Abstract: A rotary damper device includes a case, a rotor member relatively rotatably supported by the case, a rotation vane formed protruded from the rotor member, and a check valve mounted on the rotation vane. The case is provided with an opened part on one side through which the rotor member is inserted into the inside of the case and a side wall part on the other side for rotatably supporting the rotor member. The opened part of the case is closed by a flange part that is integrally formed in the rotor member, and the side wall part includes a pressure receiving face and the flange part includes another pressure receiving face.

Abstract: A damper device that uses viscous fluid comprises a cylindrical member having a cylindrical inner surface, a shaft being arranged inside the cylindrical member to face the inner surface in the radial direction, an outer circumferential surface of the shaft and the inner surface of the cylindrical member forming a space for a viscous fluid to be injected, a partition wall formed at the cylindrical member to project toward the space, wings being provided on the shaft for pressurizing the viscous fluid and check valves associated with the wings. The shaft has a flange portion having a diameter larger than that of a shaft portion of the shaft and also having a first viscous fluid pressure surface for the viscous fluid.

Abstract: A rotary damper device includes a case in which a viscous fluid it filled and sealed, a rotation shaft relatively rotatable supported by the case, a rotation vane formed protruded from the rotation shaft, and a check valve mounted on a tip part of the rotation vane. A passage where the viscous fluid passes through is formed in the rotation vane. The check valve is provided with an opposing face part facing the passage and a frame body interposing the rotation vane. An elastic member for energizing the opposing face part of the check valve for closing the passage of the rotation vane is formed in either the rotation vane or the opposite side of the frame body of the opposing face part.

Abstract: A resin film for use in laminating for producing decorative laminates which is equal or superior to conventional polyvinyl chloride resins in suitability for embossing, processability, and long-term water resistance and can be significantly well-designed; and a decorative laminate in which the resin film has been laminated. The resin film is obtained by compounding a polyester resin with 0.5 to 60 wt. % crystallization accelerator having a particle diameter of 0.01 to 5 &mgr;m, forming the mixture into an unstretched film, and embossing at least one side of the film. The resin film is laminated to a metallic or wooden plate, a board, etc. to produce a decorative laminate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyester resin-covered metal sheet exhibiting superior formability and particularly suitable to withstand the stresses of drawing, drawing and ironing, drawing and stretch forming, or drawing and stretch forming followed by ironing. The resin-covered metal sheet is produced by contacting a biaxially oriented polyester resin film to a metal sheet heated above the melting temperature of the resin, covering the metal sheet with the polyester resin, pinching and press laminating the film-metal sheet composite, and cooling the laminate at a rate of 600° C./second immediately thereafter. It is essential that the resulting resin-covered metal sheets exhibit a true stress of 3.0 to 15.0 kg/mm2, corresponding to a true strain of 1.0 at 75° C. These laminates also exhibits a gradation of retention of the polyester resin's original biaxial orientation.

Abstract: A damping device for damping the relative rotation of a rotating member. The damping device includes a casing, a rotor disposed in an interior space of the casing, and a damping mechanism including a viscous liquid disposed in an annular chamber formed between the casing and the rotor. The viscous liquid exerts frictional forces to damp the relative rotation between the rotor and the casing in a first rotation direction but not in the opposite rotation direction, the damping force increasing when the rotor and the casing rotate relative to each other from a first relative angular position to a second relative angular position in the first rotation direction. The casing and the rotor are structure to provide a damping force by impeding the flow of the viscous liquid within the chamber, and to provide another damping force by the contacting of the rotor and the casing. A valve is further provided within the chamber to restrict the flow of the viscous liquid.

Abstract: The present invention produces a polyester resin covered metal sheet having extremely excellent formability, which can be available for uses in which severe forming is practiced such as drawing, drawing and ironing, and drawn and stretch forming as well as the composite forming consisting of drawn and stretch forming followed by ironing, and a production method thereof.

Abstract: The present invention produces a polyethylene terephthalate resin covered metal sheet having extremely excellent formability, which can be available for uses in which severe forming is practiced such as drawing, drawing and ironing and drawn and stretch forming as well as the composite forming consisting of drawn and stretch forming followed by ironing. A biaxially oriented film consisting of polyethylene terephthalate resin having a low temperature crystallization temperature ranging from 130° C. to 165° C. is covered at least on one side of a metal sheet by heat bonding in the way that the biaxial orientation of the film of the polyethylene terephthalate resin after being covered is gradually increasing from the contacting portion of the film to the metal sheet to the surface portion of the film.

Abstract: A method of producing a laminate board (10) involves the steps of heating a continuous belt-like metallic sheet (2) by a heating furnace (1), laminating a thermoplastic resin film (3) on at least one of the surfaces of the metallic sheet, pressing and passing both of them between a pair of laminate rolls (4 and 5), and thermally bonding the film (3) to the metallic sheet (2), wherein the laminate sheet (10) coming out from between the pair of laminate rolls (4 and 5) is pushed by a deflector roll (6) in a transverse direction so as to bias the travelling direction towards the laminate roll (4) in contact with the film (3). The invention also discloses an apparatus (A) used for his method.

Abstract: In an automatic faucet having a hand sensor S to start and stop discharging water automatically, only hands can be detected accurately without detecting a washbowl (chinaware) and water stream erroneously. The sensor S comprises a light emitter and a light receiver. The directional axis d of a detection region (in which the light emitting region of the light emitter and the light receiving region of the light receiver are overlapped with each other) intersects the discharged water stream, and further the intersection angle between both is adjusted less than 70 degrees, irrespective of the flow rate of the discharged water. The reflected light levels detected by the light receiver are sampled periodically to calculate an average value and a variance value on the basis of at least eight most updated sampled data. Water discharge is started and stopped on the basis of the calculated average value and the variance value.

Abstract: In an automatic faucet having a hand sensor S to start and stop discharging water automatically, only hands can be detected accurately without detecting a washbowl (chinaware) and water stream erroneously. The sensor S comprises a light emitter and a light receiver. The directional axis d of a detection region (in which the light emitting region of the light emitter and the light receiving region of the light receiver are overlapped with each other) intersects the discharged water stream, and further the intersection angle between both is adjusted less than 70 degrees, irrespective of the flow rate of the discharged water. The reflected light levels detected by the light receiver are sampled periodically to calculate an average value and a variance value on the basis of at least eight most updated sampled data. Water discharge is started and stopped on the basis of the calculated average value and the variance value.

Abstract: A power spring drive apparatus having a power spring on a power spring wind up shaft, an output shaft, and a gear train for winding the power spring and for transferring the rotational force of a wound power spring to the output shaft. The apparatus is in a housing case formed of first and second synthetic resin cases connected together by pins and receiving holes. The housing case has a power spring housing section with a window between the section and externally of the housing. One end of the power spring has a neck shape and extends through the window and is fastened to the housing.

Abstract: Braking of independently-movable pivotable members is carried out by independent one-way clutch mechanisms which provide minimal braking force to the pivotable members in the vicinity of the limit points of their pivotable movement, and provide optimal braking force in a middle range of pivotable movement. The braking mechanism provided may operate on one or both of the pivotable members at the same time, each of the independent clutch mechanisms providing suitable braking force to compensate for the mass of the respective pivotable members.