Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatus and methods for collection printing liquid e.g. ink. A printing liquid collection apparatus comprises a collection tray comprising a printing liquid droplet collection surface to capture printing liquid droplets produced during application of a printing liquid to a porous substrate; and a printing liquid removal element to receive the captured printing liquid from the collection tray and transport the captured printing liquid to a waste printing liquid container.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a discard absorbing member (first absorbing member) that absorbs a liquid discarded from a discharge head to an outer side of an end portion of a medium supported by a support section as a waste liquid. Further, the recording apparatus includes: a cap which is an example of a waste liquid receiving section that receives the liquid ejected from the discharge head as a waste liquid; a waste liquid absorbing member (second absorbing member) that absorbs the waste liquid sent from the cap; and a waste liquid box (accommodating section) that holds the waste liquid absorbing member. The discard absorbing member and the waste liquid absorbing member 50A are coupled to each other such that the waste liquid can be delivered from the discard absorbing member to the waste liquid absorbing member.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording portion, a liquid container portion containing a liquid to be supplied to the recording portion, a body in which the recording portion and the liquid container portion are mounted, and a housing that houses the body. The body can be changed in position between a closed position and an open position in a position-change direction intersecting with a vertical direction. The body, when located at the closed position, is housed inside the housing. The body, when located at the open position, protrudes from the housing in a first position-change direction of the position-change direction. The liquid container portion includes a container space containing the liquid to be supplied to the recording portion, and a liquid inlet through which the liquid can be poured into the container space. The liquid inlet is exposed when the body is located at the open position.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a recording head that ejects ink, an ink tank that contains ink and that includes an inlet through which ink is poured from a refill container, an outer case that houses the recording head and the ink tank and that includes an upper case member disposed in the +Z direction and a side case member crossing the upper case member, and an opening and closing cover that is attached to the outer case and that is configured to rotate between an open position at which the ink can be poured from the refill container into the ink tank and a closed position at which the ink tank is covered. The side case member has a cutout.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid storing cartridge including: a casing which has a bottom surface and which is configured to store a liquid, the casing having a supply port configured to supply the liquid from the casing to an outside of the casing; a circuit board having an electric contact: and a circuit board holder which is provided on the casing and which is configured to hold the circuit board. The circuit board is provided at a position being more apart from the bottom surface of the casing than the supply port is.

Abstract: A liquid storage body includes: a bag part being flexible and configured to store a liquid therein; a liquid outlet part attached to a first end portion of the bag part and configured to discharge to a liquid jetting apparatus stored the liquid in the bag part; and a channel part disposed inside the bag part and configured to let the liquid flow to the liquid outlet part, in which both ends of the channel part are connected to the liquid outlet part, a first area of the channel part is located near a second end portion of the bag part located farthest from the first end portion, and the channel part has a liquid inlet portion through which to take the liquid inside the bag part into the channel part.

Abstract: An object is to provide a liquid storage unit capable of suppressing damage to a gusset portion. The liquid storage unit has a liquid storage portion internally storing liquid, a gusset portion formed along the liquid storage portion and at which a lateral face unit of the liquid storage portion is folded toward the inside of the liquid storage portion, and a stopper unit configured to suppress a bend likely to occur at the gusset portion by coming into contact with another part.

Abstract: An object is to provide a liquid storage container capable of reducing the possibility of dispersion of liquid in a case where a lid member is detached. The lid member has a covering portion capable of covering the opening and a knob portion protruding from the covering portion in a direction in which the knob portion becomes more distant from the opening. The covering portion can deform into a convex shape in a case where the knob portion is pushed toward the inside from the outside of the opening in a state where the lid member is attached to the opening and can deform from the convex shape into a concave shape in a case where the knob portion is pulled up toward the outside from the inside of the opening in a state where the covering portion has deformed into the convex shape.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage configured to move in a width direction intersecting a medium transport direction, a recording head mounted on the carriage, a liquid storage section configured to store a liquid to be supplied to the recording head, the liquid storage section including an injection port configured to receive the liquid from a refill container and a liquid-level visual-check section through which a liquid level of the liquid is visually checked, and a display section configured to accept various setting operations, in which the liquid-level visual-check section and the display section are disposed on an apparatus front surface side, and the display section is disposed above the liquid-level visual-check section.

