Abstract: Technology enabling accurately detected marks on a print medium according to the type of print medium is provided. A printer 1 has a media type identifier 110 that determines the type of medium; a mark sensor 76 that projects light and detects a mark on the medium; and an emittance controller 111 that sets the emittance level of the light the mark sensor 76 projects. The printer 1 can change the operating mode according to the type of medium M identified by the media type identifier 110. In the white medium mode, the mark sensor 76 detects a mark MR with the emittance level set to a white medium emittance level. In the non-white medium mode, the mark sensor 76 detects a mark MR with the emittance level set to a non-white medium emittance level, which is higher than the white medium emittance level.

Abstract: In a sheet supply apparatus, a type of sheet to be used can be specified using a sensor that detects a sheet separated from a roll at the time of automatic sheet feeding. The sheet supplying apparatus includes a driving unit configured to cause a roll including a wound consecutive sheet to rotate in a first direction for feeding the sheet or a second direction opposite to the first direction, a sensor that detects the sheet separated from an outer circumferential surface of the roll, and a specifying unit. In a case in which the sensor detects a leading end portion of the sheet while the roll is being rotated in the second direction, the driving unit changes a rotation direction of the roll from the second direction to the first direction and feeds the sheet, and the specifying unit is configured to specify a type of the sheet on the basis of an output of the sensor while the roll is being rotated in the second direction.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus that includes a first movable unit displaceably attached to a fixture portion, a rail unit that includes a planar portion formed along a first direction and is displaceable according to displacement of the first movable unit, and a carriage attached to the rail unit so as to be movable in the first direction and whose posture is changeable according to angle of the planar portion with respect to the fixture portion viewed in the first direction. The first movable unit includes a first adjuster that adjusts position of the rail unit with respect to the fixture portion in a second direction and a second adjuster that adjusts the angle of the planar portion with respect to the fixture portion as viewed in the first direction by pivoting the rail unit around a pivot axis that extends in the first direction.

Abstract: A printer includes a first upper face cover and a second upper face cover. The first upper face cover is formed such that when a medium is set in a setting port, the width direction of the medium is a first direction, and the first upper face cover has a smaller dimension in the first direction than a dimension of an apparatus main body in the first direction. The first upper face cover in a closed state is included inside the second upper face cover in plan view when the second upper face cover is in a closed state. The first upper face cover and the second upper face cover both in the closed states form a shape that corresponds to an outline of an upper portion of the apparatus main body.

Abstract: A cover is coupled to a main body casing in manner enabling rotation of the cover. A pop-up mechanism is provided that when locking by a locking mechanism that fixes the cover at a closed position in a releasable manner is released, rotates the cover from the closed position to an open position by a biasing of first contact members in a direction so that the first contact members push second contact members that are respectively disposed at both ends of the cover, the first contact members being connected to each other and respectively disposed at both ends of the main body casing. Thus, the second contact members are pushed while a positional relationship of the first contact members is maintained to be constant.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in continuous inkjet printing, comprising: a cabinet, an ink system located in the cabinet, the ink system comprising, an ink pump, an ink system air inlet, and an ink system air outlet, and an air circulation device arranged to cause air to flow within the cabinet. The air circulation device is arranged to cause air to flow along a predetermined air flow path through the ink system air inlet, past the ink pump, and through the ink system air outlet.

Abstract: A printer includes two supporters disposed at a storage section, an adjuster movably supporting at least a specific supporter of the two supporters, a protrusion protruding upward from a second section, the second section being an upper portion of the specific supporter, a locking section locking a first section in a position to which the first section is moved via the adjuster, the first section being a lower portion of the specific supporter, and an engagement section having elastically-deformable engagement pieces arranged at intervals in a particular direction intersecting a vertical direction, the protrusion being configured to, when the cover is closed, engage with at least a specific engagement piece from beneath, the specific engagement piece being maintained elastically deformed upward.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for thermal sublimation imaging and more generally thermal pressing through a continuous or intermittent feed-through thermal pressing system. Cutting assemblies may be configured to cut, connect, advance, and/or align transfer media. The transfer media may have images created using inks, dyes, or the like that are configured to be sublimated into a substrate material within a sublimation assembly. The substrate may be interposed between upper and lower transfer media to allow for dual-side imaging via thermal sublimation. A thermal sublimation chamber may include a pre-confinement zone to reduce ghosting, a preheat zone, a thermal saturation zone to effectuate sublimation and image transfer, and/or a post-sublimation cooling zone to reduce ghosting. A post-sublimation collection system may separate transfer media from substrate(s).

