Impact detecting apparatus and package device
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorMoku Naruishi
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Abstract
An impact detecting apparatus that is configured to be attached to an object and includes a drop-impact display unit configured to display a direction of drop impact when the object is dropped; and a tilt display unit configured to display a direction of tilting when the object is tilted. The drop-impact display unit and the tilt display unit displays the direction of drop impact and the direction of tilting at the same time.
Claims18
An impact detecting apparatus configured to be attached to an object, the impact detecting apparatus comprising:
- a drop-impact display unit configured to display a direction of drop impact when the object is dropped;
- a tilt display unit configured to display a direction of tilting when the object is tilted, wherein
- the drop-impact display unit and the tilt display unit displays the direction of drop-impact and the direction of tilting at the same time;
- and
- a weight configured to move when the object is subjected to at least one of the drop-impact and the tilting;
- at least one predefined path configured to guide the weight along the at least one predefined path, wherein movement of the weight along the at least one predefined path is used to indicate a direction of the at least one of the drop-impact and the tilting,
- wherein, the at least one predefined path includes a vertical path along which the weight drops to indicate the direction of the drop impact;
- and
- the at least one predefined path includes a tilt direction path along which the weight rolls to indicate the direction of the tilting.
An Impact detecting apparatus configured to be attached to an object, the impact detecting apparatus comprising:
- a drop-impact display unit configured to display a direction of drop impact when the object is dropped;
- a tilt display unit configured to display a direction of tilting when the object is tilted;
- at least one weight configured to move when the object is subjected to at least one of the drop impact and the tilting or both;
- a vertical path configured to release at least one of the weights placed on a normal position to guide at least one of the weights to an impact detection position below the normal position when the object is subjected to the drop impact;
- and
- tilt direction paths arranged across the normal position and on which at least one of the weights moves when the object is subjected to tilting, wherein
- the drop-impact display unit displays a sign of occurrence of the drop impact when at least one of the weights moves along the vertical path, and
- the tilt display unit displays a sign of occurrence of the tilting when at least one of the weights moves along the tilt direction paths.
An impact detecting apparatus configured to be attached to an object, the impact detecting apparatus comprising:
- a drop-impact display unit configured to display a direction of drop impact when the object is dropped;
- a tilt display unit configured to display a direction of tilting when the object is tiled;
- at least one weight configured to be placed in a case, configured to move by inertial force thereof along a moving direction opposite to a direction of an impact applied to the case, and has a circular profile;
- and two first holding members arranged in the case on both sides of a transfer path, the transfer path being arranged along the moving direction, each of the first holding members being made of plate-shaped elastic material, extending for a predetermined length from corresponding one of first supporting members arranged on corresponding one of the both sides of the transfer path, inclined downward from corresponding one of the first supporting members, and arranged such that an end of one of the first holding members at a predetermined interval across the transfer path so that the first holding members as a pair can support at least one of the weights at the ends thereof and release at least one of the weights in the moving direction of at least one of the weights when the case receives an impact of a predetermined level or higher in an impact application direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.