Abstract: A deodorizing filter for adsorbing malodorous particles in air is disposed at a downstream air side of a circumferential wall of an inside/outside air switching rotary door which opens and closes inside and outside air intake ports. A gap having a predetermined distance is provided between the deodorizing filter and the circumferential wall of the rotary door. The deodorizing filter is rotated integrally with the rotary door. When the rotary door is rotated to open both the outside and inside air intake ports at their intermediately opened positions, the inside air flowing from the inside air intake port directly flows into an outlet side of an inside/outside air switching box, and the outside air introduced from the outside air intake port passes through the gap and the deodorizing filter and flows into the outlet side of the inside/outside air switching box.

Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus includes an air conditioning case having therein first and second air passages partitioned from each other. First and second fans are respectively disposed in the first and second air passages, and an outer diameter of the first fan is smaller than that of the second fan. Therefore, an air volume relative to a total pressure in the first fan is greatly changed as compared with the second fan. Thus, when an operation mode is switched from a foot air mode to a foot/defroster air mode or from the foot/defroster air mode to the foot air mode, an opening degree of a defroster door is changed slightly.

Abstract: An automotive air conditioner comprises an offset blower for blowing an air, an evaporator is centrally disposed within a dashboard and receives the air from below, and a heater approximately horizontally disposed above the evaporator. The evaporator inclines downward along the direction of the air flow. A plurality of condensed water guide plates are provided under the evaporator so as to allow a condensed water smoothly flow on the surface of each guide plate and is discharged from the evaporator through a condensed water drain pipe.

Abstract: A shutter device includes shutter blades, a flexible printed circuit board electrically connectable to a camera main body, a shutter base plate having an aperture, a shutter drive mechanism arranged in the vicinity of the aperture on the shutter base plate for driving the shutter blades, and electrical parts arranged in the vicinity of the aperture at one area other than the area of arrangement of the shutter drive mechanism. The flexible printed circuit board is connected to the shutter drive mechanism and the electrical parts and continuously arranged along the periphery of the aperture.

Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle which prevents backflow of outside air into a vehicle interior. An inside/outside air switching damper of the air conditioner for a vehicle is connected to a servo motor by a link. Due to driving of the servo motor, the inside/outside air switching damper swings between an inside air position, at which the inside/outside air switching damper closes an inside air passage side opening, and an outside air position, at which the inside/outside air switching damper closes an inside air suction opening. The servo motor is connected to an amplifier for control. An inside/outside air mode switch, a blowout opening mode switch, a vehicle speed sensor, and a blower voltage detecting circuit are connected to the amplifier for control.

Abstract: A lens apparatus, such as a lens barrel for a camera, allows different optical systems to be easily removed and installed. The lens apparatus has first and second optical systems with an optical axis of the lens apparatus extending thorough the first and second optical systems. First and second lens compartments respectively retain the first and second optical systems. First and second lens frames respectively correspond to, and respectively retain, the first and second lens compartments. The first and second lens compartments are independent structures from the first and second lens frames to allow the first and second lens compartments to be removed from, and inserted into, the respectively corresponding first and second lens frames. The present invention also relates to a method of assembling the lens apparatus.

Abstract: A plurality of mating tabs are provided on an opening for motor installation use disposed in an end plate of a casing. Along with this, a plurality of mating tabs and support tabs are provided on an outer peripheral end of a flange portion, and the flange portion is rotationally retained on the end plate through combination of these members. A protruding wall portion is disposed on a perimeter of an open portion for motor cooling-air use, and a guide rib of tapered configuration is provided adjacently to this wall portion. At the time of the foregoing rotational retaining, an end portion of a cooling-air passage of the flange portion is guided over this guide rib and mated with the protruding wall portion.

Abstract: A camera including a shutter that regulates the exposure time of the recording medium, a shutter measuring device that measures the time during which the shutter exposes the recording medium, a discerning device that discerns whether or not the recording medium is an infrared sensitive medium, and a suppressing device that suppresses the action of the shutter measuring device when the discerning device discerns that the medium is the infrared sensitive medium. This structure prevents the accidental sensitization of infrared film in the camera. In an alternative arrangement, a controller controls the operation of the shutter measuring device in accordance with either the type of recording medium or a voltage amount supplied to the shutter measuring device.

Abstract: A multi-blade fan having a fan assembly including a bottom plate and a plurality of circumferentially spaced blades and a casing for the fan assembly therein having an outlet duct extending therefrom for discharge of the air flows. The fan assembly includes an annular shroud connected to the axial ends of the blades remote from the bottom plate. The casing includes a bottom wall for rotatably connecting the fan assembly, a top wall for defining an air inlet for axially introducing the air into the casing, and a tubular wall connecting the bottom and top walls. The top wall of the casing adjacent to the inlet opening forms an annular projection having a bell cross sectional shape opened inwardly so that an axial end of the shroud extends thereto. The bell cross section portion radially extends to a portion that is inclined downwardly in the outward direction, which faces the shroud so that a small gap extending radially is created.

