Abstract: A roof device for a vehicle is disclosed. Guide rails extend in a direction along the front and back of the vehicle on both sides of an opening of a vehicle roof. Operation mechanisms are guided by the corresponding guide rails and support a movable panel. A toothed belt has a plurality of rack teeth arranged in a longitudinal direction of the toothed belt. A drive-side guide section guides movement of the toothed belt. A rail-side guide section guides movement of the toothed belt. A sliding section is formed integrally with each toothed belt. A fitting section is formed in at least each drive-side guide section or each rail-side guide section. The fitting section restricts movement of the rack teeth of each toothed belt toward the corresponding opposite face of the drive-side guide section or rail-side guide section.

Abstract: A roof apparatus for a vehicle includes a guide member sliding along a guide rail, a support member supporting a movable panel, a drive member driving the movable panel and the guide member, a first garnish supported by the guide rail and covering a clearance between the support member and the guide rail from an interior space of the vehicle under tilt-up and opening operations of the movable panel, a second garnish supported by the movable panel and covering the support member from the interior space, the second garnish covering the guide member under a fully closed state and the tilt-up operation of the movable panel; and a third garnish connected to the guide member or the support member and covering an opening portion between the first and second garnishes from the interior space under the tilt-up and opening operations and the fully closed state of the movable panel.

Abstract: A density sensor detects a density of a subject according to a variation in received light. The density sensor comprises a base plate, a light emitting element irradiating a subject with light, the light receiving element receiving light reflected by the subject, lead terminals connected at one end with bottoms of the light emitting and receiving elements, respectively, and electrically connected at the other end with the base plate, and a package containing the light emitting and receiving elements and supported by the base plate, wherein at least one of the lead terminals is configured to be inclined from a halfway position so as to reflect light from the light emitting element in a direction away from the bottom of the light receiving element.

Abstract: A sunroof driving device includes a pair of rail members adapted to be arranged at both edges of a roof opening formed in a vehicle roof in a vehicle width direction and each extending along a vehicle longitudinal direction, a slide member slidably supported by each of the rail members in a longitudinal direction therof, a supporting member connected to the slide member and supporting a movable panel opening and closing the roof opening, a cross-connecting member extending along the vehicle width direction for establishing connection between respective front ends of the rail members, a drive motor arranged at the cross-connecting member and including a rotating shaft extending along the cross-connecting member, a torque wire extending along the cross-connecting member and integrally rotating with the rotating shaft, and a torque-transmitting member rotated by the torque wire and sliding the slide member along each of the rail members.

Abstract: A roof apparatus for a vehicle includes a pair of guide rails adapted to be mounted and extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle along both sides of an opening provided at a vehicle roof, the pair of guide rails supporting a movable panel for opening and closing the opening and a frame extending in a width direction of the vehicle and connected with the guide rails, the frame made of a light alloy material and having a closed cross sectional shape when viewed in a direction perpendicular to a length direction thereof, the frame including a joining surface portion connected with each guide rail, an opposing surface portion opposing with the joining surface portion; and a hollow portion located between the joining surface portion and the opposing surface portion.

Abstract: Inexpensive heating fuel is used to generate heat required for completion of reformation of raw material to be reformed such as hydrocarbon gas, heavy oil or oil refining pitch so that the raw material may be reformed economically and stably. A reformer has a raw material feeder that feeds a predetermined amount of raw material to be reformed to a fluidized-bed reforming furnace; a fuel feeder feeds heating fuel to a fluidized-bed combustion furnace; and a controller regulates the fuel to be fed to the combustion furnace so as to impart heat to the circulating particles in the combustion furnace such that the raw material fed to the reforming furnace can be completely reformed in the reforming furnace.

Abstract: A sunroof driving device includes a pair of rail members adapted to be arranged at both edges of a roof opening formed in a vehicle roof in a vehicle width direction and each extending along a vehicle longitudinal direction, a slide member slidably supported by each of the rail members in a longitudinal direction therof, a supporting member connected to the slide member and supporting a movable panel opening and closing the roof opening, a cross-connecting member extending along the vehicle width direction for establishing connection between respective front ends of the rail members, a drive motor arranged at the cross-connecting member and including a rotating shaft extending along the cross-connecting member, a torque wire extending along the cross-connecting member and integrally rotating with the rotating shaft, and a torque-transmitting member rotated by the torque wire and sliding the slide member along each of the rail members.

Abstract: A roof apparatus for a vehicle includes a pair of guide rails adapted to be mounted and extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle along both sides of an opening provided at a vehicle roof, the pair of guide rails supporting a movable panel for opening and closing the opening and a frame extending in a width direction of the vehicle and connected with the guide rails, the frame made of a light alloy material and having a closed cross sectional shape when viewed in a direction perpendicular to a length direction thereof, the frame including a joining surface portion connected with each guide rail, an opposing surface portion opposing with the joining surface portion; and a hollow portion located between the joining surface portion and the opposing surface portion.

Abstract: A roof device for a vehicle is comprised of a first movable panel movable between a normal position which covers a part of the opening portion of the vehicle roof and an operation position in which a rear end portion of the first movable panel is raised with a front end portion of the fist movable panel as a pivoting point, a second movable panel placed at a rear direction of the first movable panel of the opening portion of the vehicle roof, and an edge member placed at the rear end portion of the first movable panel and extended in a width direction of the vehicle. Furthermore, the roof device is characterized in that a first groove portion is formed at the edge member.

