Abstract: A floor panel structure of a vehicle body where a vehicle floor has floor panels with their peripheral edges linked to a plurality of frame members that are disposed in a vehicle body lengthwise direction and a vehicle body crosswise direction and linked to an engine or a suspension is disclosed. The floor panel has a joint where at least part of its peripheral edge is joined to the frame member, a groove formed along the entire length of the joint and a high-rigidity area formed within the low-rigidity area. The low-rigidity area forms a vibration blocking area along the entire length of the joint by using a difference in rigidity from the high-rigidity area.

Abstract: A lease payment plan for leasing property such as a motor vehicle for a specified lease period is determined, by setting a shorter period shorter than the lease period, from a partial cost to be recouped within the shorter period and an entire cost to be recouped over the entire lease period. The partial cost is calculated in accordance with an initial value of the property and a first residual value at the end of the shorter period. The entire cost is calculated in accordance with the initial value of the property and a second residual value at the expiration of the lease period.

Abstract: An exhaust pipe supporting device includes a generally elliptical body portion integrally formed of an elastic material, such as rubber. The body portion includes a first holder portion having a through-hole to receive a support member associated with a car body, a second holder portion having another through-hole to receive a support member associated with the exhaust pipe. A pair of lateral walls connect the first and second holder portions by attachment at opposite ends to opposed sides of the first and second holding portions. The first and second holding are held in this manner in spaced apart relation to each other, and a central connector is disposed intermediate between the first and second holder portions and connected at opposite sides thereof to the lateral walls. The central connector portion includes a central portion formed as a mass section, which optionally includes a metal mass portion, and opposite lateral portions which extend from the mass section to the opposite sides.

Abstract: This invention relates to a vibration-preventing device wherein a partition wall is positioned outside of an inner cylinder and is interposed between an upper plate and a lower plate. The partition wall includes a hub portion. The upper plate and lower plate are connected to the inner cylinder. An upper vibration-preventing rubber member and an upper elastic film are interposed between the partition wall and the upper plate and cooperate to define an enclosure which functions as an upper damper liquid chamber. A lower vibration-preventing rubber member and a lower elastic film are interposed between the partition wall and the lower plate and cooperate to form an enclosure which functions as a lower damper liquid chamber. The upper damper liquid chamber communicates with the lower damper liquid chamber through an orifice.

Abstract: This invention relates to a vibration-preventing rubber device in which a partition wall having a hub is positioned outside an inner cylinder and is interposed between an upper plate and a lower plate which are connected to the inner cylinder. An upper vibration-preventing rubber member is interposed between the partition wall and the upper plate and cooperates with the partition wall and the upper plate to define an upper damper liquid chamber. A lower vibration-preventing rubber member is interposed between the partition wall and the lower plate and cooperates with the partition wall and the lower plate to define a lower damper liquid chamber. The upper damper liquid chamber communicates with the lower damper liquid chamber through an orifice. The orifice is formed from a long curved pipe in the shape of a helix or the like.

Abstract: A flexible shaft coupling comprising drive side connecting elements and driven side connecting elements arranged alternately and equidistantly in an annular orientation, and coupling pieces of annular form linking mutually adjacent pairs of drive side connecting elements and driven side connecting elements, each of both connecting elements being formed of an inner sleeve, an outer sleeve and an elastic intermediate member bonding them, the coupling pieces being formed of a belt strip wrapping around the outer sleeve and an elastomeric body surrounding and covering the wrapped belt strip. The elastic intermediate member is formed as a rubber bushing press-fitted between the inner and outer sleeves and extends only in an axially middle portion of both sleeves, and adjacent to the rubber bushing, intermediate sleeves are fitted to the inner sleeve or outer sleeve. The elastic intermediate member has a compressive strain of 25-40%.

Abstract: This invention relates to a multiple mounting vibration-preventing device wherein a partition wall is interposed between an upper plate and a lower plate. An upper vibration-preventing rubber member is interposed between the partition wall and the upper plate so as to define an upper damper liquid chamber therebetween. A lower vibration-preventing rubber member is interposed between the partition wall and the lower plate so as to define a lower damper liquid chamber therebetween. The upper damper liquid chamber communicates with the lower damper liquid chamber through an orifice. Either or both the upper damper liquid chamber and the lower damper liquid chamber is horizontally divided into a plurality of damper liquid subschambers by division plates extending in the vertical direction of the damper liquid chambers. Adjacent damper liquid subchambers communicate through orifices provided in the division plates.

