Abstract: A battery pack that can ensure a sealing property of a housing case and can cool the inside of the housing case is provided. A battery pack has: a housing case that houses a battery cell(s) and can be attached to and detached from a tool main body; an insulating covering material that covers the battery cell in a state in which electrodes of the battery cell are exposed; a holder that retains the battery cell covered with the covering material in the housing case; and an opening portion that is provided in the holder and exposes a part of the battery cell covered with the covering material to a passage of air that flows in the housing case.

Abstract: A steering angle sensor 17 is provided which can minimize a detection error even when a steering shaft 6 is inclined. In an annular clearance t1 defined between the steering shaft 6 and an inner cylindrical wall of a first gear 24, there is compressed an elastic O-ring 23. Due to provision of the elastic O-ring 23, inclination of the steering shaft 6, which tends to occur during handling of a steering wheel 1, is suitably absorbed by the elastic O-ring 23, and thus, generation of detection error caused by inclination of the first gear 24, which would follow the inclination of the steering shaft 6, is suppressed or at least minimized.

Abstract: A wheel loader includes: a driver's cab; an engine; a chassis, at sides of which tires are provided; an engine room in which the engine is mounted on the chassis, the engine room being provided behind the driver's cab; front portion structures respectively standing at left and right positions of a surface of the engine room, the surface being located at the driver's cab side; rear portion structures respectively standing at left and right positions of a surface of the engine room, the surface being opposite to the surface located at the driver's cab side; and a coupling structure that couples upper portions of the front portion structures to upper portions of the rear portion structures and forms a peripheral device installation space at an upper portion of the engine.

Abstract: Time required for a file server to determine files to be migrated from a first storage region to a second storage region is reduced. A file service system coupled to the storage system for providing a first storage region and a second storage region stores identifiers of files that have been accessed by a client, in accessed file identifier information and determines the files to be migrated from the first storage region to the second storage region based on metadata of the files stored in the first storage region and the accessed file identifier information.

Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator having a stator core having a plurality of slots formed therein and a plurality of stator coils to be accommodated in the respective slots, and a rotor arranged on an inner peripheral side of the stator. The plurality of slots include a first slot and a second slot, and when a first ratio between the number of coils having the same phase to be accommodated within the first slot and the number of the plurality of coils exceeds a predetermined ratio, and a second ratio between the number of coils having the same phase to be accommodated in the second slot and the number of the plurality of coils is the predetermined ratio or lower, a width of a first slot opening that the first slot has so as to face the rotor side is 0 or wider, and is smaller than a width of a second slot opening that the second slot has so as to face the rotor side.

Abstract: A system and method for improving the control of a flow of a variety of fluid types is described. The method includes selecting a process gas type for the process gas that will be controlled and obtaining molecular mass information for the selected processed gas type. General characterization data is obtained that includes, for each of a plurality of flow and pressure value pairs, a corresponding control signal value and operating characterization data is generated by modifying the flow values in the general characterization data according to the equation Fadj=Fcal*(Mcal/Mpr)k, wherein Fadj is an adjusted flow value Fcal is the calibrated flow value, Mpr is the molecular mass for the selected process gas type, and Mcal is a molecular mass for the calibration gas. The operating characterization data is then used to operate a valve of the mass flow controller in open loop control mode.

Abstract: Micropillars are arranged a first row up to an nth row, the micropillars in one row are disposed at the same interval “a” from each other, and each of the rows is disposed in a position shifted by a distance “b” with respect to an immediately preceding upstream row, in a row direction. A liquid that contains particles flows through between the micropillars. A voltage is applied from a power supply to electrodes, thereby generating an electric field in a flow channel. The micropillars are electrical insulating structures, so in regions of narrow intervals between the micropillars, electrical lines of force are dense and strength of the electric field is high, and in regions of wide intervals between the micropillars, electrical lines of force are sparse and the strength of the electric field is low.

Abstract: A cleaning method includes: providing a process container in which a process of forming a film on a substrate is performed; and removing a deposit including the film adhered to the process container by supplying a cleaning gas into the process container after performing the process. The act of removing the deposit includes generating a mixture gas of a fluorine-containing gas and a nitrosyl fluoride gas as the cleaning gas by mixture and reaction of the fluorine-containing gas and a nitrogen monoxide gas in a mixture part and supplying the mixture gas from the mixture part into the process container after removing exothermic energy generated by the reaction.

Abstract: A centrifugally cast composite roll comprising an outer layer made of cast iron having a chemical composition comprising, by mass, 2.7-3.5% of C, 1.5-2.5% of Si, 0.4-1.0% of Mn, 3.7-5.1% of Ni, 0.8-2.2% of Cr, 1.5-4.5% of Mo, 2.0-4.5% of V, and 0.5-2.0% of Nb, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, a mass ratio of Nb/V being 0.18-0.65, and a mass ratio of Mo/V being 0.7-2.5, and a structure comprising, by area, 15-45% of a cementite phase and 1-10% of a graphite phase, and an inner layer made of cast iron having excellent mechanical strength and metallurgically bonded to the outer layer; a usable region of the outer layer as deep as 10 mm or more from the surface containing substantially no speck-like-segregated dendrites of bainite and/or martensite having diameters of 1.5 mm or more.

Abstract: The system includes an analyzer that analyzes a sample, or a processing device that pre-processes the sample, and a management device that manages at least one of the analyzer and the processing device, wherein the management device includes: error detection means that detects errors in the analyzer or the processing device; storage means having stored therein an operator notification management table in which at least one operator is registered per kind of error; error notification means that notifies an error that the error detection means has detected to operators who are to individually handle the error, the means notifying on the basis of the operator notification management table and in accordance with the kind of error detected by the error detection means; and registration means that registers an operator, who has handled the error as a troubleshooter, among operators to whom the error was notified from the error notification means.

