Abstract: A multilayer film capacitor having a composite stack disposed between two electrodes where the composite stack includes at least one thermoplastic conductive layer and at least one thermoplastic insulating layer. The total thickness of the conductive layers is at least 3 times the total thickness of the insulating layers. The conductive layers may include a thermoplastic polymer blended with conductive particles at a concentration higher than a percolation threshold.

Abstract: In a related fluid leakage detecting device, erroneous leakage determination may occur due to a change in a state of a fluid in piping. A leakage determination system of the present invention includes a first detection means for detecting a prescribed physical quantity indicating a state of a fluid in piping, a second detection means for detecting vibration propagating through the piping, and a leakage determination means for performing leakage determination based on the physical quantity detected by the first detection means and the vibration detected by the second detection means.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which can control to turn on/off a light emitting element depending on a sheet state on a manual sheet tray is provided. The image forming apparatus includes the manual feed tray on which the sheet is placed. The image forming apparatus is configured to be switchable between normal power mode and power saving mode. In the normal power mode, normal power is supplied. In the power saving mode, less power is consumed as compared to the power consumed in the normal power mode. The image forming apparatus includes a manual sheet feeding sensor which detects presence/absence of the sheet on the manual feed tray. The image forming apparatus includes a sheet length sensor S and a sheet length sensor L which include the light emitting element and a light receiving element to detect approximate sheet length of sheet placed on the manual feed tray in a conveying direction.

Abstract: An underwater drain leakage detection apparatus for a swimming pool is provided including an elongated pole and a housing connected to one end of the pole. A flexible leak detection tube is connected to the housing at a first end thereof and is in liquid communication with the inside of the housing. The housing is positioned over a suspected leak area below the surface of the water in the pool by suitable manipulation of the elongated pole by the pool leak specialist. A suitable dye substance then is inserted into the distal top or free end of the leak detection tube while the latter is positioned just below the surface of the swimming pool water by the leak specialist. The dye is observed from above the surface of the swimming pool water to determine whether there is a leak. If there is a leak in the area of the pool covered by the housing, the dye easily will be observed to move downward along the tube.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an energy accumulation basket, formed by holders provided with multiple housings where there are arranged capacitors held by their ends between holders, the inner walls of the housings having indentations where respective accessory elastic projections are housed, whereby capacitors arranged in the housings fit within the perimeter, and where conformations are defined on the outer face of each holder, said conformations protruding into the housings for supporting the end of the corresponding capacitor, the capacitors being axially retained in the respective housings by means of the conformations of the holders.

Abstract: A heating device for a spectrometry measurement apparatus, wherein it is in the form of a supple optical article, the article comprising a supple flexible support having a top face and a bottom face, the top face being covered with a reflective material in order to form an optical-reflection layer, a flexible heating element being disposed on at least one of the faces of the support.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a variable capacitor includes forming a capacitor conductor. The method also includes forming a phase change material adjacent the capacitor conductor. The method further includes forming a first contact on the capacitor conductor. The method additionally includes forming a second contact and a third contact on the phase change material.

Abstract: A capacitor element including at least an anode body composed of a sintered compact containing tungsten as a main component, a dielectric layer with a smooth surface formed by chemical conversion of the surface of the anode body, and a semiconductor layer laminated on the dielectric layer. The capacitor is obtained by a production method which includes the steps of chemically converting the surface layer of the tungsten powder sintered compact into the dielectric layer in an aqueous solution containing 0.05 to 12% by mass of an oxidant composed of an oxygen-containing compound at a solution temperature of 62° C. or less, and removing all or most of water adhering to the inner surface of pores at a temperature of less than the boiling point of water, followed by drying at a temperature of not less than the boiling point of water.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a magnetic capacitor structure including a first electrode, a second electrode opposite to the first electrode, a dielectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first magnetic layer disposed between the first electrode and the dielectric layer, a second magnetic layer disposed between the second electrode and the dielectric layer, a first oxide layer disposed between the first electrode and the first magnetic layer, and a second oxide layer disposed between the second magnetic layer and the dielectric layer.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween. The first internal electrode includes a first electrode plate and a first lead portion exposed to an external surface of the ceramic body and the second internal electrode includes a second electrode plate and a second lead portion exposed to an external surface of the ceramic body. The relationship Mb>Mt may be satisfied, where Mb is a length of the first and second lead portions extending from the first and second electrode plates to a mounting surface of the ceramic body to which the first and second lead portions are exposed and Mt is a length from the first and second electrode plates to a surface of the ceramic body opposing the mounting surface.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a self-powered tactile pressure sensor includes a flexible substrate, an array of piezoelectric crystalline nanorods each having a bottom end and a top end, the nanorods being generally perpendicular to the substrate, a top electrode that is electrically coupled to the top ends of the nanorods, and a bottom electrode that is electrically coupled to the bottom ends of the nanorods.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and a device (1) to test the sealing of cork stoppers (R). The device (1) comprises a partitioning mechanism dividing a chamber in two compartments (8a, 8b). The partitioning mechanism comprises: an adjustable insulator (9) configured to hermetically seal a central part of the stopper (R) from the outside environment and simultaneously to arrange each end of the stopper (R) in one of the compartments (8a, 8b); and an insulator actuation member (10) to arrange the insulator (9) on the central part of the stopper (R). The device farther comprises a block (11a) for closing the compartment (8a); an inlet (12) connected to a test fluid source, the source arranged in the block (11a), and a detection member (13) connected to the same block (11a). The present invention finds application in the field of cork stopper production and in the cork industry in general.

