Abstract: A superconducting wire connector includes superconducting wires and a sintered body containing MgB2. The superconducting wires are connected by the sintered body. At least one of the superconducting wires includes a superconducting core having a first outer surface. The sintered body is in contact with the first outer surface. A method of connecting superconducting wires by a sintered body containing MgB2 includes exposing a superconducting core of at least one of the superconducting wires by removing a portion, positioned in the middle in a longitudinal direction of the at least one of the superconducting wires, of a metal sheath disposed around the superconducting core, disposing the at least one of the superconducting wires through a container, filling the container with a raw material of MgB2, and forming the sintered body being in contact with an outer surface of the superconducting core by sintering the raw material filled in the container.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes preparing a base material, preparing a plurality of semiconductor elements each having a connection terminal, preparing a wiring board provided with a first wiring, arranging the plurality of semiconductor elements on the base material, covering the plurality of semiconductor elements on the base material with an insulating material, arranging the wiring board on at least one of the plurality of semiconductor elements so that the first wiring is connected to at least some of the connection terminals of the plurality of semiconductor elements covered with the insulating material, and forming a second wiring around the first wiring. The first wiring has finer wiring than the second wiring.

Abstract: A superconducting magnet apparatus includes a superconducting coil, a persistent current switch, a cryostat, an external resistance element that attenuates energy accumulated in the superconducting coil when the superconducting coil is demagnetized, an external power supply capable of energizing a reverse current of a persistent current to the superconducting coil, and a circuit breaker capable of freely cutting off energization between the external power supply and the superconducting coil. A method for demagnetizing a superconducting magnet includes causing the reverse current of the persistent current to flow from the external power supply, and switching the persistent current switch to an off-state and switching the circuit breaker to an off-state, and demagnetizing the superconducting magnet by causing a current flowing through the superconducting coil to flow to an external resistance element when the amount of current flowing through the persistent current switch decreases.

Abstract: A sealing member is attached to a connector opening of an electronic device to seal between an insulating cover of a cable inserted in the connector opening and a main body of the electronic device. The sealing member includes a housing made of an elastic material. The housing includes a first opening, a second opening facing the first opening and located to an inside of the electronic device than the first opening, and an inclined surface having a tapered shape that is tapered inward from the first opening to the second opening. The housing includes a first cylindrical portion forming the inclined surface inside the first cylindrical portion, a second cylindrical portion provided outside the first cylindrical portion, and a gap formed between the first cylindrical portion and the second cylindrical portion. The first cylindrical portion and the second cylindrical portion are connected to each other around the first opening.

Abstract: A combustor includes: a combustion cylinder; and a combustion-chamber forming member disposed so as to be at least partially inserted into the combustion cylinder and forming a combustion chamber with the combustion cylinder. A radial-direction gap for introducing film air is formed between the combustion cylinder and the combustion-chamber forming member. A gas turbine includes a combustor; a compressor for generating compressed air; and a turbine configured to be rotary driven by combustion gas from the combustor.

Abstract: An electronic device retaining structure includes: an electronic device having a device body and a display rotatably connected to the device body; a base having a placing surface placed with the electronic device; and at least one pair of retainers mounted on an outer periphery of the base and facing each other. Each of the at least one pair of retainers has a retaining claw protruding from an outer side to an inner side of the placing surface. The retaining claw has, at the upper part, an upward slope sloping upward from the inner side toward the outer side and coming into contact with a side edge of the display when the display is rotated in a direction approaching the placing surface, and below the upward slope, a downward slope sloping downward from the inner side toward the outer side and pressing the device body against the placing surface.

Abstract: In the connection portion for a superconducting wire, a plurality of superconducting wires are integrated by a sintered body containing MgB2, end portions of the superconducting wires each having an outer peripheral surface of a superconducting filament exposed are inserted into a container in parallel. The container has an opening having a diameter larger than a wire diameter of the superconducting wires on at least one side in a longitudinal direction of the superconducting wires, and the sintered body is in contact with the outer peripheral surfaces of the superconducting filaments. The method for connecting a superconducting wire includes: exposing the outer peripheral surfaces of the superconducting filaments; inserting the superconducting wires into the container; filling the container with a raw material; and heat-treating the raw material to generate the sintered body. The raw material is pressurized in parallel to the longitudinal direction of the superconducting wires and then heat-treated.

