Abstract: A curable composition of the present invention includes a cationic polymerizable compound; a thermal polymerization initiator; and a storage stabilizer, in which the cationic polymerizable compound includes at least two selected from the group consisting of a glycidyl ether compound, an alicyclic epoxy compound, and an oxetane compound, a content of the thermal polymerization initiator is from 0.3 to 3 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the cationic polymerizable compound, and chain curing is enabled by thermal energy generated by a polymerization reaction of the cationic polymerizable compound.

Abstract: A plasma generation apparatus, and a plasma thruster configured to use the plasma generation apparatus are disclosed. The plasma generation apparatus includes a discharge vessel, a light-emitting monitor, a probe measuring instrument, a control device, and an optical axis driving unit. The discharge vessel is configured to ionize gas which is introduced to an inside thereof so as to generate plasma. The light-emitting monitor is configured to measure electron density of the plasma by emission spectra of the plasma. The probe measuring instrument is configured to measure the electron density of the plasma by a probe in the discharge vessel.

Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a control unit and an output unit. When the control unit receives cyclic information that is cycled within a specific group in which storage apparatuses with properties close to a property of the relevant storage apparatus are classified, and includes performance information of each storage apparatus belonging to the specific group and evaluation information indicative of an evaluation result of the performance information of each storage apparatus. The control unit acquires the performance information, combines it with the cyclic information, causes a result of evaluation of the performance information of each storage apparatus with respect to a specified evaluation index to be included in the cyclic information, and transmits the cyclic information to a storage apparatus which is a next cycling destination. And the output unit outputs at least one of the performance information and evaluation information included in the cyclic information.

Abstract: A control panel includes an input portion to which an operation by an operator is input; a unified screen storage element that stores a unified screen that is a screen that is unified with respect to the plurality of types of controllers, and displays the data; a display portion capable of displaying a special screen and the unified screen; and an operation control portion that switches between displaying the special screen and the unified screen on the display portion based on information input to the input portion, and controls an actuator control portion based on information input to the input portion.

Abstract: Provided are a plasma generation apparatus including a measurement device and capable of controlling conditions of plasma properly and stably, and a plasma thruster using the plasma generation apparatus. A plasma generation apparatus including a measurement device of the present invention includes a discharge vessel, a light-emitting monitor, a probe measuring instrument, a control device, and an optical axis driving unit. The discharge vessel ionizes gas which is introduced to an inside thereof so as to generate plasma. The light-emitting monitor measures electron density of the plasma by emission spectra of the plasma. The probe measuring instrument measures the electron density of the plasma by a probe disposed in the discharge vessel.

Abstract: A control panel includes an input portion to which an operation by an operator is input; a unified screen storage element that stores a unified screen that is a screen that is unified with respect to the plurality of types of controllers, and displays the data; a display portion capable of displaying a special screen and the unified screen; and an operation control portion that switches between displaying the special screen and the unified screen on the display portion based on information input to the input portion, and controls an actuator control portion based on information input to the input portion.

Abstract: A device including: a conductor through which a current to be measured flows; multiple coils arranged around the conductor; a first magnetic body provided to face one of end surfaces of each of the multiple coils and configured to magnetically short-circuit the multiple coils; and a second magnetic body provided to face another one of the end surfaces of each of the multiple coils, configured to magnetically short-circuit the multiple coils, and including through-holes through which coil wires from the multiple coils are passed, respectively, the through-holes being provided at positions facing the other end surfaces of the multiple coils, respectively.

Abstract: A device including: a conductor through which a current to be measured flows; multiple coils arranged around the conductor; a first magnetic body provided to face one of end surfaces of each of the multiple coils and configured to magnetically short-circuit the multiple coils; and a second magnetic body provided to face another one of the end surfaces of each of the multiple coils, configured to magnetically short-circuit the multiple coils, and including through-holes through which coil wires from the multiple coils are passed, respectively, the through-holes being provided at positions facing the other end surfaces of the multiple coils, respectively.

Abstract: A rocket nozzle includes a dual-bell nozzle and a gas introducing section configured to introduce gas into space surrounded by the dual-bell nozzle. Combustion gas flows in the space. The dual-bell nozzle includes a first stage nozzle bell-shaped and surrounding an upstream portion of the space, and a second stage nozzle bell-shaped and surrounding a downstream portion of the space. The dual-bell nozzle has an inflection point between the first stage nozzle and the second stage nozzle. The gas introducing section includes a gas inlet provided to an inner wall surface of the first stage nozzle. The gas is introduced into the space from the gas inlet.

Abstract: A rocket nozzle includes a dual-bell nozzle and a gas introducing section configured to introduce gas into space surrounded by the dual-bell nozzle. Combustion gas flows in the space. The dual-bell nozzle includes a first stage nozzle bell-shaped and surrounding an upstream portion of the space, and a second stage nozzle bell-shaped and surrounding a downstream portion of the space. The dual-bell nozzle has an inflection point between the first stage nozzle and the second stage nozzle. The gas introducing section includes a gas inlet provided to an inner wall surface of the first stage nozzle. The gas is introduced into the space from the gas inlet.

