Abstract: A vibration motor includes a weight that rotates about a shaft, and has a centroid position different from a central axis of the shaft, a case with a protrusion portion that extends from a lower end of the circumferential surface portion, and a lower end portion of the shaft is fixed to a stator portion. A base of the vibration motor includes a concave portion that is recessed from a radially outer side of the base to a radially inner side of the base at a position overlapping the protrusion portion at a circumferential edge of the base. The entire protrusion portion or a portion of a tip end side in a direction in which the protrusion portion extends is bent radially inside the base so that a surface of the protrusion portion which is toward an upper side is in contact with the base.

Abstract: A vibration motor includes an eccentric weight whose center of gravity is positioned outside a shaft and a holder made of resin and holding a ring-shaped back yoke and the eccentric weight. The back yoke includes an overhang portion which extends farther inward in a radial direction than an inner side edge of the opening of a rotor magnet. The holder includes a penetrated portion which is a tube-shaped portion positioned at an axially inner side of the rotor magnet and extends in the axial direction surrounding the shaft, an upper surface portion which expands radially outwardly from an upper side of the penetrated portion to cover an upper surface of the eccentric weight, and a lower surface portion which expands radially outwardly from the lower side of the penetrated portion to cover a lower surface of the overhang portion.

Abstract: A vibration motor includes an eccentric weight whose center of gravity is positioned outside a shaft and a holder made of resin and holding a ring-shaped back yoke and the eccentric weight. The back yoke includes an overhang portion which extends farther inward in a radial direction than an inner side edge of the opening of a rotor magnet. The holder includes a penetrated portion which is a tube-shaped portion positioned at an axially inner side of the rotor magnet and extends in the axial direction surrounding the shaft, an upper surface portion which expands radially outwardly from an upper side of the penetrated portion to cover an upper surface of the eccentric weight, and a lower surface portion which expands radially outwardly from the lower side of the penetrated portion to cover a lower surface of the overhang portion.

Abstract: A vibration motor includes a weight that rotates about a shaft, and has a centroid position different from a central axis of the shaft, a case with a protrusion portion that extends from a lower end of the circumferential surface portion, and a lower end portion of the shaft is fixed to a stator portion. A base of the vibration motor includes a concave portion that is recessed from a radially outer side of the base to a radially inner side of the base at a position overlapping the protrusion portion at a circumferential edge of the base. The entire protrusion portion or a portion of a tip end side in a direction in which the protrusion portion extends is bent radially inside the base so that a surface of the protrusion portion which is toward an upper side is in contact with the base.

Abstract: A vehicle deck board 1 is molded in such a manner that a lower die 21 and an upper die 22 are clamped together in a state where foamed resins 13 and reinforcements 20 are interposed between a back surface side sheet material 16 and a front surface side sheet material 15, whereby the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet material 15 are welded to each other to thereby form a laminated member 26 with height-increasing bridge members included therein, compressed air is injected into an inside of the laminated member 26 with the height-increasing bridge members included therein, which is formed by welding the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet 15, while individually vacuum-sucking the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet material 15 to the lower die 21 and the upper die 22, and the laminated member 26 concerned is subjected to blow molding.

Abstract: A vehicle deck board 1 is molded in such a manner that a lower die 21 and an upper die 22 are clamped together in a state where foamed resins 13 and reinforcements 20 are interposed between a back surface side sheet material 16 and a front surface side sheet material 15, whereby the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet material 15 are welded to each other to thereby form a laminated member 26 with height-increasing bridge members included therein, compressed air is injected into an inside of the laminated member 26 with the height-increasing bridge members included therein, which is formed by welding the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet 15, while individually vacuum-sucking the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet material 15 to the lower die 21 and the upper die 22, and the laminated member 26 concerned is subjected to blow molding.

Abstract: Provided is an inputting device that is disposed in an opening of a cabinet surface. The device includes an elastic sheet having an outside surface disposed on an inside surface of the cabinet including the opening and across the opening. A sliding key is fixed on the outside surface of the elastic sheet with at least a portion in the opening of said cabinet surface. The device also includes sensors to detect movement, in a horizontal direction that is substantially parallel to said cabinet surface, of the sliding key. The device also includes guides being possible to be recognized optically that are disposed on designated positions on the elastic sheet, and the sensors detect the moved direction and the amount of the horizontal movement of the sliding key by reading the movements of said guides optically.

