Abstract: In a motor, a connected portion between a lead wire and an aluminum wire is provided far from a terminal block, with a leading end of a winding residing on one of cores that is not adjacent to a core that is at a position where the terminal block is provided.

Abstract: A dry-battery housing includes an electrode terminal member made of a single wire, a dry-battery housing unit, a flange portion arranged so as to project at first side of the electrode terminal member, a first partition plate projecting along outside for first side of the electrode terminal member, a second partition plate projecting along outside for second of the electrode terminal member, a first fixing plate projecting from the first partition plate toward the second partition plate, a second fixing plate projecting from the second partition plate toward the first partition plate, a flange-root portion including a narrow space portion for allowing insertion and removal of a rim at the first side of the electrode terminal member and an engagement portion arranged between the narrow space portion of the flange-root portion and a border of an opening portion of the dry-battery housing.

Abstract: A substrate treatment method of performing treatment on a substrate on which a pattern mask has been formed by exposure and developing treatment to improve roughness of the pattern mask includes the processes of: mounting and heating the substrate on a stage in a treatment container; then supplying a solvent gas to a center portion of a front surface of the substrate while exhausting the solvent gas from a periphery of the substrate to swell the pattern mask; and while performing the process of supplying and exhausting a solvent gas, forming a temperature gradient in the substrate via the stage such that a temperature at the center portion of the substrate is higher than a temperature at a peripheral portion of the substrate.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses an electronic device comprising a battery container, a side wall, and a plate spring member. The side wall is disposed upright along a direction orthogonal to an axis of the dry battery. The plate spring member elastically urges the dry battery contained in the battery container. The plate spring member comprises a base portion, a contact portion, and a connection portion. The contact portion is in contact with a positive electrode or a negative electrode of the dry battery. The connection portion connects said base portion and said contact portion while bending. The connection portion comprises a first bent portion and a second bent portion. The first bent portion that is bent so as to connect said base portion and said contact portion in an inverted V-shape. The second bent portion comprises a projecting portion configured to project to the dry battery side.

Abstract: A substrate treatment method of performing treatment on a substrate on which a pattern mask has been formed by exposure and developing treatment to improve roughness of the pattern mask includes the processes of: mounting the substrate on a stage in a treatment container; and repeating a plurality of times steps of supplying a solvent gas to a center portion of the substrate while exhausting the solvent gas from a periphery of the substrate to swell the pattern mask, and then supplying a drying gas for drying the solvent supplied to the substrate to the center portion of the substrate while exhausting the drying gas from the periphery of the substrate.

Abstract: An evaporated fuel treatment device for a vehicle is provided to suppress the flowout of evaporated fuel into atmospheric air. In the evaporated fuel treatment device, a communication chamber is formed in a fuel supply cap, allowing communication between a charge passage and the inside of a fuel tank in a closed state. In the communication chamber, a positive pressure adjusting valve is openable to supply evaporated fuel in the fuel tank to an evaporated fuel storage unit through the communication chamber and the charge passage, and a negative pressure adjusting valve is openable to supply atmospheric air to the fuel tank from the evaporated fuel storage unit through the communication chamber and the charge passage. An interlocking member is provided between the key cover and the negative pressure adjusting valve, and opens the negative pressure adjusting valve in an interlocking manner with an operation of opening the key cover.

Abstract: According to the embodiments, an ultraviolet irradiation apparatus includes: a cylindrical water passage body through which treatment target water passes, and which has paired openings in its respective two end portions; at least one ultraviolet irradiation member provided inside the water passage body on a plane orthogonal to a direction from one to the other of the openings, and configured to emit ultraviolet rays to the treatment target water passing through the water passage body; and paired flange joints projecting from peripheral edges of the paired openings of the water passage body outward of the openings, respectively.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultraviolet water treatment apparatus includes an ultraviolet lamp unit provided with a first plumbing flange coupling on each of both ends thereof, and further provided therein with an ultraviolet irradiation tube including an ultraviolet lamp and a lamp protective tube configured to protect the ultraviolet lamp, and a cleaning device drive unit provided with a second plumbing flange coupling on each of both ends thereof and configured to drive a cleaning device configured to clean a surface of the lamp protective tube. The ultraviolet lamp unit and the cleaning device drive unit are coupled with each other on the first and second plumbing flange couplings.

Abstract: A frame including an opening, a sound outputting unit arranged inside the frame, and an elastically deformable packing attached to the frame and projecting outward from the frame to be formed into an annular shape are provided, and they are configured to be stored in a tire storage unit including a storage concave portion opening upward in which a spare tire is stored in a state in which the packing is pressed against a rim portion of a wheel below a disk portion of the wheel of the spare tire. According to this, two spaces enclosed by the packing, each portion of the wheel, and the tire storage unit are formed, so that sound may be output from a speaker unit in an excellent manner and it is not required that the speaker unit be removed from the tire storage unit when the spare tire is stored in or removed from the tire storage unit.

Abstract: An optical scanning device comprising: a light source that emits a laser beam; and a driving unit connected to the light source and configured to drive the light source; the driving unit comprising: a first storage unit that stores in advance therein a setting value for controlling output of the laser beam; a second storage unit that stores temporally therein the setting value stored in the first storage unit; a storage controller connected to the first storage unit and the second storage unit; and a voltage detector connected to the storage controller and configured to detect a voltage value supplied to the driving unit, wherein the storage controller, upon the voltage detector detecting that the voltage supply is resumed, transfers the setting value stored in the first storage unit to the second storage unit automatically.

