Abstract: A method and system of controlling key operations of a mobile device comprising one or more hard keys and one or more touch keys are disclosed. An operation of one or more hard keys is detected, and measuring an operation time is started in response to detecting the operation. Operations of one or more touch keys are invalidated until the operation time exceeds a certain period of time.

Abstract: An example tethered airbag arrangement includes an airbag movable to an expanded position. The airbag includes a contact face. An internal tether constrains expansion of the contact face. An external tether also constrains expansion of the contact face.

Abstract: An example tethered airbag arrangement includes an airbag movable to an expanded position. The airbag includes a contact face. An internal tether constrains expansion of the contact face. An external tether system includes tether portions and at least one bridge portion. The tether portions constrain expansion of the contact face. The bridge portion limits separation between one of the tether portions and an adjacent one of the tether portions as the airbag moves to an expanded position.

Abstract: An example airbag arrangement includes an airbag that moves between an expansion-constrained position and an expanded position. A tether adjacent an exterior surface of the airbag moves with the airbag between a shorter position and a longer position. The tether remains intact in the shorter position and the longer position. When the tether is in the shorter position, the tether holds the airbag in the expansion-constrained position.

Abstract: An example tethered airbag arrangement includes an airbag movable to an expanded position. The airbag includes a contact face. An internal tether constrains expansion of the contact face. An external tether also constrains expansion of the contact face.

Abstract: An example tethered airbag arrangement includes an airbag movable to an expanded position. The airbag includes a contact face. An internal tether constrains expansion of the contact face. An external tether system includes tether portions and at least one bridge portion. The tether portions constrain expansion of the contact face. The bridge portion limits separation between one of the tether portions and an adjacent one of the tether portions as the airbag moves to an expanded position.

Abstract: An example airbag arrangement includes an airbag that moves between an expansion-constrained position and an expanded position. A tether adjacent an exterior surface of the airbag moves with the airbag between a shorter position and a longer position. The tether remains intact in the shorter position and the longer position. When the tether is in the shorter position, the tether holds the airbag in the expansion-constrained position.

Abstract: An example steering wheel assembly includes an upper rim and a lower rim secured to the upper rim to establish a flow path. Flow within the flow path heats or cools the steering wheel.

Abstract: A tandem type image forming apparatus having plural image forming bodies and an intermediate transfer belt is provided, in which the intermediate transfer belt can be spaced from the image carrying bodies without causing any damage on the intermediate transfer belt. A retracting unit is provided which retracts a belt module along with a secondary transfer module such that a belt-shaped intermediate transfer belt is spaced from all of image carrying bodies.

Abstract: A pad for a steering wheel includes a membrane switch forming member and a cover member. The switch forming member includes a switch body and a support plate. The switch body has a plurality of conductive thin metal sheets and an insulating space interposed between the metal sheets. The support plate is made of rigid synthetic resin for supporting the switch body on its upper face and is formed in its outer peripheral edge with a plurality of mounting holes extending vertically. The cover member covers the air bag of an air bag device and is formed with a rupture portion adapted to be ruptured when the air bag is inflated, and mounting ribs projecting from the back face thereof and engaged with the mounting holes of the support plate. At least one of the outer peripheral edge of the support plate and the back face of the cover member is formed with gap regulating projections for setting a predetermined gap between the upper face of the support plate back face of the cover member.

Abstract: A steering wheel for motor vehicles which is composed of a steering wheel base covered with a skin material of: (I) 10-50 parts by weight of a polyethylene resin (A); and (II) 90-50 parts by weight of a block copolymer (B) including a polymer block (a) of styrene or a derivative thereof and an isoprene polymer block or an isoprene-butadiene copolymer block (b), the polymer or copolymer block containing 40% or higher of isoprene units bonded at 3,4- position relative to the total isoprene units and 97% or more of the double bonds having been hydrogenated, (the total amount of the components (A) and (B) is 100 parts by weight). The skin material for the steering wheel is a soft, injection-moldable thermoplastic olefin elastomer composition having a low specific gravity and good wear resistance, which is capable of recycling and gives excellent feel of touch.

Abstract: A pad for a steering wheel includes a membrane switch forming member and a cover member. The switch forming member includes a switch body and a support plate. The switch body has a plurality of conductive thin metal sheets and an insulating space interposed between the metal sheets. The support plate is made of rigid synthetic resin for supporting the switch body on its upper face and is formed in its outer peripheral edge with a plurality of mounting holes extending vertically. The cover member covers the air bag of an air bag device and is formed with a rupture portion adapted to be ruptured when the air bag is inflated, and mounting ribs projecting from the back face thereof and engaged with the mounting holes of the support plate. At least one of the outer peripheral edge of the support plate and the back face of the cover member is formed with gap regulating projections for setting a predetermined gap between the upper face of the support plate back face of the cover member.

