Abstract: A bi-fuel engine is equipped with an engine body, a plurality of branched intake pipes, a surge tank, and an air cleaner. Each of the branched intake pipes has a length including a slant portion and a bend. The bend is located on the side of the engine body and connects at an end to the slant portion and at the other end to a downstream end of the branched intake pipe. The slant portion extends from the bend to the upstream end of the branched intake pipe obliquely to a horizontal direction of the engine body so as to define between the surge tank and an upper portion of the engine body a space which is large enough to permit a cylinder head cover to be installed to and uninstalled from the upper portion of the engine body.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a urethane foam rubber is constituted with a polymer having a moiety derived from a diisocyanate, and a moiety derived from a polyether polyol, number of atoms composing the shortest path along a bond intervening two NCO groups in at least a part of the diisocyanate is no less than 11, Mw of the polyether polyol is no less than 1,000 and no greater than 4,000, and the polymer exhibits at least one of the following features (i) to (iii): (i) having moieties derived from two or more types of the polyether polyols that are each different in terms of at least one of a weight average molecular weight and an oxyalkylene unit; (ii) having the moiety derived from the polyether polyol that includes two or more types of oxyalkylene units; and (iii) further having a moiety derived from a tri- or higher multi-functional isocyanate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polarizing lens molded by inserting a polarizing sheet bent into a sphere or an asphere after having an aromatic polycarbonate sheet bonded via an adhesive layer to both surfaces of a film with polarized nature into a mold, and injecting aromatic polycarbonate, wherein heat treatment at a temperature not less than a temperature of 50° C. lower than the glass transition point and less than the glass transition point for an appropriate time has been performed after injecting aromatic polycarbonate to approximate a designed value of the lens curvature.

Abstract: A flange 37b of a cap case 37 is provided with protrusions 37c that, before being swaging, project upward from the flange 37b. When the flange 37b is swaged along an upper surface of the cap 3, the protrusion 37c projects along the upper surface of the cap 3 from the flange 37b toward a center of the cap 3. The cap case 37 is welded to the cap 3 by friction stir welding at a welding portion 37d located at a substantially center of the protrusion 37c. The protrusions 37c are formed approximately in a letter-T shape that is symmetric left and right, and width W2 of a connecting portion 37r in a cap circumferential direction is smaller than the maximum width W1. The rigidity of the connecting portion 37r against deformation is reduced by forming a portion with small width W1 at the connecting portion 37r.

Abstract: A strain sensor provided with a substrate that has flexibility; a carbon nanotube (CNT) film that is provided on the surface of the substrate and that has a plurality of CNT fibers oriented in one direction; and a pair of electrodes that are arranged at both ends in the orientation direction of the CNT fibers in the CNT film; in which the CNT film has a plurality of CNT fiber bundles that consist of the plurality of CNT fibers, and a resin layer that covers the peripheral surface of the plurality of the CNT fiber bundles and joins with the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a data processing apparatus including an application execution unit that transmits job data; a print-request-source notification unit invoked by the application execution unit to report print-request-source information specifying a print request source; a virtual printer driver that is invoked upon receiving the job data, extracts job information specifying print settings from the job data, generates a work space for image conversion, and generates drawing data of a higher image format from the job data in the work space; and a transmission processing unit that is generated as a private instance for the job data, selects a printer driver corresponding to output-destination printer information associated with a client or a user of the client, instructs the selected printer driver to print the drawing data, and displays transmission destination information and/or print information determined for the job data on the print request source.

Abstract: Speed of processing of transferring data stored in a storage apparatus to an external apparatus is increased. A storage apparatus according to the present invention: creates a non-decompression volume set to refer to a compression pool that compresses and stores data; decompresses and provides the data stored in the compression pool to a host computer; and provides the compressed data as is to other external apparatuses via the non-decompression volume.

Abstract: An aspect of the present embodiment, there is provided a method of coating resist, including providing solvent on a substrate to be processed being set to be nearly still, and rotating the substrate to be processed to provide resist solution on the substrate to be processed from a resist supply nozzle in a state that a top edge of the resist supply nozzle is inserted into the solvent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polarizing lens molded by inserting a polarizing sheet bent into a sphere or an asphere after having an aromatic polycarbonate sheet bonded via an adhesive layer to both surfaces of a film with polarized nature into a mold, and injecting aromatic polycarbonate, wherein heat treatment at a temperature not less than a temperature of 50° C. lower than the glass transition point and less than the glass transition point for an appropriate time has been performed after injecting aromatic polycarbonate to approximate a designed value of the lens curvature.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a virtual printer driver unit configured to receive job data of a job from an application executing unit, generate image data based on the job data, and generate print setting data by describing a print setting extracted from the job data; an output condition control unit configured to rewrite the image data and the print setting data generated by the virtual printer driver unit and determine an output destination from which the image data is to be printed out, in accordance with a rule including conditions for selecting the output destination and making a change in output contents of the job; and a transmission unit configured to select a printer driver corresponding to the determined output destination and transmit, to the selected printer driver, a print command relevant to a changed job corresponding to the image data and the print setting data that have been rewritten.

