Abstract: A storage structure for a vehicle interior includes a hollowed storage unit having an opening in the top of the storage unit. The storage unit includes a storage sidewall section surrounding a storage space for an object to be stored. The storage sidewall section includes a sidewall body portion and a sidewall member formed of a member separate from the sidewall body portion. The sidewall member is configured such that an engaging hook provided for the sidewall member is urged against an engaging recess provided for the sidewall body portion when a load is applied on the sidewall member from an outside to an inside of the storage unit.

Abstract: A storage structure for a vehicle interior includes a hollowed storage unit having an opening in the top of the storage unit. The storage unit includes a storage sidewall section surrounding a storage space for an object to be stored. The storage sidewall section includes a sidewall body portion and a sidewall member formed of a member separate from the sidewall body portion. The sidewall member is configured such that an engaging hook provided for the sidewall member is urged against an engaging recess provided for the sidewall body portion when a load is applied on the sidewall member from an outside to an inside of the storage unit.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a reducing agent for straightening curly hair that can deal with various kinds of hair damage and various degrees of curling and a process for straightening curly hair, which does not cause breaking and insufficient straightening of curly hair. Specifically, the present invention relates to reducing agent for straightening curly hair comprising (A) ammonium thioglycolate and/or monoethanol amine thioglycolate, (B) at least one cysteine selected from the group consisting of L-cysteine, DL-cysteine, N-acetyl-L-cysteine, L-cysteine monohydrochloride and DL-cysteine monohydrochloride, (C) monoethanol amine and (D) ammonium hydrogen carbonate and/or ammonia; wherein the weight ratio of (C)/(D) is 1 to 15.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a reducing agent for straightening curly hair that can deal with various kinds of hair damage and various degrees of curling and a process for straightening curly hair, which does not cause breaking and insufficient straightening of curly hair. Specifically, the present invention relates to reducing agent for straightening curly hair comprising (A) ammonium thioglycolate and/or monoethanol amine thioglycolate, (B) at least one cysteine selected from the group consisting of L-cysteine, DL-cysteine, N-acetyl-L-cysteine, L-cysteine monohydrochloride and DL-cysteine monohydrochloride, (C) monoethanol amine and (D) ammonium hydrogen carbonate and/or ammonia; wherein the weight ratio of (C)/(D) is 1 to 15.

Abstract: A full-automatic washing machine with an electric motor for driving an agitator and a dehydration tub includes an inverter main circuit including a plurality of switching elements connected to windings of a plurality of phases of the motor respectively, and a control device for driving the switching elements of the inverter main circuit. The control device executes an increase rate changing control in which a rotational speed of the motor is changed among a plurality of increase rates during drive of the motor in at least one of operation steps between a wash step and a final dehydration step before the motor reaches a final target speed.

Abstract: A full automatic washing machine includes in an operation panel a display device together with power ON and OFF switches and a light-emitting diode serving as a pilot lamp. The display device is formed into the shape of a rectangular flat plate and has elasticity. The display device is constituted by a nematic curvilinear aligned phase (NCAP) liquid crystal panel and a reflecting plate. The display device includes a plurality of display sections for displaying a plurality of pieces of information about the washing operation. A membrane switch is disposed on the back of the display device. The membrane switch is turned on when the display device is depressed. The membrane switch has a plurality of key switches positioned so as to correspond to the display sections of the display device.

Abstract: A washing machine includes a dehydrating tub whose interior is divided by rotational angle detecting elements into a plurality of circumferential areas. A period of time required for each area to pass a water pouring location is cumulated by a timer function of a microcomputer in a rinse-with-dehydration operation in which the dehydrating tub is rotated with water being supplied to the tub, A quantity of water poured into or contained in laundry in each area is determined on the basis of a cumulated value so that insufficiency in the quantity of poured water due to rotational unevenness of the dehydrating tub is solved.

Abstract: A full automatic washing machine includes a non-volatile memory, such as EEPROM, for storing data of contents of the washing operation executed at a plurality of times in the past. A control circuit originates the data during execution of every washing operation. The data stored in the non-volatile memory are read out and displayed when some switches on an operation panel are operated in a specific mode. The displayed data serve to find out the cause for trouble or failure in the washing machine.

