Abstract: A pin terminal includes a bar-like base material and a plating layer covering a predetermined region of the base material. A constituent material of the base material is pure copper or a copper alloy. The plating layer includes a tin-based layer made of metal containing tin. One end side of the base material includes a tip covering portion covering an entire region in a circumferential direction of the base material. The tin-based layer includes the tip covering portion. The tip covering portion includes a thin film portion and a thick film portion at positions different in the circumferential direction of the base material. The thin film portion includes an outer layer and an inner layer provided in contact with the base material. A constituent material of the outer layer is pure tin, and that of the inner layer is an alloy containing tin and copper.

Abstract: Provided is a metal material and a connection terminal that have a surface layer including Au, and that can maintain a state of low contact resistance even when heated. A metal material 1 includes a base material 10 and a surface layer 11 formed on the base material 10. The surface layer 11 contains Au and In, and at least In is present at an outermost surface. Also, a connection terminal is constituted by the metal material 1, and the surface layer 11 is formed on a surface of the base material 10 at least at a contact portion that comes into electrical contact with a partner conductive member.

Abstract: An inserting apparatus of the present invention includes a base provided in an insertion section, a first recess provided in the base, an opening forming surface formed around the first recess, a movable member configured to move in the first recess, a tabular lid member configured to close an opening of the first recess, a second recess provided in the lid member, a wall surface provided on the base, and opposed to at least a part of a side surface of the lid member in a state in which the contact surface is in contact with the opening forming surface, a fixing resin fixing the lid member to the base, and one or a plurality of protrusions provided on the side surface, having thickness smaller than thickness in the side surface of the lid member, and projecting toward the wall surface.

Abstract: To provide an electrolysis cell for producing an organic chemical hydride capable of advancing a reduction reaction in a cathode of an organic compound having an unsaturated bond with high current efficiency and a small electric power consumption unit.

Abstract: A negative electrode material for a nonaqueous secondary battery which contains a graphite that contains an amorphous carbonaceous material in at least a part of the surface; has a cumulative pore volume of 0.100 mL/g or less in a pore size range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m; and satisfies at least one of the following conditions (1) and (2) in a DTA curve obtained by differential thermal analysis (DTA) in an air stream: (1) the negative electrode material has no exothermic peak in a temperature range of 550° C. to 650° C.; and (2) the negative electrode material has an exothermic peak in a temperature range of 550° C. to 650° C., and the area of the exothermic peak is larger than 0 ?V·s/mg but 90 ?V·s/mg or smaller; a negative electrode for a nonaqueous secondary battery, which contains the same; and a nonaqueous secondary battery are provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a means that can improve density and mechanical strength in a sintered body of a composition containing a sintering aid and a silicon carbide particle, and a molded article containing the sintered body. The present invention relates to a coated silicon carbide particle powder containing a silicon carbide particle, and a coating layer coating the silicon carbide particle, in which the coating layer contains an aluminum element, and the mass of the aluminum element per unit surface area of the silicon carbide particle is 0.5 mg/m2 or more.

Abstract: A metallic material that includes a base material; and a surface layer formed on a surface of the base material and exposed on an outermost surface, wherein the surface layer contains Ag, and In less than the Ag in atomic ratio, and a connection terminal being made of the metallic material, wherein the surface layer is formed on a surface of the base material, at least in a contact portion electrically contacting an opposite electrically conductive member.

Abstract: An organic hydride production apparatus that enables the reduction reaction at the cathode of an organic compound having an unsaturated bond to proceed at high current efficiency and at a low electric power consumption rate, and a method for producing an organic hydride that uses this production apparatus.

Abstract: A metallic material that includes a foundation material; and a surface layer formed on a surface of the foundation material and exposed on an outermost surface, wherein the surface layer contains a precious metal element made of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Ag, Au, and a platinum group element, and In, and a connection terminal being made of the metallic material, wherein the surface layer is formed on a surface of the foundation material, at least in a contact portion electrically contacting an opposite electrically conductive member.

Abstract: A diaphragm includes a porous supporting body and a polymer porous membrane. When one of surfaces of the porous membrane is defined as a surface A, the other surface opposite to the surface A is defined as a surface B, a section of the porous membrane parallel to the surfaces A and B is defined as a section C, an average pore diameter on the surface A is defined as an average pore diameter DA, an average pore diameter on the surface B is defined as an average pore diameter DB, and an average pore diameter on the section C is defined as an average pore diameter DC, the average pore diameters DA and DB are substantially equal to each other, and the average pore diameter DC is larger than each of the average pore diameters DA and DB.