Abstract: A sunroof assembly which opens and closes a roof opening portion provided on a roof of a vehicle with a plurality of movable panels and which improves the water proof performance of a vehicle width directional end portions at a clearance between a first movable panel in front and a second movable panel positioned in the rear of the first movable panel. The sunroof assembly includes the first movable panel provided at front of the roof opening portion, the second movable panel provided in the rear of the first movable panel, a sealing member extended in the vehicle width direction for sealing a clearance between the first movable panel and the second movable panel when the first movable panel and the second movable panel are closed, and a preventive wall for covering vehicle width directional end portion of the sealing member.

Abstract: A roof device for a vehicle is comprised of a first movable panel movable between a normal position which covers a part of the opening portion of the vehicle roof and an operation position in which a rear end portion of the first movable panel is raised with a front end portion of the fist movable panel as a pivoting point, a second movable panel placed at a rear direction of the first movable panel of the opening portion of the vehicle roof, and an edge member placed at the rear end portion of the first movable panel and extended in a width direction of the vehicle. Furthermore, the roof device is characterized in that a first groove portion is formed at the edge member.

Abstract: A sunroof assembly which opens and closes a roof opening portion provided on a roof of a vehicle with a plurality of movable panels and which improves the water proof performance of a vehicle width directional end portions at a clearance between a first movable panel in front and a second movable panel positioned in the rear of the first movable panel. The sunroof assembly includes the first movable panel provided at front of the roof opening portion, the second movable panel provided in the rear of the first movable panel, a sealing member extended in the vehicle width direction for sealing a clearance between the first movable panel and the second movable panel when the first movable panel and the second movable panel are closed, and a preventive wall for covering vehicle width directional end portion of the sealing member.

Abstract: To restrict the sliding movement of the movable panel having first and second ends during the up and down movement of the second end of the panel, a tilting and sliding roof device for a vehicle includes a pair of stopper blocks fixed to a pair of guide rails, with each stopper block being provided with a pair of first and second elongated grooves extending in the up and down moving direction of the movable panel. A pair of first engaging members is provided on the movable panel for engagement with and disengagement from the first elongated grooves of the stopper blocks, and a pair of second engaging members is provided on the movable panel for engagement with and disengagement from the second elongated grooves of the stopper blocks.

Abstract: To restrict the sliding movement of the movable panel having first and second ends during the up and down movement of the second end of the panel, a tilting and sliding roof device for a vehicle includes a pair of stopper blocks fixed to a pair of guide rails, with each stopper block being provided with a pair of first and second elongated grooves extending in the up and down moving direction of the movable panel. A pair of first engaging members is provided on the movable panel for engagement with and disengagement from the first elongated grooves of the stopper blocks, and a pair of second engaging members is provided on the movable panel for engagement with and disengagement from the second elongated grooves of the stopper blocks.

Abstract: A sliding roof device for vehicles includes a pair of guide rails each being oppositely provided in vehicle longitudinal direction, an opening provided in a vehicle roof, a roof panel slidable in the vehicle longitudinal direction along the pair of guide rails for opening and closing the opening of the roof, a U-shaped extension formed integrally with the pair of guide rails and a rain gutter having a U-shaped channel and motor drive bracket which is provided on the U-shaped extension of the guide rails.

Abstract: A method of recovering carbon dioxide gas from the combustion exhaust gas of fossil fuel, using a combustion equipment, wherein fuel gas is supplied to an anode chamber of a molten carbonate fuel cell and oxidizing gas is supplied to a cathode chamber of the fuel cell, the combustion exhaust gas from the combustion equipment is suuplied to the cathode chamber as part of the oxidizaing gas, CO.sub.2 in the combustion exhaust gas is allowed to react with O.sub.2 in the oxidizing gas at the cathode to produce carbonate ion, which is allowed to pass through the electrolyte of the fuel cell and to reach the anode, which the carbonate ion is allowed to react with hydrogen in the fuel gas to produce CO.sub.2 and H.sub.2 O, the anode exhaust gas containing CO.sub.2 and H.sub.2 O generated at the anode is discharged from the anode chamber, H.sub.2 O is separated from the anode discharge gas and high-concentration CO.sub.2 gas is recovered.

Abstract: An arrangement for tightening a stack of fuel cell elements, each cell element including a cathode, an anode and a tile sandwiched by the cathode and the anode and the cell elements being piled up one after another with separators being interposed therebetween, comprising an upper and a lower holders for holding the fuel cell stack, an upper and a lower pressure-adjusting members for sandwiching the upper and lower holders, each pressure-adjusting member including a hollow body constructed by welding two thin, metallic plates and gas enclosed in the hollow body, an upper and a lower adiabatic materials for sandwiching the pressure-adjusting members, and a pressing device for pressing the upper and lower adiabatic materials, the adiabatic materials, the pressure-adjusting members, the holders and the fuel cell stack, wherein the pressing force of the pressing device is given to the holders and the fuel cell stack through the pressure-adjusting members in the form of an uniform pressure.

Abstract: The power generation system with use of fuel cell, comprises: a cell stack including alternately piled up fuel cell elements and separator plates, each fuel cell element having an anode electrode, an electrolyte and a cathode electrode; a first reforming plate for partially reforming fuel gas to anode gas interposed between arbitrary adjacent separator plates instead of the cell element; a second reformer assembly for reforming the remainder of the fuel gas to the anode gas, the second reformer assembly including a plurality of plate type second reformers; an intermediate holder interposed between the cell stack and the second reformer assembly as they are piled up; an upper and a lower holders for sandwiching the cell stack, the intermediate holder and the second reformer assembly so as to hold them as one unit; and gas passages formed within the cell stack, the second reformer assembly, and the intermediate, the upper and the lower holders.