoke cores extending inward from the grip core, a boss plate fixed on a steering shaft, and a frame located inside the grip core to connect the spoke cores. The steering wheel further includes a pad located in the grip core, an air bag device, and inserts embedded in the pad. The inserts include portions that are attached to the frame. The inserts prevent the pad from scattering when the air bag device is activated.

Abstract: A thermal printer includes a capstan roller and pinch roller, which feed a continuous color thermosensitive recording sheet from a recording sheet roll. A thermal head operates for image recording to the continuous recording sheet. A roll loading chamber is loaded with one of the recording sheet roll and a cleaning sheet roll. The cleaning sheet roll includes a continuous cleaning sheet wound in a roll form, and discernment indicia provided in a predetermined position. An information reading photoelectric sensor reads the discernment indicia. A controller causes the capstan roller and pinch roller to feed the continuous cleaning sheet when the discernment indicia is read, to wipe and clean the thermal head with the continuous cleaning sheet. In a preferred embodiment, a cutter precuts the continuous recording sheet in a precutting position distant by a predetermined length from a front edge of the continuous recording sheet, to remove a front edge portion.

Abstract: This steering wheel includes a ring portion to be gripped during steering, a core, a core coating layer coating the core and having a surface, and a decorative layer arranged at one or more surface portions of the core coating layer. The decorative layer has a printed layer and a transparent protective coating layer protecting the printed layer. The steering wheel is made by a process in which the core coating layer is molded around the ring portion in a mold, the printed layer is formed on the surface portions of the core coating layer by hydraulic transfer, and the protective coating layer is formed by applying a coating agent to a surface of the printed layer.

Abstract: This steering wheel includes a ring portion to be gripped during steering, a core having at least one ridge, and a core coating layer coating the core. The core coating layer has a relatively hard portion formed of a first synthetic resin and a relatively soft portion formed of a second synthetic resin arranged in the circumferential direction relative to each other. The relatively hard portion is harder than the relatively soft portion. The ridge is positioned along the core so as to be covered by the relatively hard portion.

Abstract: In an electronic picture print system that is activated in response to the deposit of money and provides a printing service in accordance with the control of a user, a printer starts feeding paper upon detection of the deposit of money. While the user is selecting a background frame and taking a picture, the preparations for printing are completed. Therefore, the printing is started immediately in response to a printing instruction, and this reduces the time required for one play.

Abstract: A steering wheel has a steering wheel body which includes a boss for being fixed to a steering shaft, a ring portion metal core, spoke portion metal cores, a covering portion covering the ring portion metal core and the spoke portion metal cores, and a pad portion provided generally centrally of a ring portion, the pad portion being molded integrally with the covering portion. The steering wheel further includes an air bag device provided between the pad portion and the boss. A cloth insert is mounted on a metal core portion, forming part of the steering wheel body, and is embedded in the pad portion so that the insert can flex when the air bag device is expanded.

Abstract: A steering wheel for vehicles includes a metal ring core connected to a steering shaft by a boss plate and at least one spoke core. The ring core and the spoke core are covered with surface layers. A pad is arranged above the boss plate and at the center of the ring core. The pad is formed integrally with the surface layers. An air bag device is arranged between the pad and the boss plate to protect the driver of a vehicle when an impact is applied to the vehicle. The air bag device is supported by a holder which is connected to the spoke cores. The holder includes a mechanism for absorbing load that is applied to the steering wheel.

Abstract: A steering wheel mounted on a steering shaft with a boss plate. The steering wheel has a gripping ring for manually turning a steering shaft. The steering wheel includes a metal ring core embedded in the gripping ring and connecting pieces formed integrally with the boss plate. Spoke cores extend between the ring core and the connecting pieces and each has a first end coupled to the ring core and a second end overlapping one of the connecting pieces. A fastener fastens together the spoke cores and connecting pieces at the second end of each spoke core.

Abstract: A steering wheel has a ring core embedded in a gripping ring, a plurality of spokes extending in the ring core, a plurality of spoke cores embedded in the associated spokes. A connecting member connects at least two spoke cores together. A coupling mechanism couples the boss to the connecting member. The coupling mechanism includes an cylindrical support formed on the connecting member, and a pair of spaced ribs formed on the boss for holding the support. The connecting member fits between the ribs when the connecting member is coupled to the boss. A bolt fastens the support to the ribs.

Abstract: A motion compensated prediction interframe coding system which first measures characteristics regarding the fineness of a pattern or texture of a picture, which is represented by an input television signal and is divided into a group of continuous blocks each quantized by using a quantization step size, and changes the quantization step size into a smaller one if quantizes a block having a picture pattern or texture finer than patterns of the other blocks. Thereby, an amount of generated codes can be limited but a motion compensated prediction frame coding operation can be performed without degrading the fineness of the texture of the original input picture.