Abstract: There is provided a binding member. The binding member includes: an upper toothed part having projections and recesses for forming irregularities in a bundle of recording materials; and a lower toothed part having projections and recesses for forming irregularities in the bundle of recording materials and forming a pair with the upper toothed part. In at least one of the upper toothed part and the lower toothed part, in side surfaces of the recesses of one toothed part, when the upper toothed part and the lower toothed part are engaged, surfaces wide in a direction parallel to the pressing direction of the toothed parts are formed so as to be provided gaps between the upper toothed part and the lower toothed part.

Abstract: A sheet binding unit includes a first sheet binder having first and second dentate uneven sheet binding elements to conduct a first sheet binding process by engaging each other by a prescribed meshing depth while sandwiching the sheet bundle therebetween to form a dentate unevenness on the sheet bundle at a first sheet binding portion of the sheet bundle, and a second sheet binder having third and fourth dentate uneven sheet binding elements to conduct a second sheet binding process by engaging each other by a greater meshing depth than that made by first and second dentate uneven sheet binding elements of the first sheet binder while sandwiching the sheet bundle therebetween to form a dentate unevenness on the sheet bundle at a second sheet binding portion different from the first sheet binding portion of the sheet bundle.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical anti-counterfeiting component and an optical anti-counterfeiting product. The optical anti-counterfeiting component comprises: a substrate; a sub-wavelength surface micro-structure and an optical reflection facet formed on an upper surface of the substrate; and a multi-layer structured coating formed on the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure and the optical reflection facet. In the case where the same multi-layer structured coating is used, a contrasting optical characteristic is formed between the region in which the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure and the multi-layer structured coating lie and the region in which the optical reflection facet and the multi-layer structured coating lie, so that the optical anti-counterfeiting component or the optical anti-counterfeiting product that includes the optical anti-counterfeiting component can be identified easily and has high anti-counterfeiting capability.

Abstract: The distance between the first reflection surfaces and the third reflection surface in the thickness direction of a substrate is a distance that is able the obverse surface of the reflection layer to emit light of a first color by interference between light reflected from the first reflection surfaces and light reflected from the third reflection surface. The distance between the second reflection surfaces and the third reflection surface in the thickness direction of the substrate is a distance that is able the obverse surface to emit light of a second color by interference between light reflected from the second reflection surfaces and light reflected from the third reflection surface. The obverse surface emits light of a third color that includes the light of the first color and the light of the second color.

Abstract: A method of forming a security document, comprises providing a thread comprising at least one region of heat-transformable material, this material having an optical effect which is transformable in response to applied heat. The thread is integrated with a document substrate material during a substrate forming process, so as to produce a security document substrate having at least one windowed region in which the thread is exposed at the substrate surface, and at least one bridge region in which the thread is not exposed. A patterned heat process is then applied, causing a structural modification in the heat-transformable layer of the thread so as to produce an observable optical effect representative of the heat pattern at one or more predetermined positions with respect to one or more of the said windowed region or bridge region. Security documents bearing threads with such optically transformable materials are also disclosed.

Abstract: A writing instrument holder includes a base with a connector configured to connect the base to a hat. A first magnetic material is coupled to the base. A writing instrument sleeve is configured to wrap around a writing instrument and includes a second magnetic material. The first magnetic material is attracted to the second magnetic material. When the writing instrument sleeve is wrapped around the writing instrument, the writing instrument releasably secures to the base.

