Abstract: A programmable temperature controller comprises a storage member having a plurality of bank storage areas each for storing bank data having a series of control steps and a link storage area for storing link data designating a combination of the bank storage areas. An input member is provided for entering the bank data and the link data into the storage member. A sensing member senses measured data from an object to be controlled by the controller. An output member powers the object, and a control member controls the output member based on the sensed measured data generated from the sensing member so that the object may be controlled in accordance with the bank data and the link data.

Abstract: An automatic seatbelt system for a vehicle, which is designed to restrain the body of an occupant when an emergency situation of the vehicle occurs, has a slider which retains one end of a webbing and which is movable along a guide rail laid on the body of the vehicle between a position at which the webbing is fastened to the occupant's body (hereinafter referred to as a "webbing fastening position") and a position at which the webbing is unfastened therefrom (hereinafter referred to as a "webbing unfastening position"), and a continuous member for moving the slider between the above-described two positions. The continuous member and the slider are allowed to move relative to each other by a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A lock mechanism for a webbing retractor prevents an occupant restraining webbing from being wound off from a webbing takeup shaft when a vehicular emergency occurs. The lock mechanism is provided with a member to which the rotational force of the takeup shaft is transmitted through frictional contact and which cancels the locked state of the lock mechanism when the takeup shaft rotates in the webbing wind-up direction. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the webbing from being gradually wound up when the vehicle is running thus avoiding any possibility of causing the webbing to undesirably tighten against the body of the occupant.

Abstract: A webbing retaining structure is employed in an automatic seatbelt system for a vehicle which is so designed that one end portion of a webbing which is closer to the outside of the vehicle is moved in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and the webbing is thereby automatically fastened to the body of an occupant. A first member which retains the end portion of the webbing is pivotally supported by a second member which is mounted on the vehicle body. A combination of a projection and recesses in which it is selectively fitted is provided between the first and second members. The angle at which the webbing is retained by the vehicle body can be adjusted by changing the position of combination between the projection and the recesses.

Abstract: In a webbing retractor used in a seatbelt system for protecting an occupant in an emergency situation of a vehicle, a first guide portion of a cam ring is opposed to a transmitting means to thereby put a locking means in an engageable condition until a webbing is unwound up to a first predetermined amount, an acceleration sensor puts the locking means in an engaged condition to stop a webbing-unwinding rotation of a takeup shaft only in the emergency situation of the vehicle, a second guide portion of the cam ring is opposed to the transmitting means to thereby bias the locking means in the engaged condition when the webbing is unwound in an amount of more than the first predetermined amount, and, thereafter, an automatic locking mechanism is worked when the occupant, a fixture such as a child seat or the like is embraced by the webbing, so that the occupant, the fixture or the like is restrained surely.

Abstract: In a support construction of securing member for securing an occupant restraining webbing applied to a vehicle and adapted for supporting the securing member to a vehicle body through an extension member, an intermediate portion of the extension member is connected to the securing member through connecting means, therewith a forward end portion of the extension member formed in a portal shape is received in a support hole formed on the securing member, and the back portion of the portal shape portion is caused to abut on a peripheral portion of the support hole and a pair of receiving portions are formed on both sides of the portal shape portion.Accordingly, the receiving portions are latched to a peripheral portion of the support hole and a large tension load acting between the securing member and the extension member can surely be sustained in an emergency situation of the vehicle.

Abstract: A stepping motor includes a rotary shaft, a rotor magnetized in an axial direction thereof and having a plurality of magnetic poles arranged in a circumferential direction thereof with different poles in alternation, inner yokes each having a plurality of projections and depressions, outer yokes each having a plurality of projections and depressions which are separated from and oppose the depressions and projections of the corresponding inner yoke in a plane perpendicular to the axial direction, coils for magnetizing the inner and outer yokes to assume mutually different magnetic poles, and oil impregnated bearings made from a ferromagnetic material. The bearings each unitarily comprise a bearing part for supporting the rotary shaft, and a core part having an outer side thereof surrounded by one of the coils.

Abstract: A display comprises a relatively large plurality of picture elements in each of the vertical and horizontal directions, with which characters are displayed with a relatively less plurality of picture elements in each of the vertical and horizontal directions. In order to store the data to be displayed with the above described display, a refresh memory is employed. The refresh memory is used such that the respective areas thereof storing portions of the character are addressed in synchronism with the period of a character clock, whereby the character data to be displayed is read out therefrom. Each portion of the character data as read out from the refresh memory is latched in a latch circuit during the character clock period and is kept supplied to the display. The refresh memory serves to renew portions of the character at an arbitrary timing during the display period by the display or during the blanking period where display is not made by the display.

Abstract: A seatbelt retractor for use in a motor vehicle to retract a passenger restraining seatbelt to be fastened around an occupant. The seatbelt is wound around a rotatable takeup shaft in layers by a biasing force in the seatbelt retractor. Fixed on the takeup shaft is a ratchet wheel, and a pawl is opposed to the ratchet wheel, whereby when the pawl meshes with the ratchet wheel, and thereby stops the belt-unwinding rotation of the takeup shaft. An inertia lock mechanism is provided in the retractor to actuate the pawl to mesh with the ratchet wheel in a vehicular emergency situation. A cam mechanism is also provided in the retractor, which includes a cam member or ring rotated by the takeup shaft and a follower member or linear spring driven by the cam member and opposed to the pawl. The cam member actuates the follower member to move the pawl into engagement with the ratchet wheel when the seatbelt is unwound more than a predetermined value, namely a value necessary for the fastening of the seatbelt.

Abstract: A first and a second spring are connected in series to a take-up shaft of a seatbelt so as to generate wind-up force; when the seatbelt is put on by an occupant, a pawl is engaged with a latch gear provided at a connecting portion between said springs, whereby the biasing force of only one of said springs is imparted to the take-up shaft, thereby decreasing the wind-up force of the take-up shaft; after the seatbelt is released from the occupant, the pawl is disengaged from the latch gear by a camplate means, whereby the wind-up forces of both springs are imparted to the take-up shaft, thereby increasing the wind-up force of the take-up shaft; and further, frictional means for engaging the latch gear with the pawl is brought into frictional contact with the take-up shaft by means of a pair of projecting resilient means oscillatingly movable, thereby securing the engagement between the latch gear and the pawl.

Abstract: A seat belt retracting apparatus having a spool mounted for rotation on a frame member and adapted to have a seat belt wound thereon, a pair of locking wheels having a plurality of locking teeth and fixedly mounted on the spool, a locking plate engageable with the locking teeth of the locking wheels when the seat belt is protracted and engages the body of a passenger thereby locking the seat belt against further protraction, and a retracting coil spring normally urging the spool in the retracting direction. In the apparatus, lock preventing means are provided for cooperation with the locking wheels through a driving connection between them so that the locking wheels can be temporarily prevented from the locked position and can protract over some pre-selected steps in the state in which the seat belt is engaged on the passenger's body.