Author: claimsbot

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
a housing;
a circuit board section accommodated in the housing, which includes a heat generating component, a heat receiving region thermally connected to the heat generating component, and a heat radiating region having a lower temperature than the heat receiving region while the apparatus is operating; and
a heat transfer member which includes a first end portion attached in the heat receiving region and a second end portion attached in the heat radiating region.
2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuit board section includes a circuit board on which the heat generating component is mounted and which includes both the heat receiving region and the heat radiating region, and
the heat transfer member is provided in the circuit board.
3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuit board section includes a circuit component which generates a smaller calorific value than the heat generating component and which is mounted in the heat radiating region.
4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first end portion of the heat transfer member is attached to a surface on which the heat generating component is mounted.
5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the circuit board includes: (i) a board main body; (ii) a conductor layer which is provided in each of the heat receiving region and the heat radiating region and is exposed outside the circuit board to contact the heat transfer member; (iii) another conductor layer which is provided in the board main body; and (iv) a via hole through which this conductor layer is thermally connected to the conductor layer which is exposed to the outside.
6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuit board section includes: a first circuit board on which the heat generating component is mounted and which includes the heat receiving region; and a second circuit board which includes the heat radiating region, and
the heat transfer member is provided to extend from the first circuit board to the second circuit board.
7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the circuit board section includes a circuit component which generates a smaller calorific value than the heat generating component and which is mounted in the heat radiating region.
8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the first end portion of the heat transfer member is attached to a surface on which the heat generating component is mounted.
9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the circuit board section includes: (i) a board main body; (ii) a conductor layer which is provided in each of the heat receiving region and the heat radiating region and is exposed outside the circuit board section to contact the heat transfer member; (iii) another conductor layer which is provided in the board main body; and (iv) a via hole through which this conductor layer is thermally connected to the conductor layer which is exposed to the outside.
10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuit board section includes a circuit component which generates a smaller calorific value than the heat generating component and which is mounted in the heat radiating region.
11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first end portion of the heat transfer member is attached to a surface on which the heat generating component is mounted.
12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuit board section includes a conductor layer which is provided in each of the heat receiving region and the heat radiating region, said conductor layer being exposed outside the circuit board section, covered with the first or second end portion of the heat transfer member and thermally connected to the heat transfer member.
13. The electronic apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the circuit bard section includes: a board main body; another conductor layer which is provided in the board main body; and a via hole through which this conductor layer is thermally connected to the conductor layer which is exposed to the outside.
14. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said another conductor layer is a ground layer.
15. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuit board section includes a flexible circuit board on which the heat generating component is mounted and which includes at least the heat receiving region, and
at least the first end portion of the heat transfer component is attached to the flexible circuit board.
16. A circuit board unit comprising:
a circuit board section which includes a heat generating component, a heat receiving region thermally connected to the heat generating component, and a heat radiating region having a lower temperature than the heat receiving region while the unit is operating; and
a heat transfer member which includes a first end portion attached in the heat receiving region and a second end portion attached in the heat radiating region.
17. The circuit board unit according to claim 16, wherein the circuit board section includes a circuit board on which the heat generating component is mounted and which includes both the heat receiving region and the heat radiating region, and
the heat transfer member is provided in the circuit board.
18. The circuit board unit according to claim 16, wherein the circuit board section includes: a first circuit board on which the heat generating component is mounted and which includes the heat receiving region; and a second circuit board which includes the heat radiating region, and
the heat transfer member is provided to extend from the first circuit board to the second circuit board.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed is:

1. Spring (4) comprising two branches (41, 42) connected by a bend (40) such that the branches form, in the idle position, an acute angle, said branches being elastically mobile in relation to each other by relative pivoting around the bend until they come into contact with each other so as to be extended relatively in parallel, characterised in that it comprises spring stiffness variation means (43, 44) which produce different stiffnesses depending on whether the spring is compressed or slackened, said variation means producing a low stiffness when the branches are extended relatively in parallel and a greater stiffness when the branches are forced together from the idle position.
2. Spring according to claim 1, wherein the spring stiffness variation means comprise locking means preventing the branches from being returned to a relatively parallel position from the idle position.
3. Spring according to claim 1, wherein the branches (41, 42) are elastically deformable.
4. Spring according to claim 2, wherein the variation means (43) are elastically deformable.
5. Spring according to claim 1, wherein the variation means comprise a tab (43) attached to a so-called first branch (41) and extending between the two branches to the other so-called second branch (42), said tab (43) comprising one free end (431) and one end connected to the first branch, said second branch (42) comprising a stop housing (44) intended to receive the free end (431) of the tab, said free end (431) being locked at a stop in the housing (44) when the two branches are forced against each other, thus preventing the branches from being brought against each other by pivoting around the bend.
6. Spring according to claim 5, wherein the tab (43) extends with its free end (431) oriented approximately towards the bend (40), the free end of the tab being located between the stop housing (44) and the bend (40) when the branches are relatively parallel.
