Abstract: A damper includes a cylinder that seals a magneto-rheological fluid, a piston slidably disposed in the cylinder, and a piston rod coupled to the piston. The piston includes a piston core, a flux ring, a plate, and a fixing nut. The piston core is mounted on the piston rod. The piston core has an outer periphery on which a coil is disposed. The flux ring forms a flow passage for the magneto-rheological fluid with the piston core. The plate is disposed on an outer periphery of the piston rod, has an outer peripheral surface housed in a one-end of the flux ring, and is bonded on the flux ring by brazing. The fixing nut sandwiches the plate with the piston core.

Abstract: A stator core, a stepper motor and a linear actuator allowing size reduction while maintaining a rotor diameter are provided. A stepper motor 1 comprises a rotor 20 and a stator 30, wherein the stator 30 comprises an A-phase magnetic pole part 33, a B-phase magnetic pole part 34 and a dummy magnetic pole part 38, all of which are disposed to be spaced apart from and opposing the outer circumferential surface of the rotor 20. The dummy magnetic pole part has no winding core part, and the A-phase magnetic pole part 33 and the B-phase magnetic pole part 34, which the stator 30 comprises, are disposed so that the A-phase magnetic pole part 33 and the B-phase magnetic pole part 34 are included within a minimum rectangular area R surrounding the rotor 20 when the stator 30 is viewed from a width direction X, i.e., a direction perpendicular to an axial direction P of the rotor 20.

Abstract: In an on-board communication system, an on-board device transmits detection signals from a plurality of antennas disposed in a vehicle, and a plurality of portable devices each receive the detection signals and transmit response signals corresponding to the received detection signals. Each portable device measures an elapsed time from when the processing start signal is received, and (i) transmits a first response signal that includes information corresponding to the received detection signals, and (ii) when a specified time has elapsed from receipt of the processing start signal, transmits a second response signal including the same information as the information included in the first response signal. Position detection of the portable devices is performed based on the response signals.

Abstract: A cutting insert for threading of the present invention includes two opposing end surfaces and a peripheral side surface extending therebetween. The peripheral side surface has a first side surface portion and a second side surface portion arranged at different positions in a circumferential direction. A cutting edge is formed at an intersecting ridgeline portion between the first end surface and the first side surface portion and at least a portion of this cutting edge has a shape corresponding to a thread groove. The second side surface portion has an inclined portion which enlarges outward from the side of the first end surface toward the side of the second end surface. This inclined portion is configured to engage with a side wall surface of a tool body so as to prevent floating of the cutting insert.

Abstract: In an on-board communication system, an on-board device transmits detection signals from a plurality of antennas provided in a vehicle, and a plurality of portable devices transmits response signals corresponding to the received detection signals. The on-board device performs position detection of the portable devices by receiving the response signals transmitted from the portable devices. Prior to transmission of the detection signals, the antennas transmit a processing start signal. The processing start signal and the detection signals are signals received in common by the plurality of portable devices. Each portable device includes a portable reception unit that receives the detection signals, and a portable transmission unit that, when the portable reception unit has received the detection signals, transmits the response signals, which include information corresponding to the received detection signals.

Abstract: A suspension device includes: a spring provided between an upper member and a lower member; a motor provided in juxtaposition with the spring to generate power in accordance with a speed at which a movable shaft is operated, the movable shaft being movable in accordance with operations of the upper member and the lower member in an expansion-contraction direction of the spring; a power consumption circuit including a variable load circuit, the variable load circuit being configured to generate a damping force in the motor by consuming the power generated in the motor and to change the damping force; and an electronic control unit configured to control the variable load circuit such that consumed power by the variable load circuit is increased along with an increase in a speed of the movable shaft.

Abstract: According to a method of the present invention for controlling display of a menu screen, content is displayed in a content display region located in a central part of a display screen in a size smaller than the display screen, and a plurality of icons are displayed in a circle around the content display region so that the plurality of icons sequentially move to a specific position in accordance with a user's selecting operation while moving around the content display region without overlapping the content display region.

Abstract: A vascular embolization device includes a coil with a primary shape and an stretch resistant wire provided inside the coil, in which the stretch resistant wire is a multilayer strand including at least one core layer and at least one outer layer including one or more resin compositions and a biochemical active material, and the core layer is composed of a material with a tensile break strength higher than that of the outer layer. The vascular embolization device has the function of administering a biochemical active material and also has good flexibility.

Abstract: A vascular embolization device having the function of administering a biochemical active material and also having high flexibility is provided. Specifically, the vascular embolization device includes a coil and a biochemical active material-containing resin wire inserted in the inside of the coil, in which the resin wire is a multilayer strand including a core and at least one outer layer, and the core and the at least one outer layer individually include resin compositions with solubilities different from each other in the same organic solvent.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes particles of a lithium-transition metal composite oxide that contains nickel in the composition thereof and has a layered structure. The particles have an average particle size DSEM based on electron microscopic observation in a range of 1 ?m to 7 ?m in which a ratio D50/DSEM of a 50% particle size D50 in volume-based cumulative particle size distribution to the average particle size based on electron microscopic observation is in a range of 1 to 4, and a ratio D90/D10 of a 90% particle size D90 to a 10% particle size D10 in volume-based cumulative particle size distribution is 4 or less.

