Abstract: Provided is a portable blower including a portable main body in which a pipe base portion of a blowout pipe is connected to an outlet port of a fan case, wherein, the fan case is formed of a fiber-reinforced resin of low specific gravity, the pipe base portion has a bent shape and is connected slidably to a pipe connecting portion of the outlet port, and a slide-contact-receiving member that is formed of a wear-resistant material is attached to the pipe connecting portion at a slide-contact point of the pipe base portion.

Abstract: Provided is a portable blower including a portable main body in which a pipe base portion of a blowout pipe is connected to an outlet port of a fan case, wherein, the fan case is formed of a fiber-reinforced resin of low specific gravity, the pipe base portion has a bent shape and is connected slidably to a pipe connecting portion of the outlet port, and a slide-contact-receiving member that is formed of a wear-resistant material is attached to the pipe connecting portion at a slide-contact point of the pipe base portion.

Abstract: An air blower discharges an air flow generated by rotation of a fan from an outlet port of a fan case. An engine and a carburetor are disposed opposing to an outer surface of the fan case. An engine cover (partition) for separating a space in which the engine is disposed from another space in which the carburetor is disposed is provided. The outer surface including a region having a ventilation hole formed through a wall of the fan case, the region opposing to the space in which the carburetor is disposed and the ventilation hole being directed toward the carburetor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information terminal which comprises: a casing having a main surface; a touch pad arranged on the main surface; an insulation sheet member arranged on a rear surface of the touch pad; and a conductive sheet member arranged on a rear surface of the insulation sheet member. The conductive sheet member may have a portion which extends toward the outside from an edge portion of the insulation sheet member.

Abstract: An air blower discharges an air flow generated by rotation of a fan from an outlet port of a fan case. An engine and a carburetor are disposed opposing to an outer surface of the fan case. An engine cover (partition) for separating a space in which the engine is disposed from another space in which the carburetor is disposed is provided. The outer surface including a region having a ventilation hole formed through a wall of the fan case, the region opposing to the space in which the carburetor is disposed and the ventilation hole being directed toward the carburetor.

Abstract: There is provided a thin-plate shaped chassis for an electronic apparatus, which has a plurality of step portions extended substantially in parallel with each other in such a way as to form at least one bulge portion which is bulged in a convex shape. The step portions are formed to have a larger thickness than that of other thin-plate portion having a predetermined thickness, and wherein there is provided at least one rib having a predetermined height which extends from the step portion to the thin-plate portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information terminal which comprises: a casing having a main surface; a touch pad arranged on the main surface; an insulation sheet member arranged on a rear surface of the touch pad; and a conductive sheet member arranged on a rear surface of the insulation sheet member. The conductive sheet member may have a portion which extends toward the outside from an edge portion of the insulation sheet member.

Abstract: A plate-shaped casing member includes a front surface and a rear surface. The rear surface of the plate-shaped casing member has a plurality of meandering ribs. The front surface may have a convex portion raised in a projecting manner. The rear surface may have a concave portion having a concave face which corresponds to the convex portion on the front surface. The plurality of meandering ribs may be formed on the concave portion of the rear surface.

Abstract: Provided are a housing and an electronic device that ensure sufficient strength even when reduced in thickness. A carbon fiber layer included in the housing is disposed such that the orientation direction of carbon fibers is perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the long sides of a back face panel, thus enabling improving the flexural strength of the back face panel. This enables increases in the number of carbon fibers per unit of area of the back face panel, and enables the length of each carbon fiber to be reduced. Accordingly, it is possible to cause the carbon fibers to flex less readily, thus enabling improving the strength in the flexing direction of the back face panel.

Abstract: An operation unit has an operation surface for accepting an input operation. In a plan view, the operation surface has a rectangular contour including a plurality of sides and a plurality of corner portions. When each point at which extensions of adjacent two of the plural sides cross each other is defined as a virtual intersection, and when an intersection at which respective diagonals linking the virtual intersections cross each other is defined as a virtual center, the contour of the corner portion crosses the diagonal that passes through the virtual intersection and the virtual center, at a point between the virtual intersection in the vicinity of the corner portion and the virtual center. The corner portions is a specific corner portion having an intersection with the diagonal at a position closer to the virtual center than the adjacent two corner portions.

Abstract: A laptop computer includes: a substantially rectangular first chassis accommodating a display section; a substantially rectangular second chassis accommodating an operation control section; and a hinge mechanism coupling one side of the second chassis and one side of the first chassis. Another side parallel to the one side of the first chassis is configured so that only its widthwise central portion in parallel to the one side lays side-by-side to form a substantially flat face with another side of the second chassis when the chassis are closed together. The other side of the first chassis is configured, in a planar view, so that the more it departs from the central portion toward an edge portion in the widthwise direction, the more it comes closer to the one side of the first chassis than to the other side of the second chassis when the chassis are closed together.