Abstract: A retaining clip includes a first strap body and a second strap body. The first strap body includes a first engaging portion. The first engaging portion includes a first abutting surface and a first protrusion. One end of the second strap body is connected with one end of the first strap body. The second strap body includes a ring-shaped portion and a second engaging portion. The second engaging portion is adapted to be detachably engaged with the first engaging portion and includes a second protrusion and a second abutting surface. When the first engaging portion is engaged with the second engaging portion, the first strap body passes through the ring-shaped portion, and the first abutting surface faces the second abutting surface, and the first protrusion faces the second protrusion.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for curing an electron-beam coating on a flexible substrate. A continuously looping master web is mated with the flexible substrate to cover the electron-beam coating when passing through an electron-beam curing unit. Curing of the electron-beam coating takes place in normal atmospheric conditions, thereby eliminating the need for nitrogen gas or the like in a curing chamber.

Abstract: A herringbone surface decorative material includes two different types of rectangular shaped surface decorative sections, i.e. type-B1 and type-B2 decorative sections. Each of the decorative sections includes a plurality of parallel oblique pattern stripes and boundary lines are formed between adjacent pattern stripes. The boundary lines of the type-B1 and the type-B2 decorative sections are mirrored each other. The present invention further provides a method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for tensioning a canvas on a frame, which is for assembling two bars the ends of which comprise a groove. The device comprises: an optional sheath intended to be immobilized in a groove; a spacer comprising a central portion from which extend two lateral portions each having a bearing face coming to abut against the bottom of the sheath; a tensioner comprising a central portion from which extend securing means for securing the tensioner to the bars, via the sheath; a connecting member for connecting the spacer to the tensioner, and means for bringing the spacer closer to the tensioner, wherein the spacer being brought closer to the tensioner will cause each bar to translate along its longitudinal axis so as to space the bars apart from each other while keeping them perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a freewheel hub for a bicycle, comprising a freewheel device which optionally allows relative rotation between a hub sleeve and a driver or couples the hub sleeve and the driver in a torque-transmitting manner. The freewheel device has at least one first clutch ring and at least one second clutch ring, wherein the first clutch ring is coupled or coupleable to the hub sleeve in a torque-transmitting manner, and wherein the second clutch ring is coupleable or coupled to the driver in a torque-transmitting manner, and wherein the first and the second clutch ring are displaceable axially relative to the hub axle between an engaged position and a freewheel position. Provision is made here for at least one magnet arrangement accommodated in apertures in the first clutch ring to keep the clutch rings in the engaged position.

Abstract: A castor assembly includes a base, a wheel unit and a rotation shaft. The wheel unit is located under the base and includes a pivot member, an elastic member biased and exposed between the base and the pivot member, and two rollers mounted on the pivot member. The rotation shaft is mounted between the base and the wheel unit and extends through the elastic member. The rotation shaft has a periphery provided with an operation slot. A positioning pin extends through the pivot member and is slidable in the operation slot of the rotation shaft. Thus, the elastic member is exposed outward so that the user clearly sees the elastic member and knows the shock-absorbing function provided by the elastic member.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes film layers of thermoplastic resin or thermoplastic elastomer composition made by blending an elastomer with the thermoplastic resin, which are superposed by winding the film layer in the circumferential direction of the tire multiple times, a thickness of the film layer is in a range of 0.02 mm to 0.2 mm and a thickness of the rubber layer is in a range of 0.1 mm to 1.2 mm, and the tire wherein a rubber film is interposed between the film layers. The pneumatic tire is produced by preparing a laminated body in which the rubber layer is stuck to at least one surface of the film layer; interposing the rubber layer between the film layers by winding the laminated body in the circumferential direction of the tire multiple times; forming an uncured tire which includes the film layers and the rubber layers; and curing the tire.

Abstract: A structurally supported, non-pneumatic wheel is provided. The wheel includes a hub constructed from a polymeric material, which can more readily resist deformation during an impact event and provide improvements in noise generation and manufacturing cost. A plurality of tension-transmitting web elements connect the hub with a compliant, load supporting band.

Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire has a carcass, a belt and a profiled tread. The belt includes four belt plies wherein the third belt ply and the fourth belt ply are working plies. The reinforcement members of the working plies are arranged at an angle to the circumferential direction of 10° to 45° and the reinforcement members of the fourth belt ply at an angle of 10° to 45°. The reinforcement members of the third and fourth belt plies are arranged such that they cross one another. The reinforcement members of the first belt ply are arranged at an angle of 40° to 75° and the reinforcement members of the second belt ply are arranged at an angle of 0° to 5° to the circumferential direction. The reinforcement members of the third belt ply and the reinforcement members of the first belt ply have the same direction of inclination.

Abstract: This heavy duty pneumatic tire includes a block (6) on a tread surface (1). Shallow grooves are provided in the block. At least one of the shallow grooves (7, 9, 31, 32) is a raised bottom shallow groove that is in communication with at least one groove among circumferential grooves and transverse grooves adjacent to the block, extends in a direction intersecting the tire circumferential direction at least in a central portion of the block in the tire width direction, and has a groove depth that is shallower in the central portion of the block in the tire width direction than at an end of the raised bottom shallow groove in the tire width direction, thereby increasing block rigidity while achieving good mud drainage.

Abstract: Pairing information signals are transmitted for a selected period of time after the transceiver powers up. Generally identical heartbeat signals are transmitted by the transceiver for a longer period of time than the pairing information signals. When the monitor receives the pairing information, it will connect to the transceiver; however, if the monitor does not receive a selected number, e.g. 3, of heartbeat signals, it will disconnect from the transceiver and enter a standby mode, whereupon if the required heartbeats are received, the monitor will connect to the transceiver emitting them. Once connected in this manner, the monitor is able to process the tire sensor data relayed by the transceiver.

Abstract: An electronic monitor displays a tire position for each of a plurality of tires on a motor vehicle and provides a warning if a pressure reading received from any of the tires is outside a selected range of the baseline tire pressure value established for that tire position. The tire position and baseline tire pressure value are established by using navigation keys and a pair of control keys on the monitor. In an earlier method of establishing one or more baseline tire pressure values, the baseline value was entered on a tire-by-tire basis. The present improvement enables the operator to enter a baseline value globally for all tire positions. First a tire selection mode is entered, and a tire position is selected. Next, a baseline tire pressure selection mode is entered and a baseline tire pressure value is selected. The baseline tire pressure value is then assigned and saved to all of the tire positions by simultaneously engaging the pair of control keys.

Abstract: A hitch mounted cargo lifting device for lifting large objects onto a cargo bed of a vehicle to which it is attached includes a discrete hitch attachment, pivot member, and cradle member. One side of the pivot member is fixedly attached to the cradle member, and the other is hingedly attached to the hitch attachment. This allows the pivot member and cradle attachment to be moved between a loading position in which the cradle attachment is adjacent to a ground surface, and an unloading position in which the cradle attachment is adjacent to and aligned with the vehicle's cargo bed. In some embodiments, a motor driven reeled wire is provided to supply the force to move the pivot member and cradle attachment between the unloading and loading positions. Conventional cargo straps may be used to secure the cargo to the cradle.

Abstract: A storage arrangement for lines from a tractor truck includes a housing member secured external to a cab of the truck, a receiver connected to the housing and configured to couple to a select one of an electrical line and first and second pneumatic lines, and a control arrangement coupled to the receiver such that upon coupling of one of the lines with the first receiver the control arrangement activates a status indicator that provides the operator with an indication of a coupling status of the select one of the electrical line, the first pneumatic line and the second pneumatic line with the storage arrangement.

Abstract: A robotic platform may include left and right platforms, a base platform, wheel assemblies, and a tilting suspension. The tilting suspension may include a tilt shaft coupled to the base platform, a crank, suspension arms, and a tilt assembly. The tilt shaft may extend along a substantially vertical tilt axis. The crank may extend substantially perpendicular to the tilt axis and may be coupled to the tilt shaft such that the crank at least partially rotates about the tilt axis along with the tilt shaft. The suspension arms may extend from the crank to the left and right platforms such that rotation of the crank about the tilt axis controls the tilt of the platforms. The tilt assembly may control rotation of the tilt shaft about the tilt axis to control the tilt of the left and right platforms. Various other systems are also disclosed.

