Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a compression chamber that compresses a fluid, an outer peripheral passage into which the fluid flows from a motor chamber, and a suction passage draws in the fluid from the outer peripheral passage to the compression chamber. The compression chamber is defined by a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll. The outer peripheral passage is defined by a third peripheral wall of a discharge housing member and a fixed peripheral wall of the fixed scroll. The suction passage is provided in the fixed peripheral wall and includes an upstream-side outer peripheral surface located between the suction passage and an electric motor in an axial direction of a rotary shaft. A distance from an axis of the rotary shaft to the upstream-side outer peripheral surface varies in the axial direction of the rotary shaft.

Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a housing and a compression mechanism. The compression mechanism includes a compression chamber. The housing includes an intermediate pressure chamber into which refrigerant having an intermediate pressure is introduced from an external refrigerant circuit. The intermediate pressure is higher than a suction pressure of refrigerant drawn into the compression chamber and lower than a discharge pressure of the refrigerant discharged from the compression chamber. The intermediate pressure chamber and the compression chamber in a process of compression are connected to each other by an injection passage. The injection passage includes a muffler.

Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft rotatably supported by the housing, a fixed scroll accommodated in the housing and fixed to the housing, an orbiting scroll that orbits as the rotary shaft rotates, a compression chamber defined between the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll, a discharge chamber, and an oil passage. A refrigerant taken in from the outside is compressed in the compression chamber. The refrigerant compressed in the compression chamber is discharged into the discharge chamber. An outer peripheral space connected to the compression chamber is defined between the outer peripheral surface of the fixed scroll and the inner peripheral surface of the housing. Oil separated from the refrigerant discharged into the discharge chamber is guided to the outer peripheral space through the oil passage.

Abstract: An attachment structure of a flat wire harness includes: an attachment target member; a flat wire harness; and an attachment part. In the flat wire harness, a through hole is formed in a part of a base material where a plurality of electrical wires are not disposed. The attachment part includes a rod-like part passing through the through hole, a fixing part provided to a first end portion of the rod-like part to fix the rod-like part to the attachment target member, and a retaining part provided to a second end portion of the rod-like part to prevent the rod-like part from coming out of the through hole. An outer size of the retaining part is larger than a dimension of the through hole, and the dimension of the through hole is equal to or larger than a thickness of the rod-like part.

Abstract: A controller for a fuel cell system controls generated power of a fuel cell stack by switching a generation state of the fuel cell stack based on a state of charge of a power storage device. The generation state includes a first generation state, in which the fuel cell stack is caused to generate a first generated power, a second generation state, in which the fuel cell stack is caused to generate a second generated power greater than the first generated power, and a third generation state, in which the fuel cell stack is caused to generate a third generated power greater than the second generated power. The controller calculates a power reference value indicating an actual result of power generation of the fuel cell stack from the detected generated power of the fuel cell stack, and updates the second generated power based on the power reference value.

Abstract: A collar of a fixed scroll includes a gasket contact surface with which a gasket comes into contact, and a metal contact surface that causes the collar and a compression housing to be in contact and receives the axial force of bolts. The collar has a protruding portion that protrudes in the axial direction relative to the gasket contact surface, and the metal contact surface is disposed on the protruding portion.

Abstract: A foil bearing includes a bearing housing, a top foil, a bump foil, and two retaining portions. A holding groove is formed in the inner circumferential surface of the bearing housing to extend in an axial direction. The top foil and the bump foil each include an insertion plate portion, which is inserted into the holding groove and extends in the axial direction. Each of the retaining portions includes a facing surface that faces the insertion plate portion in the axial direction. In the axial direction, the distance between the facing surfaces of the two retaining portions is longer than the length of the insertion plate portion. At least one of the insertion plate portions includes a bent plate portion that is bent to contact the facing surface.

Abstract: An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle including a vehicle communication part that performs wireless communication; a remote operation device including a remote communication part that performs wireless communication with the vehicle communication part, wherein the remote operation device is used to remotely operate the industrial vehicle; and a remote-operation stop control part that, based on a fact that a remote-operation stop operation has been performed on the remote operation device in a situation where operation of the industrial vehicle is being performed through a remote operation by the remote operation device, performs an operation stop control for stopping the operation of the industrial vehicle, and stops the remote operation by the remote operation device after the operation stop control is completed.

Abstract: A coating agent includes a film-forming component including a component A consisting of a urethane (meth)acrylate having an isocyanuric ring skeleton, a component B consisting of a tri(meth)acrylate having an isocyanuric ring skeleton and having no urethane bond, and a component C consisting of colloidal silica having a (meth)acryloyl group and a hydrocarbon group having 3 to 13 carbon atoms; and a component D consisting of a photoradical polymerization initiator. The content of the component D is 0.1 parts by mass or more and 10 parts by mass or less based on 100 parts by mass of a total of the film-forming component.

Abstract: A power storage module includes an electrode laminate including a plurality of bipolar electrodes which are laminated and a sealing body sealing a space between a pair of the bipolar electrodes adjacent to each other in a laminating direction among the plurality of bipolar electrodes in the electrode laminate. Each of the plurality of bipolar electrodes includes an electrode plate. The sealing body includes a group of primary sealing bodies each provided at an edge portion of the electrode plate and a secondary sealing body. The secondary sealing body includes a first resin portion that is provided along a side surface of the electrode laminate extending in the laminating direction and bonds the group of primary sealing bodies, and a second resin portion covering the first resin portion.

