Abstract: A metal plate for a terminal and a terminal in which cracks in a plating film due to bending or the like can be suppressed, and a terminal pair that is wear resistant against micro-sliding. The metal plate includes a base material and, a plating film that covers the entire surface of the base material. The plating film includes an intermediate Ag layer that is layered on the base material, and an Ag—Sn alloy layer that is layered on the intermediate Ag layer and is exposed on the outermost surface. The terminal is made from the metal plate and has a protruding contact projecting from the surrounding region and is configured to come into contact with a corresponding terminal. The plating film is arranged at least on the protruding contact.

Abstract: An electric contact pair includes a first electric contact, and a second electric contact to be brought into electrical contact with the first electric contact. The first electric contact includes a first plating film made of Ag or a Ag alloy on its outermost surface, and the second electric contact includes a second plating film made of Rh or a Rh alloy on its outermost surface. The first plating film maybe layered on a first conductive base material, the second plating film maybe layered on a second conductive base material, and the first conductive base material and the second conductive base material are made of copper or a copper alloy, or aluminum or an aluminum alloy. A connector terminal pair includes a first terminal including the first electric contact, and a second terminal including the second electric contact.

Abstract: An electrical contact pair and a connector terminal pair that can reduce the amount of sliding wear in a contact portion. The electrical contact pair includes a first electrical contact, a second electrical contact, and a contact portion. The first electrical contact includes, above a first conductive base material, an Ag—Sn alloy layer, and a first AG layer that is laminated on a surface of the Ag—Sn alloy layer, and the first AG layer is exposed as the outermost surface. The second electrical contact includes a second AG layer above a second conductive base material, and the second AG layer is exposed as the outermost surface. The contact portion is obtained as a result of a surface of the first AG layer of the first electrical contact and a surface of the second AG layer of the second electrical contact being in contact with each other.

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: Electric power energy required in an alkaline water electrolytic device and an alkaline fuel cell for continuing an electrolytic treatment, a hydrogen gas and an oxygen gas serving as raw materials for the electric power energy, an amount of water corresponding to raw water lost through the electrolytic treatment, and an electrolytic solution are efficiently circulated and used in a water treatment system to considerably reduce electric power consumption.

Abstract: This redox flow secondary battery has an electrolyte tank (6) containing: a positive electrode cell chamber (2) containing a positive electrode (1) comprising a carbon electrode; a negative electrode cell chamber (4) containing a negative electrode (3) comprising a carbon electrode; and an electrolyte membrane (5) as a barrier membrane that separates/isolates the positive electrode cell chamber (2) and the negative electrode cell chamber (4). The positive electrode cell chamber (2) contains a positive electrode electrolyte containing an active substance, the negative electrode cell chamber (4) contains a negative electrode electrolyte containing an active substance, and the redox flow secondary battery charges and discharges on the basis of the change in valency of the active substances in the electrolytes.

Abstract: An electrical contact pair and a connector terminal pair that can reduce the amount of sliding wear in a contact portion. The electrical contact pair includes a first electrical contact, a second electrical contact, and a contact portion. The first electrical contact includes, above a first conductive base material, an Ag—Sn alloy layer, and a first AG layer that is laminated on a surface of the Ag—Sn alloy layer, and the first AG layer is exposed as the outermost surface. The second electrical contact includes a second AG layer above a second conductive base material, and the second AG layer is exposed as the outermost surface. The contact portion is obtained as a result of a surface of the first AG layer of the first electrical contact and a surface of the second AG layer of the second electrical contact being in contact with each other.

Abstract: An electric contact pair includes a first electric contact, and a second electric contact to be brought into electrical contact with the first electric contact. The first electric contact includes a first plating film made of Ag or a Ag alloy on its outermost surface, and the second electric contact includes a second plating film made of Rh or a Rh alloy on its outermost surface. The first plating film maybe layered on a first conductive base material, the second plating film maybe layered on a second conductive base material, and the first conductive base material and the second conductive base material are made of copper or a copper alloy, or aluminum or an aluminum alloy. A connector terminal pair includes a first terminal including the first electric contact, and a second terminal including the second electric contact.

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: 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: 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: 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: The objective of the present invention is to make it possible to execute each of a plurality of application programs without taking into account the addresses of the programs. A microcomputer (100) is provided with: a program memory (108) which stores a plurality of microphone programs executed by a digital signal processing circuit (104); an address control circuit (109) which controls addresses in the program memory; a program address register (110) which stores the addresses of the microphone programs; and a program size register (111) which stores the sizes of the microphone programs. The address control circuit (109) calculates the addresses in the program memory on the basis of the program address register (110) and the program size register (111).