Abstract: Examples relate to a computer implemented method comprising, based on a vulnerable nozzle map indicating one or more operational nozzles of a printhead identified as meeting a failure likelihood criterion, during a print job, and between successive print passes of the printhead, checking operation of the one or more operational nozzles indicated on the vulnerable nozzle map.

Abstract: A printer includes a base and a cover. The base includes front and rear walls, and first and second sidewalls. The cover is pivotally connected to the base. A receiving section extends within the base from the first sidewall to an interior end of the section. The receiving section receives sheets of paper. A paper feeding mechanism is disposed between the interior end and the second sidewall. The paper feeding mechanism is operable to feed paper from the receiving section in the longitudinal direction through the base. A print module is disposed within the base between the paper feeding mechanism and the second sidewall. The print module includes ink injectors operable to print on paper being fed past the injectors from the receiving section. A toner module is operable to provide ink to the injectors. A battery module is disposed between the receiving section and the rear wall.

Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head configured to perform recording on a T-shirt, a tray configured for placement of the T-shirt, the tray being configured to move in a front-rear direction including a position facing the recording head, a medium conveyance unit configured to move the tray in the front-rear direction, a reception unit configured to receive, from a host device, information related to a recording range corresponding to the tray, and a control unit. The information related to the recording range includes information about the front-rear direction, and the control unit moves, to a reference position, at least one of end positions of the recording range of the tray in the front-rear direction by controlling the medium conveyance unit, based on the information related to the recording range received by the reception unit.

Abstract: Examples relate to printing systems comprising a safety assembly associated with a printhead. The safety assembly comprises a rolling element upstream of the printhead in the print medium advance direction to prevent a print medium from contacting the printhead.

Abstract: The medium discharge device 40 includes a transport path TB for transporting the medium P recorded by the recording device 10, a discharge section 38 for discharging the medium P transported in the transport path TB, a pair of support sections 60 for supporting the medium P discharged by the discharge section 38 onto a support surface 60a, and a stacking section 33 provided below the pair of support sections 60 in a gravity direction and on which are stacked the medium P that dropped from the pair of support sections 60, and the pair of support sections 60 have conductive members.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a conveyance belt, a sheet suction portion, a sheet conveyance portion, a recording portion, a suction roller, and an exhaust fan. The suction roller, at an upstream side of the recording portion with respect to a sheet conveyance direction, brings the sheet into contact with the outer circumferential surface of the conveyance belt. The exhaust fan, at an upstream side of the suction roller with respect to the sheet conveyance direction, sucks air existing over the conveyance belt. The exhaust fan causes air existing over the conveyance belt to flow through intervals between adjacent ones of roller portions of the suction roller in the sheet width direction, and thereby sucks and discharges air in a direction away from the conveyance belt.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a user-setting-value acquiring unit configured to acquire a user setting value indicating a remaining amount of paper on a paper roll, the user setting value being set by a user; a first detection unit configured to detect that a physical quantity correlated with a remaining amount of paper on the paper roll has become equal to a first threshold value; a second detection unit configured to detect that the remaining amount of paper on the paper roll has become equal to a second threshold value; a post-detection length acquiring unit configured to acquire a post-detection length being a length of paper used from the paper roll from a time when it is detected that the physical quantity has become equal to the first threshold value until the remaining amount of paper on the paper roll becomes equal to the second threshold value; and a notification unit configured to notify that, when a new paper roll is used and a length of paper used from the new paper roll from a time when it is d