Abstract: A cushioning member includes a first plane, an opening opened to the first plane, and an air storage for storing air formed from the opening to an inside of the cushioning member. When a shock load is imposed on the cushioning member, the air in the air storage is compressed, and the first plane is deformed by the pressure of the compressed air to form a gap. A part of the compressed air flows out of the air storage through the gap. This structure provides a high shock-cushioning effect.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus of the present invention includes a first case 1 including a keyboard 5 and a signal processing portion, a second case 2 including a liquid crystal display 21 that is capable of displaying visible information obtained by converting an input signal into a visible information signal in the signal processing portion, hinges 3 for rotatably supporting the first case 1 and the second case 2, and light source bodies 11, 12 that are capable of illuminating the keyboard 5 and located at both ends of the second case 2 in the axial direction of the hinges 3. With this configuration, the electronic apparatus can not only illuminate the input portion but also prevent light from entering the eyes of a user directly, thereby making it possible for the user to perform the input operation properly in a dark place.

Abstract: Provided are a housing and an electronic device that ensure sufficient strength even when reduced in thickness. A carbon fiber layer included in the housing is disposed such that the orientation direction of carbon fibers is perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the long sides of a back face panel, thus enabling improving the flexural strength of the back face panel. This enables increases in the number of carbon fibers per unit of area of the back face panel, and enables the length of each carbon fiber to be reduced. Accordingly, it is possible to cause the carbon fibers to flex less readily, thus enabling improving the strength in the flexing direction of the back face panel.

Abstract: An operation unit has an operation surface for accepting an input operation. In a plan view, the operation surface has a rectangular contour including a plurality of sides and a plurality of corner portions. When each point at which extensions of adjacent two of the plural sides cross each other is defined as a virtual intersection, and when an intersection at which respective diagonals linking the virtual intersections cross each other is defined as a virtual center, the contour of the corner portion crosses the diagonal that passes through the virtual intersection and the virtual center, at a point between the virtual intersection in the vicinity of the corner portion and the virtual center. The corner portions is a specific corner portion having an intersection with the diagonal at a position closer to the virtual center than the adjacent two corner portions.

Abstract: Due to the presence of a regulating part in the vicinity of a protrusion of a guide member, a card holding apparatus can prevent large deformation of the protrusion even when an excess pressure force in an insertion direction is applied to the expansion card mounted on the card holding apparatus. Thus, when the subsequent expansion cards are mounted, a guide member can be displaced normally in the insertion direction, and a heart-shaped cam mechanism can be operated normally. Therefore, the expansion card can be removed from the card holding apparatus, using the elastic restoring force of a spring.

Abstract: There is provided a laptop personal computer comprising: a first chassis accommodating a display section and having a basic shape of substantially rectangle in a planar view; a second chassis accommodating an operation control section and having a basic shape of substantially rectangle in a planar view; and a hinge mechanism for coupling one side of the second chassis and one side of the first chassis and supporting both chassis in a relatively openable and closable manner; wherein an other side parallel to the one side of the first chassis is configured so that only its central portion in a widthwise direction parallel to the one side lays side-by-side to form substantially flat face with an other side of the second chassis in a state where the first chassis is closed together with the second chassis, and wherein the other side of the first chassis is configured, in a planar view, so that the more it departs from the central portion toward an edge portion in the widthwise direction, the more it comes closer

Abstract: An electronic apparatus of the present invention includes a first case 1 including a keyboard 5 and a signal processing portion, a second case 2 including a liquid crystal display 21 that is capable of displaying visible information obtained by converting an input signal into a visible information signal in the signal processing portion, hinges 3 for rotatably supporting the first case 1 and the second case 2, and light source bodies 11, 12 that are capable of illuminating the keyboard 5 and located at both ends of the second case 2 in the axial direction of the hinges 3. With this configuration, the electronic apparatus can not only illuminate the input portion but also prevent light from entering the eyes of a user directly, thereby making it possible for the user to perform the input operation properly in a dark place.

Abstract: A cushioning member includes a first plane, an opening opened to the first plane, and an air storage for storing air formed from the opening to an inside of the cushioning member. When a shock load is imposed on the cushioning member, the air in the air storage is compressed, and the first plane is deformed by the pressure of the compressed air to form a gap. A part of the compressed air flows out of the air storage through the gap. This structure provides a high shock-cushioning effect.

Abstract: Temperature sensors are produced by first producing temperature sensing elements each having electrodes on its mutually oppositely facing main surfaces, next forming a lead frame comprising a linearly elongated base part and a plurality of pairs of planar lead parts extending perpendicularly from said base part, twisting each of these planar lead parts such that each of the pairs has top end parts which face each other with a gap therebetween, inserting one of the temperature sensing elements between the mutually facing top end parts of each pair in the corresponding gap and electrically connecting the electrodes on the inserted temperature sensing element individually to the top end parts of the corresponding pair, and cutting each of the planar lead parts from said base part to form lead terminals of specified lengths for the temperature sensors.