Abstract: A suspension system includes: a trailing arm and a lower arm which are turnably connected to a chassis and are joined in such a way as to be displaceable relative to each other through a hinge mechanism; and a stabilizer. The suspension system includes a stabilizer link which connects the stabilizer to the trailing arm. A fitting point of the stabilizer link to the trailing arm is located behind a center axis of the hinge mechanism in a vehicle front-back direction, and a fastening point of the stabilizer and the stabilizer link is located above the fitting point in a vehicle up-down direction and inside the fitting point in a vehicle width direction.

Abstract: End member assemblies include an end member wall dimensioned for securement to a flexible spring member to at least partially define a spring chamber. A reservoir wall is supported on the end member wall and at least partially defines a reservoir chamber having a substantially-fixed volume. The reservoir wall includes at least one passage such that the reservoir chamber is disposed in fluid communication with the spring chamber. A passive control device is operatively associated with the passage such that under a first predetermined condition the passive control device is in a first operable condition in which the gas spring assembly has a first spring rate and such that under a second predetermined condition of use the passive control device is in a second operable condition in which the gas spring assembly has a second spring rate. Gas spring assemblies and suspension systems are also included.

Abstract: A slide bearing (1) is provided with an upper case (2) attached to an upper support for attaching a strut assembly to a vehicle body, a lower case (3) which is rotatably combined with the upper case (2) and which forms an annular space (7), and an annular center plate (4) and sliding sheet (5) disposed in the annular space (7). The upper case (2) has a load-transmitting surface (27) constituting part of an upper surface of the annular space (7), the center plate (4) is provided with an annular recess (43) filled with a lubricant, and the center plate (4) has a bearing surface (41) for supporting loads exerted on the load-transmitting surface (27). The sliding sheet (5), which is disposed between the load-transmitting surface (27) and the bearing surface (41), has a sliding surface (51) that slides against the bearing surface (41).

Abstract: A device and a method of estimating damper force and damper velocity in an active suspension system. First and second pressure sensors sense pressures of a rebound chamber and a compression chamber of a damper in the active suspension system. A controller calculates damper force using the pressures and effective hydraulic pressure areas of the rebound chamber and the compression chamber and calculating damper velocity using pressure-fluid rate characteristics of first to third valve sets and the pressures of the rebound chamber and the compression chamber such that a sum of fluid rates is zero in a node connected between any one of the first to third valve sets and the rebound chamber or the compression chamber, the first to third valve sets being connected between the rebound chamber and an accumulator, between the rebound chamber and the compression chamber, or between the compression chamber and the accumulator.

Abstract: The invention proposes a method of supplying with hydraulic fluid a hydraulic motor (2) of a drive wheel supporting a vehicle by means of a cylinder-type suspension system (1). The hydraulic fluid passes through a feed duct (25) extending longitudinally through a cylinder (3) of the cylinder-type suspension system (1). The invention also relates to the use thereof in order to eliminate the need for hoses.

Abstract: A gas spring for a vehicle suspension system includes a cylinder, a rod disposed within the cylinder, the rod and the cylinder at least partially defining a chamber, and an accumulator in communication with the chamber. The rod and the cylinder are configured such that a relative movement therebetween changes the volume of the chamber. Gas in the chamber and the accumulator are configured to cooperate to at least partially provide a spring rate that varies based on at least one of a deflection and a spring force associated with at least one of the rod and the cylinder.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system of air-conditioning a seat for a vehicle and a method for controlling the same. The system of air-conditioning a seat for a vehicle includes: a blower disposed below the seat of the vehicle and configured to blow air onto a body contact surface; a first temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of a front end of a suction hole of the blower; a second temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the body contact surface; a third temperature sensor configured to detect a room temperature of the vehicle; and an HVAC control unit configured to control an air-conditioning system of the vehicle. The HVAC control unit determines a blow direction mode of the air-conditioning system of the vehicle based on the temperatures detected by the first, the second, and the third temperature sensors when the blower is actuated.