Abstract: Separator cutter for printed sheets from a continuous paper web provides multiple longitudinal divisions of different working sections with a series of single or adjacent sheets. The sheets have respective print areas with texts and/or images, while the cutter includes margining knives and longitudinal dividing knives and an electronic control unit. The cutter operates with webs wherein, at the beginning of each working section, a printed image mark (Print mark) is placed at a distance of the print area and automatically sets margins and division cuts based on a corresponding working section. The cutter includes servo mechanisms for displacement of the margining and longitudinal dividing knives and a sensor for the Print mark. In response to a new working section, the servo mechanisms is activated by positioning the knives in transverse positions based on data from the new working section and referencing the transverse position of the Print mark.

Abstract: A recording device includes a roll holding unit, a transport mechanism, a recording unit, a cutting mechanism, and a discharge unit. The recording unit performs recording on a transported medium from the roll. The cutting mechanism cuts the medium, in an intersecting direction intersecting a transport direction. The discharge unit discharges the medium cut by the cutting mechanism. The transport mechanism includes a transport roller pair disposed upstream of the recording unit in the transport path. The control unit determines that the remaining length L2 of the medium is insufficient to perform recording in a state of pinching the medium by the transport roller pair and the remaining length L2 is greater than the predetermined length (affirmative determination in step S14), the control unit cuts, by the cutting mechanism, a remaining medium to a predefined length L3 or less and discharges the remaining medium (steps S17 to S20).

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus including: a printing head that includes a nozzle ejecting ink for printing on a printing medium conveyed in a conveyance direction; a carriage on which the printing head is mounted and that reciprocally moves in a main scanning direction; a sliding member attached to the carriage such that the carriage can change a position in a vertical direction; and a guide member that includes a first surface with which the sliding member is brought into contact and a second surface as a back surface of the first surface and guides the movement of the main scanning direction of the carriage, in which the sliding member includes a first regulation unit facing the second surface in a position away from the second surface at a predetermined distance.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a transport path that is configured to transport a medium in a transport direction, a liquid discharge head that discharges a liquid to the medium transported in the transport direction, a carriage that is configured to move the liquid discharge head in a width direction intersecting with the transport direction, a cover member that is located above the carriage and covers a movement range of the carriage, and an air flow adjustment cover that is located between the cover member and the carriage and covers the movement range of the carriage.

Abstract: A pretreatment apparatus of the present disclosure is a pretreatment apparatus configured to perform pretreatment on a recording medium having permeability and to be applied with ink, including: a first applicator configured to apply an aqueous solution containing alginate to the recording medium; a second applicator configured to apply an aqueous solution containing a chelating agent to the recording medium; and a third applicator configured to apply a pretreatment agent containing a polyvalent metal salt to the recording medium, wherein the third applicator is configured to apply the pretreatment agent after the application of the aqueous solutions by the first applicator and the second applicator.

Abstract: A printing system may be provided and the printing system may comprise, in an example, a controller, wherein the controller may cause a printing mechanism to selectively apply pre-treatment fluid and marking fluid on a recorded medium. The printing mechanism may comprise a first printhead to dispense pre-treatment fluid and a second printhead to dispense marking fluid, wherein the first printhead is arranged in line with the second printhead. The controller may cause the printing system to enter a first print mode, wherein in the first print mode, there are a plurality of passes of a printing mechanism where pre-treatment fluid and/or marking fluid is applied to the recorded medium, and wherein a first of the plurality of passes is to be of the pre-treatment fluid from the first printhead without the second printhead dispensing marking fluid.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for printing a decoration to be printed onto a plurality of print surfaces by digital printing equipment. The method includes: providing a digital template and reference measurement data of a decoration to be printed, said data being hyperspectral and spatially resolved, printing the decoration to be printed onto a print surface using the digital template, measuring measured variables of the decoration printed on the print surface (20), thereby obtaining print measurement data that are hyperspectral and spatially resolved, comparing the print measurement data with the reference measurement data and determining a measure of deviation of the print measurement data (6) from the reference measurement data, modifying the digital template if the measure of the deviation meets a predetermined criterion, and repeating the above steps.

