Abstract: A steering device includes: a steering shaft and a column jacket that are telescopically adjustable in an axial direction; a lock member that advances to an advance position at which the lock member is engaged with one of holes of a lock plate and that retreats to a retreat position at which the lock member is disengaged from the hole of the lock plate; an operation member that is mechanically separated from the lock member; a biasing member that constantly biases the lock member toward the advance position; and a transmission member that moves the lock member to the retreat position against a biasing force of the biasing member in accordance with operation of the operation member.

Abstract: A steering device includes: a steering shaft and a column jacket that are telescopically adjustable in an axial direction; a lock plate provided with a plurality of holes; a support shaft that extends in a cross direction crossing the axial direction and includes a low-strength portion to be broken when a load acts on the steering shaft and the column jacket; and a lock member that advances to the lock plate to be engaged with one of the holes. The lock member is disengaged from the one of holes when the support shaft is broken in a state in which the lock member is engaged with the one of the holes.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a detector configured to detect a region touched on a touch panel, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to approximate a first touched region detected by the detector at a first time and a second touched region detected by the detector at a second time to ellipses, calculate angles formed between the major axes of the approximated ellipses and a reference axis of the touch panel, and calculate reference points of the approximated ellipses, and control a predetermined process based on changes of the second angle and second reference point calculated from the second touched region with respect to the first angle and first reference point calculated from the first touched region.

Abstract: An installation structure for an acoustic transducer configured to push and pull a vibrated body and having a magnetic-path forming portion; a vibrating unit; and a connector having at least one joint portion configured to connect two members such that axes of the two members are inclined relative to each other by bending at the at least one joint portion, the at least one joint portion having an urging portion configured to generate an urging force by which a pushing-side driving portion of a first member connected to one side of the at least one joint portion urges a pushing-side driven portion of a second member connected on another side of the at least one joint portion in a pushing direction and an urging force by which a pulling-side driving portion of the first member urges a pulling-side driven portion of the second member in a pulling direction.

Abstract: An illumination device includes a light guide plate, a light source, and a light modulation element. The light guide plate has convex portions extending in a direction parallel to a normal to a face opposed to the light source among side faces of the light guide plate, and the light source is configured of light source blocks. The light modulation element includes a pair of transparent substrates disposed separately and oppositely to each other, a plurality of first electrodes provided on a surface of one of the transparent substrates, and extending in a direction crossing an extending direction of the convex portions, a second electrode provided on a surface of the other transparent substrate, and a light modulation layer provided in a gap between the transparent substrates, and exhibiting a scattering property or a transparent property to light from the light source depending on magnitude of an electric field.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a switching power supply device including an integrated body and a plurality of external terminals. In the integrated body, a first switching element, a constant current element, and a diode are connected in series. The plurality of external terminals include a first external terminal connected to a main terminal of an element disposed on one end side of the integrated body and a second external terminal connected to a main terminal of an element disposed on another end side of the integrated body.

Abstract: An installation structure for an acoustic transducer that operates in accordance with an audio signal to vibrate a vibrated body in a first direction for permitting the vibrated body to generate sounds, including: a magnetic-path forming portion; a vibrating unit configured to vibrate in the first direction; a connecting member disposed between: a part of the vibrated body or a fixed portion fixed to the vibrated body; and the vibrating unit, for transmitting vibration of the vibrating unit to the vibrated body; a first joint portion that connects a first end portion of the connecting member to the vibrating unit for enabling the connecting member to be inclined with respect to an axis extending in the first direction; and a second joint portion that connects a second end portion of the connecting member to the fixed portion for enabling the connecting member to be inclined with respect to the axis.

Abstract: There are provided an illumination unit and a display which are capable of further uniformizing chromaticity of illumination light in a plane while suppressing a reduction in light extraction efficiency. A light modulation device bonded to a light guide plate includes a light modulation layer exhibiting a scattering property or transparency with respect to light propagating through the light guide plate. The light modulation layer is sandwiched between a pair of transparent substrates. While alignment films controlling alignment of the light modulation layer are disposed on surfaces of the transparent substrates, an electrode generating an electric field which changes the alignment of the light modulation layer is disposed on only the surface of the transparent substrate.

Abstract: In an actuator (50), a bobbin (511) to which a voice coil (513) is attached is disposed within a magnetic path space formed by a magnetic path forming section (52). A connecting shaft (514) is coupled to the bobbin (511), and a connection end portion (516A) at a distal end of the connecting shaft is connected to a sound board of a musical instrument. The length of the shaft (514) can be adjusted. When the actuator (50) is attached to the sound board, the length of the shaft (514) is adjusted and the connection end portion (516A) is connected to the sound board while a position of the voice coil (513) within the magnetic path space is maintained in a predetermined reference mounting position, in a state in which the magnetic path forming unit (52) is supported in a predetermined position by a support unit (55).

