Abstract: A coating facility including: a first base outer surface coating zone; a second base inner surface coating zone; a second base outer surface coating zone; a clear inner surface coating zone and a clear outer surface coating zone; and a baking zone in which each wet coating film are simultaneously baked and cured.

Abstract: A data memory device has a command transfer direct memory access (DMA) engine configured to obtain a command that is generated by an external apparatus to give a data transfer instruction from a memory of the external apparatus; obtain specifics of the instruction; store the command in a command buffer; obtain a command number that identifies the command being processed; and activate a transfer list generating DMA engine by transmitting the command number depending on the specifics of the instruction of the command. The transfer list generating DMA engine is configured to: identify, based on the command stored in the command buffer, an address in the memory to be transferred between the external apparatus and the data memory device; and activate the data transfer DMA engine by transmitting the address to the data transfer DMA engine which then transfers the data to/from the memory based on the received address.

Abstract: A production apparatus includes the following stations juxtaposed in the following sequence: a parison forming station for forming a parison; a built-in part attachment station where opposite sides of a center die provided with a built-in part are held between a pair of molding dies to locate the center die in the molding dies with the parison between the center die and the molding dies, and the built-in part being attached to the parison transferred to the molding dies; a molding station where the molding dies are closed to mold the hollow molded product; and a conveyance station for taking the hollow molded product out of the molding dies and conveying the hollow molded product. The center die is fixed at the built-in part attachment station, and the molding dies are configured to be movable back and forth between the built-in part attachment station and the molding station.

Abstract: An armrest structure for door trim has an armrest lower, an armrest upper, and a ioining component that loins the armrest upper and the armrest lower together, wherein the ioining component is provided with a strap portion, and an anchor portion, and wherein the attachment hole has a wider portion through which the anchor portion can be inserted, and a narrower portion through which the anchor portion cannot be inserted, and during a process to assemble the armrest upper and the armrest lower together, the anchor portion is inserted through the wider portion, and once the armrest upper and the armrest lower are in an assembled state, the anchor portion is located at a position underneath the narrower portion of the attachment hole that is formed in the armrest lower.

Abstract: A production apparatus includes the following stations juxtaposed in the following sequence: a parison forming station for forming a parison; a built-in part attachment station where opposite sides of a center die provided with a built-in part are held between a pair of molding dies to locate the center die in the molding dies with the parison between the center die and the molding dies, and the built-in part being attached to the parison transferred to the molding dies; a molding station where the molding dies are closed to mold the hollow molded product; and a conveyance station for taking the hollow molded product out of the molding dies and conveying the hollow molded product. The center die is fixed at the built-in part attachment station, and the molding dies are configured to be movable back and forth between the built-in part attachment station and the molding station.

Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly which includes an anode, a cathode and a solid polymer electrolyte membrane that are specifically arranged, wherein the cathode has a cathode catalyst layer and a cathode diffusion layer that is arranged on a surface of the cathode catalyst layer, the surface being on the side opposite the solid polymer electrolyte membrane side, the cathode catalyst layer contains an oxygen reduction catalyst composed of composite particles each of which is constituted of a catalyst metal containing palladium or a palladium alloy and a catalyst carrier containing, as constituent elements, a specific transition metal element M1, a transition metal element M2 other than the transition metal element M1, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen in a specific ratio, and the cathode diffusion layer contains an oxidation catalyst and a water-repellent resin.

Abstract: Provided is a peptide that specifically or selectively binds to human IgG. This peptide comprises an amino acid sequence consisting of 13 to 17 amino acid residues and is capable of binding to human IgG, wherein the amino acid sequence is represented by formula I: (X1-3)-C-(X2)-H-R-G-(Xaa1)-L-V-W-C-(X1-3), wherein, X each independently represents any amino acid residue except cysteine, C represents a cysteine residue, H represents a histidine residue, R represents an arginine residue, G represents a glycine residue, Xaa1 represents a glutamic acid residue or an asparagine residue, L represents a leucine residue, V represents a valine residue, and W represents a tryptophan residue.

Abstract: A production apparatus includes the following stations juxtaposed in the following sequence: a parison forming station for forming a parison; a built-in part attachment station where opposite sides of a center die provided with a built-in part are held between a pair of molding dies to locate the center die in the molding dies with the parison between the center die and the molding dies, and the built-in part being attached to the parison transferred to the molding dies; a molding station where the molding dies are closed to mold the hollow molded product; and a conveyance station for taking the hollow molded product out of the molding dies and conveying the hollow molded product. The center die is fixed at the built-in part attachment station, and the molding dies are configured to be movable back and forth between the built-in part attachment station and the molding station.

Abstract: An oxygen reduction catalyst which includes composite particles including a portion including an inorganic metal compound and a portion containing carbon. The composite particles include a metal element M1, carbon, and oxygen as constituent elements; the amount of carbon atoms is 1 to 10 mol, and the amount of oxygen atoms is 1 to 3 mol, assuming that the total amount of atoms in the metal element M1 is 1 mol; a G-band and a D-band are present in a Raman spectrum, and a V/G ratio defined in an expression described below is 0.10 to 0.35: V/G ratio=(minimum value of spectral intensity in region V which is a region between G-band and D-band)/(peak intensity in G-band).