Abstract: A superconducting coil comprising an oxide superconducting wire includes: a superconducting laminate comprising a substrate and an oxide superconducting layer; and a stabilization layer made of copper plating formed around the superconducting laminate. A thickness d of the stabilization layer is in the range of 10 to 40 ?m. A ratio Ra/d of the thickness d of the stabilization layer and an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of an outer surface of the stabilization layer is in the range of 0.005 to 0.03. An intermediate layer is arranged between the substrate and the oxide superconducting layer. When a tensile test of pulling the oxide superconducting wire in a longitudinal direction within a stress range of 180 to 600 MPa in liquid nitrogen is performed, a ratio of a critical current when a repeated pulling number reaches 100,000 times and an initial critical current measured before the tensile test is 0.99 or more.

Abstract: An oxide superconducting wire includes: a superconducting laminate comprising a substrate and an oxide superconducting layer; and a stabilization layer made of copper plating formed around the superconducting laminate. A thickness d of the stabilization layer is in the range of 10 to 40 ?m. A ratio Ra/d of the thickness d of the stabilization layer and an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of an outer surface of the stabilization layer is in the range of 0.005 to 0.03. An intermediate layer is arranged between the substrate and the oxide superconducting layer. When a tensile test of pulling the oxide superconducting wire in a longitudinal direction within a stress range of 180 to 600 MPa in liquid nitrogen is performed, a ratio of a critical current when a repeated pulling number reaches 100,000 times and an initial critical current measured before the tensile test is 0.99 or more.

Abstract: Provided is a port replicator including: a body having an opening; a terminal accommodated in the body and exposed from the opening; a shaft provided in the body; a retainer that rotatably holds the body about a rotation axis of the shaft; and one or more elastic bodies attached to the body and pressing the body in a predetermined rotation direction.

Abstract: A sealing member is attached to a connector opening of an electronic device to seal between an insulating cover of a cable inserted in the connector opening and a main body of the electronic device. The sealing member includes a housing made of an elastic material. The housing includes a first opening, a second opening facing the first opening and located to an inside of the electronic device than the first opening, and an inclined surface having a tapered shape that is tapered inward from the first opening to the second opening. The housing includes a first cylindrical portion forming the inclined surface inside the first cylindrical portion, a second cylindrical portion provided outside the first cylindrical portion, and a gap formed between the first cylindrical portion and the second cylindrical portion. The first cylindrical portion and the second cylindrical portion are connected to each other around the first opening.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a stationary induction electric apparatus that can improve insulating performance with a few additional structures. In the stationary induction electric apparatus comprising: an iron core 1; a low-voltage coil conductor 400 wound on the iron core; an insulator 3 enclosing the low-voltage coil conductor; and a high-voltage coil conductor 2 which is wound on the insulator and to which a voltage is applied from the outside, a first shield conductor 5 wound adjacent to the inner peripheral surface of the insulator, a second shield conductor 4 wound adjacent to the outer peripheral surface of the insulator, one end of the first shield conductor, and one end of the second shield conductor are electrically connected to any region of the high-voltage coil conductor.

Abstract: An oxide superconducting wire includes a superconducting layer deposited on a substrate. The superconducting layer includes an oxide superconductor RE-Ba—Cu—O and artificial pinning centers ABO3, where RE is a rare earth element, A is Ba, Sr or Ca, and B is Hf, Zr, or Sn. In a TEM image of a cross-section of the superconducting layer, a standard deviation ? of an inclination angle of the artificial pinning center rods with respect to a cross-sectional direction of the superconducting layer is 6.13° to 11.73° and an average length of the artificial pinning center rods is 19.84 to 25.44 nm.