Abstract: A method of making a book or booklet cover including placing a first face of a sheet-like information carrier on a first side of a metal sheet that extends beyond one edge of the sheet-like information carrier. The method including bending a portion of the metal sheet along an edge thereof, for the portion to elastically press on the sheet-like information carrier. A book or booklet cover including a metal sheet supporting a sheet-like information carrier, which sheet-like information carrier has a first face and an opposite second face, with the second face on a first side of the metal sheet, the metal sheet-having a portion extending beyond at least one edge of the sheet-like information carrier, where the portion of the metal sheet has a rounded bend along an edge thereof, the portion elastically pressing against the sheet-like information carrier.

Abstract: A ballpoint pen is disclosed. In the ballpoint pen, an oil-based ballpoint pen ink composition has an ink viscosity with a range of 500 mPa·s to 15000 mPa·s inclusive at 20° C. and a shear rate of 500 sec-1. A ball has a ball diameter of 0.5 mm or less. A tip distal end portion includes a first swaged portion and a second swaged portion. The first swaged portion has an inclination angle with a range of 90 degrees to 100 degrees inclusive. The second swaged portion is provided closer to a distal end side of a ballpoint pen tip than the first swaged portion and has an inclination angle with a range of 110 degrees to 130 degrees inclusive. An angle of a bottom wall of a ball holding chamber is the same as the inclination angle of the second swaged portion.

Abstract: A carpenter square includes a body including a first, second, and third edges. A fence is pivoted to the first edge for movement among first, second, and third positions. In the first and second positions, the fence is normal to the body. In the third position, the fence is coplanar to the body. A hinge assembly pivots the fence to the body and includes a notch in the body, a recess in the notch, and a tab projecting from the fence and fit over the pin for reciprocating and swinging movement. The tab moves between a neutral stance, in which the tab is mis-registered with the recess and disables movement of the fence among the first, second, and third positions, and an advanced stance, in which the tab is registered with the recess and enables movement of the fence among the first, second, and third positions.

Abstract: A carpenter square includes a triangular body having a first edge, a second edge, and a third edge, wherein the first, second, and third edges cooperate to define a perimeter edge of the triangular body. A fence is pivoted to the first edge for movement among first, second, and third positions. In the first position, the fence is normal to the triangular body in a first direction. In the second position, the fence is normal to the triangular body in a second direction opposite the first direction. In the third position, the fence is coplanar to the triangular body.

Abstract: A carrier foil (1) for transferring a coating (2) onto a substrate (4) covered with a melamine resin film (3) is described, wherein the carrier foil (1) comprises a foil (12) with an upper foil surface (11) and a lower foil surface (13), wherein the lower foil (13) facing the substrate (4) has a roughness Rz of 0.1 ?m up to 100 ?m and the upper foil surface (11) has a roughness Rz of 0.1 ?m up to 100 ?m. A transfer foil and corresponding methods and laminates are also described.

Abstract: A method of generating an enhanced visual three-dimensional visual effect to wood sculptures. The includes boiling laminated wood formed into a shape until the plurality of lamination layers physically separate so that the separate lamination layers may be independently pressed. After the separate lamination layers are dried, they can be adhered to each other to reconstitute the formed shape thereby affording the enhanced visual three-dimensional visual effect.

