Abstract: A security sensor system is provided which allows the stopping of the device due to the end of a battery life to be postponed by suppressing battery power consumption, which is caused due to an object detection operation of the security sensor system, after a low battery state is detected. The security sensor system is powered by a battery. When a low battery detector detects a reduction in the voltage of the battery, an object detection operation of the security sensor system is switched from a normal mode to a suppression mode. Consumption of the battery in the suppression mode is suppressed.

Abstract: Provided are a battery type determination device with a simple configuration capable of easily and reliably determining the types of a plurality of batteries irrespective of shapes and characteristics of the batteries, and a battery-driven electronic device that includes the battery type determination device and allows usage of plural types of batteries. The battery type determination device is used in a battery-driven electronic device operable with plural types of batteries having different shapes and characteristics, and includes a determination signal generator for generating a determination signal that is allocated for each of the plural types of batteries without depending on shapes and characteristics of the batteries and is formed by combination of binary signals prescribed for each type of battery; and a determination controller for determining the type of each battery based on the generated determination signal.

Abstract: A mast assembly for a forklift truck includes a plurality of guide units. At least one of the guide units includes a sliding pad member made of a plastic material and having a block-shaped body, which is hollow, is open at its base side, and has a rectangular ring-shaped cross section. The sliding pad member has a rectangular, plain, front wall provided at the side of the block-shaped body opposite to the base side thereof. The front wall has a sliding contact surface. Reinforcement ribs are formed on the inner surface of the front wall. Grooves are formed in the sliding contact surface, extending along the respective ones of the reinforcement ribs and helping avoid formation of shrinkage depressions in the sliding contact surface. The block-shaped body includes first and second pairs of opposing side walls. Tabs are formed on the first pair of opposing side walls.

Abstract: Provided is a reverse connection preventing structure in a battery-driven object detection device, which has a simple structure capable of preventing reverse connection of even a battery whose projecting positive electrode is relatively lower in height. The structure has a holder for holding the battery including a first terminal for electrically connecting to a projecting positive electrode and a second terminal for electrically connecting to a negative electrode. The first terminal is formed in a printed circuit board. On the printed circuit board, an insulating member of less than 0.5 mm in thickness are provided around the circumference of the first terminal in such a manner as to allow the first terminal to come in contact with the positive electrode of the battery which is mounted correctly and as to prevent the first terminal from coming in contact with the negative electrode of the battery which is mounted reversely.

Abstract: A thermal analyzer is provided with: a furnace tube; a pair of sample holders; a heating furnace; a measurement chamber; and a measurement unit arranged inside the measurement chamber. The sample holders are arranged inside the furnace tube and are provided with mounting faces on which a pair of sample containers are mounted respectively. The heating furnace has an opening through which a measurement sample is observable, the opening being located at a position above the center of a virtual segment which connects centers of gravity of the mounting faces of the sample holders. The opening is formed to have a size, as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction and the mounting faces, of 7 mm or more in the direction along the virtual segment and of 3 mm or more in the direction perpendicular to the virtual segment.

Abstract: A thermal analyzer (100) includes: a furnace tube (9) made of a transparent material; a heating furnace (3); a sample holding part (41, 42) arranged inside the furnace tube; a first support base (12); a second support base (14); a measurement chamber (30) connected to the furnace tube; a first movement part (22) for moving the first support base and the second support base between a measurement position, at which the furnace tube is connected to the measurement chamber, and a sample setting position, at which the sample holding part is exposed on a rear end side with respect to the furnace tube and the heating furnace; and a second movement part (24) for moving only the second support base to a sample observation position, at which the heating furnace is advanced and the furnace tube is exposed. Accordingly, the sample is observable from outside the exposed furnace tube.

Abstract: A thermal analyzer heats and cools a sample placed inside a furnace for measuring a thermal characteristic of the sample during heating and cooling. The thermal analyzer has a multilayer structure for covering the furnace and its surroundings so as to isolate the furnace and its surroundings from an external environment. The multilayer structure includes a multilayer wall with two layers formed of a material having high thermal conductivity and heat dissipation property. The two layers are spaced apart from one another to provide therebetween an interlayer that contains a substance having a heat capacity substantially equal to a gas contained in the furnace so that heat transfer between the two layers is minimized.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pest control composition comprising, as active ingredients, (A) an amide compound of the formula (I), wherein R1 is an ethyl group, R2 is a hydrogen atom or an ethyl group, R3 is a methyl group, R4 is a chlorine atom, a bromine atom or a methyl group, R5 is a chlorine atom, a bromine atom or a cyano group, R6 is a chlorine atom, a bromine atom or a trifluoromethyl group and R7 is a chlorine atom; and (B) pyriproxyfen.

Abstract: Provided is a reverse connection preventing structure in a battery-driven object detection device, which has a simple structure capable of preventing reverse connection of even a battery whose projecting positive electrode is relatively lower in height. The structure has a holder for holding the battery including a first terminal for electrically connecting to a projecting positive electrode and a second terminal for electrically connecting to a negative electrode. The first terminal is formed in a printed circuit board. On the printed circuit board, an insulating member of less than 0.5 mm in thickness are provided around the circumference of the first terminal in such a manner as to allow the first terminal to come in contact with the positive electrode of the battery which is mounted correctly and as to prevent the first terminal from coming in contact with the negative electrode of the battery which is mounted reversely.

