Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display superior in mechanical strength, which is capable of enlarging the screen and making the frame narrow. The liquid crystal display is provided with liquid crystal display module positioning parts 9 having positioning ribs 8 located on both side portions of an upper case 1 and positioning holes 9a, in which the positioning ribs 8 are inserted, located on both side portions of a liquid crystal display module 3.

Abstract: Load is applied to a bumper reinforce. Two hollow crash boxes are coupled to the bumper reinforce. Each crash box has a substantially constant cross section, an axis and an open end. When load is applied to the bumper reinforce, each crash box is plastically deformed in the axial direction for absorbing the load. The bumper reinforce includes projections. Each projection corresponds to one of the crash boxes and faces part of the open end of the corresponding crash box. The projections reduce the load at the beginning of plastic deformation.

Abstract: A bumper includes a pair of hollow crash boxes, each of which is located at one end of a bumper reinforce. when receiving axial load, each crash box is plastically deformed to absorb the axial load. An initial buckling portion is previously formed in each crash box. Plastic deformation of each crash box due to axial load starts at the associated initial buckling portion. This reduces axial load that is needed to start plastic deformation of each crash box.

Abstract: A first frame section is hollow and has a substantially uniform polygonal cross-sectional shape. An axial load is applied to the first frame section. A second frame section is hollow and has a substantially uniform polygonal cross-sectional shape. The axial load is transmitted from the first frame section to the second frame section. A transmitting portion is provided in at least one of the first and second frame sections. The transmitting portion receives the axial load that acts on each edge of the first frame section and transmits the axial load to each edge of the second frame section.

Abstract: A method of screening varistors. In a first step, a pulse generator is caused to apply to a varistor a large-current pulse having a peak value of at least 1 A and 90% or less of an average breakdown current of the varistor and has a pulse width of 100 msec or less. In a second step, the dielectric loss of the varistor is measured through use of an LCR meter at a frequency of about 100 KHz or higher. Subsequently, in a third step, a judgment is made as to whether the measured value falls within a range that is preset as a reference value for judgment. If the measured value is within the range, the varistor is judged to be a non-defective product. If the measured value is outside of the range, the varistor is judged to be a defective product having an internal defect.

Abstract: A receiver (4) is provided in a main line (9a) and a bypass passage (4a) having an open/shut-off valve (SV) is provided for introducing gas refrigerant in the receiver (4) into a low-pressure liquid line. A motor-operated expansion valve (5) is fully closed, the open/shut-off valve (SV) is opened, and then defrosting operation is executed. At the initial stage of the defrosting operation, the open/shut-off valve (SV) is closed. When a discharge-pipe temperature Td drops to or below a specified temperature, the open/shut-off valve (SV) is closed. When the discharge-pipe temperature Td rises to or above a specified temperature, the motor-operated expansion valve (5) is once opened to a specified opening. When defrosting operation is completed, the open/shut-off valve (SV) is opened in a heating cycle and the motor-operated expansion valve (5) is gradually opened.

Abstract: An agent for the prevention of salt damage of plants for use in intermediate soil comprised of water-repellent particles, and a method of preventing salt damage to plants from salty soil using an agent to establish a water-repellent layer as a layer above the underground water level. An agent for the prevention of salt accumulation in greenhouse soil comprised of hydrophobic particles which are substantially hydrophobic. A salt accumulation prevention layer containing an agent for the prevention of salt accumulation in greenhouse soil which is provided at the surface layer or a prescribed depth from the surface layer of the greenhouse soil.

Abstract: In a surge absorber, capable of suppressing a voltage surge and a current surge together without interrupting a signal transmission, an input electrode and an output electrode are spaced apart on the surface of a varistor substrate, and a resistance element is connected between the electrodes. A ground electrode is provided on the reverse side of the varistor substrate so as to face the input electrode with the varistor element therebetween. Thereby, a varistor element is formed by the input electrode and the ground electrode where a voltage surge and a current surge can be suppressed by the resistance element, and where a signal waveform is not weakened by capacitance of the varistor element, and ordinary signal transmission is not interrupted.

Abstract: A noise filter of a monolithic type in which a common electrode is formed in a sintered body having varistor characteristics so as to extend from a first portion to a second portion of side surfaces of the sintered body, and at least one through electrode is formed in a position at a height spaced apart from the common electrode through a sintered body layer in the direction of thickness so as to extend from a third portion to a fourth portion of the side surfaces of the sintered body and to intersect the common electrode.