Abstract: A fuel pump having a housing defining a pump chamber and an inlet and outlet fluidly connected to the pump chamber. A one way check valve is disposed fluidly in series between the pump chamber and the outlet and is oriented to allow fluid flow from the pump chamber and to the outlet when the check valve is open. A venturi tube is fluidly connected in series between the pump chamber and the outlet which effectively dampens noise pulsations. An inlet valve to the pump chamber has an anchor attached to a valve member and the stationary core. A conical surface on the core abuts against a complementary conical surface on the anchor when the valve is either in its fully open or fully closed position.

Abstract: A display device is provided that may prevent peeling of a sealing layer between a first partition and a second partition formed at an end portion of the sealing layer that seals a light emitting layer. An organic EL display device includes a sealing layer that is configured to seal a light emitting element layer and is doubly enclosed at an end portion by a first bank and a second bank that is formed more on the outer side than the first bank with a gap in between. An outer side wall surface of the first bank facing the second bank is formed as a gentle slope with an inclination angle smaller than an inner side wall surface of the first bank on the side opposite to the second bank.

Abstract: A bicycle pedal comprises a pedal axle, a pedal body, a movable member, and an actuator. The pedal axle is configured to be secured to a crank arm having a longitudinal axis extending from a rotational axis to a crank rotational axis of the crank arm. The pedal body is rotatably coupled to the pedal axle about the rotational axis. The pedal body has a reference axis perpendicular to the rotational axis of the pedal axle. The movable member is movable relative to the pedal body from a rest position toward an actuated position. The actuator is configured to move the movable member from the rest position toward the actuated position in response to a first relative angle defined between the reference axis and the longitudinal axis of the crank aim when viewed in an axial direction parallel to the rotational axis of the pedal axle.

Abstract: A bicycle pedal comprises a pedal axle, a pedal body, and a cantilever bearing structure. The cantilever bearing structure is rotatably coupling the pedal body to the pedal axle about a rotational axis. The cantilever bearing structure comprises a first bearing and a second bearing. The first bearing has at least two rows. The first thrust load ratio is larger than the first radial load ratio. The second bearing has at least one row. The second bearing has a second radial load ratio and a second thrust load ratio. The second radial load ratio is larger than the second thrust load ratio.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a conveying unit configured to convey continuous paper in a forward direction and in a reverse direction; an image forming unit configured to form an image on the continuous paper conveyed in the forward direction; a fixing unit configured to fix the image formed onto the continuous paper; an adjusting unit configured to adjust the image forming unit while the continuous paper is conveyed in the reverse direction; and a control unit configured to cause the conveying unit to convey the continuous paper in the reverse direction by an amount equivalent to a predetermined reverse conveyance distance to adjust the bottom edge of the image in a conveying direction to a position on an upstream side of the image forming unit, and cause the conveying unit to convey the continuous paper in the forward direction and cause the image forming unit to resume image formation.

Abstract: An abnormality detection unit includes a light source device configured to emit light for each of segment periods that are time divided in a frame and an illuminance value obtaining unit configured to obtain an illuminance value of light emitted from the light source device and determines that the light source device is abnormal when all illuminance values obtained at the segment periods are less than a threshold.

Abstract: An abnormality detection unit according to the invention includes a processor, and a light source device configured to emit light for each of segment periods that are time divided within a frame, and the processor obtains an illuminance value of light emitted into the frame from the light source device after a predetermined delay time has elapsed, whereupon a segment period results where a highest illuminance value is obtained, from a timing of receiving a trigger signal that is in synchronism with the frame, and detects that the light source device is in an abnormal state, when the illuminance value is less than a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: An electrical connection structure includes a partition member provided with an opening, a casing, a plurality of connection members, and a mold. The partition member divides an inside of the casing into a first space and a second space. The plurality of connection members electrically connect a first electric circuit accommodated in the first space to a second electric circuit accommodated in the second space. The mold blocks the opening which penetrates the partition member. The partition member includes a first surface facing the first space, and a second surface that is reverse to the first surface and faces the second space. The plurality of connection members extend from the second space to the first space via the mold. A periphery of the surface of the mold that faces the second surface is in close contact with the second surface via a waterproof sealing member.

Abstract: In an outer circumferential portion of an intermediate partition plate, a concave portion is provided at a position at which an upper vane and a lower vane slide. At a lower dead center of an upper piston and a lower piston, 80% or more of the entire length in the sliding direction of the upper vane and the lower vane are accommodated respectively on the inside of an upper cylinder and the inside of a lower cylinder. In the concave portion, a width W with respect the circumferential direction of the intermediate partition plate is greater than a thickness T of the upper vane and the lower vane, and when a depth of the concave portion is D and the entire length of the upper vane and the lower vane is L, D?0.1×L is satisfied.

Abstract: An injection molding machine and screw therefor with which, when mixing reinforcing fibers in a molten resin and injection molding same, the reinforcing fibers can be uniformly dispersed in the molten resin. For a screw provided in an injection molding machine, a mixing section is provided on the downstream side of a compression section. Three helical flights (x, y, z) are provided in the mixing section and three grooves, which are helically disposed in the opposite or the same direction as the orientation of the flights, are formed. As a result of the grooves, it is possible to keep the fiber lengths of the reinforcing fibers long and even if the reinforcing fibers become tangled in the compression section, the fibers are defibrated in the mixing section, the shearing of long fibers in the molten resin is mitigated, the reinforcing fibers are dispersed uniformly and a good product is obtained.

