Abstract: A smell sensor includes an ion sensor having a sensitive film, a substance adsorption film disposed on the sensitive film and configured to adsorb a smell substance to be detected, and an electrode configured to apply a reference voltage to the substance adsorption film. The substance adsorption film is in a state of releasing a proton in response to absorbing the smell substance.

Abstract: This vibration damping device (10) includes a magnetorheological fluid composition in a cylinder (12). The magnetorheological fluid composition includes magnetic particles; a dispersant having the magnetic particles dispersed therein; and a friction modifier. The friction modifier is an ester-based additive having a hydrocarbon chain having 14 to 22 carbon atoms, preferably an alkyl chain or an alkenyl chain. The content of the friction modifier is 0.1 to 5 mass %.

Abstract: This vibration damping device (10) includes a magnetorheological fluid composition in a cylinder (12). The magnetorheological fluid composition includes magnetic particles; a dispersant having the magnetic particles dispersed therein; and a friction modifier. The friction modifier is an amine-based additive having a hydrocarbon chain having 14 to 22 carbon atoms, preferably an alkyl chain or an alkenyl chain. The content of the friction modifier is 0.1 to 5 mass %.

Abstract: This vibration damping device (10) includes a magnetorheological fluid composition in a cylinder (12). The magnetorheological fluid composition includes magnetic particles; a dispersant having the magnetic particles dispersed therein; and a friction modifier. The friction modifier is an ester-based additive having a hydrocarbon chain having 14 to 22 carbon atoms, preferably an alkyl chain or an alkenyl chain. The content of the friction modifier is 0.1 to 5 mass %.

Abstract: This vibration damping device (10) includes a magnetorheological fluid composition in a cylinder (12). The magnetorheological fluid composition includes magnetic particles; a dispersant having the magnetic particles dispersed therein; and a friction modifier. The friction modifier is an amine-based additive having a hydrocarbon chain having 14 to 22 carbon atoms, preferably an alkyl chain or an alkenyl chain. The content of the friction modifier is 0.1 to 5 mass %.

Abstract: A fluid-filled type vibration damping device having a first and a second fluid chamber respectively filled with non-compressible fluid and which experience relative pressure fluctuations during vibration input, and provided with an orifice passage through which the first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber communicate with one another, while being capable of exhibiting better dependability and durability in terms of effective vibration damping action of several types of vibration with different frequencies. In the device, tuning frequency of the orifice passage is varied by varying a passage length of the orifice passage 68 through adjustment of an insertion distance of an inside orifice member into an outside orifice member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a discharging method for discharging solid matter out of a container in which the solid matter is stored. In this discharging method of solid matter, a discharging liquid is supplied into the container 2 and thereby generates a spiral flow to cause the liquid and the solid matter exhibiting the spiral flow to be discharged from a discharge port 20 arranged in the bottom of said container 2. The spiral flow of the liquid and the solid matter can be generated by allowing the discharging liquid to flow tangentially into the container 2 specifically at a location in the vicinity of the bottom of said container 2.

Abstract: A fluid-filled vibration damping device wherein a partition member is formed by fitting an inner orifice member inside an outer orifice member with the members relatively displaceable. An orifice-defining window is provided on either one of an inside peripheral face of the outer orifice member and an outside peripheral face of the inner orifice member. An orifice passage is defined utilizing a zone being produced through partial covering of the orifice-defining window by the other of the outer orifice member and the inner orifice member. The covered zone of the orifice-defining window changes through relative displacement of the inner orifice member and the outer orifice member, so that a passage length along the orifice passage changes in association with change of the covered zone of the orifice-defining window.

Abstract: A fluid-filled type vibration damping device having a first and a second fluid chamber respectively filled with non-compressible fluid and which experience relative pressure fluctuations during vibration input, and provided with an orifice passage through which the first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber communicate with one another, while being capable of exhibiting better dependability and durability in terms of effective vibration damping action of several types of vibration with different frequencies. In the device, tuning frequency of the orifice passage is varied by varying a passage length of the orifice passage 68 through adjustment of an insertion distance of an inside orifice member into an outside orifice member.

Abstract: A fluid-filled vibration damping device wherein a partition member is formed by fitting an inner orifice member inside an outer orifice member with the members relatively displaceable. An orifice-defining window is provided on either one of an inside peripheral face of the outer orifice member and an outside peripheral face of the inner orifice member. An orifice passage is defined utilizing a zone being produced through partial covering of the orifice-defining window by the other of the outer orifice member and the inner orifice member. The covered zone of the orifice-defining window changes through relative displacement of the inner orifice member and the outer orifice member, so that a passage length along the orifice passage changes in association with change of the covered zone of the orifice-defining window.

Abstract: The present invention provides a discharging method for discharging solid matter out of a container in which the solid matter is stored. In this discharging method of solid matter, a discharging liquid is supplied into the container 2 and thereby generates a spiral flow to cause the liquid and the solid matter exhibiting the spiral flow to be discharged from a discharge port 20 arranged in the bottom of said container 2. The spiral flow of the liquid and the solid matter can be generated by allowing the discharging liquid to flow tangentially into the container 2 specifically at a location in the vicinity of the bottom of said container 2.

Abstract: A printer is provided with at least one detachable print unit provided with a driven unit which is driven to print an image on a recording sheet. The condition of operation of the print unit is detected and the detected condition of operation of the print unit is stored in a data storage device that allows the updating of its contents. Thus, various kinds of information useful for the quality control of the printer and the print unit can be readily and surely collected and the collected information is stored in the print unit. The information useful for the quality control of the printer and the print unit can be read out from the data storage device after the print unit has been removed from the printer.

Abstract: An optical pickup, wherein tracking coils are bonded to respective opposite corner parts of two square-tube-shaped focusing coils symmetrically with respect to the optical axis of a lens respectively so that the tracking coil is brought into contact with the two surfaces forming the corner part, at the corner part being apart from a lens holder, and that it is brought into contact with the surface forming the corner part and not being in contact with the lens holder, at the corner part being in contact with the lens holder to eliminate the occurrence of the torque around the axis perpendicular to the tracking direction and the focusing direction and thereby the transmission characteristic in the direction of tracks is improved.

Abstract: A discharge lamp having a discharge path-defining member which so defines the discharge path in the bulb that it runs in a convoluted manner with interlinked passages running between the top and the bottom of the bulb, wherein the top portion of the discharge path-defining member is provided with a top plate which permits one of the curved passage-interlinking portions at the bulb top to pass along the upper surface thereof, such that the shadow of the discharge path-defining member is eliminated from the bulb top and that the shape of the bulb can be freely selected, also enabling the lamp to be designed such that it is not easily broken, the discharge path-defining member can be easily and intimately fitted, and that the output of light is not reduced in the bulb top region.

Abstract: An improved starter switch which provides a rapid firing of a fluorescent lamp within 0.8 second has been found. An external appearance and the size of the present starter switch are almost the same as those of a prior glow switch which is slow to fire a fluorescent lamp, therefore, the present starter switch is replaceable to a prior glow switch by merely inserting the present starter switch to a socket of a prior glow switch. The present starter switch has a connector cap which is to be able to be engaged with a socket for a glow switch, a printed circuit board mounting circuit components and connected to said connector cap by lead lines, and a housing fixed to said cap and covering said printed circuit board.