Abstract: A vehicle deck board 1 is molded in such a manner that a lower die 21 and an upper die 22 are clamped together in a state where foamed resins 13 and reinforcements 20 are interposed between a back surface side sheet material 16 and a front surface side sheet material 15, whereby the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet material 15 are welded to each other to thereby form a laminated member 26 with height-increasing bridge members included therein, compressed air is injected into an inside of the laminated member 26 with the height-increasing bridge members included therein, which is formed by welding the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet 15, while individually vacuum-sucking the back surface side sheet material 16 and the front surface side sheet material 15 to the lower die 21 and the upper die 22, and the laminated member 26 concerned is subjected to blow molding.

Abstract: An air compressor (12b) starts to operate when fuel to an internal combustion engine (1) is cut off and the engine (1) and a transmission (4) are directly engaged. Upon receiving a drive request signal, a controller (21) outputs a lockup clutch disengaging request. The controller (21) resumes fuel supply and starts driving of the air compressor (12b) only when it is confirmed that the lockup clutch (3) has been disengaged, thereby preventing a recovery shock from generating due to resumption of fuel supply during the lockup clutch (3) being in the engaged state.

Abstract: A pointing device capable of generating a fixed control signal regardless of operated directions and preventing the generation of a control signal owing to malfunctions, and an electronic apparatus capable of moving a controlled object on a display screen in any direction at a velocity corresponding to an operated amount of an operating section. An original point is defined as a point where a slid distance of a slide key is 0. The maximum slid distance and the minimum slid distance are defined as max_max and min_max, respectively, when moving the slide key until it reaches the rim of an opening section. When the slide key is located within a circular area whose center is the original point and whose radius is n/N of max_max (n and N are arbitrary positive integers, and n<N), a calculating section determines the strength of a control signal as 0.

Abstract: An air compressor (12b) starts to operate when fuel to an internal combustion engine (1) is cut off and the engine (1) and a transmission (4) are directly engaged. Upon receiving a drive request signal, a controller (21) outputs a lockup clutch disengaging request. The controller (21) resumes fuel supply and starts driving of the air compressor (12b) only when it is confirmed that the lockup clutch (3) has been disengaged, thereby preventing a recovery shock from generating due to resumption of fuel supply during the lockup clutch (3) being in the engaged state.

Abstract: An inputting device, in which a moving control command to a subject to be controlled is formed on a display in an arbitrary direction and the waterproof and the dustproof are provided and whose structure does not have a part sticking out of the surface of the cabinet or has the part sticking out of the surface of the cabinet as small as possible even if it has the sticking out part and whose structure is also simple, is provided. In this, a plane being about parallel to the front surface of the cabinet is defined as an XY plane in an XY orthogonal coordinate system. The inputting device is disposed in an opening part of a cabinet.

Abstract: A pointing device capable of generating a fixed control signal regardless of operated directions and preventing the generation of a control signal owing to malfunctions, and an electronic apparatus capable of moving a controlled object on a display screen in any direction at a velocity corresponding to an operated amount of an operating section. An original point is defined as a point where a slid distance of a slide key is 0. The maximum slid distance and the minimum slid distance are defined as max_max and min_max, respectively, when moving the slide key until it reaches the rim of an opening section. When the slide key is located within a circular area whose center is the original point and whose radius is n/N of max_max (n and N are arbitrary positive integers, and n<N), a calculating section determines the strength of a control signal as 0.

Abstract: A lateral pressure mechanism 4 for a motor has a first ring 5 which is fixed to a stator-side member 2 so as to surround a rotary shaft 50; a second ring 6 which is disposed inside the first ring so as to surround the rotary shaft 50, and which is radially movable inside the first ring 5; and a wire spring 7 which is bridged between two engaging portions 11 and 13 of the first ring 5 so that an intermediate part abuts against the outer peripheral surface of the second ring.

Abstract: A motor brake control circuit is provided with a coil short circuit for short-circuiting the power terminals of the coil once a brake signal is issued from its brake circuit so that the brake is forcibly and continuously applied to the motor. With such an arrangement, the time required for the motor to come to a complete stop after the issuance of a brake command signal is considerably reduced as compared with a motor that does not have such a coil short circuit and, therefore, comes to a complete halt only by natural deceleration. Further, since the motor is braked by the short-circuited motor coil when the brake control circuit is activated, there is virtually no affect on the motor by external force such as vibration to shift its rotary position in a braked condition.

Abstract: A motor control circuit provides reduced stopping time. The circuit utilizes n rotational signals whose relative phase differences are proportional to the rotational speed of the motor. Inverted logic signals are formed of these n signals. Circuitry for discriminating the direction of the motor and for determining from the n signals n-1 and/or n inverted signals, the initial change of any of the signals following a reversal of the motor. Upon determining the initial change, a signal is supplied to the motor drive circuit to cause the motor to de-energized. A specific circuit for holding the motor in a stopped condition is disclosed.