Abstract: An electrical connection structure includes a partition member provided with an opening, a casing, a plurality of connection members, and a mold. The partition member divides an inside of the casing into a first space and a second space. The plurality of connection members electrically connect a first electric circuit accommodated in the first space to a second electric circuit accommodated in the second space. The mold blocks the opening which penetrates the partition member. The partition member includes a first surface facing the first space, and a second surface that is reverse to the first surface and faces the second space. The plurality of connection members extend from the second space to the first space via the mold. A periphery of the surface of the mold that faces the second surface is in close contact with the second surface via a waterproof sealing member.

Abstract: A bicycle pedal comprises a pedal axle, a pedal body, and a cantilever bearing structure. The cantilever bearing structure is rotatably coupling the pedal body to the pedal axle about a rotational axis. The cantilever bearing structure comprises a first bearing and a second bearing. The first bearing has at least two rows. The first thrust load ratio is larger than the first radial load ratio. The second bearing has at least one row. The second bearing has a second radial load ratio and a second thrust load ratio. The second radial load ratio is larger than the second thrust load ratio.

Abstract: A diaphragm pump (1) includes a driving body (33) configured to convert a rotation of a crank body (31) into a reciprocal motion and transmit the reciprocal motion to a deformed portion (11) of a diaphragm (7). The driving body (33) includes a shaft portion (36) including a shaft hole (43) in which a driving shaft (32) fixed to the crank body is rotatably fitted. The shaft hole is a non-through hole including an opening-side end (43a) and a closed-side end (43b) each including an inner peripheral surface that contacts the driving shaft over a whole circumference. The shaft portion includes an oil storage (44) opening to a region between the opening-side end and the closed-side end of the shaft hole.

Abstract: A bicycle pedal comprises a pedal axle, a pedal body, a movable member, and an actuator. The pedal axle is configured to be secured to a crank arm having a longitudinal axis extending from a rotational axis to a crank rotational axis of the crank arm. The pedal body is rotatably coupled to the pedal axle about the rotational axis. The pedal body has a reference axis perpendicular to the rotational axis of the pedal axle. The movable member is movable relative to the pedal body from a rest position toward an actuated position. The actuator is configured to move the movable member from the rest position toward the actuated position in response to a first relative angle defined between the reference axis and the longitudinal axis of the crank aim when viewed in an axial direction parallel to the rotational axis of the pedal axle.

Abstract: A pump with a motor includes a pump housing, a motor housing, and a connecting structure configured to connect the motor housing to the pump housing. The connecting structure includes a motor connecting portion provided at an end of the pump housing, and a pump connecting portion provided at an end of the motor housing. The motor connecting portion includes a bearing configured to rotatably support the other end of the rotating shaft whose one end supported by the motor housing, a plurality of through holes, and projections projecting to the side of the motor housing. The pump connecting portion includes a first hole in which the bearing is fitted, a plurality of connecting pieces inserted into the plurality of through holes, respectively, and caulked on the motor connecting portion, and second holes in which the projections are fitted.

Abstract: A bicycle pedal comprises a pedal axle, a first pedal body, a second pedal body, a first cleat engagement member, a second cleat engagement member, a gripping member, and a biasing member. The gripping member is configured to be movably coupled to the first pedal body. The gripping member includes a first gripping portion configured to protrude from a first surface when viewed from an axial direction parallel to a rotational axis in a first state where the second pedal body is positioned at a first position relative to the first pedal body. The biasing member is configured to bias the gripping member such that, in response to a pivotal movement of the second pedal body from the first position to a second position, a tip end of the first gripping portion is moved toward the first surface when viewed from the axial direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a kneader/extruder that is provided with a heating cylinder (16), a screw (17) housed in the heating cylinder (16) so as to be capable of rotation and forward/backward movement, and a die (18) attached to the tip of the heating cylinder (16), and generates a plastic compound (6) having a reinforcement fiber kneaded therein, said kneader/extruder being provided with a shutter member (19) that opens and closes a compound extrusion port (18a) provided in the die (18), and performing kneading and extrusion of the compound (6) intermittently. The shutter member (19) may be provided with a scraper (20) that scrapes the compound (6) off from the surface of the die (18). Due to this, this kneader/extruder can generate a one-press portion of the compound and can be easily maintained.

Abstract: In a rotary compressor, a refrigerant path hole communicates with a lower discharge chamber concave portion while at least a part thereof overlaps the lower discharge chamber concave portion, is positioned between a lower vane groove and a first insertion hole in a lower cylinder, and is configured of a plurality of holes which are disposed between the upper vane groove and the first insertion hole in the upper cylinder, and a sectional area of a cross section which is closest to the lower vane groove and the upper vane groove of the plurality of holes is the smallest compared to the sectional area of the cross section of the other holes.

Abstract: A field effect transistor having a higher breakdown voltage can be provided by forming a contiguous dielectric material layer over gate stacks, forming via cavities laterally spaced from the gate stacks, selectively depositing a single crystalline semiconductor material, and converting upper portions of the deposited single crystalline semiconductor material into elevated source/drain regions. Lower portions of the selectively deposited single crystalline semiconductor material in the via cavities can have a doping of a lesser concentration, thereby effectively increasing the distance between two steep junctions at edges of a source region and a drain region. Optionally, embedded active regions for additional devices can be formed prior to formation of the contiguous dielectric material layer. Raised active regions contacting a top surface of a substrate can be formed simultaneously with formation of the elevated active regions that are vertically spaced from the top surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a substrate includes applying solder resist ink containing a mixing resin of epoxy-based resin and acrylic-based resin on at least one surface of a substrate body to form a solder resist layer, and irradiating a predetermined portion of the solder resist layer with ultraviolet rays and controlling an amount of irradiation of the ultraviolet rays irradiated to the predetermined of the solder resist layer to form the predetermined portion in transmissivity that transmits light.