Abstract: A pressure sensor is disclosed. The pressure sensor includes a pressure sensor unit provided with a pressure detecting element configured to receive a drive voltage from a control substrate and electrically send a pressure detection signal to the control substrate so as to detect a pressure of fluid, and a plurality of electric wires connected to the pressure detecting element so as to supply the drive voltage and drawn to the outside so as to send the pressure detection signal. The pressure sensor may also include a relay substrate connected to the plurality of electric wires and having a converting circuit mounted thereon. The converting circuit converts either or both of the drive voltage supplied from the control substrate and the pressure detection signal sent to the control substrate.

Abstract: An electret element includes: an electret film that contains silicon oxide; and a protective film formed over the electret film and constituted of aluminum oxide deposited through an atomic layer deposition method.

Abstract: A vibration energy harvester includes: a pair of electrodes provided so as to face opposite each other, with at least one of the pair of electrodes allowed to move; and an ion gel provided between the pair of electrodes, which is formed by using an ionic liquid, wherein: as an external vibration causes the electrode to move along a direction in which a distance between the pair of electrodes changes, power is generated through a change in an area of an electric double layer formed on two sides of an interface of each electrode and the ion gel.

Abstract: In a throttle device, a guide section including a small-diameter hole which slidably guides a guide stem of a needle member is formed upstream side portion from a communicating hole-in a guide tube.

Abstract: A throttling device is equipped with a valve seat in which a valve port for connecting a primary chamber and a secondary chamber is formed, a needle valve, a needle section which is inserted into the valve port, a guide section for guiding a slide shaft of the needle valve, and a coil spring for biasing the needle valve in a valve-closing direction. The guide section and the coil spring are positioned on the primary chamber side. The position of the needle valve in the valve-closing direction is restricted by a stopper section in a manner such that the minimum gap between the needle valve and the valve port is maintained. Furthermore, the needle valve is not seated on the valve seat.

Abstract: A capacitance-detection pressure switch and pressure sensor that, in the connection between a diaphragm used as one electrode and a signal line for detecting a signal from the diaphragm, can ensure stable conduction without exerting an influence on operating characteristics of the diaphragm. A capacitance-detection type pressure switch of the present invention includes a metallic diaphragm that is displaced in response to a change in pressure of an operating medium supplied from a conduit, a movable electrode connected electrically to the diaphragm, a fixed electrode provided at an atmospheric pressure side of the diaphragm opposing the conduit, and an insulating film ensuring insulation between the fixed electrode and the diaphragm, wherein an electrode contact portion for connection to the movable electrode is formed as at least one projection extending toward an exterior on a part of the outer periphery of the diaphragm.

Abstract: In a throttle device, a body portion has a flat surface at a position at a predetermined distance from its center axis. Thus, when a needle member is moving, a working pressure of a refrigerant present between an inner peripheral surface of a guide tube and the flat surface acts in a radial direction of the body portion and presses part of an outer peripheral surface of the body portion located opposite from the flat surface against the inner peripheral surface of the guide tube.

Abstract: In a throttle device, a needle member (20) includes a tapered portion (20P) having a taper angle (2?), and a length (X) along a center axis from a position (20PS) to an apical surface of the tapered portion (20P) is set to a value equal to or above a prescribed amount of lift (L?×cos2 ?), where the position (20PS) is a position corresponding to an edge (22as) of a valve port (22a) in a state where the tapered portion (20P) is inserted in the valve port (22a) and establishes a closed state of the valve port (22a).

Abstract: A fuel cell system has a fuel cell for generating electricity by reacting a fuel gas with an oxidant gas and an exhaust flow passage for exhausting the fuel exhaust gas exhausted from a fuel electrode 16 of the fuel cell to the outside. The fuel cell system is equipped with a movable filter device disposed in the exhaust flow passage, so that by activating the movable filter device, water and foreign particles adhering to the filter are quickly scattered by rotational centrifugal force and vibration, thereby preventing the exhaust flow passage from being blocked by the clogging by water freeze and foreign particles and also reducing startup time.

Abstract: A fuel cell system has a fuel cell for generating electricity by reacting a fuel gas with an oxidant gas and an exhaust flow passage for exhausting the fuel exhaust gas exhausted from a fuel electrode 16 of the fuel cell to the outside. The fuel cell system is equipped with a movable filter device disposed in the exhaust flow passage, so that by activating the movable filter device, water and foreign particles adhering to the filter are quickly scattered by rotational centrifugal force and vibration, thereby preventing the exhaust flow passage from being blocked by the clogging by water freeze and foreign particles and also reducing startup time.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a vortex flow meter with less measurement errors caused by a temperature change, a pressure change, and a mechanical vibration, and capable of performing a precise measurement regardless of conditions, in addition, to provide a vortex flow meter capable of sufficiently preventing corrosive chemicals that is a fluid to be measured from leaking from a measurement pipe line due to corrosion. A vortex generator that generates the Karman vortex and a measurement pipe line in which a holder body housing a detecting element that detects an alternating force of the Karman vortex is disposed are made of a material having a small coefficient of linear thermal expansion such as a quartz glass, and the vortex generator and the holder body are fixed to the measurement pipe line by welding in an integrating manner.