Abstract: A method for producing a ceramic honeycomb structure comprising a ceramic honeycomb body having large numbers of longitudinal cells partitioned by porous cell walls, and a peripheral wall formed on a peripheral surface of the ceramic honeycomb structure, comprising the steps of extruding a moldable ceramic material to form a honeycomb-structured ceramic green body; machining a peripheral portion of the green body or a sintered body obtained from the green body to remove part of cell walls in the peripheral portion, thereby obtaining the ceramic honeycomb body having longitudinal grooves on the peripheral surface; applying a coating material to the peripheral surface of the ceramic honeycomb body to form the peripheral wall, as well as to peripheral portions of both end surfaces of the ceramic honeycomb body; and inserting the coating material applied to the peripheral portions of both end surfaces into peripheral cells, with partially remaining on the peripheral portions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for repairing and/or preventatively maintaining a jet pump restrainer assembly used in a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), the repair including attaching a bearing plate or plates to a horizontal surface of a jet pump restrainer assembly bracket, the bearing plate or plates acting to supplement and/or replace an existing contact surface between a mixer wedge and the jet pump restrainer assembly bracket of a jet pump restrainer assembly.

Abstract: Example embodiments include a vapor forming apparatus, system and/or method for producing vapor from radioactive decay material. The vapor forming apparatus including an insulated container configured to enclose a nuclear waste container. The nuclear waste container includes radioactive decay material. The insulated container includes an inlet valve configured to receive vapor forming liquid. The radioactive decay material transfers heat to the vapor forming liquid. The insulated container also includes an outlet valve configured to output the vapor forming liquid heated by the radioactive decay material.

Abstract: Optimal irradiation conditions determined by iterative calculation are based upon an operator-defined irradiating direction, prescription dose, and other conditions. Dose matrixes A and B relating doses to calculation points from a beam delivered to irradiating positions are divided into a dose matrix AM or BM for the calculation points in a target region that are present at distances equal to or less than a distance L from the beam axis of the beam delivered to each spot, and a dose matrix AS or BS for the calculation points that are present at distances greater than L. When the iterative calculation is conducted following completion of the division, dose values and {right arrow over (d)}S(1) and {right arrow over (d)}S(2) that include the dose matrixes AS and BS are regarded as constants, and if updating conditions are satisfied, an objective function is recalculated using the values of the dose matrixes A, B and the spot irradiation dose {right arrow over (x)}.

Abstract: Characteristics of a magnetic material are improved without using a heavy rare earth element as a scarce resource. By incorporating fluorine into a magnetic powder and controlling the crystal orientation in crystal grains, a magnetic material securing magnetic characteristics such as coercive force and residual flux density can be fabricated. As a result, the resource problem with heavy rare earth elements can be solved, and the magnetic material can be applied to magnetic circuits that require a high energy product, including various rotating machines and voice coil motors of hard discs.

Abstract: An object is to provide a rotating electric machine offering a high output and high efficiency by balancing inductance of each phase even if a stator is used in which stator windings of different phases are disposed in a slot of a stator core in a three-phase winding. A stator 5 includes a stator core 6 having a plurality of slots arrayed circumferentially and opening to an inner peripheral surface and a stator winding 7 wound in each of the slots. The stator winding 7 is divided into at least two for each phase (7U-A, 7U-B, 7V-A, 7V-B, 7W-A, 7W-B). After insertion of the stator core 6, the stator winding of each phase is connected in parallel or in series. The stator winding of each phase is disposed in slots such that combined inductance of different phases is equalized.

Abstract: The present invention is based upon a camera management device coupled to a network camera via a network and the camera management device is provided with an image receiving unit that receives image data projected by the network camera and including control information for controlling the network camera from the network camera, a control information extracting unit that extracts the control information from the image data received by the image receiving unit and a control transmitting unit that transmits a control command according to the control information to the network camera via the network.

Abstract: Charged particle beam apparatus arrangements in which either a first noise absorber which provides noise absorbing performance specialized for a first frequency range including the natural frequency of the charged particle beam apparatus as reference, or a second noise absorber which provides noise absorbing performance specialized for a second frequency range including the frequency of acoustic standing waves generated within the cover as reference, or both of the first and second noise absorbers is/are disposed within a cover of the charged particle beam apparatus.

Abstract: A battery unit provided with a flat battery and a substrate having a circuit formed thereon is provided in a compact form as a whole. The battery unit (1) includes a flat battery (2) in a flat shape having an upper surface and a bottom surface and a substrate (61) fixed to one surface of the flat battery (2). A circuit component (62) is mounted on a surface of the substrate (61) on a side of the flat battery (2), and a positive electrode terminal (68) (charging terminal) electrically connected to a positive electrode side of the flat battery (2) and a negative electrode terminal (66) (GND terminal) electrically connected to a negative electrode side of the flat battery (2) are formed on a surface of the substrate (61) on the opposite side to the flat battery (2).

Abstract: The pattern inspection apparatus of the present invention performs comparison between images of regions corresponding to patterns formed to be same patterns, thereby determining mismatch portions across the images to be defects. The apparatus includes multiple sensors that synchronously acquire images of shiftable multiple detection systems different from one another, and an image comparator section corresponding thereto. In addition, the apparatus includes a means for detecting a statistical offset value from the feature amount to be a defect, thereby properly detecting the defect even when a brightness difference is occurring in association with film a thickness difference in a wafer.