Abstract: A thermal analyzer (100) includes: a furnace tube (9) made of a transparent material; a heating furnace (3); a sample holding part (41, 42) arranged inside the furnace tube; a first support base (12); a second support base (14); a measurement chamber (30) connected to the furnace tube; a first movement part (22) for moving the first support base and the second support base between a measurement position, at which the furnace tube is connected to the measurement chamber, and a sample setting position, at which the sample holding part is exposed on a rear end side with respect to the furnace tube and the heating furnace; and a second movement part (24) for moving only the second support base to a sample observation position, at which the heating furnace is advanced and the furnace tube is exposed. Accordingly, the sample is observable from outside the exposed furnace tube.

Abstract: A differential scanning calorimeter (1) includes: a sample container (2) for receiving a measurement sample; a reference substance container (3) for receiving a reference substance; a heat sink (10); a thermal resistance (5), which is connected between the sample container and the heat sink, and between the reference substance container and the heat sink to form heat flow paths therebetween; a sample-side thermocouple (7), which is thermally connected to the thermal resistance at a portion in the vicinity of the sample container with its hot-junction (7c) being insulated; and a reference substance-side thermocouple (8), which is thermally connected to the thermal resistance at a portion in the vicinity of the reference substance container with its hot junction (8c) being insulated, in which the sample-side thermocouple and the reference substance-side thermocouple output a heat flow difference signal indicating a temperature difference between the measurement sample and the reference substance.

Abstract: A mast assembly for a forklift truck includes a plurality of guide units. At least one of the guide units includes a sliding pad member made of a plastic material and having a block-shaped body, which is hollow, is open at its base side, and has a rectangular ring-shaped cross section. The sliding pad member has a rectangular, plain, front wall provided at the side of the block-shaped body opposite to the base side thereof. The front wall has a sliding contact surface. Reinforcement ribs are formed on the inner surface of the front wall. Grooves are formed in the sliding contact surface, extending along the respective ones of the reinforcement ribs and helping avoid formation of shrinkage depressions in the sliding contact surface. The block-shaped body includes first and second pairs of opposing side walls. Tabs are formed on the first pair of opposing side walls.

Abstract: In order to form a texture structure of inverse pyramid concavities with high speed and accuracy, when a reflection preventing texture is formed on a surface of a photovoltaic power device by laser patterning of an etching resistance film and wet etching, a plurality of laser apertures are machined in a diagonal direction of a square to be a base of the intended pyramid concavity by using a pulse laser and a laser beam splitting means, and a laser aperture pitch between the squares is set to be larger than a pitch on the diagonal.

Abstract: In a multilayered sintered sliding member, a porous sintered alloy layer comprising 3 to 10 wt. % of an Sn component, 10 to 30 wt. % of an Ni component, 0.5 to 4 wt. % of a P component, 30 to 50 wt. % of an Fe component, 1 to 10 wt. % of a high-speed tool steel component, 1 to 5 wt. % of a graphite component, and 20 to 55 wt. % of a copper component is integrally diffusion-bonded to a backing plate.

Abstract: The differential scanning calorimeter includes: a heat sink, which stores a measuring sample and a reference material; a heater, which heats the heat sink; a cooling block, which is separated away from the heat sink, and positioned below the heat sink; a thermal resistor, which is connected between the heat sink and the cooling block, and forms a heat flow path therebetween; a cooling head, which is detachably fitted to the cooling block, and is cooled by an external cooling device; and differential heat flow detectors, which output a temperature difference between the measuring sample and the reference material as a heat-flow-difference signal, in which: the cooling block forms a side wall to fit the bore of the cooling head outward from the joint of the thermal resistance body; the top surface of the cooling head is lower than the joint.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pest control composition comprising, as active ingredients, an amide compound of the formula (I) [(I) where in R1 and R3 represent, for example, a C1-C6 alkyl group; R2 represent, for example, a Hydrogen atom, a C1-C6 alkyl group; R4 represent, for example, a halogen atom, a C1-C6 alkyl group; R5 represent, for example, a halogen atom, a cyano group; R6 and R7 represent, for example, a halogen atom] and pyriproxyfen; and so on.

Abstract: A sliding contact surface-forming material includes a reinforcing base impregnated with a resol-type phenolic resin having polytetrafluoroethylene resin dispersed therein. The reinforcing base being composed of a woven fabric formed by using, respectively as the warp and the weft, a ply yarn which is formed by paralleling at least two strands of a single twist yarn spun from fluorine-containing resin fiber and a single twist yarn spun from polyester fiber, and by twisting them in the direction opposite to the direction in which the single twist yarns were spun Additionally, a multi-layered sliding contact component having the overall shape of a flat plate or a circular cylinder includes the above-described sliding contact surface-forming material so as to configure at least the sliding-contact surface thereof.

Abstract: A sliding contact surface-forming material includes a reinforcing base impregnated with a resol-type phenolic resin having polytetrafluoroethylene resin dispersed therein. The reinforcing base is composed of a woven fabric formed by using, respectively as the warp and the weft, a ply yarn which is formed by paralleling at least two strands of a single twist yarn spun from fluorine-containing resin fiber and a single twist yarn spun from polyphenylene sulfide fiber, and by twisting them in the direction opposite to the direction in which the single twist yarns were spun. Also, a multi-layered sliding contact component having the overall shape of a flat plate or a circular cylinder includes the sliding contact surface-forming material so as to configure at least the sliding-contact surface thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to use of amide compounds for promoting root growth of plants.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pest controlling composition comprising, as active ingredients, an amide compound of the formula (I) and a neonicotinoid compound; and so on.