Tombow Pencil Co., Ltd. (President, Akihiro Ogawa, head office, Kita-ku, Tokyo) has received an evaluation of the Body knock Mechanical Pencil ” OLNO ” (released in March 2011/315 yen), and will release its advanced model.

The release is ” OLNO Swift/Olno Swift” (trademark) (Swift means “fast”). The color is five colors, jet black, aqua, magenta, lime, light silver. The MSRP is 630 yen (600 yen for the main price). The release date is March 28th.
The annual sales target is 400,000 and 250 million yen (retail price).

The basic feature of this product is ” Body knock function”. This is a mechanism that can knock while holding the pen. There is a joint in the middle of the body axis, and the body axis bends to the “character” when the power is applied by the thumb to this side = photograph right =, a small knock sound that clicks can knock Because it is possible to dimensional worlds without it, it does not disturb writing. There is no limit to the direction to knock, you can knock 360 degrees from all directions. When the power is released, the trunk axis returns straight. (” Body knock ” mechanism appended form)
The rear shaft was equipped with the same knock-button as the normal mechanical pencil and made it a two-way knock.

This product has been devised to further enhance the sense of use of this basic feature.
I adopted metal parts in the tip of the ■ pen, and I was able to write finely, and made it to low center of gravity balance which was difficult to fatigue. It is equipped with a 4-millimeter tip pipe to the destination, and the field of the pen tip is widely bright, and corresponds to a high precision writing and drawing.
The long 64-millimeter grip covering the ■ Knock section is an elastomer (soft resin) with excellent elasticity, has high anti-slip effect, flexibility, and makes it difficult to get tired of long-term writing.
The window where the drive part of the ■ Body knock is seen was installed in the center of the trunk axis.

Specifications Refill of 0.5 mm core/replacement core is removed from the rear axis and put into the pipe/ Plastic Eraser on the crown
(Structure ” Body knock ” mechanism)
▼ The trunk axis, composed of two parts of the forward and rear axes, there is a joint that is substantially movable in the center.
▼ The knock stick which extends from the previous axis is installed in the center of the part of the reverse mortar type inside the rear axis (normal time).
▼ When the joint is bent, the mortar of the rear shaft pushes out the tilt knock Stick and the force (when the Body knock ).
▼ The thrust force is transmitted to the knock mechanism (chuck Ring), and the shin is served.
(When you hold the shin, you push the Nishin when knocking as well as a normal knock mechanism )