Abstract: A decorated resin molded article that can secure a high durability and can represent a sufficiently realistic metal texture in appearance is provided as follows. A metal thin film is directly formed on a design surface of a substrate by either a physical vapor deposition method or a chemical vapor deposition method to provide a metallic decoration. Additionally, a topcoat layer is formed with a thickness of 10 to 40 ?m on the metal thin film. The topcoat layer comprises a transparent coating film having an adhesive property to both of the substrate and the metal thin film.

Abstract: A pedestrian protection apparatus for a vehicle, including a plate member which is disposed at a front face of the vehicle, which includes front and rear portions, and which is fixed at the rear portion to the vehicle with at least a leading end part of the front portion protruded from the front face of the vehicle, the apparatus being arranged to sweep a leg portion of a pedestrian, thereby protecting the leg portion, wherein the leading end part includes at least one horizontally extending portion and a plurality of vertically extending portions each having an anterior surface substantially orthogonal to a horizontal plane, the horizontally extending portion and the vertically extending portions being formed integrally with the leading end part so as to be alternately disposed in the frontward and backward direction of the vehicle and extend in a staircase-like form.

Abstract: A lens barrel, including, a moving frame (2) to hold a lens (8), a direct-advance ring (4) provided on an outer periphery of the moving frame and movable relative to the moving frame in an optical direction, a resilient member (6) provided between the moving frame and the direct-advance ring, and a control part (10) provided on the moving frame to control an amount of movement of the direct-advance ring in the optical direction.

Abstract: There is provided an oil separator for blowby gas exhibiting excellent oil separation performance in a stable manner. In a common flow path section of a gas flow passage in which the blowby gas flows and an oil passage provided with a bottom of the common flow path section where oil that has been separated from blowby gas by separation means provided midway along the gas flow passage, the width of a part of the common flow path section is regulated so as to become gradually smaller towards the bottom of the common flow path section, and a flow passage regulating section, for making part of the common flow path section that has the width regulated a restricted section, is provided so as to extend upwards from the bottom of the common flow path section.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a shock absorbing structure for a vehicle that enables a simple and appropriate tuning of a load displacement characteristic, so that a desired amount of collision energy can be absorbed. In the present invention, each of two side walls which is integrally provided with top wall, to which a shock is applied, has a rectangular wave shape corrugated at a plurality of corrugated sections positioned to be opposed to each other in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the shock is applied. In addition, outer flanges are integrally formed on an end section of each of the side walls, and a slit extending in the direction in which the shock is applied is formed on each of the corrugated sections.

Abstract: A lens barrel, including, a moving frame (2) to hold a lens (8), a direct-advance ring (4) provided on an outer periphery of the moving frame and movable relative to the moving frame in an optical direction, a resilient member (6) provided between the moving frame and the direct-advance ring, and a control part (10) provided on the moving frame to control an amount of movement of the direct-advance ring in the optical direction.

Abstract: A pedestrian protection apparatus for a vehicle, including a plate member which is disposed at a front face of the vehicle, which includes front and rear portions, and which is fixed at the rear portion to the vehicle with at least a leading end part of the front portion protruded from the front face of the vehicle, the apparatus being arranged to sweep a leg portion of a pedestrian, thereby protecting the leg portion, wherein the leading end part includes at least one horizontally extending portion and a plurality of vertically extending portions each having an anterior surface substantially orthogonal to a horizontal plane, the horizontally extending portion and the vertically extending portions being formed integrally with the leading end part so as to be alternately disposed in the frontward and backward direction of the vehicle and extend in a staircase-like form.

Abstract: A pedestrian protection apparatus disposed at a front of a vehicle for protecting a pedestrian in the event of a collision between the pedestrian and a front end of the vehicle, the apparatus including: a leg sweep member which is disposed at a lower part of the front end of the vehicle so as to protrude frontward for sweeping a leg portion of the pedestrian; and a fixing mechanism which fixes the leg sweep member to a structural member of the vehicle and which releases the fixation of the leg sweep member to the structural member when an object including the pedestrian advances, by an amount that exceeds a prescribed reference amount, with respect to the vehicle in a backward direction of the vehicle from a position of the front end of the vehicle against which the object has hit upon the collision.

Abstract: The air-conditioner includes a compressor configured to compress and discharge a refrigerant. The air-conditioner includes a condenser configured to cool the refrigerant with air outside of a vehicle compartment. The air-conditioner includes a throttle configured to expand the refrigerant. The air-conditioner includes an evaporator configured to cool air inside of the vehicle compartment to eliminate moisture from the air by the expanded refrigerant. The air-conditioner includes a first refrigerant passage having the condensed refrigerant between the condenser and the throttle. The air-conditioner includes a second refrigerant passage having the evaporated refrigerant between the evaporator and the compressor. The air-conditioner includes a refrigerant pipe located between the first and second passages and configured to exchange heat between the condensed and evaporated refrigerants.

Abstract: A lens barrel, including, a moving frame (2) to hold a lens (8), a direct-advance ring (4) provided on an outer periphery of the moving frame and movable relative to the moving frame in an optical direction, a resilient member (6) provided between the moving frame and the direct-advance ring, and a control part (10) provided on the moving frame to control an amount of movement of the direct-advance ring in the optical direction.

