Abstract: A replacement endless belt for an image heating device for heating an image on a recording material includes an endless base layer; a parting layer provided on an outer peripheral surface of the base layer; and a lubricant applied on at least a circumferentially partial area of the inner surface, except for predetermined regions from opposite ends of the endless belt.

Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine apparatus, a rotor portion provided in a cylindrical portion and a stator portion provided in a recessed portion in which the rotor portion is housed are aligned along the rotation axis of a rim such that a force is generated in a direction opposite to the direction of a load that acts along the rotation axis of the rim of loads that act on the rim following rotation of a blade.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes a first rotatable member and a second rotatable member, which are configured to form a nip in which a toner image is fixed on a recording material, an air blowing mechanism, and a duct configured to guide air from the air blowing mechanism toward an end portion of the first rotatable member with respect to a longitudinal direction of the first rotatable member. The image heating apparatus also includes an opening and closing mechanism configured to open and to close an air blowing port of the duct. The opening and closing mechanism includes a plurality of shutter members configured to close the air blowing port in cooperation with each other.

Abstract: A propulsion system for a vessel includes an engine propulsion unit that provides a propulsive force to a hull by using an engine as a power source, an electric propulsion unit that provides a propulsive force to the hull by using an electric motor as a power source, a storing mechanism that is displaced from an actuating position to actuate the electric propulsion unit to a storing position to store the electric propulsion unit and performs a storing operation to store the electric propulsion unit, and an interlock controller that interlocks a storing operation of the storing mechanism with generation of a propulsive force by the engine propulsion unit.

Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine apparatus, a rotor portion provided in a cylindrical portion and a stator portion provided in a recessed portion in which the rotor portion is housed are aligned along the rotation axis of a rim such that a force is generated in a direction opposite to the direction of a load that acts along the rotation axis of the rim of loads that act on the rim following rotation of a blade.

Abstract: A propulsion system for a vessel includes an engine propulsion unit that provides a propulsive force to a hull by using an engine as a power source, an electric propulsion unit that provides a propulsive force to the hull by using an electric motor as a power source, a storing mechanism that is displaced from an actuating position to actuate the electric propulsion unit to a storing position to store the electric propulsion unit and performs a storing operation to store the electric propulsion unit, and an interlock controller that interlocks a storing operation of the storing mechanism with generation of a propulsive force by the engine propulsion unit.

Abstract: A spool valve includes: a valve body that has a spool hole; and a spool disposed in the spool hole and movable in an axial direction, wherein the spool has a first large-diameter portion, and a small-diameter portion provided on one side in the axial direction of the first large-diameter portion, the first large-diameter portion has a first outer surface slidable with an inner surface of the spool hole, an end surface connected to an end portion at the one side in the axial direction of the first outer surface and to an end portion at the other side in the axial direction of an outer surface of the small-diameter portion, and a cutout portion provided on the end surface, and a bottom surface of the cutout portion is inclined toward the one side in the axial direction to approach a central axis of the spool.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes a first rotatable member and a second rotatable member which are configured to form a nip in which a toner image is fixed on a recording material; an air blowing mechanism; a duct configured to guide air from the air blowing mechanism toward an end portion of the first rotatable member with respect to a longitudinal direction of the first rotatable member; and an opening and closing mechanism configured to open and close an air blowing port of the duct. The opening and closing mechanism includes a plurality of shutter members configured to close the air blowing port in cooperation with each other.

Abstract: A tire has a tread surface, the tread surface including a circumferential groove extending in a tire circumferential direction, a lug groove extending in a direction intersecting the circumferential groove, and a plurality of land parts partitioned by the circumferential groove and the lug groove. A width-direction groove extending in a tire widthwise direction is formed on a land part of the plurality of land parts. An in-groove sipe is arranged along one side edge of a groove bottom of the width-direction groove.

Abstract: A tire can deliver improved on-ice performance with a reduced rolling resistance. The tire includes a foam rubber layer in a tread that comes into contact with a road surface, wherein a foaming ratio of the foam rubber layer is in a range from 3% to 50%, a rubber composition forming the foam rubber layer includes ethylene-vinylalcohol copolymer fiber coated with a resin having affinity for a rubber component, and the rubber composition forming the foam rubber layer includes 5 to 30 parts by mass at least one type of inorganic compound powder with respect to 100 parts by mass the rubber component, the inorganic compound powder having an average particle diameter greater than or equal to 10 ?m and expressed by the following general formula (I). M.xSiO2.

