Abstract: A turbo-molecular pump of high safety and reliability has been developed so that if an abnormal condition should develop on the rotor structure, it will not lead to damage to the stator or pump casing to cause loss of vacuum in a vacuum processing system. The turbo-molecular pump comprises a pump casing housing a stator and a rotor therein, a vane pumping section and/or a groove pumping section comprised by the stator and the rotor, and a constriction releasing structure for releasing constriction of at least a part of the stator when an abnormal torque is applied to the stator by the rotor.

Abstract: A hydraulic control device for a working vehicle capable of enhancing excavating ability even when earth to be excavated is hard is provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a self-propelled crushing machine in which a crushed material having a widely desired grain size can be obtained, a degree of freedom for automatically controlling a rotary tab and a rotary crusher can be preferably improved, and a crushing having a high efficiency can be performed.

Abstract: A powder pressing apparatus comprises a die having a through hole, an upper punch and a lower punch. At least one of the upper and lower punches has a punching surface having an edge portion provided with a projection. The projection has a tip chamfered by a width not greater than 0.5 mm. The punching surface has a slope having a surface roughness Ra not greater than 1.0 &mgr;m. A rare-earth alloy powder is fed into a cavity formed in the through hole of the die. The rare-earth alloy powder in the cavity is oriented by magnetic field, and pressed by using the upper and lower punches. The upper punch and the lower punch are brought closest to each other at a minimum distance not smaller than 1.7 mm during the pressing. An obtained compact is used for manufacture of a sintered body and a voice coil motor.

Abstract: A mast 18 of an automatic warehouse 10 is extended to a position under a floor 2 in a clean room in such a manner as to penetrate the floor 2, and a turn table 16 is installed under the floor. In addition, two types of stations, that is, a floor station 26 and an underfloor station 30 are provided, and shelves 14 are provided only in a floor space. The floor station 26 is connected to an unmanned carrier 34, while the underfloor station 30 is connected to a tracked cart 36. This automatic warehouse is easy to install and allows an underfloor space to be used to transfer articles.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing an optical unit, its manufacturing method, and electrophotographic device that can easily and inexpensively achieve a reliable latent image formation on a photosensitive drum, and can form a high-quality image. To realize the above aims, a lens barrel and a collimating lens are bonded only at a single spot, and the bonding orientation is aligned approximately with a main scanning direction. Thereby displacement of the collimating lens caused by a thermal expansion of the adhesive is restricted to the main scanning direction as adjustable by other components.

Abstract: Although the inventors previously found that the novel species designated Lactobacillus clearans was highly effective for health purposes, they noted in particular that this species lacked sufficient intestinal purification action. Efforts to produce a species of higher potency and the like to remedy this drawback led to the unavoidable conclusion that the use of a bacterium by itself produced limited results. The concurrent use of another active substance was thus considered in seeking a lactic acid bacteria preparation capable of invigorating healthy individuals, and of renewing a sense of well being and restored health in semi-sick individuals or semi-healthy individuals. The invention relates to a lactic acid bacteria preparation, comprising viable cells of Lactobacillus clearans, and either or both of viable and killed cells of Enterococcus faecalis capable of reducing one or more of at least triglycerides and cholesterol.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor element having electrodes and metal bumps are attached to the electrodes. The metal bumps include copper cores and gold surface layers covering the cores. In addition, the metal bumps may include gold bump elements and solder bump elements connected together.

Abstract: To prevent an operator from being hurt by a hot outside panel of an electronic device when he touches the outside panel with his hand or a portion of his body, the outside panel is improved and an electronic device safe for the operator is provided. There are provided spaces for heat insulation in an outside panel and, by the action of the spaces, the apparent temperature of the outside panel is decreased. Also, ducts are provided in the outside panel, and the temperature of the outside panel itself is decreased by the action of the ducts. Further, a large number of protrusions are provided on the surface of the outside panel, and a heat insulating section is formed at the forward end of each protrusion, so that the apparent temperature is decreased.

Abstract: The present invention produces an Fe-based member having a high Young's modulus and a high toughness. In producing an Fe-based member, a first step and a second step are sequentially carried out. At the first step, an Fe-based material comprising 1.5% by weight≦C≦2.5% by weight 1.4% by weight≦Si≦3.5% by weight 0.9% by weight≦Mn≦1.7% by weight 0.5% by weight≦Ni≦1.5% by weight, and the balance of Fe including inevitable impurities is subjected to a thermal treatment at a heating temperature set in a range of TS<T1<TL and under a quenching condition, wherein TS represents a solidus temperature of the Fe-based material, and TL represents a liquidus temperature.

