Abstract: An inspection device includes: an inspection coil disposed between a first feeder line and a second feeder line; and a cover formed to cover a core. The cover includes: a coil cover portion covering the inspection coil; and a projection portion formed to project to both sides at least in a specific radial direction with respect to the coil cover portion. The dimension in the specific radial direction of the coil cover portion is smaller than the design interval between the first feeder line and the second feeder line, and the dimension in the specific radial direction of the projection portion is larger than the design interval.

Abstract: A synchronization system includes a master unit and a slave unit. The slave unit is connected to the master unit directly, or indirectly via another slave unit, and is connected to at least one power supply device. The master unit transmits, to master downstream equipment, a first adjusted signal advanced in phase relative to a reference phase by a time corresponding to a time required to transmit a synchronization signal from the master unit to the master downstream equipment. The slave unit transmits, to slave downstream equipment, a second adjusted signal advanced in phase relative to a phase of the synchronization signal received from slave upstream equipment by a time corresponding to a sum of a time required to transmit the synchronization signal from the slave unit to the slave downstream equipment, and a processing time of the synchronization signal inside the slave unit.

Abstract: A control unit for an autonomous functioning apparatus that has a sensor, an external image-capturing camera and an actuator, and is manipulable by a remote manipulation device. The control unit is connected to a remote communication device that is connected to a cooperative control unit for controlling a cooperative functioning apparatus. The remote manipulation device is positioned outside the autonomous functioning apparatus and the cooperative functioning apparatus. The control unit includes an external image connector for receiving external image data, a functioning control connector for outputting a functioning control signal for controlling functioning of the actuator, an external communication connector for exchanging data with the remote communication device, and a functioning control device for outputting monitor image data to the remote manipulation device, based on a signal outputted from the remote manipulation device, the cooperative control unit, or the sensor.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a main body, a transmission having a plurality of gear stages, a data storage, and an electronic controller. The data storage stores vehicle running condition data that includes at least one of a prescribed vehicle running condition, a sensed vehicle running condition, or a transmitted vehicle running condition. The electronic controller determines a gear shift of the gear stages of the transmission based on a future vehicle speed that has been estimated based on the vehicle running condition data.

Abstract: An example system includes a vehicle, a robot, and a controller. The vehicle may include an accelerator operator and a steering operator. The robot may include as accelerator actuator configured to operate the accelerator operator, and a steering actuator configured to operate-the steering operator. The controller is configured to: in response to an accelerator command, send a first signal to the accelerator actuator to operate the accelerator operator of the vehicle, and in response to a steering command, send a second, signal to the steering actuator to steer the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a main body, a transmission having a plurality of gear stages, a data storage, and an electronic controller. The data storage stores vehicle running condition data that includes at least one of a prescribed vehicle running condition, a sensed vehicle running condition, or a transmitted vehicle running condition. The electronic controller determines a gear shift of the gear stages of the transmission based on a future vehicle speed that has been estimated based on the vehicle running condition data.

Abstract: An example system includes a vehicle, a robot, and a controller. The vehicle may include an accelerator operator and a steering operator. The robot may include as accelerator actuator configured to operate the accelerator operator, and a steering actuator configured to operate-the steering operator. The controller is configured to: in response to an accelerator command, send a first signal to the accelerator actuator to operate the accelerator operator of the vehicle, and in response to a steering command, send a second, signal to the steering actuator to steer the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vibration-absorbing rubber composition that is characterized by containing: a rubber component which contains natural rubber or a mixture of natural rubber and a diene-based synthetic rubber as a primary component; bismaleimide; and a metal salt of a dithiocarbamic acid having a benzene ring. According to this vibration-absorbing rubber composition, it is possible to improve changes in static spring and improve permanent compression set while maintaining inherent characteristics such as low dynamic magnification and strength characteristics (hardness, tensile elongation, tensile strength and the like), and this vibration-absorbing rubber composition is useful as a vibration-absorbing member which requires extreme heat resistance, such as an engine mount.

Abstract: Provided is a rubber composition for producing an anti-vibration rubber which is good in both damping properties and durability. An anti-vibration rubber composition including: a rubber component including a natural rubber, and antioxidants, wherein the composition includes a compound having a carbon-carbon double bond at a terminal and a carbonyl group at an ? position thereof and an imidazole antioxidant as the antioxidants.

Abstract: The invention provides an ink composition for ink jet recording of the active energy beam curing type that comprises 30 to 80% by mass of a monofunctional acrylate having a monoalicyclic structure, 1 to 10% by mass of an urethane acrylate oligomer and 5 to 30% by mass of N-vinylcaprolactam together with a polymerization initiator and a coloring agent, and has a viscosity at 40° C. of 5 to 20 mPa·s and a surface tension of 20 to 50 mN/m. The ink composition exhibits good ejection capability and curability, is less smelling and of great safety, and has good adhesion to a variety of substrate materials.

Abstract: A turbine nozzle segment, a turbine nozzle, a turbine, and a gas turbine engine. The turbine nozzle segment is provided with an outer band 39 of an arc shape, an inner band 41 of an arc shape, a thick stator vane 43 in which an insertion hole 49 to which a probe 47 is insertable from a side of the outer band 39 is formed and on the pressure surface 43b of which an inlet hole 51 communicating with the insertion hole 49 is formed, and a thin stator vane 45 having a suction surface 45a having an identical shape to a suction surface 43a of the thick stator vane 43 and a smooth pressure surface 45b approximating to a pressure surface 43b of the thick stator vane 43 configured to be thinner than the thick stator vane.