Abstract: An electric compressor mounted to a vehicle includes a motor, a compression unit driven by the motor, an inverter unit for driving the motor, a housing for accommodating the motor, the compression unit, and the inverter unit, and a cover mounted to the housing for closing a space accommodating the inverter unit. The electric compressor is fixed to the vehicle by means of a first mounting leg provided to the housing, and a second mounting leg provided to the cover. The second mounting leg includes a stress concentration part at which stress concentrates as compared with another portion of the second mounting leg.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an air conditioning apparatus configured to be capable of executing ventilation operation to supply air outside the vehicle into a passenger compartment, and cooling operation to supply cool air into the passenger compartment; and a control unit that causes the air conditioning apparatus to execute remote air conditioning in which air conditioning is performed while a user is not in the vehicle, and operated air conditioning in which air conditioning is performed by the user's operation while the user is in the vehicle. The control unit controls the air conditioning apparatus such that a condition in which the ventilation operation is executed in the remote air conditioning is more relaxed than a condition in which the ventilation operation is executed in the operated air conditioning. In this way, power consumption by pre-air conditioning can be reduced.

Abstract: The invention relates to a suction pulser (1) intended for a heating, ventilation and/or air-conditioning device of a motor vehicle, including a turbine (2), separation means (14) capable of defining a first air-flow channel enabling the flow of a first air stream intended to pass through a first axial portion (5) of the turbine (2) and a second air-flow channel enabling the flow of a second air stream intended to pass through a second axial portion (6) of the turbine (2). The separation means comprise a tubular member (14) defining an inner space forming at least one portion of the first air-flow channel, the second air-flow channel extending outside of the tubular member (14). A filter (35) is mounted upstream from the turbine and the tubular member in a housing (21).

Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air conditioner which can effectively eliminate occurrence of excess or lack of an amount of a refrigerant to be circulated in an internal cycle mode. A controller changes and executes a heating mode, a dehumidifying and heating mode, an internal cycle mode, a dehumidifying and cooling mode, and a cooling mode. When an amount of the refrigerant to be circulated is excessively large in the internal cycle mode, a controller executes a refrigerant sealing mode to seal a refrigerant in an outdoor heat exchanger 7, and when the amount of the refrigerant to be circulated is insufficient, the controller executes a refrigerant discharge mode to discharge the refrigerant from the outdoor heat exchanger 7.

Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air-conditioning device in which a refrigerant subcool degree in a radiator is appropriately controlled, so that comfortable and efficient vehicle interior air conditioning is achievable. The vehicle air-conditioning device executes a heating mode in which a controller lets a refrigerant discharged from a compressor 2 radiate heat in a radiator 4, decompresses the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated by an outdoor expansion valve 6, and then lets the refrigerant absorb heat in an outdoor heat exchanger 7. In the heating mode, the vehicle air-conditioning device controls a refrigerant subcool degree SC of the radiator 4 by the outdoor expansion valve 6. On a basis of a radiator inlet air temperature THin that is a temperature of the air flowing into the radiator 4, the controller corrects a target subcool degree TGSC that is a target value of the refrigerant subcool degree SC in the radiator 4 in a lowering direction, as the radiator inlet air temperature THin rises.

Abstract: A vehicle-borne solar air-conditioning system includes: power supply management controller, battery pack, AC power supply, controller, air-conditioning system; wherein the power supply management controller is used to manage the solar cell set to charge and discharge the battery pack and manage the motor vehicle power supply to charge and discharge the battery pack; the backup power module is used to manage the AC power to charge and discharge the battery pack; the master control module is used to set the working mode, control the solar power supply management module, motor vehicle generation power supply management module and the backup power module to work in a set working mode. The present invention integrates solar energy resources and AC power supply to manage comprehensively three kinds of power supplies through the power supply management controller and allocates them to the motor vehicle air-conditioning system rationally.

