Abstract: To provide a flat lighting device used for a liquid crystal display device and the like that can be made thin and lightweight and produced at low cost, the lighting device of the present invention includes a plurality of surface light emitting plates which are two-dimensionally arranged. Each of the plurality of surface light emitting plates includes a light guide portion and a light source portion provided in an end portion of the light guide portion. The light guide portion and the light source portion are integrally provided. The light source portion of a surface light emitting plate two-dimensionally overlaps with the light guide portion of another surface light emitting plate adjacent thereto, so light having a uniform intensity can be emitted above the plurality of surface light emitting plates.

Abstract: A fishing reel includes: a reel body attachable to a fishing rod; a spool rotatably supported by the reel body; a handle disposed at a side portion of the reel body for rotating the spool to winding a fishing line on the spool; and an auxiliary operating member for auxiliary winding the fishing line on the spool provided at a position in which the auxiliary operating member can be operated by a finger of an angler's hand holding the fishing rod to which the reel body is attached.

Abstract: A light-beam direction conversion portion including two reflecting surfaces is provided in a light guide plate so that an end of each of the reflecting surfaces is brought into contact with a light input surface of the light guide plate. A traveling direction of a light beam from a light source is converted on each of the reflecting surfaces by total reflection, so an inner portion of the light guide plate has a uniform light beam distribution even in the case where a size of the edge area is small. Therefore, each of the reflecting surfaces is provided at an angle equal to or smaller than 20.02 degrees relative to the normal to a light emitting surface of the light source.

Abstract: A fishing reel includes: a reel body attachable to a fishing rod; a spool rotatably supported by the reel body; a handle disposed at a side portion of the reel body for rotating the spool to winding a fishing line on the spool; and an auxiliary operating member for auxiliary winding the fishing line on the spool provided at a position in which the auxiliary operating member can be operated by a finger of an angler's hand holding the fishing rod to which the reel body is attached.

Abstract: An electric fishing reel which is provided with a speed change mechanism excellent in silence and durability while realizing the size reduction. The electric fishing reel comprises: a drive motor for rotationally driving a spool rotatably supported on a reel body; a speed change mechanism rotatably mounted on a motor spindle and including an output gear having a rotational speed switched into a high speed or a low speed in accordance with the rotational direction of the motor spindle; and a power transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotation of the output gear to the spool. The speed change mechanism switches the rotational speed of the output gear by regulating the transmission of the rotation of the motor spindle with respect to the output gear.

Abstract: An electric fishing reel which is provided with a speed change mechanism excellent in silence and durability while realizing the size reduction. The electric fishing reel comprises: a drive motor for rotationally driving a spool rotatably supported on a reel body; a speed change mechanism rotatably mounted on a motor spindle and including an output gear having a rotational speed switched into a high speed or a low speed in accordance with the rotational direction of the motor spindle; and a power transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotation of the output gear to the spool. The speed change mechanism switches the rotational speed of the output gear by regulating the transmission of the rotation of the motor spindle with respect to the output gear.

Abstract: A fishing reel includes: a reel body attachable to a fishing rod; a spool rotatably supported by the reel body; a handle disposed at a side portion of the reel body for rotating the spool to winding a fishing line on the spool; and an auxiliary operating member for auxiliary winding the fishing line on the spool provided at a position in which the auxiliary operating member can be operated by a finger of an angler's hand holding the fishing rod to which the reel body is attached.

Abstract: A failure determination threshold value HSH used for making a failure determination for a control apparatus, for example, a lock-up clutch (26) by failure determining means (116) is corrected by failure determination threshold value correcting means (114) based on a continuation quantity qNG, for example, a duration tNG, of an operation state in which a predetermined failure precondition for the control apparatus mounted on a vehicle is satisfied. Therefore, a failure determination is performed by the failure determining means (116) using the failure determination threshold value HSH obtained in consideration of individual differences such as variations between vehicles. As a result, it is possible to prevent an erroneous determination regarding a failure, and to improve sensitivity of a failure determination.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rotor for a rotary electric machine that suppresses the occurrence of winding disturbances in the process of winding a coil wire and has a coil field having a uniform outside diameter that is less likely to collapse. A coil field of a rotor coil is constructed by winding a coil wire having a circular cross section onto an outer circumference of a drum portion of a bobbin in multiple layers so as to make columns in each of the layers equal in number in an axial direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rotor for a rotary electric machine that suppresses the occurrence of winding disturbances in the process of winding a coil wire and has a coil field having a uniform outside diameter that is less likely to collapse. A coil field of a rotor coil is constructed by winding a coil wire having a circular cross section onto an outer circumference of a drum portion of a bobbin in multiple layers so as to make columns in each of the layers equal in number in an axial direction.