Abstract: A paint roller housing having a chamber. The chamber of the housing has a first end located opposite a second end. The first end has a first opening configured to receive at least a portion of both a paint roller frame and a paint roller cover. The second end of the housing has a port. The housing has a substantially planar wall that is perpendicular to the first end and the second end of the housing. The substantially planar wall has a second opening that abuts the first opening of the first end of the housing. The second opening is configured for the paint roller frame to slidably traverse the length of the second opening to orient the paint roller cover within the chamber of the housing. The housing has a radial wall having a third opening and a guide ramp located within the chamber of the housing.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a pattern for a decorative panel. The method includes applying a clear gel coat on a mold to form a clear layer. The clear layer is cured and then digitally printed with one or more inks so as to produce a pattern on the clear layer. Also disclosed is a decorative panel including a clear layer, an opaque layer and a pattern digitally printed on the clear layer, between the clear and opaque layers, such that the pattern is visible through the clear layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an integrally formed carbon fiber spoke and a manufacturing method thereof. The method includes manufacturing a carbon fiber core body and a first metal part and a second metal part at two ends; winding or wrapping the carbon fiber core body and the metal parts at the two ends with carbon fiber prepregs to form a semi-finished product; and putting the wound or wrapped semi-finished product into a forming mold for heat forming. In the present disclosure, the metal parts are wound or wrapped with the carbon fiber prepregs, such that sandwich structures are formed between the metal parts and carbon fiber materials to expand a bonding force of bonding interfaces.

Abstract: A self-sealing automotive spoke wheel nipple includes a spoke nipple and an elastic gasket. The spoke nipple that mounts the spoke into the rim includes a rotational axis, a head, a shank, and a spoke-engaging opening. The head, the shank, and the spoke-engaging opening are concentrically positioned along the rotational axis. The head is adjacently connected to the shank. The spoke-engaging opening traverses into the shank, opposite of the head so that the spoke can be threadedly engaged to the spoke nipple. The elastic gasket is laterally positioned around a shoulder portion of the shank and positioned adjacently to the head. The elastic gasket creates a hermetic connection between the rim and the spoke nipple as the elastic gasket completely seals the spoke opening of the rim during the installation process.

Abstract: In an aspect, a protective kit for a vehicle wheel is provided. The wheel includes a rim with a pressurized tire mounted thereon. An outboard flange of the rim and an outboard side of the tire are resiliently engaged. The kit includes a wheel cover member including a cover sheet with outer and inner edges, and a through-opening, and an elastic member connected to the cover sheet at the inner edge. The through-opening and elastic member can encircle the outboard flange of the rim. The kit further includes a plurality of driving cards, each having a selected rigidity and a selected thickness so as to be pushable against the wheel cover member in between the outboard side of the tire and the rim, so as to drive the wheel cover member radially inwardly between the outboard side of the tire and the rim.

Abstract: A wheel includes a wheel rim, a hub defining a hollow housing for a wheel mount, and three or more resilient and equidistantly spaced spokes extending between an outer circumferential surface of the hub and an inner circumferential surface of the wheel rim. Each spoke is defined by a flexed, elongate spring element having a length that is greater than the radial distance between the outer circumferential surface of the hub and the inner circumferential surface of the wheel rim. The spring element is tangentially fixed at or towards one end to the outer circumferential surface of the hub and tangentially coupled at or towards its other end to the inner circumferential surface of the wheel rim via a hinged connection. The tangential coupling at the wheel rim is spaced circumferentially from the tangential fixing at the hub in a predetermined direction by a predetermined angle.

Abstract: The invention relates to bicycle wheel hub structure, wherein two sides of wheel hub’s hub body are provided with wheel hub disc sets. The wheel hub disc sets are spaced with outer and inner hub discs. When assembled with several wheel spokes and a wheel frame, one end of the several wheel spokes is fixedly combined with the wheel frame and the other end of which is fixedly combined with the outer hub disc and the inner wheel hub respectively, so to disperse the stress generated by the wheel spokes, avoiding excessive force on the outer hub or inner hub. The outer and the inner hub discs are arranged at intervals, so that the spokes will be in contact with each other when assembled, reducing friction and affecting structural strength and service life, and achieving convenient structural use and good structural use function.

