Abstract: The metal complex comprises a multivalent carboxylic acid compound, at least one metal ion selected from ions of metals belonging to Groups 2 to 13 of the periodic table, an organic ligand capable of multidentate binding to the metal ion, and a C1 or C2 monocarboxylic acid compound. The metal complex has excellent gas adsorption, storage, and separation performance as well as excellent durability. The metal complex is stably present under high temperature and high humidity, and can maintain high adsorption performance.

Abstract: In a bent axis type axial piston motor, so as to smoothly rotate a drive shaft without lowering motor efficiency and brake the drive shaft if necessary, when the drive shaft is rotated through a cylinder block by causing piston rods to reciprocate, relative rotation between separate plates and friction plates is allowed by removing a pressing force applied by a braking piston, and when the separate plates and the friction plates are pushed to a brake force receiving plate by the braking piston, relative rotation between the separate plates and the friction plates is restrained and thus the drive shaft is braked. Restriction members are disposed between a casing and the brake force receiving plate so as to restrain the brake force receiving plate from moving relative to the casing along the axis of the drive shaft.

Abstract: Each CM includes an interface unit, a first detection unit, and a reset control unit. The interface unit is configured to be connected to a communication channel and control communication using the communication channel. The first detection unit is configured to detect an abnormality in an inter-CM path including the interface unit of the CM, to which the first detection unit belongs, the interface unit of the other CM, and the communication channel. The reset control unit is configured to retract the other CM and reset the interface unit of the one CM in a case where an abnormality of the other CM side is detected by the first detection unit. Accordingly, even in a case where a suspicious control unit in which an abnormality has occurred is erroneously specified, the maintenance of the suspicious control unit can be performed with the operation being continued.

Abstract: A damper device configured with an input element, an intermediate element to which power is transferred from the input element through a first elastic body, and an output element to which power is transferred from the intermediate element through a second elastic body. One of the output element and the intermediate element has a protruding portion projecting in an axial direction. The other one of the output element and the intermediate element has a cutout portion corresponding to the protruding portion. The protruding portion has a restricting portion that is engaged with the cutout portion in a rotation direction so as to restrict rotation of the intermediate element relative to the output element, and a support portion that is engaged with the cutout portion so that the intermediate element is supported by the output element in a radial direction.

Abstract: A needle type gauge includes: a needle that includes a main rotating portion that rotates around a rotation shaft, and an indicator which points out an index part; and an actuator. The main rotating portion includes a light emitting portion that emits strip-shaped light. The light emitting portion is located at the actuator side relative to the indicator, and emits the strip-shaped light to a nearby area to the indicator and located, relative the indicator, at one side in a rotation direction of the indicator. The needle includes a shield which extends in a direction of the actuator from the indicator, extends along the indicator, and blocks, among the strip-shaped light, light directed from the one side in the rotation direction of the indicator to the other side therein.

Abstract: A Controller Module (CM) includes a memory that temporarily stores therein data to be written into storage, a switch that connects to another CM and a DMA controller that transfers the data stored in the memory to the other CM via the switch. The DMA controller reads a transfer status of the transferred data from the switch and writes the read transfer status into the memory.

Abstract: A torque fluctuation absorbing apparatus is capable of securely sealing a space housing an elastic member even on application of a centrifugal force or at the time of cooling. The torque fluctuation absorbing apparatus includes a center plate, a side plate(s) (side plate assembly) coaxial with the center plate and slidably relative to the center plate, and an elastic member housed within a space delimited by the side plate assembly to absorb torque fluctuations between the side plate assembly and the center plate. The apparatus also includes a cover member secured to the center plate and slidably pressure contacted with the side plate assembly to cover from outside a space housing the elastic member, and a suppressing section capable of suppressing the cover member from deforming under a pressure acting on the cover member when atmospheric pressure within the space housing the elastic member(s) becomes lower than outside atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: A vehicular fluid power transmitting device has a pump impeller, a turbine runner, damper device, an annular set member and a bearing assembly. The pump impeller has a pump shell. The damper device is provided between a drive source and the pump shell in an axial direction of an output shaft, and has a damper input member that is connected to the drive source, and a damper output member that is connected to the pump shell. The damper output member is connected to the annular set member that is fixed to the pump shell. The damper input member is relatively rotatably supported via the bearing assembly by the annular set member.

