Abstract: A noncontact power supply system includes a power supply device having a primary coil acting as an electromagnetic induction coil for a noncontact power supply system, and a power receiving device having a secondary coil. The primary coil has a primary core and a winding wire. The secondary coil has a secondary core and a winding wire. The primary core includes a base segment, a pair of extension segments, and a pair of opposite segments. The pair of opposite segments are arranged to allow a space to be defined therebetween. The winding wire is wound at least around the pair of opposite segments. The secondary coil is arranged between the pair of opposite segments during power supply. The power receiving device includes a magnetic sheet that is in tight contact with an end surface of the secondary core and has an area larger than that of the end surface.

Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided in which the amount of lubricant oil supply is appropriately controlled over a low to high rotational frequency range of the scroll compressor. The scroll compressor has an oil supply unit and an oil supply passage. The oil supply unit includes a small hole with a diameter not exceeding a seal ring width of the sealing part and a groove which are formed on the end plate of the boss portion on the back side of the orbiting scroll. As the orbiting scroll orbitally moves, oil in the high pressure hydraulic chamber pools in the small hole to be discharged, across the seal ring, into the back pressure chamber. The oil supply passage communicates between the high pressure hydraulic chamber and the back pressure chamber.

Abstract: An airbag apparatus has an airbag formed by sewing fabric portions together at peripheries thereof. A periphery sewn portion of the airbag has two terminals separated from each other. The terminals are formed by leaving sections of the peripheries of the fabric portions unsewn. A surrounding sewn portion is formed about each terminal of the periphery sewn portion. The airbag has a vent hole between the terminals. The opening of the vent hole is defined by vent hole defining sections, each of which is in one of the surrounding sewn portions. Position determining portions are provided in the margin of the airbag. Each surrounding sewn portion is formed in place with reference to the corresponding position determining portion. Each position determining portion is located father from the vent hole in the circumferential direction of the margin than the vent hole defining section of the corresponding surrounding sewn portion.

Abstract: Soil cement slurry is produced by mixing blast-furnace slag fine particles with a specified fineness and Portland cement at a specified ratio to prepare blast-furnace slag cement and using a specified amount of slurry composition for ground improvement including this blast-furnace slag cement with water and an admixture per 1 m3 of ground. The admixture contains specified amounts of a hardening accelerator, a defoamer and a fluidizer.

Abstract: A semiconductor element layer has a pixel region in which a plurality of photodiodes are provided and a peripheral circuit region in which a peripheral circuit for processing the device is provided, a power supply line to supply an electric power to the peripheral circuit, provided at a first side of the semiconductor element layer in the peripheral circuit region, a first wiring layer to supply the electric power to the power supply line, provided at a second side of the semiconductor element layer in the peripheral circuit region, and a plurality of first through-electrodes, provided in the peripheral circuit region and passing through the semiconductor element layer between the first side and the second side. At least a part of the first through-electrodes electrically connect between the power supply line and the first wiring layer.

Abstract: A lateral partition is formed by a pair of structural fabric portions, each of which has a first peripheral portion and a second peripheral portion. The first peripheral portions of the structural fabric portions are each joined to one of main body fabric portions. The second peripheral portions of the structural fabric portions are joined to each other by a joint portion provided along the second peripheral portions. An inner tube extends over the upper inflation chamber and the lower inflation chamber, while intersecting with the lateral partition. A rear peripheral portion of a part of the inner tube is joined to the main body fabric portions by a part of the peripheral joint portion, and a front peripheral portion of the part is joined to the structural fabric portions by the joint portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate including a pixel area and a peripheral circuit area, a first line provided in the peripheral circuit area and on a first principal surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second line provided in the peripheral circuit area and on a second principal surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first through electrode connected to one end of the first line and one end of the second line and passing through the semiconductor substrate, and a second through electrode connected to the other end of the first line and the other end of the second line and passing through the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A gas generator includes an inflator and a retainer. The retainer includes a holding portion, which partially covers the inflator. The inflator has an attaching protrusion for determining the position relative to the retainer. The retainer includes an engagement base and a tongue piece. The tongue piece extends in an axial direction of the inflator and from a position separated from the engagement base in the circumferential direction of the holding portion. The engagement base and the tongue piece each have an engagement portion. The engagement portions face each other to form an engagement space therebetween, into which the attaching protrusion enters. The engagement space has an inlet the width of which is less than the size of the positioning protrusion. When the inflator causes the positioning protrusion to increase the width of the inlet, the tongue piece is elastically deformed about a basal end of the tongue piece.

Abstract: A refrigerant compressor includes a sealed case 9, a compression mechanism 2 and a motor part 16 contained in the sealed case, and an oil reservoir 53 formed in a lower portion of the sealed case. The refrigerant compressor further includes an oil supply pipe 62 which links the oil reservoir and a suction side of the compression mechanism by passage and introduces oil in the oil reservoir to the suction side, an oil supply amount adjusting means 61 which is provided on the oil supply pipe and adjusts an amount of oil supply supplied to the suction side, a rotational speed detecting means which detects a rotational speed of the motor part, and an oil supply amount controlling unit 80 which controls the oil supply amount adjusting means according to a rotational speed detected by the rotational speed detecting means.

Abstract: The present invention provides an industrially useful improved halohydrin epoxidase, a method for producing the same, and a method for producing an epihalohydrin or 4-halo-3-hydroxybutyronitrile using the same. The improved halohydrin epoxidase of the present invention consists of an amino acid sequence in which a specific amino acid substitution mutation is introduced into an amino acid sequence of a wild-type halohydrin epoxidase comprising predetermined amino acid sequences I and II.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a fixed hood covering a rear area of an engine compartment housing an engine and an engine accessory, a swing axis extending through the rear area of the engine compartment in a transverse direction of the vehicle, and a swing hood swinging around the swing axis between a closed position and an open position. The swing hood tucks the fixed hood inside the swing hood and thus covers the fixed hood in the open position, and covers a front area and a middle area of the engine compartment and overlaps with a front end portion of the fixed hood in the closed position.