Abstract: The problem addressed by the present invention is to obtain an electrolyte membrane that, as an electrolyte membrane for a redox flow secondary battery, is able to suppress the ion permeability of an active substance without detracting from proton (H+) permeability, has superior ion-selective permeability, has low electrical resistivity, and has superior current efficiency. The present invention solves the abovementioned problem by means of the electrolyte membrane for a redox flow secondary battery containing a perfluorocarbon sulfonic acid resin having a specific structure and an equivalent weight (EW), and the ion conductivity being adjusted to a predetermined range.

Abstract: A distal end cover of an endoscope includes a peripheral edge portion configured to form an opening that externally exposes a space in which a raising base is housed, in a distal end member; a planned-to-be-torn-apart section including a tear starting point disposed on the peripheral edge portion, and a thin portion that is connected to a to-be-torn-apart section of the peripheral edge portion torn from the tear starting point, on an inside surface of a surface facing the opening or an inside surface of at least one side surface that connects the peripheral edge portion and the surface facing the opening; and an engagement portion configured to be engaged with an outside surface of the distal end member by engaging in a direction intersecting the outside surface.

Abstract: An electric contact includes a bulge-shaped contact having a bulge shape, and a plate-shaped contact that has a plate shape and comes into electrical contact with an apex portion of the bulge-shaped contact. The bulge-shaped contact has a silver-tin alloy layer and a silver coating layer that coats the surface of the silver-tin alloy layer and is exposed at an outermost surface. The plate-shaped contact has a silver layer that does not have a silver-tin alloy layer directly below and is exposed at the outermost surface. Also, a connector terminal pair has such an electric contact in a contacting portion.

Abstract: A device for producing an organic hydride 10 of an aspect of the present invention has an electrochemical cell provided with an anode 12 on a surface of an electrolyte membrane 11 and a cathode including a cathode catalyst layer 13 and a cathode diffusion layer 14 on another surface of the electrolyte membrane 11. A gap is provided between the anode 12 and the electrolyte membrane 11. The anode 12 has a network structure with an aperture ratio of 30 to 70%, and has an electrical supply supporting material formed of an electronic conductor and the electrode catalyst held by the electrical supply supporting material.

Abstract: An alkaline water electrolysis diaphragm includes: a polymer porous layer containing at least one polymer compound selected from polyether sulfone having a contact angle of 20 to 90° and polysulfone having the contact angle of 20 to 90°; and an organic fiber fabric layer coupled to the polymer porous layer. The polyether sulfone having the contact angle of 20 to 90° is at least one polymer compound selected from the group made of polyether sulfone, hydrophilic polyether sulfone, cationic polyether sulfone, and cationic hydrophilic polyether sulfone. The polysulfone having the contact angle of 20 to 90° is at least one polymer compound selected from the group made of polysulfone, hydrophilic polysulfone, cationic polysulfone, and cationic hydrophilic polysulfone.

Abstract: An electric contact includes a bulge-shaped contact having a bulge shape, and a plate-shaped contact that has a plate shape and comes into electrical contact with an apex portion of the bulge-shaped contact. The bulge-shaped contact has a silver-tin alloy layer and a silver coating layer that coats the surface of the silver-tin alloy layer and is exposed at an outermost surface. The plate-shaped contact has a silver layer that does not have a silver-tin alloy layer directly below and is exposed at the outermost surface. Also, a connector terminal pair has such an electric contact in a contacting portion.

Abstract: An anode for oxygen generation and a manufacturing method for the same used for industrial electrolyses including manufacturing of electrolytic metal foils such as electrolytic copper foil, aluminum liquid contact and continuously electrogalvanized steel plate, and metal extraction is provided. The anode for oxygen generation and a manufacturing method for the same comprises a conductive metal substrate and a catalyst layer containing iridium oxide formed on the conductive metal substrate wherein the coating is baked in a high temperature region of 410° C.-450° C. in an oxidation atmosphere to form the catalyst layer co-existing amorphous and crystalline iridium oxide and the catalyst layer co-existing the amorphous and crystalline iridium oxide is post-baked in a further high temperature region of 520° C.-560° C. in an oxidation atmosphere to crystallize almost all amount of iridium oxide in the catalyst layer.