Abstract: An instrument device which enhances a texture while creating a sense of depth by superimposing and stereoscopically disposing a light-guiding member on an indicator panel, and which has a good appearance and visibility when illuminated, is provided. The instrument device includes an indicator panel, an instrument main part, an indicator needle provided to the instrument main part, a transparent light-guiding member disposed on the indicator panel, and a light source that emits a light beam into the light-guiding member. The light-guiding member is provided with a light-guiding portion provided at the outer circumferential portion of the light-guiding member and which reflects the light beam from the light source in the direction toward the rotation center of the indicator needle, so that portions of the indicator panel shine like strips, and the indicator panel and the light-guiding member are illuminated in a stereoscopic manner.

Abstract: A vehicular fluid power transmitting device includes a pump impeller, a turbine runner, a damper device, and a ring-shaped annular set member. The pump shell has a rear shell and a front shell that is connected to the rear shell. Also, the ring-shaped annular set member connects the damper output member to the front shell and is fixed to the front shell. An intermediate position between a position of an outer radius of the front shell and a position of a radius of the cylindrical shaft is included in a width (W) of the annular set member in a radial direction of the annular set member.

Abstract: A vehicular fluid power transmitting device includes a pump impeller, a turbine runner, a damper device, a set member, and a centering member. The pump impeller has a pump shell to which torque from a drive source is input. The damper device has a damper input member and a damper output member. The damper input member is connected to an output shaft of the drive source. The damper output member is connected to the pump shell. The set member is fixed to the pump shell, and is connected to the damper output member. Also, the centering member is provided protruding toward the pump shell from the output shaft of the drive source, and is fitted together with the damper input member.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an adsorbent material having excellent gas storage performance and gas separation performance. This object can be achieved by an adsorbent material comprising a composition comprising a metal complex (A) and an elastomer (B), the metal complex (A) containing an anionic ligand and at least one metal ion selected from ions of metals belonging to Groups 1 to 13 of the periodic table, the metal complex (A) being capable of undergoing a volume change upon adsorption, and the mass ratio of the metal complex (A) and the elastomer (B) being within the range of 1:99 to 99:1.

Abstract: The problem of providing a metal complex having excellent gas adsorption performance, gas storage performance, and gas separation performance is solved by a metal complex comprising a dicarboxylic acid compound (I) including 20 to 99 mole % of a dicarboxylic acid compound (I-1) selected from terephthalic acid derivatives having an electron-donating group in the 2nd position such as 2-methoxyterephthalic acid, 2-methylterephthalic acid, and terephthalic acid, and 80 to 1 mole % of a dicarboxylic acid compound (I-2) selected from terephthalic acid derivatives having an electron-withdrawing group in the 2nd position such as 2-nitroterephthalic acid, 2-fluoroterephthalic acid, 2-chloroterephthalic acid, 2-bromoterephthalic acid, and 2-iodoterephthalic acid; at least one kind of metal ion selected from metal ions belonging to Group 2 and Groups 7 to 12 of the periodic table; and an organic ligand capable of bidentate binding to the metal ion.

Abstract: A torque fluctuation absorber includes a drive plate configured to rotate integrally with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, a center plate, a side plate, an elastic member for absorbing torque fluctuations, and a block member configured to be engaged with the drive plate and attached to the side plate, wherein the side plate includes plural accommodation portions accommodating the elastic member, and at least one of a recessed portion and a first window portion which are provided at a position corresponding to a position of the block member, and the block member is attached to a portion of the side plate between adjacent accommodation portions in a circumferential direction of the side plate.

