Abstract: A centrifugal compressor is provided with a plurality of diaphragms including a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm which are adjacent to each other in an axial direction, a casing disposed on a radially outer side of the plurality of diaphragms and accommodating an internal component including the plurality of diaphragms, at least one axial spacer disposed between the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm, and a scroll flow passage formed by a scroll inner peripheral wall and a scroll outer peripheral wall. The scroll inner peripheral wall is formed by a surface of the first diaphragm positioned on a radially inner side of an outer peripheral surface of the first diaphragm. At least a part of the scroll outer peripheral wall is formed by an inner peripheral surface of the casing.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor according to the present invention includes, as gas flow paths, diffuser flow paths into which process gas flowing from impellers to outside in a radial direction flows, curved flow paths that respectively communicate with the diffuser flow paths and change a flowing direction of the process gas from a direction toward the outside in the radial direction to a direction toward inside in the radial direction, and return flow paths that respectively communicate with the curved flow paths and cause the process gas flowing through the curved flow paths to flow into the impellers. In the present invention, the curved flow path configuring at least one of the gas flow paths is provided between a diaphragm and a flow path forming body that is provided between the diaphragm and the casing.

Abstract: An electrode plate constituting a positive electrode or a negative electrode of a battery and having a flat plate shape including a sheet-shaped current collector made of metal foil and coated with a slurry electrode material containing an electrode active material, a conductive auxiliary agent, a binder, and a thickener, the thickener being propylene glycol alginate.

Abstract: A driver circuit (101) is connected to a control terminal of a semiconductor switching element (1). The driver circuit (101) includes an input circuit (3) connected to an input terminal (50), and an output control circuit (4) connected to the input circuit (3). A pulse signal output from the output control circuit (4) is input to a dead time adjustment circuit (13). The dead time adjustment circuit (13) includes a delay circuit which can delay the rising edge and the falling edge of the pulse signal output from the output control circuit (4) on the basis of signals from temperature analog output circuits (11) and (12). An output from the dead time adjustment circuit (13) is input to the drive circuit (5). The drive circuit (5) outputs a drive signal to an output terminal (51) of the driver circuit (101).

Abstract: A laminate-type power storage element includes a flat plate-shaped electrode body and an exterior body. The electrode body is configured by stacking a sheet-shaped positive electrode and a sheet-shaped negative electrode on either side of a separator. The exterior body is formed in a flattened bag-shape by thermocompression bonding peripheral edge regions of two opposing laminated films, to seal the electrode body inside the flattened bag-shape of the exterior body together with an electrolyte. The separator has a sheet-shaped substrate and at least one bonding layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate. A peripheral edge portion of the separator is sandwiched between and bonded by the two laminated films at a peripheral inside of the peripheral edge regions of the two laminated films.

Abstract: A gas expander includes: a casing where a swirl chamber for a gas to be expanded is formed; a turbine wheel that is housed in the casing and rotationally driven by the expanded gas; a diffuser that is mounted to the casing in a direction of a rotating shaft of the turbine wheel and includes a flow path for the expanded gas to flow in the direction of the rotating shaft; a swirl stopper that is disposed in the diffuser, faces a downstream front end surface of a boss of the turbine wheel that faces the flow path, and includes a closed swirl stopping surface that is disposed to face the downstream front end surface of the boss with a gap between the closed swirl stopping surface and the downstream front end surface; and a swirl preventing plate that circumferentially partition the flow path in the diffuser.

Abstract: A method for preparing cathode material for a lithium primary battery includes an active cathode material and an active anode material. The active cathode material is manganese dioxide, and the active anode material is either one of lithium metal and lithium alloy. The method includes: a first kneading step in which a boron compound and a thickening agent are kneaded with a diluent to prepare a paste made by dissolving the boron compound in the diluent; a second kneading step in which the paste is kneaded with a conductive additive; and a third kneading step in which the paste obtained in the second kneading step is kneaded with the active cathode material and a binder to prepare the cathode material in slurry form.

Abstract: A conductive auxiliary agent for an electrode slurry for a battery. The electrode slurry contains an electrode active material and a conductive auxiliary agent, and is applied to a sheet-shaped current collector. The conductive auxiliary agent is a carbon paste produced by dispersing a carbon powder in a solvent. The carbon paste has a viscosity of at least 20 Pa·s and not more than 40 Pa·s. The carbon material can be acetylene black.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fluid apparatus with flanges that are fastened together may include the following steps: fastening the flanges with a fastening member; introducing a fluid into an internal space of the fluid apparatus, and plastically deforming portions of the flanges that form seats for receiving the fastening member and portions of the flanges that form mating surfaces with pressure of the fluid being applied; releasing the fastening member and correcting at least the mating surfaces out of the seats and the mating surfaces; and refastening the flanges.

Abstract: At least one of positive and negative electrode plates constitutes a flat plate-shaped electrode body in a laminated power storage element. The laminated power storage element includes a casing formed into a flat bag and the electrode body sealed in the casing together with an electrolyte. The at least one of the electrode plates includes: a sheet-shaped metal current collector; and an electrode material. The electrode material includes a powder material including an electrode active material and a binder including an emulsion, the binder added to the powder material. The electrode material is applied, at a predetermined thickness, onto the current collector. The at least one of the electrode plates is formed into a predetermined planar shape by shearing off a peripheral area thereof through a shearing process.

Abstract: The impeller is provided with: a disc section equipped with a tube section, the grip section of which is fixed by thermal deformation to a rotation shaft that is rotated around the axis line, and a main disc body, which is provided on the other end in the axial direction from the grip section and which extends outward in the radial direction of the rotation shaft; and blade sections that protrude from the main disc body in the axial direction. The disc section is provided with a hoop stress-limiting section, the tube section of which extends further towards the other end in the axial direction than the main disc body.

