Abstract: The disclosure relates to a bearing, having an inner core, an outer cage which surrounds the inner core in a radial direction, and an elastomer body which resiliently connects the inner core and the outer cage together, wherein the outer cage has an inner stop projection, wherein the inner stop projection protrudes radially inwards from an inner circumferential face of the outer cage and has an inner stop face, wherein the inner core has an outer stop projection, wherein the outer stop projection protrudes radially outwards from an outer circumferential face of the inner core and has an outer stop face which faces the inner stop face, and wherein the inner stop face and the outer stop face overlap in an axial direction. The disclosure relates further to a method for producing a bearing.

Abstract: A flame-retardant rubber composition containing the following components (A) to (E) and an outer diaphragm for rail vehicles are provided. The outer diaphragm composed of a cross-linked body of the flame-retardant rubber composition. Accordingly, the present disclosure ensures excellent rubber properties such as tensile strength and elongation at break, and exhibits good flame-retardancy. (A) Excluding (B) below, at least one selected from the group consisting of a diene-based rubber, an olefin-based rubber, a urethane rubber, and a silicone rubber. (B) An acid-modified polyolefin. (C) A metal hydroxide. (D) A phosphinic acid metal salt. (E) A cross-linking agent of component (A).

Abstract: According to the embodiment of the present disclosure, a hydraulic bearing (1) is provided, comprising an inner core (2), an outer shell (3) which radially surrounds the inner core (2), an elastomer body (4) which resiliently interconnects the inner core (2) and the outer shell (3) in order to allow a relative displacement between the inner core (2) and the outer shell (3), a first working chamber (5) and a second working chamber (6) which are fluidically interconnected by means of a working channel, a bypass chamber (8) which is connected to the first working chamber (5) by means of a first bypass channel (9), wherein the first working chamber (5) and the second working chamber (6) are configured such that an amount of a volume change in the case of a displacement of the inner core (2) relative to the outer shell (3), in a predetermined radial direction, is larger for the first working chamber (5) than for the second working chamber (6).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a means for efficiently producing natural rubber and stably providing the same, and is aimed at stably providing a rubber resource. The present disclosure may provide a protein composition that exhibits an isoprene polymerization activity and comprises a protein(s) (B) exhibiting the same activity as CPTL and either one of proteins (A-1) exhibiting the same activity as CPT6 or (A-2) exhibiting the same activity as CPT7, as well as a lipid membrane structure comprising the composition, a method for producing the same, a cell expressing a protein constituting the composition, a method for producing the same, and a method for producing an isoprene polymer compound using any of the above.

Abstract: Provided is a sliding bushing in which sliding of an inner shaft member with respect to a main rubber elastic body is allowed. The inner shaft member includes a bulge part provided midway in an axial direction. A braided cloth-like sliding liner is arranged between the inner shaft member and the main rubber elastic body so as to be non-adhesive and slidable with respect to the inner shaft member. In a portion of the sliding liner arranged on an outer periphery with respect to a large diameter part of the bulge part of the inner shaft member, a coarse part is provided of coarser braid mesh than a portion of the sliding liner arranged on an outer periphery with respect to a small diameter part on both axial sides of the large diameter part.

Abstract: A vibration damping device including a vibration-damping device main unit attached to a bracket from a lateral side by a second attachment member being fitted to opposed walls provided on widthwise opposite sides of the bracket. The bracket includes flexible latches extending from the respective opposed walls forward in a direction of attachment. The second attachment member includes outer recesses respectively opening onto surfaces overlapped with the respective opposed walls. Each latch has a slope portion sloping inward in a width direction of the bracket such that a distal end face of the latch is inserted in the corresponding outer recess. The distal end face of the latch is latched by a forward wall inner face of the outer recess, and displacement of the second attachment member relative to the bracket in a direction of dislodgment opposite to the direction of attachment is limited.

