Abstract: A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament that includes providing a polymer melt and separating the polymer melt from the extruder into at least eight streams. The multiple streams are exposed to a chamber pressure within a chamber that is below approximately 25 millibars, or another predetermined pressure. The streams are recombined into a single polymer stream. Polymer from the polymer stream is then formed into bulked continuous carpet filament.

Abstract: A waste material processing system of the present disclosure that places a waste material on a conveyance surface of a conveyance section, conveys the waste material in a conveyance line, and recycles the waste material, the system includes a detection section disposed on a downstream side of a removal area where foreign matters included in the waste material are removed in the conveyance line, and configured to detect the foreign matters remaining in the conveyed waste material.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite material through a wet compression molding (WCM) process is disclosed. The internal pressure of a mold is controlled so that productivity may be improved due to process automation through application of a resin using a robot. Quality of the composite material may be improved due to minimization of deformation of a foam core through control of the internal pressure of the mold.

Abstract: A long rod polishing device includes a prismatic or columnar battery, a battery mounting portion, an electric motor, a pad, and a rod portion. The battery is mountable to the battery mounting portion. The electric motor is driven by an electric power from the battery. The pad has a polishing surface and moves by a driving force from the electric motor. The rod portion has an end portion to which the pad is coupled. The battery mounted to the battery mounting portion has a longest side. The longest side has a direction so as to form an angle with respect to a second imaginary straight line. The second imaginary straight line is perpendicular to both of a center axis of the rod portion and a first imaginary straight line. The first imaginary straight line is perpendicular to the center axis and parallel to the polishing surface of the pad.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing device and method for delivering a flowable material from a nozzle of a programmable computer numeric control (CNC) machine, and compressing the flowable material with a compression roller. In one embodiment, the device includes a nozzle configured to deposit a flowable material on a surface; and a roller configured to compress the deposited flowable material, wherein the roller comprises: a flat center portion having a constant diameter; and opposed end portions, wherein each end portion extends outwardly from the flat center portion, and wherein a radially outermost surface of each end portion is angled relative a rotational axis of the roller.

Abstract: The substrate includes a sintered compact containing 40 to 70 vol % cubic boron nitride grains. The substrate has a surface roughness R of 0.1 to 1.5 ?m. The coating layer includes an A layer, a B layer, and a C layer. The A layer having an average composition represented by (Al1-xTix)N (0.35?x?0.60) and an average thickness tA of 0.1 to 1.0 ?m. The B layer having an average composition represented (Al1-y-zTiySiz)N (0.35?y?0.60 and 0.01?z?0.10) and an average thickness tB of 0.2 to 2.0 ?m. The C layer having an average composition represented by (Al1-a-b-cCraSibCuc)N (0.150?a?0.400, 0.050?b?0.200 and 0.005?c?0.050) and an average thickness tC of 0.1 to 2.0 ?m. The ratio tB/tA is 2.0 to 6.0, and R?tC.

Abstract: A sticky tape that can be heated and separated in a short time, can prevent thermal damage to an adherend, and can be easily heated and separated is provided. The sticky tape has an adhesive agent layer A containing a heating element and an adhesive agent. The heating element has a volume resistivity of 30 ??·cm or more, and the adhesive agent layer A can be melted or softened by resistance heating to be separable. The adhesive agent is at least one of a pressure-sensitive adhesive agent and a hot-melt adhesive agent. The heating element is selected from nichrome, stainless steel, titanium, nickel silver, and carbon.

Abstract: A motor mount device for an electric vehicle includes an inner pipe disposed along a front-rear direction of the vehicle, an outer pipe disposed coaxially with and around an outside of the inner pipe, and a main damper with a bridge. The bridge defines an upper chamber and a lower chamber between the inner pipe and the outer pipe along the front-rear direction and the main damper is elastically deformable according to a load transmitted through the inner pipe. The device also includes a middle plate disposed between the main damper and the outer pipe and configured to support a load in the front-rear direction transmitted through the inner pipe by compressing the bridge.

Abstract: A hydrogen fluoride gas removal device has: a hydrogen fluoride gas removal treatment machine that is configured to perform a treatment of removing hydrogen fluoride gas from the mixed gas by bringing the mixed gas into contact with a removal agent for removing the hydrogen fluoride gas from the mixed gas; a removal agent supply machine that is configured to supply the removal agent to the hydrogen fluoride gas removal treatment machine; a removal agent recycling treatment machine that is configured to perform a recycling treatment on the used removal agent to improve hydrogen fluoride gas removal performance of the removal agent; and a recycling-treated removal agent transport machine that is configured to transport the recycling-treated removal agent to supply the removal agent to the removal agent supply machine.

Abstract: A fuel pump module for a vehicle includes: a pump positioned in a reservoir cup in a tank and configured to suction and discharge fuel from the reservoir cup; a mount plate mounted in an opening of the tank; a return valve on the mount plate and configured to pass return fuel, which is returned from an engine, into the tank; a shaft bracket connecting the mount plate and the pump in the tank and configured to fix the pump to the mount plate; a guide wall disposed on the shaft bracket to guide return fuel flowing in the tank through the return valve; and a channel disposed at the shaft bracket so that return fuel flows down and configured to discharge the return fuel into the reservoir cup.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hollow fiber membrane wherein a spinning stock solution containing 10 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less of a polysulfone-based resin, 1 mass % or more and 30 mass % or less of polyvinylpyrrolidone, and 1 mass % or more and 80 mass % or less of N,N-dimethylformamide is discharged together with a core liquid from a double-ring nozzle to produce a hollow fiber membrane by dry-wet spinning, and then the hollow fiber membrane is subjected to a dry heat treatment at a temperature of 80° C. or higher and 100° C. or lower for 48 hours or longer and 168 hours or shorter.