Abstract: A vehicle sun visor has a sun-visor body including an illumination lamp, a non-conductive arm including a cylindrical-end portion with contact parts of a pair of conductors rotatably holding the sun visor body, a mounting bracket for mounting the arm to a vehicle, and a connector detachably attached to the mounting bracket and including a pair of terminals each having a contact portion to contact with a corresponding contact part of the pair of conductors. An arm-supporting portion of the mounting bracket rotatably supports a cylindrical-end-portion side of the arm. The contact parts of the pair of conductors are in arcuate-plate shape and provided with a cutout on an outer-peripheral surface of the cylindrical-end portion exposed outside the arm-supporting portion. A terminal-fixing portion provided in a housing of the connector fix a base portion of each contact portion, and a terminal-support portion supports a free end of each contact portion.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a windshield, a backlite spaced from the windshield, and a moonroof. The moonroof is moveable relative to the windshield and the backlite between a closed position and an open position. When in the closed position, the moonroof is adjacent to both the windshield and the backlite.

Abstract: An arrangement for a movable roof element (101) for a motor vehicle (100) has: a carriage (103) which is designed to be guided in a rail (104) and to be moved relative to the rail (104) and which has a first component (105) and a second component (106), and a drive cable (107), wherein the second component (106) at least partially surrounds the first component (105) and the drive cable (107) in order to form a coupling (108) between the drive cable (107) and the carriage (103), wherein the coupling (108) has: a roughening (109) of the first component (105) in order to form a non-positive and/or integrally bonded connection between the first (105) and the second (106) component.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a window having an internal opening defined by an angled edge forming a clear space generally shaped as a truncated pyramid. An operable window panel is slidable relative to the internal opening to define open and closed positions. A compressible elastic sealing member is disposed along the angled edge, wherein the sealing member defines a substantially convex profile when the operable window panel in the open position. A guide assembly is positioned adjacent an interior surface of the window and adapted to guide the operable window panel between the open and closed positions. The closed position is defined by an outer surface of the operable window panel being co-planar with an exterior surface of the window. The closed position is further characterized by the sealing member being deformed to occupy at least the seam defined between the window and the operable window panel.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a windshield, a barrier, a barrier actuator drivably coupled to the barrier, and a computer in communication with the barrier actuator. The barrier is movable between a retracted position exposing the windshield and an expanded position extending along a portion of the windshield. The computer is programmed to, upon determining that a risk of objects striking the windshield exceeds a threshold while the vehicle is traveling, instruct the barrier actuator to move the barrier from the retracted position to the expanded position.

Abstract: An electric truck has a chassis, on which a driver's cab with a motor compartment containing an electric motor is disposed in the front of the electric truck, and in the rear a cargo body rests on the chassis. The cargo body substructure sits on vehicle longitudinal beams of the chassis. The cargo body bottom sealing the cargo body on the underside is spaced above the vehicle longitudinal beams to ensure clearance for a sufficient spring travel. A battery housing with at least one integrated battery is disposed in the intermediate space between the vehicle longitudinal beams and the body bottom, so that a larger installation space is available for the batteries and therefore a greater range for the electric truck. The battery is protected in this region and, moreover, the insulation of the battery housing simultaneously contributes to insulation of the cargo body disposed above the battery housing.

Abstract: An antivibration device capable of restraining a stopper rubber from being turned up when a connecting member is inserted between a first attached member and a displacement restriction member. A stopper rubber is mounted on a surface of a connecting member opposite to a first attached member and includes a mounted portion brought into abutment on a displacement restriction member when the connecting member is displaced in a rebound direction, and a hook portion formed at the outer edge of the mounted portion. The connecting member includes an engaged portion (protrusion) engaged with the hook portion. Thus, when the connecting member is inserted between the first attached member and the displacement restriction member, the stopper rubber (the mounted portion) can be restrained from being turned up.

Abstract: Provided is a head cover structure of an engine, which is capable of increasing supporting rigidity of a head cover. The engine includes a driving force transmission mechanism for transmitting a driving force of a crankshaft to a valve train, in which on one end side in a cylinder row direction of the head cover, a bulging portion for covering an upper side of the driving force transmission mechanism is provided, and an engine mounting portion is attached to the bulging portion. The bulging portion is provided with an inclined surface portion having an inclined surface inclined downwardly toward the other end side in the cylinder row direction, and the inclined surface is formed to rise upwardly from an intermediate position in the cylinder row direction so as to be continuous with a top surface of the bulging portion on the one end side in the cylinder row direction.