| NIFCO INC. Patent applications |
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| 20120131774 | RETAINER STRUCTURE - A retainer structure having excellent workability of attaching to and removing from a panel is obtained. In an approximately cylindrical retainer main body ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120128410 | CLIP - A clip includes an attaching portion and a clamp portion. An elastic member, which is formed as a separate body from the attaching portion, is attached to the attaching portion, and prevents a transmission of vibration between an attached member and a tubular object. In the elastic member, a vibration-proof portion is provided and elastically abuts against a locking piece. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120126083 | ARTICLE HOLDING DEVICE - The article holding device ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120125729 | UNIDIRECTIONAL CLUTCH - [Object] A unidirectional clutch can reduce a backlash without increasing the number of components, and also can improve silence and durability. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120124792 | CLIP AND CLIP DEVICE - The invention is a clip for fastening together and electrically connecting a coated metal panel and a metal plate. The clip includes a head part, and an insertion part for non-circular through-holes formed on the metal panel and metal plate. The insertion part L includes an insertable orientation and a non-insertable orientation into the through-holes, and includes an inclined side part for slide-contacting with a hole edge or hole wall of the through-hole of the metal panel by a twist operation after insertion into the through-hole, and sandwiching the metal panel and metal plate together with the head part at a prescribed twist position. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120124778 | SLIDE ASSIST MECHANISM AMD DRAW-IN UNIT - A slide assist mechanism includes a case attached to one of a main body or a moving body; a slider disposed freely slidably in the case; a latch supported by the slider so as to be switched between a standby position which locks in a corresponding portion of the case and a draw-in position which releases the locking; a draw-in unit including an urging device; and an operation member attached to the another of the main body or the moving body and switching the latch from the standby position to the draw-in position, or switching the latch from the draw-in position to the standby position. When the latch is switched from the standby position to the draw-in position, due to an urging force which has been accumulated in the urging device, the slide assist mechanism allows the moving body to move from a first position to a second position on a main body side through the operation member. In the slider, the urging device is disposed on a lower surface side, and also one end in a sliding direction includes an attachment device for the urging device. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120119534 | DRAWER DEVICE - [Object] To easily handle a drawer device for a combined use as a container box and a cup holder to selectively use as the container box or the cup holder without requiring a troublesome operation. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120119055 | Clip - A clip includes a first member and a second member, forming a cylindrical body by mutually engaging together. Each of the first member and the second member includes a printed-substrate holding portion for holding a plate-like printed substrate, an antenna-element holding portion for holding a cylinder-like antenna element attached to the printed substrate, and an engaging portion for mutually engaging the first and second members. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120118689 | AIR DAMPER - An air damper capable of stabilizing a damping force of the air damper is obtained. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120111880 | CONTAINER-SUPPORTING APPARATUS - A container-supporting apparatus includes a housing, a holder, a cup-supporting body, a flap, an elastic member for urging the flap in a direction of an insertion hole, a shaft part provided on either (for example, the flap) of the holder or the flap, and a shaft-bearing part provided on the other (for example, the holder) and provided with a shaft-bearing part capable of receiving the shaft part. When the holder is stored in the housing, the cup-supporting body contacts the flap whereby the shaft part moves inside the shaft-bearing hole of the shaft-bearing part. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120111861 | FOLDABLE STORAGE BOX - To obtain a foldable storage box in which an open state can be easily held. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120110793 | FASTENER - A fastener with which an operator can get a click feeling (tactile feedback) when a mounting member is mounted to a mounted member is obtained. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120110781 | Grommet - A grommet for fixing an object such as a cable along a groove portion of a channel-type steel material can be fixed or freely stopped by using lips of the channel-type steel material. A grommet includes a base leg portion and a flange portion. The base leg portion includes elastic leg pieces elastically protruding toward an outside, bent toward an inside by being pressed by lips when inserted into an inside of a space of the lips, and restored to original state inside a groove portion after passing through the inside of the space of the lips so as to sandwich the lips between the elastic leg pieces and the flange portion from an inside and an outside. At least either one of the base leg portion or the flange portion includes a locking device for locking the object or a locking device of the object. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120104212 | Holding device - A holding device has an elastic locking piece having an extending part extending to the outside from a locking claw part. The contact part of an unlocking operating piece contacts the outside of the extending part to reduce the unlocking force of the unlocking operating piece. A sawtooth-form part is in a locked state when a locking piece of an elastic locking piece enters the sawtooth-form part. The elastic locking piece has the extending part extending outside from the locking claw part. The unlocking operating piece has a contact part for contacting with the extending part. The contact part contacts the outside of the extending part when the unlocking operating piece is pressed, the locking claw part of the elastic locking piece is ejected from the indented part of the sawtooth-form part by the contact, and the locked state between the sawtooth-form part and the locking claw part is unlocked. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104208 | APPARATUS WITH A ROTATING BODY - An apparatus includes a supporting body, a rotating body assembled with the supporting body and rotating at least between a standard position and a deployed position through an intermediate position, and a biasing device for applying a biasing force to the rotating device in a direction of returning the rotating body to the standard position. A speed switching device changes a rotational speed of the rotating body from the deployed position to the intermediate position different from that from the intermediate position to the standard position in a return rotational movement of the rotating body. The speed switching device includes at least two damping devices; at least two first gears attached to the damping devices for applying damping forces of the damping devices to the rotating body; and at least two second gears formed integrally on the rotating body. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120104011 | CUP HOLDER - When a lid body ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120102687 | CLIP - A clip of the present invention includes at least a head portion, a center support pillar, an auxiliary support pillar, elastic legs, locking portions, and empty spaces. The head portion has a shape capable of locking on one surface of an attached member. The center support pillar extends downward from the head portion, and has a shape to be inserted into the attachment hole. The auxiliary support pillar extends downward from the head portion in the same manner as the center support pillar, and is integrally formed with the head portion and the center support pillar in such a way that a base portion inserted into the attachment hole is perpendicular to the center support pillar. A pair of the elastic legs expanding in a V-shape is interconnected with ends of the center support pillar and the auxiliary support pillar, and also formed in a shape so as to be turned back toward a direction of the head portion and the auxiliary support pillar. The locking portions locking the attached member are provided in end portions of the elastic legs, and lock the other of either the attaching member or the attached member. Also, the empty spaces are provided in the auxiliary support pillar, and house deformed portions when the elastic legs are inserted into the attachment hole while deforming. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120097815 | CLIP - A clip includes a fixing portion and a holding portion. The fixing portion includes an elastic piece elastically abutting against a front surface of a panel; a support pillar extending toward an attachment hole from the elastic piece; a clamping piece protruding from an end portion of the support pillar, including an external form so as to be capable of passing through the attachment hole, and abutting against a back surface of the panel when the clamping piece is slid in one direction after passing through the attachment hole; and an operating piece provided in one portion of the elastic piece. The clamping piece is configured so that a distance from a front end portion at a front in a sliding direction to an edge portion of the attachment hole positioned in front of the sliding direction is longer than a sliding amount. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120091303 | DIAMETER ACCEPTANCE MECHANISM FOR CUP HOLDER AND CUP HOLDER USING THE SAME - A diameter acceptance mechanism for a cup holder has a base, a contact member, and an urging device (for example, one torsion coil spring). The contact member has at least a hollow first flap member supported movably into and out from an open part of the base and having a projection orifice facing a cup insertion part, and a second flap member fitted into a hollow part of the first flap member and supported movably into and out from the projection orifice. The second flap member projects from the projection orifice to contact with an outer perimeter of a cup inserted into the cup insertion part. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120090244 | MOVING MECHANISM OF MOVABLE BODY - The moving mechanism has a first stationary-side gear part and a second stationary-side gear part provided on a support body side; a movable-side gear part and a pinion gear provided on a supported part of a movable body; and a guide device positioned so that the movable-side gear part engages with the first stationary-side gear part and the pinion gear engages with the second stationary-side gear part. The first stationary-side gear part is formed along an arc of a virtual circle, and has teeth oriented toward a center side of this virtual circle; the second stationary-side gear part is provided adjacent to this first stationary-side gear part on the center side of the aforementioned virtual circle, is formed along an arc of a separate virtual circle from this virtual circle, and has teeth oriented toward a center side of this separate virtual circle. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120087762 | FASTENER AND STRUCTURE FOR FASTENING A MEMBER TO BE FASTENED - To obtain a fastener, and a structure for fastening a member to be fastened, with which a sufficiently locked state can be maintained even when the male member is pushed from the back. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120085036 | Rotating mechanism - A rotating mechanism includes a biasing device ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120080880 | CONNECTOR FOR PIPE CONNECTION - A connector for pipe connection provided to stably hold a state of connection of a pipe, and to improve operability by a user when disconnecting the pipe. The connector ( | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120074283 | CLIP - A clip, which retains and fixes an attaching member and an attached member while being provided between the attaching member and the attached member, includes a first engaging portion, a second engaging portion, and a coupling device for coupling the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion. In the first engaging portion, plural first engagement devices are provided in order to attach the clip to the attached member. For example, a second engagement device is provided in the second engaging portion. In the second engagement device, an engagement direction of a plane differs from that of the first engaging portion, and an axis-line direction of the second engagement device differs from that of the first engaging portion. The attaching member and the attached member are simultaneously attached to the second engagement device. The coupling device couples the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion so as to be able to be bent and twisted between the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120074278 | FIXTURE MOUNTING STRUCTURE AND INTERIOR ARTICLE MOUNTING STRUCTURE - A fixture mounting structure is provided with a base combined with fixtures and having an insertion section for insertion into a mounting hole in a panel, a lock member movably contained within the base, and an operation member slidably assembled to the base. An open section is formed in a side section of the insertion section of the base. Cam devices for moving the lock member to a predetermined position when the operation member is pushed in are provided to the lock member and the operation member. When the lock member is moved to the predetermined position, a part of the lock member is protruded from the opening section to prevent the base from coming out of the mounting hole in the panel. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120056063 | Cup holder - A cup holder includes a case main body defining a housing chamber; a lid member rotatably attached to the case main body between a closed position closing the opening portion and an open position opening the opening portion; a cup retaining member; and a parallel link mechanism connecting the case main body and the cup retaining member. A connecting mechanism connects the lid member and the cup retaining member so as to interconnect together so that the cup retaining member ascends to the ascent position from a descent position, and the cup retaining member descends from the ascent position to the descent position. Stopper abutting portions are provided in the cup retaining member and the lid member to control a downward movement of the cup retaining member. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120055748 | Damper device - A damper device includes a cylinder body, and a piston body. At least one end of either the cylinder body or the piston body is linked to an object to be braked to brake a relative movement or a movement of the object to be braked. The cylinder body includes a blocking member made of a synthetic resin at a deep inner section opposing to the piston body. The blocking member is formed separately from the cylinder body, and installed in one end of a tubular-shaped body forming the cylinder body. The blocking member has a fluid passage section and a braking force variable member moved therein. The braking force variable member holds passage of a fluid passing through the fluid passage section at a time of a movement of the piston body in a direction leaving from the deep inner section. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120037483 | SWITCH DEVICE - In a state wherein a striker ( | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120023715 | Clip - The clip of this invention is at least comprised of a flange part and a leg part molded integrally with the flange part hanging down therefrom. The leg part of the clip is inserted in an open hole of a mounting plate so as to clamp and lock the mounting plate together with the flange part of the clip. The leg part is comprised of a pair of elastic locking pieces hanging down from the flange part, a connecting part connecting the other end of the elastic locking pieces and a pair of cantilever locking pieces extending from the connecting part in the direction of the flange part. In the elastic locking pieces, there is molded a locking part which can lock in the lower part of the mounting plate passing through the open hole so as to clamp the lower part which is one side of the mounting plate. The locking part molded in the elastic locking pieces has an elasticity that can make it bypass welding spatters attached around the open hole of the mounting plate and can prevent wobbling with respect to the open hole. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120019012 | LATCH DEVICE - To obtain a latch device for obtaining a great output load with a small input load. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20110315699 | WAVE SUPPRESSION STRUCTURE FOR FUEL TANK - A wave suppression structure for a fuel tank is provided in which a wave suppression member ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110309640 | Lock device - A lock device locks a lid of a glove box and the like, and prevents half-latching of locking. When a lid starts closing, a left lock rod is driven to a right side, and a left lock arm turns counterclockwise against a spring force of a lock arm spring so as to start fitting into a catch hole of a catch on a left side. When the left lock rod is further driven to the right side, the left lock rod is completely fitted into the catch hole in a state wherein a lock claw of the left lock arm comes to a horizontal state. When the left lock rod is driven to the right side up to a final position, the left lock arm slightly moves to the right side. However, even in this state, the catch and the left lock arm maintain a sufficient engagement state. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110297715 | CUP HOLDER - A cup holder holding an object includes: a storing part being cylindrical and being opened at an upper portion; an opening part provided at a side wall of the storing part; a holder being biased towards an interior of the storing part and being stored inside the opening part so that the holder may protrude and retract; and a restricting part provided on the opening part, wherein the restricting part restrains a movement of the holder at a maximum storage position. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110271482 | FORWARD MOVEMENT MECHANISM OF MOVABLE BODY - A forward-moving mechanism of a movable body is provided with a receiving member placed movably inside a main body placed in a recessed area provided on either one of a movable body or a stationary body supporting the movable body to be capable of reciprocal movement, and linked to an assisting device for enabling the movable body to move forward up to a prescribed position; and a contact body provided on the other of the movable body and the stationary body contacting with the receiving member and moving inside the main body in the process of forward movement of the movable body. An area for movement of the receiving member in the main body includes a wall part for guiding the movement of the receiving member, and a device for preventing deformation of the wall part is provided adjacent to the wall part. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110260474 | LATCH DEVICE - A latch device includes a housing; a sliding body including a striking portion and a cam groove, and disposed relative to the housing so as to be capable of advancing and retracting; a spring member urging the sliding body in a direction protruding from the housing; an engaging body rotatably supported relative to the sliding body, and including a claw portion on an end thereof; and a pin member moving in such a way as to trace the cam groove. The engaging body can move between a locking position wherein the claw portion is protruded to a striking portion side, and locks the engaged/disengaged member, and a locking release position wherein the claw portion is retracted from the striking portion side. When the sliding body is pressed and the sliding body moves against an urging force of the spring member, the sliding body is retained in a position after a movement thereof through the cam groove and the pin member, and the engaging body moves from the locking release position to the locking position. The engaging body includes protruding portions protruding in the same direction as a protruding direction of the claw portion. A pivotal supporting portion, rotatably supporting the engaging body to the sliding body, is provided in the protruding portions. In a state in which the engaging body is positioned in the locking position, the striking portion of the sliding body is positioned between the claw portion and the protruding portions. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110259906 | Cup holder - A cup holder includes a tray, a lid rotatably supported at the tray and rotating the lid between a lid housed position which covers the tray and a lid deployed position which opens the tray, an urging device for rotating the lid toward the lid deployed position from the housed position, a holder base rotatably supported at the tray and rotating between a holder housed position which is housed in the tray and a holder deployed position which protrudes from the tray, and a holder main body slidably attached to the holder base. A holder moving device allows the holder main body to rotate with the holder base by moving the lid from the lid housed position to the lid deployed position by the urging device, and allows the holder main body to slide in a direction separating from the holder base when the lid reaches a predetermined rotational angle. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110259447 | CONNECTOR FOR FUEL TANK AND CHECK VALVE - A connector for a fuel tank includes a cylindrical main body; a connecting cylinder body including an attachment portion of a pipe connecting the fuel tank and an external portion, and assembled with the cylindrical main body; and a reinforcing cylinder body housed inside the connecting cylinder body. By a stopper portion formed on an inside of the connecting cylinder body, and a holding end portion of the cylindrical main body positioned inside the connecting cylinder body by the above-mentioned assembling, the reinforcing cylinder body is sandwiched from both sides so that the reinforcing cylinder body is positioned on an inside of the attachment portion of the connecting cylinder body. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110254292 | ASSISTING MECHANISM OF MOVABLE BODY - A catcher is supported on a base to be capable of reciprocal movement between a standby position where a striker can be caught or released and a final position, and moves slidingly toward the final position after rotating at a fixed angle from the standby position during forward movement from the standby position. Holding of the state in which the catcher is in the standby position, and the aforementioned sliding movement, are accomplished by urging of an urging device provided on the base. The aforementioned holding is released and forward rotation of the catcher is started when the striker is caught by the catcher in the standby position by forward movement of a movable body, and this forward movement is assisted by the aforementioned urging from mid-course of this forward movement. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110233950 | HOLE PLUG - While a high pullout force is being achieved, when a hole plug is demolded from a mold, a load on a locking claw is reduced. A leg portion | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110214783 | DEVICE FOR PREVENTING FUELING ERROR - A device for preventing a fueling error reliably prevents a fueling error by accurately preventing an insertion of a small-diameter nozzle without blocking an insertion of a large-diameter nozzle whose entrance should be permitted. Even if an end of a nozzle is strongly pressed to left-and-right shutter members ( | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110210223 | Clip and Support Member - Insertion force for installing a clip to a body panel, and retaining force of the clip after installation, are obtained by an engagement leg section. A click sensation when the clip is installed to the body panel is obtained by a click leg section. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110192774 | FUEL FILTER - A fuel filter is provided with a communicating portion between the inside and outside of a bag in a bag-shaped filter medium which is used by communicating an internal space with a fuel flow passage. Also, an interval between inner walls, which constitute the communicating portion and are located at opposite positions, has a size so as to usually allow the fuel to stagnate in the communicating portion by a surface tension, and when the bag-shaped filter medium is clogged with the fuel which has been lowered in fluidity by a temperature change, the interval between the inner walls has a size so as to allow the fuel which has been lowered in fluidity to flow into the bag-shaped filter medium. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110180469 | FUEL FILTER - Disclosed is a fuel filter in which is disposed in a fuel suction port of a fuel tank or in a fuel line and used to filter the fuel. At least one of filter materials constituting the fuel filter is made into a multifunctional filter material having a function of trapping dust of different particle diameters in stages, by differing the diameter of the pores in the filter material from the primary side to the secondary side of the filter material so that the size of the pores decreases toward the secondary side. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110170982 | CLIP - A clip includes a pin having at at least a part thereof a noncircular cross-section, and a grommet having an insertion hole into which the pin can be inserted, wherein a part of the grommet is adapted to be expandable by insertion of the pin into the insertion hole. The grommet has slope surfaces provided at an entrance-side hole edge of the insertion hole to lead the pin into the insertion hole when the pin is displaced from a normal position to be in contact with the entrance-side hole edge of the insertion hole. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110164942 | SCREW GROMMET - A plastic screw grommet includes a head portion and a leg portion having an end portion which is moved to a head portion side due to a screw advancing operation of a screw body inserted from the head portion side. The plastic screw grommet is structured so as to expand an intermediate portion by inserting the end portion, which is moved to the head portion side, into an inside of the intermediate portion of the leg portion between the end portion and the head portion. An outer surface of the end portion contacting an inner surface of an expanded portion of the intermediate portion at a time of the expansion is structured so as to have a shape following the inner surface of this expanded portion. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110139301 | VALVE DEVICE FOR FUEL TANK AND OVERFILLING PREVENTING DEVICE FOR FUEL TANK - A valve device used by being attached to a fuel tank includes a case provided with an airflow valve opening which communicates with the outside of the tank, on an upper portion, and also provided with a fuel inflow section located on a lower side of the airflow valve opening, and a float body housed in the case so as to be vertically movable, and also seated in the airflow valve opening by being elevated by the fuel flowed into the case through the inflow section. In the case, an airflow section which interconnects the inside of the tank and the inside of the case is formed in a higher side than a waterline of the float body at the seating time, and also at the seating time, this airflow section is restricted. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110127129 | DAMPER DEVICE - A damper device is provided with a cylinder body and a piston body, and provides braking for movement or relative movement of an object to be braked by attaching at least either the cylinder body or the piston body to the object to be braked. The piston body is provided with a seal ring for sealing between the piston body and the cylinder body. When a pressure difference between an inner space, located between the piston body and a deep inner section of the cylinder body, and the outside becomes a predetermined volume or above due to the movement or the relative movement of the piston body, one part of the seal ring is deflected and deformed so as to open a path for interconnecting the inner space and the outside. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110103884 | ARTICLE FIXING DEVICE - A fixing device body has a contact surface projecting to an extent greater than the inner diameter of a through-hole and in contact with the front surface of a panel to which an article is mounted. A fastening device is provided with an engaging section and a lever rotatably supported by the fastening device. When rotated, the lever is moved in a direction in which the fastening device is retracted from the through-hole to cause the engaging section to make contact with the rear side of the panel. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110091301 | SCREW GROMMET - A plastic screw grommet includes a head portion provided with a screwing hole for a tapping screw, and a leg portion expanded or prevented from deflecting by screwing the tapping screw. A hole diameter of the screwing hole is made smaller than an outer diameter of the above-mentioned tapping screw and larger than a root diameter of the tapping screw. Also, a projecting portion for filling a screw groove of the tapping screw to be screwed is formed in an inner face of the screwing hole. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110084476 | Pipe connector cover - Disclosed is a pipe joint cover (c) that covers a joint (U) of a high-pressure fuel pipe ( | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110057423 | CLIP STRUCTURE AND HOLDING STRUCTURE FOR INTERIOR MEMBER OF VEHICLE - Provided is a clip structure which can prevent components from falling off an attaching body or an attached body with a simple structure. Further provided is a holding structure for an internal member of a vehicle which can prevent the components from falling off an exterior member or an interior member with a simple structure. A clip assembly ( | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110041284 | RETRACTION MECHANISM - A retraction mechanism includes a striker provided in either a fixed body or a movable body which is movably supported by the fixed body; a catcher provided in the other body and engaging the striker at a predetermined moved position of the movable body to be capable of engaging and disengaging; and an urging device enabling to accumulate urging forces in a moving process of the movable body. The retraction mechanism retracts the movable body by the urging forces accumulated in the urging device in a state wherein the striker and the catcher are engaged. The retraction mechanism includes a guide device controlling a relative position between the striker and the catcher, and when the striker and the catcher change the relative position, the change thereof is absorbed by the guide device, so that the engagement becomes possible. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110011686 | DAMPER UNIT - A damper unit which brakes the speed of movement of a moving body by using a piston damper provided with a cylinder and a piston rod which is connected to a piston inside the cylinder, is provided. The damper unit includes a case wherein the above-mentioned piston damper is disposed; a transmitting member slidably provided inside the case and transmitting an external force accompanied by the movement of the above-mentioned moving body; a link member whose one end side is attached to the above-mentioned case so as to become the rotational center, and also whose the other end side is pivotally supported by the above-mentioned transmitting member; and a connecting member connected between both ends of the link member and being in contact with or connected to either the piston rod or the cylinder. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110006092 | CUP HOLDER - [Object] Provided is a cup holder with a good in and out usability of a drink container, upstanding the drink container in a vertical direction stably, and easy manufacturing of the: cup holder. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110000135 | Door opening and closing device - A door opening and closing device has a rotational mechanism configured to switch a door between a closed position and an open position relative to a base member. The door opening and closing device includes a latch mechanism for latching the door in the closed position on the base member. The latch mechanism includes a latch device attached to the base member, a case disposed above the latch device, a slider slidably situated in the case above the latch device, and a latching member pivotally supported by the case and including a base end slidably connected with the slider and a tip configured to engage a portion of the door. When the door is moved to the closed position, the slider is moved by the door and is engaged with the latch device while the latching member is pivoted to engage the door. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100307615 | FUEL SUPPLY DEVICE - On an inner circumference wall of a connecting pipe, a step is arranged at a lower portion of a through hole so that the inner diameter on the side of a suction port of a fuel pump is larger than that on the side of a nozzle section of a filter member. Thus, flow into the side of the nozzle section of the filter member is suppressed by making a subsidiary stream flowing from a sub channel into a confluence section not easily flow into the side having the smaller inner diameter. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100284732 | CONNECTION CONFIRMING MECHANISM - A connection confirming mechanism can visually confirm a completion of connection between a first component and a second component in which the first component is inserted. The second component includes a connecting display component moving between an initial position which is not exposed to an outside and a connecting display position in which at least one portion thereof is exposed to the outside, an urging device urging the connecting display component to a connecting display position side, and a locking mechanism for locking the connecting display component in the initial position against an urging force of the urging device. The locking mechanism releases a locked state at a time of completion of the connection. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100283267 | SAFETY DEVICE, AND OPENING AND CLOSING MECHANISM - A safety device is used together with a push-push type latch device which latches a movable body to a main body at a fixed position by a push operation against an urging device and which allows the latching to be released by a next push operation. The safety device includes a responding member having a circulation cam groove provided in the main body or movable body and having a reciprocation groove portion and a latch groove portion, and a pin provided in the other of the main body or movable body and tracing the circulation cam groove. The pin irreversibly moves from the reciprocation groove portion of the circulation cam groove to the latch groove portion when the responding member receives a load, and even if the latching of the latch device is released due to the load, the movable body is retained in the fixed position. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100260577 | MOUNTING STRUCTURE - To obtain a mounting structure capable of being applied to mount an object to be mounted by absorbing a central position variation between a pin and a female mounting member in more directions. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100253101 | DAMPER AND DOOR HANDLE WITH THIS DAMPER - In a case that a gap is provided between a circular plate portion | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100237650 | FILLER CAP TETHER - A filler cap tether includes attachment portions on both ends of a string-like member, of which one end-side attachment portion is connected to a filler cap to be removably mounted on an oil feeding port whereas the other end-side attachment portion is connected to the vehicle body-side corresponding portion. The filler cap tether includes a disengagement portion for permitting the filler cap and the vehicle body-side corresponding portion to enter into a disconnected state when a load with a predetermined value or above is applied. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100232903 | CLIP - A clip is fixed on a fixing object by inserting a male part into an insertion ending position of a female part. The female part has a receiving space for the male part and includes a base portion provided with an insertion hole communicating with the receiving space and an inserted portion for a through hole provided in the fixing object. Thus, at least a portion of the inserted portion is deflected or an elastic engaging portion formed in the inserted portion is prevented from being deflected inwardly to thereby be fixed on the fixing object. In the base portion of the female part, a display body which moves forward by inserting the male part into the insertion ending position so as to enable to be visually confirmed at a forward movement ending position, is provided. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100229341 | ASSIST DEVICE FOR MOVABLE BODY - A catcher member is provided to be movable between a standby position and a retracted position, and at the standby position, while being urged by an urging device, the catcher member is positioned in the standby position by a holding device. When a movable body is moved forward a predetermined movement position, a striker member is caught and engaged with the catcher member positioned in the standby position, and subsequently, holding by the holding device is released, and the catcher member is moved or relatively moved up to the retracted position by being urged by the urging device, so that the urging force is applied to the movable body up to position where the movement ends. An operation device is provided so as to be able to operate to move the catcher member which was moved to the retracted position without catching the striker member, toward the standby position. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100224440 | Sound-Absorbing Device and its Mounting Method - The degree of freedom of a sound-absorbing device in terms of size is increased, maintaining easy mounting operation of the sound-absorbing device, even if the sound-absorbing device has a greater length. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100224265 | VALVE DEVICE - A valve device is used by being attached to a fuel tank. The valve device includes a main body portion provided with ventilation openings which become an inner end of a connecting passage with the outside of the fuel tank, a valve body opening and closing the ventilation openings using a liquid surface of a fuel, and a skirt portion extending down from the main body portion so as to surround the valve body, and also constructed so as to admit fuel due to a pressure difference between inside and outside of the fuel tank when the liquid surface of the fuel reaches a cuff portion of the skirt portion. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100223754 | Withdrawing mechanism - A withdrawing mechanism includes a striker disposed on one of a swingable member and a main body, a catcher disposed on the other of the swingable member and the main body to capture the striker moving, and a damper for applying a damping force to a turning operation of the catcher toward the turned position. The catcher is turnable between a standby position and a turned position. The catcher is biased toward the standby position when at a position closer to the standby position than an intermediate position between the standby position and the turned position and biased toward the turned position when at a position closer to the turned position than the intermediate position. The catcher includes a hooking groove for the striker on a surface extending substantially perpendicular to a rotary shaft thereof. The hooking groove faces an introduction port toward the front side in the standby position. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100207414 | CONSOLE BOX - An engagement member ( | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100206802 | WELDED STRUCTURE OF SYNTHETIC RESIN MESH, WOVEN FABRIC, KNITTED FABRIC, AND NON-WOVEN CLOTH; FUEL FILTER BODY; AND WELDING METHOD - Two or more sheets of one or more kinds of thermally weldable synthetic resin mesh, woven fabric, knitted fabric, and non-woven cloth are overlaid, and each of the overlaid sheets is welded together so that a prescribed protuberance of molten resin produced when press-welding along the welded part is formed toward a side of the welded part. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100200079 | VENT CONTROL VALVE FOR A FUEL TANK - In a vent control valve for a fuel tank, a housing receiving a float assembly therein is provided with a communication hole passed across a wall of the housing, and an opening of the communication hole facing an interior of the housing is directly exposed to an interior of the housing when the float assembly is in a low position and overlaps with a peripheral wall of the float assembly when the float assembly is in a high position. By suitably selecting the size of the communication hole and/or the number thereof, a desired delay in the dropping of the liquid fuel level in the housing following the filling up of the fuel tank can be achieved. Thereby, overfilling of the fuel tank can be avoided. As the float assembly drops to such an extent as to clear the communication hole, the fuel vapor is allowed to flow more freely into the interior of the housing via the communication hole, and this causes an increase in the speed of the float to drop. Thereby, the venting of the fuel tank can be resumed at an appropriately earlier stage following the filled up state of the fuel tank. Thus, the closing and opening of the communication with the exterior of the fuel tank can be accomplished even when the vertical dimension of the housing is relatively small. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100199468 | Attachment Structure - In an attachment structure, a vehicle-mounted electronic device is attached to a receiving box using an adjusting member for adjusting a difference between an external dimension of the electronic device and a dimension of a receiving space of the receiving box for receiving the electronic device. The adjusting member has an insertion-coupling device for insertion-coupling the adjusting member and the electronic device, and a first catch-coupling device for catch-coupling the adjusting member and the receiving box. The first catch-coupling device is an appended claw-receiving part that corresponds to a flexible claw on the receiving box, and the direction of insertion-coupling of the insertion-coupling device and the direction of catch-coupling of the first catch-coupling device are different. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100193306 | DAMPER - An inner rotor | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100175957 | Rotary Damper - In a rotary damper capable of being easily assembled by reducing the remaining air inside an accommodation portion and reducing the non-uniformity of damping torque, a center shaft | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100101046 | PIVOTING CONTROL DEVICE FOR PIVOTING BODY - A rotation control device is configured so that a spring force of a torsion coil spring holds an attitude of a rotation body at a pre-advancement position corresponding to a post-return position (a), and a post-advancement position corresponding to a pre-return position (b), respectively. The rotation control device includes a first rotation part supporting one end of the torsion coil spring and supported on a fixed body so as to rotate as the rotation body rotates, and a second rotation part rotatably supported on the fixed body at a first rotation part side and supporting the other end of the torsion coil spring. When the first rotation part rotates, the second rotation part rotates together with the first rotation part. A wound portion of the torsion coil spring is most elastically deformed when the rotation body is at an intermediate position (c) between the position (a) and the position (b). | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100089466 | VALVE DEVICE FOR FUEL TANK - A valve body and a float body are combined by respectively coupling two or more coupling parts provided on one of the valve body and the float body to coupled parts provided on the other of the valve body and the flat body in a state allowing upward and downward movements of the valve body. During descent of the float body, one coupling part of the two or more coupling parts is caught on the coupled parts ahead of the other coupling parts whereby the valve body is tilted, and the other coupling parts restrict the tilting of the valve body. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100077571 | OPERATIONAL MECHANISM FOR MOVABLE BODY - The invention provides an operational mechanism for a movable body in which, after a movable body is in an opened state, the movable body can return to a closed position, including a movable body rotatably attached to a support and rotatable between an engaged position, a closed position, and an open position; a rotating member rotatably attached to the support, that rotates due to movement of the movable body to the engaged position; a biasing member, one end of which is attached to the movable body, and the other end of which is attached to the rotating member; and an operation member, which rotates the rotating member, changes the biasing position of the biasing member with respect to the center of rotation of the movable body, and generates in the biasing member a rotational force that moves the movable body to the closed position or the open position. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100043172 | SELF-PROPELLED FORWARD MOVEMENT MECHANISM FOR A MOVABLE BOBY | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100037525 | SLIDING ASSISTANCE MECHANISM AND PULL-IN UNIT - A sliding assistance mechanism for helping a switching operation of a moving body on a main body side from a first position to a second position, or from the second position to the first position, includes a case | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100031468 | RETRACTING MECHANISM AND FIXING STRUCTURE - A catcher ( | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100005621 | Withdrawing mechanism - A withdrawing mechanism includes a striker disposed on one of a swingable member and a main body, a catcher disposed on the other of the swingable member and the main body, and a damper for applying a damping force to a turning operation of the catcher toward a turned position. The catcher includes a casing, a rotational plate having a hooking groove for catching the striker therein, and a spring attached between an attaching portion of the rotational plate and a fixing portion of the casing to pull and rotate the rotational plate. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20090321494 | Rivet fastening air tool - A rivet fastening air tool for rivets includes a supplying actuator, an implanting actuator, and a switching valve. The supply actuator receives a rivet row, tears off a fragile portion of a front-row rivet, and supplies it in a loaded position. The implanting actuator retains a head portion of the rivet supplied in the loaded position, and moves the rivet in a direction of being pulled out of a communicating bore of the rivet. The switching valve is provided in an air supply route which reaches the supplying actuator. When the head portion of the rivet is moved in the direction of being pulled out, the switching valve is switched by the implanting actuator so that the supplying actuator is returned. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090321347 | FUEL FILTER DEVICE - A filter device includes a bag-shape filter body. The filter device is attached in a manner such that an internal space of the filter body connects through to a fuel intake port in a fuel tank. The filter body includes two or more filter materials overlaying each other. At least one of the filter materials is configured so that a cross sectional area of its fuel passage is different between a primary side and a secondary side of the filter material so as to be a multifunctional filter material having a function of gradually capturing dust having different particle sizes. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090293243 | Buckle - A buckle includes a male member, a female member for engaging with the male member and having a first portion and a second portion, a first engaging portion provided on the first portion, and a second engaging portion provided on the male member for engaging with the first engaging portion. The second portion can bend so as to receive a part of the male member between the first and second portions. The second portion presses the male member toward the first portion to engage the first engaging portion with the second engaging portion when the male member is inserted between the first and second portions. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090266660 | Breakdown Preventive Device of Rotary Damper - In the breakdown preventive mechanism of a rotary damper of the invention, when the upper rotor ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090250579 | Apparatus with a rotating body - An apparatus includes a supporting body, a rotating body assembled with the supporting body and rotating at least between a standard position and a deployed position through an intermediate position, and a biasing device for applying a biasing force to the rotating device in a direction of returning the rotating body to the standard position. A speed switching device changes a rotational speed of the rotating body from the deployed position to the intermediate position different from that from the intermediate position to the standard position in a return rotational movement of the rotating body. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090200825 | Lid Device Opened at Both Sides and Center Console Box - A linkage member | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090188288 | Lock Device - There is provided a lock device which is adapted to hold a lid member | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090162163 | Article Installation Device - An article-attaching device | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090146444 | Configuration for Operating Interior Device and Cup Holder Using the Same - In an operating member ( | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090139991 | Pushing-Up Device - In a push-up device | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090120858 | Fuel filter device - A fuel filter device includes a bag-shape filter body and a space forming member disposed in the filter body. The filter body includes an upper surface part, and a lower surface part welded with the upper surface part at edges to form a bag shape. At least the lower surface part has a woven mesh outer layer part, a first inner layer part situated adjacent to the outer layer part and formed of a melt blown non-woven cloth, and a second inner layer part situated adjacent to the first inner layer part at a side opposite to the outer layer part. The second inner layer part is formed of a spun-bonded non-woven cloth. The upper surface part and the lower surface part are all made of polypropylene that is not soaked and swollen with fuel to thereby maintain a mesh size of the filter body without change. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090116899 | Connector For Fuel Tank - A connector includes an outer melt-bonding projection | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090090587 | Speed Responsive Damper and Impact Absorbing Damper Device - A speed responsive damper ( | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090084915 | FIXING, FIXING STRUCTURE OF FIXING OBJECT, FIXING METHOD FOR FIXING OBJECT, AND METHOD FOR UNFIXING FIXING - When an insertion portion of a clip is inserted into a through hole and passes through the through hole, lug portions revert toward their original shape, and the top faces of the lug portions are contactable with peripheral edge portions of the through hole. An operation lever is inserted into a fixing hole of a body panel in this state, and after passing through the fixing hole, the operation lever | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090084645 | Damper device - A damper device includes a cylinder body and a piston body. At least one of the cylinder body and the piston body is attached to an article subject to damping so that the damping is applied to a movement or a relative movement of the article subject to the damping. The damper device has a run-through hole formed in an inner recess part of the cylinder body facing the piston body, and a stopper body having a shaft part, which is inserted into the run-through hole. A dimension of insertion of the shaft part of the stopper body into the run-through hole changes by a change of pressure caused by a movement of the piston body. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090079215 | Operation device for movable body, and lid device - A moving apparatus forcefully moves a movable body backward up to the position at the end of backward movement after moving it backward to a prescribed position during backward movement, and it has a pair of sliders having first slider and a second slider and an impelling device. In the position before forward movement of the movable body, the second slider is locked against sliding and the first slider is made free to slide by catching a first engaging part, and in the position at the end of forward movement of the movable body, the first slider is locked against sliding by a first slide lock part in a state having released the first engaging part, and the second slider is made free to slide in a state having caught the second engaging part. In the course of operating the movable body to move backward up to a prescribed position, force is accumulated in the impelling device, and when it reaches the prescribed position, the second slider releases the second engaging part and is locked against sliding, and the first slider catches the first engaging part and is made free to slide. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090079205 | Latch device and opening and closing apparatus using same - A push-push type latch device includes a cam member and a pin member provided respectively on a movable body and a main body for coupling and decoupling with the cam member. The latch device locks the movable body in a first position on the main body via a coupling of the pin member and the cam member, and releases the coupling by pushing from the first position and releasing a pushing force to switch to a second position. The cam member includes a divided body including a locking part for coupling with the pin member. When the divided body receives a load above a predetermined value through the pin member in a state when coupled with the pin member, the divided body rotates to release the coupling with the pin member with accompanying movement toward a direction to absorb the load. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090050551 | Filter Device - A filter device includes a first connection part | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090039011 | Fuel-filtering device - A fuel-filtering device includes a filter body having a bag shape and a communication hole, and is formed of a plurality of laminated filter layers bonded at rim portions by welding. The laminated filter layers include an outside filter layer formed of a woven mesh, an inside filter layer formed of a non-woven fabric, and at least one intermediate filter layer disposed between the outside filter layer and the inside filter layer and formed of a non-woven fabric. The inside filter layer has an average aperture diameter larger than that of the intermediate filter layers. The filter body is formed of at least one of a polyethylene fiber and a polypropylene fiber. The inside filter layer protects the intermediate filter layer and enhances a weld strength at the rim portions. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090013501 | Door Handle Device - There is disposed a damper | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090007498 | Weather strip - A weather strip includes a flexible strip main body, and a core embedded in the strip main body. The core includes a core main body having an engaged portion and an engaging leg member to be inserted into and engaged with a mounting hole on a mounting object. The engaging leg member has a first engaging portion for engaging the mounting hole and a second engaging portion for engaging the engaged portion of the core. At least the first engaging portion is not covered by the strip main body. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20080297993 | Electronic device mounting structure - An electronic device mounting structure for fitting an ECU (electronic device) in an open space formed in a device mounting housing and for holding the ECU fitted in the open space by a holding finger formed on the device mounting housing, includes a stopper formed in the device mounting housing so as to be juxtaposed with the holding finger, the stopper being configured to prevent the ECU from falling out of the device mounting housing. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080263819 | Withdrawing mechanism - A withdrawing mechanism includes a catcher | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080253893 | Damper - A damper includes a cylindrical housing, a rotor rotatably disposed in the housing and having a cylindrical shaft portion and a wing portion radially outwardly extending from the shaft portion, a control valve member disposed between the housing and the shaft portion to cover the wing portion, and a viscous fluid filled inside the housing. The wing portion has an asymmetric shape with respect to a rotational direction of the rotor relative to a straight line extending radially from the shaft portion. The wing portion includes a tip side surface, and a back end side surface. The control valve member includes a first inner surface facing a sloping surface parallel thereto, and a second inner surface facing a flat surface parallel thereto. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080209690 | Hose assembly with clamp, and band holder - A band holder holds a clamp band for a hose. The band holder includes an arm for covering an outer peripheral portion of the hose, connecting portions provided at free ends of the arm for connecting the free ends to form a circular shape of the arm, and a holding portion projecting from the arm for holding the clamp band. A fixing device fixes at least the holding portion to the hose. A hose assembly includes the band holder, a flexible hose to be connected to a tubular member, and a clamp band covering an outer surface of the hose for connecting the hose to the tubular member. The clamp band includes a band portion, and a screw unit provided at ends of the band portion for a clamp operation so that the screw unit tightens the band portion. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080202873 | Rotary damper - A rotary damper includes a driven-to-rotate member having integrally a driven-to-rotate part for coupling to a drive member and a first inner cylindrical wall, the first inner cylindrical wall including a locking part at a bottom end of the first inner cylindrical wall; a fixed support member for holding the driven-to-rotate member so as to rotate freely; a receiving part formed between the fixed support member and the driven-to-rotate member; and a seal member for sealing an outer perimeter of the receiving part so that the driven-to-rotate member and the fixed support member are capable of relative rotation. A viscous fluid is provided inside the receiving part for damping relative rotation between the driven-to-rotate member and the fixed support member. | 08-28-2008 |
