Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning system includes a space air conditioning unit for blowing conditioned air into a passenger compartment, a seat air conditioning unit for blowing air into a vehicle seat, and a control unit for controlling the space air conditioning unit and the seat air conditioning unit. The control unit includes space controlling means for controlling the space air conditioning unit in accordance with a space control value calculated based on a space target air temperature, and seat controlling means for controlling the seat air conditioning unit in accordance with a seat control value calculated based on the space target air temperature. Further, the seat controlling means includes a first seat air conditioning means which determines the seat control value in a steady air conditioning state of the passenger compartment, and a second seat air-conditioning means which determines the seat control value in a transition air-conditioning state of the passenger compartment.

Abstract: A golf club head (1) having a hollow portion is partly or entirely provided with a PCCP structure (2) excluding its face portion (16). By this structure, a golf club head having an outer body structure which permits the thickness of the head to be reduced without loss in the strength to be provided.

Abstract: An opening and closing device includes a slide member in substantially ring shape placed in a contact area between a stator and a case, wherein a stator cam of the stator is elastically pushed by a rotor cam of a rotor elastically urged by a spring, wherein the case in substantially tubular shape accommodates the constituent members inside thereof, wherein the slide member serves as a lubricant element and reduces friction between the stator and the case, hence the opening and closing device is provided with a light operational feeling.

Abstract: There are provided a receiving base serving as a base on which a seat back frame is carried in a laid state, and a setting mechanism for holding an axis of a supporting shaft interconnecting actuating shafts projecting from locking mechanisms, the setting mechanism which has held the axis of the supporting shaft being mounted through stand bases to the receiving base so as to be swingable and being adapted to be swung by a driving cylinder which generates a force to the extent that the actuating shafts are not rotated, so that the axis of the supporting shaft can rotated relative to the actuating shafts by an allowed rotational amount according to actuation of the driving cylinder.

Abstract: An opening and closing device includes a rotor pressed by a rotor spring and a reverse-rotor pressed by reverse-rotor spring, of which rotor cam and reverse-rotor cam are respectively placed at a certain position of stator cam. With this construction, rotor is urged in an opening direction in the opening condition and urged in a closing direction in the closing condition with respect to stator. A release cam pushes the reverse-rotor cam by moving a releaser along an axis, so that the device opens.

Abstract: An opening and closing device and an electronic apparatus using this device. In an urging section, a movable member including a movable cam on its side is urged by a spring. A slide member includes, at its end, a stationary cam, opposed to the movable cam, for resiliently contacting the movable cam. The movable member is urged in opening and closing directions in open and closed states, respectively according to which portion of the stationary cam resiliently contacts the movable cam. A reversing section includes a release member including a release cam resiliently contacting a support cam at the other end of the slide member, and a reversing member inserted into the slide member and including a reversing cam. When the release cam is disconnected from the support cam, the slide member slides axially, whereby the movable cam is disconnected from the stationary cam and resiliently contacts the reversing cam.

Abstract: An arbitrary position of a pipe is clamped and a connector is engaged with the pipe. Then, an end portion of the pipe is expanded with a tool such as a diameter expanding punch so as to caulk the pipe to the connector from inside. As a pipe fluctuation-absorbing portion, which is a relief space of pipe material, is provided in a portion of an inner face of the connector, when the diameter-expanding portion is formed, an excess pipe material is absorbed there and the length of the pipe is reduced and adjusted to an appropriate value. A portion in which the pipe fluctuation-absorbing portion is formed is not limited to a forward end portion of the pipe but it may be formed on an inner face of the connector corresponding to an intermediate portion.

Abstract: A pipe joint structure capable of reducing the joint height (H) and fabrication costs has a connection flange member provided with a through hole piercing the thickness of the flange member. A polygonal enlarged recess greater than the inner diameter of the through hole is formed at one end of the through hole. Meanwhile, an annular protrusion protruding radially outward is formed near an end of a pipe having an outer diameter capable of insertion into the through hole. This annular protrusion has an outer diameter greater than the incircle diameter of the polygonal enlarged recess. The annular protrusion is press-fitted and fixed to the polygonal enlarged recess.

Abstract: A golf club head (11) has an ellipsoid of inertia (12) with its center at a center of gravity G. When the ellipsoid of inertia (12) is virtually cut with a plane passing through the center of gravity of the golf club head (11) and being parallel to a face surface (11f), a major axis of a plane ellipse (13) appearing on its cut surface forms an angle of &thgr; with an intersecting line (15) of the cut surface and a ground surface (16). The major axis extends upward and away from the ground surface (16) as it approaches a toe part (11t). The angle &thgr; is not smaller than 0.5° and not larger than 9.5°. An aspect ratio a/b defined by a ratio of the length a of the major axis (13d) to the length b of a minor axis (13e) of the plane ellipse (13) is not smaller than 1 and not larger than 4.

Abstract: The folding device contains a stationary part; a movable part disposed rotatable in flip-up and flip-down directions; a force-applying section disposed between the two parts, which urges the movable part in either direction according to the state of the movable part; a reversing section for allowing the force-applying section to change direction of urging the movable part into the flip-up direction when the movable part has a folded state; and a actuator for operating the reversing section. Pressing the actuator being in the folded state allows the reversing section to switch direction of urging the movable part into flip-up direction. In the electronic equipment of the present invention, the stationary and the movable housings are connected to the stationary and the movable parts of the folding device, respectively. The structures can provide a folding device equipped with a simple one-hand flipping-up, and electronic equipment using the device.