Abstract: It is a task of the present application to provide a butt position detecting method for a weld joint and a butt position detecting device for a weld joint that can detect a position of a butt portion between both members with high accuracy while reducing costs, and a manufacturing a weld joint that carries out the butt position detecting method.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vehicle power transmission device having a case and a ring gear fitted to the outer peripheral surface of the case to transmit drive power from a drive source. The method includes: a welding step in which an annular flange is provided on the case or the ring gear and butt welding is performed by lapping a weld bead along the contact portion of one side surface of the annular flange and the case or the ring gear; a measurement step in which the outline of the other side surface of the annular flange placed in close proximity to the one side surface are measured; and an evaluation step in which a weld condition is evaluated based on part of the outline, which is determined in the measurement step, of a portion corresponding to the lapping portion of the weld bead.

Abstract: A data processing system includes a memory in which a set value based on a compliance requirement is stored for each of plural operating functions provided in an image forming apparatus, and a controller which outputs correspondence data indicating correspondence between the plural operating functions and the set value based on the compliance requirement.

Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery in which a winding type electrode group including a positive electrode having a positive electrode mix layer containing a lithium metal oxide, a negative electrode having a negative mix layer that stores and discharges lithium ions, and separators arranged on inner and outer peripheries of the positive electrode and the negative electrode is housed, and a nonaqueous electrolyte is poured, within a battery container, the positive electrode has one side edge along a longitudinal direction thereof exposed as a positive electrode mix unprocessed portion, and a positive electrode mix layer coated in the other area on both surfaces of a metal foil made of an aluminum alloy.

Abstract: Disclosed is a data processing apparatus including an application execution unit that transmits job data; a print-request-source notification unit invoked by the application execution unit to report print-request-source information specifying a print request source; a virtual printer driver that is invoked upon receiving the job data, extracts job information specifying print settings from the job data, generates a work space for image conversion, and generates drawing data of a higher image format from the job data in the work space; and a transmission processing unit that is generated as a private instance for the job data, selects a printer driver corresponding to output-destination printer information associated with a client or a user of the client, instructs the selected printer driver to print the drawing data, and displays transmission destination information and/or print information determined for the job data on the print request source.

Abstract: An apparatus for depositing a ta-C thin film for a magnetic recording medium includes a film deposition chamber; a plasma beam formation portion for supplying a plasma beam to the film deposition chamber to form the ta-C thin film on a substrate with a magnetic recording layer thereon; a substrate holder rotatably arranged in the film deposition chamber; a tilting member for continuously changing an inclination angle of the plasma beam to a surface of the magnetic recording layer; and a rotating member for rotating the substrate about a rotation axis of the substrate holder. A control member rotates the substrate holder with the substrate thereon and operates the tilting member to continuously change the inclination angle from a minimum inclination angle to a maximum inclination angle according to an increase in film thickness of the ta-C thin film being formed by the plasma beam formation portion.

Abstract: Speed of processing of transferring data stored in a storage apparatus to an external apparatus is increased. A storage apparatus according to the present invention: creates a non-decompression volume set to refer to a compression pool that compresses and stores data; decompresses and provides the data stored in the compression pool to a host computer; and provides the compressed data as is to other external apparatuses via the non-decompression volume.

Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery is disclosed in which an electrode assembly is accommodated in a battery container, the electrode assembly including a positive electrode having a positive electrode mixture layer containing a lithium transition metal composite oxide, a negative electrode having a negative electrode mixture layer for occluding/releasing lithium ions, and a separator disposed to inner and outer peripheries of the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The lithium ion secondary battery being charged with a non-aqueous electrolyte containing a lithium salt, wherein the relation shown by the following formula (I) is satisfied: 0.57<b×c/a<0.60??(I) assuming the area of the positive electrode mixture layer as a, the area of the separator as b, and the porosity of the separator as c.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes: plural trays; a reading section configured to convert an image formed on a sheet into image data and cause a storing section to store the image data; an erasing section configured to erase the image formed on the sheet; and a control section configured to acquire the image data from the storing section, determine, using the image data, whether a trace of a staple is present on the sheet, and convey the sheet, from which the image is erased by the erasing section, to any one of the plural trays such that a conveying destination is different according to a determination result.

Abstract: Disclosed is a data processing apparatus including an application execution unit that transmits job data; a print-request-source notification unit invoked by the application execution unit to report print-request-source information specifying a print request source; a virtual printer driver that is invoked upon receiving the job data, extracts job information specifying print settings from the job data, generates a work space for image conversion, and generates drawing data of a higher image format from the job data in the work space; and a transmission processing unit that is generated as a private instance for the job data, selects a printer driver corresponding to output-destination printer information associated with a client or a user of the client, instructs the selected printer driver to print the drawing data, and displays transmission destination information and/or print information determined for the job data on the print request source.