Abstract: An antifouling coating composition substantially not containing cuprous oxide and organotins, characterized by comprising (A) a metal-containing copolymer obtained by copolymerization of a polymerizable unsaturated monomer (a1) containing a metal and an unsaturated monomer (a2) capable of radical polymerization containing no metals; (B) 4,5-dichloro-2-n-octyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one; and (C) a metal pyrithione compound. There are provided an antifouling coating composition, antifouling coating film and, covered with the antifouling coating film, marine vessel, underwater structure and fishing gear or fishing net, which can reduce burdens on the environment, exhibiting excellent antifouling performance, and which excel in not only uniform wasting of coating film but also capability of maintaining antifouling performance of coating film for a prolonged period of time.

Abstract: A fishing reel includes: a reel body attachable to a fishing rod; a spool rotatably supported by the reel body; a handle disposed at a side portion of the reel body for rotating the spool to winding a fishing line on the spool; and an auxiliary operating member for auxiliary winding the fishing line on the spool provided at a position in which the auxiliary operating member can be operated by a finger of an angler's hand holding the fishing rod to which the reel body is attached.

Abstract: A polarizable electrode for use in an electrical double layer capacitor, which includes carbon fine-powders, a conductive auxiliary agent, and a binder. The tensile strength of the polarizable electrode is not less than 0.13 MPa. An amount of carbon particles displaced from the polarizable electrodes into an electrolytic solution in the electrical double layer capacitor is not more than 1.0 mg/cm2. The long-term performance degradation and self-discharge caused energy losses of the electrical double layer capacitor can be reduced.

Abstract: A hollow (3h) and a plurality of grooves (3j) are formed in a support portion (3g) of a side frame (3). A collar (8) is fit to the support portion in a state that it is axially movable but it is locked in its rotation. Gaps (a, b) are provided within the hollow (3h), while being positioned a distance apart in the axial direction of the collar (8). Elastic rings (29) and (30) each made of felt or soft rubber are placed within the gaps (a, b), respectively. A rotary member (15) and an inner ring (39) are fit to the handle drive shaft (7), and an adjusting member (40) is screw coupled to the handle drive shaft (7). An outer ring (9) of a one-way clutch (D) of a rolling type is inserted and fixed to a tubular portion (8a) of the collar (8). A holder (41) and bar-like rolling members (42) are disposed within the outer ring (9) of the one-way clutch (D).

Abstract: A polarizable electrode for use in electrical double layer capacitors, which includes carbon fine-powder, a conductive auxiliary agent, and a binder. The tensile strength of the polarizable electrode is not less than 0.13 MPa. The long-term performance degradation and self-discharge caused energy losses of the electrical double layer capacitors can be reduced.

Abstract: A hollow (3h) and a plurality of grooves (3j) are formed in a support portion (3g) of a side frame (3). A collar (8) is fit to the support portion in a state that it is axially movable but it is locked in its rotation. Gaps (a, b) are provided within the hollow (3h), while being positioned a distance apart in the axial direction of the collar (8). Elastic rings (29) and (30) each made of felt or soft rubber are placed within the gaps (a, b), respectively.

Abstract: A dye and a heat transfer sheet for use in a heat transfer printing method employing a sublimable dye, capable of producing an image which has a sufficiently high density and is excellent in sharpness, fastness properties and, in particular, resistance to light are provided. The dye has the following formula (I): ##STR1## The heat transfer sheet includes a substrate sheet, and a dye layer including the dye having formula (I), provided on one surface of the substrate sheet.

Abstract: A coating composition for use in a mold coat coating process wherein the coating composition is previously coated on the molding surface of a mold for polyurethane resin, prior to molding of the polyurethane resin in which the coating composition is transferred onto the surface of the molded polyurethane resin. The coating composition is comprised of a principal component including a resin constituent whose principal ingredient is addition polymer of isophorone diisocyanate and polycarbonate polyol in a content ranging from 8 to 25% by weight of the principal component, and a hardener component including a resin constituent whose principal ingredient is addition polymer of hexamethylene diisocyanate and isophorone diisocyanate in a content ranging from 5 to 100% by weight of the hardener component, thereby improving pot life and weatherability of coating film of the coating composition while contributing shortening of so-called open time in a molding cycle.

Abstract: In a functional evaluation device for use in evaluating functional degradation of an artificial device buried in a living body, frequency zones of acoustic emission are detected by the use of the fact that the functional degradation brings about variation of the frequency zones. The acoustic emission may be measured at two different positions adjacent to the artificial device so as to detect an arrival time difference of the acoustic emission and to thereby locate the functional degradation. The acoustic emission is therefore picked up by a pair of transducers placed at the two positions and is processed by a processing circuit for detecting whether or not the functional degradation takes place and by a determining circuit for locating the functional degradation.

Abstract: New dichroic dyestuffs for the guest-host type liquid crystal and new liquid crystal compositions containing said dyestuff having an excellent improved dichroism and being prepared by introducing at least one group selected from the group consisting of phenyl, cyclohexyl, phenylcarbonyloxy and phenyloxycarbonyl group into a phenyl, a cyclohexyl or a naphthyl group at its 4-position, which is arranged at the end of a known dichroic dyestuff molecule along the major axis of the molecule.