Abstract: A cleaning device for removing and collecting toner lest on the surface of a photoreceptor includes a housing, a rotary shaft rotatably supported by the housing and a brush, provided on the outer surface of the rotary shaft, for scraping off toner from the surface of the photoreceptor, a bar-like member fastened at both ends thereof to the housing and positioned at a location where the bar-like member is flicked with upon the rotation of the brush, an auger, positioned at a predetermined location within the housing, for transporting the toner scraped off to a given direction, and the bar-like member being disposed so as to prevent the auger from being further moved from the predetermined position and from contacting with the brush.

Abstract: A cleaning device for removing and collecting toner left on the surface of a photoreceptor includes a housing, a rotary shaft rotatably supported by the housing and a brush, provided on the outer surface of the rotary shaft, for scraping off toner from the surface of the photoreceptor, a bar-like member fastened at both ends thereof to the housing and positioned at a location where the bar-like member is flicked with upon the rotation of the brush, an auger, positioned at a predetermined location within the housing, for transporting the toner scraped off to a given direction, and the bar-like member being disposed so as to prevent the auger from being further moved from the predetermined position and from contacting with the brush.

Abstract: A pad for a steering wheel includes a membrane switch forming member and a cover member. The switch forming member includes a switch body and a support plate. The switch body has a plurality of conductive thin metal sheets and an insulating space interposed between the metal sheets. The support plate is made of rigid synthetic resin for supporting the switch body on its upper face and is formed in its outer peripheral edge with a plurality of mounting holes extending vertically. The cover member covers the air bag of an air bag device and is formed with a rapture portion adapted to be ruptured when the air bag is inflated, and mounting ribs projecting from the back face thereof and engaged with the mounting holes of the support plate. At least one of the outer peripheral edge of the support plate and the back face of the cover member is formed with gap regulating projections for setting a predetermined gap between the upper face of the support plate back face of the cover member.

Abstract: A steering wheel having a body including a boss, a ringlike rim and a plurality of inclined spokes connecting the boss and the rim is characterized in that a pad which may serve as an air bag unit is disposed within the body so as to extend from the boss to the upper portion of the spokes. The pad is mounted with a plurality of brackets extending between the pad and the spokes. Each of the brackets is fastened to an inclined spoke on one hand and, on the other, has a through-hole for receiving a support projecting from the boss or a respective spoke for holding the pad in position and regulating the lateral movement of the pad.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a pressure pulse wave produced from an artery of a living subject, including a first press member having a first press surface, a pressure sensing device supported by the first press surface, a second press member having a second press surface surrounding the first press surface, a pressing device pressing the first and second press members toward a body surface of the subject so that the first press surface is pressed against the artery via the body surface, the pressure sensing device generating an electric signal representing the pressure pulse wave produced from the artery and transmitted thereto via the body surface, the first and second press members being displaceable relative to each other in a direction in which the first and second press members are pressed by the pressing device, an actuating device displacing the first press member relative to the second press member so that the first press surface is advanced outward from the second press surface, and a determining devi

Abstract: A pad for an air bag device including an upper wall portion which has an openable portion which, upon expansion of the air bag, is separated from a side wall portion of the pad, leaving a hinge portion, and is angularly movable about that pivot axis so as to be openable. The openable portion is constituted by a net insert of a net-like configuration and a covering layer of a soft material covering the net insert. The net insert has a slit which is formed in one edge portion thereof remote from the hinge portion and extends toward the hinge portion. With this construction, even if part of the pad is curved, the net insert can be set in a corresponding injection mold without generating wrinkles in the net insert, and the molding can be performed in such a manner that the openable portion has a good appearance.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a pulse wave produced from a subject in synchronous relationship with heartbeats of the subject, including a probe device for sensing a heartbeat synchronous pulse wave transmitted thereto and generating a signal representative of the sensed pulse wave, a sampling device for periodically determining a magnitude of the signal, a determining device for determining a lower peak and a following upper peak of the heartbeat synchronous pulse wave based on variation of the magnitudes determined by the sampling means, a calculating device for calculating a value by subtracting, from each of the magnitudes determined by the sampling means, a magnitude of the signal determined by the sampling means prior by a predetermined number of periods to the each of the magnitudes, and a judging means for judging whether or not the following upper peak is a proper upper peak of a pulse of the heartbeat synchronous pulse wave, based on the values calculated by the calculating means with respect to a port

Abstract: Pulse wave is detected by a pulse wave sensor pressed against an arterial vessel of living body. Stability of detection of the pulse wave may be insufficient due to not only inappropriate pressing of the pulse wave sensor but also the living body itself. The insufficient stability of detection of pulse wave resulting from the living body itself cannot be solved by altering the manner of pressing of the pulse wave sensor, but it can be solved by, for example, changing the angle of a hand about the wrist and thereby detecting a pulse wave produced from the radial artery running in the wrist. The present invention has made it possible to automatically identify the insufficient stability of detection of pulse wave due to the living body itself.