Abstract: The air-conditioner includes a compressor configured to compress and discharge a refrigerant. The air-conditioner includes a condenser configured to cool the refrigerant with air outside of a vehicle compartment. The air-conditioner includes a throttle configured to expand the refrigerant. The air-conditioner includes an evaporator configured to cool air inside of the vehicle compartment to eliminate moisture from the air by the expanded refrigerant. The air-conditioner includes a first refrigerant passage having the condensed refrigerant between the condenser and the throttle. The air-conditioner includes a second refrigerant passage having the evaporated refrigerant between the evaporator and the compressor. The air-conditioner includes a refrigerant pipe located between the first and second passages and configured to exchange heat between the condensed and evaporated refrigerants.

Abstract: An atomization roasting furnace for producing ferrite raw material powder includes an elongated roasting furnace body with a center burner located at the top end thereof. At least three liquid spray nozzles are located in an expansion slope portion below the center burner circumferentially with respect to the center burner. A quencher, located below the elongated roasting furnace body, has a top end connected to a bottom end of the elongated roasting furnace body. Quencher nozzles are located adjacent the top end of the quencher.

Abstract: This invention provides an atomization roasting method which can easily obtain a soft ferrite sintered body, for example, a sintered body having a crystal particle size of not greater than 2 .mu.m, by using as a raw material an ultra-fine powder having a mean particle size of not greater than 0.1 .mu.m obtained by atomization roasting and which can obtain a soft ferrite raw material powder subjected to an oxidation reaction, having an extremely small residual chlorine content, and having and extremely small deviation of high vapor pressure components such as zinc between the atomized raw material solution and the oxide as the product and which can economically produce a soft ferrite core having an excellent power loss characteristic in a high frequency range, particularly in a MHz range, and is extremely effective for reducing the size of a high frequency transformer.

Abstract: A cooler unit housing is located in a passenger room near a dashboard of a motor vehicle. A piping arrangement of the cooler unit comprises a pipe joint which is positioned at and supported by an opening of the dashboard. The pipe joint has a first face facing toward the passenger room and a second face facing toward the engine room. An expansion valve unit is connected to the first face of the pipe joint. Coolant inlet and output pipes are arranged, each having one end connected to an evaporator in the cooler unit housing and the other end led to the expansion valve unit. A grommet is disposed between a peripheral portion of the opening and an outer wall portion of the pipe joint thereby to establish sealing therebetween.

Abstract: In a supercharged engine, a supercharger and a throttle body disposed midway in an intake passage are located away from an engine block. A blow-by gas passage constituting a PCV apparatus is connected between a portion of the intake passage located on the upstream side of a throttle valve and a crankcase. The blow-by gas passage returns the blow-by gas collected in the crankcase to the intake passage. A cooling water passage extending from the engine block is connected to a radiator. A water passage extending from the radiator is connected to the engine block via the throttle body, which water passage encloses the blow-by gas passage in an intermediate portion thereof.

Abstract: A coupler is disclosed which is constructed of metal. The coupler comprises a cylindrical major part having a first cylindrical bore formed therethrough, the cylindrical major part being formed about its cylindrical outer surface with an externally threaded portion and a polygonal enlarged head; and a collar part having a second cylindrical bore formed therethrough, the second cylindrical bore being greater in diameter than the first cylindrical bore. The cylindrical major part and the collar part are coaxially arranged and integrated with each other to constitute a monobloc cylindrical structure. In practical use, the second cylindrical bore can serve as a silencer.

Abstract: In an optical signal generating apparatus of this invention, output light from a light source driven by a light source driver is externally output from an optical receptacle through a variable optical attenuator. An output monitor unit can be detachably connected to the optical receptacle through an optical connector. When an absolute level of the output light is to be set, a CPU compares a set value from an output level setting unit with an output value from the output monitor unit and controls the variable optical attenuator and the light source driver so that a comparison error becomes zero. The CPU maintains the above control of the variable optical adjuster and the light source driver so that the light is output to be the desired level set by the output level setting unit even after the output monitor unit is disconnected from the optical receptacle including the timing at which the comparison error becomes zero.

Abstract: A web feed mechanism for stepwise or continuously feeding a web, such as a printing medium of a printer, or the like, from a roll of web. In the web feed mechanism, slackness, if any, can be absorbed by applying a drag force to the outermost winding of the web roll through a radially inwardly biased sliding member that slides tangentially of the web roll either in the forward direction, in which the web is to be let off from the web roll, or in the backward direction, in which the web is to be taken up onto the web roll. The sliding member is spring biased to slide backward. Upon the web being let off the web roll, the drag slides the sliding member forward, charges its spring and thereby keeps the web under tension. Upon discontinuance of web unwinding, slackness in the web is absorbed by the spring biasing the sliding member to drag the web roll to roll backward.

Abstract: A method for controlling an iron ore pelletizing and pellet processing operation by evaluating the results of the on-stream analysis of the apparent specific gravity or apparent density distributions of the dry and fired pellet samples which permits the operator of the process to determine if any changes in the process control factors are required in order to impart into the fired pellets an apparent specific gravity or apparent density distribution optimized therefor as the fired pellets are used as a blast furnace charge composition. The method includes the use of an apparent specific gravity measuring step wherein a pellet process stream is periodically sampled and the pellet samples are presented in sequence to a weight measurement unit capable of producing an electric signal proportional to the weight of each sample, from which it proceeds into a volume measurement unit photoelectrically responsive thereto to produce an electric signal proportional to the volume of the sample.

Abstract: A material for sintering capable of emitting a lesser amount of nitrogen oxide during sintering thereof to produce a sintered ore. It is composed of finely divided coke concentrated within a predetermined range in an outer shell layer of agglomerated particles.