Abstract: An anode for oxygen evolution that operates at a small overpotential and in a stable manner, and can be used favorably in an organic chemical hydride electrolytic synthesis apparatus. An anode 10 for oxygen evolution that evolves oxygen in a sulfuric acid aqueous solution containing a substance to be hydrogenated dissolved at a concentration higher than 1 mg/L, wherein an anode substrate 10a is composed of a valve metal, and an anode catalyst layer 10b containing at least one oxide, nitride or carbide of iridium, and at least one oxide, nitride or carbide of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to groups 4, 5 and 13 of the periodic table is formed on the surface of the anode substrate 10a.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode for electrolysis in which electrolysis performance is hard to deteriorate and excellent catalytic activity is kept stable over a long period of time even when electric power in which there is a large fluctuation in output, such as renewable energy, is used as a power source. The electrode for electrolysis is an electrode 10 for electrolysis provided with an electrically conductive substrate 2 at least the surface of which contains nickel or a nickel-based alloy, an intermediate layer 4 formed on the surface of the electrically conductive substrate 2 and containing a lithium-containing nickel oxide represented by composition formula LixNi2-xO2 (0.02?x?0.5), and a catalyst layer 6 of a nickel cobalt spinel oxide, an iridium oxide, or the like, the catalyst layer 6 formed on the surface of the intermediate layer 4.

Abstract: An insertion apparatus includes: a base member, a rotary shaft, and a driven member including a hole. A plurality of concave portions are formed on the rotary shaft, and a pair of side wall surfaces which form each of the plurality of concave portions are disposed so as to intersect with each other at a right angle or at an obtuse angle.

Abstract: An inserting apparatus of the present invention includes a base provided in an insertion section, a first recess provided in the base, an opening forming surface formed around the first recess, a movable member configured to move in the first recess, a tabular lid member configured to close an opening of the first recess, a second recess provided in the lid member, a wall surface provided on the base, and opposed to at least a part of a side surface of the lid member in a state in which the contact surface is in contact with the opening forming surface, a fixing resin fixing the lid member to the base, and one or a plurality of protrusions provided on the side surface, having thickness smaller than thickness in the side surface of the lid member, and projecting toward the wall surface.

Abstract: An inserting apparatus includes a base, a first recess, an opening forming surface, a movable member, a tabular lid member including a contact surface, the lid member closing an opening of the first recess, a second recess provided on the contact surface of the lid member, fixing resin for fixing the lid member to the base, and a third recess being a cutout recessed from a sidewall of at least one of the first recess and the second recess along a boundary between the opening fanning surface and the contact surface and including, on an inner surface, the boundary between the opening forming surface and the contact surface. The opening arming surface of the base and the contact surface of the second recess are provided at least on one side of both ends defining a moving range, the moving range being a range in which the movable member moves.

Abstract: An electrical contact point including: a first contact and a second contact capable of forming an electrical contact each other, wherein: the first contact includes an alloy containing layer having alloy parts made of an alloy containing tin and palladium and a tin part made of tin or an alloy having a higher ratio of tin to palladium than the alloy parts with both the alloy parts and the tin part exposed on an outermost surface; and the second contact includes a dissimilar metal layer made of metal having a higher hardness than the alloy containing layer and containing neither tin nor palladium on an outermost surface.

Abstract: An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine, provided with a primary coil, a secondary coil, a bobbin, a center core and a mold resin member. The primary coil and secondary coil are magnetically connected to each other. The primary coil is directly wound on the bobbin. The center core is disposed in close contact with the bobbin at an inner space thereof. The mold resin member has the primary coil, the secondary coil, the bobbin, and the center core embedded at the inner side thereof. The bobbin includes thermoplastic resin and dispersed phase particles which are dispersed in the thermoplastic resin. The dispersed phase particles being lower in elasticity than the thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: A metallic material that includes a foundation material; and a surface layer formed on a surface of the foundation material and exposed on an outermost surface, wherein the surface layer contains a precious metal element made of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Ag, Au, and a platinum group element, and In, and a connection terminal being made of the metallic material, wherein the surface layer is formed on a surface of the foundation material, at least in a contact portion electrically contacting an opposite electrically conductive member.

Abstract: A metallic material that includes a base material; and a surface layer formed on a surface of the base material and exposed on an outermost surface, wherein the surface layer contains Ag, and In less than the Ag in atomic ratio, and a connection terminal being made of the metallic material, wherein the surface layer is formed on a surface of the base material, at least in a contact portion electrically contacting an opposite electrically conductive member.

Abstract: Provided is a method capable of producing, in a simple and low-cost manner, an electrolysis electrode which can be used in alkaline water electrolysis and has superior durability against output variation. The method for producing an anode for alkaline water electrolysis includes: a step of dissolving lithium nitrate and a nickel carboxylate in water to prepare an aqueous solution containing lithium ions and nickel ions, a step of applying the aqueous solution to the surface of a conductive substrate having at least the surface composed of nickel or a nickel-based alloy, and a step of subjecting the conductive substrate to which the aqueous solution has been applied to a heat treatment at a temperature within a range from at least 450° C. to not more than 600° C., thereby forming a catalyst layer composed of a lithium-containing nickel oxide on the conductive substrate.