The light emitting surface of an image display light box is formed of multi-layer optical film having a reflectance greater than 95% and preferably about 99% or greater. This more efficiently utilizes light rays emitted by the light box's internal light source, since the multi-layer optical film reflects the light rays many times before the rays are absorbed and lost. Consequently, the light emitting surface can have a light transmissivity characteristic which is macroscopically invariant as a f...

A hydraulic torque converter is disclosed with a wide passage area and specially selected parameters of the blading of the individual converter wheels which increases considerably the efficiency and power capacity of said converter.

To minimize the width of a seat reclining device provided with a Taumel mechanism (planetary gear type angle adjusting mechanism), a motor unit is disposed on an inside surface of a base frame and within a seat cushion, and a motor output gear is disposed on an opposite outside surface of the base frame. Further, an outer gear of Taumel mechanism is formed in the base frame; an inner gear of the Taumel mechanism is formed in a reclining arm in mesh with the outer gear; and the reclining arm is d...

A power linear seat recliner apparatus for controllably adjusting the angular position of a seat back relative to a seat cushion. The apparatus comprising a master recliner mechanism having an integrally mounted motor, a slave recliner mechanism and an actuator cable connecting the slave and master recliner mechanisms for transmitting torque from the motor to the slave recliner mechanism. The motor simultaneously drives each of the recliner mechanisms. The master and slave recliner mechanisms ha...

A light scattering and guiding light source device which is capable of providing a uniform illumination light, simple structure and low cost. A wedge-shaped light scattering guide has an incident surface for introducing light rays from a fluorescent lamp. The directions of the rays are changed by scattering. The rays propagate through the body while reflected repeatedly. Parts of the rays go outwards at plural reflective points. The angle of reflection increases successively, thus increasing the...

A hydrokinetic converter has an elongated, tubular-shaped reactor mounting shaft and an elongated central shaft coaxially mounted in the reactor shaft that has at least one exposed end extending out from a first end of the reactor shaft. A mounting structure is rigidly affixed to the opposite end of the reactor shaft from the first end and has mounting means for mounting the reactor shaft and the hydrokinetic converter to another member. A hydrokinetic bladed reactor is mounted at the first end ...

A fluid torque converter using a stator assembly adapted to be formed by a die assembly essentially consisting of two halves that can be separated apart in an axial direction when removing a formed stator assembly, a part of an inner circumferential surface of the core ring adjacent to a pressure surface of each of the stator blades is provided with a bulge. Owing to the bulges provided in the inner circumferential surface of the core ring adjacent to the pressure surfaces of the stator blades, ...

The present invention relates to a thrust force reduction device for torque converter comprising a pump rotor, a turbine rotor connected to a turbine shaft and disposed opposed to the pump rotor and at least one stator rotor and a fixed cylindrical shaft fitted to a boss of the pump rotor; characterized by that a seal element is fixed to the turbine shaft and produces a thrust reactional force so as to cancel a thrust force which occurs in the torque converter; the seal element facing a fluid ch...

Light-transparent lens structures typically formed of conventional synthetic acrylic resins and intended for use as lenses in a lensed fluorescent troffer or similar lighting fixture, the lens structures of the invention are characterized by repeating patterns of conical or pyramidal depressions formed in the lens with upper portions or apices thereof being inverted. The lens structures of the invention preserve the angular relationships of lens material to air interfaces of conventional conical...

The invention relates to a lighting unit having a concave reflector with an axis of symmetry and a light emission window bounded by a circumferential edge transverse to the axis, an elongate light source extending substantially along the axis of symmetry, which light source is accommodated in a holder opposite the light emission window, and an axially positioned cap, which cap partly surrounds the light source and forms an optical means to intercept unreflected light rays. According to the inven...