Abstract: In the metal iron golf club head (1), the rigidity of the medium sensitivity region (5) which is a region on the heel side and excluding the vicinity of the face center (3) is made lower than the rigidity of the low sensitivity region (4) so as to approximate the natural frequency of the metal iron golf club head to the natural frequency of the ball as well as to ensure the strength in the face portion (2).

Abstract: In the metal iron golf club head (1), the rigidity of the medium sensitivity region (5) which is a region on the heel side and excluding the vicinity of the face center (3) is made lower than the rigidity of the low sensitivity region (4) so as to approximate the natural frequency of the metal iron golf club head to the natural frequency of the ball as well as to ensure the strength in the face portion (2).

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a coating film, comprises a coating unit for coating a sol containing dielectric particles and a first solvent on a substrate, an aging unit for changing a sol-state coating film formed on the substrate in the coating unit to a gel state, and a solvent exchange unit for applying a second solvent different from the first solvent to the coating film to replace the first solvent in the coating film with the second solvent, wherein the aging unit comprises a heating plate for heating the substrate, a cover arranged in contact with a peripheral portion of the heating plate to form a process chamber surrounding the substrate, together with-the heating plate, a vacuum adsorption mechanism for vacuum-evacuating a contact surface between the cover and the heating plate to thereby adsorb the cover to the heating plate, a chemical solution vapor supply mechanism for supplying a chemical solution vapor to the process chamber, an evacuation mechanism for evacuating the process chamber to set an in

Abstract: A metal wood club head of a hollow hull structure according to the present invention is such that the vertical difference between a maximum face part height (MFH) from a sole part (4) and a back part height (BH) from the sole part (4) is at least within 25 mm, the height of a crown part (3) having a width of 30% to 70% of a head width from the sole part (4) is substantially identical to the maximum face part height (MFH) or more than that, the vertical difference between a maximum crown part height (MCH) from the sole part (4) and the maximum face part height (MFH) is at least within 8 mm, and the radius (R1) of curvature of the crown part (3) is substantially uniformly within the range of 100 mm to 1000 mm, while it sets the radius (R2) of curvature of the sole part (4) substantially uniformly within the range of 500 mm to 2000 mm, and sets the ratio of thicknesses of the crown part (3) and the sole part (4) within the range of 1.0 to 1.2.

Abstract: A transmission method according to the present invention is capable of transmitting and receiving a data signal and information signal among a plurality of devices by full-duplex operation, wherein, when the information signal consecutively repeats a single pattern, a different pattern is inserted between the same patterns before transmission thereof. This minimizes an adverse effect of crosstalk jitter over a transmission line susceptible to crosstalk, and reduces a margin between the transition and sampling point of a signal, thereby suppressing the cost of a CDR circuit.

Abstract: The inventive golf club comprises a head of a metal having a face and a flexural range, defined in the face, where the quantity of flexure in a direction perpendicular to the face is at least 45% of the maximum quantity of vertical flexure of the face. The flexural range is arranged in coincidence with a hitting spot distribution range of a player in the face. Alternatively, a flexural range having a spring constant of at least 2 kN/mm and not more than 4 kN/mm is present in the face of the inventive golf club.

Abstract: When aging processing is performed, a ratio of water vapor contained in a processing gas is made comparatively large for a certain period of time from start of the processing, whereby it is accelerated for collides of TEOS to be gelled and chained in a network form, so that heating is further uniformly performed for the wafer W. Thereafter, the ratio of water vapor in the processing gas is decreased, so that a water content which is contained in the insulating film material after the aging processing can be reduced in amount.

Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning system includes a space air conditioning unit for blowing conditioned air into a passenger compartment, a seat air conditioning unit for blowing air into a vehicle seat, and a control unit for controlling the space air conditioning unit and the seat air conditioning unit. The control unit includes space controlling means for controlling the space air conditioning unit in accordance with a space control value calculated based on a space target air temperature, and seat controlling means for controlling the seat air conditioning unit in accordance with a seat control value calculated based on the space target air temperature. Further, the seat controlling means includes a first seat air conditioning means which determines the seat control value in a steady air conditioning state of the passenger compartment, and a second seat air-conditioning means which determines the seat control value in a transition air-conditioning state of the passenger compartment.

Abstract: A number of embodiments of suspension systems for vehicles having at least two wheels, each of which is independently suspended by a system including a respective shock absorber. The shock absorbers may be generally conventional in nature but are interconnected by a system that includes an accumulator and a flow control so as to provide a damping for vehicle characteristics that is independent of the individual damping of each wheel's shock absorber. The systems also provide constructions so that both the vehicle and individual wheel damping can be independently controlled to permit the use of smaller shock absorbers.

Abstract: In the metal iron golf club head (1), the rigidity of the medium sensitivity region (5) which is a region on the heel side and excluding the vicinity of the face center (3) is made lower than the rigidity of the low sensitivity region (4) so as to approximate the natural frequency of the metal iron golf club head to the natural frequency of the ball as well as to ensure the strength in the face portion (2).