Abstract: A nitride compound semiconductor has a substrate and a nitride compound semiconductor stack on the substrate. The nitride compound semiconductor stack includes a multilayer buffer layer, a channel layer on this multilayer buffer layer, and an electron supply layer on this channel layer. A recess extends from the surface of the electron supply layer through the channel layer and the multilayer buffer layer. A heat dissipation layer in this recess is contiguous to the multilayer buffer layer and the channel layer and has a higher thermal conductivity than the multilayer buffer layer.

Abstract: In a nitride semiconductor including a Si substrate and a nitride semiconductor stacked body disposed on the Si substrate, the half value width of an X-ray diffraction rocking curve of the Si substrate is less than 160 arcsec.

Abstract: A method for producing a nitride semiconductor stacked body includes: a first nitride semiconductor layer forming step of forming a first nitride semiconductor layer above a substrate within a reaction furnace; a second nitride semiconductor layer forming step of forming a second nitride semiconductor layer above the first nitride semiconductor layer; and a third nitride semiconductor layer forming step of forming a third nitride semiconductor layer on the upper surface of the second nitride semiconductor layer, the third nitride semiconductor layer having a band gap larger than the band gap of the second nitride semiconductor layer. No interval is provided between the second nitride semiconductor layer forming step and the third nitride semiconductor layer forming step, and the third nitride semiconductor layer forming step is performed continuously after the second nitride semiconductor layer forming step.

Abstract: An inner weather strip including: a main body part including at least an exterior lateral wall and a top wall; a seal lip provided on an outer surface of the exterior lateral wall; and a top wall lip provided on an outer surface of the top wall, wherein at least one longitudinal direction end portion of the inner weather strip is provided with an end surface wall, and wherein the end surface wall has a size equal to or larger than a size of an area surrounded by: the seal lip; the main body part; the top wall lip; and a line connecting a tip end of the seal lip and a tip end of the top wall lip, and has a joining part at which the end surface wall and at least a part of an longitudinal direction end surface of the top wall lip are integrally joined.

Abstract: According to a method of the present invention for controlling display of a menu screen, content is displayed in a content display region located in a central part of a display screen in a size smaller than the display screen, and a plurality of icons are displayed in a circle around the content display region so that the plurality of icons sequentially move to a specific position in accordance with a user's selecting operation while moving around the content display region without overlapping the content display region.

Abstract: A hood device is provided with a frame-shape base member and a hook member. The hook member is provided with a rotation unit, a hooking unit, a first engaging unit which engages with the peripheral wall of the base member when the hooking portion is used, and a second engaging unit which engages with the peripheral wall of the base member when the hooking unit is stored. Both lateral edges of the peripheral wall of the base member are provided with a rotation support unit, a first rotation limiting unit against which the first engaging unit abuts, a second rotation limiting unit against which the second engaging unit abuts, a first holding unit into which the first engaging unit is detachably fitted, and a second holding unit into which the second engaging unit is detachably fitted.

Abstract: Provided is an organ model having a property such that each layer suitably peels off, a property such that sliding or a sense of catching is present besides a sense of elasticity that is felt when a surgical knife cuts the organ model open, and a property such that ligation can be performed without burying of a suture thread, and a property such that a knot of the thread gets caught on the organ model. An organ model being a laminated body in which plural layers each formed of a hydrogel material are laminated, and one or more of the layers is each a fiber group-containing layer in which fiber groups are approximately continuously present inside the layer and over the plane of the layer.

Abstract: According to this GaN-based HFET, resistivity ? of a semi-insulating film forming a gate insulating film is 3.9×109?cm. The value of this resistivity ? is a value derived when the current density is 6.25×10?4 (A/cm2). By inclusion of the gate insulating film by a semi-insulating film having a resistivity ?=3.9×109?cm, a withstand voltage of 1000 V can be obtained. Meanwhile, the withstand voltage abruptly drops as the resistivity of the gate insulating film exceeds 1 ×1011?cm, and the gate leak current increases when the resistivity of the gate insulating film drops below 1 ×107?cm.

Abstract: A nitride compound semiconductor has a substrate and a nitride compound semiconductor stack on the substrate. The nitride compound semiconductor stack includes a multilayer buffer layer, a channel layer on this multilayer buffer layer, and an electron supply layer on this channel layer. A recess extends from the surface of the electron supply layer through the channel layer and the multilayer buffer layer. A heat dissipation layer in this recess is contiguous to the multilayer buffer layer and the channel layer and has a higher thermal conductivity than the multilayer buffer layer.

Abstract: In an on-board communication system, an on-board device transmits detection signals from a plurality of antennas provided in a vehicle, and a plurality of portable devices transmits response signals corresponding to the received detection signals. The on-board device performs position detection of the portable devices by receiving the response signals transmitted from the portable devices. Prior to transmission of the detection signals, the antennas transmit a processing start signal. The processing start signal and the detection signals are signals received in common by the plurality of portable devices. Each portable device includes a portable reception unit that receives the detection signals, and a portable transmission unit that, when the portable reception unit has received the detection signals, transmits the response signals, which include information corresponding to the received detection signals.