Abstract: A sound-absorbing cover comprises a first sound-absorbing layer and a second sound-absorbing layer made of foam, a first skin layer of the first sound-absorbing layer and a second skin layer of the second sound-absorbing layer are layered in a state of being made to face each other, and an air layer is provided between the facing surfaces of the first skin layer and the second skin layer. The rigidity of the first skin layer of the first sound-absorbing layer is different from the rigidity of the second skin layer of the second sound-absorbing layer.

Abstract: Provided is a sliding bushing in which an inner shaft member and an outer tube member are connected by a main rubber elastic body and sliding of the inner shaft member with respect to the main rubber elastic body is allowed. The inner shaft member includes a bulge part of a large diameter provided midway in an axial direction. The outer tube member includes a tapered part whose diameter decreases axially outward at both axial end portions. An outer peripheral surface of the bulge part in the inner shaft member includes a non-adhesive part that is non-adhesive to the main rubber elastic body and is allowed to slide with respect to the main rubber elastic body, and an outer peripheral surface axially outside the non-adhesive part in the inner shaft member includes an adhesive part to which the main rubber elastic body is adhered by vulcanization.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vibration damper for connecting two devices to one another, in particular an engine to an environment (100) of the engine, for example a car body, wherein the vibration damper includes a damping section (20) and a fastening section (10), wherein the mounting portion (10) is formed with first and second pipe socket portions (14) having a flange (12), and wherein the damping portion (20) at least partially surrounds the fastening portion (10) at the outer surface thereof.

Abstract: A fluid-filled vibration damping device including a movable film housed within a housing space of a partition partitioning a pressure receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber. An outer peripheral end of the movable film includes a contact part and a sealing part being respectively in contact with a pressure receiving chamber-side wall inner surface and an equilibrium chamber-side wall inner surface of the housing space. A communication passage, which communicates with a gap circumferentially between the movable film and the housing space, is provided away from the contact part in the outer peripheral end of the movable film. The outer peripheral end of the movable film will be separated from the equilibrium chamber-side wall inner surface due to a pressure differential arising between the two chambers so as to form a relief passage interconnecting the two chambers including the gap and the communication passage.

Abstract: A fluid device composite member includes: a silicone member that includes a body part which is made of silicone and which has a flow-path-defining section for defining a flow path on one surface of the body part, and that includes barrier layer having hydrophilicity or hydrophobicity disposed in at least a portion of the flow-path-defining section; and a resin substrate disposed on another surface of the body part opposite to the one surface. This method for manufacturing the fluid device composite member includes a layered body manufacturing step in which a liquid silicone material is placed on a surface of the resin substrate, and the liquid silicone material is cured at a temperature of 100° C. or less to obtain a layered body in which a silicone cured product is bonded to the resin substrate.

Abstract: Achieved is a rubber bushing for railroad trucks which has a novel structure and is capable of improving, for example, flame resistance to externally applied fire or the like without greatly degrading the basic properties demanded with respect to vibrational and load inputs. A rubber bushing 10 used for railroad car trucks comprises a shaft-like inner member 12 and an outer member 14, disposed on the outer peripheral side of the inner member 12 at a remove therefrom, which are linked by a rubber elastic body 16. A cover part 48 that covers an exposed end surface 44, from the outside thereof, where the rubber elastic body 16 is exposed to the outside between the axial ends of the inner member 12 and the outer member 14, is provided at an axial end of the rubber elastic body 16 as a separate member from the rubber elastic body 16.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a gasket member as described below. A plate-like base material is clamped between a first and a second split mold, and a gasket is fixed to a surface of the base material by injecting and filling a rubber-like elastic material into a cavity defined between the base material and the first split mold. An air vent is provided including an exhaust groove and an exhaust hole, the exhaust groove extending from the cavity toward an inner or outer peripheral side on a butting surface between the base material and the first split mold and partially opening in a circumferential direction of the cavity, the exhaust hole extending from the exhaust groove in a clamping direction of the first and second split molds. Air in the cavity is discharged through the air vent when the rubber-like elastic material is injected and filled into the cavity.