Abstract: A marine propulsion unit includes a duct including a stator, a propeller including a rim including a rotor disposed at a position that faces the stator and a blade provided radially inward of the rim, a steering shaft that supports the duct such that the duct is steerable, a casing provided separately from the steering shaft and that extends along a rotation axis of the propeller, and a motor controller disposed in the casing and configured or programmed to control rotational driving of the propeller.

Abstract: A spool valve includes: a valve body that has a spool hole; and a spool disposed in the spool hole and movable in an axial direction, wherein the spool has a first large-diameter portion, and a small-diameter portion provided on one side in the axial direction of the first large-diameter portion, the first large-diameter portion has a first outer surface slidable with an inner surface of the spool hole, an end surface connected to an end portion at the one side in the axial direction of the first outer surface and to an end portion at the other side in the axial direction of an outer surface of the small-diameter portion, and a cutout portion provided on the end surface, and a bottom surface of the cutout portion is inclined toward the one side in the axial direction to approach a central axis of the spool.

Abstract: A propulsion system for a vessel includes an engine propulsion unit that provides a propulsive force to a hull by using an engine as a power source, an electric propulsion unit that provides a propulsive force to the hull by using an electric motor as a power source, a storing mechanism that is displaced from an actuating position to actuate the electric propulsion unit to a storing position to store the electric propulsion unit and performs a storing operation to store the electric propulsion unit, and an interlock controller that interlocks a storing operation of the storing mechanism with generation of a propulsive force by the engine propulsion unit.

Abstract: Clupak paper is manufactured using a gap-former paper-making machine equipped with a Clupak system, in such a way that its longitudinal tensile energy absorption index and lateral tensile energy absorption index as specified in JIS P8113 become 2.5 J/g or more and 1.0 J/g or more, respectively. The paper has excellent strength characteristics in both the longitudinal and lateral directions, especially in the longitudinal direction so that when the Clupak paper can be processed into a sack, the sack rarely breaks.

Abstract: A voltage detection device includes voltage detection sections that measure cell voltages in the blocks, a control section, and (N?1) or less converters that raise the voltage, which is supplied from a DC power source, to a voltage of a driving power source for the voltage detection section. In a case where a voltage detected by at least one voltage detection section among the voltage detection sections which operate by the power supplied from the respective converters, exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the control section controls at least one voltage detection section among the voltage detection sections to operate using the cell voltage of each of the blocks as a driving power source and acquires the cell voltage in each of the blocks.

Abstract: A steering damper is configured to adjust a damping force of a rotor covered by a lower casing and an upper casing by changing the viscosity of a magnetic fluid with an electromagnet. Since a magnetic fluid chamber is provided with a volume compensating unit, even when the volume of the magnetic fluid expands, or air entrainment occurs, air bubbles lighter than the magnetic fluid are collected in the volume compensating unit. Thus, characteristic variations of the steering damper due to volume expansion or air entrainment of the magnetic fluid are prevented.

Abstract: There is provided a voltage monitoring apparatus for monitoring an output voltage of an assembled battery. The voltage monitoring apparatus comprises: voltage monitoring sections, each section monitoring a voltage of each block of the plurality of blocks into which the plurality of unit cells are divided, wherein the voltage monitoring sections are connected one another through communication lines; and a control unit which is connected to the voltage monitoring section through the communication lines. The voltage monitoring section compares the respective detected voltages of the unit cells with the threshold voltage to determine a result of the comparison, and transmits the comparison result to the control unit. In a case where the threshold voltage is changed, the control unit transmits a registration signal indicating the changed threshold voltage, and when received the registration signal, the voltage monitoring section changes the stored threshold voltage to the changed threshold voltage.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire, comprising: a tread surface; a plurality of grooves formed in the tread surface, including a plurality of widthwise grooves each extending from a corresponding tread end on the inner side in the tread width direction and a plurality of circumferential grooves each extending in the tread circumferential direction to intersect the widthwise grooves; blocks demarcated by the plurality of grooves; and a chamfered portion formed at a corner, on the trailing edge side and on the outer side in the tread width direction, of each block.

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a first image forming unit, a second image forming unit and a processing unit. The first image forming unit forms an image using an erasable image forming material. The second image forming unit forms an image using an inerasable image forming material. The processing unit forms an image to be printed using an erasable image forming material with the first image forming unit, and forms a specific pattern for duplication prevention using an inerasable image forming material with the second image forming unit.