Abstract: A solid electrolyte composition contains a solvent and an ion conductor dispersed in the solvent, the ion conductor including a solid electrolyte and a binder, wherein 0.40<S?/S?<0.80 is satisfied, where S? represents a specific surface area of the solid electrolyte, and S? represents a specific surface area of the ion conductor. For the solid electrolyte composition, 0.45<S?/S?<0.75 may be satisfied.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a turbine wheel having a center hole and a turbine shaft having one end secured on a small-diameter inner circumferential surface of the center hole. A large-diameter inner circumferential surface and a large diameter outer circumferential surface are formed to provide a cylindrical clearance opening toward a bearing housing between the center hole and the outer circumferential surface of the turbine shaft.

Abstract: A supercharger includes a housing, and a turbine shaft supported in a center hole in the housing through rolling bearings. Lubricating oil for the rolling bearings exists only within the housing. A cooling water jacket is provided within a body portion of the housing over a region from one axial end portion of the body portion to the other axial end portion thereof.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a housing, and a turbine shaft supported in a center hole in the housing through rolling bearings. A tank portion for storing lubrication oil is formed in the housing, and the lubricating oil is supplied from the tank portion to the rolling bearings through wick members extending from the tank portion respectively to the rolling bearings. The wick member includes a bundle of fibers made of a plastics material, and a distal end portion thereof is separated into a fibrous condition, and this distal end portion is held in contact with the bearing. The lubricating oil is supplied to the bearing by a capillary action of the wick member.

Abstract: The invention is aimed, in a rolling bearing device, to improve its durability by appropriately attenuating vibration of a rotating shaft by means of a high level of dumping performance, and thereby to reduce the load imposed on the rolling bearing and/or the overall system. A rolling bearing device of the present invention comprises a rolling bearing (13) including: an inner ring (24) and an outer ring (23) that are disposed so as to be relatively rotatable; and a plurality of rolling elements (25) disposed between the inner ring (24) and the outer ring (23), in which the rolling bearing (13) supports relative rotation between a shaft (14) and a housing (12). Besides, the rolling bearing device comprises, between the rolling bearing (13) and the housing (12), a damper member (60) formed by one or more metal wires (64) that are knitted.

Abstract: A sealing structure includes a labyrinth seal provided between a housing and an outer periphery of an end portion of a turbine shaft on a turbine wheel side, and a piston ring seal disposed on a side toward a center of the turbine shaft in an axial direction thereof from a position on the turbine shaft at which the labyrinth seal is provided, and a ring groove is formed along a circumferential direction of the housing in a middle portion of the labyrinth seal to reverse a flow direction of exhaust gas entering from the exhaust passage.

Abstract: A supercharger includes a housing, and a turbine shaft supported in a center hole in the housing through rolling bearings. Lubricating oil for the rolling bearings exists only within the housing. A cooling water jacket is provided within a body portion of the housing over a region from one axial end portion of the body portion to the other axial end portion thereof.

Abstract: A rolling bearing device includes a bearing housing supported on a casing of a turbocharger, and a pair of rolling bearings mounted within the bearing housing and rotatably supporting a turbine shaft. A middle position between the pair of rolling bearings in an axial direction and a central portion of the bearing housing in the axial direction are offset from each other in the axial direction. Each of the rolling bearings includes an inner ring, an outer ring, an intermediate ring interposed between the inner and outer rings, a row of rolling elements rollably interposed between the inner ring and the intermediate ring, and a row of rolling elements rollably interposed between the intermediate ring and the outer ring. The intermediate ring has a damper function to be very slightly displaced or very slightly deformed elastically so as to damp vibration produced during rotation of the turbine shaft.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a housing, and a turbine shaft supported in a center hole in the housing through rolling bearings. A tank portion for storing lubrication oil is formed in the housing, and the lubricating oil is supplied from the tank portion to the rolling bearings through wick members extending from the tank portion respectively to the rolling bearings. The wick member includes a bundle of fibers made of a plastics material, and a distal end portion thereof is separated into a fibrous condition, and this distal end portion is held in contact with the bearing. The lubricating oil is supplied to the bearing by a capillary action of the wick member.

Abstract: There are provided an inner ring having a first raceway at an outer periphery thereof, an outer ring having a second raceway at an inner periphery thereof, an intermediate ring which is interposed between these, and has a third raceway at an inner periphery thereof and also has a fourth raceway at an outer periphery thereof, first rolling elements interposed between the first raceway and the third raceway, and second rolling elements interposed between the fourth raceway and the second raceway. The intermediate ring includes a larger-diameter ring portion, and a smaller-diameter ring portion formed on the larger-diameter ring portion through an inclined ring portion. The third raceway is formed at a boundary portion between the larger-diameter ring portion and the inclined ring portion, and the fourth raceway is formed at a boundary portion between the smaller-diameter ring portion and the inclined ring portion.