Abstract: This invention relates to multiple mounting vibration-preventing device wherein a partition wall is interposed between an upper plate and a lower plate. An upper vibration-preventing rubber member is interposed between the partition wall and the upper plate so as to define an upper damper liquid chamber therebetween. A lower vibration-preventing rubber member is interposed between the partition wall and the lower plate so as to define a lower damper liquid chamber therebetween. The upper damper liquid chamber communicates with the lower damper liquid chamber through an orifice. An upper elastic film, disposed inside the upper vibration-preventing rubber member, has a portion spliced to the partition wall and its outer end part caulked to the upper plate. The upper damper liquid chamber is defined by the upper vibration-preventing rubber member and the upper elastic film.

Abstract: A self shift type gas discharge panel in which the display screen comprises a plurality of shift lines arranged in parallel in the vertical direction, and a system and method for driving the panel. The display screen is divided into several sections both in the horizontal and vertical directions to form a plurality of display areas, and the shift operation can be performed independently in each of these display areas. While the forward shift operation is conducted in a single selected display area, a reciprocating or sway shift operation, or a stationary display, obtain selectively in the remaining display areas with such a configuration, so that an editing operation can be realized which is similar to that realized by the existing well known matrix display gas discharge panel. As a result, the display function can be much improved.

Abstract: A first glass substrate supports a plurality of electrodes arranged in concentric circles. A second glass substrate supports a plurality of shift electrodes arranged radially. The substrates are positioned face to face with a specified space between them filled with an ionizable gas. The radially arranged shift electrodes are periodically connected to common buses each connected to a corresponding one of a plurality of shift driver circuits equal in number to the buses. At least one of the shift electrodes is selectively connected to a write driver circuit and to one of the shift driver circuits. When the one of the shift electrodes is energized by a signal from the write driver circuit, discharge spots are generated at the intersection of the one of the shift electrodes and the concentrically arranged electrodes.

Abstract: Methods and systems for driving a self-shift type of gas discharge panel utilize a plurality of basic pulse trains for the shifting of discharge spots. The pulse trains are applied cyclically and sequentially to each phase of a multi-phase display cell array, each cycle comprising several unit periods, and the array having regularity in its arrangement. This facilitates control of timing for phase switching, and accurate shift operation can be realized by variation of the basic pulse trains.

Abstract: An improved driving system and method for shifting a discharge spot from a given discharge cell to an adjacent discharge cell in an A.C. gas discharge, or plasma display, panel, having opposed sets of electrodes respectively covered with corresponding dielectric layers thereby insulated from the discharge gas space. One set of electrodes comprises common electrodes extending in parallel relationship and defining the direction of propagation of the shifted discharge spots. The other set of electrodes, spaced apart from the first set by the gas space, extends in parallel relation transversely to the first common electrodes, and comprise the shift electrodes. The shift electrodes are arranged in groups of a predetermined number in each group and a corresponding number of buses permits selective application of shift pulses to the respectively associated shift electrodes in sequence for each group and simultaneously for the successive groups.

Abstract: A coordinate position information output device is disclosed in which the impedance at a position addressed by a contact pen, a light pen, a magnetic pen or the like is varied; a forward current is caused to flow by the impedance change in a charge storage diode; and a backward current flowing in the charge storage diode for a moment immediately thereafter is utilized as coordinate position information.

Abstract: A system for reading out information in a plasma display memory panel having a set of X and a set of Y electrodes is disclosed in which a forward current is conducted through unidirectional conducting devices having a charge storage effect, for example, charge storage diodes, connected to the X or Y electrodes; a read voltage is applied to one of a selected one of the Y sets of and X electrodes; a charging current due to the read voltage is conducted through the charge storage diodes in a backward direction making use of their backward recovery time; a gas discharge current, after the charging current terminates, flows in the stray capacitance of the selected X or Y electrode, raising its potential relative to the ground potential; and the potential rise is detected to thereby effect read-out of the information.