Abstract: A utility vehicle includes traveling devices 11, 12 that support a travel body on a ground surface; a motive power unit provided on the travel body; a power transmission device 20 that transmits motive power from the motive power unit to the traveling devices 11, 12 as travel power; a speed change operation tool 18 that changes a vehicle speed, which is the speed of the travel power, a vehicle speed limiting operation tool 34 that sets an upper limit of the vehicle speed, and a vehicle speed limiting operation prohibition unit 35 that prohibits operation of the vehicle speed limiting operation tool.

Abstract: A steering control device is configured to control a steering device. The steering device includes a steering wheel, a steering shaft coupled to the steering wheel, a turning wheel of a vehicle, and a motor configured to rotate the steering shaft. The turning wheel is configured to turn along with rotation of the steering shaft. The steering control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute an alarm information acquisition process of acquiring information indicating that an alarm needs to be issued to a driver of the vehicle, and a vibration process of vibrating the steering wheel in a predetermined region by operating the motor, in a situation where the alarm needs to be issued. The predetermined region is a region where a turning angle of the turning wheel does not change even when the steering wheel rotates.

Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle includes a fuel cell stack and a battery; an air compressor that supplies air to the fuel cell stack and is able to generate power during regenerative braking; a drive motor that provides driving force to a vehicle and is able to generate power during the regenerative braking; and a controller that controls operation of the air compressor so that a sum of power generation of the fuel cell stack and power generation of the regenerative braking of the air compressor and drive motor is close to a chargeable amount of the battery.

Abstract: Provided are a packing material used for size exclusion chromatography, which has high alkali resistance and suppressed non-specific adsorption, and a method for producing the same. A packing material, wherein one end of a block copolymer represented by the following formula 1 is bonded to a porous organic polymer carrier containing 60 to 95 mol % of a repeating unit derived from glycidyl methacrylate and 5 to 40 mol % of a repeating unit derived from a polyfunctional monomer via an ether bond derived from a terminal hydroxyl group, HO—(C2H4O)l—(C3H6O)m—(C2H4O)n—H??(formula 1) wherein l is an integer of 5 to 140, m is an integer of 15 to 75, and n is an integer of 5 to 140, and a proportion of m to a sum of l, m, and n is 5 to 85%.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a control unit that controls torque of a rotating electric machine by performing switching control of an inverter; a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of a temperature detection target which is at least one of the machine and the inverter; and a current sensor that detects electric current flowing through the temperature detection target and has higher responsiveness than the temperature sensor. The control unit includes an overheat protection unit that limits the torque of the machine when the temperature detection target is in an overheated state. The overheat protection unit determines whether the temperature detection target is in the overheated state based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor when an operating point of the machine is within a continuous operation region, and based on the electric current detected by the current sensor when the operating point is within a short-time operation region.

Abstract: A dry ion exchange resin manufacturing method includes: obtaining a purified cation exchange resin by bringing a cation exchange resin to be purified into contact with a mineral acid solution having a metal impurity content of 1 mg/L, or less and a concentration of 5% by weight or more, to purify the cation exchange resin, wherein a total metal impurity elution amount eluted when hydrochloric acid having a concentration of 3% by weight is passed through the purified cation exchange resin with a volume ratio of 25 times is at most equal to 5 ?g/mL-R; and a drying step of drying the purified cation exchange resin under reduced pressure at 80° C. or lower until the moisture content is at most equal to 5% by weight.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes a relay which is controlled to close to supply a power from a battery to an electric field load or is controlled to open to block the power, a sensor that detects a state of charge (SOC) value of the battery and opening and closing of a door of the vehicle, and a controller that is configured to control the relay to close based on the power supplied from the battery or a power of an external power device, when the controller concludes that the SOC value of the battery is less than a first reference value and that the door is opened, and charges the battery with the power supplied from the external electronic device.

Abstract: A skin stimulation brush pin includes an elongated tubular body, a base bottom member, an electrode member, and a metal shaft. The elongated tubular body has a proximal end portion. The tubular body includes a radially contracted portion on a distal end side of the tubular body. The base bottom member is made of a metal to allow conduction of electricity from an electric circuit. The base bottom member is at the proximal end portion of the elongated tubular body. The electrode member is connected to an opening of the tubular body on the distal end side thereof and has an exposed distal end, the radially contracted portion of the tubular body radially protruding toward the electrode member. The metal shaft is in a tubular inner portion of the tubular body to couple the base bottom member and the electrode member.

Abstract: A method for controlling a swappable battery detachably mounted in a vehicle which includes a main battery fixed therein, includes determining a use mode among a plurality of modes which are different in a charge amount of charging the main battery by the swappable battery based on destination information of a navigation system, and controlling the swappable battery to charge the main battery based on the determined use mode to charge the main battery.