Abstract: A supercharger includes a housing and a turbine shaft supported by the center hole within the housing through rolling bearings. A cooling water jacket within the housing is provided within the main body portion of the housing. The rolling bearings are supplied with lubricant by a tank portion formed within the housing for reserving the lubricant and a wick member provided between the tank portion and the center hole. The wick member 36 includes a core portion configured by a fiber portion and gaps. The lubricant is supplied by the capillary action of the gaps. The porosity of the gap is set to be 45.5% or more and less than 80%.

Abstract: A turbine shaft to which a turbine is fixed is supported by a bearing supporting member via bearings so as to rotate freely. The bearing supporting member is supported by a housing via the damper member. The damper member is formed by knitting a wire made of metal.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a turbine wheel having a center hole and a turbine shaft having one end secured on a small-diameter inner circumferential surface of the center hole. A large-diameter inner circumferential surface and a large diameter outer circumferential surface are formed to provide a cylindrical clearance opening toward a bearing housing between the center hole and the outer circumferential surface of the turbine shaft.

Abstract: A feed composition for animals (livestock, poultry, fish or pet) which contains poly-&ggr;-glutamic acid (and/or degradated product thereof) and, a method for reducing body fat acumulation in animals which comprises feeding animals with a feed composition containing poly-&ggr;-glutamic acid.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the interesterification of oil or fat by treating such oil or fat in presence of a fatty acid or fatty acid ester or different oil or fat wherein a reactor column that is packed with an alkaline high molecular weight lipase preparation containing 0 to 5% moisture is fed with a substrate solution composed of the above oil or fat and fatty acid or fatty acid ester or different oil or fat for a continuous reaction in such a manner that the substrate solution contains 100 to 1800 ppm moisture and 50 to 800 ppm moisture at the inlet and outlet, respectively, of the column.

Abstract: A cathode-depositing electrodeposition coating composition having excellent low-temperature curability comprising as essential ingredients(A) 100 parts by weight of a reaction product of (1) a high molecular compound having a molecular weight of 500 to 5,000 and containing carbon-carbon double bonds with an iodine number of 50 to 500 and 3 to 12% by weight of oxirane oxygen, and (2) 30 to 300 millimoles, per 100 g of the high molecular compound (1), of a specified amine compound,(B) 10 to 200 parts by weight of a reaction product of a specified diglycidyl compound with 1.9 to 2.1 moles, per molecule of the diglycidyl compound, of an alpha, beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid or an unsaturated fatty acid having a molecular weight of 100 to 350 and containing at least 10% by weight of a carbon-carbon double bond, or a mixture of both,(C) 0.

Abstract: A cathode-depositing electrodeposition coating composition comprising an aqueous solution or dispersion containing(A) a reaction product of (1) epoxidized diene polymer, (2) an amine and optionally, (3) polymerizable unsaturated aliphatic acid;(B) a reaction product of bisphenol epoxy resin and a polymerizable aliphatic acid;(C) a blocked polyisocyanate compound; and(D) manganese dioxide or an organic salt of manganese, cobalt or copper.The composition gives a coating film having excellent properties when electrodepositing and baking at a relatively low baking temperature.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a printing ink composition containing the reaction product of 5 to 100 parts by weight of a phenolic resin and about 100 parts by weight of a resin modified with an acid. The phenolic resin is prepared by condensing an appropriate 4-9 carbon alkylphenol with formalin. The modified resin is prepared by reacting 1 to 15 parts by weight of an appropriate unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or anhydride with about 100 parts by weight of the reaction product of 5 to 100 parts by weight straight-chain .alpha.-olefin with about 100 parts by weight of an appropriate pentacyclic compound, such as cyclopentadiene and/or dicyclopentadiene.

Abstract: A cathode-precipitating electrodeposition coating having excellent low-temperature curability, said composition consisting essentially of(A) 100 parts by weight of a high molecular compound having a molecular weight of 500 to 10,000 and containing carbon-carbon double bonds with an iodine value of 50 to 500 and 30 to 300 millimoles of amino groups per 100 g,(B) 10 to 200 parts by weight of a product of reaction of a diglycidyl compound represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is disclosed a process for producing a novel resin which comprises the step of copolymerizing a five-member cyclic compound (component A) having a conjugated double bond and represented by the general formula (A) given below: ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl group having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms; m and n are zero or integers not less than 1 and are in the relation of m+n=6; and/or a Diels-Alder addition product thereof (A) with a co-dimer (component B) of said five-member cyclic compound and 1,3-butadiene by heating a mixture of 20 to 90 parts by weight of said component A and 80 to 10 parts by weight of said component B at a temperature of from 200.degree. C. to 350.degree. C. Also disclosed are a process for hydrogenating said novel resin to produce a novel hydrogenated resin and resin compositions containing said hydrogenated resin.