Abstract: A device and method for assisting a user in aircraft wheel assemblies is disclosed herein. The device enables a single user to readily connect two wheel sections in a split wheel assembly. The device is lightweight and reusable and preferably includes two bushings, two washers, a bolt, and a nut. After inserting the bolt through the wheel sections, a nut can be tightened, thereby creating a compressive force that compresses the bushings and the wheel sections together. While the wheel sections are compressed together, a plurality of tie bolts and tie nuts can be installed on the wheel sections to complete the wheel assembly.

Abstract: A vehicle may include a flutter resistant caster. The vehicle may include a frame, a drive wheel coupled to the frame, a caster housing coupled to the frame, a caster, a locking element, a first bearing, and a biasing element. The caster housing may include an opening. The caster may include a caster wheel and a caster stem extending through the opening in the caster housing. The caster stem may be configured to rotate relative to the caster housing. The locking element may be coupled to the caster stem. The first bearing may be coupled to the caster stem. The biasing element may be coupled to the caster stem. The biasing element may be configured to exert a force on the first bearing.

Abstract: Provided is a rubber composition for a tire having excellent performance on snow, wet grip performance, and forming processability, while containing a large amount of silica. The rubber composition contains: in 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber containing from 25 to 50 mass % of a butadiene rubber, 50 parts by mass or more of a plasticizer component; from 120 to 180 parts by mass of silica; M1 parts by mass of 3-octanoylthio-1-propyltriethoxysilane; and M2 parts by mass of alkylsilane. (M1+M2), a total of the 3-octanoylthio-1-propyltriethoxysilane and the alkylsilane, is from 5 to 10 mass % with respect to the mass of the silica, and [M2/(M1+M2)], a ratio of the alkylsilane with respect to the total of the 3-octanoylthio-1-propyltriethoxysilane and the alkylsilane, is from 0.10 to 0.40.

Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire that ensures sufficient steering stability even when a vehicle runs on a wet road surface at a high speed. The pneumatic tire has a tread portion formed of a rubber composition containing: a rubber component of styrene-butadiene rubber and isoprene-based rubber; and a resin component, wherein when Q (parts by mass) is the content of the resin component with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, the tire is installed on a standardized rim, the internal pressure is 250 kPa, Wt (mm) is the cross-sectional width of the tire, and Dt (mm) is the outer diameter, the content Q (parts by mass) of the resin component with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component exceeds 25 parts by mass, and (formula 1) and (formula 2) are satisfied. 1600?(Dt2×?/4)/Wt?2827.4??(formula 1) Q/Wt>0.

Abstract: Provided is a heavy duty tire having excellent chipping resistance during high-speed running. Included is a heavy duty tire including a tread portion, the tread portion including a shoulder region located axially outward from an axially outermost main longitudinal groove extending in a circumferential direction, the tread portion being provided with a tread rubber consisting of a multilayer structure including a cap rubber layer forming a tread outer surface and a radially innermost base rubber layer, the cap rubber layer in the shoulder region containing at least one rubber component including a polybutadiene rubber and a carbon black, the heavy duty tire satisfying the following relationships (1) to (3): (1) Tb/Tc ? 0.50; (2) Eb?/Ec? ? 0.60; and (3) Bca/(Tb/Tc) ? 40 wherein Tc, Ec?, Tb, Eb? and Bca are defined herein.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a tire having a three-dimensional tire sipe are disclosed. In one embodiment, a tire sipe used in a tire is provided, the tire sipe comprising: a radially inner sipe taper portion having a radially inner sipe width W3 and a radially inner sipe transition width W4, wherein the radially inner sipe width W3 is greater than the radially inner sipe transition width W4; a radially outer sipe taper portion having a radially outer sipe width W1 and a radially outer sipe transition width W2, wherein the radially outer sipe width W1 is greater than the radially outer sipe transition width W2; and a sipe radially central portion having a plurality of individual sipe radially angled portions oriented in a zig-zag pattern, wherein the sipe radially central portion is oriented radially between the radially inner sipe taper portion and the radially outer sipe taper portion.

Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion including a land portion. In the land portion, closed sipes are arranged in a tire axial direction. Each of the closed sipes includes a first end, a second end, a first sipe piece extending in the tire axial direction on a first end side, a second sipe piece extending in the tire axial direction on a second end side, and a third sipe piece inclined with respect to the tire axial direction and positioned between the first sipe piece and the second sipe piece. The closed sipes arranged in the tire axial direction overlap each other in the tire axial direction.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a non-stretchable tread (30) flanked by two shoulder regions (34), and two non-stretchable bead regions (36) for mounting the tire to a wheel, each bead region being connected via a sidewall to the corresponding bead region. Each sidewall has a first portion (38) extending inwardly relative to a width of the tire from one of the bead regions (36) to a deflection region (40), and a second portion (42) extending outwardly relative to the width of the tire from the deflection region (40) to a corresponding one of the shoulder regions (34). A non-stretchable girth-limiting configuration (44, 46, 56) and a radial reinforcing structure (48, 50, 52) are associated with the first portion (38) of each of the sidewalls, thereby limiting radial flexing of first portion (38) and maintaining an annular concavity between the bead region (36) and the shoulder region (34).

Abstract: A motorcycle tire comprises a pair of bead portions each with a bead core therein and a bead bottom surface. In a non-rim assembled state in which the bead portions are held such that the axial distance between the axially outer surfaces of the bead portions matches the rim width of a regular rim, a conditional expression: 0.99 =< Dc/(Dr+2T) =< 1.00, is satisfied, wherein “Dc” is the inner diameter of the bead core at the axial center position of the bead core, “Dr” is the rim diameter of the regular rim, and “T” is the radial distance from the inner surface of the bead core to the bead bottom surface at the axial center position.

Abstract: A vehicle hitch assembly is provided. The receiver tube is connectable with a bumper structure and defines a longitudinally-extending opening. The hitch assembly includes a drawbar assembly with an elongated body and a rod. The elongated body is dimensioned to be received within the opening in the receiver tube and defines a longitudinally-extending passageway. The rod is rotatably received within the longitudinally-extending passageway between a first position and a second position. The rod includes a detent feature that couples together the elongated body and the receiver tube when the rod is rotated to the second position and detaches the elongated body and the receiver tube when the rod is rotated to the first position.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for determining the yaw angle of a trailer with respect to the longitudinal axis of a towing vehicle based on at least one feature included in multiple captured images by providing multiple algorithms for calculating at least one angle estimation.

Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a rear suspension assembly which has a trailing arm generally extending longitudinally. Also, the rear suspension assembly includes an upper radius rod extending in a generally lateral direction relative to a centerline of the vehicle. Additionally, the rear suspension assembly includes a lower radius rod extending in a generally lateral direction relative to the centerline of the vehicle. The rear suspension assembly further includes a suspension member configured to control toe of the at least one rear ground-engaging member.

Abstract: A status display, in particular for use on the wheel suspension of a vehicle, includes a first reference unit and a second reference unit, wherein the first and the second reference unit are mounted or fastened to one another via a holding unit, wherein the first reference unit has a first reference geometry, wherein the second reference unit has a second reference geometry, the position of the first reference geometry relative to the second reference geometry being able to be determined optically or haptically by a user, at least in a wear condition of the holding unit.

Abstract: This shock absorber includes an outer cylinder, and a bracket having a pair of extension parts. The outer cylinder has an opening and into which the inner cylinder is inserted and fixed. The pair of extension parts extend outward in a radial direction of the outer cylinder from different positions spaced apart in a circumferential direction of the outer cylinder. A hole portion and a reduced-rigidity part are provided in the pair of extension parts. The hole portion is provided at a position facing an attachment hole of an attachment member disposed between the pair of extension parts. The reduced-rigidity part is disposed at a disposition position on the outer cylinder side of the hole portion at the same position as the hole portion in the axial direction of the outer cylinder. The reduced-rigidity part has a lower rigidity than a position different from the disposition position.