Abstract: A switching power supply apparatus according to an embodiment includes a switching element, an inductor, a drive circuit, a mounting substrate, and an insulating substrate. The switching element is connected between a power supply and a lighting load. The inductor is connected in series to the switching element. The drive circuit controls the switching element, converts a voltage supplied from the power supply, and is mounted on the mounting substrate. The insulating substrate is thermally connected to the switching element, and has thermal conductivity higher than the mounting substrate.

Abstract: A rectifying circuit according to an embodiment includes a first rectifying portion and a second rectifying portion. The first rectifying portion has a positive temperature coefficient. The second rectifying portion has a negative temperature coefficient, is connected in parallel to the first rectifying portion, and has a forward voltage-forward current curve intersecting a forward voltage-forward current curve of the first rectifying portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power supply device includes a rectifier circuit, a smoothing capacitor, and a normally on type transistor. The rectifier circuit is configured to rectify an alternating current supplied from a voltage source. The smoothing capacitor is charged by an output current output from the rectifier circuit. The normally on type transistor is connected between the rectifier circuit and the smoothing capacitor in series and is configured to limit an output current value of the rectifier circuit during a voltage input from the voltage source to an output current value higher than an output current value of the rectifier circuit during a steady operation.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power supply device includes a first inductor, a current control section configured to limit a current value of an electric current flowing through the first inductor to a predetermined current value, the current control section including a first switching element of a normally on type and a resistor connected to a main terminal of the first switching element, a rectifying element connected to the current control section in series, and a second inductor magnetically coupled to the first inductor. The second inductor is configured to induce a voltage for turning on the current control section, when the electric current of the first inductor increases, to induce a voltage for turning off the current control section, when the electric current of the first inductor decreases, and to supply the induced voltage to a control terminal of the current control section.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a power supply device includes a DC-DC converter and a protection circuit. The DC-DC converter includes a switching element of a normally on type, a current control element of the normally on type connected to the switching element in series and configured to control an electric current flowing to the switching element, and a rectifying element connected to the current control element in series. The DC-DC converter converts, according to ON and OFF of the switching element, an input first direct-current voltage into a second-direct current voltage, which has an absolute value different from an absolute value of the first direct-current voltage, and supplies the second direct-current voltage to a load. When an electric current equal to or larger than a predetermined value flows to the switching element and the current control element, the protection circuit cuts off the electric current.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power supply device includes a conductive first mounting board, a first switching element, a current control element, and a second switching element. The first switching element is mounted on the first mounting board. The current control element is mounted on the first mounting board, includes a main terminal connected to the first mounting board, is connected to the first switching element in series, and is configured to limit an electric current of the first switching element. The second switching element is connected to the current control element in series. An electric current flows to the second switching element when the first switching element is off.

Abstract: An LED lighting device including a DC power source circuit, a high frequency generation circuit which includes an inverter circuit having switching elements and a resonance circuit having a series-connected inductor and condenser, in which the switching elements are on-off controlled by a no-load resonance frequency of the resonance circuit, and DC voltage input from the DC power source circuit is converted into a high frequency AC voltage, a rectification smoothing circuit having an input side which is connected between both edges of the condenser or both edges of the inductor; and a light emitting diode series connected to an output side of the rectification smoothing circuit.

Abstract: A lubrication apparatus for a four-stroke engine includes an oil tank, a supply passageway having an opening to supply oil mist from the oil tank to driving parts, the opening being provided in the oil tank. A partition is provided between the opening and a side wall of the oil tank, the partition being formed by partition plate members so as to divide an inside of the oil tank into an inner area and an outer area. The inner area includes the opening, and the outer area is defined between the inner area and the side wall. Oil can freely move between the inner area and the outer area, and the opening is placed in a position above a surface of the oil accumulated in the oil tank even when the four-stroke engine is tilted in every direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power supply for lighting includes an output element. The output element is connected between a power supply and a lighting load, and configured to be capable of being switched to a switching operation repeating an ON state and an OFF state and an ON continuation operation continuing the ON state.

Abstract: Provided is a metal gasket for a cylinder head that is capable of improving engaging force between a substrate and a step adjustment plate.

Abstract: A NAND flash memory array is initially patterned by forming a plurality of sidewall spacers according along sides of patterned portions of material. The pattern of sidewall spacers is then used to form a second pattern of hard mask portions including first hard mask portions defined on both sides by sidewall spacers and second hard mask portions defined on only one side by sidewall spacers.