Abstract: An adhesive composition contains an acid anhydride group-containing oil or fat (A) and a curing agent (B) having a reactive group reactive with an acid anhydride group. A laminate is obtained by placing an adhesive layer between a first substrate and a second substrate, and the adhesive layer includes the aforementioned adhesive composition. A package is obtained by forming a bag from a laminate obtained by placing an adhesive layer between a first substrate and a second substrate, and the adhesive layer includes the aforementioned adhesive composition.

Abstract: An adhesive composition contains an acid anhydride group-containing oil or fat (A) and a curing agent (B) having a reactive group reactive with an acid anhydride group. A laminate is obtained by placing an adhesive layer between a first substrate and a second substrate, and the adhesive layer includes the aforementioned adhesive composition. A package is obtained by forming a bag from a laminate obtained by placing an adhesive layer between a first substrate and a second substrate, and the adhesive layer includes the aforementioned adhesive composition.

Abstract: An oxygen concentrating apparatus 10 for generating oxygen enriched gas by adsorbing and separating nitrogen gas from air, comprises; an oxygen concentrator 40 having an adsorption cylinder filled with adsorbent for adsorbing nitrogen gas, also having an air inlet port 44, an oxygen outlet port 50 and a nitrogen gas outlet port 46; a compressor 30 for supplying compressed air from the air inlet port 44; a sound insulation box 20, which surrounds the compressor 30, for reducing noise generated from the compressor 30, ribs 20a being formed on a side wall of the sound insulation box 20; a cooling fan 36 for introducing air into the sound insulation box 20 so as to cool the compressor 30 by the introduced air; a housing 12 surrounding the oxygen concentrator 40 and the sound insulation box 20; and an exhaust duct 60 arranged in the housing 12, for guiding the exhaust discharged from the cooling fan 36 to the outside of the housing 12.

Abstract: An oxygen concentrating apparatus 10 for generating oxygen enriched gas by adsorbing and separating nitrogen gas from air, comprises; an oxygen concentrator 40 having an adsorption cylinder filled with adsorbent for adsorbing nitrogen gas, also having an air inlet port 44, an oxygen outlet port 50 and a nitrogen gas outlet port 46; a compressor 30 for supplying compressed air from the air inlet port 44; a sound insulation box 20, which surrounds the compressor 30, for reducing noise generated from the compressor 30, ribs 20a being formed on a side wall of the sound insulation box 20; a cooling fan 36 for introducing air into the sound insulation box 20 so as to cool the compressor 30 by the introduced air; a housing 12 surrounding the oxygen concentrator 40 and the sound insulation box 20; and an exhaust duct 60 arranged in the housing 12, for guiding the exhaust discharged from the cooling fan 36 to the outside of the housing 12.

Abstract: A powder coating is provided which does not require a long complicated production process, can be produced easily and with no danger of gelling occurring during production, and which forms a paint film with superior smoothness and with no film defects such as bubbles or pinholes. A powder coating raw materials solution comprising as essential constituents a room temperature solid main constituent resin (A) with a curable reactive group, a room temperature solid curing agent (B) which reacts with the curable reactive group of the main constituent resin (A), and an organic solvent (C), is spray dried at a temperature at which the main constituent resin (A) and the curing agent (B) undergo no substantial curing reaction.

Abstract: A torque converter defines an ellipticity lower than or equal to 0.23 which is an outermost length of the torque converter in an axial direction, divided by an outermost diameter of the torque converter in a radial direction. The torque converter includes: a pump impeller connecting to an input shaft; a turbine runner opposed to the pump impeller and connecting to an output shaft; and a stator disposed between an inlet of the pump impeller and an outlet of the turbine runner, by way of a one way clutch which allows a one way rotation. The torque converter transmits a power by circulating a fluid through the pump impeller, the turbine runner and the stator. A first area ratio A is: 0.23?A?0.45, A second area ratio B is: 0.23?B?0.45, and A third area ratio C is: 0.15?C<0.23.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a cylinder for containing a pressurized therapeutic oxygen gas, a nasal cannula, adapted to be introduced into a nasal passage of a patient, and a conduit extending between the cylinder and the nasal cannula for directing the therapeutic oxygen gas to the nasal cannula from the cylinder. A pressure sensor is provided on the conduit for detecting the pressure in the conduit. A valve is provided, in the conduit, which allows and blocks the fluid communication between the cylinder and the nasal cannula. A controller controls the operation of the valve in synchronization with the respiration of a patient, based on the changes in the pressure detected by the pressure sensor. The volume of the oxygen therapeutic gas passing through the valve for each respiration is increased, compared with a normal respiration condition, when the respiratory frequency increases.