Abstract: There is provided a production management system that requires no backup step for performing a backup operation when trouble occurs in a robot, and can increase workability of a repair operation of the robot. The production management system for a production line mixedly including robot operation steps and manual operation steps, including: a monitor that displays the cause of abnormality that occurs in the robot operation step; a warning device that warns of occurrence of abnormality in the robot operation step; and a robot reversing device that reverses the orientation of a robot when abnormality occurs in the robot, wherein production is continued by changing the robot operation step where the abnormality occurs to the manual operation step. Also, a repair operation is performed for the robot reversed by the robot reversing device.

Abstract: An ultraviolet irradiation device includes a treatment vessel, an ultraviolet irradiation member, and a support member. The treatment vessel has a water inlet and a water outlet and through which water to be treated as a treatment target flows in a first direction from the water inlet toward the water outlet, the treatment vessel receiving the water to be treated through the water inlet and discharging the water to be treated through the water outlet. The ultraviolet irradiation member is provided inside the treatment vessel along a second direction crossing the first direction and which irradiates the water to be treated flowing through the treatment vessel with an ultraviolet ray. The support member is provided inside the treatment vessel along the second direction with both end portions of the support member being firmly fixed to wall surfaces of the treatment vessel.

Abstract: There is provided a sheet processing apparatus capable of preventing the roll sheet cut by the cutting device from falling over to the sheet processing apparatus and improving the conveyance capability of the roll sheet when the long size roll sheet is made. Long size roll sheet is fixed at three spots, wherein the three spots are the top edge portion of the roll sheet receiving portion, the top edge portion on the downstream side of the regulatory member, and the bottom edge portion of the projecting portion. The bottom edge portion of the projecting portion is constructed to be always located inside a circular arc which starts from a center O with a maximum radius R of the roll sheet, wherein the circular arc passes the top edge portion of the roll sheet receiving portion and the top edge portion on the downstream side of the regulatory member.

Abstract: In manufacturing of a carboxyl group-containing water-soluble polymer by a precipitation polymerization method, a method which can improve production efficiency with increasing practicality continuously adds a monomer solution wherein a monomer component containing an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid is dissolved in an inert solvent in a concentration of 20 to 50% by volume to an inert solvent charged in a reaction vessel. In this case, the amount of the inert solvent charged in the reaction vessel is set so that the concentration of the monomer component in the total amount summed up with the monomer solution is 10 to 24% by volume, and the time period until completion of continuous addition of the total amount of the monomer solution is set so that the conversion of the monomer component at the time of completion of addition of the total amount of the monomer solution is 60% or more. The monomer component may contain a polymerizable compound having two or more ethylenically unsaturated groups.

Abstract: There is provided a communication device including a communication state determination section which determines a communication state corresponding to a transmission rate demanded from a simulation engine based on a transmission rate and a state of communication at the transmission rate between a first communication state measurement device and a second communication state measurement device via a real network, a traffic generation section which generates traffic by creating data based on the communication state determined by the communication state determination section, a protocol processing section which creates a packet including the data created by the traffic generation section, and a communication section which transmits the packet created by the protocol processing section to another communication device.

Abstract: Provided is a slide device which can reduce a frictional force more than a conventional slide device when used in an aqueous liquid containing a blood component. In a slide device which includes: a fixed-side slide member having a slide surface; and a rotary-side slide member having a slide surface, the slide device being used in an aqueous liquid containing a blood component in a state where the slide surface of the fixed-side slide member and the slide surface of the rotary-side slide member face each other in an opposed manner, at least one of the fixed-side slide member and the rotary-side slide member is formed of a member which is made of a material which contains silicon and has hydrate of silicon oxide on the slide surface thereof.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transfer mechanism that transfers a print medium, a printing device that prints on the print medium, a stationary blade that is provided on a downstream side in a transfer direction of the print medium further than the printing device to cut the print medium, a movable blade that is provided on a downstream side in a transfer direction of the print medium further than the printing device and that cut the print medium, and a step portion that is provided on a reverse face of the downstream blade which is located on downstream side in transferring of the print medium, the reverse face being reverse of a slide face of the downstream blade sliding on the upstream blade which is located on upstream side in transferring of the print medium, and that projects along a thickness direction of the downstream blade.

Abstract: A printer that includes a cassette mounting portion into which a tape cassette is mounted and from which is removed a tape cassette in an up-down direction, a printing head that performs printing on the tape, a platen roller that faces the printing head, a roller holder that rotatably supports the platen roller, a sensor that detects the type of the tape, a sensor holder that holds the sensor, and a protective portion that is provided on the roller holder and is provided above the sensor.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultraviolet irradiation system that sterilizes, disinfects, and inactivates raw water such as city water or underground water, includes a plurality of ultraviolet irradiation devices connected in series, and a controller configured to control output and non-output of the ultraviolet irradiation devices. The ultraviolet irradiation device includes a water processing vessel through which the raw water flows, an ultraviolet lamp configured to irradiate the raw water in the water processing vessel with ultraviolet rays, and an ultraviolet sensor configured to measure an amount of ultraviolet rays emitted from the ultraviolet lamp.