Abstract: An easily producible turbine nozzle for a gas turbine engine is provided, which is capable of preventing flutter of the turbine nozzle during operation of the gas turbine engine. The turbine nozzle comprises airfoils stacked along the stacking axis. The high curvature portions on suction surface in airfoil section successively formed along the stacking axis of the airfoil describe a parabola line that curves toward the pressure side of the airfoil when seen from the front or rear of the turbine nozzle. The high curvature portions on suction surface in airfoil section curve most at the center along the stacking axis of the airfoil from a straight line that connects with a first intersection between the parabola line and an inner band in the turbine nozzle and with a second intersection between the parabola line and an outer band in the turbine nozzle. The maximum curvature falls within a range from 0.02 to 0.03-fold of the stacking axis of the airfoil.

Abstract: A front engagement face 27f of a front engagement member 27 and a rear engagement face 29f of a rear engagement member 29 are respectively configured to be located a little back from a virtual plane VF coplanar with one side of a platform 15 and also to be substantially parallel to the axial direction of a male dovetail 25, and an end face of a front wall Wf integrally molded in the vicinity of a base portion of a front seal fin 21 and an end face of a rear wall Wr integrally molded in the vicinity of a base portion of a rear seal fin 23 are respectively configured to be coplanar with the virtual plane Vf.

Abstract: A turbine nozzle segment 1 of a turbine nozzle assembly comprises a plurality of stator vanes 7, an arc-like inner band 9 integrally molded at the inner end of a plurality of the stator vanes 7, an arc-like outer band 11 integrally molded at the outer end of a plurality of the stator vanes 7. An outer band 11 includes an outer platform 19, a forward outer leg 21, a aft outer leg 23 and a hook member 29 formed at the back end and also in the central portion in the circumferential direction of the outer platform 19.

Abstract: An easily producible turbine nozzle for a gas turbine engine is provided, which is capable of preventing flutter of the turbine nozzle during operation of the gas turbine engine. The turbine nozzle comprises airfoils stacked along the stacking axis. The high curvature portions on suction surface in airfoil section successively formed along the stacking axis of the airfoil describe a parabola line that curves toward the pressure side of the airfoil when seen from the front or rear of the turbine nozzle. The high curvature portions on suction surface in airfoil section curve most at the center along the stacking axis of the airfoil from a straight line that connects with a first intersection between the parabola line and an inner band in the turbine nozzle and with a second intersection between the parabola line and an outer band in the turbine nozzle. The maximum curvature falls within a range from 0.02 to 0.03-fold of the stacking axis of the airfoil.

Abstract: A front engagement face 27f of a front engagement member 27 and a rear engagement face 29f of a rear engagement member 29 are respectively configured to be located a little back from a virtual plane VF coplanar with one side of a platform 15 and also to be substantially parallel to the axial direction of a male dovetail 25, and an end face of a front wall Wf integrally molded in the vicinity of a base portion of a front seal fin 21 and an end face of a rear wall Wr integrally molded in the vicinity of a base portion of a rear seal fin 23 are respectively configured to be coplanar with the virtual plane Vf.

Abstract: A turbine nozzle segment 1 of a turbine nozzle assembly comprises a plurality of stator vanes 7, an arc-like inner band 9 integrally molded at the inner end of a plurality of the stator vanes 7, an arc-like outer band 11 integrally molded at the outer end of a plurality of the stator vanes 7. An outer band 11 includes an outer platform 19, a forward outer leg 21, a aft outer leg 23 and a hook member 29 formed at the back end and also in the central portion in the circumferential direction of the outer platform 19.

Abstract: This invention can form a sufficiently internal oxide layer in a surface layer portion of an iron matrix of a steel sheet by hot rolling a base steel and subjecting to a heat treatment at a temperature range of 650-950° C. in an atmosphere substantially not causing reduction while being adhered with a black skin scale irrespectively of a chemical steel composition or production history, or even when a radiation type heating of a radial tube or the like is used in a recrystallization annealing before a hot dipping treatment, and hence excellent hot-dipping property and conversion treating property can be given to a steel sheet for hot dipping.

Abstract: A steel sheet for porcelain enameling having improved press formability and enameling properties comprises particular amounts of C, Mn, B, Cu, Al, O, N, and P or further Ti and Nb and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities and is produced by hot rolling a slab of steel having a chemical composition as mentioned above as a starting material, cold rolling the resulting hot rolled sheet at a reduction of not less than 70%, and then subjecting the resulting cold rolled sheet to a continuous annealing at a heating temperature of not lower than 800.degree. C. but not higher than A.sub.c3 transformation point.

Abstract: A formable thin steel sheet such as hot rolled sheet, cold rolled sheet or surface treated sheet comprises not more than 0.003 wt % of C, not more than 1.0 wt % of Si, not more than 1.0 wt % of Mn, not more than 0.15 wt % of P, not more than 0.020 wt % of S, not more than 0.0045 wt % of O, not more than 0.0020 wt % of N, not more than 0.15 wt % of Al provided that a ratio of Al/N is not less than 30, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and has not only improved formability for press forming, deep drawing or the like but also improved fatigue resistance as a welded joint.