Abstract: A laminate-type power storage element includes: an exterior body shaped into a flat bag shape by laminating a pair of laminated films to weld a peripheral edge region; an electrode body sealed within the exterior body; a positive and a negative electrode terminal portion allowed to project outside the exterior body from a predetermined margin of the exterior body; and a pair of tab films welded on surfaces where the pair of laminated films oppose one another in a region along the predetermined margin to mutually weld the pair of laminated films, and the tab film covers an end surface of the laminated film while deviating outward from the exterior body from the predetermined margin, and covers both front and back surfaces of each of a base end of the positive electrode terminal portion and a base end of the negative electrode terminal portion.

Abstract: In order to use a manned-travel work vehicle, such as a multi-purpose transport vehicle, for transporting machinery or material or for moving for the purpose of work, a rest or the like, and to cause an unmanned-travel work vehicle to reliably arrive at a destination using wireless communication, the present invention provides a work vehicle transport system. In the transport system, travel trajectory information about a travel trajectory of a first vehicle that is a manned-travel work vehicle to a work location is transmitted via wireless communication to a second vehicle, and it is determined whether the second vehicle is to perform unmanned-travel along the travel trajectory.

Abstract: A driver circuit (101) is connected to a control terminal of a semiconductor switching element (1). The driver circuit (101) includes an input circuit (3) connected to an input terminal (50), and an output control circuit (4) connected to the input circuit (3). A pulse signal output from the output control circuit (4) is input to a dead time adjustment circuit (13). The dead time adjustment circuit (13) includes a delay circuit which can delay the rising edge and the falling edge of the pulse signal output from the output control circuit (4) on the basis of signals from temperature analog output circuits (11) and (12). An output from the dead time adjustment circuit (13) is input to the drive circuit (5). The drive circuit (5) outputs a drive signal to an output terminal (51) of the driver circuit (101).

Abstract: The impeller provides that when an angle made by a projection line 33 that is obtained by projecting a camber line 32 of the blade 22 onto a predetermined meridional cross section and the camber line 32 is defined as an inclination angle ?? and an inclination in a direction opposite to a rotating direction of the rotary shaft is defined to be positive, the blade 22 is formed in such a manner that the inclination angle ?? of a leading edge 22A is zero or positive on the hub 20 side and gradually increasing toward the shroud 21 and the inclination angle is gradually decreasing from the leading edge toward a trailing edge in a flow direction of the fluid.

Abstract: A rotary machine is provided with a plurality of impellers (3) which have a disk (31) rotating with a rotary shaft (2), the impellers being arranged side by side; and a casing (4) in which a casing flow passage (43) is formed to distribute a working medium therein. An impeller (3) disposed farthest away from a second side in the axial direction is disposed in a space communicating with an upstream part of the casing flow passage (43), and a protrusion portion (5) protruding from a back side (311) of the disk (31). The protrusion portion (5) has a sealing surface (51) which is formed to be parallel to an outer surface (21) of the rotary shaft (2) to seal a gap between itself and the casing (4), and a pressure receiving surface (51) which extends from the outer surface (21) to the sealing surface (51).

Abstract: A laminate-type power storage element, including an exterior body that is formed in a flat bag shape, and an electrode body that has a sheet-shaped positive electrode and a sheet-shaped negative electrode layered via a separator and that is sealed inside the exterior body together with an electrolytic solution, wherein electrode terminal plates of the positive electrode and the negative electrode are guided in an identical direction from a predetermined margin of the exterior body to an outside of the exterior body, and a support part that is made with a film shaped resin having insulating and heat-resistant properties is formed on principal surface sides of the electrode terminal plates at a region that is along the predetermined margin and covers up to tip ends of the electrode terminal plates.

Abstract: A laminate-type power storage element is configured of an exterior body that is formed in a flat bag shape by welding a first laminated film and a second laminated film by thermocompression bonding, and an electrode body that is sealed inside the exterior body, the electrode body having a sheet-shaped positive electrode and a sheet-shaped negative electrode. The first laminated film and the second laminated film respectively includes a first resin layer that has a property of transmitting a laser beam, a metal foil that is layered to the first resin layer, and a second resin layer is layered to the metal foil and has a thermal weldability.

Abstract: A laminate-type power storage element has a flat body and an interior layered flat plate-shaped electrode body. A positive electrode terminal plate is mounted to a positive electrode of the electrode body and is guided outside from a predetermined margin of the body. A negative electrode terminal plate is mounted to a negative electrode of the electrode body and guided in the same direction. A film member spans across both electrode terminal plates. The film member is made by layering an insulating heat-resistant film and an adhesive to thermocompression bond the heat-resistant film to a matter to be adhered to. The film member is thermocompression bonded to the electrode terminal plate at a region facing principal surfaces of the positive and the negative plates, and is thermocompression bondable to the matter to be adhered to in a region that does not face the respective principal surfaces.

Abstract: A laminate-type power storage element, including an exterior body that is formed in a flat bag shape, an electrode body that has a sheet-shaped positive electrode and a sheet-shaped negative electrode and that is sealed inside the exterior body, a positive electrode terminal plate that is mounted to the positive electrode and that is made of a metal that forms an oxide film, and a negative electrode terminal plate that is mounted to the negative electrode and that is made of a metal that forms an oxide film, wherein the positive electrode terminal plate and the negative electrode terminal plate are guided in an identical direction from one margin of the exterior body to an outside of the exterior body, and have anisotropic conductive paint applied over respective principal surfaces thereof facing an identical side.