Abstract: A connection structure for power supply to a vehicle door comprising a door side connector 4 and a body side connector 3, either one of the door side connector and the body side connector being provided with female terminals 9 and the other connector being provided with male terminals 28, each of the female terminals including contact members 14 having a pair of contact portions 15 which are biased in a closing direction by means of a spring member 22 and adapted to be opened and closed in a horizontal direction, and each of the male terminal 28 being inserted between a pair of the contact portions. A pair of the contact portions are provided with shutters 12 respectively at their forward ends, and the shutters are closed when the contact portions are closed thereby to close an opening 11 formed in the connector 3 for receiving the male terminal. The connector 3 may be provided with openings for draining water and removing dusts. The female terminal 9 is rotatably supported about a support shaft 21.

Abstract: A curable composition useful in water-based paints comprises a water-based product obtained by dispersing or dissolving in water a vinyl polymer (II) containing tertiary amino and/or acidic groups which have been neutralized by an acidic or basic compound, an epoxy and hydrolysable silyl groups-containing compound (B), and a hydrolysable silyl and/or silanol groups-containing compound (F).

Abstract: A servo system controller in which motor specification data inputted through a CRT/keyboard (1) and representing the characteristics of a motor is edited into electronic cam data by a data editing section (22), the edited data is displayed in the form of a table or graph, such as a cam diagram, on a data display section (25), and the electronic cam data converted into the one of a format enabling cam motion is generated by a machine drive section and stored, comprising input data calculating means (26) for calculating the acceleration/deceleration peak torques and the rotational speed of a motor for every block of the electronic cam data, a motor specification data table (28) stored with the known motor specification data, and input judging means (27) for displaying the result of the comparison of the output of the input data calculating section (26) with the motor specification data for every block on a display section.

Abstract: A resin mold product and a wiring method are provided. This resin mold product includes a main body formed into a pillar trim, side walls which are situated higher than wires, and wire receiving portions formed between the side walls. According to the wiring method: the wires, which have been cut to a suitable length for the front pillar, are received by the wire receiving portions; the side walls are partially melted so as to weld and secure the wires to the resin mold product; the resin mold product is mounted to the front pillar; and circuits mounted on the instrument panel and the roof are connected to each other.

Abstract: A toner image fixing apparatus has a fixing roller, a pressing roller, and a heating roller. The pressing roller is normally urged toward the fixing roller for pressing a sheet with an unfixed toner image carried on a surface thereof against the fixing roller to fix the unfixed toner image to the sheet when the sheet passes in one direction through a rolling contact region between the fixing roller and the pressing roller. The heating roller is disposed on one side of the fixing roller opposite to the pressing roller. A first heat source is disposed in the heating roller for heating the heating roller, and a second heat source is disposed in the pressing roller for heating the pressing roller. An endless heat transfer belt is trained around the heating roller and the fixing roller for transferring heat from the first heat source to heat the unfixed toner image on the sheet when the sheet passes through the rolling contact region.

Abstract: A connector structure provided with a coaxial connector having an inner contact and an outer contact respectively connected to an inner conductor and an outer conductor of a coaxial cable having the inner conductor and the outer conductor respectively insulated, in which the inner contact has a tapping screw portion screwed into an inner peripheral face of the hollow inner conductor as to do self screw cutting, and the tapping screw portion has a guiding portion, formed parallel to an axis and having an outer diameter approximately same as an inner diameter of the inner conductor, on its forth end.

Abstract: The semiconductor device comprises: an insulation film 72 having a contact hole 74 which reaches a substrate 10 formed in; an interconnection layer 78 connected to the substrate 10 through the contact hole 74; a blocking layer 80 formed of the same conducting layer as the interconnection layer 78; an insulation film 82 formed on the insulation film 72; and fuses 88 formed on the insulation film 82 in a region where the blocking layer formed. This structure of the semiconductor device makes it possible that the blocking layer 80 for restraining the laser ablation to be formed without complicating the conventional semiconductor device fabrication steps.

Abstract: A determination method and apparatus for permitting deceleration regeneration or charge of a hybrid vehicle, by which erroneous determination relating to the clutch operation can be prevented. The method includes a first determination step of detecting clutch operation performed by a driver and determining a connection state of the clutch; a second determination step of determining a connection state of the clutch based on a correspondence relationship between vehicle speed and engine speed; and a permission determining step of permitting the deceleration regeneration or charge by the motor when it is determined that the clutch is connected both in the first and second determination steps.

Abstract: An LD module is provided in having an LD light source having a CAN package structure in which an LD chip is incorporated with an LD preservation gas, an optical fiber on one end of which a convex fiber lens for condensing light is formed, and a lens system for coupling placed between the LD light source and the convex fiber lens, wherein the lens system is constituted to be capable of forming an image by condensing the LD light from the LD chip, and wherein the convex fiber lens is located so that a focal point coincides with the image forming point of the LD light. According to the LD module of the invention, the light coupling efficiency between the LD chip and the optical fiber can be improved without losing the life span reliability of the LD chip having a CAN package structure.