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a substrate; a first semiconductor layer formed on the substrate and formed of a nitride semiconductor; a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer and formed of a nitride semiconductor; first and second gate electrodes, a source electrode, and a drain electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer; an interlayer insulation film formed on the second semiconductor layer; and a field plate formed on the interlayer insulation film. Further, the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are formed between a region where the source electrode is formed and a region where the field plate is formed, an element isolation region is formed in the first and the second semiconductor layers which are between the first and the second gate electrodes, and the second gate electrode is electrically connected to the source electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a molding machine crosshead which uses one additional resin extruder and one base resin extruder that are connected to one annular flow channel of a crosshead unit at mutually different angular positions and which is configured to form a parison by adding an additional layer constituted by an additional resin from the additional resin extruder to a base layer constituted by a base resin supplied from the base resin extruder into the annular flow channel, the additional resin being a material different from the base resin, wherein the additional resin is formed in a linear shape along the longitudinal direction of the parison as part of the parison.

Abstract: A power source circuit includes: a P-type transistor one of a source and a drain of which is connected to a first power source line and the other of the source and the drain of which is connected to an output node; a resistor connected between a back gate of the P-type transistor and the first power source line; and a capacitance element connected to the back gate of the P-type transistor and to a second power source line having a potential lower than a potential of the first power source line.

Abstract: An active vibration isolation device includes: a housing fixed to a vibration isolation target; a movable shaft elastically supported by the housing displaceably in an axial direction; a yoke having an umbrella-shaped part provided consecutively and coaxially with the movable shaft and a circular cylindrical part provided consecutively with an outer circumference of the umbrella-shaped part and coaxially with the movable shaft; a ring-shaped coil fixed between the movable shaft and the cylindrical part; and first and second permanent magnets in a ring shape attached to the yoke. The first permanent magnet is smaller in diameter than the coil and is disposed inside the coil in a radial direction of the coil. The second permanent magnet is larger in diameter than the coil and is disposed outside the coil in the radial direction so that part thereof is made to face an inside of the yoke.

Abstract: When ignition is retarded in an internal combustion engine, an engine misfire detection system calculates a difference between combustion-time engine torque produced when combustion takes place in the engine, and expansion torque corresponding to non-combustion-time engine torque produced when the engine rotates without causing combustion, at intervals of a predetermined crank angle, calculates a shift amount with which a total value of the differences within a misfire determination period is maximized, and shifts the misfire determination period by the shift amount.

Abstract: A control circuit includes: a signal generating circuit configured to generate a PWM signal; and a drive control circuit configured to alternately turn on a first transistor and a second transistor in accordance with the PWM signal, the first transistor and the second transistor being connected in series between a wiring to which a first voltage is supplied and a wiring to which a reference potential is supplied. The drive control circuit turns on one of the first transistor and the second transistor when detecting that an electric potential of an N well of the first transistor or the second transistor in triple-well structure, connected to a wiring to which a second voltage lower than the first voltage is supplied via a resistor becomes lower than a threshold value after the other of the first transistor and the second transistor is turned off.

Abstract: A cache control apparatus comprises a primary cache part, a secondary cache part for caching data destaged from the primary cache part, and a controller connected to the primary cache part and to the secondary cache part. The secondary cache part has a first storage part and a second storage part having a lifetime longer than that of the first storage part. The controller determines whether the data destaged from the primary cache part is to be stored in the first storage part or the second storage part in the secondary cache part, based on a use state indicating whether or not the data has been updated, and stores the data in the first storage part or the second storage part determined.

Abstract: There is disclosed cutting means of a honeycomb dried body in which cracks are not easily generated in the honeycomb dried body, even when a grindstone continues to be used for a long period of time, a cutting speed is raised and a cutting object is a honeycomb dried body having a large diameter. There is provided a cutting method of a honeycomb dried body to cut the honeycomb dried body while applying a force Pm which resists a thrust force Pt required for the cutting and a weight Pw of a cutoff section, to a portion which becomes the cutoff section.

Abstract: Provided is a method for operating a fuel cell involving supplying an electrode with a low or non-humidified gas that achieves no significant decrease of voltage as compared with when a high-humidified feed gas is used. The method for operating a fuel cell having a membrane electrode assembly includes a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte membrane interposed between both the electrodes, wherein the cathode has a layer including an oxygen reducing catalyst including composite particles which include atoms of a metal element M1, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen and in which primary particles of a compound of the metal element M1 are dispersed in a carbon structure, which method includes supplying the cathode with an oxidizing agent gas which includes an oxygen gas and which has a relative humidity at a temperature of the membrane electrode assembly of 60% or less, and supplying the anode with a fuel gas.

Abstract: A vehicular seat air-conditioning system comprising a blower (11) which generates blown air, an intake duct (12) which is connected to an intake side of the blower (11), a seat air-conditioning duct (13) which is connected to the in-door air-conditioning unit (21) and in which cool air which was cooled by the in-door air-conditioning unit (21) flows, and a box-shaped part (14) which is formed by a separate member from chassis members forming the cabin space and which is connected to a downstream side end of the seat air-conditioning duct (13). The box-shaped part (14) have side walls (14b) which extend in a vertical direction and a bottom (14c) which closes a space surrounded by the side walls (14b) from the lower side, the top ends of the side walls (14b) form an opening part (14a) which opens facing the upper side in the vertical direction, and an upstream side end of the intake duct (12) is inserted into the inside of the box-shaped part (14) through the opening part (14a).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel cell electrode catalyst with which high durability and a high maximum output density are obtained even when a fuel cell is continuously operated for long time; a method for producing the fuel cell electrode catalyst; a fuel cell in which the catalyst is used; and the like. A method for producing a fuel cell electrode catalyst is provided, the method including: a step of preparing a catalyst precursor comprising each atom of a metal element, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and comprising copper as the metal element; and a contact step of bringing the catalyst precursor and an acid solution into contact with each other to obtain a catalyst.