Abstract: The present invention provides a powder coating composition, which can ensure excellent smoothness, scratch resistance, water resistance and humidity resistance, when formed into a thin film, and a coating film forming method. The powder coating composition contains an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (A) having a glass transition temperature of 40° C. or higher and a number-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 2,500, an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (B) having a glass transition temperature of 0° C. or lower, and a polycarboxylic acid (C). 30 to 90% by weight of a polymerization unit of the epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (B) originates in a methacrylic acid alkyl ester (b-1) which has an alkyl group having 8 or more carbon atoms.

Abstract: In a torque converter comprised of three major rotating elements, namely a pump impeller formed integral with a converter cover, a turbine runner to which a driving power is transmitted through a working fluid from the pump impeller, and a stator disposed between the pump impeller and the turbine runner, the stator is supported on a transmission case via a one-way clutch and has a plurality of stator blades. In order to balance the enhanced vehicle's startability and improved fuel economy at idle, the ratio W/D of a stator-blade axial length W to a torque-converter nominal diameter D is set to satisfy a predetermined inequality 0.030?W/D?0.052.

Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas to a respiratory air way of a patient. The respiratory gas supplying apparatus 10 includes a cylinder 12 filled with a respiratory gas, a cart 14 having an accommodating portion for disposing the cylinder 12, a shut-off valve 18 attached to the cylinder 12, a flow regulating valve 40 attached to the shut-off valve 18, a conduit 22, attached to the flow regulating valve 40, for directing the respiratory gas to the inlet of the respiratory airway of the patient, a coupler 16, integrally connected to the flow regulator 40, for coupling the flow regulating valve 40 to the shut-off is valve 18, and a linkage 110 for disengaging the coupler 16 from the shut-off valve IS when the cylinder 12 is detached from the cart 14.

Abstract: In a torque converter comprised of three major rotating elements, namely a pump impeller, a turbine runner to which a driving power is transmitted through a working fluid from the pump impeller, and a stator disposed between the pump impeller and the turbine runner, a flattening ratio L/D of a sum L of an pump-impeller axial length and a turbine-runner axial length to a torque-converter nominal diameter D is set to be less than or equal to 0.21. In order to balance contradictory requirements, namely reduced curvature loss, i.e., enhanced converter efficiency, proper rate-of-change in working-fluid flow passage area, and proper breakaway of working fluid from each turbine blade, a ratio r/R of a radius of curvature r of a turbine-core outer peripheral curved surface to a radius of curvature R of a turbine-shell outer peripheral curved surface being set to satisfy a predetermined inequality 0.3≦r/R≦0.5.

Abstract: A thermosetting powder coating composition has an average particle diameter of entire particles is within a range from 5 to 50 &mgr;m, an average circularity of the particles is 0.90 or more, and a circularity of particles having a maximum number frequency in circularity distribution is within a range from 0.98 to 1.00, prepared by spray-drying an organic solvent solution containing, as a coating film forming component, an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (A) having a glass transition temperature of 40° C. or higher, an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (B) having a glass transition temperature of 0° C. or lower and a polycarboxylic acid (C) as an essential component.

Abstract: The present invention provides a powder coating composition, which can ensure excellent smoothness, scratch resistance, water resistance and humidity resistance, when formed into a thin film, and a coating film forming method. The powder coating composition contains an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (A) having a glass transition temperature of 40° C. or higher and a number-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 2,500, an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (B) having a glass transition temperature of 0° C. or lower, and a polycarboxylic acid (C). 30 to 90% by weight of a polymerization unit of the epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (B) originates in a methacrylic acid alkyl ester (b-1) which has an alkyl group having 8 or more carbon atoms.

