An interior finishing web for a motor vehicle or the like comprises three fibrous layers which are put one another, needled together and subjected to a hot-molding to constitute a shaped structure of the web. The three fibrous layers are a first fibrous layer which includes approximately 30 to 90% by weight of polyester fibers and approximately 70 to 10% by weight of polypropylene fibers, a second fibrous layer which includes approximately 10 to 60% by weight of polyester fibers and approximatel...

A sunshade assembly incorporated with a sun roof construction is disclosed, which comprises a shading panel slidable forward and rearward to close and open an opening of a ceiling panel placed below a roof of a vehicle, a holding structure arranged to stably hold the shading panel relative to the ceiling panel when the shading panel assumes a position to close the opening, and a slide shoe connected to the shading panel and having a contact portion which is in contact with an upper surface of th...

A hinge mechanism for joining a lid of a box with a fixed member and allowing the lid to pivot relative to the fixed member includes a rod and a guiding member which guides the movement of the rod. The rod is secured to the lid. The guiding member is secured to the fixed member which is fixed relative to the box. The lid is placed on a substantially horizontal top hem portion of the box and has a lower peripheral edge portion thereof which is in contact with the top hem portion and located near ...

A structure for fixing a carpet on a vehicular floor panel includes an elongate retainer for retaining the carpet on the floor panel, and a covering member for covering a front end portion of the carpet and a front end portion of the retainer. The retainer is detachably fixed to the floor panel and located below the carpet to be concealed by the carpet. The front end portion of the carpet and the front end portion of the retainer are sewn together with the covering member, such that the carpet i...

An optical head device includes a lens holder, a wire support body which supports the lens holder through a plurality of wires, and a plate-like member on which the wire support body is mounted. The plate-like member includes a bottom plate part on which the wire support body is mounted and a rising part raised from the bottom plate part so as to face with a gap to a side face of the wire support body. The wire support body is subjected to surface bonding to the rising part with a first adhesive...

A luggage carpet laid over a luggage room floor of a motor vehicle and rear surface of a seat back of a seat located adjacent to the luggage room. The portions of the carpet located at a region extending substantially along and in the vicinity of a boundary between the seat back and the luggage room floor have respective surface areas disposed in opposition to each other on a same surface of the carpet, said portions being joined together at respective ends in said opposite surface areas to form...

A moveable headrest is equipped with a lower headrest frame shaft fixedly connected to a headrest stay detachably connected to the upper end of the seat back, and a pair of ratchet bases rotatably supported on respective shaft ends of the lower frame shaft. The ratchet bases are coupled with each other at their upper ends through a moveable upper headrest frame. A ratchet-and-pawl mechanism is attached to at least one of the base members for selectively engaging the upper frame with the lower fr...

An objective lens drive device includes a drive mechanism for driving a lens holder at least in a focusing direction and a tracking direction. The drive mechanism includes a drive magnet provided with a magnetized opposing face in which different magnetic poles are disposed to be adjacent to each other via a magnetic pole boundary portion formed in a roughly U-shape. The drive mechanism also includes a tilt drive coil for driving the lens holder in a tilt direction and the tilt drive coil is opp...

An image capturing apparatus which records information, indicating a procedure of resolution conversion processing performed on the image, into image data and outputs the image and the information. The image capturing apparatus, which captures a subject, includes an image pick-up unit which captures an image, a resolution conversion unit which performs resolution conversion processing on the image, and a storing unit which stores the image resolution conversion information, which indicates a pro...

Provided is a novel active oxygen-resisting agent which has an excellent active oxygen resistance and which exhibits a good solubility in an oil solvent. An active oxygen-resisting agent containing as an active ingredient an amino acid derivative represented by the following formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Ar represents a substituted or substituted 2-hydroxyphenyl group or a pyridyl group, said substitution being selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, a C.sub.1-6 alkyl group, a hydro...