7. Spring according to claim 5, wherein the tab (43) extends with its free end (431) oriented relatively towards the free ends of the branches, the free end (431) of the tab (43) being located between the stop housing (44) and the free ends of the tabs when the branches are relatively parallel.
8. Spring according to claim 5, wherein the first branch (41) forms a window (430) wherein the tab (43) is housed by elastic deformation when the two branches are extended relatively parallel.
9. Spring according to claim 5, wherein the tab (43) extends so that its free end (431) is automatically housed and remains locked in the stop housing (44) of the second branch (42) when the two branches are compressed against each other.
10. Spring according to claim 1, produced by plastic moulding.
11. Fluid product dispenser comprising:
a reservoir (3) containing said fluid product and equipped with at least one actuating wall (10) on which pressure is exerted to reduce the volume of the reservoir,
a dispensing outlet (50) through which the fluid product is dispensed,
characterised in that the reservoir (3) contains a spring (4) according to any of the above claims.
12. Dispenser according to claim 11, wherein a removable sealing component (12) seals the dispensing outlet (50) and thus isolates the reservoir (3) from the outside, the spring (4) being compressed so as to occupy a minimum volume when the sealing component seals the dispensing outlet.
13. Dispenser according to claim 12, wherein the spring (4) is slackened to increase the volume of the reservoir as soon as to sealing component is removed by admitting gas into the reservoir via the dispensing outlet.

What is claimed is:

1. A shock absorber comprising a smaller-diameter tube portion and a larger-diameter tube portion integrally formed by partially reducing or partially enlarging a plastically deformable straight tube, and a step portion that joins the smaller-diameter tube portion and the larger-diameter tube portion, wherein
both a folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion and a folded-back portion of the larger-diameter tube portion, as joining to each other through the step portion, have a circular arc-shaped section with an arcuate angle more than 90 degrees, and
the step portion is formed to have an S-shaped section by joining the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion and the folded-back portion of the larger-diameter tube portion.
2. The shock absorber according to claim 1, wherein
the step portion is formed to have an S-shaped section, in which the radius of the circular arc-shaped section of the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion is made smaller than that of the circular arc-shaped section of the folded-back portion of the larger-diameter tube portion.
3. The shock absorber according to claim 1, wherein
the step portion is formed to have an S-shaped section by joining the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion and the folded-back portion of the larger-diameter tube portion through an annular side surface.
4. A shock absorber comprising a smaller-diameter tube portion and a larger-diameter tube portion integrally formed by partially reducing or partially enlarging a plastically deformable straight tube, and a step portion that joins the smaller-diameter tube portion and the larger-diameter tube portion, wherein
the smaller-diameter tube portion includes a guiding member fixed on its inner surface for retaining or preventing the inclination of the smaller-diameter tube portion when the smaller-diameter tube portion sinks into the larger-diameter tube portion,
the guiding member has a smaller-diameter annular guiding portion having an external diameter equal to the internal diameter of the smaller-diameter tube portion and a larger-diameter annular guiding portion having an external diameter equal to the internal diameter of the larger-diameter tube portion,
the smaller-diameter annular guiding portion is fixed on the inner surface of the smaller-diameter tube portion and protruding across the step portion from the smaller-diameter tube portion into the larger-diameter tube portion, and
the larger-diameter annular guiding portion contacts to the inner surface of the larger-diameter tube portion at a position where the smaller-diameter annular guiding portion crosses the step portion.
5. The shock absorber according to claim 4, wherein
the step portion is formed to have an S-shaped section, in which the radius of the circular arc-shaped section of the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion is made smaller than that of the circular arc-shaped section of the folded-back portion of the larger-diameter tube portion.
6. The shock absorber according to claim 4, wherein
the step portion is formed to have an S-shaped section by joining the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion and the folded-back portion of the larger-diameter tube portion through an annular side surface.
7. The shock absorber according to claim 4, wherein
the guiding member forms the larger-diameter annular guiding portion by partially enlarging the smaller-diameter annular guiding portion protruding from the smaller-diameter tube portion into the larger-diameter tube portion so much as to abut against the inner surface of the larger-diameter tube portion.
8. The shock absorber according to claim 4, wherein
the guiding member forms the larger-diameter annular guiding portion as an annular outward-curled edge portion by expanding the smaller-diameter annular guiding portion protruding from the smaller-diameter tube portion into the larger-diameter tube portion so much as to abut against the inner surface of the larger-diameter tube portion and by folding back the smaller-diameter annular guiding portion toward the smaller-diameter tube portion.
9. The shock absorber according to claim 4, wherein
the guiding member has a tubular ring portion formed in the larger-diameter annular guiding portion and contacting with the inner surface of the larger-diameter tube portion.