Abstract: A torque fluctuation reducing apparatus includes a first main damper provided on a power transmission path between a drive source and a transmission, and reducing fluctuation torque generated between the drive source and the transmission, a second main damper provided at a transmission-side relative to the first main damper to be in series with the first main damper and reducing the fluctuation torque, the second main damper including a vibration damping property which is different from a vibration damping property of the first main damper, a dynamic damper provided between the first main damper and the second main damper, and restricting vibration at a specific resonance point of a drive system on the power transmission path by using an inertia body and an elastic force, a chamber accommodating the first and the second main dampers, and the dynamic damper, and a viscous medium enclosed in part of the chamber.

Abstract: A torque fluctuation absorber includes a center plate rotatably arranged, a side plate arranged coaxially with and rotatably relative to the center plate, an elastic member accommodated in a space surrounded by the side plate and absorbing torque fluctuations generated between the side plate and the center plate, a cover member separating the space and an outside space from each other by covering a clearance between the center plate and the side plate, and a vent portion arranged inwardly in a radial direction of the side plate relative to the cover member and providing a ventilation between the space and the outside space.

Abstract: Disclosed is a metal complex that can be used as a gas absorption material with superior gas absorbing properties, a gas storage material with a high storage capacity, and a gas separation material with superior gas separation performance and high adsorption capacity. Disclosed is a metal complex, and a manufacturing method therefor, which consists of: a polycyclic aromatic dihydroxy monocarboxylic acid compound, in the structural formula of which hydroxyl groups are at the farthest locations from each other, which has carboxyl groups at the locations adjacent to the hydroxyl groups, and which has 10 or more circularly conjugated ? electrons, such as 3,7-dihydorxy-2-naphtoic acid or 4,4?-dihydroxy-3-biphenylcaroxylic acid; at least one metal selected from chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese, iron, ruthenium, cobalt, rhodium, nickel, palladium, copper, zinc, and cadmium; and an organic ligand, such as 4,4?-bipyridyl, capable of bidentate bonding with said metal.

Abstract: A damper device configured with an input element, an intermediate element to which power is transferred from the input element through a first elastic body, and an output element to which power is transferred from the intermediate element through a second elastic body. One of the output element and the intermediate element has a protruding portion projecting in an axial direction. The other one of the output element and the intermediate element has a cutout portion corresponding to the protruding portion. The protruding portion has a restricting portion that is engaged with the cutout portion in a rotation direction so as to restrict rotation of the intermediate element relative to the output element, and a support portion that is engaged with the cutout portion so that the intermediate element is supported by the output element in a radial direction.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an MIS type semiconductor device, including a channel layer between a semiconductor body region and a gate insulating film, the channel layer having an opposite semiconductor polarity to that of the semiconductor body region. Since Vfb of the semiconductor device is equivalent to or less than a gate rated voltage Vgcc? of the semiconductor device with respect to an OFF-polarity, density of carrier charge that is induced near the surface of the semiconductor body region is kept at a predetermined amount or less with a guaranteed range of operation of the semiconductor device.

Abstract: The present invention provides hydrogenated ?-pinene-based polymers with excellent heat resistance and light resistance, low absorptivity and high transparency, as well as molded articles thereof. The polymers of the present invention contain 50% by mass or more of ?-pinene units and are hydrogenated ?-pinene-based polymers where the ratio of the proton integral value at 6 to 8 ppm to the total proton integral value in a 1H-NMR spectrum is 2.3×10?5 or less or the p-phenylene group content is 0.0055% by mass or less, and the ratio of the proton integral value at 4.5 to 6 ppm to the total proton integral value is 2.8×10?4 or less or the cyclohexene-1,4-diyl group content is 0.29% by mass or less. The molded articles of the present invention contain the above hydrogenated ?-pinene-based polymers.