Abstract: A separator for electric double layer capacitor comprising a fiber sheet containing 10% by mass (relative to 100% by mass of fiber sheet) of polyvinyl alcohol fibers (fibers A) having a hot water-dissolving temperature of lower than 100° C. and higher than 85° C., the separator having a density within a range of 0.25 to 0.7 g/cm3, and a thickness within a range of not less than 5 ?m and less than 40 ?m.

Abstract: A sensor package includes a pressure sensor, a computation unit that performs specified computation in accordance with a result of detection performed by the pressure sensor, a lead frame through which a result of computation performed by the computation unit is output to an outside, a main housing that is formed of resin and that holds the lead frame, and a sensor housing that is formed of ceramic and that has an inner space in which the pressure sensor is disposed. The pressure sensor is disposed in the main housing using the sensor housing.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a method of forming an energy storage device is described in which a porous structure of an electrically conductive substrate is measured in-situ while being electrochemically etched in an electrochemical etching bath until a predetermined value is obtained, at which point the electrically conductive substrate may be removed from the electrochemical etching bath. In another embodiment, a method of forming an energy storage device is described in which an electrically conductive porous structure is measured to determine the energy storage capacity of the electrically conductive porous structure. The energy storage capacity of the electrically conductive porous structure is then reduced until a predetermined energy storage capacity value is obtained.

Abstract: A capacitor assembly configured to effectively dissipate heat when exposed to a high ripple current is provided. The assembly includes a plurality of capacitor elements, each including an anode body and lead, a dielectric layer overlying the anode body, and a solid electrolyte. Each capacitor element is defined by upper and lower major surfaces, first opposing minor surfaces, and second opposing minor surfaces. The major surfaces each have a surface area greater than that of each of the minor opposing surfaces. A hermetically sealed housing having a length, width, and height defines an interior cavity within which the plurality of capacitor elements are positioned. The ratio of the length to the height ranges from about 2 to about 80. Further, the lower major face of each capacitor element faces a lower wall of the housing, where the lower wall is defined by the housing's length and width.

Abstract: An installation for testing open fire extinguishing systems includes a smoke and/or mist generator and a connecting conduit suitable and dedicated for being connected to a fire fighting system. A method for testing of fire extinguishing systems has the following steps performed in any suitable order: a) providing an installation for the generation of smoke and/or mist, b) connecting a conduit of the installation to a conduit of a first section of a preferably open fire extinguishing system, c) opening a valve which provides a connection between the first section of the fire fighting system and the connecting conduit of the installation, d) turning on the smoke and/or mist generator, such that, by the exiting of the smoke and/or mist, the spray heads of the first section of the fire extinguishing system can be inspected on their openness, e) repeating steps b-d for any further section of the fire extinguishing system.

Abstract: The capacitor includes a dielectric body portion including ceramic layers and internal-electrode layers laminated in an alternating manner, and a cover portion provided in a periphery of the dielectric body portion. The cover portion includes pores. A part of the cover portion located in a position in a direction perpendicular to a lamination direction of the ceramic layers and the internal-electrode layers is a side surface cover portion. When the side surface cover portion is divided into three equal regions in a width direction, the regions being a dielectric body portion-side region, a central region, and a surface-side region, the number of the pores is higher in the dielectric body portion-side region than in the central region and the surface-side region.

Abstract: A cement testing apparatus has a pressure vessel system defining a first interior volume sealed from a second interior volume. The pressure vessel system has a confining pressure port in fluid communication with the first interior volume and a rebalance pressure port in fluid communication with the second interior volume. A cement sample container is provided within the first interior volume. A displacement indicator is coupled to move with deformation of a cement sample supported by the sample container. The displacement indicator has a first portion inside the first interior volume, a second portion inside the second interior volume, and a third portion traversing a space between the first and second interior volumes.

Abstract: A piezoelectric pressure sensor includes a membrane for detecting a pressure profile, a piezoelectric sensor on which polarization charges are produced by the detected pressure profile, an electrode arrangement receiving and transmitting the generated polarization charges as signals via a charge output. The sensor further includes an electrical connecting element and an electrical signal conductor. The electrical connecting element is electrically and mechanically connected to the electrical signal conductor. The charge output is connected to the electrical connecting element in certain areas and transmits signals through the electrical connecting element into the electrical signal conductor.