Abstract: A clothes dryer includes a drum for accommodating clothes to be dried, a heater and a fan for supplying hot air into the drum in a drying operation, and a temperature sensor sensing the temperature in the drum. A drying operation includes a drying step in which hot air is supplied into the drum and a cooling step in which the heater is deenergized. An intermittent operation is initiated upon completion of the drying operation. The intermittent operation is completed when the temperature sensed by the temperature sensor has reached a predetermined value set for preventing occurrence of creases in the clothes.

Abstract: A washing machine includes a rotational tub, a single-phase induction motor driving the rotational tub in a dehydrating operation and having a main and an auxiliary coils, a speed detector for detecting a speed of the motor, thereby generating a detection signal, and an output changeover device for changing between an operation mode in which both of the main and auxiliary coils are excited and the other operation mode in which either the main or auxiliary coil is excited. When the motor speed is increased in the dehydrating operation, a control circuit controls the motor in a feedback manner. More specifically, in low and medium speed ranges, the control circuit executes a control pattern in which both of the main and auxiliary coils are excited and selectively executes another control pattern in which only the auxiliary coil is excited when necessary.

Abstract: A resonator of dielectric ceramic includes a cylindrical body (40) having a bore (50) extending axially through the body, wherein the outside surface of the body (40) and the inside surface of the bore (50) covered with a deposited electrode (80), thereby enhancing the Q characteristics. This principal object of the invention is achieved by roughening at least a part of the outside surface of the body and then chemically etching the roughened body. The dually roughened body (40) is supported by supporting pins((110) fixed to a rotor (100) submerged in a plating bath (26), the rotor being vertical or inclined to a horizontal plane so that the body is provided with a deposited electrode (80). The surface of the rotor is provided with hills and valleys, the supporting pins being fixed on the hills. The rotor may additionally include apertures between the pins to allow the plating agent to pass through.

Abstract: A cleanser feeding mechanism has a cleanser housing portion, a cleanser feeding member for feeding a cleanser housed in the cleanser housing portion, and a synchronous motor for applying a drive force to the cleanser feeding member, and feeds an amount of cleanser corresponding to the number of revolutions of the synchronous motor. A cleanser feeding amount-setting unit sets an amount of cleanser to be fed from the cleanser feeding mechanism. A driving unit applies an AC source voltage of an AC power source to the synchronous motor. A counter counts the number of cycles of the AC source voltage from a timing at which the AC source voltage is applied to the synchronous motor. A reference cycle number-setting unit sets a total cycle number of the AC source voltage which corresponds to a cleanser amount set by the cleanser feeding amount-setting unit.

Abstract: A cleanser feeding mechanism has a cleanser housing portion, a cleanser feeding member for feeding a cleanser housed in the cleanser housing portion, and a synchronous motor for applying a drive force to the cleanser feeding member, and feeds and amount of cleanser corresponding to the number of revolutions of the synchronous motor. A cleanser feeding amount-setting unit sets an amount of cleanser to be fed from the cleanser feeding mechanism. A driving unit applies an AC source voltage of an AC power source to the synchronous motor. A counter counts the number of cycles of the AC source voltage from a timing at which the AC source voltage is applied to the synchronous motor. A reference cycle number-setting unit sets a total cycle number of the AC source voltage which corresponds to a cleanser amount set by the cleanser feeding amount-setting unit.

Abstract: A motor load detector detects an electrical value representing a rise characteristic of a motor, which varies in accordance with a load acting on the motor serving as a power source for a series of operations including a wash cycle and a spin-drying cycle executed by an electric washing machine for washing and spin-drying. A determining section receives a value detected by the motor load detector during the spin-drying cycle, and determines a weight of washings contained in the electric washing machine in accordance with a time which has elapsed until the detected value reaches a second reference value from a first reference value. The determined washings weight is used in a cycle subsequent to the spin-drying cycle.

Abstract: A flexible composite pipe for transporting a high-temperature fluid of the invention has an inner pipe for passing a high-temperature, high-pressure fluid therethrough, a reinforcing layer formed around the inner pipe, and a protective sheath layer formed around the reinforcing layer. The inner pipe consists of a material which is selected from a polyvinylidene fluoride copolymer resin, a blend thereof with a polyvinylidene fluoride resin, or a composition based on the polyvinylidene fluoride copolymer resin and which has, when hot pressed into a sheet, an Izod impact strength of 10 kg-cm/cm or more and an apparent Young's modulus in tension of 90 kg/mm.sup.2 or less.