Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a casing provided with shafts therein, a rotational member positioned in the casing at an end portion in an axial direction of the shafts, the rotational member being configured to lift up a lubricating oil so as to supply the lubricating oil to a part that is different from the end portion inside the casing, and an oil passage provided along the axis line direction of the shafts, the oil passage configured to receive the lubricating oil lifted up by the rotational member at a first end portion in a longitudinal direction of the oil passage and to supply the lubricating oil through a second end portion in the longitudinal direction of the oil passage to a part inside the casing placed far away from the rotational member, the oil passage being integrally formed with the casing.

Abstract: An optically-compensatory sheet comprises an optically anisotropic layer that comprises a liquid crystal compound, wherein the liquid crystal compound in the optically anisotropic layer has Smax of 0.4 or more, in which Smax is a maximum value among S1, S2 and S3, S1 is an alignment order parameter in a vicinity of an interface between the optically anisotropic layer and air; S2 is an alignment order parameter in a vicinity of an interface on a side opposite to the interface between the optically anisotropic layer and air; and S3 is an alignment order parameter in an interior of the optically anisotropic layer.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide electrode compartment structures in electrochemical liquid treatment equipments, which enable stable operation using pure water as an electrode compartment liquid requiring no concentration adjustment without adverse electrode reaction. The present invention relates an electrochemical liquid treatment equipment comprising ion exchange membranes between an anode and a cathode, which has an anode compartment defined by the anode and a cation exchange membrane and a cathode compartment defined by the cathode and an anion exchange membrane (12), each of the anode compartment and cathode compartment being packed with an ion exchanger (14) composed of a fibrous a material, each of the anode and cathode (11) being formed from a liquid- and gas-permeable and electrically conductive material, and the equipment also having an electrode compartment liquid flowing chamber (15) which is formed behind each of the anode and cathode.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a casing provided with shafts therein, a rotational member positioned in the casing at an end portion in an axial direction of the shafts, the rotational member being configured to lift up a lubricating oil so as to supply the lubricating oil to a part that is different from the end portion inside the casing, and an oil passage provided along the axis line direction of the shafts, the oil passage configured to receive the lubricating oil lifted up by the rotational member at a first end portion in a longitudinal direction of the oil passage and to supply the lubricating oil through a second end portion in the longitudinal direction of the oil passage to a part inside the casing placed far away from the rotational member, the oil passage being integrally formed with the casing.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrical deionization apparatus having a novel constitution with excellent deionization efficiency. As means for solving this problem, according to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an electrical deionization apparatus having deionization compartments, concentration compartments and electrode compartments partitioned from one another by a plurality of ion exchange membranes between a cathode and an anode, wherein, in the deionization compartments and/or the concentration compartments and/or the electrode compartments, at least one of anion exchange fibrous material layers and cation exchange fibrous material layers are disposed on one another intersecting a water-passing direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides ion exchangers for an electrical deionization apparatus that can be operated at low voltages by preventing voltage buildup in the electrical deionization apparatus, and an electrical deionization apparatus incorporating said ion exchangers. The present invention provides an ion exchanger for an electrical deionization apparatus, which is to be used as an ion exchanger placed in at least one of a deionization compartment and/or concentration compartment and, which at least partially has a plurality of different functional groups, or which has a graft chain having an ion exchange group on the backbone of an organic polymer substrate and further has a second graft chain on said graft chain, or which has a crosslinked graft chain having an ion exchange group on the backbone of an organic polymer substrate.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an electrical deionization apparatus capable of long-term operation at a low voltage. To achieve this object, the present invention is directed to an electrical deionization apparatus based on a completely new compartment configuration and provides an electrical deionization apparatus comprising multiple compartments separated by cation- and anion-exchange membranes arranged between anode and cathode, wherein the anion-exchange membrane on the anode side and the cation-exchange membrane on the cathode side together define a water splitting compartment, and wherein an anion deionization compartment defined between anion-exchange membranes is placed on the anode side of the water splitting compartment, and a cation deionization compartment defined between cation-exchange membranes is placed on the cathode side of the water splitting compartment.