Abstract: A semiconductor element layer has a pixel region in which a plurality of photodiodes are provided and a peripheral circuit region in which a peripheral circuit for processing the device is provided, a power supply line to supply an electric power to the peripheral circuit, provided at a first side of the semiconductor element layer in the peripheral circuit region, a first wiring layer to supply the electric power to the power supply line, provided at a second side of the semiconductor element layer in the peripheral circuit region, and a plurality of first through-electrodes, provided in the peripheral circuit region and passing through the semiconductor element layer between the first side and the second side. At least a part of the first through-electrodes electrically connect between the power supply line and the first wiring layer.

Abstract: A gas generator includes an inflator and a retainer. The retainer includes a holding portion, which partially covers the inflator. The inflator has an attaching protrusion for determining the position relative to the retainer. The retainer includes an engagement base and a tongue piece. The tongue piece extends in an axial direction of the inflator and from a position separated from the engagement base in the circumferential direction of the holding portion. The engagement base and the tongue piece each have an engagement portion. The engagement portions face each other to form an engagement space therebetween, into which the attaching protrusion enters. The engagement space has an inlet the width of which is less than the size of the positioning protrusion. When the inflator causes the positioning protrusion to increase the width of the inlet, the tongue piece is elastically deformed about a basal end of the tongue piece.

Abstract: A resin composition having as a main ingredient a block copolymer composed of at least one type of vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and a conjugated diene, the resin composition being characterized in that the Vicat softening point temperature measured under a 10-N load as per ISO306 is 65-90° C., the flexural strength measured as per ISO178 is 58-80 MPa, the proportion of the conjugated diene in the resin composition is 10-25 mass %, and the resin composition has molecular weight peaks, the peaks being derived from the block copolymer composed of the vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and the conjugated diene, at molecular weights in the ranges of 70,000-150,000 and 150,000-350,000, respectively.

Abstract: A reference angle detecting device includes a control shaft connected to a controlled object, an electric motor causing the control shaft to rotate via a worm gear mechanism, a stopper disposed on a motion track of a worm wheel, an angle sensor that can detect a rotation angle of the control shaft, and a controller. The stopper includes a spring member which is elastically deformable in an operation direction of the worm wheel. The controller drives the electric motor to operate so that the worm wheel may face the stopper, and stores the rotation angle at a time point when a change rate ? of the rotation angle ? detected by the angle sensor changes to a value less than a predetermined threshold ?1 as a reference angle ?0. Therefore, the reference angle can be detected with high accuracy for control of an angle of the control shaft.

Abstract: A spring support body is slidably supported on a support portion provided to a connecting member connected to a link mechanism, the spring support body supporting a side of a tension spring opposite to the side connecting the tension spring to a tension wheel body, the tension spring biasing the tension wheel body to a tension position, the tension wheel body being freely movable between a tension position and a tension release position. An operation tool slides the spring support body between the tension side and the loosened side of the tension spring, the operation tool being connected to the spring support body by being disposed such that the operation tool is positioned on a lateral exterior side of a cutting blade housing with respect to the connecting member.

Abstract: An airbag apparatus having an airbag, which is formed into a bag shape by sewing a base fabric, is disclosed. The airbag includes a seam having a first seam section and a second seam section, which is formed after the first seam section is formed. The second seam section has an extremity and an overlapped portion, which is a section between the extremity and an intersected portion. The first seam section has an end part, which includes an overlapping portion. The overlapping portion is located at a position inside of the overlapped portion of the second seam section and extends along the overlapped portion. The overlapping portion includes an intersecting portion, which intersects the intersected portion of the second seam section. The end part of the first seam section further includes an extension, which extends from the intersecting portion to a position that is outside of the second seam section.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a cooling fan, an engine, and a diesel particulate filter (DPF) purifying exhaust gas of the engine, placed under a hood in that order, beginning at the front. Exhaust gas from the engine is exhausted through an exhaust passage after passing through the DPF. The cooling fan supplies cooling air to the rear. The DPF is placed such that a length direction thereof follows a width direction of a vehicle body. The exhaust passage includes a first passage, a second passage, and a third passage. The first passage extends forward and upward from the DPF before extending along the length direction thereof on a front side of the DPF. The second passage extends downward from a downstream portion of the first passage. The third passage extends to the rear from a downstream portion of the second passage and also includes an exhaust outlet.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a solid-state image sensing device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first and second surface, an insulating film covering an element on the first surface, a pixel array including pixels configured to photoelectrically convert light applied on the side of the second surface, contact regions in the semiconductor substrate, one or more through-electrodes respectively provided in the contact regions, and first pads provided on the side of the second surface to correspond to the respective contact regions. The first pad extends in a first direction from the contact regions toward the pixel array.

Abstract: A relay shaft is rotatably provided in a lateral direction of a vehicle body on a rear side of the vehicle body with respect to a mowing apparatus and on a front side of the vehicle body with respect to a left and right pair of rear wheel drive apparatuses. A pedal coupling rod extends in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body above the mowing apparatus and connects to a brake pedal and to the relay shaft. A left brake coupling rod extends in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body and connects to a left end of the relay shaft and to an operation portion of a left rear wheel brake. A right brake coupling rod extends in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body and connects to a right end of the relay shaft and to an operation portion of a right rear wheel brake.