10. A shock absorber comprising a smaller-diameter tube portion and a larger-diameter tube portion integrally formed by partially reducing or partially enlarging a plastically deformable straight tube, and a step portion that joins the smaller-diameter tube portion and the larger-diameter tube portion, wherein
the smaller-diameter tube portion includes a guiding portion formed integrally for retaining or preventing the inclination of the smaller-diameter tube portion when the smaller-diameter tube portion sinks into the larger-diameter tube portion, and
the guiding portion is formed by expanding the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion toward the inner surface of the larger-diameter tube portion.
11. The shock absorber according to claim 10, wherein
the step portion is formed to have an S-shaped section, in which the radius of the circular arc-shaped section of the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion is made smaller than that of the circular arc-shaped section of the folded-back portion of the larger-diameter tube portion.
12. The shock absorber according to claim 10, wherein
the step portion is formed to have an S-shaped section by joining the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion and the folded-back portion of the larger-diameter tube portion through an annular side surface.
13. The shock absorber according to claim 10, wherein
the guiding portion is formed by expanding the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion, the folded-back portion is that the step portion is formed to have an S-shaped section, in which the radius of the circular arc-shaped section of the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion is made smaller than that of the circular arc-shaped section of the folded-back portion of the larger-diameter tube portion.
14. The shock absorber according to claim 10, wherein
the guiding portion is formed by expanding the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion, the folded-back portion is that the step portion is formed to have an S-shaped section by joining the folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion and the folded-back portion of the larger-diameter tube portion through an annular side surface.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A radiating enclosure, comprising:
a dielectric housing having first and second detachable housing portion, each of said first and second housing portions having an inner surface and an outer surface, the dielectric housing capable of receiving a transceiver system when mouted in the dielectric housing;
at least one radiating element disposed on the exterior surface of said first housing portion;
a connection device to establish an electrical connection between said at least one radiating element and the transceiver systems; and
ground plane material distributed substantially on the entirety of the interior surface of said first housing portion, said ground plane material to be electrically coupled to the transceiver system.
2. The radiating enclosure of claim 1, wherein said ground plane material is configured to prevent lectromagnetic interference from substantially escaping said dielectric housing.
3. The radiating enclosure of claim 1, wherein said at least one radiating element is formed from a thin sheet of conductive material adhesively applied to the exterior surface of said first housing portion.
4. The radiating enclosure of claim 1, wherein said at least one radiating element is formed on the exterior surface of said first housing portion by an electro-deposition process.
5. The radiating enclosure of claim 1, wherein said at least one radiating element is printed on the exterior surface of said first housing portion.
6. The radiating enclosure of claim 1, further comprising a protective covering over said at least one radiating element.
7. The radiating enclosure of claim 1, wherein said dielectric housing is formed through an injection molding process.
8. The radiating enclosure of claim 1, wherein the dielectric housing is further capable of receiving a plurality of transceiver systems, said ground plane material to be electrically coupled to said plurality of transceiver systems.
9. The radiating enclosure of claim 1, wherein said dielectric housing is essentially in th shape of a rectangular box.
10. The radiating enclosure of claim 1, wherein said at a least one radiating element has an essentially planar shape.
11. The radiating enclosure of claim 1, wherein said at least one radiating element has a curved shape.
12. A radiating enclosure, comprising:
a dielectric housing having first and second detachable housing portions, each of said first and second housing portions having an inner surface and an outer surface, the dielectric housing capable of receiving a plurality of transceiver systems when mounted in the dielectric housing;
a plurality of radiating elements disposed on the exterior surface of said first housing portion;
a plurality of connection devices to establish a plurality of electrical connections between said plurality of radiating elements and the plurality of transceiver systems; and
ground plane material distributed substantially on the entirety of the interior surface of said housing portion, said ground plane material to be electrically coupled to the plurality of transceiver systems.
13. The radiating enclosure of claim 12, wherein said ground plane material is configured to prevent electromagnetic interference from substantially escaping said dielectric housing.
14. The radiating enclosure of claim 12, wherein each of said plurality of radiating elements is formed from a thin sheet of conductive material adhesively applied to the exterior surface of said first housing portion.
15. The radiating enclosure of claim 12, wherein each of said plurality of radiating elements is formed on the exterior surface of said first housing portion by an electro-deposition process.
16. The radiating enclosure of claim 12, wherein each of said plurality of radiating elements is printed on the exterior surface of said first housing portion.
17. The radiating enclosure of claim 12, further comprising a protective covering over said plurality of radiating elements.
18. The radiating enclosure of claim 12, wherein said dielectric housing is formed through an injection molding process.
19. The radiating enclosure of claim 12, wherein said dielectric housing is essentially in the shape of a rectangular box.
20. The radiating enclosure of claim 12, wherein each of said plurality of radiating elements has an essentially planar shape.
21. The radiating enclosure of claim 12, wherein each of said plurality of radiating elements has a curved shape.