Abstract: A lens component radiates light from a light source. The lens component includes a light guiding radiation portion. The light guiding radiation portion includes a light incidence portion having an incidence surface on which the light from the light source is made incident, and a plurality of radiation mechanisms that respectively radiate to a plurality of radiation angle ranges. The incidence surface includes a close side incidence region and a distant side incidence region. The radiation angle ranges include a close side radiation angle range and a distant side radiation angle range. The light incident on the close side incidence region is radiated to the distant side radiation angle range via a corresponding distant side radiation mechanism. The light incident on the distant side incidence region is radiated to the close side radiation angle range via a corresponding close side radiation mechanism.

Abstract: A lens component radiates light from a light source. The lens component includes a light guiding radiation portion. The light guiding radiation portion includes a light incidence portion having an incidence surface on which the light from the light source is made incident, and a plurality of radiation mechanisms that respectively radiate to a plurality of radiation angle ranges. The incidence surface includes a close side incidence region and a distant side incidence region. The radiation angle ranges include a close side radiation angle range and a distant side radiation angle range. The light incident on the close side incidence region is radiated to the distant side radiation angle range via a corresponding distant side radiation mechanism. The light incident on the distant side incidence region is radiated to the close side radiation angle range via a corresponding close side radiation mechanism.

Abstract: A notification device includes a first input portion to which first information is input, a second input portion to which second information is input, a display portion to variably display information, and a control portion. The control portion controls the display portion to display information corresponding to the first information with a first display attribute and to display information corresponding to the second information with a second display attribute different from the first display attribute.

Abstract: According to the present invention, in a charger for charging a secondary battery, in order to solve the problem that when usage fees are settled before the start of charging to prevent the nonpayment of usage fees, the possibility arises that the usage fees will be refunded, the usage fees of the charger are settled before the charging is completed. The charger (200) has: a power supply unit (210) that supplies electric power to a secondary battery; and a settlement unit (220) that settles the usage fees for using the charger after the supply of electric power to the secondary battery has started but before the termination of charging.

Abstract: A lens component disperses light from a source having a distribution characteristic in which luminosity becomes smaller according to distance from the optical axis. The component includes an incidence portion at a source position struck by light from the source and guiding portions branching from the incidence portion and extending radially from the source position. Each guiding portion includes a basal end portion joined to the incidence portion, emission end portion emitting light away from the source, and reflection surface guiding light that struck the basal end portion while performing internal reflection. The incidence portion and guiding portions form a light distribution structure arranged so that a ratio of luminosity in a direction making a predetermined angle with the optical axis with respect to luminosity in the axial direction in light emitted from the structure is larger than a corresponding ratio in the source's distribution characteristic.

Abstract: A buzzer unit 4 includes a case 10, a vibrating element 11, and a pressing member 14. The case 10 includes a vibrating plate 28 in which no through-holes are formed. The case 10 includes a storage space 22 formed therein on the lower side X2 of the vibrating plate 28. The vibrating element 11 faces the vibrating plate 28 in the vertical direction X inside the storage space 22, produces vibration as a result of voltage being applied thereto, and as a result, causes the vibrating plate 28 to vibrate. The pressing member 14 is stored in the storage space 22, and presses the vibrating element 11 against the vibrating plate 28.

Abstract: A main body case 9 includes an output opening 43 for outputting sound from a sound source to an opposing space between an upper main wall 33 and a lower main wall 34. The main body case 9 includes a front main wall 41 for preventing entering of a water droplet to the output opening 43 and for guiding the sound to a rear side B, and a rear main wall 35 for reflecting the sound to a front side F. A first space 51 between the front main wall 41 and the rear main wall 35, a second space 52 surrounded by a left surface 41C of the front main wall 41 and the rear main wall 35 and the upper main wall 33 and the lower main wall 34 and a third space 53 surrounded by a right surface 41D the front main wall 41 and the rear main wall 35 and the upper main wall 33 and the lower main wall 34 are communicating with one another along a crosswise direction Y at a rear end part of each of these spaces.

Abstract: A buzzer unit 4 includes a case 10, a vibrating element 11, and a pressing member 14. The case 10 includes a vibrating plate 28 in which no through-holes are formed. The case 10 includes a storage space 22 formed therein on the lower side X2 of the vibrating plate 28. The vibrating element 11 faces the vibrating plate 28 in the vertical direction X inside the storage space 22, produces vibration as a result of voltage being applied thereto, and as a result, causes the vibrating plate 28 to vibrate. The pressing member 14 is stored in the storage space 22, and presses the vibrating element 11 against the vibrating plate 28.