Abstract: A camera having a mechanism to determine the precise times at which a shutter or shutter blinds open or close an aperture. The camera measures the actual time in which shutter blinds pass over the aperture by utilizing a projection unit, positioned on one side of the shutter, to project a signal towards the aperture. A signal receiving unit is placed on the other side of the shutter and receives the signal. The output of the signal receiving unit changes depending on whether the signal projected by the projection unit is blocked by the shutter (when the shutter is closed) or whether the projected signal passes through the aperture. The projection unit and the receiving unit can also be placed on the same side of the shutter, with a reflecting unit placed on the other side of the shutter, with the shutter blinds having a different reflectivity than the reflecting unit. When the shutter blinds are closed, the projected signal is reflected off the shutter blinds and received by the receiving unit.

Abstract: A multi-blade blower with a reduced operating noise. The blower has a casing 3, inside of which a noise generator of a circular cross sectional shape is arranged at a position adjacent a throat of the scroll passageway. The noise generator has a radial gap S with respect to the outer edge of blade which is the same as a radial gap of the throat with the outer edge of the blade, and the spacing between the throat and the noise generator in the direction of the rotation of the wheel is 1.5 times of the blade pitch of the wheel.

Abstract: A multi-blade fan having a fan assembly including a bottom plate and a plurality of circumferentially spaced blades and a casing for the fan assembly therein having an outlet duct extending therefrom for discharge of the air flows. The fan assembly includes an annular shroud connected to the axial ends of the blades remote from the bottom plate. The casing includes a bottom wall for rotatably connecting the fan assembly, a top wall for defining an air inlet for axially introducing the air into the casing, and a tubular wall connecting the bottom and top walls. The top wall of the casing adjacent to the inlet opening forms an annular projection having a bell cross sectional shape opened inwardly so that an axial end of the shroud extends thereto. The bell cross section portion radially extends to a portion that is inclined downwardly in the outward direction, which faces the shroud so that a small gap extending radially is created.

Abstract: A bolt-nut tightening device comprising an epicyclic train including a tubular internal gear case and a planet gear support frame, an outer socket coupled to the gear case, an inner socket connected to the support frame and a one-way rotation permitting member provided between the gear case and the main body of the device for preventing the two sockets from rotating at a high speed in the same direction.

Abstract: A rotary power tool wherein an epicyclic train has a planet gear support frame coupled to an output shaft by a one-way clutch and a sun gear coupled to the output shaft by a clutch assembly which comprises a clutch plate, a slide tube, an arresting mechanism and a change lever, the output shaft being operable for tightening first with low-torque high-speed rotation and finally with high-torque low-speed rotation and being prevented from abruptly rotating at a high speed even if the load on the output shaft decreases.

Abstract: A bolt tightening apparatus having a bolt tip discharging device and comprising an epicyclic train, an inner socket and an outer socket which are removably in engagement with the epicyclic train, an ejector pin having a rear end positioned in the vicinicty of the planet gear support frame of the train, the epicyclic train being formed with a stepped axial bore in alignment with the ejector pin, a clamp shaft axially slidably disposed in the axial bore and having a pin bore coaxial therewith and a clamp portion, the clamp portion being engageable with the stepped portion of the train defining the axial bore to clamp the ejector pin when the pin is inserted into the pin bore, and a lever coupled to the clamp shaft for retracting the shaft to release the ejector pin from the clamp portion.

Abstract: A power tightening device having a unit of inner socket with a bolt tip engaging bore and outer socket with a nut engaging bore which unit can be attached to and removed from the main body of the device. The inner socket is engageable with or disengageable from a planet gear support frame axially thereof and is rotatable therewith. The device includes a holder main body concentrically formed with a non-circular hole and rotatably fitted in the front end of an inner gear case, and a bearing plate disposed on the inner side of the holder main body rotatably with the gear case and concentrically formed with a non-circular hole identical with the hole in shape. The outer socket has a flange conforming to the shape of the holes of the holder main body and the bearing plate. The holder main body is provided with an engaging member for softly holding the holder main body to the bearing plate.

Abstract: A head lining mounting structure for anchoring each end of a head lining to a vehicle structural member such as a roof rail includes an anchoring means formed in a multi-stepped manner to taken up irregularities in dimension or elongation of a head lining, thereby preventing slacks or wrinkles of the head lining and facilitating mounting the head lining on the vehicle structural member and therefore avoiding a spoiling of a sense of beauty or fine quality in a vehicle compartment due to mounting conditions of the head lining.