Abstract: A method to manufacture an extruded polystyrene resin foam includes the steps for heating and mixing a nucleating agent, a fire retardant, a polystyrene resin and a physical blowing agent except chlorofluorohydrocarbons together within an extruder to prepare a polystyrene resin melt; introducing the resin melt to a die having a cooling member therein and constructed so that a molten resin flow channel within the die is broad in a vertical direction but narrows abruptly near a die orifice ;and discharging the polystyrene resin melt from the die orifice into a guider attached to a top of the die and causing it to expand within the guider. The extruded foam has an apparent density of 0.015 to 0.06 g/cm3.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for speech recognition of the present application has a process to collate, with an input utterance, an acoustic model corresponding to a hypothesis to be expressed by the connection of utterance segments, such as phonemes or syllables, and developed according to a length of an input utterance by an inter-word connection rule thereby obtaining a recognition score. Within a word of the hypothesis, the similar hypotheses high in utterance score within a predetermined threshold from the maximum value of the score are all held to a word end irrespectively of the number of hypotheses. Meanwhile, at a word end of the hypotheses, the hypotheses are narrowed to a predetermined number of upper ranking in the order of higher score.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser in which six layers are grown on one another, over an Si—GaAs substrate, in the following order: an Si—GaAs buffer layer, an Si—AlGaInP cladding layer, an active layer, an Mg—AlGaInP cladding layer, an Mg—AlGaInP band discontinuity reduction layer, and a Zn—GaAs contact layer. In this configuration, the carrier concentration of the Si—GaAs substrate may be from 1×1017 cm?3 to 7×1017 cm?3 to reduce the number of atoms diffusing from the Si—GaAs substrate into the active layer and so the active layer of the semiconductor laser has good light emission characteristics.

Abstract: A disk unit for reading information from or writing information to a disk by means of a head supported by an actuator includes a shroud having a face perpendicular to a surface of the disk and opposing a peripheral edge of the disk, and a spoiler having a given height in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the disk and extending above the surface of the disk from the peripheral edge generally toward a center of the disk.

Abstract: A thick extruded polystyrene resin foam which can be obtained without using chlorofluorohydrocarbons has a center portion in which the cells are approximately spherical. The extruded polystyrene resin foam contains a residual gas selected from fluorohydrocarbons, aliphatic hydrocarbons and alicyclic hydrocarbons, and has a thickness of 45 to 150 mm and an apparent density of 0.015 to 0.06 g/cm3. The resin foam includes a center layer, excluding 10% of the foam thickness from each of the two foam surfaces, which is composed of cells with specific shape and compressive strengths in the foam thickness, transverse and machine directions.

Abstract: The invention consists in a capacitative electromagnetic flow meter in which excitation is performed at a frequency above the commercially available frequency and having a characteristic correction filter that corrects the gain frequency characteristic of the exciting current such that the exciting flux waveform has a flat section. In the detection unit, the value of the electrostatic capacitance between the face electrodes 4A, 4B and guard electrodes 5A, 5B is made smaller than the value of the electrostatic capacitance between the detecting face electrodes 4A, 4B and the fluid to be measured. The exciting coils are fixed to a cylindrical yoke, being electrostatically screened by coil fixing plates. Fixing by an earth ring is performed with this cylindrical yoke and the two ends of the measurement tube being symmetrical with respect to the tube axis and electrode axes. In addition, fixing is effected by filling the entire interior of the detection unit with epoxy resin.

Abstract: Provided is a hard coat film which has an inorganic hard coat layer having excellent scratch resistance and weatherability and inhibited from generation of curling and which is particularly suited for sticking on outside faces of window glasses in lofty buildings. The hard coat film is prepared by laminating in order a primer layer and a hard coat layer comprising metal oxide particles and a cured matter of a silane compound on one face of a base material and further providing, if necessary, a coating layer having various functions on the above hard coat layer.

Abstract: The invention consists in a capacitative electromagnetic flow meter in which excitation is performed at a frequency above the commercially available frequency and having a characteristic correction filter that corrects the gain frequency characteristic of the exciting current such that the exciting flux waveform has a flat section. In the detection unit, the value of the electrostatic capacitance between the face electrodes 4A, 4B and guard electrodes 5A, 5B is made smaller than the value of the electrostatic capacitance between the detecting face electrodes 4A, 4B and the fluid to be measured. The exciting coils are fixed to a cylindrical yoke, being electrostatically screened by coil fixing plates. Fixing by an earth ring is performed with this cylindrical yoke and the two ends of the measurement tube being symmetrical with respect to the tube axis and electrode axes. In addition, fixing is effected by filling the entire interior of the detection unit with epoxy resin.

Abstract: Provided is a hard coat film which has an inorganic hard coat layer having excellent scratch resistance and weatherability and inhibited from generation of curling and which is particularly suited for sticking on outside faces of window glasses in lofty buildings. The hard coat film is prepared by laminating in order a primer layer and a hard coat layer comprising metal oxide particles and a cured matter of a silane compound on one face of a base material and further providing, if necessary, a coating layer having various functions on the above hard coat layer.