Abstract: A torque converter defines an ellipticity lower than or equal to 0.23 which is an outermost length of the torque converter in an axial direction, divided by an outermost diameter of the torque converter in a radial direction. The torque converter includes: a pump impeller connecting to an input shaft; a turbine runner opposed to the pump impeller and connecting to an output shaft; and a stator disposed between an inlet of the pump impeller and an outlet of the turbine runner, by way of a one way clutch which allows a one way rotation. The torque converter transmits a power by circulating a fluid through the pump impeller, the turbine runner and the stator. A first area ratio A is: 0.23≦A≦0.45, A second area ratio B is: 0.23≦B≦0.45, and A third area ratio C is: 0.15≦C≦0.23.

Abstract: A powder coating is provided which does not require a long complicated production process, can be produced easily and with no danger of gelling occurring during production, and which forms a paint film with superior smoothness and with no film defects such as bubbles or pinholes. A powder coating raw materials solution comprising as essential constituents a room temperature solid main constituent resin (A) with a curable reactive group, a room temperature solid curing agent (B) which reacts with the curable reactive group of the main constituent resin (A), and an organic solvent (C), is spray dried at a temperature at which the main constituent resin (A) and the curing agent (B) undergo no substantial curing reaction.

Abstract: In a torque converter comprised of three major rotating elements, namely a pump impeller, a turbine runner to which a driving power is transmitted through a working fluid from the pump impeller, and a stator disposed between the pump impeller and the turbine runner, a flattening ratio L/D of a sum L of an pump-impeller axial length and a turbine-runner axial length to a torque-converter nominal diameter D is set to be less than or equal to 0.21. In order to balance contradictory requirements, namely reduced curvature loss, i.e., enhanced converter efficiency, proper rate-of-change in working-fluid flow passage area, and proper breakaway of working fluid from each turbine blade, a ratio r/R of a radius of curvature r of a turbine-core outer peripheral curved surface to a radius of curvature R of a turbine-shell outer peripheral curved surface being set to satisfy a predetermined inequality 0.3≦r/R≦0.5.

Abstract: In a torque converter comprised of three major rotating elements, namely a pump impeller formed integral with a converter cover, a turbine runner to which a driving power is transmitted through a working fluid from the pump impeller, and a stator disposed between the pump impeller and the turbine runner, the stator is supported on a transmission case via a one-way clutch and has a plurality of stator blades. In order to balance the enhanced vehicle's startability and improved fuel economy at idle, the ratio W/D of a stator-blade axial length W to a torque-converter nominal diameter D is set to satisfy a predetermined inequality 0.030≦W/D≦0.052.

Abstract: A thermosetting powder coating composition has an average particle diameter of entire particles is within a range from 5 to 50 &mgr;m, an average circularity of the particles is 0.90 or more, and a circularity of particles having a maximum number frequency in circularity distribution is within a range from 0.98 to 1.00, prepared by spray-drying an organic solvent solution containing, as a coating film forming component, an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (A) having a glass transition temperature of 40° C. or higher, an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (B) having a glass transition temperature of 0° C. or lower and a polycarboxylic acid (C) as an essential component.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a powder coating is provided which does not require a long complicated process, which enables the paint to be manufactured easily and with good conservation of energy, and moreover is free of any danger of gelling during the manufacturing process. The powder coating is manufactured by spray drying a powder coating raw materials solution comprising, as essential constituents, an epoxy group containing acrylic resin (A), a polyvalent carboxylic acid (B), and an organic solvent (C) incorporating an alcohol (C-1) of 2 to 4 carbon atoms, at a temperature at which the epoxy group containing acrylic resin (A) and the polyvalent carboxylic acid (B) undergo no substantial curing reaction.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a cylinder for containing a pressurized therapeutic oxygen gas, a nasal cannula, adapted to be introduced into a nasal passage of a patient, and a conduit extending between the cylinder and the nasal cannula for directing the therapeutic oxygen gas to the nasal cannula from the cylinder. A pressure sensor is provided on the conduit for detecting the pressure in the conduit. A valve is provided, in the conduit, which allows and blocks the fluid communication between the cylinder and the nasal cannula. A controller controls the operation of the valve in synchronization with the respiration of a patient, based on the changes in the pressure detected by the pressure sensor. The volume of the oxygen therapeutic gas passing through the valve for each respiration is increased, compared with a normal respiration condition, when the respiratory frequency increases.