Abstract: A signal display lamp is provided that is capable of performing display in diverse modes and hence capable of increasing the quantity of transmittable information and capable of improving the reliability of information transmission. The signal display lamp includes a display portion that is capable of performing display in a plurality of display colors and that is capable of changing a position or a size of a display region in each display color, a display color determining means for determining the display color based on first information, a display region determining means for determining a position or a size of a display region in a display color determined by the display color determining means based on second information, and a display portion control means for controlling the display portion based on a display color determined by the display color determining means and based on a position or a size of a display region determined by the display region determining means.

Abstract: The present invention is applied to a charger that charges a rechargeable battery mounted on an electric vehicle. The charger according to the present invention includes an electric power supply unit that supplies electric power to said rechargeable battery; a payment unit that makes payment with electronic money to use said charger; and a control unit, when said control unit is instructed by said electric vehicle to start charging, that instructs said electric power supply unit to start supplying electric power to said rechargeable battery and that instructs said payment unit to make payment with said electronic money.

Abstract: A main body case 9 includes an output opening 43 for outputting sound from a sound source to an opposing space between an upper main wall 33 and a lower main wall 34. The main body case 9 includes a front main wall 41 for preventing entering of a water droplet to the output opening 43 and for guiding the sound to a rear side B, and a rear main wall 35 for reflecting the sound to a front side F. A first space 51 between the front main wall 41 and the rear main wall 35, a second space 52 surrounded by a left surface 41C of the front main wall 41 and the rear main wall 35 and the upper main wall 33 and the lower main wall 34 and a third space 53 surrounded by a right surface 41D the front main wall 41 and the rear main wall 35 and the upper main wall 33 and the lower main wall 34 are communicating with one another along a crosswise direction Y at a rear end part of each of these spaces.

Abstract: A lens component disperses light from a source having a distribution characteristic in which luminosity becomes smaller according to distance from the optical axis. The component includes an incidence portion at a source position struck by light from the source and guiding portions branching from the incidence portion and extending radially from the source position. Each guiding portion includes a basal end portion joined to the incidence portion, emission end portion emitting light away from the source, and reflection surface guiding light that struck the basal end portion while performing internal reflection. The incidence portion and guiding portions form a light distribution structure arranged so that a ratio of luminosity in a direction making a predetermined angle with the optical axis with respect to luminosity in the axial direction in light emitted from the structure is larger than a corresponding ratio in the source's distribution characteristic.

Abstract: A main body case 9 includes an output opening 43 for outputting sound from a sound source to an opposing space between an upper main wall 33 and a lower main wall 34. The main body case 9 includes a front main wall 41 for preventing entering of a water droplet to the output opening 43 and for guiding the sound to a rear side B, and a rear main wall 35 for reflecting the sound to a front side F. A first space 51 between the front main wall 41 and the rear main wall 35, a second space 52 surrounded by a left surface 41C of the front main wall 41 and the rear main wall 35 and the upper main wall 33 and the lower main wall 34 and a third space 53 surrounded by a right surface 41D the front main wall 41 and the rear main wall 35 and the upper main wall 33 and the lower main wall 34 are communicating with one another along a crosswise direction Y at a rear end part of each of these spaces.

Abstract: A signal indicator lamp includes an LED mounting substrate 2, and is made up of a plurality of consecutively provided lens units 3 with cylindrical light guiding radiation portions 20 provided so as to enclose the LED mounting substrate 2. An LED 14 is mounted at a position biased to the side of an end portion 2D from a central position 2C in a short-side direction S of the LED mounting substrate 2. In the light guiding radiation portion 20, a slit portion 23 is defined which is cut away in an axial direction X such that the LED 14 is arranged therein when the lens unit 3 encloses the LED mounting substrate 2. Light made incident into the lens unit 3 from incident surfaces 24 being a pair of opposite end faces of the slit portion 23 is guided by the light guiding radiation portion 20, and is radiated outward in the entire circumferential region thereof.

Abstract: A signal display lamp is provided that is capable of performing display in diverse modes and hence capable of increasing the quantity of transmittable information and capable of improving the reliability of information transmission. The signal display lamp includes a display portion that is capable of performing display in a plurality of display colors and that is capable of changing a position or a size of a display region in each display color, a display color determining means for determining the display color based on first information, a display region determining means for determining a position or a size of a display region in a display color determined by the display color determining means based on second information, and a display portion control means for controlling the display portion based on a display color determined by the display color determining means and based on a position or a size of a display region determined by the display region determining means.

Abstract: According to the present invention, in a charger for charging a secondary battery, in order to solve the problem that when usage fees are settled before the start of charging to prevent the nonpayment of usage fees, the possibility arises that the usage fees will be refunded, the usage fees of the charger are settled before the charging is completed. The charger (200) has: a power supply unit (210) that supplies electric power to a secondary battery; and a settlement unit (220) that settles the usage fees for using the charger after the supply of electric power to the secondary battery has started but before the termination of charging.