Abstract: An article detection device includes: an image acquiring unit acquiring a surroundings image; a first information image preparing unit preparing a first information image by converting information on a load/unloading target portion of the article to an easily recognizable state based on the surroundings image; a first calculation unit calculating at least one of a position and a posture of the load/unloading target portion; a second information image preparing unit preparing a second information image by converting information on a pitch angle detection portion of the article to an easily recognizable state; and a second calculation unit configured extracting at least two edge candidates for the article extending in a specific direction and included in the second information image based on a calculation result from the first calculation unit and calculating a three-dimensional direction vector indicating a pitch angle of the article from the edge candidates.

Abstract: A forklift-truck remote operation system includes a forklift truck and a remote operation device. The forklift-truck remote operation system further includes: a camera mounted to the forklift truck and configured to capture an image of an area around the forklift truck; a display disposed in the remote operation device and configured to display the image captured by the camera; a pallet detector configured to perform image recognition processing of the image captured by the camera and detect a plurality of pallets; a display controller configured to control the display to display the image captured by the camera with an indication for pallet selection from the pallets detected by the pallet detector; and a travel controller configured to control the forklift truck to move to a position of the selected pallet.

Abstract: A wire harness includes a first connector and a second connector respectively provided at opposite ends of a cable, protective members that are arranged side by side in a longitudinal direction of the cable and cover the cable, a first fixing member that is provided on the protective member closest to the first connector and configured to fix the wire harness to a mounting target, and a second fixing member that is provided on the protective member closest to the second connector and configured to fix the wire harness to the mounting target. The cable is covered with the protective members in an entire region between the first fixing member and the second fixing member. End portions of each pair of the protective members that are adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction overlap with each other to slide on each other, thereby forming a sliding portion.

Abstract: An electrochemical machining device that electrochemically machines a preformed impeller including a plurality of blades arranged along an outer periphery of the impeller. The electrochemical machining device includes a discharge electrode having an electrode surface extending along a machined surface of one of the plurality of blades, and a first nozzle that is disposed adjacently to the discharge electrode and has a first outlet from which electrolyte solution is discharged, the electrolyte solution flowing into a space between the electrode surface and the machined surface along the electrode surface.

Abstract: A motor-driven compressor, a housing structure for a motor-driven compressor, and a method of installing a soundproof cover on a motor-driven compressor are provided. A soundproof cover includes layers that include a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is placed over a housing, and the second layer is placed over the first layer. Each of the layers includes a first segment and a second segment. A second selection layer is located inward of a first selection layer. A boundary in the second selection layer is located above the boundary of the first selection layer.

Abstract: An electricity storage device includes a stack of bipolar electrodes each including a steel sheet, and a plating layer provided on a surface of the steel sheet. The plating layer includes a base nickel-plating layer provided on the surface of the steel sheet, and a surface nickel-plating layer provided on the base nickel-plating layer, and having a surface roughness greater than that of the base nickel-plating layer.

Abstract: A sensor and indicator light mounting structure comprising: a single sensor configured to observe an obstacle by emitting an emission wave to an area around a vehicle body of a cargo handling vehicle and receiving a reflection of the emission wave; a single indicator light configured to notify a person around the vehicle body of a presence of the cargo handling vehicle; and a mounting member configured to mount the sensor and the indicator light on the vehicle body, wherein the mounting member is configured to be disposed on an upper surface of the vehicle body, the sensor and the indicator light vertically overlap each other to be mounted on the mounting member, and the indicator light is arranged below the sensor.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes: a compression part; an electric motor; an inverter; a housing including a plurality of housing forming members made of metal; a seal member that has an insulation property and is provided between the housing forming members adjacent to each other; and a potential equalization member that is made of metal and is in contact with both the adjacent housing forming members to equalize potentials of the adjacent housing forming members. The adjacent housing forming members include mating surfaces, respectively. An insertion hole is formed in one of the mating surfaces of the adjacent housing forming members, at a position in which the seal member is not provided. The potential equalization member includes an insertion portion inserted into the insertion hole, and a contact portion that is a plate portion extending in a gap between the mating surfaces and is in contact with both the mating surfaces.

Abstract: The present disclosure stabilizes power generation of a fuel cell stack in an environment in which an oxygen concentration in a fuel cell system readily decreases. In a case where it is detected that the oxygen concentration is lower than a predetermined concentration or where a phenomenon caused by the oxygen concentration being lower than the predetermined concentration is detected, processing to increase a flow rate of air supplied to the fuel cell stack or processing to ventilate the interior of the fuel cell stack by controlling an operation of a ventilation unit is performed.

Abstract: An electric pump includes a housing that includes a gear chamber, a rotor chamber, and a motor chamber. The electric pump includes a first seal member, a second seal member, and a third seal member. The first seal member seals a space between the gear chamber and the rotor chamber. The second seal member seals the space between the gear chamber and the rotor chamber. The third seal member seals a space between the gear chamber and the motor chamber. The third seal member seals the space between the gear chamber and the motor chamber to a lesser extent than the first seal member and the second seal member seal the space between the gear chamber and the rotor chamber.