Abstract: A connector that is in a fuel supply system capable of supplying a high-pressure fuel, and may reduce pulsation in a low-pressure pipe with a simple structure and extend the life of a mold is provided. A valve of the connector includes a valve seat contact surface and a tapering through hole. The valve seat contact surface axially separates from an annular valve seat and forms a forward-direction flow path due to pressure of the low-pressure fuel when the high-pressure fuel does not flow in reverse, and may come into contact with the annular valve seat when the high-pressure fuel flows in reverse. The tapering through hole is formed farther radially inward than the valve seat contact surface, forms an orifice flow path having a smaller cross-sectional area than the forward-direction flow path, and allows a reverse flow of the high-pressure fuel when the high-pressure fuel flows in reverse.

Abstract: A fluid-filled vibration damping device including: primary and auxiliary liquid chambers; a partition provided between the two chambers; and a movable plate supported movably in a plate thickness direction thereof by the partition. The movable plate receives liquid pressure of the two chambers on its opposite faces so as to constitute a liquid pressure absorber. The partition includes at least one communication hole opening onto its surface facing the movable plate. The movable plate includes at least one elastic protrusion projecting toward the communication hole. The elastic protrusion includes a peripheral wall to be pressed in compression and shear directions and be elastically deformed to a radially inner side of the communication hole as well by coming into contact with a wall portion of the communication hole due to movement of the movable plate in the plate thickness direction.

Abstract: A connector includes: a tube body formed in a tubular shape having a first opening and a second opening at both ends thereof, a first opening side of the tube body being connectable to an end of a first pipe, a second opening side of the tube body being connectable to an end of a second pipe, the tube body allowing a fluid to flow therethrough between the first opening and the second opening; a temperature detection element embedded in a tubular part of the tube body and configured to detect a temperature of the fluid flowing through the tube body; and a terminal electrically connected to the temperature detection element and exposed to outside of the tube body.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a refueling port capable of simplifying a structure for restricting rotation of a nozzle guide with respect to a refueling port body. One of the refueling port body and the nozzle guide includes guide ribs formed between an inner peripheral surface of a body cylinder portion and an outer peripheral surface of a guide cylinder portion to sandwich a reflux port in the circumferential direction, and guiding fuel vapor flowing in from the reflux port in a direction toward a filler pipe connection port. The other one of the refueling port body and the nozzle guide includes a locking portion formed between the inner peripheral surface of the body cylinder portion and the outer peripheral surface of the guide cylinder portion, and locked in both directions in the circumferential direction to the guide ribs to restrict relative rotation between the refueling port body and the nozzle guide.

Abstract: A biological information measuring device comprises: a plurality of sensors that each acquire a base signal containing biological information and noise information; and a processing device that acquires biological information on the basis of a plurality of base signals. The processing device comprises: a component analysis part that performs a prescribed component analysis on the basis of the plurality of base signals and generates a plurality of component signals which constitute the plurality of base signals; and a biological information acquisition part that determines whether a component signal is biological information.

Abstract: A vehicle seat capable of exhibiting both performances of regulating an input of a load and reducing vibration is provided. One aspect of the present disclosure is a vehicle seat including a coupling structure coupling a first member and a second member. The coupling structure includes a bolt inserted through the first member and the second member, an auxiliary member arranged so as to hold the first member between the auxiliary member and the second member in an axial direction of the bolt, a first elastic element arranged between the first member and the second member in the axial direction, the first elastic element being in contact with the first member and the second member, and a second elastic element arranged between the first member and the auxiliary member in the axial direction, the second elastic element being in contact with the first member and the auxiliary member.

Abstract: A fuel cell separator includes a separator main body having a first surface and a second surface, and a first seal member disposed on the first surface. When a region on the first surface of the separator main body corresponding to an electrode member disposed on the second surface is defined as a power generation region, and a region on the first surface of the separator main body corresponding to an in-cell seal member is defined as a seal region, a displacement/vibration reducing member made of polymer is disposed at a part of the seal region. The displacement/vibration reducing member includes multiple protrusions and a coupling portion. When viewed in plan view, an axis line connecting the centers of the figures of the adjacent protrusions does not coincide with a center line passing through the widthwise center of the coupling portion. The coupling portion has a gate cut mark.