Abstract: An oxide superconducting wire includes a superconducting layer deposited on a substrate. The superconducting layer includes an oxide superconductor RE-Ba—Cu—O and artificial pinning centers ABO3, where RE is a rare earth element, A is Ba, Sr or Ca, and B is Hf, Zr, or Sn. In a TEM image of a cross-section of the superconducting layer, a standard deviation ? of an inclination angle of the artificial pinning center rods with respect to a cross-sectional direction of the superconducting layer is 6.13° to 11.73° and an average length of the artificial pinning center rods is 19.84 to 25.44 nm.

Abstract: An electronic device retaining structure includes: an electronic device having a device body and a display rotatably connected to the device body; a base having a placing surface placed with the electronic device; and at least one pair of retainers mounted on an outer periphery of the base and facing each other. Each of the at least one pair of retainers has a retaining claw protruding from an outer side to an inner side of the placing surface. The retaining claw has, at the upper part, an upward slope sloping upward from the inner side toward the outer side and coming into contact with a side edge of the display when the display is rotated in a direction approaching the placing surface, and below the upward slope, a downward slope sloping downward from the inner side toward the outer side and pressing the device body against the placing surface.

Abstract: A superconducting wire connector includes superconducting wires and a sintered body containing MgB2. The superconducting wires are connected by the sintered body. At least one of the superconducting wires includes a superconducting core having a first outer surface. The sintered body is in contact with the first outer surface. A method of connecting superconducting wires by a sintered body containing MgB2 includes exposing a superconducting core of at least one of the superconducting wires by removing a portion, positioned in the middle in a longitudinal direction of the at least one of the superconducting wires, of a metal sheath disposed around the superconducting core, disposing the at least one of the superconducting wires through a container, filling the container with a raw material of MgB2, and forming the sintered body being in contact with an outer surface of the superconducting core by sintering the raw material filled in the container.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a stationary induction electric apparatus that can improve insulating performance with a few additional structures. In the stationary induction electric apparatus comprising: an iron core 1; a low-voltage coil conductor 400 wound on the iron core; an insulator 3 enclosing the low-voltage coil conductor; and a high-voltage coil conductor 2 which is wound on the insulator and to which a voltage is applied from the outside, a first shield conductor 5 wound adjacent to the inner peripheral surface of the insulator, a second shield conductor 4 wound adjacent to the outer peripheral surface of the insulator, one end of the first shield conductor, and one end of the second shield conductor are electrically connected to any region of the high-voltage coil conductor.

Abstract: A superconducting coil, includes a coil body around which a superconducting wire is wound; an electrode member which includes a first surface, a second surface, a base portion, and an extension portion, the first surface facing an outer peripheral surface of the coil body, the second surface being positioned to be opposite to the first surface, the base portion being solder-joined to the superconducting wire of the coil body on the first surface, the extension portion extending from the second surface to the outside of the coil body, and an electrode superconducting wire which extends from the second surface of the electrode member toward the extension portion, and is solder-joined to the base portion and the extension portion.

Abstract: A simple machine tool including a relatively simple shaped turret having as many tool attachment parts as possible even when a cutout part for a movement path for a main spindle is provided. A machine tool includes a first main spindle, a second main spindle, a first turret having tool attachment parts, a second turret having tool attachment parts, and a controller having an indexing device. An edge of a cutout part formed in the second turret is a straight line in a direction crossing each side of a regular dodecagon centered at a turning center of the second turret, as seen in a Z axis direction, and each tool attachment part is disposed according to each side left in the regular dodecagon cut off by the cutout part.

Abstract: A stationary induction electrical apparatus includes a disc winding having a structure in which a flow path for a cooling medium is provided between coils where a low voltage is generated between shield wires, an L-shaped insulation barrier is provided between coils where a high voltage is generated between the shield wires, a horizontal portion of the L-shaped insulation barrier is provided so as to closely contact an upper surface or a lower surface of the disc coil, a tip end portion in an axial direction of the L-shaped insulation barrier is provided so as to closely contact an inner surface of the disc coil which is adjacent to a pressboard insulation cylinder, and a height of the tip end portion in the axial direction is lower than a thickness of one coil.